skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What irks me is the javascript part. You dont need to run random scripts on my system, just send me some fucking text! Make it a touch prettier with css! The javascripts are so bloated, spy on you, are often a malware vector, and offer little real user benefit.
The parent comment of yours read like standard misandry. My eyes rolled as well.
Amtrak is allowed to use their rails in exchange for the railroads being let out of the obligation to run passenger trains.

No one expected Amtrak to last 50 years.
I think it's a stretch to assume we know much about what happens to brains after just 120, let alone 150-170.
> when incentives align that provide a significant pressure for them to research what they wouldn't naturally want to research

The thing is, the beta amyloid theory was the only explanation for Alzheimer's that would allow treatments to be developed right now.

Tons of people want treatments asap.

While it makes no sense to develop treatments based on this theory if they definitely won't work, when it looks like there's an 80% chance of the theory being wrong, 100% of drug companies' Alzheimer's drug development money is still going to go to drugs based on this theory because we have nothing else except vague hypotheses with no drug targets.

So actually part of the problem is that so many people are incentivized to keep sticking to this theory and someone needs to step in and stop it.
Hahahaha. But an 'image consultant' will?

I still can't tell if you're trolling (I hope so!) or being serious (oh god).

Five months ago you were willing to spend '50K' on an 'image consultant' to find a 'rich wife' who would pay your bills for you and now you're still looking for one to become 'CTO' at a FAANG.

"The rest being figuring out an image that sells well to modern high earning women is what I’d need help with. My image currently definitely isn’t pulling them out of the woodwork to find me."

@dang this is really not the right kind of content for HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007321
Thanks for the link. I read it and I too desire for minimal/javascript-less world. However,

> The Checkbox/Label Trick

I'm hesitant to use this. It just doesn't feel right to use this hack.

Also somewhat related to the <details>/<summary>, I try using native html elements as much as possible. One time I used the <meter> element for a meter bar, but it was called out immediately by QA because the design doesn't match the one created by the UI/UX team. I really wish html elements were more customizable.
The assumption "construct X must have undefined behavior, so we are going to optimize following construct Y accordingly" is entirely avoidable. I believe that a professional engineer would avoid such a thing. That we have such a situation just reflects badly on our field.
Why didn’t you ask ChatGPT?
Biology doesn’t.
The interesting thing was - there were 0 comments on HN when this blog was posted on Jan 27th. It was such a fundamental breakthrough NLU. NLU has been a such a holy grail of language models.
When they released the COVID vaccine for under-5s, my wife got my son the first appointment she could find, which was 2.5 months away and after preschool started.

I looked at the appointment site the hospital used, and saw that the way it populated its appointment calendar was to load an endpoint that accepted a date range and just returned a JSON array of appointments. I built a quick bash script and pointed it at Pushover, and a day or two later my phone notified me that there was an appointment available for the very next day.

He ended up getting COVID shortly after starting school and it was ultra-mild, so I'm doubly grateful that a little script might have saved him some suffering as well as freeing us to go out in the world earlier.
In some places (i.e. the U.S. iirc), COVID actually caused a mild baby boom rather than suppressing childbirths.
That's pretty cool. When I tried stuff like that, it was entirely based off of the prompt I gave it. I asked it to criticize my HN posts, and it came up with a story about how I was a charlatan; I asked it to summarize my views on Python exceptions in my HN posts, and it came up with a story about how I'm a world renowned Python expert. (I'm neither, but have written nothing noteworthy, so it's unsurprising.)

It could maybe be added to the detector but I think we're going to discover "did this output come from this model?" is ultimately undecidable. My intuition is that this is somehow equivalent to the halting problem, but that's a wild guess, and I'm not an AI researcher or computer scientist (just a humble SWE). Something like, if you start generating prompts that might take you to a part of latent space where this output could have been produced, you don't know when to stop generating longer and longer prompts.
Yeah like I said in another comment after getting more info, these are just well paid part time jobs, which is fair enough.
Thank you for pointing out contentvisibilityautostatechanged, I was aware of `content-visibility` but didn't know that it has an associated event. I'm less sure about CSS compatibility, hotlink.js for example used an iframe which opens a whole can of worms.
It is VERY difficult to find marriable woman who would be a good mother. Most NYC women who are "pining for commitment" really do not fit into that category.
> So, you think businesses should move away from the largest single-point concentrations of customers and workers? Something like 20% of all the humans in USA are represented by those two little acronyms NY and CA.

Yes. At a certain point, it's just not worth it. Atlas Shrugged makes the case that competent people are not slaves and they can just stop.
I disagree. We live in the most materially abundant country in the most materially abundant time.

It is not a material problem. It is cultural. Society is feeling like a less good joyful place for children. "It takes a village to raise a child". There have never been fewer villages.
Rather strangely, it would seem - I just had this response:
"However, I am a language model and do not have the ability to edit or revise my responses once they have been generated"

Except I've had no problem getting it to do just that previously...

I'm curious about its training data too, as I've managed to find a few things it knows nothing about (despite them having wikipedia pages and multiple dedicated websites about, and having been around 10+ years).
If you restrict yourself to Europe sure.

The United States has had a higher fertility rate than France and Europe for many years despite having a notoriously porous social safety net.

The stats may change but whereas Europe has been below 2 for a long time, that's a more recent development in the United States.
Amazing! Added to my 1000-item list with the other "must-build habits for life success according to influencer BS clickbait posts"

Don't forget to meditate, journal, go on silent retreats, take cold showers, eat a kiwi a day, and use Rust for maximum life success!

Ah, and don't forget to breathe. I read it increases longevity.
@serf

> Now my deep meditative thoughts come to me in the shower

A great place to start!

Here's a thought that might get you into some even deeper water: Have you thought about swimming?

I'm a partial-paraplegic and below-elbow on left arm amputee. I can walk but not well. My favorite walking replacement has been swimming. I'm not fast, but I can swim for hours.

In any case, I feel that almost any repetitive physical action - even shelling pea pods - can become meditative.
Hahaha, sorry I empathize but I'm so delighted that I'm not the only one who feels this way. It's not a feeling that most people can relate to, the absolute deflating feeling when you open an article about the greatest tool ever and it goes:

The Walk.

It's kinda funny.
ChatGPT seems to be/result in some amount of caching of responses - there is very little variation when to asking the same question multiple times. CharacterAI produces a lot more variety in comparison, making it more helpful for brainstorming. That said ChatGPT is likely closer to the truth, even if not perfect, for searches. The innovation happening lately is incredible.
> Besides, highly productive developers are in very high demand. You're just shooting yourself in the foot if you don't give them a fair deal, because they'll go somewhere else

Ok, but "we expect you to work full time when we hire you for a full time job" is a fair deal. It is not "unfair" to hire people full time rather than part time.
Reading through comments here makes me wish for a wiki documenting decent laser printers with GNU/Linux support and any info about them that might be helpful. Something like the thinkwiki for ThinkPads.

Browsing some local auction sites, I'm seeing laser printers from HP, Samsung, OKI, and others, but I don't know how to easily find out what's worth using. If I were looking at routers I could refer to the openwrt wiki before buying. Anyone know of a site like this that exists already?

I'm kind of curious about thermal printers as well. Printing out a grocery list or QR code on receipt paper sounds neat.
Next.js is really easy for developers of all levels to work with though. It’s main benefit is the ease of use, not the optimized client side data transfer.

What I see from Astro.js is a lot of magic. This is great if it works, but chances are it won’t for a lot of people.
I feel like this type of medicine is more like a research study waiting for a perfect match patient than it is highly personalized treatment...

Is this technique broadly applicable? Or limited to very specific cases
You can say that about any engineering problem and be right 99% of the time. Because it’s always true, it’s not a super useful analysis.

Somehow, software on embedded, the kernel, graphics, flight control, etc. is all developed by equally large organizations and while they’re far from perfect, they produce far better software than the vast majority of web UX organizations.

Something about web dev is uniquely terrible, in addition to the common factors you mentioned.
Wheelchair user as well. I understand what you're saying. After 19 years in a chair, I recently bought a FreeWheel. My only regret is not getting one sooner. It definitely makes getting out and about easier and more enjoyable.

Nothing comes easy for us, so we've gotta make things easy.
Technically you and the employer both owe taxes if you keep it because it is considered compensation. This is why it is usually returned.
> I feel like it's rather: if given fulfilling alternatives to reproduction, people will choose them over reproducing.

Strong disagree. People are quite hard wired to have kids.

> Poor people are ironically some of the hardest-working in Western societies, and they also reproduce the most

Poor people also very not much in control of their lives, practically no health care and poor access to affordable birth control. Partnering up quick gives poor young women at least a dual income household.
Stop embarrassing yourself. You started by talking about population growth in a post about a kid's cancer, and now you are continuing with making stupid analogies that barely make sense.

Getting rid of cancer will alleviate a huge source of suffering and despair and it will do nothing of consequence to the population. Even if it did we should not care.
You had some reasonable points but then you segued into name calling and baseless negativity.
Both redis and Cassandra are well built, well understood common industry tools that have been use at scale for many years now. With their own trade offs yes , but quit it with the “built by junior hipster developers” BS, it’s not a good look
You actually made me reconsider how I think about this. My initial reaction to the article was that I suspect the benefit is less about the walking and more about the time spent contemplating, thinking, and the way our mind works when walking.

I wasn't at all thinking about the challenges of somebody who cannot walk, and you opened my eyes to the idea that for someone in a wheelchair, "rolling" doesn't really compare.

I get that there is probably some cognitive load navigating with a wheelchair create, but I thought that would disappear, and the idea of "movement" would be the same, but it looks like I'm wrong about that.
And this is why code reviews while helpful can be wasteful. Reviews should be based on existing standards not preferred methods of each reviewer. Some people feel they need to comment so they over comment. Some feel they need to prove how much they know. Others may mark you down for doing it how the previous review recommended.
In theory, cycling could be comparable, but in practice I find it worse (and I spent 10+ years riding ~10 hours per week). With road cycling, you spend a lot of time riding on roads that are extremely unpleasant to share with cars which is quite stressful. With mountain biking, you need to live near good trails or either you have the same sharing the road problem as road cycling but worse because mtbs suck on the road or you have to drive which adds a lot of overhead. Plus I find wearing walking clothes a lot nicer than lycra, which is basically necessary for long rides.
Hey, this is great. Really like the idea of training an AI model for this.

I did somethin similar, although much simpler, without AI, for layoffs :-)

https://www.corporatefluff.com

Based on just a dozen layoff announcements from real world companies, randomly ("manually") generated announcements.

It's great to find someone being iritated by the same bland corporate speak and answering it with similar kind of dry humor : - )
Or if not pleasant, then at least the jobs that people are intrinsically motivated to do.

This is how America treats its teachers. Teachers want to do the job, so skimp on their pay and call it a budgetary victory.

Other countries will choose to value teachers, and pay them well, and generate more competition for positions, and reach a higher general level of qualifications & abilities.
Same situation for me (albeit left the job at the end of the contract, not laid off). I’ve had the laptop for over a year now because IT refused to pay return shipping. I’ve followed up a few times and been told it’ll be sorted, but never hear back…
I recently watched this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/_pAJMdx14V0

As an American, that delivery is comparatively cheap and extravagant, but it's hardly free.
Systematic, Ontological, Undiscovered Fact Finding Logic Engine
Weve been "paying" to take care of our elders in various ways since the beginning of humanity. The only problem is that in our ponzi scheme capitalist culture if someone can't make money they are considered dead weight.
You weren't able to understand that as cross platform all dev?
Chrome on an M1 Pro Mac. This is the number that Chrome’s task manager shows me.

I do have a lot of emails, but I think it should only have to worry about 100 of them at a time, so I don’t know why it’s different for me and you. It is possible that my account still receives beta features, because I used to work there, but I remember it being like this for multiple years, since the new gmail came out.
And legal, forgot to mention that.
do_you_prefer_underscores? iKindOfDo i_kind_of_do
Nor does nuclear at the scale necessary to power the world. Today's commercial reactors can't do it; breeding is needed. This would mean scaling up breeder reactors by roughly a factor of 1000. This is actually a larger scaleup than would be needed for storage, I believe.

What, you're allowing nuclear to scale up, but not storage? Very high double standards you all have in Nuclearstan.
If you are willing to go to the professional/office grade, I can recommend the Canon imageClass line (caveat: only the models with native Postscript support) for use in Linux or wherever you might not want binary blob drivers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869389

Avoiding their blobs may deny you of advanced features, but for documents where you're not aiming for max photo quality or color matching, it works very well.
The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose
I live in a retirement community. Nowadays since I can no longer swim (see reply here elsewhere) I pace (very slowly) up and down a long hall. I feel like a monk walking a cloister.
From the site:

Soufflé provides the ability to rapid prototype and make deep design space explorations possible. A wide range of applications have been implemented in the Soufflé language, e.g., static program analysis for Java DOOP, parallelizing compiler framework Insieme, binary disassembler DDISASM, security analysis for cloud computing, and security analysis for smart contracts Gigahorse, Securify, Secuify V2.0, VANDAL.
I think elective C-section would help. Force natural births makes a lot of woman scared in an age of internet.
How is WASM different from what we had with Java applets? (haven’t looked deeply into WASM yet,
so seriously asking)
This used to be true but isn’t anymore. For a while they pushed Angular, nowadays I think a lot of teams are using react. GWT is long deprecated and gone.
I went down a dark hole generating content using ChatGPT, including writing:

* a letter to the president of BofA explaining what bofa means

* a sarcastic review of my Krav Maga school

* an episode of Sex and the City, except the cast is very dim

* a bio for HN explaining that I make a lot of logic errors

Overall, the results were very impressive.
Do you think that the writing of neurodivergents is likely to be more unique?

GPT generated text has a sort of cookie-cutter boring ”style” to it. Perhaps anyone actually familiar with the GPT “style” is less likely to think the writing of neurodivergents is generated? Hard to say, but probably not worth worrying about (if anxiety is another symptom then maybe no choice but to worry).
What if we tend to have less children as we get crowded together, and this is a compensation for over population. Japan has like 10x the population it probably averaged for the last two millennium. Maybe its population could half at that would be OK.

I know, I know. Less growth, less innovations and all the things the economists say. But the innovation per capita would be the same. And probably purchasing power parity would be better.
The philandering of rich young NYC men is not exactly an unbiased sample.
Sadly Epson is getting out of laser printer business [0], which to me signals they’ll be fully focusing on screwing users going forward.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/epson-completes-business-mfp-...
>and strike a hardened target

!!!

That's the point! There are a hell of a lot of "unhardened" targets and using a full scale aircraft as a drone is missing the point about cost. I mean, there's not just the news from Ukraine, but also this:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/power-outage-moore-county-...

...and it looks like a classic case of "disruptive technology" syndrome, where the incumbents dismiss the upstart as inadequate for their sophisticated customers - justifiably as far as it goes - until all of a sudden the tsunami arrives because the new tech has been iterating until it can address the high end.

I read the original book defining the phenomenon in my university library around the time it came out, and it's interesting how describing the problem manifestly hasn't created a solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Gone are the days when "5 minutes" was an epitome of something negligibly short!

More seriously, the ritual is a key part for some, it changes the focus. (But may be a nuisance for others, of course.)
But her body ought to start manufacturing her original T-cells at some point, right? Or are the stem cells producing them cancerous too? Doesn't say that in the article, and it doesn't seem like a reasonable inference, so there's a bit of detail missing there.
18k a year for a kid is expensive. Like a quarter of the median household income.

Not to mention the time commitment. My friends lives were never the same after they had a kid.

It’s a no for me dog. At least rn.
I heard similar concerns expressed when the insurance company Lemonade, in since deleted & recanted tweets, said they were going to use AI to look for signs of deception in videos people submitted along with claims.

I only skimmed this article (I saw this on Twitter around the time it happened), doesn't appear to contain the deleted tweets, but it's discussed here https://www.vox.com/recode/22455140/lemonade-insurance-ai-tw...
> You tie yourself down to monogamy, give up your personal life...

This is a ridiculously one side POV. I don't see marriage as giving up personal life. I see it as starting a personal live. There are so many things in my life I wanted to do "with someone" and by someone I mean someone I was in love with and who was in love with me. I see couples traveling the world, working abroad, supporting each other, having twice as many friends since both side bring in people, having twice as many activities to choose from ("should we go to party A or party B?") etc...

On top of that playing with kids is awesome fun.

Maybe your experience has been having a partner who's not a fit for you and so you wanted out?
It looks to me like a somewhat unique opportunity to risk it because without this treatment, she was dead anyway and in fairly short order. So it was a means for them to learn something with very little potential downside. Worst case scenario: The treatment kills her. And she was dying anyway.

From the article:

In Alyssa's therapy, each of the base edits involved breaking a section of genetic code so it no longer worked. But there are more nuanced applications where instead of switching an instruction off you can fix a defective one. Sickle-cell anaemia, for example, is caused by just one base change that could be corrected.

And I already quoted (in my previous comment) the next paragraph that indicates they are already doing trials. This is potentially a big deal and they seem to be pursuing it in a very reasonable and conservative fashion, which is always something that concerns me with this type thing. There's a lot of potential for terrible and horrifying abuse and that is not what I am seeing described here.
Yannic Kilcher did an explainer recently on his YT channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8ljAkdFtg

Yannic explains these models pretty well.
yeah they're trying to implement content filters and it's not doing a great job I think
> it cannot apply logic

Have you tried?
Glad you get it.

Really could not give any less shits about the mental advice. It is a waste of time for everyone involved to be concerned about that here. I only need help with the image.
Setting aside any specific mechanism, the overall point still seems plausible. Assuming we can prevent the primary causes of aging (e.g. telomer shortening), we will likely start to find other parts of human biology that start to fail, either because of additional aging mechanisms, or just limitations of the body's self-repair mechanisms.

Human biology is incredibly complex, and there has been no evolutionary pressure for it to sustain itself beyond its natural biological clock. These problems are probably solvable eventually, but not until we live long enough to see them. Which problems means we will have at least a few generations of people die after the initial old-age cure.
So I work, but still get roughly the same as if I didn't work. 200€ per month more doesn't seem to be a great incentive to start working again if it's, let's say, one of the less desirable jobs.

Furthermore, the "Aufstockung" means that effectively the tax payer is footing the bill for companies unwilling to pay a reasonable wage.