skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there needs to be a term for things that are in-between possible and impossible. This occurred to me in discussions about faster-than-light travel.

Surely there are things that are strictly possible, like, anything that's already happening. Motorboats are strictly possible.

Maybe some things are strictly impossible, like, squaring the circle. There may be some things that are impossible but that we will never know.

In between these two realms are ideas that can be suggested without evidence but yet taken quite seriously. Many of these things require overturning bodies of knowledge that are presently considered to be pretty robust, or developing entirely new ways of thinking. Some are contradictory to other things residing at the same level of possibility. Terms such as "magic" are divisive and don't seem to capture the essence.

The next question is whether an in-between level of possibility serves any useful purpose, and if it's distinguishable as a unique condition. Or, as a practical matter, whether it can be lumped in with things that are strictly impossible. How does my life change if the things that can be suggested without evidence deserve a category different than strict impossibility?
> They've solved so many problems in the music-listening experience, it's amazing

And yet each of your comment’s 4 current replies describes a different “only” problem with Spotify that’s solved with folders of mp3s ;)

(Disclaimer: I listen to very little music, so I have no horse in this race except for loathing DRM, and I’m only guessing that the “missing quite a few major artists” problem is solvable by torrenting)
I believe what you mean is that it's something that doesn't happen frequently. But do you know why that is?

It's not because banks are unable to steal customer's deposits. It's because of the capital investment these banks have made in their reputations. That capital investment is in the form of fixed infrastructure, real estate, licenses, and reputations. It's that capital investment, and the threat of losing it if they break the law, that keeps your money safe.

That all works pretty well at keeping money safe, as you noted. But it has another effect. It makes it extremely expensive to start a bank, or other financial service. This is what crypto democratizes. It makes it possible to start a financial service without massive capital investment in things like this.
Very cool. That poor little guy was standing in a lobster war zone.
The misunderstanding that these conditions are medical realities is why they have to be protected classes. Clinical addiction, depression and PTSD are also considered disabilities under the ADA depending on context.
Please, please publish this. This is something I hope to accomplish and it would be wonderful to understand how you do it and reduce the workload of maintaining a network like that.
Why would fixing driver problems be bad for doordash? The incentives are fairly aligned. A more effective and efficient delivering experience means more deliveries can be sold to customers, at a lower price.

Disclosure: I work for a food delivery company competing with DD
Killed by a pill bought on social media: counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens
> Can't hear what someone is saying directly to me because I'm obsessed with minutiae.

This was something I had no idea was a symptom of ADHD before I got diagnosed. It was extremely distressing to experience. I'd be sitting next to my partner, no other noises distracting me, no phone dividing my attention, etc, and I'd know they were talking to me and that I wanted to hear what they say and I'd recognize that I was hearing syllables just fine but was entirely unable to process the sounds I was hearing.

I finally got diagnosed and started taking drugs (Vyvanse, which is a slow release drug that's apparently mellower than Adderall). They've been extremely helpful to get me to a baseline where I could actually start work to improve things for myself.
Tito's model for Yugoslavia was rather different to the Soviet one. The Illyrian model employed cooperativism and market socialism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Fed...

He still arrested opponents and operated a secret police force who dealt with dissident voices though, so hey.
Thanks for the context.

I wish there were an easy way for outsiders to know this. I have an intuition for reliable vs. sensational sources in specific places and subjects, but am mostly in the dark beyond that.
Yeah, it’s been said that ffmpeg and vlc could play a vinyl record if you fed it to them.

It’s not actually true, but it is story true.
I don’t think weight affects cruise speeds a whole lot, as I understand.

At least, not enough to make your flight measurably shorter.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/47369/how-is-th...
Should be arresting these rich foreigners as criminals and deporting them to Australia
Depends what kind of contract. I carefully analysed the 300 page document when I bought an apartment but I’m obviously not reading anything when I sign up for some online account.
Yeah, more skilled corruption is what we need.
I'm reminded of the joke that Nicolas Bourbaki quit writing math books when they found out that Serge Lang was one person.
If an accelerant is used that is continuously burned until exhausted , then I'm not sure it matters where or what materials are present. If there is a fire at an exit that persists and is difficult to extinguish, said arsonist can then move to the next exit, and perform the same action. Thus blocking multiple exits while acting as a single individual. That's my point.
We have a google assistant device. Exactly 100% of our use is setting timers in the kitchen.
gstreamer is ubiquitous in research labs that depend on video - extremely common
I don’t get what scientifically separates ADHD from just being less cognitively capable in general or in other ways. Why is it a “special case” such that it has to be treated as a medical condition that requires drugs and special accommodations? I remember when we had AP tests in high school, kids with ADHD diagnosis were given unlimited time, and that felt wrong. The unique classification of ADHD feels to me like a product of America’s unique crossover between societal culture, economics, and medicine rather than something principled. But I am willing to hear a good explanation that changes my perspective.
> Personally I don't think AGI is possible.

I don't think it matters and I think people get too caught up in this. It's pretty obvious ML can do a lot of damage without AGI. There's still emergent properties that can be highly destructive and game changing without AGI. Drawing parallels to nuclear weapons is a poor analogy because you don't build nuclear weapons by better improving on conventional weaponry. We're already building multi domain systems. So it doesn't matter if the fission process happens if the bomb does enough damage. Besides, wherever/if AGI happens we'll long be arguing if it is or isn't.
I thought you might have engaged in hyperbole. Nope. Thank you for sharing that.
> For folks with an Amex Platinum, consider using the new $240 digital entertainment credit for a free NYT subscription

sounds very not-free.
Couldn’t get it to work on Bloomberg, it takes me to “Are you a bot?” page
attrs was first, dataclasses design is actually based on attrs! dataclasses is inferior in features and actually a shame because I see this ignorant attitude everywhere and I have to defend and explain attrs every time we need it.
In your opinion, what would a world where we were 25% or 50% of the way towards AGI look like?
Inflation as a concept melts away once you look at the full picture.
Doesn't the publication of this article kinda mess up this scheme?
Are you certain about that? Few countries actually whore themselves out.
> Children who quietly got to go to foreign universities, while their parents talked about the need for the lower classes to sacrifice their children for the revolution. Those same children who now run very successful businesses thanks to their family connections.

You just described the situation everywhere, Communist or Capitalist or Whateverist system.
> my third pick is that 2022 will be the year of linux desktop

Don't do that, don't give me hope. /j

In all seriousness though, I don't know if we'll ever see it. That being said, if the Steam Deck materializes, is popular, and people don't go straight to booting Windows... It could actually happen!
Fwiw, you're basically describing the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect without naming it. You're an expert on NZ, so it feels egregious, but you're not an expert on the next pages' topic, so the misleading information doesn't stick out or bother you as much.
Omicron Is Not Normal
Also easy to spread the virus, as the first outbreaks happened on them.
Joyeux Noël from France. HN is a bastion of calm and intelligence, may it stay that way for a long time and inspire other communities. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Who are the people who own machine guns hurting?
CDC Data API
I would suggest others not watch taht YouTube clip if there is even a small chance you plan on watching Ted Lasso. The build up to that scene is phenomenal and personally am glad I got to enjoy it organically.
The thing that constantly amazes me is that for many people, keeping a planner or staying organized aren’t that difficult. I am very effective and have good follow through, and I thought the hard work I had been putting in was what everyone did. Turns out I had ADHD and I was working over-time to keep up with what most people have as a base skill in my industry.
> Estimating one to three weeks of work is easy

So a slightly more flexible sprint? I personally hate sprints - they tend to be inflexible and sometimes force you to make the wrong compromises. They are typically filled with many disparate tasks that often require you to context switch back and forth repeatedly. If you under estimate the time some tasks take, the numbers paint you as a weak performer. Those who game the system by over estimating every task are viewed as super achievers, even if their actual value contribution is far lower. I think if you take away the metrics aspect of sprints, it actually becomes more useful.
It sounds like you have a problem separating sensationalist news and social media from reality.

> basic health issues can bankrupt you

92% of Americans have health insurance [1] and all health insurance plans are required by law to have an out-of-pocket maximum [2].

> where the police are above the law

They're clearly not as seen by the police being convicted in almost every case recently.

> where citizens can, and do, buy machine guns

Machine guns are illegal to buy or posses by the general public due to the Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA) of 1986 [3].

> where the courts are setup to protect the rich and powerful

I'm not even sure where you're getting this from so I don't know how to respond. Rich and powerful people go to jail all the time.

> where politicians can lie without consequence

It's not illegal to lie per the 1st ammendment. It's up to the voters to vote out politicians that lie.

> Where people get no paid sick or holiday leave.

The average amount of PTO days in America is 10 days [4], but it varies by industry. I think people are confused on this one because the Federal government doesn't mandate PTO days, but this is a fallacy. In Sweden there's no national minimum wage laws, so does that mean everyone in Sweden must work for free?

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

[2] https://healthcareinsider.com/out-of-pocket-maximum-205845

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act

[4] https://www.zenefits.com/workest/how-much-is-average-pto-in-...
This is a code audit issue. Video codecs and drivers are a niche and are extremely protected by patents. The number of ffmpeg researchers and developers is very small compared to the number of lines of code, closed standards and soft/hard bugs in each series of specific video hw/sw encoders and decoders.
And an AI that can analyze and validate code as complex as ffmpeg has yet to be invented.
If it's the latter, I want people to lose faith in our society, because in that case the rule of law is a charade. In that case, society isn't crumbling, its being outed for what it is, hollow.

Why would you want to hide the corruption of the system to maintain it? Isn't that corrupt in itself?
Ask HN: Programming on Smartphones
With smartphones becoming evermore accessible, they’ve become more versatile as well. GPS, flashlight, camera, pedometer, I could spend all day listing things it has replaced.

What about coding, not typing into a text editor, touch screen environments so users can piece together procedures, library calls etc.

It’s been attempted in the past and has failed. You could easily argue it’s nowhere near as productive. But maybe that’s because we still see things from the view of text based programming languages.

I’ve used the Alice IDE and Lego Mindstorm as a kid. I don’t know where touch based programming is now, but if I had to guess, it’s still very text centric in its fundamental design.
Epik lets you buy domains more or less permanently for a large upfront cost (~$600 for a typical otherwise $10/year domain IIRC). Anyone know any other registrars that do?
I think it's a joke dude!
API/ABI is meant to be preserved within a major version, but not across. The deprecation period is typically two years, but deletion is usually much later.

Do you have examples to the contrary from the past few years?
> Which I increasingly feel confident in the idea that there’s no meaningful distinction and ADHD should/likely eventually will be considered part of the spectrum

I'd disagree with this for one single but very important factor - Symptoms of ADHD can often be totally and completely mitigated with medication.
What does that change for you?
Agreed. This whole proposal by Door Dash insults everyone..from the dashers to the non dasher employee to the customer to the investor. That this kind of strategy is considered legit beggars belief.

I find it insulting to even read about it because who are they fooling..?
“Catholic-baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.” – Peter Viereck, Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals, 1953
I would say that most of the AFF trainers are good (they just need to). The only issue here is that I'm not aware of any english curse. I'm jumping with PLStefa in Elbląg and Gliwice but their website is in polish only (however most of the trainers do speak english). Maybe it's a right choise to complete AFF training anywhere and then just start jumping wherever it's cheap.

PS. Flying in Spain is an good and cheap option too!
https://www.skydiveatmosfera.com/
> It will make a lot of the countries in the world require you to get a visa before entering (or even transiting)

I.e. you'll know what it's like not to have been born in a first world country.
It's included in the annual fee of an Amex Platinum so it is no additional cost if you elect this option. It covers the cost of an NYT subscription completely. This is a new credit, and not one that factors into my cost-benefit analysis on keeping the card. Probably true of most folks. I mention it because I suspect many cardholders are in the same boat and do not know about this.

You are correct that it is not "free" but rather "included at no additional charge" should you choose to elect it.
One of the biggest issues I have observed is employees who do not use the products they work on. This opinion will probably offend some, but I believe to make a great product you need to be passionate about it, and if you're passionate about it, you are going to try to use it.

There comes a point in an organization's life where the engineering team is no longer passionate about the product - perhaps just see it as a 9-5 - and the product inevitably stagnates until it's overcome by a group of passionate engineers. FAANG engineers are smart - but nailing the polish on a product requires passion and testing.
IME, it's what is normally discussed when people genuinely want to know about it. Most of the discussion of post-modernism on the Internet is the misunderstanding upthread or anti-postmodernist rants (which ironically often are based on the same perspective as their target).
Good comment that provides good links! Too often people on HN give absolutely misleading information without even any links
Linux will have a functional desktop environment before OSX has a tiling window manager which doesn't need you to "root" your installation :-(
Show HN: GPT-3 and WhatsApp
I built a WhatsApp chat bot(https://aibuddy.chat/) that uses GPT-3 to hold a pretty decent conversation (Users have to bring their own OpenAI keys). It holds a memory of last 5 conversations currently.

Few planned improvements in near future.
- Running this for WhatsApp is a bit expensive for both myself and the users), So the next plan is built this for telegram.
- Let users choose different personas for the AI.
- Let users choose how much conversation memory they want the bot to hold for them(more memory means more tokens means bigger bill from OpenAI)
- Let users bring in their own data to fine-tune GPT-3 for a custom bot. For example, a bot trained on a writer's work or even your own.

I can hook people up with some codes to try it out: just drop an email at aibuddy.chat@gmail.com
Wait, the GP is claiming expanded new surveillance behaviors should be normalized. This is like Fox news.
Apples and oranges. pydantic is a serialization and input validation library, attrs is a class-generator library. Completely different features, completely different use cases.

Yes, you can do validation in attrs, but it's not meant to be used the same way as pydantic. For serialization, you need cattrs, which is a completely different package.
Politicians also regularly get away with it, which is a cornerstone point in the article that supports its premise.
Team Deakins: the great cinematographer Roger Deakins, with his wife, James, interviewed pretty much everyone interesting they knew in film, and had someone interview Roger about most of his notable projects. They wrapped up a couple months ago as it was time to get back to work. I really hope the archived episodes stay up forever as it’s a monumental technical resource as well as a source of some cheery and cordial conversation, much of it between old friends.

https://teamdeakins.libsyn.com/
The best cheatsheet which I have ever seen (besides maybe cheats.rs) is this Python cheatsheet by Laurent Pointal, absolutely outstanding in many ways:

https://perso.limsi.fr/pointal/_media/python:cours:mementopy...
>There's a reason why in scientific discussion anecdotal evidence is dismissed.

You just read a blog post of a personal anecdote. What were you expecting? A dissertation?
Yeah, I’d like to see the stats on how many mentally ill or cognitively disabled people he unnecessarily had sent to prison.
Show me a computer that can learn and problem solve in novel situations as well as a mouse and I'll believe that we're some percentage of the way towards AGI. So far we're not even at the worm equivalent level yet.
That dude just seems like he has too much time on his hands.
And those cases where the origin of the money is illegal, so it has to be put somewhere else.

BTW, I know Honduras has an investor visa, too.
The only thing worse than shared code across the company is to not have any shared code across the company.
It's better than the alternative of not sharing code.

Some complex things need to be shared, but something like a library to make directory structures doesn't. It's fine if teams just write their own, or use one from outside the company. At least that way any issues are limited to only impacting that team, and in the long term you end up with much more maintainable apps.

Shared code that isn't treated like an external library(with proper, defined maintainers) is, in my experience, some of the worst technical debt.
There is nothing wrong with depending on medication every day. You have a physiological disorder.

Medication is the first line of treatment for ADHD. The second is a mix of cognitive behavioral therapy and medication.
> The worst part is, that you can’t use any fancy email clients, because they all use proprietary protocols and once again cloud services.

What fancy email clients did you have in mind that don't support IMAP?
> I got tired of trying to dodge it

The ad-popup actually mentions that signing up for a free account with them bypasses the restriction, I'm not sure to what degree but I have noticed it works whenever I log in.

Furthermore, your AmEx option is not free, and for those who would rather not support an organization like the NYT, is not an option either. For those who don't even want a free account with NYT either, Private Browsing mode in Safari on iOS with AdGuard works every time.
Can the time to first event in a poisson distribution tell you the distribution? Im not sure it would be interesting!
Ship in a bottle with LED Lighthouse homemade DIY selfmade – [video]
> The first example given is about Hunter Biden selling art. So he's not an artist, he's the son of the sitting president, and he manages to sell things for a good price, that mainstream critics don't find interesting or beautiful ("widely panned art show")... Good for him!

You're being naive. Nobody is buying the art, people are buying influence and laundering money. The man isn't selling art, the man is selling influence, and potentially other things. He splashes paint on a canvas to legitimize it for the accountant.

I don't think the point is that the US should jail more people, I think the point is that when lots of people see others getting away with stuff, some of them start to try to do it too, and you have a snowballing societal collapse.
> if you're trying to use a random website nobody has heard of to hire a hit man

To be fair, that's probably less crazy than using a popular website everyone has heard of for the same purpose.
I have 2 passive income generating projects!

1) I created a course called Learn Programmatic SEO. It's an excellent intro to SEO for someone new to the field, and it teaches the SEO approach through which companies like Canva, Zapier, Veed/Kapwing and others grew their search traffic to become $10-$100mn+ ARR generating companies.

https://preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo

The course was made in Feb 2021, I spent a week crafting and editing the content but the learnings came from before it. I've done almost no marketing for many months now and I still average $500-$600/month, completely passive income. Lifetime income from the course is ~$20,000.

2) I created a habit tracker spreadsheet which earns $50-$60/month, again completely passive.

https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template

The template is really simple and easy to use, and I believe it can make more. I built another site called https://www.dailyhabits.xyz and I'm planning to drive some traffic from it to the habit tracker spreadsheet to grow revenue to $200-$300/month. Let's see how that goes!
> Mentally tell yourself what to do and have it stick

(EDIT) This fragment reminds me of the "get over yourself" advice given to depressed people. Something sounding easy but being absolutely out of your control.

There are different types of ADHD. If you have a constant compulsive need for being elsewhere and doing something else, there is no mental exercise that would make you stick to things and stop finding yourself doing something else than supposed.

When required to do activity A, you'll find yourself exercising activity B or activity C only a short time, and every time, after forcing yourself back to A. When you decide to do B, since you can't focus on A, you'll quickly find yourself back at A because you're supposed to be doing B. Oh, and now it's C. And back to A. What fun. ABCAABCCABCCAABC. Forced, barely controlled multi-tasking.
Employment contracts are worth a digest too:
You maybe partly right but there are basic UI issues Uber eats gets right that Doordash tries to mimic poorly.