skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see the parallel. Anorexia as "starving themselves to death" is not a stable identity, it is an identity in decline with ongoing suffering and temporary highs.

Should taking of legs be the first treatment option? No.

Should people get therapy, medication and other treatment? Yes.

Should those treatments be refined and improved, sufferers of BIID experimented on to improve treatments? Yes.

If society is unable to come up with a treatment that works for years should society deny sufferers this radical treatment forever? No. That is imposing the majority world view on a minority when the difference in world view poses no harm. Yes, society would need to address potential cognito hazards/memes and make sure there are no people doing this for economic incentives or other mental illnesses for which treatments exists.

If society would let people get the treatment, that would not be capitulation. That would be acknowledging that while society has interest in being able to treat that, that interest can not forever outweigh the benefits the radical operation has for the sufferer. Capitulation would be if society stops trying to find a treatment besides radical operation and handed operations out without scrutiny.
A text editor is what I use, the pattern is a comment line beginning with a # sign followed by the thing or things I'm noting, interspersed with comment lines if needed, followed by one or more blank lines to separate the concept.
Yes, exactly. This is also applicable to building good prompts for language models from larger document sets.

Here is an example of using Github page summaries to seed knowledge in discussing various topics with GPT-3: https://github.com/daveshap/LongtermChatExternalSources
IME the people working at CPS tend to lack judgment and have have a controlling and abusive mindset.

I would never let a child near a CPS worker.
Because you’re using the library’s we have today; they don’t make the unknown you encountered easy.

What about the ripples from “enough people” losing their jobs?

Covid and the logistics whiplash have done nothing to embed in people they’re just one of seven billion. Each still acts like the king of their own mountain. It’s pretty sad.

You have no say over your place in a future society that appears keen to rug pull the masses lives from under them.
The music is top-notch, especially the timing of the drums with the presentation!
Amazon is profiting from the counterfeit sales. It seems like a clear basis for a lawsuit.
AI doesn't have to fully replace humans (or even be that good) to have detrimental effects on wages and working conditions. Jobs are like oil; if the people who control the supply can reduce quantity by 10 percent, prices spike (this, for workers, would mean that wages decline, work conditions worsen, and hours grow longer).

We're not going to see AIs replacing humans in all jobs any time soon. We are going to see, barring regulation or (better yet) a total overthrow of the corporate system, increasing power accruing to capital--due to AIs' ability to perform the "80" in the aforementioned 80/20 analysis--with devastating human consequences. And this is true even though DALL-E, in the given example, doesn't actually understand (even in a figurative sense) that a third of Africa is desert or that certain facial expressions indicate concentration.

If an AI can do even half of your job--and anything you do as a subordinate probably can, in principle, be done by machines--you should be terrified. You're not going to be working 20 hours per week; you're going to be working for pennies due to wage inelasticity--there's now twice as much competition for jobs. Automation is of course both desirable and inevitable, but we've got to transition to an economic system in which it doesn't result in widespread poverty and homelessness... which is not the one we've got right now.
What about archiving them in torrent format - in this way, as long as there is one nerd who values history out there, there will be a copy
The course leans pretty heavily toward active recall - there are a lot of high quality tutorials out there, so I wanted this one to focus more on maximizing retention instead of serving as a gentle introduction.
It's pretty much never right to extrapolate something that looks exponential as an actual exponential. It's much more likely to be something with roughly the shape of a logistic curve.

... and the fun part with a logistic curve is guessing how far up you actually are...
Until further notice is more palatable after a short notice.
XAML? (Okay, I'm not a fan of it, but it's one way to achieve it).

Or Qt's .ui spec (though too Qt-specific).

I like flutter or Unreal's Slate UI approach (e.g. the UI is in the code), and wished we used that more with our own Qt's use (rather than the visual editor). I'm not saying it's the wrong approach, but it adds complexity barrier, for no good reason (we never had dedicated UI person(s) that just does .ui files, it was all us programmers doing it, so why add this extra layer for no good reason).
What if they know whether you check in? It would be hard to check in at all the airports.
I mean yeah? If your people spend a century integrating with the locals and working the land to the point where you make up the overwhelming majority of the population, it's pretty fair to say you have some right to it.
Multiple copies in multiple locations. A sealed copy in an envelope kept by your lawyer or insurance agent. This came up a couple of months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652650 -- https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my... -- https://www.amazon.com/Read-This-When-Im-Dead/dp/0988342553
Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants at Least Two Generations (2013)
This reminds me deeply of the lighthouses at Burning Man in 2016: https://www.google.com/search?q=burning+man+lighthouses
Even their own graphic shows it. China has absolute more, but if we take it relative to the people living in the countries, the US has the most.
I love all history of bread making, I find it super interesting i wasn general the discover of foods we take for granted.

Protip: make your own ketchup sometime..hot dang it's easily to see why it became ubiquitous..and then cry over how terrible the mass produced stuff is ;)
Just focusing on yourself is fine if you're the underdog. If you're the incumbent, and you don't know what your competitors are doing, someone will eat your lunch.
The cynic in me reads this and thinks: “Well of course. America is not safe for children. It’s only truly safe for capitalists and cops.” Then I wonder how much of that is cynicism, and how much of it is the infuriating reality.
That the Arizona Department of Child Safety chose to prosecute this woman is an unstated recognition of this.
I think that's more narrowly defined as "status quo bias" - people tend to take the lowest energy path, so generally accept default choices. The definition of nudging that I could determine from the original book's Wikipedia page includes that, as well as other forms of nudges. I wonder if separating out these nudges by type would result in different results in this metaanalysis. But that is also analogous to p-hacking, isn't it?
"... evidence that nudging works. Perhaps not up to the standard of science..." That's pretty close to saying it doesn't work. The point of this meta-study was precisely to show that the evidence claimed to support nudging was probably attributable to random variation + unnatural selection, where the unnatural selection was publication choice: either the researchers who got negative (null) results chose not to bother writing it up and submitting it, or papers that reported negative were rejected by publishers.

There are lots of people who do X for a living, but where X doesn't work: palm readers, fortune tellers, horoscope writers, and so on. I'm not even sure that funds managers reliably obtain results much above random.
I agree with other commenters that it's unlikely nudges never have an impact.

We should also be wary of high-profile debunkings, now that they're increasingly in fashion due to the replication crisis and the general dour mood. It's easy to p-hack a result into significance, but you can just as easily hack results into insignificance.

These days, both findings and debunkings need a skeptical eye.
They note that there is no evidence for nudging as being generally effective. So any individual nudge could be effective (except in finance in which they found that none are effective).
There is a difference from free and no enforcing a fare. I think the number of homeless in the US does complicate it though
That's actually perfectly fine, as long as they don't treat the estimate as a deadline.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but the image in the article looks like it could have made both one and two passes through a Xerox machine before it ended up in the paper.
And by the way, when you hear Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen say 'The United States will impose harsh consequences on countries that break the international economic order' and then ironically blaming Russia instead of her own country [0], do you feel how society becomes a little bit worse?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-us-will-impose-...
Bittorrent is not archival, it's distribution.
Great minds! I was writing more or less the same thing, you beat me to publication by three minutes.
They absolutely aren't identical. If you have a grant for, whatever, 1,000 shares a year, and the shares used to be worth $100, but now they're worth $50, the company is still giving you the same things it gave before (X% of the total value of the company). It will still have to go to the board and ask for more dilution to create new share pools at the same time as it did before. Its cash-on-hand situation is no better than before.
I use a KV, Hashi vault, so my shell scripts get api keys, secrets, etc and they’re not stored plaintext or in SCM.
My point is that your quantum computer isnt able to do anything. It's junk, spewing out random data.
> It’s potentially damaging to say “most of science is wrong” and just stop there. That’s a misleading framing in my opinion. In order to fix the funding problems, society as a whole needs to have trust in science, to believe that the majority of people doing science are politically impartial and also not wasting money or lining their own pockets, to believe that scientific progress is human progress.

Science is losing the battle for public trust because it wants to simultaneously be an infallible source of truth and this messy, chaotic discipline where we tumble towards an approximate answer. It gets defined as a one or the other when it's convenient.

In the first breath:
Oh, X% of all published papers are wrong? No big deal, that's just how science works. Can we have another 100 billion of taxpayer dollars please?

In the second breath:
The Science Says vaccines are safe and effective. Take it or get fired.
Clearly it's been too long since I've been to a competition.
Right. The efficiencies are already here in the form of CI/CD, workflow tools like IntelliSense, and boring old stuff like ORMs and libraries. It's probably about 50% faster to make a common CRUD app than it was 20 years ago.

Luckily the industry has found a way to compensate for this by building the common CRUD app in React and Microservices, so now it takes 3x longer again and requires twice the staff to maintain it.
I noticed the same thing and was impressed by how well it was done.
> But the loss to Haiti cannot just be measured by adding up how much was paid to France and to outside lenders over the years.

> Every franc shipped across the Atlantic to an overseas bank vault was a franc not circulating among Haiti’s farmers, laborers and merchants, or not being invested in bridges, schools or factories — the sort of expenditures that help nations become nations, that enable them to prosper.

The cost of reparations versus the impact is different. The impact is a guesstimate, the cost isn’t.
We are talking about publication bias, where the decision whether to publish something is biased by the outcome of the experiment.

I think this doesn't really apply to A/B testing, because people are incentivized pay as much attention to negative results as to positive ones.
Each kilogram of battery in an EV removes a need for about a 100kg of gasoline.

I'm sure they'll be recycling those batteries in about 25 years when they'll be starting to wear out, but even if they don't we're still leaning hard on the "reduce" in the three R's mantra.
A/B testing has a ton of issues as well that make it easy to be fooled

https://biggestfish.substack.com/p/data-as-placebo
I think Newton covered that in his first law. Nobody is actually being nudged, which implies a behavior change, at all.
I do not, in fact, comment on the overwhelming majority of topics.

Here I have asked earnest questions. It is a fact that every drug tried to interfere with amyloids, over decades, failed miserably, if not actually made things worse. Why do you object to my asking them?
So capitalism?
The easiest to understand diagnostic used to measure publication bias is the funnel plot. Suppose the true effect of interest is theta = 0.2. Then the observed effects in studies should be centered at 0.2; some will be higher, some will be lower. Assuming no systematic error, the degree to which study results vary around 0.2 should be proportional to the precision of the study (think sampling error given a sampling design). A hypothetical study of an infinitely large meta-population would produce the effect estimate of exactly 0.2, infinitely precisely. A series of very small studies will likely show quite divergent results, just on the basis of precision.

A funnel plot plots effect sizes on the x axis and precision on the y axis. The most precise studies should be tightly grouped around the meta-analytic average effect; the least precise studies should be spread more widely. This forms a triangular, funnel shape. If no publication bias exists, the spread of studies below the magnitude of the average effect should be comparable to the spread of studies above the magnitude of the average effect.

If there is publication bias, then the points that would form the left (without loss of generality; right if negative effect size) portion of the funnel will not be observable.

There are issues with funnel plots and there are other diagnostics but I hope this provides insight into one of the tools used. Notably, as a diagnostic, funnel plots work whether the true effect is positive, negative, or null; they assume only that the underlying assumptions of meta-analysis are true (that studies represent a sample of the same, true underlying effect -- other diagnostics and corrections exist when this is violated)
I don't think you meant it this way, but I don't really like the phrasing that it's a "framing" problem and that we "need" to "trust in science" and "believe in political impartiality". It sounds like you're talking about knowing there are real problems in how we practice science, but we should manipulate the public into believing in it and trusting it anyways.

Trying to manipulate people like this is guaranteed to backfire long term. People will realize that it's being done and trust things coming from the world of science even less. Instead we need to acknowledge that there are real problems in how we practice and communicate about science and take visible steps to fix them.
All my hope rests on the assumption that creating bigger models with current AI technology will only lead to marginally better results. The old law of diminishing returns. In other words, current model approaches hopefully have a limit (that's not too far away) that will keep them from getting better.
This. Also you can do stuff like «rg —python myvariable» to search python files only. Neat for multi-language directory trees. (Works with many other languages.)
The best way to evaluate the productivity of engineers would be to determine if their peers see them as a top performer, a net positive or a net negative. If somebody is a net negative, get rid of them. If somebody is a top performer, make sure they're compensated accordingly and kept happy so they don't leave. If somebody is a net positive then you should be satisfied that you aren't stuck with a net negative. Any attempt to evaluate software engineers beyond this is going to be inherently arbitrary.

If you invent arbitrary metrics, your engineers will often have to choose between doing work or gaming the metrics.
Because the person you're responding to is Russian and wants to keep an eye on how the invasion is going.
Are there any practical applications to this, like making nanoscale structures that can change particle or surface properties? What's the smallest possible structure that enables bending? This looks like one of those mundane problems that yields unexpectedly impactful applications, like moiré pattern and magic angle graphene.
We live in an upper middle class neighborhood and the only people who drive through are other people who live here. Our daughter is seven now but we’ve let her go to her friends house of her own volition since she was five.

This wasn’t a problem until a woman with several foster children (I know this because she told me? I assume she was trying to virtue signal to me what a great person she was) moved into our neighborhood.

One day she came to our house with our daughter in tow, telling us “it isn’t safe” and other nonsense. Most of the people on the blocks are parents and we have each other’s numbers! The next time our daughter was out, then came home, a short time later we got a knock on the door by a police officer. He was friendly and asked to see our daughter to make sure she was okay, but said he’d gotten a call and he had to report it to CPS. So the man from CPS came and inspected our house to make sure we weren’t abusing our child.

Luckily nothing came from it but it was really annoying and I really hate that neighbor now. We bought our daughter an Apple Watch so she can call us and we can GPS track her so she’s not “being neglected”.

It’s frustrating because I lived in a much less safe neighborhood than we do now and was allowed to range much further when I was her age. It just takes one busybody to ruin your life, though.
Is Software Thwarting Competition and Innovation?
Are you a people manager? If so, what is the turnover like on your team? I ask because the author is dead on and I've been in this industry for 10 years.
There are plenty of critical, unglamorous jobs which need to be done. It’s not unreasonable for an engineer to value high six figure/seven figure salaries over a feeling of work fulfillment and skill utilization
Absolutely. No Starch Press has been in the forefront trying to tell people about the problem. But nothing ever changes. It's very sad and bad for society.
SQLite allows me to keep multiple versions of the same entry, which is convenient for state merging. Half the sync logic is actually implemented in SQL. Other than that, I’m already familiar with it and the storage backend is not very performance critical for the intended use case.
This kind of bureaucratic law/not-law is because it's a bureaucratic determination and not a "law" proper.

It's the same kind of "its not really criminal until it is" regarding speeding and not wearing a seatbelt. Traffic court is a farce, and has been long used as a bypass of proper defense by saying "driving is a privileged and not a right".. when the very body punishing you is the state. That conveniently is thrown out the window as things move up the chain. Sure looks criminal at all phases, even if it is "minor crimes".

Naturally, other quazi-"not really criminal until it is" bureaucracies need destroyed. Like utterly, completely; until they start complying with proper courts for finding of fact and acting only upon punishment phase if found guilty.
Twitter has always been unbearable for me. I got a look at it in 2008, decided it was the men's room wall of the internet, and haven't been back since.
Yeaaah don’t use ECB.

AEAD or gtfo
I mean as a bisexual male, I can definitely state I've had my fair share of mental anguish over having a thing for men in the past so I don't exactly buy your post about being in 'homeostasis' as you've described. That feels more like post-hoc rationalization for a terrible thought experiment than anything else. Especially since people that suffer from gender dysphoria tend to have worse outcomes due to external sources and lack of validation, much like what would happen to severely repressed gay people in religious communities.

And to further play the devils advocate there were plenty of people at the time that believed gay people were a blight on society for multiple reasons. Hence why conversion camps were a thing.
You’re not correct. Inspection time for a 3x3 solve allows you to plan the early moves, but no farther. It is possible to solve the entire cube in your head (i.e., blindfold solving), but not in 10 seconds. Progress through a solve goes in several stages, depending on your method. Each stage may require several sub-stages.

E.g., for the CFOP method the second stage is pairing middle edge pieces with bottom corner pieces, and putting them in place. There are 4 of these middle edge pieces, so that stage has 4 steps. Each step may require from zero to ~8 moves.

Speed solvers typically scan the cube for the next step, and then while their fingers execute the moves they scan the cube, looking to setup the next step. Sometimes this allows them to anticipate the next _next_ step.
Because the problematic part is switching millions and millions of buildings from gas and oil to either heat pumps or district heating, not generating heat or electricity.
Somewhat related, there is the Simple English Wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
It's probably just me, and even I don't have a 100% success rate.
Isn't that always the case?
From what I’ve seen there is even more incentive to focus on positive A/B tests. It’s the way you get credit for your work at a company. A negative test is counted as barely anything. So your incentive is to run tons of tests, then cherry pick only the positive ones and announce them widely. Another strategy is to track multiple metrics for each test and not adjust for that when computing p values. But then at the end you only report the one metric that was positive.
> if we want to follow the cheapest generator.

Energy isn't just about generation

> If nuclear is as necessary, competitive and flexible as some make out, then go right ahead and build your plant(s). Just don't expect taxpayers to underwrite anything.

By the same logic taxpayers shouldn't underwrite any renewables: they are significantly slower than nuclear, and have literally zero base load capacity.
If you read between the lines what he's saying is that it doesn't matter if engineers enjoy the job.
I wish I was able to be a more active member of the hacker lab community. RIP
If the actual costs are internalized (as in, not externalized) I don't think much of this economic demand is sustainable.

Economic demand is just a metric.

You are celebrating a metric without considering if and how it contributes positively to the goal, and I'm not even sure we agree on the goal, if yours is tumor-like growth.
Use an adblocker, and only use Twitter on desktop. Like you said, it's become more and more unbearable