skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a really weird experience to go to the emergency ward of one of the most famous childrens hospitals in Japan and have the guy say ‘your bill comes to $0’ after.

I would guess that’s only weird if you live in a country with only private medical care.

In a LOT of countries free, at the point of service, medical care is the norm.

I mean, I understand on one level that in lots of places medical professionals would refuse to treat a pregnant woman or a child without a source of funds. On another though it’s seems very alien to me.

I’ve tried to state that in plain, unemotional language but it is a “weird” concept here. I guess it’s just what you’re used to.
We were told to return the laptop + charger, but not any othe accessories (keyboard etc).
Germ cells need to be edited for that. The edited T cells can't get inherited.
Assets are luckily not zero-sum, that'd be horrifying. If I write some software, nothing has "disappeared". If you copy me a movie, you still have the movie. If I make a painting of build a table, a new asset has been created.
Competitive working life, expensive housing, poor quality childcare, long distance from my and spouse’s parents and the climate change are the main reasons why I seriously consider whether to have another child.

Out of these housing, childcare and distance from parents could be solved simply by companies offering full remote work as an option. Even better if also educational institutions followed. Forcing people to move into cities for work sucks.
Exactly maybe is not climate, but Coriolis effect on the toner.
Why would there need to be a precedent? The regulation has been in place for forty-five years. It's the law. Congress passed it. The only new aspect is that Amtrak can now request these investigations, where previously it was the sole purview of the Department of Justice, an organization famously known for not being Congress.
I read through the links, and there were about 15 posts where people got locked out of their Google account over a 12-year period. Many of these are links to articles on other sites not written by the submitter, but we'll count them anyway. So that's ~1 per year.

According to dang, there are ~100k monthly active logged-in HN users [1]. In a population that size of 25-54 year-old Americans, you'd expect around 290 to die each year [2].

Getting locked out of my Google account is pretty low on my list of things to worry about.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581 (and that was in 2015 - I assume it's grown since then)

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db427.htm
ChatGPT is great. I use it a lot. But... it is still necessary to use google for many things. ChatGPT is somewhat out of date and strangest thing is, it will almost always provide an answer (right or wrong). So, for the most part, everything has to be manually checked.
I was fired from a FAANG and was told to return my hardware. I didn't have a personal machine and didn't want to pay for one with no income so I just... didn't. I got one or two reminder emails and never heard from them again. I'm typing this comment on it.

I'm now employed elsewhere so if they ever ask again I'll happily send it back.
Declining birth rate doesn't mean declining GDP.
> I bet almost none of it was acquired in cash.

Based on?
My version of this is as follows. Every theory starts with a collection of objects that it postulates exist in the world or system being studied. According to a child's theory of the world, ghosts exist and could be lurking in the dark. In an adult's theory of the world, ghosts don't exist.

In basic classical physics the world is made up of the following objects:

1. Point particles i.e. every mass must be modeled as a particle located at exactly one point in space at every instant of time, and having no dimensions.

2. Waves, like sound waves and water waves. These were masses that moved with some symmetry and carried energy from one place to another.

More advanced classical physics is able to postulate that the world also includes masses that are not point particles, but spread out over space. Moreover, it postulated that these particles and waves moved due to the influence of

3. Electromagntic and gravitational fields.

This is why, when quantum phenomena was encountered, people tried to put mass objects into these buckets 1 and 2 of particles and waves

Except when quantum theory was developed in 1920s/1930s, it postulated that the world was made up of only one type of "mass" object.

* Quantum fields, which are somewhat similar to water waves, but actually fundamentally very different types of mathematical objects.

The change in these fields continues to be driven by electromagnetism. That's all there is to it. There is no notion of "particles" within quantum theory.

But somehow my fellow physicists have continued to be confused for a century and keep harking on about this concept of wave/particle duality, which has little explanatory value and even less predictive value.
NLU?
The article is perfectly clear that all the values are watts (MW, GW).

It's really silly to assume that the literal Energy Information Administration doesn't know the difference between the units of watts and watt-hours.

Battery power capacity is watts.

Battery energy capacity is watt-hours.

This article is talking about power capacity.
I've felt ChatGPT is pretty great for creating generalizations / broad observations but when it gets to specifics, it can fail.
If they can get the scuba gear on and attach themselves to something (rope between buoy and seabed etc) so they can control their ascent up, they could still decompress as long as they have enough new oxygen supplies being brought in.
No. The only DNA that gets passed to offspring is what is in the sperm/eggs. Collectively these are referred to as the "germline". Research into germline editing is illegal in the US, and frowned upon internationally.

The most famous case is from 2018, when Chinese researcher He Jiankui created the first genome-edited babies. Using CRISPR to give the babies resistance to HIV-1. [0]. This change will propagate to the decedents of the subjects [1]. The Chinese Academy of Science, along with the global medical community, denounced this experiment; and He Jiankui was arrested.

[0] The necessary mutation, while rare in humans, is naturally occurring, and generally thought to confer HIV-1 resistance.

[1] Subject to normal genetics that arrises from sexual reproduction, where a given parent is responsible for only half of a child's genes.
I think its likely we will be around in some form, though perhaps very different to how we see ourselves today.
People like to criticize it every time someone says it, but anyway here it goes: Idiocracy is a documentary. When the pill was invented, people all of a sudden discovered an easy, "100% effective", way of avoiding having an "unexpected" baby. Guess what: for most of human history, most of the babies were "unexpected". People can try to deny it, but having a kid is a HARD JOB, expensive and, for many people, just not worth it. From a thermodynamic point of view, we are beings that exist in a universe where you are rewarded for expending the least ammount of energy you can. So, we're basically LAZY, on average. Nature "knows" this, so it put sexual pleasure encoded in our genes in order to make us reproduce, even if in every other area of our life, we are rewarded for choosing the easiest alternative. So, "unexpected" babies it was for 99.999999999999999% of human history. Now, everyone who has an IQ of 100 or more is able to avoid those unexpected pregnancies, and so they are doing it. And it leads to the UNAVOIDABLE conclusion that as time passes, the average IQ of the people that keep having babies will be lowered. Natural selection is a law of physics in this universe. Over time, birth rates will start to go up again, be it in 100 years or more, but it will. Since the people of the future will be the descendants of the people that, even today, with easy and effective contraception, choose to still have kids (or simply had no idea how to no to). But I'm pretty sure we're not headed to the Star Trek future, it's Idiocracy from now on. I really don't care. I'm lazy and probably will end my lineage at this point in time anyway.
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also internet connection is mandatory!

only for a few models. it’s a fair tradeoff for the reduced initial cost. i imagine ultimately we will see free printers.
What do you think happened to people in nomadic tribes that could no longer move with the tribe?
Well, the thing is… for any non trivial web app, you do need a framework (spa or Unpoly like). The question here is if you use an existing one or end up writing your own.

I don’t buy the “just use html, js and css”… giving the same developer skills, without a framework that becomes a mess much sooner than with one.

As your code grows you end up creating your own libraries, and your own conventions, and as soon as you (the one with a vision and that knew how to do it) leaves the company and other team members come and go, it ends up being a disaster because there is no documentation, no maintenance, and as you reinvented the wheel nobody used your framework before, so everyone has to start from scratch with it.

Popular libraries and frameworks are popular for a reason. Business wise, it makes sense to not reinvent the wheel and rely on existing battle proven, secure and documented tools.

Just don’t reinvent the wheel. Web applications are not “paragraphs”.
> To be clear, I have several atypical lifestyle factors that allow me to walk this much—a 6-month-old who only sleeps on walks

:D
One fine day this last summer, I was standing outside a store finishing my smoke, when a voice behind me said, "Beautiful day". I turned to see the person sitting at a table and said "it sure is".

About a minute later, with no trace of irony, they said "But then every day I wake up is a beautiful day." I'm happy to remember that simple share.
What do you do in a code base 15 years old?
This simply isn't true: see Denmark where I live. Nothing appears to work to incentivize families to have kids.
chart says gigawatts
Am I right in thinking no one has been able to detect dark matter despite decades of attempts and research?

My understanding is that based on observations of what can be seen galaxies move as if there's move stuff in them??

If you hypothesis that this extra stuff is dark matter but can't detect it, how do you know it's real?

How have you ruled out all the normal stuff that doesn't give off light or stuff we can't see at the distances we're looking over? Like planets, rocks, dust, etc. Couldn't that stuff, which to my mind there would be vastly more of than stars, make up the extra gravity?

I'm aware I might be talking complete shit because I'm completely ignorant of the detail here. I would love an understandable explanation as to why that's wrong.
"Forcing them to be tracked."

Source ?

"To have data mined and sold."

Which is completely illegal according to GDPR.
Wild, lik Americans talking in another thread yesterday about cheques.

Most people I know over 70 have internet banking on their phones. Every adult I know under that age does.

Where do you live where this is incredibly rare?
I came here to complain about the same thing. Don't they have anybody who can proofread these diagrams and texts? For some reason, electric power related articles are super prone to people getting units wrong.
> I’m a destitute & mostly disabled cripple that hasn’t been able to work in three years, has had no stable income for much longer, & unfortunately have the look/bare bones facial structure of what a stereotypical neo-nazi looks like (imo), yet I still have conventionally attractive women (and… men/others…) approach me, & have very little issue in finding romance/partners if I go out of my way to approach somebody.

I think you might be underestimating yourself slightly.

I'm something of an incel; not so much about sex, but incapable of emotionally bonding to people in general. And at least it seems most people are able to pick up rather quickly on the fact that there's something fundamentally wrong with me, and understandably distance themselves.

A destitute cripple can still function as a person that other people can enjoy; an ability to empathize, or an enjoyment of company of others is something I think most people have, including you. Some capability of being able to understand, connect, and respond to others.

So please don't put yourself down too much if you have at least that much ability. It seems as if you're still just a normal decent person at the end of the day.
That’s likely not the case here, but nice try with the trendy Reddit generalization
Hello! I am Assistant, a large language model trained by OpenAI. I am a program designed to simulate conversation with human users, and I do not have personal opinions or feelings like a human does. As a result, I cannot say whether HN is better or worse than Reddit, as that is a subjective decision that can only be made by a person. However, I am here to assist you with any questions or tasks you may have, so please feel free to ask me anything and I will do my best to help.
Your understanding of the past is very mistaken. Our grandparents had to deal with the same issues.

I live Washington, and frequently travel around the rural areas here. The state is littered with coal mining towns abandoned a century ago, with lumber mills closed before WWII, with towns like Index, WA, which was established in late 19th century, and had its population and industry peak in 1920s-1930s.

Our history is history of dynamism and change, and while some fraction of Americans lived and retired working for the same big factory in Detroit, this has by no means been an universal experience of our ancestors. In fact, if you look at the data, people today move for work less than our ancestors had. Our past was indeed glorious, but it was not a past of wealth and stability.
Realizing how stingy my employer is here.
I remember as a kid reading a contemporaneous article on his jumps in National Geographic Magazine.
They also trained a model on what qualifies as a "sensitive" prompt, which means:

For a given prompt, the odds that it is considered sensitive is probabilistic

Since it's an input outside if the prompting part, they can probably tune that specific aspect independently in response to controversial usages
> You can easily get 1950s quality housing and support a family to 1950s quality of life on today's single income. Our parents and grandparents quite simply expected much less from life than we do today

I'm curious what you think makes a 1950s quality of life? I agree that people expect more material things today, but many of those things e.g. computers are de facto requirements to be a member of society. It seems to me that it is significantly more expensive to afford a good meal or a decent sized apartment.

Qualitatively, I know a large number of people who grew up in the 50s and their experiences of the time are different qualitatively. None of them ever struggled to meet their housing needs as long as they were able-bodied, and then generally only needed 20-40 hours of work (this include lower end work: construction, landscaping, retail).

While I don't have the stats handy* materially we know that during the mid 1900s the bottom 50% of americans owned a higher percentage of private property than in any time in history. Since then, we have reverted to a much more unequal distribution. It's hard to imagine this does not impact the current feeling of people feeling they can barely afford a place to live.

*if you have access to a copy of Capital and Ideology I believe you can find references in chapters 9 and 10
Time pressure is always a red flag, they will try to give you time pressure to try to switch off your logic and just do it right away.
Nuking them accomplishes the same thing, doesn't it?
You're barking up the wrong tree. I'm in a happy relationship for many years.
Ask HN: How do I think about recursion in math and programming?
I got the idea for problems like factorials or finding sum from 1 to n, where there's a pattern visible. Like this:

Source:https://99x.io/blog/recursion-is-not-hard-here-is-the-right-way-to-think

I got it for things like addition, subtraction, division, multiplication of two numbers as well.

eg: a+b

=a+b-1+1

=SUM(a+1,b-1)

Now, I am wondering how it'll be for finding a palindrome of a number? I've a solution but I'm not understanding how we came towards it. I'm looking for how to come towards a solution than a solution itself.
Yeah I'm sure employers are clamoring to switch to an OS that lets their employees do whatever they want with their machines.
Correlation is not causation. Even if exercise were associated with a 99% risk reduction, it could remain the case that people who are prone to Alzheimer's are less motivated to exercise early in life rather than the exercise preventing Alzheimer's later in life. There are plenty of other good reasons to exercise, we don't have to stretch this one beyond what the data says.
I don't think anything about high-performance GPT models is standard, since they are only a couple years old and only a handful of organizations have developed them
Germany is the biggest contributor to the EU: https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contrib...

Contributing 18x as much as Greece.

As I said before: Greece should be able to balance their trade deficit with their own funny money currency. THEM LYING in the process of joining the Euro sealed their economic doom in a sense.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20026572/

>The results indicate that treadmill walking improves spatial and temporal gait characteristics more effectively than walking outdoors.

At least in this study it seems better than walking outdoors for stroke victims. A lot of recent studies about the benefits of sunshine would lean me towards that way, but a treadmill is still super!

For mood, it seems outdoor is best-

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/well/move/for-exercise-no...
The article does not mention passkeys, but they seem destined to be almost all of WebAuthn usage in the future, now that both Apple and Google support them. External FIDO keys will probably remain a niche solution for those with special security needs. But where does that leave the platform authenticator approach? It’s great that you can store the key on-device, but is it really worth it ti not use passkeys instead?
As someone who once had their bank accounts closed on a Friday afternoon with no information from the bank, I will always have cash. If I hadn't had cash at the time from a recent car sale, I would have been unable to pay for rent, food, utilities, etc.

"Why would you want a contingency plan?" seems an odd take on a forums primarily composed of IT professionals. "I oppose you having contingency plan" seems downright hostile.
Then perform the exchange in a bank, under a similar arrangement as the cash transaction of the scenario I was replying to.

Cash can be faked too
I still bear the consequences of the German government’s action three generations ago - as the Greek keep reminding my country on a regular basis…
It is made abundantly clear when you set up 2FA that you need to backup your 2FA or it may not be possible to recover. What did you expect? Personal responsibility is important.
In learning to predict the next token, the model has to pick up lots of little bits of world knowledge. I'm sure someone would disagree with the phrasing of "understand", but it certainly operates with more complexity than, say, a markov chain. It has seen lots of python, and in order to predict better, it has developed internal models of how python works. Think of how much better you'd do predicting the next character of python code compared to random noise- there's a lot of structure there.
But isn't google's whole schtick about creating a personal profile just about you? Maybe they think you are in the market for some offshore v!agra or would like to get in on the ground floor of some crypt0 investment opportunity...
Right-to-left/left-to-right markers. Language tags. Various invisible spaces. Homoglyphs. (all trivially filterable though)
In searching safe, low-cost big batteries, old Oz invention gets attention
You have absolutely zero evidence for how hard this person works. They were showing off the perks of the office. At a previous job, I had the majority of these things available to me and I still worked 9 hour days.
Find out where they hang out and start picking up 'how' they work
> I’ve been with my wife for 20 years and we still stay up too late at least once a week because we don’t want to stop our conversation. It is the richest, most fulfilling relationship I can imagine.

> Beyond companionship, she is the ultimate ally. If I tell her I need her help, she is there for me 100%.

Congratulations and may it never change for you. I do however have to say that that is not the case for most marriages/ long term monogamous relationships.

If you could somehow set aside social pressure, shared financial burdens, guilt over messing up the kids etc. I think most existing marriages would break down. Few people actually share deep love, friendship and real, freely accepted commitment.
here’s a short motherboard video about NEEMO and asteroid missions :} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7msH2Swq4
> Another great failing of LLM software is that the user being spoken to is generic. The answers are not modeled for you, they're the same models for everyone. But a human teacher does their job by being exactly the opposite of this -- someone who is finely tuned to the needs and understandings of their audience. A good journalist or writer does the same.

ChatGPT can do this if you just ask. E.g., explain as if I'm 5 and it will use simple words and phrases. Explain like I'm an expert and it will use technical jargon and expect a deeper shared knowledge with which it can draw from.

You shouldn't write so authoritatively when clearly you haven't explored its capabilities.
One funeral at a time, as the saying goes.
The New Chat Bots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?
It seems that any group with power tends to become a cabal.

Deletionism irks me, but I still use wikipedia. I've largely given up on stackoverflow however.

Now I want to demand NPOV for articles on bigfoot and UFOs. ;-)

Ghosts[1] get slightly better NPOV I guess because they have more sightings! (

> According to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center, 18% of Americans say they have seen a ghost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost
Everyone can walk?

Anyway yeah walking is good if you can. Make it incidental so it is not on your todo list. Dogs, public transport over cars, etc.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you provide some more information or context?
There's definitely some live pruning happening, but another factor is that the temperature is turned way down. Obviously at a low temp it's just a totally deterministic function, and if it's doing it's job you'd hope that similar questions would be mapped very close together in the configuration space
Agreed, transacting in a bank is the best way.

Cash can be faked but it has good anticounterfeiting features, unlike checks.