skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm Caitlin Ner, Chief of Staff at PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip.

I recently joined the technology industry and have found a job in the business of psychedelics that excites and motivates me.

My journey to this point has been a personal and professional rollercoaster.

I come from a low-income background and was the first in my family to attend college and was absolutely confused at Harvard University studying computer science to neuroscience then psychology then environmental science then ultimately ending up in economics and computer science.

I interned and landed a full-time job at BlackRock and landed a full-time job largely due to external pressures, but my job led to severe burnout.

I was struggling with depression and was eventually hospitalized for a mental health crisis. My experience with mental health struggles led me to transition from finance to mental health tech. I worked at a startup in the field and acquired valuable knowledge and experience, but eventually ended up diving into the world of psychedelic tech.
The business of psychedelics is an exciting and important area of technology and mental health. Listen to our podcast, "Business Trip" https://www.businesstrip.fm/ to learn more about the industry.

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>In EU these kind of sheenings never happen.

Maybe because it's more fragmented in terms of language/culture, so you don't have ad campaigns that span both ends of the continent? The wider prevalence of unitary governments (as opposed to federal systems) also help.
Not much different than arguments about fast food chains overtaking healthy food, or supermarkets eating up local groceries, or homogenous retail chains driving out the mom-and-pops.

The thing about those arguments is, they were right. Those trends did transform our lives in many negative ways (in addition to positive) and we did see it coming.

What I don't like is the prognosis, which seems to think we should somehow stop or reverse the current transformation. I just doubt that's possible. Instead, we should take some lessons from the past and this time around we can proactively ameliorate the worst aspects of the ongoing changes. Something we completely failed to do with chain takeovers or mega mergers or outsourcing or all of the other corporate trends that harm, either directly or through side effects, the vast majority of working people.
AI is one no-code app builder platform founded by Sachin Dev Duggal
Sachin Dev Duggal says, “Indian software development sector needs magic that attracts investors, and it only comes when you only create your own app with your unique idea because no other can understand your need and desire than you.”
You couldn't be closer from the truth with your example: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailm...
(Founder here; I'll address the debugging concern in a separate comment)

Here's a demo of React.js interop via Reagent, the wrapper is 25 LOC: https://gist.github.com/dustingetz/9854d23037b55bfab3845539f...

Our DOM module is only 300 LOC - it's bare metal DOM point writes + Electric (reactive language) + macros for JSX-y syntax. When the programming language itself is reactive, DOM rendering falls out for free.

Mechanically, Electric is comparable to Solid.js except the reactive engine is general purpose, not coupled to DOM rendering, which is a special case of incremental view maintenance.

Electric's reactive engine is https://github.com/leonoel/missionary ; Electric can be seen as a Clojure to Missionary compiler (if you ignore the distribution stuff - which btw is optional). Missionary is cross-platform functional effect and streaming system that today is tested on JVM, Node and Browser platforms. Missionary was created by Léo Noel, who is also the architect of Electric.
"[The DMCA] criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
because besides money, maybe some human doctors find it emotionally difficult to tell someone their family member died because we made the wrong diagnosis, or took too long to make the correct diagnosis?

By analogy, if you have home insurance, you don’t mind if your house burns down? Seems unlikely…
I have come to two conclusions about the GPT technologies after some weeks to chew on this:

1. We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner that we are asking it to do things that it should not be asked to do. GPT is basically the language portion of your brain. The language portion of your brain does not do logic. It does not do analyses. But if you built something very like it and asked it to try, it might give it a good go.

In its current state, you really shouldn't rely on it for anything. But people will, and as the complement of the Wile E. Coyote effect, I think we're going to see a lot of people not realize they've run off the cliff, crashed into several rocks on the way down, and have burst into flames, until after they do it several dozen times. Only then will they look back to realize what a cockup they've made depending on these GPT-line AIs.

To put it in code assistant terms, I expect people to be increasingly amazed at how well they seem to be coding, until you put the results together at scale and realize that while it kinda, sorta works, it is a new type of never-before-seen crap code that nobody can or will be able to debug short of throwing it away and starting over.

This is not because GPT is broken. It is because what it is is not correctly related to what we are asking it to do.

2. My second conclusion is that this hype train is going to crash and sour people quite badly on "AI", because of the pervasive belief I have seen even here on HN that this GPT line of AIs is AI. Many people believe that this is the beginning and the end of AI, that anything true of interacting with GPT is true of AIs in general, etc.

So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develops an AI that uses GPT as its language comprehension component, but does this higher level stuff that we actually want sitting on top of it. Because in my opinion, it's pretty clear that GPT is producing an amazing level of comprehension of what a series of words means. The problem is, that's all it is really doing. This accomplishment should not be understated. It just happen to be the fact that we're basically abusing it in its current form.

What it's going to do as a part of an AI, rather than the whole thing, is going to be amazing. This is certainly one of the hard problems of building a "real AI" that is, at least to a first approximation, solved. Holy crap, what times we live in.

But we do not have this AI yet, even though we think we do.
Sounds weird to me tbh.

I would never feel comfortable having someone else doing my shopping for me - unless i was severely incapacitated for some reason of course.

Same with cooking, cleaning, washing my clothes etc.
I could pay someone to do that but I get a lot of joy out of basic chores I guess.
Sounds like The Time Machine (from your description, I didn't read the article)
That sort of behavior happens often in marriages. The "accounting of flaws" there isn't the first sort of "scar tissue", it's something that happens after a bunch has built up. It then layers up and makes it progressively harder and harder to repair the relationship.
I appreciate the thought behind this, but I don’t see how it would work when India would not saddle their own social media with the same antitrust restrictions. Imagine the Indian equivalent to TikTok or whatever, which would be (by virtue of being huge and having better network effects) competing against a field of weaker American competitors. You could of course ban the foreign product, but that feels like we’d just be trading one type of censorship for another.

Also, I suspect the US likes a monolithic YouTube from a “iPod diplomacy” perspective - being the cultural centre of the world is an advantage!
”China conducts surveillance on US” is still not particularly exciting or novel news either way. Train derailment poisons an entire town is definitely the more eye-catching headline.
But is it a product or a toy for the majority of those users?
Or maybe they thought two ~small~ big numbers in layoff headlines (or remaining employee morale) would be better than one ~big~ massive one.
At least they're up front about their biases. I can appreciate that.
Again, as I have said multiple times in this thread existing EU case law has made it clear IPs are only PII if and ONLY if you are able to do the conversion yourself (or give it to someone who can). Storing IPs in your web server logs is for an anonymous version checker is totally ok (as long as you aren't an ISP or someone who can do the conversion).

You can make up your own interpretations of the law as much as you want, but in real life the interpretation from the CJEU (for US readers like me, the EU's equivalent of the Supreme Court) is the one that matters.
Except the incentives are unexpected. Back when labor unions were strong then labor was getting 75% of all productivity gains. In Belgium, from 1950 to 1970, labor got 110% of all productivity gains (so national income shifted from capital to labor). But after 1973, in the USA, capital gets 90% (and then later 100%), of all productivity gains. Given such a huge reward, you would think capital would then want to maximize productivity gains. It is odd that when capital finally got all of the gains from productivity, productivity growth slowed.
So Starlink has only banned the use in drones?

The weird thing is that I believe Starlink has advertised its military constellation as being able to hop onto the main Starlink constellation as well. How does that work with this new rule for Starlink? Or Musk reserves the right to chose which operations he personally wants to veto?

> Starshield spacecraft will also be interoperable with other satellites that are equipped with the laser-communications terminal that Starlink craft use, the page adds.

https://www.space.com/spacex-starshield-satellite-internet-m...
And those can be safety issues too.
Why would it hit the limit of its abilities?

Almost all tech has room for progress, ChatGPT is no different, it's just a question of how fast that progress will be.

You can roughly predict the rate of future progress by looking at how quickly advancements have been made in the recent past. In my opinion AI looks like computers in the 70s/80s or cars in the 40s. The tech isn't completely new, but significant improvements are being made every year.

I think the burden of proof would be on you to explain why advancements in AI would stop right here. Conveniently right around the time when AI is able to write code fairly well but with a few bugs.
Async processing is also a great way to sweep failures under the rug.

A lot of those failures won't even be detected, because you don't have proper monitoring, whereas in sync world you fail early and loudly.

And instead of "we had a downtime" you can sugarcoat it as "we had a processing delay". What's not to love?
I've tried perplexity.ai a bunch of times and I'd say I haven't seen any query wrong, although it's true I always look for technical info or translations, so my sample is not the same.

And the UI is better IMO.
Duopolies are bad but not quite as bad as a monopoly.
I am not sure if this is exactly your intention, but you are advocating the position that "my convenience is worth your agony". I think we can do better than that. A person's role in society goes far beyond that of the mere consumer.
Similarly! This is still the only level I can't pass at 5 stars.
I finished 38 in 10 minutes, and here I have already spent 5 hours.
Meta chief business officer Marne Levine to exit
Question for HN. Do you trust search engines for open ended / opinion questions?

For example, I trust Google for "Chocolate Cake Recipe", but not "What makes a Chocolate Cake Great?"

I would love it if Search Engines (with or without AI) could collect different "schools of thought" and the reasoning behind them so I could choose one.
To be fair, it's not like people leave the western segment of the internet much, even when other national "internets" are not isolated from the rest of the network.

Who has ever tried visiting any ru-net platforms, for example?
Has there been any data on where the layoffs are coming from? Is it sales, engineering, recruitment, across the board..?
"You won't always have a calculator in your pocket"
A Podcast about Psychedelic Entrepreneurship
Defense in depth at work.
Whether the buyers/victims are able to assess the situation or not don’t change the fact: they paid more for shoddier construction.

They might sell and move on but since this is a systemic issue, it’s very likely that their next residence has been built as shoddily and is just as dangerous.
>> while the reason they aren't turning it on could be they are lazy and don't want to do any extra work

> Why would you assume that?

I didn't assume it, I said "could be".

> I think most people care and wouldn't turn it on if asked to.

If people don't like it, they can turn it off. Are you assuming most won't if asked to?
> I think it's pretty obvious that opt out telemetry rubs most people the wrong way.

This is basically re-stating the opt-in challenge: we know that some people are vocally upset by it but we have to guess at the relative percentages of the groups of people who know and do not mind, don't know but would be upset, or don't know and wouldn't mind if they did. People who are upset are far more motivated to comment about it, so anyone looking at social media is going to see a lot of messages from them but still not know what percentage of the total community feels similarly. I've even seen people who aren't primarily in the Go community but very active on privacy issues commenting on this, which is perfectly legitimate but also not representative of the median Go developer.
I'd make the educated guess that HN contains disproportionally many Firefox users, so the overlap is not quite as small as you (implicitly) suggest. OTOH, any HN discussion will have a paywall-avoiding link posted nearly instantly anyway.
>It's so frustrating.

You know what's frustrating? Seeing someone who's clearly got enough exposure to building code and similar types of workplace requirements to know they're being misleading do it anyway because they know it's what the audience wants to hear.

A huge fraction of code is not written in blood. A huge fraction of those exception requests are legitimate from a "performance of the thing in question" system.

Much of the specific verbiage and the specific requirements in code come from a desire to free people like your wife from having to make and be responsible for the outcome of judgement calls.

Nobody's house ever burnt down because the wire staples were spaced 1" too far apart. It's just that a line had to be drawn somewhere because inspectors can't be expected to make judgement calls on such minutia at scale.

If clipboard warriors cared to explain this it to the people they'd catch less flak.
Now I realize why it's called a fault line.
You're assuming the people affected did some kind of rational cost/benefit analysis, and just whatever choice they made was worth the chance of people dying. I very much doubt that was the case. You also seem to be falsely assuming there's only three options: be rich, live in a death trap, or be homeless on the street. That's not the case.

People can be tricked, be stupid, just have bad ideas, or similar. Building codes are a check against all that. And if they make a certain class of housing more expensive, there are always alternatives of other classes of housing.
It's not very similar. It snaps firmly into place, and the contacts are quite a bit larger, which makes it less likely to short to adjacent contacts.
This is why when I spot a Tesla on the road, I make every effort to try and get as far away from it as possible. Placing a machine vision model at the helm of a multi-ton vehicle has got to be one of the dumbest things the regulators have let Elon get away with.
Made in Eindhoven: the small Dutch city that became a tech powerhouse
Maybe it is fine in beta, but in post-beta they should not use AI for every search query. The key is going to be figuring out when the AI is adding value, especially since even running the AI for a query is 10x more expensive than a normal search. It may be hard to figure out where to apply AI though. If a user asks "whats the weather?", no need for AI. If a user asks "I am going to wear a sweater and some pants, is that appropriate for today's weather?", now you might need AI.
I'm able to read most of those on my tablet via Libby/Overdrive, but my library's digital collection seems to be better than most. I've tried to setup my parents in another state with the same service using their local library cards, and the selection is pretty slim by comparison.
My reaction was, I wonder who writes Dilbert these days, because it doesn't seem like it's Scott Adams.
Yes, or from the Chinese perspective, balloons are a legitimate response to the US violation of their space with LEO, especially kinetic attack satellites:

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/space-based-missile-defe...
Ah but most VPNs have exit nodes in pretty much every major country in the world.
On paper, they solve a lot of problems. They've got apis for everything. The problem in my interactions with them is that they have a ton of people working in different directions on those problems. One team tells us to do X, support asks us why we're doing it, another team tells us we can't do that. Then they do madness like make the process for registering a phone number you already own take 15 api calls... and that's if you don't count checking on registration progress.
I did consider that this mentality might be an outcome of the exercise too. I think that's partly inevitable and some will always fall on the other side but in some ways the mentality was also guided by the constant underlying principles being taught throughout the training.

So it works best in combination with culture and protocols that support the empathy line.
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", by Richard Brautigan (1967)

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky.

I like to think

(right now please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms.

I like to think

(it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.
Will it work with a PC that has 7 AMD Vega GPUs?
full article text: https://archive.is/ecZ0N
Probably needs to sell to a legacy company.. similarly to how Duo sold to Cisco
This is a great answer to a question I get asked a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah I think the hype cycle with Clojure looks like this:

Stage 1: Confused by parens/the lispiness. early uncertainty

Stage 2: learn the REPL and library functions and fall in love. irrational exuberance

Stage 3: build an unmaintainable mess and can't refactor. trough of sorrow

Stage 4: figure out how to decouple appropriately and evolve the codebase rather than refactor all the time. live happily ever after!
Part of the BBC's remit is the world service, and serving India especially. There is a very large production office in Delhi which produces multiple TV programs each day in various languages.
thanks, that's helpful! Did you at any point have any barriers in terms of career development because you didn't have that title?
"Traditional" Google searches can give you wildly inaccurate information too. It's up to the user to vet the sources and think critically to distinguish what's accurate or not. Bing's new chatbot is no different.

I hope this small but very vocal group of people does not compromise progress of AI development. It feels much like the traditional media lobbyists when the Internet and world wide web was first taking off.
Ask HN: We have showdead, is showgreen a feature?
Sometimes you have to reach a certain milestone in order to see certain aspects of HN. Is there a showgreen feature that will appear after a parameter is met, similar to how we have showdead?
It has a very valid point, and I can see how providing flexibility at work can further boost performance rather than just a tool to retain great talent
It’s not about competition - it’s about accuracy in communication and clarifying when the advice may or may not be helpful.

If someone is struggling with motivation one day, there are a number of “get motivated” tricks that may help.

If that person is struggling with motivation due to depression, and has been for awhile, that motivation advice is going to fall flat.

Burnout and being “worn out” or “fatigued” are often very different things, despite the fact that the latter two are symptoms of the former.
Most of the clips in the ad appear to be clips from videos done using 10.69.2.2.

https://dawnproject.com/new-dawn-project-safety-tests-show-t...

https://dawnproject.com/new-dawn-project-safety-tests-reveal...

https://dawnproject.com/safety-tests-reveal-that-tesla-full-...

https://dawnproject.com/tests-reveal-that-tesla-fsd-will-dri...
So you won't be able to define a hull at all without (n+1) points. He has 10k points so that sounds like a lot relatively.

So the definition of a convex hull is, put generally, the set of points that define faces such that every point is on the face or on the "inside" of it (mean point side)

To test if a point is inside that simplex hull, you need to check every one of those faces. But that isn't the problem.

Every face is a "filter" that all the other points have to pass. Moving beyond the simplex, at higher dimensions, the number of faces that need to "accept" every other point scales faster in higher dimensions. The odds of that aren't horribly clear, you are right in other comments to call out that the structure of points in this context is by definition not independent or random, but you need enough structure to get around the fact that high dimensional hulls are basically all surface.
Thank you. What about leiningen vs boot vs deps.edn? Did any of this come ahead as a winner in the recent years? It's been a while since I've looked into this.
Has it been proven to be worse than normal drivers that pass their test?
Good honest comments as to why such an app is not possible.
United flight from Hawaii plunged to within 800ft of Pacific Ocean
What would be nice is for Microsoft to get hit by a barrage of lawsuits, MS to be ridiculed in the press and punished on Wall Street, and vindication of Google's more responsible introduction of AI methods over the years.

There will still be startups doing reckless things, but large, established companies that can immediately have bigger impact also have a lot more to lose.
Or all twenty devs stay and eighty more get hired because DevGPT can do 100x more work in the same amount of time.
Why? What value does Teams bring to GitHub? They are totally separate techs.

I don't care at all about Teams. GitHub, on the other hand, is the host of many important projects. I would much rather the GitHub team be left alone to do their jobs.
AI is dreaming and hallucinating electric sheep
That hardly matters, you pay for the hardware necessary to be able to accept a new connection to a slot, with the world already loaded in memory.
This would suggest some alternative "shortcuts" to good health for a broader population. Instead of the time-consuming approach which includes physical activity, fasting, good nutrition, etc and corresponding things for good mental health.