skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you mean teleology? It's not a teleological response, because teleology doesn't work, but it is an evolutionary response alright.
It is important to understand that all work is Derivative work. Unless someone was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle they were exposed to music and art in some way during their childhood.

Even someone as original as Salvador Dali was inspired and influenced by other artists.
I'm about your age now. I had great working memory when I was younger. I can tell mine's has gotten significantly worse since my late 30s over what seems like a gradual decline. Part of that is age. Part of that is that I have dependents and a lot less sleep. I expect mine's to continue declining. Because of these experiences, I definitely appreciate my father more now than when I was a teen. I remembered that he was a lot more careful, mindful, and thoughtful in decisions and actions, whereas I was impatient with what I knew was the right answer (despite that, much of the time, it had more to do with memory).

I've been taking Lion's Mane (mushroom) and Omega-3 EHA+DHA as supplements to help with this. Keep in mind that the value of Lion's Mane is the long-term effect from taking it daily, and that one overdose symptom of Omega-3 DHA is insomnia. I'd really would rather not take caffeine, though the few times I do, I notice that thoughts referencing memories are able to connect better.
This is one of those bell curve memes.

Left side: Evolution took their tusks away.

Middle: Acktually it's selection pressure acting on the population combined with random mutations that...

Right side: Evolution took their tusks away.

More charitably, pedantry is a stage of learning. Practicing until the concepts get reinforced enough that you can substitute the rule of thumb again.

It's the same pattern as the hero's journey. Start at home (the naive view), do righteous battle with the concepts, return home (to the naive view) but changed.

I was into all this stuff when I was 13, reading Dawkins and Hitchens. Blind watchmaker, selfish gene. What's interesting is that the fuel for that kind of learning is part intellectual exercise, part making sense of the world, and part superiority (other people are wrong and I'm right). And now we're doing the same thing one level up.
Financial incentives boost weight-loss programs
So there can be no redemption? I can’t, off the top of my head, think of any endeavors where someone can never participate again once they’ve cheated. Certainly not in sports.
Exactly. If they don't want us to buy the old cars, make good new cars, meaning, without all of the unnecessary and poorly implemented tech. The burden isn't on me to change and what's more, adding all the bad stuff is extra work, so they should just stop.
"We regret to inform you the owner of deadmanswitch.com has died and we are unable to access the servers"
What does the “;)” mean here? Unsure if this is a serious comment and GiveWell is worthy of investigation, or if there’s some subtext I’m missing based on the wink.
There's a huge gap between "The breadth of training this AI has and the depth of its processing is impressive" and "This script is sentient". The latter is a _far_ broader (and unsubstantiated) claim.
This is a very recent line of thinking that started last year or so when serious prize funds started happening online. Takes some time for this to disperse to everyone....if it merits it even. Definitely no FIDE rated ones but has there been a classical game played in an online tournament by GMs?
You will receive a benefit, but you will not be able to purchase as much as you might have expected to with the benefit.
I don't know if the fingerprint reader works - I don't like them, so haven't tried to set it up (it's integrated into the power button, which of course does work).

I haven't spent more than 8-10 hours off of a charger, so I don't know what the death point is for the battery. At least a full day working & streaming.

I use Fedora, not Ubuntu, so I can't speak to Ubuntu's hibernation. Power management works seamlessly on Fedora: connecting/disconnecting battery, opening/closing lid when connecting/not, timing out to sleep, awaking on keypress or lid open, etc etc. All the annoying combinations that, previously, I've had issues with on Linux devices.

Thanks for the trackpoint tip! I do want to try to acclimate to it because that sounds like a nice workflow. It's hard to break muscle memory, though.
Badly. It can't do math, to an extent which is honestly surprising given how well it produces code. I suspect that this will improve significantly in the next couple of years, but I kind of hope I am wrong. I am a mathematician by training, and I have my own romanticism.

For example, I tried a bunch of times to get it to give a proof of the infinitude of the primes. This should be repeated many times in its training data, and it clearly is given it's responses, but it always goes off the rails around the third sentence. Here's an example:

> One way to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers is to use the contradiction method. Assume for the sake of contradiction that there are only finitely many prime numbers, say, p₁, p₂, ..., pₙ. Then we can form a new number N by multiplying all of these prime numbers together and adding 1: N = p₁ * p₂ * ... * pₙ + 1. Because N is greater than any of the prime numbers p₁, p₂, ..., pₙ, it cannot be divisible by any of them. Furthermore, N is not 1, so it cannot be a composite number (i.e., a number that can be written as the product of two smaller numbers). Therefore, N must be a prime number, contradicting the assumption that there are only finitely many prime numbers. This contradiction shows that our assumption must be false, and therefore, there must be infinitely many prime numbers.
Still wishing I could run Window 7. (showing my age, I know)
I was going to say books, then my colleague wrote an entire book using ChatGPT at work today.
Except all of it was given for free. The tanks that the Ukrainians received were Soviet era ones which they can maintain themselves. The drone's maintenance costs are tiny compared to the acquisitions costs, and the mere dozen of HIMARS are cheap compared to the incredible amount of munitions they were given to fire them. Nothing you have stated has any relation to reality. The US will never make even a single percentage point in income from the maintenance from the tens of billions in weapons given - many of which were literal munitions.
You also have to carry it around, it increases the surface area of your head, it's harder to do shoulder checks, they are uncomfortable when it's hot out, and for some hair types it messes up your hair for the day.
...and being able to tell how close to loading it was based on the sounds coming from the hard drive.
I guess my issue is figuring out where the value is?

There are legal procedures for anything important (eg. financial accounts). You don't need the password, you just go through the legal frameworks that have been set up for years.

Almost everything else mentioned just doesn't matter that much. My personal site? Why would my wife want access? I guess maybe to put a "good bye" not or something but in the long run it doesn't matter.

My emails? Again, why would my family care? It'll rot away just like I will! (morbid, I know, but I liked the humour!)

The creative stuff I have made is either easily available on the web, or I intentionally don't want it shared, so whatever.

Social media posts and the like are unimportant.

Photos maybe? I have those backed up on an SSD, no password needed for that.

I used to care a lot about this, but over time I just realized how unimportant that stuff is once given a long enough time frame.
It's not a fact. Hans disputes this and chess.com who made the accusation provides no evidence. Even then, taking some rant he made while under the camera shouldn't be taken seriously enough to attack him like this.
I think the simplest answer is - have at least a few friends or relatives that are tech savvy enough to help your spouse or whoever figure things out. Our house is a rube goldberg machine of IoT devices, VLANs, and servers with VMs and other junk. No way I expect my wife to deal with any of that. But she does have access to a very simple, password protected file, that she can share with my father in law or one of a few friends of mine that are capable of sorting everything out (while also probably cursing me for how needlessly complex I've made turning on a light switch).
>CVS did not merely collect customers’ Campaign Donations and forward them to the
ADA, but, instead, counted Campaign Donations toward the satisfaction of a legally binding
obligation, which CVS had made to the ADA, to donate $10 million to the ADA during the three-
year period of 2021 through 2023 (the “CVS Obligation”).

Keeping the in mind a complaint is one party's very subjective factual narrative, the "legally binding obligation to donate" jumps out for me.

Does this plaintiff know the agreement's specifics?

If it were, let's say, an agreement that CVS would donate $n over x years (matching customer donations) and in exchange they were promoted as an A.D.A. sponsor, and had permission to use the A.D.A. logo for marketing purposes, I don't find it terribly egregious.
I have on no fewer than three occasions witnessed the use of a windows computer with the task bar on the bottom.
Mega-list of all Reddit self help advice boiled down
The Windows 11 release event was top cringe. It was like the Hide-the-Pain Harold version of Windows 95's release. Like nobody there believed Windows 11 was an actual improvement but they desperately wanted you to.

Strangely comforting to see they're still struggling to convince people.
Aaand it's apparently too much: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/tesla-red...
It would be even better if that community became skilled at producing a certain set of goods or services and traded them with the outside world to gain wealth and increase quality of life for its inhabitants. You could take payment in advance for the services, but in case of international currencies, it would probably be prudent to hedge that currency timing risk with FX swaps...
That $0.023 per GB is for storage. It's $0.09 per GB for egress (varies by region). It's charged the same as all other egress from AWS.
Seems they're following the eBay model. Since they profit from the fraud they won't stop it.
The tax treatment is a significant benefit no?
Entitled
the sheer power that AI has now and the likelihood that it will continue to advance has made me slightly concerned about how it will end up affecting the job market. If AI ends up being able to generate readable novels, or functional code, or otherwise, it could have a serious ripple effect
> If the cyclist twitches as you pass them, you were too close.

If I feel the breeze as you pass me, you were too close. Actually I think that's quite a good metric, because it ties together your speed and closeness.
there is a long-running secular trend [0] that simply reflects the general efficiencies that accrue as we dig deeper into and manage to optimize specific science/engineering domains. the Chinese dumping politics might be real / relevant as of late but is just a small part in a long story

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson%27s_law
> Is it typical to have a portion of a pension fund allocated to highly speculative risk?

It certainly was in the US during the 2006 housing bubble crash, for pensions and especially for city/state pension funds. The customers of pension funds and the taxpayers of cities have little to no access or say about what the funds are investing in, so extremely large funds can be sold bad investments by influencing a small number of people who are subjected to very little oversight, and plan to be gone (probably to work for the people they helped) before the investments blow up.
Really interesting points in this article, and I think OP should trademark "revenge of capital". I remember when we started talking about the post-capital world 10y ago, and this is truly the exact opposite.

Author's point about emotion is strong, but the point about memory goes beyond emotional reactions. When you are interacting in this environment, people whose careers started before the .com bust, before 2008, and in the booming '10s have very different perspectives even where interpreting their experiences purely rationally. Times of distress dominate people's learning (both an emotional and a rational heuristic!). I've found it increasingly important to keep the timeline of these formative events in mind in professional discussions.
https://symbiosis.host uses Hetzner for their underlying nodes as I understand. It certainly explains them being the cheapest managed Kubernetes offering I've ever seen.
Brings back memories!
I think these are much different. Trucking depends on humans due to infrastructure and complex problems of law, vision, last mile details, etc. I agree about near term limitations of this kind of model, but I think highly contextual and refined models for software will prove to be powerful enough (edit: by powerful enough, I mean powerful enough to transform how people write software) in many cases.

Software reiterates a lot, and generated solutions can be quickly vetted. A truck driving to the wrong destination or locking up en route is a much larger issues than a few seconds spent determining that a generated solution has a bug or doesn’t match a spec exactly.

If AI can stand on the shoulders of giants and people can vet its outputs, I’m fairly sure it will become more capable and safer to implement than self driving trucks, much faster.

The question I have is that if we can build more, faster, will we run out of work or will more people simply make more things?

There are huge incentives for wealthy companies to run more and more code on their infrastructure. Can we do more business digitally? Will it scale to provide more programming work, even if it’s heavily AI-assisted?
Wow this is still happening? I actually wrote about a similar phenomenon of replacing iPhones with clay back in 2016 and apparently Amazon still hasn't figured out a way to stop this.

This poor customer is actually paying the price of a scam played by someone earlier. You buy an expensive product, Amazon ships it noting the weight, then you replace the product with clay and "return" it back to Amazon who is none the wiser.

Then when this customer cries foul, Amazon has no way of knowing for certain whether this customer is the scammer, or whether it was a prior individual! So many crazy downstream implications of their "free" return policy, and of course it's usually the customer that foots the bill in the end.

[0] http://coryklein.com/2016/06/20/scammers-replacing-iphones-w...
Chess.com never said Hans cheated OTB, they just provided factual evidence of his rampant online cheating in both casual and money events... Something they probably wouldn't have done if he hadn't decided to lie about the extent of his cheating on camera at the Sinquefield Cup.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, etc.
There are regular HN threads discussing good development machines, especially from people hoping to find an OSS alternative to MS, Google, & Apple walled gardens. The hardware & operating system used for building products is a discussion relevant to many of us here.
Agree but that said cyclists can still injure themselves without help from cars. We'd expect the absolute number of cycling injuries to rise with the number of cyclists. However, they will be much less serious injuries.
This is so awful it's hard to even believe. It does feel like there needs to be some threat of a company being completely dissolved in cases like this or Equifax or other problems this big that the organization has shown no interest in stopping
Are there any Raspberry Pi competitors that people like? I've see a few referenced in different articles but I don't have any idea how reliable or useful they are.
Meta is expanding its use of AI face scanning to verify users’ age on FB Dating
And I think most cyclists would prefer a mandatory helmet requirement to a cycling ban
Does it lower their effective tax? Where they claim the donation, so that I've effectively donated to them?
Meta to use AI face scanning to verify users’ age on Facebook Dating
It's not a matter of IT systems but a matter of CURRENT IT systems, who happen to be connected on public network even when there are not much reasons to do so, who happen to be full of proprietary crapware developed in awful ways nobody knows really how anything works etc.

Let's play a game: how many time we will need to see ALL cars of a certain brand bricked by a bad OTA upgrade or a deliberate attack? It's a matter of IT/cracking OR a matter of current commercial-drive bad IT evolution?

Try to read a bit about recent famous aqueduct sabotages like

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-government...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-undet...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765767

and so on. It's really a matter of hacking and cracking? Honestly my own personal answer is no. It's a matter of widespread ignorance and business practice.
Friendly reminder that CVS also owns Aetna.
Probably also counting each model year, e.x. if all Civic LX trims from 2012-2022 can have this done, that probably counts as '10 models'.
I have honestly never understood why we allow businesses to use customers for charitable causes. It seems like a huge conflict of interest and essentially co-mingles for-profit and none-profit legal entities. It reminds me of when I worked at a large financial institution that most have heard of that has their tax audit subfirm next-door to their tax consultation subfirm, then promises the government "they definitely aren't doing shady things".

If businesses want to support a charitable cause, why can't they support it? I don't understand how it became normal to mix buying a burger at Mcdonalds with donating to their somewhat shady charity?

This all leads me to the inevitable tin-foil-hat conspiracy that they deliberately exploit this (IMHO) very strange legal void in order to gauge customer price sensitivity and such, as one other comment pointed out.

I suppose if the company directly donated to charity, then they would raise prices to account for that, and then in the end the customer is still donating to charity. So at the end of the day, perhaps I'm just somewhat against for-profit businesses participating in none-profit activities. Is there a better way?

I'm not going against charity in general, not at all and quite the opposite, but rather just very confused how we, society, and the law in general have allowed businesses to access their customers for charitable donations. Am I missing something? Genuinely open to ideas.
or superhydrophobic metamaterials, or utility fog, or something, but it's not going to be plannable or soon
It's been too long since I've studied the details, but it's my recollection that the value at risk is on the balance sheet, it's just the notional amounts that aren't. The BIS hypothetical is that if markets freeze up and you can't buy one leg to cover your swap, you could be left with a huge liability.

Edit -- actually BIS has a little accounting example with two options noting that most people use the net basis as I remembered but they would prefer the gross basis: https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1709x.htm
If you already have home assistant or a similar system in place, it's very easy to do using a power consumption sensing smart plug. I'm using a Tasmota flashed Sonoff plug and read its "_energy_power" sensor and automate based on that. Nothing leaves my house in that scenario.
> It's as if people were left feeling empty by Trump's disappearance and then latched onto Musk as the new target for their manic vitriol.

I've has the exact same thought. The timeline fits, and it's exactly the same mob of people. Not saying I didn't dislike Trump, but not spending all my time hating him on Twitter.
> That's where the money is and that's who made up that nonsense. Lots of people die because of those terrible motorized bikes and scooters. They're trying to get cyclists to fight their regulatory requirements by making up fake science.

I think it's entirely plausible that the article was written by a PR company, and that is one possible reason (though not the only) they were paid to do it.

I'll quibble with you on a few points though:

Much research only find correlation. Just because it's not conclusive about causation doesn't mean it's not research.

As much "those terrible motorized bikes and scooters" might have lead to people dying (I've heard the anecdotal horror stories, I've just not looked at the data, so I'm ignorant to the overall effect), there have been plenty of attempts (some successful) at non-motorized bike sharing systems. One could reasonably imagine that when those systems are successful, it is likely there's a net increase in cycling within the community, thereby increasing overall safety of cycling via the "safety In Numbers" effect cited in the article, not to mention a possible reduction in the amount of driving. It therefore follows that one could make an argument that improving the success rate of such systems helps improve bike riding safety (though I'd like to see THAT data). It might even be true (and again, I have not seen any data on this) that for all the terrible deaths from motorized bikes & scooters, that adoption of them still increases the safety for cyclists, because if the alternative is the same person being in a car/truck/SUV, then a cyclist being hit by a motorized bike or scooter, even if they get hit more often, might be far less dangerous.

I think we shouldn't presume any particular PR motive for the article necessarily means it is not in line with the interests of cyclists. Ad hominems aren't don't really undermine the arguments presented in the article.
Could some "insurance", paid extra, be a solution to this? As in saying to Hetzner, hey, I'm a legitimate consumer, willing to pay extra for, say, a year, so that you do some additional checks (EDIT: in advance) and/or switch me to a better tier of more relaxed "fraud detection", offering some hot line, like between Russian and American generals, to help avoid any accidental, hm, deletions?

Or would that just not scale?
Actually this is interesting framing given the misinformation pandemic on the internet today. Suppose students are taught material and then given a test in the form of a mix of correct and subtly incorrect assertions that they need to filter through. Might help them learn to distinguish information from misinformation as well?
This is as naive as drivers refusing to wear seatbelts. In serious crashes, you cannot control your body in the first place.

Of course, the helmet is only 10% of cycling safety. But it's for that important 10% when your head crashes into the ground. Suggesting that it would never come in handy is naive.

Since you seem to believe in the power of personal anecdote, I am an experienced cyclist and have crashed directly on to my head before. It was just once, but it prevented a serious head injury.
A number of years ago my housemate found an injured magpie in the backyard and brought it in. It seemed to have been involved in a fight with something, and while its wing was intact, it had lost enough feathers so as to be unable to fly.

It lived with us for about three weeks as it recuperated, slowly spending more time in the yard and eventually flying away. It was really fun to have around, it would perch on top of my laptop and watch me as I worked, occasionally poking at my head, or flopping down to look at the screen.

It was a very smart and attentive bird. The one time we left it alone in the kitchen, it climbed the shelves and pecked a hole in its birdseed bag. 10/10 would recommend.
The receipt will show it, though the IRS doesn't require documentation for such small donations.
If some of those counter parties go chapter 11, the resulting black hole will cause some tidal waves as it pulls the dominoes.