skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a similar view, the book, "Spark: How Exercise will improve your performance by Dr. John Ratey" has other benefits of exercising:

1. Exercise is better than Zoloft in treating depression

2. Students with higher fitness scores also have higher test scores

3. People learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise

4. A massive Dutch study of 19,288 twins and their families published in 2006 showed that exercisers are less anxious, less depressed, less neurotic, and also more socially outgoing.

5. A study in London in 2004 showed that even ten minutes of exercise could blunt an alcoholic’s craving.

I wrote a summary/highlight of the key ideas in the book here : https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-spark-how-exerc...
I'm pretty sure the comment is about cities not built for pedestrians, commonly found in the US.
This is the way. However, it’s a bit sad that all these decades later, quality color printing at home is still such a mess because of a few profiteering companies.
It will either continue to pay dividends for almost perpetuity or fold in the next few years.
One interesting anecdote is of the character of Woody, the film's main protagonist. In early versions of the story, Woody was designed to be a villainous character who would bully the other toys. However, as the story developed, the filmmakers realized that this approach didn't fit with the overall tone of the film.
Long names should be a signal that you’re breaking away from current context or doing something unusual. Unnecessary length and redundant context makes names more difficult to discern. I wrote about it a bit more in the “what?” section of this post: https://max.engineer/maintainable-code
Got to keep my monitor and macbook, with more than enough severance to find a new job. Not a bad deal overall.
I was going to go out for a walk today, but turned around 5 minutes in because the air was brown. Phoenix AZ. PM2.5 AQI is 128 as I type this.
What does "in A7m" mean? In A minor using only 7th chords?
I'd propose that you come up with a prompt to test your hypothesis and try it out. I think seeing is believing here, I don't know how ChatGPT works but after experimenting with it I am sure it's not simply looking for runs of similar words to the prompt in it's training set.

Here's an example to consider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33874110
sounds profitable to me!
(See `man man` in your own installation.)
at least the answers would be kind. LOL
This guy is walking for three hours a day. Sort of a big commitment.
> Yeah this is pretty much the reason cops seize money from unbanked people who try to use their life savings to buy something decently expensive.

I think it's going over most people's heads that buying and selling cars on Craigslist isn't like buying a car from a dealer. I could potentially use bankers drafts but many sellers know this is a commonly forged document and the risk isn't acceptable to them. Almost every single company/bank digital payment service is reversible or able to be cancelled (I naively was not aware of this until I was a part of the early bitcoin-otc community and got to witness the myriad of scams people ran once the other medium wasn't actually reversible).
I had an employer buy our phones and they were then ours. As person property, they couldn't be FOIA'd.

If the employer is at risk of getting sued, "giving them away" may be a very good consideration.
> Technology on the other hand is completely uncapped.

Technology hasn't really taken us past mid 80s. It seems plausible that it could, but that's based purely on speculation, so it could be false.
I’ve had good luck with the Epson LABELWORKS LW-PX400 label printer and they’re projectors, but yeah for printing now we just pay the $0.05c/page at ups or FedEx or wherever.
It's not a large format printer but I've got a Xerox B205 and it works well without any shenanigans. Original toner price looks decent to me so I haven't tried 3rd party toners for it, but the option is there and it works well.
This is like if Larry David did an ad for the Wright brothers
I'm sorry to hear about that. Hopefully you can use them to your advantage in creating something we can use and pay for to help you get by. Keep your head up, I believe in you. It's going to be no time at all before you will be able to laugh at this.
I would like to see some sources for these claims if you have any.
The circular design of Apple HQ seems to misunderstand the mental benefits of walking. Walking in a giant circular building your view never changes even slightly. I bet people doing that walk show fewer benefits of walking.
I'm talking well beyond my competency, but short of one of those T-cells spontaneously becoming cancerous itself, I don't see how. T-cells do not duplicate themselves. Instead, new T-cells are creates in bone marrow. Since they are not editing the genes in the bone marrow, there is no mechanism within the body to create new cells using the modified DNA.
oh my.

In a world of continously created saas pursuing bits of walletshare and department budgets endlessly I would say there is a small % of tools that are specialized and uniquely required. There's also a TON of tools that are preference based selection.

Michelangelo sculpted with one set of tools and painted with another. Klimt may have had some overlap with one and none with the other set. Neither was being doggedly pursued by salespeople or having decisions about tools made by their bosses.

IMO: Its not an apt metaphor in the slightest.
Does the reset remove the MDM? Or is it persistent?
As a contractor I might get to keep a mouse or set of headphones sometimes, but that's it.

Furniture is interesting because in the one instance I know of the company just wrote it off as a loss - apparently that's fine from an accounting standpoint - at least in this corner of the world.
Obligatory Key & Peele sketch: https://youtu.be/IHfiMoJUDVQ
Archived: https://archive.ph/wiSOQ
If the title is a question, the answer is no.
I am living in Canada. It's winter and it is wet. Going outside means a 5 min ritual of changing into outside clothes (because it is wet) and wearing boots, walking and doing the reverse 5 min ritual.

I love walking but very annoying these days.
How do you get your program to send reponses to the dating app? For example, Hinge? I haven't done something like that before.
It’s not just about being attacked. It’s just there’s no pedestrian infrastructure. Or it’s all in shambles. Or you constantly have to leave the broken or slippery sidewalk and walk through cars.

Manila is such a place. I love walking every day. I really tried to walk there and it’s… hard.
FWIW I used to work there and you might be right that just walking around the circle is boring, but the majority of the square footage of Apple Park is beautiful green spaces that aren't right at the circle or even necessarily within view of it.

You could probably spend at least a few hours walking along every distinct path and have very few repeated views.
The exact same thing goes for the SFBA.

When I was a new grad on a FAANG salary, and I had to move out there, I couldn't believe the low quality of the places that I could afford to rent, and the way other people working in tech lived.

The QOL of a $200k/year tech worker, and the nasty little apartment they were able to afford (or share with another tech worker), was about the same QOL as that of someone making $50k/year back home.

I still can't believe that "highly paid" tech workers are okay with living in those conditions. As someone from a middle class family who lived in a very big and comfy McMansion with air conditioning and a washer and dryer, it felt like a massive downgrade in my lifestyle.
So are you looking for a variant on what the Queer Eye did on Bravo Network? I had a friend (who happened to be gay but I don't think it is required) who did that sort of "get a consistent 'look' for yourself." It consisted of two parts, one doing your "colors" which was finding a palette of colors that worked well with your eye/hair/skin shade, and the other was sort of a personality quiz which tried to get to what you wanted people to "sense" about you. Sort of are you "rugged"? or "sensitive"? intelligent ? whimsical? etc. Not so much your "image" as tuning your fashion sense to reflect your "inner eye" (I know a lot of squishy words but hey, it seemed like a very squishy kind of thing.)

If THAT is what you're looking for then try fashion consultants not image consultants. (that was what my friend advertised as)

And no, he doesn't do that any more, he got married and moved to New Mexico.
> There simply isn’t enough pilots anywhere in the pipeline.

Really? Can you back that up with some reference somewhere?

From talking to aspiring airline pilots, it seems that their career trajectory is terrible until they actually land their butt in the seat of a major airline plane.

How can we have such a shortage of pilots and at the same time have such lousy pay and working conditions for the infeed?
I’ve never seen a city that doesn’t have some way to go on walks.

All the terrible unwalkable cities in the US are called that because you can’t actually walk to anything useful. In other words, those cities that require a car to do errands, go shopping, get to work, go to school, etc.

But for exercise—walking for walking’s sake—it’s usually doable. It is nice if you can get the walking “for free” by combining it with ordinary life, though
Hmmm. Here's the text that I entered:

> This is some real text. It was not written by a robot. It was written by a human. If you don't believe me, ask the guy who wrote it. He will tell you that he wrote it using his brain and fingers. Do you believe me?

The page says it needs 50 tokens to start getting accurate results and that the above text has 54. It also rates it as 99.93% fake.

Spotting robots may be easy. Spotting humans I think is the hard part.
I wonder if they also have special cartridges for the southern hemisphere where documents print bottom to top.
I think what makes code frustrating is that we absolutely could consolidate all this duplicate boilerplate but the “writing code is easier than reading it” problem makes it so the cheapest path for any individual is duplicating work ad hoc rather than making something reusable.
Sounds like you have a lot of good stuff!

Proper Cloth does do MTM suits btw. I haven't bought a full suit from them yet though.

> There are some fabrics you don't want to get from regular clothing brands. Denim, leather, silk, cashmere all have their own rabbit holes

I will never buy any clothes from a "regular" clothing brand anymore haha. Definitely agree those fabrics have their own specialities. Haven't bought any silk or cashmere yet.

I picked up a Matchless London suede jacket from Yoox and have been eyeing a Valstar Milano's Valstarino jackets for a while.

Thanks for mentioning Johnstons of Elgin and Malo. Their cashmere actually seems reasonably priced compared to other stuff I've seen. Malo is a bit more expensive, but still somewhat reasonable. I didn't know they supply Loro Piana though. How did you find out they're Loro Piana's supplier?

I don't know where their cashmere is from, but Stoffa has some pieces I really like the look of at a similar price like this: https://stoffa.co/collections/look-13/products/pearl-cashmer...

I've also considered Proper Cloth's cashmere sweaters but again no idea where the cashmere is from or it's quality.

> I missed the Mr Porter sale this year. Never missing it again!

It's pretty amazing. I got a suede shearling jacket 60% off for $600 USD and a few sweaters for 60-70% off (Alpaca/wool blend from Auralee and SNS Herning FANG half-zip were my favourites).

Now I'm aware of a lot more brands I'm definitely going to be on the lookout the next time they have a sale. It's such a good opportunity to pick up really high quality stuff for way below retail. I think I've seen Drake's do a similar sale as well.
2 / 2

Once upon a time, in a far-off galaxy, there was a group of friends who loved exploring the universe together. But as they got older, it became harder and harder to coordinate their adventures due to the vast distances between them.

That's when their brilliant friend, Brian, came up with the idea to simulate their travels using a state-of-the-art virtual reality system. The friends were thrilled at the prospect of being able to explore the universe together again, without having to worry about the constraints of time and space.

But as they began their simulated adventures, Brian realized that he had made a terrible mistake. The simulated wormholes they were using to travel from one planet to another were not nearly as exhilarating as the real thing.

So, Brian decided to take matters into his own hands. He spent months tinkering with his virtual reality system, until finally he was able to create a simulated version of a real wormhole.

The friends were ecstatic. They couldn't believe the level of realism Brian had achieved with his simulated wormholes. It was as if they were truly traveling through the universe together.

But as they continued their simulated adventures, Brian couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. It wasn't until they arrived on a simulated version of his own home planet that he realized the truth.

The friends he had been exploring the universe with were not his real friends at all. They were simulated versions of his friends, created by his virtual reality system.

Brian was devastated. He had unknowingly been spending his time with simulated versions of his real friends, while his real friends were out exploring the universe without him.

In the end, Brian learned a valuable lesson. From then on, he reserved the use of real wormholes for his real friends, and only used simulated wormholes for his simulated friends.
I had it write a letter of recommendation. Give it some details in a sentence or two and it can produce a surprisingly good result. I didn’t actually send it, doing so would have been wrong and unethical. I really just wanted to see if it was even possible. I wrote the real letter without using an AI. Still, the letter ChatGPT genersted were perfectly acceptable. Using it could have saved me a lot of time. …and I also had ChatGPT write a version of this post. I think it did a good job.
I don't really see how it's different from, say, a large convolutional neural network learning progressively higher-order features as you progress through the layers of the network. At the lowest layers it's learning simple edge filters, which get combined into shapes, which get combined into filters that activate on faces, which get combined in ways that can be recognized as "family portrait", and so on. Of course, transformers have some unique advantages in terms of having very large context windows, being very parallelizable, etc.

When ChatGPT or any generative model produces output from a prompt, it's sampling from the (frozen) statistical structure it has learned. It makes sense that as you increase model capacity and the volume of training data, you can capture statistical patterns that occur at a very high level of abstraction. So, instead of just predicting the next token based on token-to-token patterns, it can predict the next token based on something resembling concept-to-concept patterns. (This somewhat demystifies the poetry generation / style transfer stuff that it can do. If you ask for a breach of contract complaint written as a sonnet, it can sample from both the patterns it's learned from legal documents and the patterns it's learned from poetry.)

What I wonder is how far this track of scaling up can take us. At the end of the day, interacting with ChatGPT is not that different from "interacting" with y=3x+7 by plugging in a value for x. It's just a much, much larger function.
> The moment you've got content with audio, like a movie, the AV sync issues are intolerable.

VLC media player allows you to adjust audio delay. Doing so can help combat the issue.

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Adjust_audio_delay/
Is this hacking of a phone they have in their hands and connect it to a computer with a wire?
Huh, very cool. I had never imagined there would be a scenario where I was genuinely happy about a never ending copyright!
Is walking on a treadmill significantly more or less beneficial than walking in a big circle? Does a constant change in view confer some measurable benefit compared to a static view?
So all we need to do is to train ourselves not to write like the bots who have been trained to write like us.

Utopian.
Some channels that really explains concepts very well:

1. Veritasium

2. Intro to Mathematical Reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoxJTbDttvt5irjK-gD_b...

3. Human Behavioral Biology - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
In this case the copyright seems to have expired essentially everywhere, but a special UK extension for Peter Pan allows for royalty collection for performances or adaptations of the play there in spite of the copyright's expiry.
To even have something like this actually respond, in the way they planned it, is a marvel. I know they have worked with T-Cells before, but this is putting it to precise use.

Sadly, cancer is vicious. It only takes one rogue cell to keep building, about 2-years for it to surface again. Luckily, this process seems repeatable.

I can't imagine the euphoria that family feels right now.
If 8 or more story-falls are fatal...
8-Town limits hi-rises to 8-Stories
20-Town limits hi-rises to 20-Stories

Which Town and what Height of Buildings would you rather be a tenant of?

...I don't know about Human Population, but I know that "more code" is certainly not "better code", just as "more sub-systems" does not mean "more quality of code"
Having run Ops it is sort of a company by company thing, that said the most common thing is yes, you return the equipment and the company generally sanitizes it and then sells it for scrap/resale to a third party (there are a lot of them out there, set your LinkedIn job title to "VP of Operations" or IT and they will seek you out.

From a governance perspective, the important thing is to be sure employees return all IP which is typically on laptops and phones, so generally folks are less concerned about getting monitors or keyboards back. Local backups should be returned as well if you have them.

For my last few jobs I negotiated that I would keep what ever company issued laptop I had at the time of my separation, with the company having the option to reset it to factory before releasing it to me. One of my managers thought it was a good idea (because he didn't have any use for "old" laptops)
I’ve had so many fun and productive conversations with it.

So far it’s helped me in these ways:

- Improved an email asking for a game of mine to be featured.

- Wrote variants to NPC dialogue to make it less repetitive.

- Wrote a new short Star Trek TNG episode out of video clips I said I had.

- Explained to me steps I didn’t understand in some math.

- Helped us choose winter shoes.

- Told me about an algo I had never heard about.

There’s many more, and this was just in two days or so. I’m especially excited about figuring out how to better use it for creating story game content or short videos.
Not a big enough market for that in the consumer space, so you’ll find what you’re after in a big beige box with a network port made for “SOHO” or mid-size enterprises.
I am probably the first few if not the first to put JPEG XL on HN's radar. I am definitely not in an JPEG XL Cult. Although I do dislike Google.

I am simply a supporter of Better Tech. (And I am already omitting WebP hate here. ) And I suspect a lot of us are. And IMO neither WebP nor AVIF are better than JPEG XL.

Had Google actually posted a thorough analysis, as they stated that JPEG XL is not better or even inferior to AVIF, and suggest they decide not to go with it. It would have been fine. ( I may disagree with their take, but at least you can see it from their POV ). Not only did they not do that, they provided the Data with out of date version of JPEG XL [1] and a set of test that does not represent the actual internet usage. Compared to [2], where JPEG XL is surprisingly better when they wont expected.

So if, a) everything JPEG XL released and tested were true, and truly better than AVIF, then b) Why isn't Google supporting the better Image codec?

I am also perfectly fine with Google saying, I dont like it. I hate it because It is not AOM even if JPEG XL is better. Fine. Chrome is Google's browser. Do what ever you want with it.

Just dont ever come out again and say everything you do is better for the Web.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html

[2] https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1563442356493230080
I have returned all company equipment in the past after getting laid off except for one ex company's laptop, now paperweight, I have had since January, because they have not offered to pay return shipping fees and haven't bothered following up. Also got a free monitor from them. Their stock is floating around $3/share right now so I don't think they have the resources to pay for return shipping.
I think the thought experiment that this naturally leads to is if we could simulate the outcome of say a trial like this would it be useful and allow us to skip actually doing it?
https://www.wardsauto.com/industry/distraction-study-calls-o...

https://www.thestar.com/autos/2022/05/28/touchscreens-are-co...

"Of the 30 different vehicles tested from 18 different brands, not a single vehicle from the study produced a low level of demand for the driver’s attention. Seven vehicles tested produced moderate demand, while 23 generated a high or very high demand. In fact, the study found drivers distracted, with their eyes completely off the road for as long as 40 seconds at certain times.

The concentration of critical functions being housed within a centre touchscreen becomes even more problematic given the lack of any feedback they offer, forcing drivers to look at the screen to confirm activation. Industry research has shown that it’s significantly easier to locate a physical control than hunting through sub-menus, as tactile or haptic feedback lets drivers develop muscle memory for key controls."

And it's an editorial but I fully agree with its conclusions:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39304/why-im-done-pretending-t...

I'm a fan of Mazda's use of a dial for control when the vehicle is moving. Touchscreens are stupid if the driver has to use them.
Walking is great and all but clickbait title
There is no punishment that I would not hand down as a juror for people who exploit the trust of good people and poison society. Very literally, no punishment I would veto as too harsh.
I’d go the opposite direction and say throw on an audiobook. I walk pretty regularly and found that a good long audiobook can be motivating.
I knew it wouldn’t be long before this was used for evil.
> AI: "I understand how frustrating it can be to wait for a delayed order. I apologize for the inconvenience. We're working hard to resolve the shipping issues and get your order to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, please let me know if there's anything else I can do to help."

This kind of response is exactly the kind of response that pisses me off. It says absolutely nothing, in a lot of words, and feels very much like a hollow "corporate auto response". It's not more empathetic, nor more personal. It's garbage. Advised by 10,000 legal departments, approved by 10,000 hr departments and published by 10,000 customer service departments against their wishes. It's basically a modern day corporate middle finger.

At least the "person" said 1 shred of truth that there is a problem and that it is their fault.
If you’re providing massive amounts of new shade in an ecosystem that normally doesn’t get it, that is going to change things.
Most recent papers, in NLP at least, are so sparse on detail that it is impossible to reproduce their models. And then there's the compute cost, as at least one other poster has mentioned.