skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the summary. Some tired thoughts:

#1 the premise of the book is that we (both individually and societally) are the only species intentionally depriving ourselves of sleep due to hectic lifestyle and work pressure, which cause undersleeping. It’s a factor we can change. Sleeping “too much” is associated with mortality for different reasons, which according to the book is because of deceases that cause you to be able to sleep more (which would be because the body needs more time to perform the physical recovery function for longer). Most healthy adults can't sleep longer than ~9h for an extended period of time. That, at least, makes a good argument for treating them differently.

#2 Sleep deprivation therapy may work well for some people with depression, and I don’t see the conflict in being open minded. Perhaps walker is a bit too reactive in his tone? He is intentionally a little provocative, and that may indeed be harmful to people of literal-mindedness. But what’s the alternative? Putting a caveat in every paragraph that YMMV? Requiring a test that you understand aggregates and distributions in order to buy a book?

#3 I remember reading the book and getting exactly that impression. If indeed FFI is a neurodegenerative prion decease (same category as mad cow decease) it’s deeply dishonest to say death is due to lack of sleep. That’s very misleading, no excuses.

#4 was a misattribution to the WHO when it was in fact.. the CDC. Welp, I mean, shit happens. This definitely falls under honest mistake.

#5 ok? Thanks for the correction, lol.
Or pump and dump schemes that happen on exchanges, which are frequently done right out in the open without any euphemistic language at all. I'm not sure why we trust exchanges to not simply lie to the public.
I assume you just ask GPT3 in plain English. Crazy times.
Tesla Will Have to Ship Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Residents
> it's already deprecated on a device ~50% of American's use

America is one market among many. iOS usage is ~28% globally.

Even if Google suddenly announced their plans to deprecate OpenGL ES on Android, it would happen in the mid 2020s at the very earliest for bleeding edge devices, and late 2020s for whatever is considered "legacy" at that point.

A realistic scenario is that billions of people will still rely on some form of OpenGL at the end of the 2020s, and full deprecation will happen somewhere in the 2030s.
You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Get used to it.
Search engines are faltering because many intersecting trends are destroying the availability of a vibrant, indexed, text-based internet: emphasis on video content, siloed content behind logins and paywalls, pulling traffic out into "apps" that are no longer part of the web, etc. GPT-style language models are also driving massive creation of spam that further dilutes and poisons the text sources that their own training models are derived from.
Self-guided learning is amazing but a lot of people struggle with the discipline involved. Often when you set out to study a topic you’re interested in, you find that it has prerequisites in other areas (such as calculus) that you may not be strong at or even actively avoid studying. For many people this can put an end to their self-guided study.

Attending a formal educational institution, on the other hand, has proven very effective at getting people to knuckle down and study calculus (or whatever their “blocker” discipline is) so that they can move on to studying what they’re really interested in.
>"Anecdotally, I flew Southwest just before Christmas. The network was already buckling and we had major delays, but we were lucky and made it through."

Interesting. You don't say how far before Christmas you were traveling. Had this crazy weather system already started moving from West to East at that point? Or was the system buckling just from passenger volume at the point i.e similar to the Summer meltdown that Southwest had?
When you reach 40s you will see...
Pretty much every android device is subsidized by carriers and sold with Facebook and other apps preinstalled.
36.9 with a sad face would do.. I mean mercury is past 9 mark so it's pretty much 37, right?
On top of that, the maximum theoretical COP for a cold source at -30c and a hot side at 35c is 4.7. Real world heat pumps usually get half of that, possibly even less for this extreme delta t, so around 2. Natural gas tends to cost less than half per unit energy compare to electricity, even less typically, so you'll never make back the capital costs.
Of course if this technology matures to the extend it's much, much cheaper and you tend to have milder winters and hot summers it's good enough and possibly worth it, but we haven't gotten to maintenance and installation costs yet, as the 35c hot temp assumes underfloor heating or tons of fancoils which have their own issues, the fact that the heat pump must be massively overspectd to output enough heat in peak conditions etc.
Representatives have to do both, represent the interest of their voters, but also legislate on all sort of national topics, from financial regulations to defence matters. So it is very reasonable for a member of congress to become a specialist on a topic that may be of critical importance to the country one day. I wish more would have done that in the 90s when the internet and personal computers started being a big thing.
If the grocery stores' business model doesn't work, that's not going to work out well for the poor people either...
> I feel bad about it being an Italian passport

I'll defer to any HN actual Italiani, but my impression is that they have a similar[0] relationship with bureaucracy as the french: the man spends so much time keeping you down, that if you find a loophole that works in your favour, go ahead and stick it to him.

Other NL suggestions: Bergen, Noordwijk, Laren. Especially the last, if you're looking for cosmopolitan outlook.

Don't worry about lots of annoying right wingers in rural areas. There may be somewhat more proportionately[1], but they won't be annoying[2]. Minding one's own business is, it seems, more of a european[6] virtue than a US.

[0] imx "verboten" means people don't do it; "defense de" means not if cops are watching; and "vietato" means sometimes even the cops do it.

[1] where I live, the far right party is nominally a "farmers' party" (despite being controlled by urban industrialists). But just about the only way I'd know they have a lot of support here is by the number of placards (which used to feature the national flag but they've since figured it wasn't working for them) at election time. And I am an obvious foreigner[3], even without opening my mouth[5].

[2] bumper stickers are few and far between here, so jacked up pickups festooned with political flags are right out.

[3] one of my favourite anecdotes is the guy who was telling me about all the problems with foreigners[4], only to pause his rant in the middle so he could go help a swarthy young mother in religious headcover get her baby carriage onto the train.

[4] "I'm a foreigner too, remember" "Yes, but you're not one of those foreigners"

[5] fwiw, I feel more at home here as a foreigner[6] than I did in the Old Country as a native-born citizen.

[6] the local stance is less one of left/right identity politics and more one of (regardless of one's political views) sorrow for all those poor saps who have the horrendous misfortune to live in one of those neighbouring villages, 10-15km away.
Article says he's working on multi-variate calculus now, which implies he was able to dredge up enough of his 50-year-old knowledge of basic calculus to even understand what the teacher is saying. Impressive.
If this same person was deciding to spend 3-4 hours a day watching Netflix or playing basketball, this would not even be a question. He has a life outside of Congress and I see nothing wrong with using it to further his education.
I agree about the limitations of DSLs.

Temporal is a workflow engine that doesn't use a DSL or nerfed version of a programming language. It runs your arbitrary code with any of the supported runtimes (currently Go/Java/Node/Python).

I'm able to write, deploy, and maintain workflow code by myself and use their cloud service for persistence and admin UI.
Cool project!

I think ChatGPT is a different model from GPT-3, which you are using.

From https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/:

> ChatGPT is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series
My comment was in reply to "I've been out of automotive for 20 years but never met anyone who would compromise normal operational safety"
That maybe, but what if you are stripped of the access to the Internet?
It surely needn’t be a requirement, but demonstrating this level of commitment to executing your duties to the best of your ability is worthy of a lot of respect. Props to Rep. Beyer. Even if it means his vote just cancels out some other congresspersons vote that has been paid for.
>> The whole point of vim is that you change your mental model to become faster at editing text.

> The whole point of vi and vim was to edit text visually, instead of as lines.

My language was very imprecise here, I should know better when commenting on Hacker News. I didn't mean the original motivation for creating vi, but the main reason why someone in 2022 would learn vim with all the other text editors out there now. The main feature of vim at this point is the modal editing that requires you to change how you think about text editing. If you aren't going to accept this new paradigm, then there's no point learning vim in the first place beyond how to enter and exit insert mode, save, and quit.
Just an FYI, when Google Maps comes up with routes, there are penalties for complex maneuvers built in when ranking routes. An unprotected left will add a time penalty to the route option when it is ranked against alternatives. I understand what you are hoping for is a much harsher penalty (or maybe even a way to customize it completely), but wanted to point out that things like U-turns and other maneuvers are treated as penalties
I guess life processes are quite different at maturity, e.g. routines, roles and responsibilities they all condition time and available attention, which condition the possibility space for learning.
Good for him. I have so much respect for leaders that actually understand things at a deep technical level. I will also keep an eye out for his AI caucus. The US desperately needs regulation regarding automated systems.
Yes. Globally the vast majority of airlines use either Amadeus, Apollo, or SABRE for everything from reservations to crew scheduling. United wrote Apollo, American wrote SABRE back in 1960. So yeah, other airlines have far better tech people and have for decades. While Southwest now pushes ticketing data to those three, as of a few years ago they were using other software for scheduling and even doing things by hand (like tracking bags) that other airlines had already automated. If anecdotes from crew are accurate the other problem is that Southwest did nothing to optimize their disaster recovery plan (if there even is one). Manual data entry can scale more than it is at Southwest, but they're still stuck in the teensy airline state of mind where even wildly inefficient workflows can scale.

As for ADS-B, that's hopelessly naive. ADS-B tracks planes, not people. The problem Southwest is having is trying to figure out who is legal to work and where they are. Tracking equipment is so trivial in comparison it's largely a secondary concern.
Why? We get much maths and a lot of history from Arabia and India, for example. Core food crops from from america-south-of-the-USA, why not core government ideas too?

I've lived in two countries and the differences in how people think of their country and government are significantly influenced by how they started. Australia literally can't sign a treaty with their first nations because that's now how things are done here. Law is imposed by force from outside, that's just how it is. Whereas Aotearoa is the result of diplomacy, negotiation and sales competition. People think getting together to talk things out and come up with something that works is the obvious answer.

This isn't "history, the definitive guide" it's more of a cultural overview. Telling a kiwi "the treaty is a historical irrelevance" is like telling a US citizen "founding fathers, bah, they're long dead". Technically true, but ignoring them isn't culturally possible.

So to me the idea that tribal government systems influenced how your founders put their government together is no less likely than other ideas coming from the Prophet Muhammad (Jefferson and Adams both had copies of the Koran and almost certainly read them. And FWIW the Koran describes in laborious detail how a country should be run circa 600AD).
I don’t understand this quote which I’ve heard 1Mx. I’m not aware of any layer or protocol in networks that have a concept of damage. There is such a thing as failover links but they’re very rare for most layers of the network and certainly not unique to the Internet, they definitely have nothing to do with censorship which is the version of the quote I see the most.
Silicon Valley staff rush to offload startup shares as valuations plummet
Up to the day one of these ultra-rare issues falls on the journalist writing a review in a specialist magazine that will make or break your product
You don't sound like someone who has traveled a lot. I would encourage you to digital nomad in different countries for 2-3 months at a time (most countries will let Americans stay 3 months at a time). There is understanding to be gained that can only be gained through experience.

There is great divide between civility (you are part of a culture because of your values) and ethnicity (you are part of a culture because you share a history with other people from that culture -- your parents were that culture).

There is a great divide between high trust and low trust societies.

There is a great divide between rich and poor.

There is a great divide between liberalism and authoritarianism.

(mostly) Functioning institutions in a high trust, rich, liberal, civil society, which America, particularly educated America, is, is an oxygen you don't know you are breathing.

A little travel will let you be a little asphyxiated and therefore more appreciative of American institutions and culture.

It will also show you that America is definitely in decline and that American exceptionalism is ridiculous. San Francisco is a horrible city compared to many abroad.
I think the author is really gunning for his particular vision to happen. If you were a tech leader would you just let "The Great Logging Off" happen?

If this becomes a huge issue you'd better bet that big tech is going to invest a lot of resources to solve it. The simplest solution would be to get better at verifying real human users, for example with better adversarial AI systems to detect non-humans or more document-based authentication tying your real identity to your user account (and thus any bans for misuse going to your real identity).
Police in China can track protests by enabling ‘alarms’ on Hikvision software
One might even go further and read this headline as "Old fart is pretending to go to school", at least that is the subtext. I kind of hear you, but I also don't quite believe you. For some it is definitely possible, but most people with that age actually dont have enough cognitive abilities left to acquire a degree. Heck, I know 35 year olds which would need a degree to be able to persue their dream job, but I am very doubtful they will even summon up the courage (and intelligence, for that matter).
> But then again it's a bit dystopian

I am having a hard time to imagine a scenario that is more dystopian
Can I ask why it's effective to tell it to get it's math correct?

Two sub-questions:
1) I thought LLMs worked by predicting the most likely next token. Why would telling it to check it's math actually make it's predictions more accurate?

2) Why would asking it to check it's math change the results it produces? Shouldn't it just do the same thing a second time and produce answers that are just as (in)accurate as it did the first time?
With a normal airline, you have pilots sitting on "reserve" at bases, who can be called in at any time to fill in any gaps that may occur. They are being paid but are not flying, it's quite a good gig if you can get on the reserve list.

I don't know how this is handled at Southwest, who does not fly hub-and-spoke and thus doesn't have a bunch of pilots sitting reserve around a base at, say, Atlanta.
To keep the muscle analogy, you won’t compete as an athlete at 72 no matter how fit you remain.

I hate to be "pedantic guy", but FWIW there are absolutely 72 year old competitive athletes. They may not be competitive against folks 20+ years younger than themselves, but many people continue to compete in "masters" divisions of various competitive sports until pretty much the day they keel over. Heck, there are folks who are 70+ competing in ultra-marathons.
This article gets it. ChatGPT heralds the end of free user comments, forums and social media. Because when everything and everyone online is fake, why even log on to Insta or FB or Twitter? The internet will still be useful, but Web 2.0 will go the way of the dodo unless it adapts and the easiest way to cut down on spam is to charge users money for access. Spam campaigns are a lot less lucrative when it costs money to participate. Hell, charge $0.05 per email. The amount of spam would decrease significantly.

Side note, I’ve long thought that identity verification is the _one_ area that a public blockchain could actually add legitimate value to. But I’ve seen no efforts in that direction to date.
I had a cheating VW and the experience was great. I got better than published mileage, and then they bought the car back for more than it was worth.

I can only hope the car I replaced it with also cheated on the emissions, because I'd love to sell it back for more than it's worth, too.
You are generalizing a lot. I outlined a very specific situation: A company inquires into aspects of your life that are none of their business.

In that particular situation as far as I'm concerned - and not as far as you are concerned - you are free to lie. Because the alternative is going to end with you not getting the job, no matter how qualified you are.
Nice! I have an iPad Air that won't boot - wonder if something like this will work
I remember this site called http://bookmooch.com (it still exists!) where I used to regularly swap books with others. The site operates on the same concept: you list your books, and then mail them out when someone requests them of you, and of course, you are also free to request books from other members of the site.

I used to be an avid user (and braved many a visit to the Post Office to mail out books), but sadly stopped using it after I graduated. I wonder if it still thrives.

I'm lucky to have many LFLs in my area. Many unexpectedly good discoveries have occurred because of them, and I hope I have contributed to that myself also.
No I don't, that's not what I'm suggesting. People who may have bought Teslas in the past at least partly for virtue-signalling are now buying cars built by other manufacturers as a virtue signal against Musk, now they have decided Rocket Man Bad. Some of the car companies used for the virtue signal have histories that are demonstrably worse than anything Musk has done to hurt people's feelings on Twitter, making the virtue signal attempts amusing.
> They may not be competitive against folks 20+ years younger than themselves

that's kind of my point. Of course they can compete against other 72 year olds.
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> What is the alternative? Extensive playbooks for every possible scenario that may or may not make sense in the actual scenario because a few critical details are different?

Yes? I suspect they have playbooks and/or run gameday exercises for other aspects of disaster preparedness and business continuity. Why not do the same for these sorts of issues that affect the travel network?

The network of airports, planes, and crews is a graph (or multiple graphs). What happens when a node disappears?

That may be a hard question to answer, but it seems cheaper to answer, and plan around, it before the situation occurs rather than after.
The secret key is is 35 random characters that are assigned to your account when you set it up and must be appended to your password to decrypt.

Whenever you log in, you need to enter your password and the key. The browser extension will cache it in a cookie, but every new device requires you to enter the key.

You remember your password, and hide the key.

It's more analogous ("homologous"? really? lol) to being automatically enrolled into a 401k: you are automatically assigned half of a very secure password.

Hardware keys typically are OTP token generators used to assist in login authentication and have nothing to do with the vault. Not at all what the secret key is.
Math is generalized logic, not a theory of a specific systems parameters and behavior.

Humans memorize the information relative to them. If politicians memorize racism they’ll make racist policy.

I don’t want people who think in 100 year old social terms alone deciding my fate.

Society that never retires old ideas, demands speech stay on specific rails is hardly free. That type of governance is the basis of a police state.
At least in Australia, this doesn't avoid many uncontrolled right (same as left in freedom land) turns across 4-8 lanes of traffic.
If you are not growing, you are declining or dead.

What's wrong with retiring and living out your last years peacefully relaxing with your hobbies and family? There's absolutely no reason why people have to continually grow until they're in the ground.

You're applying an adage about companies to people, but companies need to fight against inflation, and people don't.