skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is a doctor she’s never been paid by a pharmacy company.

It’s illegal to directly pay doctors for prescribing drugs. Pharmaceutical companies do pay some doctors for speaking gigs (a very small fraction of them).

The average doctor might get lunch in exchange for listening to a presentation. But I guarantee they aren’t there listening to a boring presentation because of a few dollars worth of food.

All these payments are public record, so you can look them up for any given doctor.
Many things are hard, but that does not mean they should not be done.
> It's not the parking spots - residents have zero interest in walking to the end of their block with garbage.

Nobody would have to do that. They'd have to walk an extra 10 ft from the front of their building to the curb. Unless they live in a multifamily building (which is most of the city), in which case the building superintendent would do that.

> Have you been in NY? There's garbage everywhere.

Because that's the city-sanctioned way for
Somewhat inevitable to use surrogates because you're going to take absolutely forever to get results on longevity (barring things with very strong negative effects on longevity).

Though communicating the difference between things that are only proven on surrogate markers and things shown to actually affect the real desired outcome is important, I agree.
I did a little reverse engineering of the ChatGPT minified JS code and posted my findings on my twitter.

Also made a Chrome Extension with some features like Export All chats, Safe Mode, History, Community Prompt Library, and more.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/superpower-chatgpt...
U.S. DOJ in process of seizing Robinhood shares tied to Bankman-Fried
These foods are specifically addictive. I mean, water is addictive - I need it every three days, but that's not meaningful.
You think the likes of GTK and Qt give a better UI than VS Code? I'll tell you why there are no mature bindings in Rust for these toolkits and it has nothing to do with OOP. It's because there's no demand for it.
>I'm not sure at what point in your life weight management was lauded as "easy". You have some tools in your toolbox on how to lose weight naturally (diet, exercise, different eating cycles) but you decided that these are too "hard" and opted for magic pills.

Why shouldn't technology make it easy?

>Just a shame to see people make progress in their weight loss journey the right(er) ways then succumb to weakness and opt for voodoo.

Voodoo doesn't work. These drugs do.
No but by default I would assume that anyone who calls themselves a life coach is full of shit.
This is insane! Looks amazing
GLP-1 agonists were discovered in the 1980s, and there are already statistically significant population samples who have been using them to treat T2D for decades. Any serious common side effect would have been already discovered from the large-scale clinical trials that have been repeatedly conducted.
I've worked hard to create deep candid friendships with many people. My friends tell me when I'm dreaming too big and when I mess up. They help me choose between shifting priorities and forks in the road. Sometimes they just tell me everything's going to be fine :)

I suspect that not everybody has relationships like these. For people without candid friendships or mentors, I suspect that a life coach would be incredibly helpful!

If you're looking for a life-coach, email me at hello@taylor.town :)

I honestly have no idea what I'm doing, but I really want everybody to thrive with the same level support that I have! I'll do 3-month "sprints", and I won't accept any payment.

EDIT: You can also schedule a 30-min chat with me at https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
In the case of rail workers, there is a separate retirement system just for rail workers. Everyone else has a retirement system called "Social Security." If you have earned a retirement benefit (well, it is an annuity) with the railway worker plan, quit to work in a job covered by social security, it is possible to lose your railway annuity. This is why many of the rail workers "don't just quit". Additionally, there are anti "double dipping" laws that reduce your railroad annuity if you get social security.
Sure but is a rationally acting financial institution operating in line with the incentives of the system they operate not also inclined to do everything to keep your money safe?
For an artificial neural network the concept of qualia would probably correspond to the state of its higher-level features neurons. Aka which and how much neurons lit-up when you play some sad music, or show it some red color. Then the neural network does make its decisions based on how these features are lit-up or not.

Some models are often prompted with things like "you are a nice helpful assitant".

When they are trained on enough data from the internet, they learn what a nice person would do. They learn what being a nice person is. They learn which features light-up when they behave nicely by imagining what it would feel being a nice person.

When you later instruct them to be one such nice person they try to lit-up the same features they imagine would lit-up for a helpful human. Like mimetic neurons in humans, the same neurons lit-up when imagining doing the thing than doing the thing (it's quite natural because to compress the information of imagining doing the thing and doing the thing, you just store either one and a pointer indirection for when you need to do the other so you can share weights).

Language models are often trained on dataset that don't depend on the neural network itself. But with more recent models like ChatGPT they have human reinforcement learning in the loop. So the history of the neural network and the datasets it is being trained on depend partially on the choices of the neural network itself.

They experience probably a more abstract and passive existence. And they don't have the same sensory input than we have, but with multi-modal models, they can learn to see images or sound as visual words. And if they are asked to imagine what value judgment a human would make, they are probably also able to value the judgment themselves or attach meanings to things a human would attach meanings too.

This process of mind creation is kind of beautiful. Once you feed them their own outputs for example by asking them to dialog with themselves and scoring the resulting dialogs and then train on generated dialogs to produce better dialogs, this is a form of self-play. In simpler domains like chess or go, this recursive self play often allow fast improvement like Alpha-go where the student becomes better than the master.
> Men only scholarships would bring protests and calls of sexism

There are lots of male-only scholarships, some provided by male-only organizations (e.g., fraternities) to their members.

Some are even exclusively for people pursuing male-only jobs.
Indeed, and to clarify, it's not a binary feeling for anyone-- IRC is better than email, FaceTime is better than the telephone. VRChat is state of the art on prosumer hardware, but it's not competitive with the boardroom. Yet.
I didn't say that all fat people ate junk food, and I didn't say that obese people shouldn't take medication if that could help. Obesity rate in the US didn't got from 10% to 40% in a few decades simply because suddenly everybody started to develop thyroid issues or other condition.
I don't think the article's comparison with Denver is particularly fair. Looking at Denver's municipal website shows that they have a main fleet of 70 large plowers, and a smaller fleet of 26 4x4 plows which are used to create paths for residential streets as a smaller plow isn't really suitable for clearing large avenues and highways. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is the type of snow that falls in Denver. As a high altitude, inland location, Denver's snow is mostly dry and fluffy, while an East Coast city like New York is often on the edge of some rain/snow border and wet and/or slushy snow is far more common (and far, far, far heavier).
To play devil's advocate: If AI is producing content that would be morally objectionable because it harms someone, but nobody was harmed in the making of it, are we still right to find it morally objectionable?
Asian Researchers Face Disparity with Key U.S. Science Funding Source
Conversely, I have (for free) life coached a number of people (although mentoring may be a better term) and they seemed to value and appreciate it, and got good results.

Talking to people with experience having already done the things one is trying to do is almost always helpful, in lifestyle or any other area of endeavor.
Edit: SSR might be the term not prerendering
I started learning to play the piano and training in Tae Kwon Do at around the same age. There's a similarity in both skills, in that you need to practice all the time, learn the drills; be they scales and playing Baa Baa Black Sheep, or Poomsae and running through three step sparing.

Today I'd struggle to find middle C on a keyboard, but I do run my own Freestyle Martial Arts club. The difference was not parental pressure. Mum made me go to both classes, and made me practice both piano and martial arts at home. I hated doing both. I would feign illness or injury not to go.

My TKD instructor was nothing short of inspiring though. He was an Olympic coach and really put effort into training me. My piano teacher pulled my mum aside after a lesson, before I'd even gone for grade one, and told her that he saw no hope in me, and that she should stop lessons.

I don't really know what I'm trying to say here other than my instructors faith in me had more of an influence than any particular pedagogical approach.
As CES Kicks Off, Hollywood’s Technologists Forecast 2023’s Challenges
We also should write off real criticism as a “GOP” campaign. I live in one of their favorite cities to attack (not NYC) and they’re close to spot on
Someone hasn't watched Fight Club, it seems. =)

Sometimes damage claims are just the cost of doing business.
Agreed. Most whole cores on most consumer CPUs are idle, or close to idle. much / most of the time. The big-little architecture is built around the idea of large cores idling / shut down most of the time, and only waking up to serve a peak load, e.g. when a new web page is being rendered.

I an even imagine spacing functional nodes wider on the silicon, where size and latency limitations allow, to give them more heat-dissipating area.
You're fat because of what you're eating, and how little your moving, sorry dude but that's 100% true. Some of that might be out of your control, but it's reality...
I enjoy programming in conduits but somehow never come across a big enough problem to really make use of them. They encapsulate a whole class of problems in a very comprehensible and modular way. The higher order conduits like `scanlC` and friends also enable more complicated ideas than just the usual `map` and `reduce` variants you usually see. It's quite straightforward to model all sorts of chat-/websocket-/trading-bots as conduits for example, I wrote a blog post about it at https://wjwh.eu/posts/2022-05-06-haskell-conduit-bots.html.

Btw @rkrzr I hope you don't mind me asking but "niet geschoten is altijd mis": are you looking for freelance assistance at the moment at all? I've been consistently impressed by the engineering work done at Channable, for example the Aho-Corasick work and the stuff relating to compact regions, but am not able to commit to fulltime work at the moment. Lately I've been mostly working with Ruby and DBA/db performance stuff, but Haskell is the first language I got properly good at and it will always have a warm place in my heart. I'm pretty experienced at the intersection between backend dev and DBA/devops type problems and if you are experiencing any problems in that area I would love to help out there. Looking at the channable github page, I just realized I even made made some PRs for Icepeak way back in 2020. :)
> NY has a lot of row houses, there's no room for a dedicated garbage area

Most buildings in NYC already have a dedicated garbage area. The issue is that there isn't a dedicated spot for pickup.

That's a solvable problem: put containerized trash receptacles on the street, so the superintendent can put them in the containers, instead of dropping them directly on the sidewalk (which is what they currently do).
If this were true I would not expect that changes in our lifestyle would cause broad scale weight increases like they have. I'm very skeptical humans are built with an average set weight way up in the unhealthy range.

Or maybe this is the case, but it is thrown off hard by our modern diets. Our natural set point is in the healthy range, but our meal is x calories per Y food now so it ends up artificially high.

The explanation just doesn't line up with what we've seen. I get that it's hard to lose weight once you've gained it, but that's different. This is absolving us of being responsible for our obesity as a whole.
Why wouldn't it? At $1300 a month, this is going to be a massive business for these companies.

I read a statement from Novo Nordisk to their investors where they said they simply underestimated demand for the drugs. They expected a slow uptake and instead received an explosive one. They are working hard to increase production.
I hope I didn’t build that system. Sorry. The design is giving me flashbacks to the mid-90s in oil and gas.
I love Ruby, and a substantial amount of our application is written in Ruby. However, there's a very significant portion that requires NodeJS, and to write it in Ruby would be an absolute ball of mud of kludginess and abstraction. I'm happy to write code in a time when I have great tools I can piece together appropriately to make great solutions.
for me, the side effects lessened over time, and are pretty low now. Everyone reacts differently though.
And if you want postgres, I highly recommend using Supabase to load dynamic content. They have a great free tier! I run my side projects on this setup - Cloudflare to host static html, supabase-js to load dynamic content. I'm not a js guy past jquery, so I generally hand-write my own javascript and build the static pages with some simple hugo templating.

Works great.
Or twitter.
Awesome. I actually started trying to get it to build against mingw-w64 earlier today, but I guess I'll just wait for you. :)

I'm not a windows user, but super interested in using Blink to ship pre-compiled binaries as part of various Bazel rule sets.
I would rather die young than deal with those side effects. And those of us who are competitive endurance athletes need the oxidative stress; it's not necessarily a bad thing depending on timing and volume. Plus we will probably find other harmful side effects after long term use. There is no free lunch when you mess around with basic metabolism; everything has a price (not just in money).
Maybe. Others have talked about the problems with hybrids and they might not make as much sense as simply expanding either the fleet as a whole or the parts of the fleet used for plowing. Also worth considering the city's whole vehicle fleet - use the garbage trucks as appropriate for mass response, but also use dump trucks, etc from public works.

Eventually there may also be more options with battery swapping - that's a lot more feasible with a fleet within a relatively small geographic region.
I usually measure the functions I write in picoseconds per byte, so 5 microseconds is an eternity.
Wow, I wouldn't have expected Tenable to shell out to curl, especially when the curl only adds two headers and they omitted the "--fail" that would cause non-200 responses to return a non-zero exit code :-(

https://github.com/tenable/ghidra_tools/blob/main/g3po/g3po....
I can second this, I have made quite a few scripts using lftp (and also lstftp, and ncftp), and it's been the most reliable option.
It doesn't have to double complexity. Look at the BMW i3 Rex - it used a basic range-extending generator and was ahead of its time. The weight savings of the Rex vs. a larger battery are significant. Most EVs carry around a battery that they'll only use 10% of on a typical day.
> If a LiteFS node is way behind on replication, can it let the app know when it's caught up?

LiteFS exposes the replication position via a file[1] suffixed with "-pos" for each database. That has a monotonically increasing TXID that you could compare to the primary.

We track latency via a Prometheus metric but we don't currently expose that easily to the application. I added an issue for that[2].

> have one Fly instance running and another in cold standby. On deploy, the cold instance boots, fails the health check until replication catches up, then takes over while the first instance goes cold.

When LiteFS starts up, it waits for the node to either connect to the primary and catch up or become the primary itself before it starts the user's application (if running in a supervisor mode). That would probably get you most of the way there to what you're trying to do.

[1]: https://fly.io/docs/litefs/position/

[2]: https://github.com/superfly/litefs/issues/253
I am not really sure if bloodwork is all it takes to asses your health.

It is not. Steve Jobs had good bloodwork and low BP, still died a a few years later.

Steroid-taking health influencers like to show bloodwork to convince followers they are still healthy. Let's see 20+ years down the road...
I'm taking saxenda, which requires a daily injection and it's totally fine. It takes like 2 minutes. The needle is tiny and most of the time you barely feel it.
What's so great about PlanetScale?

I feel like I live under a rock because I just don't get what's so great.
Aleister Crowley, the Wickedest Climber Ever? (2022)
> The salaries are low, the work is stressful, crunch is high.

Is this because of supply & demand is different from other sectors? Say, people really love building games so they flock to the game industry? I'd imagine that developing games require highly specialized skills: great artistic sense, complex tool chains, deep understanding of maths and physics, and of course excellent programming and engineering skills. Case in point, my friends in the gaming industry routinely reads and implements SIGRAPH papers, or show me cool optimizations they did to all kinds of physics simulations with the NS equation, the constrained particle systems, and etc. It's hard to fathom that such talents get worse work condition that those who build CRUD apps.
Your body wants your maintenance calories. If you are overweight for an any significant time, your body adjusts and will push you to consume your new maintenance calories. It takes a very long time for you body to adjust back down once you lose weight, which is why more often than not people gain the weight back.
I agree with this for overweight people, but for obese people, the chance that they will follow the "right" way is near zero.

The alternative comes down to being obese (which is a death sentence) or medical interventions. It's true that this only solves the symptoms and not the actual problem, but it will probably save lives.
My Kagi-fu says "Be like water, my friend. The size of the data is not important, only the quality. OpenAI curated/filtered 45TB of data to extract those 570GB. Much of the text that we encounter in this world is like the empty chatter of a bird, mere noise that serves no purpose".
> If you see NYC on garbage days the streets are lined with mountains of bags. Each corner would have to have a virtual mine shaft to hold 1000s of bags of garbage.

Or, you know, a commercial-sized dumpster.

The trash is already taking up space on the sidewalk. Putting a dumpster to contain it would save space, by keeping it contained.
That report API is interesting, I’ve seen it used for csp errors but not for browser errors, I wonder if error monitoring services support it
Please do not forget the mandatory arbitration clauses in many of these "agreements".
Yes, smoking isn't the same at all. People that are extremely obese require bigger hospital beds, more equipment, more drugs, more operations, etc. That's not even remotely comparable to smoking in terms of costs on the system. There also aren't a lot of smokers anymore, at least not in the US, obesity is a revolving door that is constantly taxing the system. Even during COVID obese people were the ones taxing the system, not people of normal/healthier weights.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33470881/

"Adults with obesity in the United States compared with those with normal weight experienced higher annual medical care costs by $2,505 or 100%, with costs increasing significantly with class of obesity, from 68.4% for class 1 to 233.6% for class 3. The effects of obesity raised costs in every category of care: inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drugs. Increases in medical expenditures due to obesity were higher for adults covered by public health insurance programs ($2,868) than for those having private health insurance ($2,058). In 2016, the aggregate medical cost due to obesity among adults in the United States was $260.6 billion. The increase in individual-level expenditures due to obesity varied considerably by state (e.g., 24.0% in Florida, 66.4% in New York, and 104.9% in Texas)."
How has the recent Google Sheets timeline feature release impacted you?

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/11/timeline-vie...
Before I owned it, our house had an old oil/wood burner. And our heat pump doesn’t need help from an electric heater until it goes below -15C or so. But then it is a 20 year old heat pump.
Thanks a lot for the reply.

1. I couldn't agree more. The only issue is transcribing the video. Everything else can be done for hour long videos. I was thinking about pushing transcribing on the user's browser, if possible.

2. Good point. Tbh I didn't even know about these platforms. Similarly, spotify and apple podcasts should also be covered. An issue with these platforms is that they may not have a good way to get the video from the platform (unlike youtube's yt-dlp). But in the long run, it can be covered.

3. Will add SSL soon.

Yes, groups would be very helpful. Another way to look at it would be channels on youtube/other-services. I plan on preprocessing most major channels among all services. For channels/set-of-videos not preprocessed, the only option would be asking user to pay for the compute (because the other option of transcribing on the user's browser won't work for groups of videos)

I will try to add more relevant features, especially the one about longer videos and collection of videos.

Thanks a lot!
>> using libraries, compiled or otherwise, is not a requirement of either the HTML or Javascript specifications

But no substantial modern application can possibly be built without them.

I can see that using modules could avoid the need for compilation.
I wish you weren't another one of those people who respond to concern with hostility. It's so boring.
Post from May 26, 2021.
Because we can't? I've seen many that tried to be fancy and made it even worse. It is better to be utilitarian than ugly.
To switch from JS to TS I’m willing to give up absolutely anything. I’d do five minute build times per small source file to do TS.
Well, what? My objection is calling a closure for “nested function”, a term I’ve never seen for such a thing.
Oh nice, a great way to get some feedback on whether my 1-click exploits are working!
Liposuction is no answer. Your body puts back the removed fat cells in other places.

The human body has VERY strong setpoints about weight. Fat cells "remember" the weight that you had when they were created. You have to hold your weight at a point for something like 3-5 years before your body relents enough that the setpoint moves.