skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids do this and I mostly just let them. They do well in school, have friends, are physically healthy. I was the same with TV and games at their age and now I'm living the life. Internet addiction can be an outlet for other unhealthy behavior but I don't think it's a cause.
Before jumping to conclusions, it's ten years over a lot of centuries of book lengths
We can see the statistics for COPD, and control for other factors. We can see the statistics for cancers, and control for other factors.
This is an absolute myth. There is no evidence of "immunity debt", and serious public officials parrotting this nonsense are doing real damage. It's a tempting explanation because it's simple and seems to make intuitive sense, but it's just wrong. The explanation that has much more evidence is that everyone and their dog caught COVID, and COVID has been directly linked to lasting immune system damage, making everyone more susceptible to catching these other viruses.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9272293/immunity-debt-covid-19-mi...
Hinkley B has been in development since around 2010 and has not generated any power. Wind and solar are over 25% of generated electricity per year. And most of that capacity was built in the last five years. It is growing very quickly.

A few more nuclear power stations would be very valuable. But in terms of decarbonisation renewables are just faster. Interconnectors are also faster to build and also help avoid power cuts.
Doc Martens have a Made in England line. Also I was under the impression Red Wing Heritage boots were made in the US but that could have changed.
and while I'm on it, since we are all getting it why wouldn't you get the v word? It will help strengthen your immune system (as will getting covid) and the bit that people keep missing out it will lessen the affects you suffer when you get it.
In Finland wind power provides roughly 30% of the nominal power on average. The problem is that it fluctuates between 0-80%.

The National Emergency Supply Agency calculates 6% of the nominal power capacity as the guaranteed capacity of wind. Unfortunately even that is overly optimistic.

During days when temperatures hover close zero, wind farms are shut down due to the danger from ice debris. This has caused zero production days of wind power in Finland during the last month.

Our electricity prices have been 30x the normal.

List of causes includes: importing electricity from Russia has been halted, unreliability of wind power, delays in building new nuclear power, premature shutting down of certain carbon based energy production, increased exports to Estonia and Germany due to Nordstream/Russia/Ukraine, increased exports to Sweden due to maintenance of a nuclear plant there. )
A 2-3 year old sitting there quietly talking, coloring or reading? Yeah it's very very very hard to believe. Even if the child is an absolute saint there's such things as sensory overload.
that's why I added the second clause: " thought processes similar to those that humans subjectively experience". Because personally I suspect that consciousness, free will, qualia, etc, are subjective processes we introspect but cannot fully explain (yet, or possibly ever).
> CTE expression is an optimization fence in postgres, which is not the case in oracle.

generally not true since PG12
I said that it shouldn't be ignored, but it is useless to him, as it's out of his league. What he probably wants is directives about what he should or should not eat. This is not the conclusion he can derive from a paper.
That link seems to show a very different story though? What they said was that they _hadn't_ requested a takedown for those reasons

"Simply put, the actual process of requesting the take down and proving violation would have severe implication on Wenzheng Tang, so I have hesitated in the hopes he would simply choose to take it down himself."

"So, both repositories remain up, for now, not because we are powerless to take it down... it is that the process of exercising this power could very literally ruin the actual life of another person."
We like to refer to manager "fiefdoms" as being "feudal" but they really aren't - feudal lords couldn't just leave their lordship and jump into another larger one somewhere else.

I'm not sure it's a problem that's entirely solvable without some kind of outside force.
Would raising minimum wage do anything for a company that is already knowingly hiring illegal immigrants? They won't exactly be contacting the local labor authorities. And near me, at least people don't want the jobs because they demand crazy things. I recently interviewed for a warehouse position that paid 24 an hour, but turns out they were demanding 6 day work weeks and 55-60 hours a week because they were short staffed. And they were a union place so the employees with seniority got to choose the shifts, so I would be stuck with some 15 hour shifts. That is more than double the minumum wage, people just won't do that unless they are very desperate.
Tell that to my desire for a retro gaming experience.
"I got tired of ubuntu/popOS's BS..."

So why not straight Debian?
yo heart izza mussel
The author writes in the tone of someone very hurt, exhausted, (probably appropriate) snarky pessimism.

I think this series could be fun. But also, yeah. All TV is a sad joke.
Check out Serpent Queen. It's the girl-power-scheming-medieval-court-drama that HoD wishes it was. No dragons I guess, but they were hardly in HoD either.
When I saw the test suite that Peter Norvig created for the program, I immediately thought to myself “what if there was a LLM program that knew how to generate test cases for arbitrary functions?”

I think a tool like that even in an early incomplete and imperfect form could help out a lot of people. The first version could take all available test cases as training data. The second one could instead have a curated list of test cases that pass some bar.

Update:
I thought of a second idea also based on Peter Norvig’s observation: what about an LLM program that adds documentation / comments to the code without changing the code itself? I know that it is a lot easier for me to proofread writing that I have not seen before, so it would help me. Maybe a version would simply allow for selecting which blocks of code need commenting based on lines selected in an IDE?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_atta...
> They were beaten out by the Top Gun reboot and the latest Jurassic Park

Which is both sad and hilarious in the context of this thread
He doesn't write those, but he works with a team of writers to deliver books at the cadence he does, so probably he meant someone else writes those.
I think our generation is a bit lucky as we're some of the first who experienced internet/technology addiction. Many of us still have challenges with it.

But that makes us more equipped to parent it. Moderation, appealing alternatives, technical prowess, modeling healthy habits, access in a public/supervised environment, etc.

I do wonder what the future will look like for parental controls and big tech. Especially in the USA.
Although not Stalin
> If I was trying to invent some “fair taxation scheme” I’d tax the profit based on the revenue in that country.

Why is that fair? In your example, if UK provided 100% of the labor shouldn’t UK get 100% of the tax to support social programs for that 100% labor?

Labor seems a better way to distribute and incentivize employment.
I don’t know if I will.

I was a computer addicted kid since I was about 8, when parents bought me a computer in 1995. When faster internet came, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was on the internet nonstop. And later on social media - LiveJournal, Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, but also some local servers that people here won’t know.

I don’t think it hurt me that much? Now I am a developer and making more money than most of my friends from that time, that were not sitting all day on computer.

So… it would be kind of hypocritical from me to restrict my kids doing the same? I don’t know

My kids are still too young to understand computers though (1 and 3). So let’s see
I wouldn't really call that a flex. It would seem more like a child throwing a tantrum.
> Shall we abandon expert knowledge? Procedural knowledge?

Apparently GPT-3 is not capable of multi-step reasoning unless trained on code. So it seems having code in the training set generalises an ability to reason in natural language.
A long time because the old TLS does not let you connect to modern servers.
Keep them offline.
Maybe. See we had a trusted B2B site we use for stock. Then we noticed our bank account being raided. Turns out they had hackers on their system skimming all the card details.

Maybe they were hosting on XP. Didn’t ask.
AIDS is avoidable now. It wasn't when nobody knew what caused it, and it was in the blood supply, and educating people about condoms was prohibited.
3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.

4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.

How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days . I figured it would be more. Also, it's called the FBI. Their job is to investigate federal matters, which includes content on social social media. They do with with all major social networks. It's not just politics or the media, but things related to safety, terrorism, kidnaping, child exploitation, etc.

It seems like these files are becoming more and more underwhelming.
I still believe that linux is unsuitable for the vast majority of people. I virtualize all of my workstations with proxmox, and have the ability to backup and restore snapshots quickly, and without that ability, the number of times a gui recommended kernel update would just kill large portions of my system is too damn high.

Kernel 5.15 still seems to be incompatible with running two monitors on a GTX 1080TI with any of the proprietary nvidia drivers I've tried.
Turing said, that while you never know whether somebody else actually thinks or not, it's still polite to assume.
The vast majority of cases are mild, yes. This doesn’t change the fact that Ionnadis’ predictions of the severity of the pandemic were off by a factor of x100.

Here is a pretty good recap of his blundering walk through covid

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/10000-deaths/
Also this is always how transitions look. Incandescent bulbs were still sold next to LEDs, CRTs were still manufactured during the LCD transition, platter drives are still for sale during the SSD revolution, people still buy gas cars.

There is a time before commodity prices are hit at scale but when it happens, the price floor of the new technology will be below the price floor of the old technology (for instance the cost of a big screen TV) and that's when the old technology finally exits. Solar still has a long way to fall.

We're in a transition and they always look like this.
Since I gave them the work, I don't need them to summarize what I already know. Waste of time. I'd rather they continue working on their assigned tasks.
Sure, but by that time they will have developed sufficiently to be better able to handle it.

This is similar to alcohol or smoking. It is worth not giving it to your children even if "they will anyway try it later".
That's what they said about XP when it came out.
This is a sort of dangerous interpretation. The point of saying model's "don't do reasoning" is to help us understand their strengths and weaknesses. Currently, most models are objectively trained to be "Stochastic Parrots" (as a sibling comment brought up). They do the "gut feeling" answer. But the reasoning part is straight up not in their objectives. Nor is it in their ability, by observation.

There's a line of thought that if we're impressed with what we have, if it just gets bigger maybe eventually 'reasoning' will just emerge as a side-effect. This is somewhat unclear and not really a strategy per se. It's kind of like saying Moore's Law will get us to quantum computers. It's not clear that what we want is a mere scale-up of what we have.

> Whether or not they do reasoning, they answer questions with a decent degree of accuracy, and that degree of accuracy is only going up as we feed the models more data.

Kind of. They don't so much "answer" questions as search for stuff. Current models are giant searchable memory banks with fuzzy interpolation. This interpolation gives some synthesis ability for producing "novel" answers but it's still basically searching existing knowledge. Not really "answering" things based on an understanding.

As long as it's right the distinction may not matter. But the danger is a "gut feeling" model will _always_ produce an answer and _always_ sound confident. Because that's what it's trained to do: produce good-sounding stuff. If it happens to be correct, then great. But it's not logical or reasonable currently. And worse, you can't really tell which you're getting just by the output.

> Whether or not they "do actual reasoning" simply won't matter.

Sure it will. There's entire tasks they categorically can't do, or worse can't be trusted with, unless we can introduce reasoning or similar.

> They're already superhuman in some regards; I don't think that I could have coded up the solution to that problem in 5 seconds. :)

This is superhuman in the way that Google Search is. You couldn't search the entire internet that fast either, but you don't think Google Search "feels the true meaning of art" or anything.
There seem to be some amount of long-term risks associated with covid that aren't present in influenza though. I hope to continue avoiding covid myself.
Un-fucking Windows 10 is still easier than Linux where the answers to half of my problems are "You fool, if you wanted to use more than two mouse buttons you should have used Slippery Weasel 7. Trash your install and start over with a better distro. By the way Slippery Weasel 7 doesn't support changing your screen brightness."
These "tip of my tongue" requests work well, because GPT's weakness – making nonfactual stuff up – doesn't matter much, since as user you easily spot and ignore the false results.
> I find it problematic that AlphaCode dredges up relevant code fragments from its training data, without fully understanding the reasoning for the fragments.

As a non-programmer who has to ‘code’ occasionally, this is literally what I do, but it takes me hours or days to hammer out a few hundred lines of crap python. Using a generative model or llm that can write equally crappy scripts in seconds feels like a HUUUGE win for my use cases.
Are you guys being serious? It would be a cold day in hell before my children sat at a dinner table with an ipad for entertainment! A 3 year old talking, colouring, playing games etc before food arrives is absolutely normal and acheivable!
How so, integer overflow? Not so famous that I'm aware.
I’ve got this sense, not necessarily correct, that internet journalists are always tired and struggling to make a living. And that web game journalists are doubly so. I haven’t paid attention too much but I often notice that places like Kotaku or Polygon just churn through writers. Maybe that’s cheaper.
What's your line of work if you need this kind of documentation? My time tracking has never been disputed this far, and I can't think of a situation where I would agree to record my work day for a client.
With some random sampling it looks like the worst case is 5 megabytes of error on the initial seek.
>the US economy has a structural dependence on this kind of labor exploitation.

This sounds like the South arguing that slavery is necessary. In fact it wasn't, the US thrived, and it thrived in large part because it made it possible for ordinary people to achieve success. Which in large part was due to stricter labor laws, environmental laws, property laws than other places.

The regression of workers rights is nothing to be celebrated.
I've been fighting this battle for years and I still fight it every day with my kids.

First, you MUST set limits on everything addictive to children in your house including the internet. Limit the content they can access and the place and time they can use it. You can adjust the limits, but never remove them.

Second, if they're old enough, explain the concept of addiction to them. Here is a perfect video to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUngLgGRJpo A child will understand exactly what addiction means after watching this video.

Third, show them that you also have limits on your own tech usage. They might not be the same limits you put on them, but you have limits. They will understand this way that limits are not something they can "grow out of" and are part of being an adult.

Last, when they do break the rules, don't shame them for it and don't give them approval for it either. Make it clear that you still love them and the rules are still in place.

Good luck.
Because those are things that we want done. They help kickstart a low-carbon economy, which would otherwise be slowed by costing more than the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure.

He just happened to be the one who best took advantage of it. Which looked awfully smart at the time, especially since he succeeded so well at it. And that makes his bizarrely mercurial, seemingly short-sighted behavior seem so inconsistent.
I missed that they called this out specifically on the announcement page; I appreciate they acknowledge the source. Wonder why they didn't then go for the .io domain possibility with "Forgeio".
Is it just me, or is that problem description completely incoherent?
Putting "not official Google products" under github.com/google is the dumbest policy. I wonder why they don't realize/care about this.
Cron for iOS
Some of the refusals may be explained by the increasing size of schemes. That is no excuse, but number of refusals is not the whole story.
“Keep it simple”—something I keep repeating to everyone I work with. I myself have been bitten too often by the temptation to use the latest tech, even when a trusted but less “sexy” alternative was available that could do the job perfectly.

But this post could have been made a lot simpler by using SQLite. Do away with all the docker stuff, a simple file- based database will do for starters. If you need concurrent access later, it will be easy to port the DB to Postgres or similar.
The hypocrisy knows no bounds.
I think the two are sufficiently different that you could do it well. Just because they share the same genre doesn't mean they're necessarily redundant. Specifically Neuromancer has a very interesting mixture of pop culture and late stage capitalism that I could see being unique. A meditation on extreme wealth inequality and the dehumanizing aspects of capitalism and colonialism could be fascinating. I think any auteur could make this into a unique piece of art. I just question whether that's going to happen here.
This Twitter Files charade has long since crossed the line into being embarrassing for Taibbi. I'm surprised he's still digging.
falling bricks didn't kill 1 million americans over the past 2 years
I suspect this is why I cannot drink beer anymore without being smashed, while wine is super fine :(

anybody knows about this possible causation?
Kids went to these places before smartphones. Restaurants, for example, tend to have crayons.
I just tried doing this myself

JFZ: how do we know there are infinitely many primes

ChatGPT: One way to show that there are infinitely many prime numbers is to use the fact that the set of prime numbers is infinite to show that there must be an infinite number of composite numbers as well. Composite numbers are positive integers that have at least one positive integer divisor other than 1 and itself. For example, 4 is a composite number because it can be divided by 2 (and is not prime), and 6 is a composite number because it can be divided by 2 and 3 (and is not prime).

To show that there are infinitely many composite numbers, consider the sequence of numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and so on. Each of these numbers is composite because it can be divided by 2. Now consider the sequence of numbers 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, and so on. Each of these numbers is composite because it can be divided by 3. And so on. For every prime number, there is an infinite sequence of composite numbers that can be generated by multiplying that prime number by other positive integers.

Since there are infinite sequences of composite numbers, and each composite number is the product of at least two prime numbers (for example, 12 is the product of 2 and 6, which are both prime numbers), there must be an infinite number of prime numbers as well. This is one way to show that there are infinitely many prime numbers, though there are other ways to prove it as well.

(seems hand wavey, and probably wrong though I can't figure out where the flaw is)

JFZ: is A5 a solvable group

Yes, the group A5 (also known as the alternating group on 5 elements) is a solvable group. A group is solvable if it can be constructed from simpler groups using only group extensions and group quotients, and if it has a composition series in which each factor is a simple group.
(wrong)

The group A5 is the group of even permutations of five objects. It has 60 elements, and it is isomorphic to the group of rotations of a regular dodecahedron. A5 is a simple group, which means that it has no proper normal subgroups (subgroups that are normal in the group but not equal to the group itself). This means that A5 cannot be constructed from simpler groups using group extensions or group quotients. However, it can be shown that A5 has a composition series in which each factor is a simple group, so it is solvable.

In general, many groups that arise in mathematics and physics are solvable, and the study of solvable groups is an important area of research in group theory.
Do what Keybase used to do: Post "I'm foo@fosstodon" on Twitter, then put the deeplink to that message on your Mastodon profile.

Scanning tools only have to look at fediverse profiles, not all posts, but can cheaply verify if they are true.
Software Zeroisation
Could you provide a link to a single tweet that gave instructions, times or locations to harass people?

Or

Did LoTT share PUBLIC information about PUBLIC events? Fuck... in the last 24 hours people have lost their fucking minds over Elon's stalking ban and claim it's public information.

Ya can't have it both ways. I know folxs want to but it's not possible.
There are definitely things under the google github org that are used in production, though they are typically mirrored from Google3 in some way. But not sure what, if any, has its origins in a personal open source projects.
BlackRock’s Stealth Anti-Climate Agenda
That goes back to its not binary. Less viral load is less viral load. Masks are not a complete solution.

At the end of the day the goal appears to be to reduce spread and reinfection to minimize the load on the hospital system.
Some commenters here dislike the scrolling effects on the site. I usually also can't stand sites that mess with scroll, but here I found it to be tastefully done. I think it added to the experience, and didn't get in the way.
Not really because its extremely exploitable. Revenue is not - it DOES come from someone somewhere - its traceable.

Work effort could be distorted in whatever fashion the country wants. They could declare all their work is done in some off shore 0% tax nation and pay nothing.
to not qualify as clickbait the title needs to include the word 'sorted'
That's potentially more helpful than writing the code itself. Writing unit tests can take most of the development time.
Completely agreed. They may be left out by some peers for not being up to date on internet culture, but they will have much richer lives and personalities for having spent that time with all of the things you listed.

It's a difficult path, and not for everyone, but I think it's the right one for people willing to do it.