skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-You drove me off the road! My legs are broken, call an ambulance.

-Stop lying to me. Your legs are fine. :)
If i were running a mining rig, that's how i would do it.
It is not very similar I think — in a mugging the “don’t pay” downside is violence, possible death. In a ransomware situation, the victim is basically making an economic decision — is the cost of losing their files greater than the cost of the ransom.

The cost of dying is basically infinite, the cost of paying the ransom can be shifted up and down with fines until it is high enough to disincentivize paying.
We have progressive taxation in theory, however the reality is we have a virtual aristocracy able to pay to have tax law written in their favor, to the point where as a percentage of income the extremely wealthy aren't paying nearly as much of a portion of their income in taxes as the middle class who are only a couple of missed paychecks away from life-altering changes in lifestyle.

Also, the Laffer Curve has been thoroughly debunked time and time again. You may want to pay attention to what happened to wealth distribution since the start of the Reagan Administration and its adherence to "voodoo economics" - the very same economic theory plaguing us to this day.
Yes and the poor student is aggressive and violent because they've been bounced around foster homes because their mom is a junkie and their dad has never been in the picture.

Rich parents can be bad, but it's not the same stress as dealing with students raised in environments that have completely normalized violence
India has long been a land of thugs: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44881/44881-h/44881-h.htm
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c.f., Vernor Vinge's novella _The Cookie Monster_

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_(novella)
Also:

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> ChatGTP is just another hyped fad that will soon pass.

pretty strong disagree. I agree early results are flawed, but the floodgates are opened and it will fundamentally change how we interact with the internet
> You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby?

You have it backwards. This is the stuff that manufacturers, and particularly capitalist American manufacturers go absolutely nuts for. Authoritarian governments are their wet dream. If you have an authoritarian govt on your side, there's nothing you can't get away with. Labour troubles disappear, red tape? gone! Environmental issues? swept under the carpet.

It doesn't get much more Authoritarian than China, and world manufacturing moved all moved there over the past 50 years.
Too late motherfucker!

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> And then how the hell are you supposed to use any code sanely when the entire community is using different async runtimes?

Honestly, and this might be a hot take, but I think that's easy to solve. Just pretend that tokio is in the standard library and use it. And refuse to support anything else. Tokio is stable, fast, well maintained and supported. There's really no reason to use anything else in 98% of cases.
Like all those outraged Indian nationalists that pop up in flocks anywhere and every time there is a news outlet that goes against Indian nationalist propaganda and big boss Modi?
Tradestation is a broker that has tools/languages/backtesting that are oriented for systematic traders, the retail version of algorithmic trading
I only wrote a short "helloworld.rs" in Rust, but it looks way more complex than any other language I have tried. Which is a shame because I really like the idea of safe(r) C. Is there really no simpler way to achieve memory safety without GC? I'm not talking about the borrower, but the whole language... In other words, is the complexity of Rust a consequence of memory handling or of the design decisions?
If it's statistically likely to tell you bad information "on purpose" after already telling you that you are a bad user, does it even matter if it's intelligent or self-aware?

Edit: added quotes around "on purpose" as that ascribes intent.
Makes the space station or going to the moon in the 1960’s look cheap.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/cost-travel-moon-mars-beyond-200...

With that kind of money, we could have cured a few cancers, cured Alzheimer’s, solved fusion, and still had several trillion left over…

The James Webb Telescope cost only a fraction of the interest on that debt

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-did-nasas-james-webb-...
Oh gosh. I didn't mean to touch off a controversy about fluoride. As I said, I suspect, but I don't claim to know. But if you want to know why I suspect, here is my reasoning:

I can subjectively tell good and bad water apart in double blind tests over a period of several hours, so I know that what's happening to me isn't just in my head. So -- I don't know whether it's fluoride or not, but it's definitely something.

The reason to suspect fluoride specifically is that a working Berkey "black" filter still produces "bad" water for me -- the white filter stage seems to be necessary. Twice now, I've had a white filter go bad on me that I didn't realize had happened, felt like crap, tested the water, found tap levels of fluoride, replaced it, and felt much better. The white filters are advertised to get fluoride and arsenic, so that makes it a prime suspect. I don't know exactly what else they might get that the problem might be, but there are a lot of suspects the black filter would block, and it's none of them. So if the problem isn't fluoride, it's something that that fluoride is a good proxy for in this setting.

As the problem I'm trying to fix is low key dehydration (as opposed to avoiding something medical like fluorosis), I don't expect there would be any medical research pointing to fluoride as a culprit. Neither will there be any saying it's safe for my purposes. I have found that while medicine as a field is excellent for healing injuries and saving lives, it's sort of terrible at optimizing health.

What I do know is that I drink a lot more water than is typical -- about two gallons a day when I am not nursing, and much more when I am. I also know that the studies that proscribe fluoride levels in drinking water are ancient, optimized narrowly for dental health, and based on average intake. I know as well that the difference between an effective dose of fluoride and a dose considered potentially dangerous is about an order of magnitude -- right about the difference between my water intake and what is typical. (And as an aside, it blows my mind that we make formula for babies with water like this, dosed based on evidence like that. They don't even have teeth!)

Hence, it's a prime suspect, but even if it turned out to not be that, I would still filter my water very aggressively because something real is definitely happening to me, and that definitely fixes it.

My choice of Berkey is that I want a maximally aggressive solution. I'm not looking to save money. I'm looking to nuke whatever it is that is causing me problems, and am perfectly fine with paying a bit extra to nuke everything. I bought one actually originally concerned about PFCs; discovering the filtered water made me feel much better was an unanticipated happy accident.
I agree my fiction is leaky, but it sounds like a nice prompt.
We have no way to know what is valuable in these papers, because the author was the journal editor and skipped the peer review process entirely.
Wow. I'm fully aware that the Byzantines called themselves the Romans until at least the fall of Constantinople, and still found that section of the article confusing. For some stupid reason it never occurred to me other people would call them Roman.
> Extension analyses included 327 participants. From week 0 to week 68, mean weight loss was 17.3% (SD: 9.3%) with semaglutide and 2.0% (SD: 6.1%) with placebo. Following treatment withdrawal, semaglutide and placebo participants regained 11.6 (SD: 7.7) and 1.9 (SD: 4.8) percentage points of lost weight, respectively, by week 120, resulting in net losses of 5.6% (SD: 8.9%) and 0.1% (SD: 5.8%), respectively, from week 0 to week 120. Cardiometabolic improvements seen from week 0 to week 68 with semaglutide reverted towards baseline at week 120 for most variables.

Seems that it stops working when you stop taking it. Just like any other intervention. Doesn't seem so terrible to me, that's pretty much to be expected.
Would definitely make me feel safer as judgement day would probably blue screen before launching the nukes.
Is the above paragraph supposed to another example that you "don't" care?
Wow. Racist dog whistles in HackerNews. Sad to say I’m not surprised.
What's the purpose of such a policy? Something related to insurance?
Utah strikes deal with Texas Instruments for $11B fab expansion in Lehi
Home Use Fuel Cell (What Is ENE-Farm?)
Yes, but MacBASIC was worked on under Jobs' leadership -- until it was taken at gunpoint by Bill Gates:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
If you like hacker news but are concerned you are reading dang's personal filter bubble try /active
Uh-huh. 13 years doesn't make me feel even a little confidant you've proven they work. The arc of social changes are long.
> She was shocked to find a clause titled “Machine Learning” near the bottom of her lengthy agreement with Findaway

I have mixed feelings about this. If you're signing a contract for work you're doing, it should be expected that you've read and understood what it is you're agreeing to. The excuse of "It was buried in with other clauses" doesn't seem terribly convincing. This just seems like the panic du-jour.
1. Is it actually "accepted uncritically", or has there just been no meaningful evidence that the risks of water fluoridation outweigh the benefits? If there has been quality research showing the risks outweigh the benefits, care to share?
2. What are the shady origins of the program?
You may want to re-read; this isn't disabling the current water heater, it is modifying it to be less insulated, and placing a compute unit there. [It will maintain an immersion heater]

Re: fiber, Natural gas lines often already have a fiber line for monitoring (some US utils were the first to the fiber market because of this)
I find it funny how middle class people all talk about how it is too expensive to have kids. Meanwhile, a single mother in poverty with 4+ kids is a regular sight depending on what side of town you are on. Yet, "I'm too poor to have kids" is not a phrase you'd ever hear from such a person.

I don't think "poverty level" is the correct term here. I believe once below the poverty level, everything is basically free (if you have kids to claim at least). Free rent, school, food, healthcare, etc. But there are many other "levels".

I know for a fact that 5 years ago in small town Texas you got food stamps and extremely reduced healthcare costs if your yearly take home pay was less than $40k and you had two children. I know because my brother-in-law's wife would give us all the free junk she'd get from the SNAP program that she didn't want. Sugary juice, snacks, etc. We'd throw it straight in the trash. She tried breast feeding but gave up in an hour because she got free baby formula and she could then dump her kids on anyone to babysit without a need to worry about feeding the infant. Once her two boys were 3 and 4 years of age, she qualified to put them on a bus at 7am (they were still in diapers) to be taken to a preschool that was restricted to low income families only. She would then spend the next 8 hours sitting at home and trolling my wife on facebook. My wife only posts pictures, to which this woman would then critique in the most Karen way possible. "Your kids are too small for that car seat", "That car seat should be rear facing", "That doesn't look safe", etc. If we called her out on anything, she'd get mad and spend hours digging through our old photo albums to put the red angry face on whatever she deemed necessary. Felt extremely invasive. Absolute crazy lady. We put up with that for nearly two years before blocking her. Which then made family meetings awkward so we quit going to those as well. Which that just turned us into the "stuck up" "snooty" rebels of the family. But oh well, we are much happier now. No clue why I just typed all this, but what ever.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s two bond guarantors unsealed, ties to Stanford
To be honest, I'm not particularly interested in Fauci or outraged about him myself. I don't know what his motivations would be for smirking or anything else. I was in a state where our governor quite literally said that the old should be willing to sacrifice their lives for the economy, so he wasn't too fond of Fauci either. I will say that I spoke with my grandmother on that one and she decided that she'd prefer to live lol.
What if underperforming teachers were fired and replaced with high-performing teachers? This is really what needs to happen, but...

It's way harder to find high-performing teachers when you lowball salaries. It's actually way harder to find _any_ teachers when you do that. So if you're not willing to raise pay, you'll take what you get and you'll like it.

> In the rest of the professional world we have to earn our salaries.

As someone who worked decades in the professional world before giving up a huge chunk of salary to pursue my passion for teaching, this is not entirely true. There are tons of slacker leeches in the professional world. I've seen it worse than in teaching.
Heat treatment of modern, stabdardized alloys is a scirnce. Doing so with complex formed parts is still a bitch so. Especially big parts. Personally, I think induction hardening might work.

Well, welded structural parts, even produced in high vilumes, are a rather well understood problem so.
The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
A new book in the same series as The Little Schemer!

Here's a preview of the first two chapters: https://mitpress.ublish.com/ebook/the-little-learner-a-strai...
With these type of operations it becomes a bit semantic and depends entirely on how you define costs and over what timespan.

You have to ship it there via tanker, store at McMurdo, and ship across the ice on special purpose vehicles. If you divide the whole cost of all that up per gallon of fuel you get a price. But if you need more, the margin cost for the next gallon is going to be an interesting one, and probably come with a free extra 9999 gallons or something.
Switching to wgpu as the default is a definite possibility, but something should be said for the simplicity of the glow backend. wgpu is a big beast, which takes more time to compile, and for a lot of eframe users it is simply over-kill.

…but then again, if you want simplicity and fast compiles, I can recommend the egui-miniquad backend. It's not as fully-featured as eframe, but with some love it could definitely get there.
Being gently snarky. The code is from the article and frankly looks an irradiated still-born.
Headlights are considered safety critical. None of the manufacturers will (and should!) allow a certified mechanic to rejuvenate and reseal a headlight unit under factory warranty. A manufacturer will always replace the unit, just to be able to warrant the repair.

You can DIY it of course, but no BMW 760i owner is ever expected to do that.
Yikes. I suppose there's no harm in it if you desensitise the pet gently... Though I'm not sure what's wrong with just usinga specialised brush. My cat absolutely loves being brushed.
If you aren't big enough to have a working staff, you should learn everything you can that doesn't take up time you could spend doing the thing that makes you money.

If you're big enough to have staff, someone else should be doing the code so the artist can focus on the thing that makes you money.

So basically "only if you have to" and people generally don't have to.
Most simply it could be used for crypto mining (except the utility would have to upgrade the hardware very often)
How are you making your LLM-based product defensible?
A lot of this discussion reminds me of the book Blindsight.

Something doesn't have to be conscious or intelligent to harm us. Simulating those things effectively can be almost indistinguishable from a conscious being trying to harm us.
Sounds like it is connected to an existing hot water tank with the conventional heating mechanism left intact (I could be misreading, but it sounds like that given a hole is cut into the heater to make room for the additional heat sink)
I don’t doubt that private schools teacher have students that score better than public school students (we can argue the weight of all the factors later) and I don’t think GP is doubting that.

His doubt is that private teachers that are paid less than public school teachers provide better results. To prove the original assertion you need to include the income levels of these private school teachers and graph them against the performance and income level of the public school teachers.
This is true. It is a financial decision. The costs options are:

* pay enough in IT to run an up to date, secure system

* pay enough in ransom to get your files

* eat the cost of losing your files

Adding a possible fine to the middle one means the cost of the top and bottom ones can be higher. Either non-paying option makes the business of running ransomware schemes less viable.
I thought India was "the world's largest democracy". When did it become an "authoritarian regime"?
There are some disciplines in teaching which are easier to improve than others. There are some local Bay Area schools with an excellent standard for performance, with a near-majority of students in the fastest math track and with about half the math faculty as Calculus teachers.

I can't imagine any teacher who enjoys math who'd want to join a school district where the kids don't like learning and where the teacher has to basically be a second parent. A higher salary wouldn't fix that specific problem.
Reasonably so. The last time the #1 browser in terms of market share did not abuse their position was Q3 1998.
Especially if those future answers are personalized, just like every other service today. Imagine getting personalized results based on your search or browser history. Maybe injecting product recommendations in the answers; could be an ad tech dream.

It’s all the same stuff we have today but packaged in a more human like interface which may feel more trustworthy.
Worse: the front page/ToC is not compatible with Reader mode.

Luckily, all the rest of it is.
Having a baby around I can tell you that as far as human evolution goes it’s good we don’t have natural enemies because we’d all be eaten by now.

Baby is tired: I shall make lots of noise so the predators will go away… right.

Eaten I tell you!
Initially Tesla used different connectors in Germany as well.

Early Model S were not CCS if I recall correctly.
definitely. It is a probabilistic autocomplete, so it's saying the most likely thing other people would have said given the prompt. Picture a crook defending himself in court by splattering the wall with bullshit.
The users count to ever higher numbers by posting them sequentially.
Anecdotal, but I've just heard someone getting refused to be refunded because instead of a phone, the return carrier delivered a bunch of batteries. Now the end client is without a product, and without money, with basically no recourse. Probably best to document the whole return process, that's just the world we live in right now.
A few years ago (2018?), I read somewhere - I think it was on Hacker News, even - that Docker/Moby was quietly dropping paid support for Swarm.

I've had a hard time finding much via hn.algolia.com to back this up, other than some discussions in mid-2018, though.
My wife grew up in Vietnam. No fluoride in her water (she grew up on bottle water). The dental work is expensive and regular.
This could be flipped - I.e. using a Japanese domestic fuel cell[1] one could install a hot water heater in the home, and get 'free' electricity to run a server, that could possibly do something productive to offset the associated capital and operational expenditures.

[1] https://www.j-lpgas.gr.jp/en/appliances/

(Interesting aside: some people in Japan combine these with a solar/battery array to achieve robust all-season off grid self sufficiency, without combustion, which I think is quite neat!)
New to Rust, but found this project via Elixir forum that looks intriguing: https://lunatic.solutions
Theory of mind is substantially different from the Chinese Room argument. Theory of mind relates to an ability to predict the responses of another entity/system. An LLM is specifically designed to predict responses.

In contrast, the Chinese Room argument is essentially a slight of hand fallacy, shifting "understanding" into a layer of abstraction. It describes a scenario where the human's "understanding of Chinese" is dependent on an external system. It then incorrectly asserts that the human "doesn't understand Chinese" when in fact the union of the human and the human's tools clearly does understand Chinese.

In other words, it's fundamentally based around an improper definition of the term "understanding," as well as improper scoping of what constitutes an entity capable of reasoning (the human, vs the human and their tools viewed as a single system). It smacks of a bias of human exceptionalism.

It's also guilty of begging the question. The argument attempts to determine the difference between literally understanding Chinese and simulating an understanding -- without addressing whether the two are in fact synonymous.

There is no evidence that the human brain isn't also a predictive system.
Yes, at the moment it's a matter of belief. That's why I asked gwern if he/she/they believe new breakthroughs will or won't be necessary.
Show HN: PUNK0 – A Function Composition Card Game
It's a game I made with my daughter. She was a bit intimidated with all the languages out there, so I thought a game using go, js, python and c will show how things are more similar than it seems.

The game is about manipulating a list with 4 integers. Each card is a function and each card's output is another card's input. You can play either the same function in another language or a different card of the same language as the previous played card.

For example there is increment() card or rotate_left() card, but the fun is with the punk() cards which print what to do depending on the value of the list.
Certain aspects have, others have not. You can see by the downvotes that asking the question is seen as a political attack by many.
Many ransoms now are for the leaking of the info, not the destruction of the info.

With huge GDPR fines for data leaks in Europe, the criminals are using the legal system as their 'threat'.
In his book Metazoa, Peter Godfrey-Smith mentions that life in the ocean was more diverse than life on land, until a 130 million years ago, when diversity on land became exceptional, mostly driven by a feedback loop between insects and plants, as plant diversity allowed insect specialization and insect diversity allowed plant specialization. (Until finally we arrived at a situation where every species of fig tree had a specialized species of wasp responsible for pollinating that species of fig tree.)

https://www.amazon.com/Metazoa-Animal-Life-Birth-Mind-ebook/...
At least the current nationalist Hindu government are authoritarian anti-democratic almost fascists, using democracy to reduce the rights of others and block competition.

The us is not without our own groups trying to keep others from voting. And although the US strives to be a democracy for all, we were historically and to a good extent today are very racist. But the imperfections of my own country doesn't prevent me pointing out problems in other countries, and it goes the other way too.