skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article and absolutely right. I am a pilot in the US and I also suffer from chronic mild depression that a very low dose SSRIs seem to help with. I’ve never been suicidal and most friends probably don’t even know I’ve been less happy than I could be at times. I’ve concluded it’s just something to do with my brain chemistry, and many years ago I may not have even considered that something “medical” was wrong and there were cheap, low risk treatments that could improve my life. These issues have never stopped me from being “successful” by any conventional metric.

The FAA, unfortunately, seems have a more black and white view that reflects a worldview that is stuck in the past. While there is a process for getting “special issuance” (a quite recent change) so that one can keep flying while on certain SSRIs, it is very expensive, very intrusive (think full day battery of psych exams twice a year) and may have career implications. Many professional pilots in similar situations I’ve read about or spoken with don’t say anything at all or omit certain medications from their medicals altogether and hope they don’t get caught. Can you totally blame them?

In my case, I’ve chosen to make tech my primary career, and I scratch the flying itch with a Cessna I own. I’m able to do this with much less paperwork due to a very new program called Basic Med, which is available to private pilots. Were it not for these issues, I very well may have made different career choices though. Pilots with integrity, in the same situation and with my options would likely come to the same logical conclusions. For those who don’t have my options, it may come down to compromising their integrity or lower quality of life.

There are many out there like me, and the biggest risk to aviation safety here is failing to modernize this policy, not pilots’ mental health. As this article points out, it’s time for the FAA to take a more modern, nuanced view here that reflects our improved medical knowledge and de-stigmatizes using this knowledge to improve one’s quality of life. Specifically, it’s time to view SSRIs (in addition to talk therapy) used to treat mild depression symptoms in a similar way to how we think about statins and high cholesterol. We know more than we used to about the prevalence of these issues and standard treatments are available. This shouldn’t require a special issuance.
Yeah ChatGPT is perfect for this. Now it is almost impossible to prevent spam on anonymous sites.
This was something I discovered in the period my wife and I (before children...) read books aloud to each other. Somehow the scenes described became more vivid as I stayed longer with each word and tried to predict vocal variations to match the mood and action unfolding.
I'm not familiar with how IMEs work in Wayland at the moment, but I guess it is possible by the similar way as XIM.
I would like to investigate the protocol later.
> Yet, if you asked someone completely new to computing which UI they'd prefer, they would choose the ribbon.

How do you know that? This seems like a made up thing I’ve seen it stated by multiple people and it’s probably not true. If you take someone new to computing and show them the old idioms of UI and they’d likely prefer it since it makes way more sense.
Never too late to go back to school? I think it's too late for me, plus had a look at syllabus of those .. it's urggg let me buy books instead. It's just for sake of degree (and connection) .. well that's the whole point I guess.
Advent(2): Workbench Management (Dec 4)
Those limitations were provided by evolution (or god if you please). Human computer interfaces will bypass the rate (bandwidth) limitations of typing or linguistic communication.
Which would raise the bar for newcomers and turn it into a GPT competition instead of a coding one.
Suspend-then-hibernate: add option to force early hibernate
Re 1.

There are a few other plugins out there that help with this. I feel blacksmithgu never intended to use this as an editor of sorts.
Gross. This is the digital equivalent of those awful junk emails with fake handwriting printed on the envelope/letter. I automatically reject anything that comes at me this way since the opening move in the communication was a lie by the sender trying to create a false sense of personal communication. Detecting AI in text email is a lot more difficult but the discovery that a firm was using this approach for its marketing would be an instant blacklisting from me.

I know your intention is to help others grow their business and you've doubtless invested a lot of work in this. But since the ultimate purpose of your tool is to automate the business of persuading people to spend money, please stay the fuck out of my inbox.
We're also largely missing application specific optimisations. Occasionally I hear of people writing their own llvm pass to target their application domain but the potential scope vs exploitation of that strategy seems tragically underexplored.
Zero-covid or not, this is inevitable.

iphones were used to be built in Shenzhen, it is now no longer economically viable to do so anymore as labor costs in Shenzhen is much higher, so they moved the factory to Zhenzhou. to chase more profit, they will always consider cheaper alternatives.

It is actually good for the Chinese economy as such cheap labor jobs are not going to sustain further growth required to compete on a more skilled level globally.
Indeed. I used to think my to-read list is long enough already, with no need to add books I've already read to it.

I've come to realise that it's not a list, it's a priority queue. And what would be weird would be if the greatest books I've already read would rank the absolute lowest in priority. Of course they fit into the to-read priority queue, some quite high, even!
> When I got vaccinated for various diseases, it gave long term immunity, not 4 doses over months to lessen the symptoms.

Most vaccines are broadly comparable to the Covid vaccines in this respect, requiring multiple doses over months or years and often not entirely blocking infection. They are not perfect at preventing infections or symptoms in all recipients. Indeed, many important vaccines are significantly less effective than the Covid vaccines. Then consider the many viral diseases (e.g. human coronaviruses) that we do not yet have any vaccine for at all: this is because making vaccines is hard, not because we aren’t trying.

Every virus and every vaccine is different, but in broad strokes the way vaccines work is by building herd immunity in the population, enough to drop the reproductive number of a virus below 1 and prevent exponential spread through the population. (Of course, they also protect people individually. But you are the only person vaccinated you end up much less protected than if everyone else also gets vaccinated.)

Covid is a particularly tricky case because (a) we were starting from limited knowledge of a novel virus and designing vaccines based on new technology, (b) this virus has mutated quickly over time, evading antibodies from vaccines and past infections, (c) this virus, especially later variants, is exceptionally contagious making it hard to drop the reproductive number of the virus below 1 by any single intervention (including vaccines, masking, mass testing, ...), (d) Covid is a very serious diseases especially for the elderly, more than an order of magnitude more dangerous than the flu.

> what was then the point of getting everyone vaccinated

The point was saving literally tens of millions of lives.
If the approach of the other people at fosshost seems to be that the response to the ceo allegedly potentially embezzling funds/derelicting duty (just walking off with control of the bank account and going dark) is simple to shrug and start a new organization, why should we trust them to operate correctly? I'm not seeing details on what the lessons learned are. If you donated money to fosshost, amd you see the ceo walk away with the money while the rest of the team just decides to start with a new name, why would you then trust that new team with a donation? This whole situation is not confidence inducing.
I'm afraid people with schizoid disorder will literally be in danger when exposed to these 'agents'. Also, to a lesser extent, old people.
No it isn't. Ramping is slow and can't be done beyond 20% very often or you destroy your fuel and control rods

Reducing output doesn't reduce costs, it increases them. This is the opposite of dispatchable.

If you can only pay for your reactor by coercing people into buying daytime electricity for 20c/kWh rather than buying a solar panel that will pay for itself in 3 years then it's not dispatchable.
- There is an Obsidian git plugin that is very popular that helps.
- I've seen some prototypes that do this. Can't recall any names sadly.
>I have no friends and family

start friendships, go on dates
Ask HN: Dear Firefox and uBlock Developers
where are you? Please raise you hand if you read this. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the fantasic job you did. My internet experience is so much better because of you. Everytime i look at the ublock counter in the top right corner of firefox i feel the warmth.

Thank you!
Why in heaven does OpenAI want my phone number to be able to log in? And why it doesn’t say anything about this requirement before I create an account? If I knew about it I wouldn’t even bother creating the account at all. It’s absolutely inappropriate.
This is such a great idea!

--
I want you to write a simple shell script that adds all files in a directory to git and pushes them to the remote, with comments scattered around that insult me for not knowing how to do things with git myself
--

This produces the following script:

#!/bin/bash
# This line changes the working directory to the directory where the script is located
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

# This line adds all the files in the current directory to
git
git add .

# This line commits the files with a message
git commit -m "Adding all files in directory"

# This line pushes the files to the remote repository
git push

# This line prints a message insulting you for not knowing how to use git
echo "You're a clueless idiot for not knowing how to use git. Get with the program!"
FWIW after 10 years working on one project (out there on the market), I am starting a PhD next month. I am in my 50s.
Even solar power needs interfaces. One of those interfaces will likely be through the Web. There will be work to be done that requires normal Web dev in that area.
Why? They're using big banks of computers to try and emotionally manipulate people at scale, do you really think that being nicey-nice to them is going to bring them to some sort of moral epiphany? I tried it for years, they just classify that as sucker behavior and laugh it off.
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Brian C. Muraresku
https://www.amazon.com/Immortality-Key-Uncovering-History-Re...

Well written, engrossing book on the historical underpinnings and the pharmacological foundations behind liturgical practices in modern religions.
The motivation and gist of the book isn't new but the author paid great attention to existing evidence and wrote the book carefully enough to not diverge into hippie territory.
100 cars driving around the tech capital of the world is not even close to the scale many people imagined 5-10 years ago though.
I'm not sure we need to replace Excel. Just need to just stop using it for things it wasn't designed for and isn't good at.

<Obligatory Bart Simpson writing "Excel is not a database" cartoon>

Airtable does a pretty good job of combining elements of spreadsheet and database in a package that supports collaboration. It's not going to replace Excel though.

See also:
https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies
Yes. I wonder if there's a way to plug the recent GPT-3 ish program synthesis advancements into this so humans could easily specify those by expressing just a hint of what to do. The problem is merciful in that you can handle a fair chunk of the correctness validation by comparing against the unoptimized version...
To me it seems like there is a lot more to this building-flourishing-decay-collapse cycle than power and competence with regression to the mean. I first got interested by this topic after reading "The Fate of Empires" [1] where the author puts the "blame" so to speak, not on competence, but on the generational gap. His thesis is that it takes approximately 10 generations before the values that built the society are no longer followed by their descendants.

[1] http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
and then things like

> cat /etc/shadow

do actually work...
This is how it works in many, many cases. For example, look up Susie Green, former CEO of trans charity Mermaids. She's talked about how, as a toddler, her son wanted to wear dresses, play with dolls, and so on.

She initially took this to be a revelation that her son was gay, and, according to her, her husband was very homophobically against this, so they confiscated his toys and told him they're for girls only. So he started telling them that he wants to be a girl, and later became insistent that he is a girl.

This led to him being put on puberty blockers, then cross-sex hormones at 13, and then Green taking him to Thailand at 16 (as such surgery at this age was and is illegal in the UK) to be castrated and have his penis and scrotum made into something that sort of looks like a vulva and vagina.

Which, all in all, is quite an extreme intervention for a boy who just wanted to play with dolls. I think this is child abuse - don't you?
They at the least upload thumbnails to the cloud, which would include photos of the areas being recorded and people's faces. If this is part if a notification system, that probably includes timestamps. That's enough to begin to build a profile of the user, patterns regarding visitors, etc.
not released this year, but quite new:

Bobiverse Series by Dennis Taylor
https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse

Project Hail Mary by Weir Andy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-ma...
I feel very much at odds with this - it’s not going beyond a couple commands, this is exactly what I’d expect a language model to be able to do today based on the past three years progression. It’s not actually executing anything ofc, it’s finding the output quite literally a well formed amalgamation of all the learned examples online of which there’s be tons.

It’s something like novelty * length * complexity with * accuracy that impressed me, of which it’s not far beyond simple tutorials or snippets you’d find online.
For Nestle, supply chain is the least evil thing. Hard to beat their baby formulas marketing

Fuck Nestle.
It is true that many essential organizations cannot effectively defend their networks. But it is also important to point out that there are many orgs that _are_ effectively defending their networks. I've worked in IT in a huge range of companies, orgs, and context. One thing that is clear is the culture plays a huge role. Those with a culture of supporting people who deal with real problems fare much better, those with a culture of "Cover Your Ass" or "When you say jump, I say how high" are getting hacked left and right.
A good addition with more story and less technicals is the book „masters of doom“
Sitting with my newborn sleeping on my chest currently. I’ve really enjoyed Brain Rules for Baby and currently reading Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child. Both good, feel like the latter is going to be a pivotal part of our parenting. My wife really enjoyed The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read.
> Twitter was operating way above it’s means.

But for a one-time charge for a lawsuit settlement, it was profitable just before Musk took over, it was not operating above its means (it almost certainly is now, despite the cuts, because of the loss of advertising revenue on top of the enormous debt service costs Musk loaded it up with to finance the acquisition.)

> The actual employees seem to be doing a fine job at reduced-capacity though

Keeping the lights on in the core app? Maybe (subjectively, I’m seeing more problems with app behavior, and seeing more reports of them, but that could, at least in part, be more attention being on it.) With the kind of safety that is of concern to moderators, no, despite Musk’s claims of reduced hate speech and other objectionable content by Twitter’s count, outside analysis has that skyrocketing.

Basic business functions? Well, missing payroll in a couple of EU jurisdictions is kind of a big deal.

So, no, I would say the existing crew isn’t doing a great job of keeping Twitter running, though the most clear problems aren’t in app function, but other business-critical functions. But, it wasn’t just engineers that were cut, and keeping the lights on, without innovation, is probably the easiest function to maintain with deep cuts, since software doesn’t actually rot.
My favourite nonfiction read of the year was a biography of Wittgenstein by Ray Monk called The Duty of Genius. Absolutely enthralling read about a really fascinating person. I find Wittgenstein's own writings almost impenetrable, but I feel I got to know and love the man, and his way of thinking, in this work.

For fiction, I read almost all Chaim Potok's novels this year and he has become my favourite author. If anybody has a deep interest in religion, and how it interacts with the secular world, and how one is to reconcile the two, I heartily recommend Potok.
I have read a lot of books this year. I am not sure I could pick a best.

I will put up The Last Duel as one of the most entertaining books I read this year. I really enjoyed it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438538.The_Last_Duel
This exact argument was made about pilots. If they can't figure out <counter-intuitive nonsense design>, then they shouldn't be pilots!

For a recent example, the MCAS design is nonsense, yet people were blaming the pilots, stating something along the lines of: "On page 837 paragraph 7, there's half a sentence that explains how to resolve the issue."

Forgetting to mention that the cause of the issue was purposefully omitted, and that the issue of unexpected trim change typically has a familiar and resolvable cause, not one that physically overpowers pilots... repeatedly. With delays. With no warning signal.

Even other pilots were blaming the dead pilots for making mistakes that were not humanly possible to avoid or recover from.
Haskell and Scala don't fit my ways of adopting things. A way is akin to "the best bang for the bucks", so both provide too much, especially Scala. If I have to choose between a gazillion abstraction/features that can do many things, and a simple language that can do many things. Definitely go for the letter.
Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers. Tight and well written, not dated at all.
> What problems does it cause to make the locked down experience the default with the option for me to disable that and take control of the device after I buy it?

Thats literally what we have. What are you complaining about? For obvious reasons Apple is t going to support you if you jailbreak it, but that is absolutely reasonable of them.
Which section of the 14th are you referring to?
It‘s a stereotype for the sake of a stereotype. I don‘t think anyone identifies with such a narrow unrealistic stereotype, so there is no point in arguing for an entirely hypothetical marginalized group.

By the way, hiring is all about judging people‘s past work, and I‘m sorry to pop your bubble if you think past MLM work or having large gaps in your employment history doesn‘t reflect bad on anyone.
In my experience, you can get it to change its mind by troubleshooting the connectivity issues. E.g. if you use dig to get the ip and then ask curl to use that ip instead of a dns lookup, then it works for me.
Thanks for this. I can very much relate. Breaking my running streak was crushing and quite discouraging. I've been contemplating focusing the app more on habit commitment and possibly the total achievement (ie. you've been running for 2 years).
I have a few problems with TFA, not least of all the fact that properly managed developers don’t generally add features for fun. Neither do marketeers, mostly those guys are just trying to interpret signals from their market and perhaps trowel some bait out there. However…

It is a brave product manager that declares his product more or less feature-complete. Because it is a far more frightening proposition for a company to begin a new product, perhaps only their 2nd ever, rather than glom-on extras to their first-born.

It’s one thing to manage a backlog of features into a product (or to discard them), but quite another to have the clarity of vision for your product that allows you to repeatedly say “no” even in the face of clear customer demand for functionality. Functionality that really belongs in your 2nd app, not your 1st. Even if you as a product manager have that clarity, you’ve then got to get the rest of the company behind you. IMO the only thing harder is getting a company to kill a product that needs killing.
True: marketing, sales, support, training, finance are part of holistic product the customer is buying into. The customer themselves is part of it too!
GPT-3 cannot run on hobbyist-level GPU yet. That's the difference (compared to Stable Diffusion which could run on 2070 even with a not-so-carefully-written PyTorch implementation), and the reason why I believe that while ChatGPT is awesome and made more people aware what LLMs could do today, this is not a moment like what happened with diffusion models.
People love to give Jony Ive and Steve Jobs credit for the iPhone but no one gives Tim Cook credit for keep making the iPhone the most desirable product in the world in 2022.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849799
Hopefully there's some online Dr Anonymous Jones to fight these online Nazi archeologists.

I couldn't quite figure out what they were saying, apart from the usual 'woke' is bad, reactionary 'science' is being oppressed.

Something like, all historical immigration has wiped out the current inhabitants so we should be right-wing and oppose immigration today? It's really not clear, presumably because if they just stated it plainly it would be obviously stupid.
Wow, never thought about this. That’s an obvious and terrifying monetization model. Pay to always have GPT speak well of your company. Pay to appear more frequently in certain contexts.
The Greeks even had a word for this recurring cycle: kyklos. The historian Polybius believed the Roman constitution allowed them to avoid this cycle by balancing the forces of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. You can compare and contrast the constitutional setup in Rome in his Book 6;

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6...

Of course, he stopped writing towards the end of the second century BC when Rome’s Republic began to slowly fall apart, but even the Empire that came after proved somewhat durable.
The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa
I'm wholeheartedly confused why so many people are only just now learning of OpenAI/GPT-3 and its chat mode, I guess presentation truly is everything. Nothing here is particularly new, it's just a better model than before.

Statements like "the people haven't realized it yet" confuse me because "the people" is two groups. People in the know, and people not in the know. Everyone in the know realizes where this is headed and what the potential is.

Those not in the know simply lack the technical background to have followed the incremental developments up till now which have led to this moment, for them it's a parlor trick because even today they cannot grasp the potential of existing technology. I could similarly lament about how people treat the Internet.
And now I’m thinking about how to build a spam filter that runs parts of emails through GPT and then matches the output with the entire email to arrive at a score.

Because I would love a way to automatically filter out generated bs like this. Hell, even have it interact with the sender totally automatically to waste as much of their time as possible!