skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've heard the argument made

Weasel words from which my immediate instinct is to recoil.

Do you believe the argument? Then simply make the argument.

Are you skeptical of it? Then do not repeat it.

If indeed you heard someone special make the argument, tell us who.

But saying “I’ve heard the argument made” typically means it’s your opinion and your trying to lend the argument more weight than it has.
At least with a browser extension you can audit the source code yourself (and know that the source is what you're installing) - with a 3rd party OAuth app you can never be sure.

That being said I don't think this app is going to do anything malicious.
Keep squeezing your employees and you don't just end up with "not the best", you end up with "only people who literally can't get another job."

And by the time even a quarter of your workforce fits into this category, you've made it a miserable place to work for everybody. The bunglers are miserably bungling for bare minimum salary, the remaining competent staff are miserably trying to compensate for the bunglers, and the oxygen thieves in charge are miserably trying to get useful work make out of a staff of bunglers and burnouts.
So. Fucking. Fatuous.
True, the field is vast. But I expect that a doctor should know the basics of a common condition. If they aren't counseling diabetics about carbs... wtf is going on? It would be different if it were a rare or complex topic, but even then the Epic system that most places use have standard printouts with information for patients.
And on the flip side, those same deplorables are saying the exact same thing about you.

At least everyone is happy.
It is, of course, possible that, just by chance, someone happened to update the model in exactly the way that would change the model's response, to one specific question, from a generic evasion to a specific correct answer, yet overfitting so that very similar questions still get the generic evasion. It is even possible that, by chance, this happened within a day after Garry submitting the particular phrasing of the question for which the updated model does give a correct answer. That it is possible is not enough to satisfy my curiosity, however - but then, I don't rank it as being at least as likely as any other scenario.

On the other hand, if your scenario involves someone updating the model (or, more likely, InstructGPT) in response to Garry's question, with the intent of having GPT3 return the correct answer to that question, I am not seeing how that would be materially different, in any relevant sense, from hard-coding the answer.
Out of curiosity, how would you be seeing that on Twitter in the first place? The blocking need seems more like addressing a symptom, where the root problem is whatever system or algorithm showed you that stuff at all.
The secret rhythm behind Radiohead's “Videotape”
I’m not a doctor but I watched a friend’s startup have the exact same experience. My personal experience was an early job selling online advertising to all categories of businesses. I quickly learned that medical offices are absolutely inundated with salespeople like pharma reps, and doctors time is already scant. Naturally they tend to want to see evidence in a way most other SMB decision makers do not. Since at time, bundled payments have gone into effect and consolidation means that the purchasing process is exponentially more complex.

Startups: don’t sell to medical offices without deep domain experience, deeper pockets, and rigorous evidence.
Why decide now? The whole point is that I would have the freedom to start and stop, as I wished. Maybe I'd get into a good, useful routine on Basic. Maybe I'd get itchy feet and start a company, or crave structure and get a 9-to-5. Who knows?
Making a big deal of the controversy around The Bell Curve and then going on to recommend The Mismeasure of Man is deeply ironic.

And why bring up the alleged racism when we are talking about class? The Bell Curve barely mentions race, and I'm not sure if Coming Apart does at all.

I'll watch the video at some point as it actually reviews The Bell Curve but I urge readers to seek out what Murray has himself said (both in his books and in interviews). The smear of him as being a racist and political hack is quite without merit.
...

Why do we grow those? Do people eat them by chance?
>almost all of the top academic students in my class were first or second generation immigrants (mostly Indian) that had no interest in extra-curricular activities like sports, band, choir, or really anything.

I suspect it's more like their parents prohibit them from having any interest in these extra-curricular activities. Academics > *.
Or the Covid lab leak, or Biden’s son laptop.
Ask HN: Can you build an open sourced real estate statistics site?
I have been interested in real estate for some time. I really wish there was a place where I could see lot of important stats month-over-month or even weekly, possibly going back years for any city.

While I'm no expert on stats relevant to RE, I'd still love to stats like (everything over time...):

eviction rate

inventory volume

days in market

1b/2b rent

population change

foreclosures

new constructions

house prices

COL change

price to rent ratio

new permits

apts for rent

maybe there is something opensource already?

the biggest obstacle for me to build something like this would be to have an api that gives this data. I doubt there is one api and maybe no apis that cover everything for all cities.
You didn't make it clear in your post, but in the survey you allude that you'd like to actually create a business to propagate "conservative values".

This makes your HN post somewhat disingenuous, the community doesn't generally react well to intellectual dishonesty.
>Complete disaster for his future and really a shot to his otherwise happy and optimistic life.

It depends. Imagine what if he got accepted only to be taught that his caring father (and the sole fact of having a father) is a "privilege" he should be ashamed of. And that his way of life should be culling his ambition and letting other less fortunate ones take his place.

All of this is a part of a bigger problem (switch from results to feelings and identities), and you cannot fix the symptoms without addressing the underlying cause.

Teach your son some business skills, maybe let him work for you for a while. He can then apply again next year being a bit more cynical about optimizing the KPIs.
>Find a new doctor.

why would someone need to go to a doctor to tell them that
It's time for a national water grid(https://www.osti.gov/biblio/963122-national-smart-water-grid):

> The National Smart Water Grid{trademark} will pay for itself in a single major flood event.

(that's probably a bit optimistic but even if it takes 10 flood events it's worth it)

Weather patterns will likely change dramatically and violently. We cannot relocate our farmland fast enough. We need a system capable of absorbing extreme precipitation and reclaiming it for food.

This isn't about stealing water from the Great Lakes(that's a common worry). Yes, pumping water takes energy, but it also provides an infrastructure for gravitational storage of solar energy for night time use.

We need to think big, and we need to think fast.

North America has plenty of water and plenty of land suitable for growing food but they don't always line up. It is easier to move water than to move farmland with all of its associated supply chains and infrastructure.

We can take small amounts of water from all over the wetter areas of the country during times of excess and transport it to drier areas to grow food and support manufacturing. I believe the net environmental impact would be positive. We could allow CA rivers and streams to flow as they used to, supporting wildlife and replenishing our beaches.

It's a project that provides jobs, national and international food security, reduces flooding damage, and allows us to adapt to climate change. Sorry for posting some version of this comment in every water related thread but I think it is critical that we think big for the big problems facing us now and in the near future.
I had the same observation. There is no data. It's nonsensical if you think about it: MIT stops using SAT/ACT in 2020 and now in March 2022 they have "robust" data that those students don't perform as well academically.
Check out this song by Henry VIII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastime_with_Good_Company

More seriously, it’s fairly well acknowledged that most of the ivies started as seminaries or were modelled after english places of HL.

https://www.britainexpress.com/cities/oxford/stuart.htm
I don't know about a watch but a power supply using kinetic energy would work such as a small lever that you could move. Kinetic power supplies sound nice but they are usually way more expensive that a battery even after you factor in the life time battery costs associated with powering the gadget. Plus it's inconvenient. It's way more practical to have a general purpose kinetic energy power source.

Here's an article that will give you some insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting#Human_power
> Eink is just really expensive

I am curious what volumes you are buying and which panels and how you're judging whether something is expensive or not.

> I believe that it’s heavily patented and only one or two places produces the panels.

I would ask that these repeated claims would come with some evidence. The previous times I asked the respondents just did patents.google.com/search?eink and treated that as evidence.

For an analogy, if I said something like:
Coca cola is just really expensive right now. I believe that it’s heavily patented and only one or two places produces the syrup.

or

Windows is just really expensive right now. I believe that it’s heavily patented and only one or two places produces the operating system.

would you feel my claim was accurate?
What’s with the www prefix in www.example.com
There's even a news industry adage about this: "If it bleeds, it leads."
You can't think of a single good use case for a tool like this? Consider receiving a bunch of hate-tweets based on some physical aspect of your appearance.
I don't think getting rid of the Russian bot accounts will meaningfully degrade the discourse on Twitter.
'Biggest fraud in a generation': The looting of the Covid relief
Because I didn't clearly remember the character's name in Fight Club, this made me initially think of kind of a superposition of Brad Pitt as Tyler in Fight Club and as Chad the personal trainer in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_After_Reading.

"Pitt...said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause, and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine'."
The name of the project is all wrong, it should be called Megabubble.
Fertilizer price surges 43% to fresh record as supplies tighten
It's a natural tool in a digital world. IRL you can literally walk away from a conversation to express your disgust and disinterest in argument in a low-effort manner. On Twitter you can't make the same gesture, so an analogous low-effort measure is to stop listening. It would not be nice to block people like that IRL, but it's a different thing on the internet where millions of people and their cats can easily waste your time.
Twitter doesn't have good platform-wide moderation. By default, you get all the notifications about people talking to you in one place. You can't see comments from friends or business contacts without wading through the strangers demanding your attention and death threats too.
Can you expand on that a little? I know a little bit about how Windows and macOS handle font rendering, but I know nothing about how Linux does things.
And of course, the obligatory xkcd (it's not just 927 again!): https://xkcd.com/1294/
5-year and 30-year Treasury yields invert for the first time since 2006
I'm also sorry if you confuse devops and development, been to companies like this and rightfully turnover rate there is what they deserve.
Of course they start with diet/exercise - but ask yourself how many patients you think take that advice… high blood sugar is a really serious problem and the unfortunate reality is that people are very resistant to lifestyle changes — so the least harm is often to medicate.
I've posted about this game theory before. With male and female birth control, there are 4 possible outcomes:

1. Man and woman don't use birth control.
Conception is likely.

2. Man uses birth control. Woman doesn't.
Conception is unlikely.

3. Man doesn't use birth control. Woman does.
Conception is unlikely.

4. Man and woman use birth control.
Conception is extremely unlikely.

Conception is only likely when both partners want it.
When only women have access to effective birth control, risk of pregnancy is dominated by their decisions. They have a lot more leverage and therefore power:

1. Man has no birth control. Woman doesn't use hers.
Conception is likely.

2. Man has no birth control. Woman uses hers.
Conception is unlikely.
Very cool! I run a recipe site[1] as a side project and I definitely want to check this out. I just punted on the whole ingredient parsing problem by storing the ingredient list in a text field, but I'd definitely want to incorporate something like this in the future.

I don't see a license file, unless I'm missing it somewhere. Is it free to use?

Happy to share my database of recipes if it will help.

[1] https://nononsense.recipes
There's a number of people who pretty much have to use Twitter for their job. Writers, pundits, journalists, etc.
I wonder at what point the blocklist would surpass twitters storage mechanism for it.

Can you block every single Twitter account?
Most people aren't passionate about math wholesale. They are passionate for activities that require a strong fundamental in math. That's always been my core reservation with how we currently deem students worthy of learning and applying skills into a career. SAT's feel like the high school equivalent of what the tech industry will joke about as "well you lead a team into launching a multimillion dollar product, but you can't reverse a binary tree on the spot, so...".

But if they have data that shows that it works out for them, I don't have any capacity to argue with the results.
Treatment guidelines change all the time. Last time I checked metformin is now the the 1st drug therapy for type II diabetes and even "pre-diabetes".

It's basically "oh, your blood sugar might be an issue, let's start with metformin" where in the past it was "lets try a bunch of others things and just watch your levels for a bit"
I have vouched for this. It seems that dev.to submissions are automatically flagged. Too many low-quality articles from there?
Looks interesting, next week I will replace my default search and give it a go.
Nestle specifically, yes, but Agriculture overall, no- check out PPIC for reports on this. The equivalent price that farmers pay for water is about 25 cents… you’d pay more for a shower as an individual I think!
Except sometimes things are called "progress" to sell them as ideas, but then it turns out the negative costs outweigh the proposed benefits.

Or maybe there's progress in the short-term but not in the long-term.

For example, the globalization of our supply chains was probably viewed as progress by some, but that very efficiency also involved a trade-off in resiliency that resulted in how brittle we now know them to be from the events of the last two years.
I’ve seen people on Twitter brag about having 6 figures blocked. So it at least works for that many. I know Marc Andreessen notoriously has a lot of people blocked. I wonder if it’s in the millions.
You'll always get voices from outside the bubble... even if they come in the form of people in your bubble dunking on the dumbest takes from outside it.
I don't see how it could.

If you use this in a community, on a post that lots of people liked, you've essentially booted yourself.

If enough people boot themselves from a community that it becomes too small to be viable... I dunno, maybe the world is better off without that community.
You're implying Twitter is worth using at *this* point. Removing the irredeemable 20% from our collective feeds might actually make a Twitter a more positive place and worth using again.
How Much Apartment Space Does $1,500 Get You in America’s 100 Largest Cities
Better products don’t necessarily make the world better. They often make the world worse. I don’t have a particular chip on my shoulder about Apple, or Microsoft, or free software. There are things I appreciate that all of them produce, and good in the world because of some of those efforts by each. But yes, making the world better and making money are inherently in conflict. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to reconcile them acceptably for this endeavor, I even addressed that.

Ugh I have half a mind to post a Wikipedia link, but it’s going to be really upsetting if I play a part in dialectics becoming another inscrutable topic on HN like monads.
This is true for probably a majority of health problems in wealthy countries.
Hey thanks for trying out some searches. Depending on the intent of your search, we try to predict the best source of knowledge to find an answer. Computational or simple knowledge graph queries like those will often get routed to Wikipedia or Wolfram, or even DDG's Instant Answers API. Based on API costs and intent categories, Wolfram queries are about 0.25% of queries, and Wikipedia is about 17%. We're an alpha with only a small user base, but I suspect your questions were a little unrepresentative of typical use.

Other searches use vertical searches or specific APIs (weather, time, computation, organizations etc), or are use our own indexes (especially news and navigation).

More complex questions will be more likely to trigger our question-answering model, which works a bit differently by going out and searching for content from live sources in real time.

Here are a few fun searches to try that will trigger different approaches.

Extracts from web content:

what US state grows the most potatoes?

how many starlink satellites are in operation?

Complex answers (these take longer as they are searching through content in real time:

how many starlink satellites are in operation?

why is ethereum moving to proof of stake important?

what are the first steps towards consolidating your graduate student loans?

What is the frequency of birth defects in babies born to men who had a type 2 diabetes diagnosis who are taking metformin?

(this is really overwhelmed right now so the cluster is dropping about 30% of requests - so it will may fall back to keyword searching until we figure out handling the extra load).

As you can see, there is kind of an inverse pyramid here, where the more complex your queries, the more complex the handling to answer the question.

Wolfram is great for knowledge graph and computation queries, but you can see the approach is very different with those last questions.
My question was a little bit deeper. I understand why we have elite schools.

Harvard's an easy one. Rich and powerful people look smart by association with smart people. Smart people gain access to powerful social networks.

My question was why this was a good idea for society. MIT was funded through federal grants, financial aid, and philanthropic donations. It's a 501(c)3. If it's bad for the world, we ought to have some mechanism to fix it.

We don't, and that's a deeper discussion about how we want to organize society. We ought to. In the limit case of a self-perpetuating endowment harming the world, there ought to be some way for that to be repurposed to help the world.
High blood sugar levels are doing damage right now.

Nothing wrong with starting on a therapy while trying to institute a diet and exercise change. The doctor would be negligent if they said "let's try diet and exercise", then after 6 months of damage say "nope, that didn't work, let's try metformin".
https://youtu.be/2SEPPnd3380

Enough said …. The truth is out in the open now and for everyone to see in plain sight.

But also now the tables have turned.
I've only fiddled with this in a hobby way, but it's tricky to get accurate position information by integration of acceleration vectors. you could use the compass to get device orientation relative to motion, you could look for available wifi names to narrow down localization.

It's possible to make good guesses, but it's a pain, and they're still guesses.
(Well, they were at my level anyway)
I'm using second product - Connectix VirtualPC (for Windows) because at this time this was only that can run on Windows98SE. VMW require NT/2K at this time. But i couldn't migrate to NT platform due project limitations.

VPC works flawless in version 4, but for version 5 they require NT platform too.
i need metablock.xyz, a tool that blocks all the people who use this tool
difference between cola and eink might be that one was able to find market from get go and built business to industrialized scale, whereas, eink struggles to find a market at this price but won't also be generous with patent to make ROI work for other 3rd parties to make big investments.
If everyone is on universal basic income…. Where would the money come from? Who will do the work? Wouldn’t that be extremely inflationary?
I did not spend two years and $150,000 on my Scientology classes to end up sounding like a pompous ass completely lacking in self awareness and levity. How dare you sir.
Fave Raymond Smullyan essay:

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTa...

I once printed this out & gave it to a pair of repeat Jehovah's Witness door-knockers I had befriended. Don't know how they took it as the next time they came around my roommates, unaware of our friendship, told them I moved & they never returned.
A lot of people seem to "like" tweets for reasons other than liking the tweet.
> when they knowingly claim that they have never even heard of, let alone made, even a single high assurance, robust system in Rust.

Huh?!

They said you can't build safety-critical software in Rust because it's not certified.

Not all high assurance software is safety-critical, not all correct software is certifiable, and FOR SURE not all certifiable software is correct.

> evidence of repeated success at delivering such systems in real-life adversarial environments and succeeding at audits and verification efforts that are demonstrably passed only by robust systems.

Can you name one such process? The old auto and aero software standards from the 90s/early aughts are crufty, have demonstrably failed on any number of occasions, and leave much to be desired.

(BTW, "verification" in those standards means something totally different from what "verification" means to software experts today.)

The Rust compiler and ecosystem would need a thorough audit before its use in safety-critical settings, but I have no doubt that this audit will happen and that when it does the evidence generated y that audit will blow way past the standards applied to MISRA C/Ada/etc.
Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage
If so, I'd very much prefer Dropbox stop shilling me with undisablable upgrade notices when you're getting near full, on their official client and website.
41 years.
And the post I clarified says:

> I do the same and have triple displays that is placed with ergonomics in mind,

meaning that the author uses both i3 and triple monitors.

I use a laptop and two 27" externals, not with i3 but with an auto-positioning Hammerspoon that has a similar effect.

When I'm on smaller or fewer displays I can't fit everything I want up simultaneously.

Granted, I relatively often have a mobile app codebase, a backend API codebase used by the mobile app, terminal sessions pertaining to each of those codebases, and documentation for the tools used in either or both projects up all at once.

My eyesight isn't great, so all of those have fairly large font sizes.

Not every project needs that much context. When I'm hacking on my Emacs config, a two-pane split is about I can ask for (and one will do the job just fine).