skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading an article comparing chat GPT results with the Google equivalent, and how much better the chat GPT result was.

Of course, in reality, once I reduced the search terms to make it more Google friendly (chatGPT’s conversational mode requires a lot of superfluous language, whereas a Google search does better with only keywords), Google returned the same result much faster. The difference was that Google didn’t print the entire result. It asked me to click a link to get the answer. Which I did, and clicking the link and loading the website was still significantly faster than chatGPT.

But what made it clear for me is that besides it’s conversational approach (which I don’t find beneficial), chatGPT’s biggest advantage appears to be that it’s ingestion method means that it is able to completely evade copyright, and present somebody else’s results as it’s own.

Google could have done exactly the same thing and presented the entire result on its own page, but since it’s not got “AI” which we’ve apparently decided doesn’t need to honor copyright, it doesn’t do that.

AI’s biggest advantage right now appears to be the bag of wool it is placing before our eyes that’s preventing us from questioning it’s blatant and outright copyright theft and abuse.
I'm wondering if this perspective is true at scale? If everyone is saving ~25% of their time then on the whole there is a 25% increase in workforce efficiency, no?

The flip side of efficiency if the workforce headcount remains constant is over capacity, which is a downward force on earning potential.
The design of in-car climate controls has gone backward
16: 660162831 - numerical code of the countries (Anguillas,Christmasisland,Guernsey)

17: Thames voice hapless most - those words where different then in the orginal poem

18: nietzsche - image is binary code

19: heart of darkness - name of the source book
> Uncontrolled immigration to the UK is a myth

Demonstrably untrue. 1 in 5 people are foreign born. Over six million people received indefinite leave to remain specifically through the brexit process. "Small boat landings" brought a city the size of Canterbury to the UK last year alone fleeing France. Over one million visas were issued last year.

Can you explain what's controlled about small boat landings?
With current state of AI, there is nothing to adjust to. It does everything by itself. It's not like you need to learn new framework or language.

In the future it will be even easier.
It’s the oldest branch.
Anything that helps put advertising in a deep grave is a good thing.
HFCS != fructose.

HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup or isomerised sugar) is corn starch which is turned into glucose/dextrose by enzymes, after which about half is further turned into fructose giving it a sweetness like sucrose (table sugar) or honey so it can be used as a replacement for the already cheap sucrose or more expensive honey. Consumption of glucose containing sweeteners has no benefit for a typical sedentary person but does mess with your blood sugar because it goes directly into your blood once free.

Fructose, also known as fruit sugar because the sugars in fruits are mostly fructose, does not spike your blood sugar because it first has to be converted to glucose by your liver. Glucose is only half as sweet as fructose for humans, but since sucrose (table sugar) and HFCS are a little cheaper to produce and get consumed at a massive scale, in practice a consumer will have to pay at least 3 times as much for pure fructose.

For the typical HN user without medical issues and the disposable income you could aim for no sweeteners > sugar substitutes > fructose.
I think AI democratizes writing and "content production". Now anyone can produce good texts. That includes uneducated migrants and half autistic programmers.
So your defense has changed from "it's not happening" to "it's happening and it's a good thing"?
There are so many dead ends in your thought processes here, though! Holes I can drive a truck through. What if's a-plenty!

> post-scarcity world

Why do you believe you deserve to be invited into such a world by the owners of that world? Have you not been noticing any patterns in the news, especially in the past 20 years, accelerating in the last 3? I observe that run-of-the-mill humans are not loved nor respected.

Elon winked at us and said "post-scarcity" and toyed with "MBI". Did you wink back? (It's ok to say yes, I wanted to wink as well, he's a great optimist.)

There is no scarcity now, for you and I. There is rampant slavery and injustice all over the world. Add up all the work done and then estimate how many slaves have lived and died complete lives to make cheap crap and give you comfort over just your lifetime? 1? 2? Sugar is over a hundred times cheaper than it should be.

The money systems are rigged for theft and twisted beyond reckoning. Misallocated capital at every turn. We have thrived because of and in spite of the current systems. Our lives depend on this unjust system!

> However, I hope we can get past that, and simply accept that people exist, and let them enjoy existing ...

When I watched The Matrix for the first time, I knew nothing about the movie. Had seen no ads, was kindof heads down in work at the time. A friend wanted me to go see it.

I got all the way to the morpheus red/blue pill scene and he's talking about what the matrix was. He was going on about taxes and religion and then slavery. And I thought, disappointed, oh geez, this is gonna be some race baiting thing... I was in this little petty politics mindframe. Blacks and whites. Liberals and conservatives.

And then right after that, some goofy retro tech sci-fi and I'm thinking, "interesting computer graphics!" but still not understanding anything.

And then, jump scare, surprise! First person shot, eyes slide open, water noises; we're in a pod.

It's an experience I may never have again because of the surprise factor and how it awakened me to monstrous possibilities in my own existence. My mental frame of self and this existence widened considerably that day.

Our matrix of propaganda and lies we tell ourselves has you. Has you willingly and you're grumpy with me for saying so. That's the powers that be's greatest trick: getting us to fight with each other over their invented reality and their pet causes rather than fighting them.

What I will say now is out of love even if it sounds incredibly harsh.

Your words make you sound fat, dumb and happy. You sound content, and maybe a little bored with life.

The loving part is in the word 'sound'. I know you are not those things, or need not be them if you are some of them.

World War 3 will be another banker's war. It appears to be right around the corner and America is starting it/funding it. You must oppose war in all its forms. Small and large offensives are abhorrent. Oppose all war out of principle from now on.

If you ever find yourself making excuses for war or even for funding someone else's war again, then you and I cannot be friends. War is a red line.
Right, there's nothing wrong with owning a luxury watch that's well engineered. I'm sure I'd buy one that's better than my Seiko if I had oodles of loot. But Rolex is so far above that point that owing one is a mark of pretentiousness.
Thought experiment: after a couple of generations, would we expect a higher or lower percentage using the same calculations

Without reading the article, (had read a similar one years back), here are my thoughts:

More: 0.5% is a small segment of population and by random selection, they are likely to breed with the 99.5% thus increasing the direct descendants with every generation.

Less: they may be locked by geography so they may be inter breeding and not growing (at worst) or slowly growing (at best) but other places such as India quadrupled over the century and they lost percentage as a result.
I wonder what happens, though, if you ask ChatGPT, "Is there a better toothpaste than Colgate"? The instance this question is not answered truthfully, ChatGPT becomes garbage.
Hey and thanks for checking out our product. I'd like to run a quick demo for you to show some cool features that we have. How can I contact you?
There is a reason that it is normally recommended that serious/deep meditation practice be done with a teacher. It's isn't so people can scam newbies out of money. When you really practice meditation consistently over a long period of time, you experience a lot of different states of mind. Some of these can make you feel "god like" as if you were enlightened. Teachers bring you down to Earth and remind you that it's just your mind being present while not meditating that makes you feel that way. You can experience strange visions like flashing lights and things. Some people interpret these as a mystical experience or something but it's probably just some random crap your brain is doing in a deep, meditative state. The most common effect, though, is a stripping down of all the lies we tell ourselves. This can be very, very traumatic. The realization that you are mostly making things up as you go and that you might not even have free will can be very heavy and hard to take. You might question who you are and how you have lived until this point.

The real issue, though, is the "I'm enlightened" crowd. They are insufferable and need to brought back down to reality before they go to a dinner party and annoy everyone.
Thanks for sharing, will have a look into!
Maybe secular young professionals all share some trait that can be associated with sense of superiority? And it’s not really about mindfulness or meditation?
Thanks! I actually like the underground music already, just gotta find venues that do it here in Dublin.
I travel a lot and find it hard to maintain the same exact diet even though I cook 95% of my meals at home.

Even just between US cities, there are different foods at the grocery store at different price points that would make it unreasonable to stick to an identical diet, so it's hard for me to believe that everyone in these anecdotes has identical intercontinental diets.

Yet these anecdotes are never about obvious differences that could explain large calories swings. They always focus on cocksure yet vague claims about chemicals and additives.

It reminds me of people claiming that switching from corn syrup to cane sugar Coca-Cola, a magical elixir, when they traveled to Mexico must obviously be the responsible for some bodily change they allegedly experienced with no further interest in any competing explanation.
I read this when it was first published and I'll just continue to accept the author's assertions that they are experienced/informed/educated and point out that the "mindfulness" style of "meditation" is entirely different from the concentration-based styles of "meditation".

It at least sounds like they were unaware of the differences, and unaware that the concentration-based styles are quite well documented as tending to produce various phenomena (glorious or horrifying and all points between and beyond) on the route.

Even ignoring "awakening kundalini" types of things that other commenters mentioned, this is where most practitioners would say this kind of experience is why it helps to have a "guru" for assistance.
Wikipedia: Wikipedia Signpost/2023-02-20/Disinformation report
Wishful thinking would be if they thought it would.
Literally the first one I checked:

"The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elements primarily since the 1980s, creating a mixed public-private system for delivering healthcare."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_New_Zealand
Uber, at least in my city (São Paulo), has been truly disruptive and made my life significantly better (since I don’t own a car or even know how to drive)
that is a quote from wikipedia. i wanted to display what a papertiger the FDA really is. _begging_ an industry to stop using potentially harmful substances? -.- come on...

thats also to show how this is not a case of "not guilty until proven otherwise" the fda wants this to stop but doesnt seem to have any foothold in that attempt...
Agree 100%. Many western meditation practices, especially mindfulness, take the soul and context out of meditation and treat it like an extreme sport or pilates class. Reminds me of when Tim Ferris went on a prolonged fast before doing a mindfulness retreat and almost has a full mental breakdown.
So what? All our inner experiences are unfalsifiable.
> if it's a static rendered website you can publish on GitHub Pages for free

Reminder that if you are going to do this, then it has to lie within the subset of uses deemed acceptable by the GitHub terms, which forbids hosting on GitHub Pages for e.g. e-commerce or any other business reasons; GitHub Pages is not a 1-to-1 substitute for e.g. Cloudflare Pages or Netlify.
Even God agrees that iterative design works better than the waterfall process
The guise of a Meritocracy is often just a flimsy pretext for competitive Nepotism.

However, the ethics of posting a poorly written chat bots nonsense points to a deeper issue, We must consider if derivative copyrighted material when misappropriated by users is still plagiarism due to missing citations.
Easy hack for night persons to be a morning person - just fly from the east coast of USA to the west coast, but continue to sleep and wake on the same schedule, just with a minus 3 hour offset. Works perfectly for me.
While it is my personal belief that sodium cyclamate is safe for human consumption, (The US ban was due to a research study that linked consumption to an increase in bladder cancer of mice) you missed the point that I was making.

It is likely that both sides of the aisle have banned substances that are actually safe. It is likely that both sides allow substances that are harmful and should be banned. We should further review the areas in which we disagree as it is unlikely that the science changes across an ocean. It is much more likely that hidden incentives or bad methodology has lead to someone being incorrect. Whether you think the US or Europe is better or worse at food regulation is likely a biased opinion.
It could be the food, it could be indoor air quality, it could be a beauty product, it could be pollen, any number of things.

In any case, it might be related to histamines. If your wife has any troubles with an MTHFR mutation, this can cause issues with histamine buildup [1]. I don't endorse this site generally, just a quick reference for the histamine bits.

One possible cause of this is taking folic acid (synthetic) rather than folate. This is commonly found in 'enriched' products like breads and cereals, even rice. Europe doesn't enrich products like the US does.

This is to say nothing about different pesticides and additives the Europeans use vs the US.

Anyway, try avoiding wheat and enriched foods and see if that makes any difference. My wife had a lot of these issues and others, and we've got her sorted out now.

1: https://joannekennedy.com.au/2020/01/03/mthfr-histamine-into...
2023 and we still don't have a simple 1:1 calls, but we have group calls available... Go figure.

The phrase: "hold on, let change to {insert chromium based browser} real quick to call you", has become usual for me.
Just like netflix can produce good content, but it's shit by every metrics. If checks the checkboxes for "movies", :"documentaries", &c. but most of the time it's bland as fuck and not worth watching

"Content" is good if all you are is a container
> A machine could do in a minute what a knitter would do in a day, it doesn't mean knitters got a 7 minute work week

That’s why the capitalist class owns the means of production (the owner makes their profit in 7 minutes now).
My history teacher in high school had us watch the dark side of the moon with the credits cut off https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_(2002_...
Definitely a mind-bending experience at the time.
I admitted I'd spent the majority of the last 2 years on iOS even though I'd done Android in the past too

How would it be any different if you had simply lied about Android experience? As in, you simply were never remotely competent at it and you just said it had been awhile?

Fake it until you make it is age-old advice and you being lucky enough to have an interviewer who cared isn't really an argument against it.
They'd just monetize it.

I WAS MADE TO WEAR THIS HORRIBLE MASK: LOOK HOW THIS OLD LADY REACTS!
After the last two years, you don't need anything to help distrust the government. This administration has been a total disaster in all key policy areas.

From energy to transportation to foreign policy. A total mess for seemingly no reason.
How is that not the same as a machinist spending 15 minutes in solidworks to design a peice, hitting export on the g-code, firing up the 7 axis cnc, walking out the door and coming back the next day to the finished goods.

3d printing is a great example of how this will only create more stuff. It's a threat to the low end. If you do basic stuff, your need to climb the skill ladder.
No Tombs for Hindus except some rare parts. Generally cremated in a pyre. But guess we never know how things were millennia back.
AI will most likely just increase the speed of development/content production etc.

It makes no sense for companies to fire anyone. It makes sense to make everyone use AI so they get even more value from each employee, maximizing their profits and market position.
11th in terms of net PPP (just behind Germany, but ahead of France), and 6th in terms of net median monthly salary (unfortunately there's no PPP on the median chart, not that it'd make much difference given how close GBP and EUR are now).
To me, real meditation comes after hard work, really painfully hard work to make the system convenient before the rest period.

You need to solve your life issues in first place to do whatever you want.

Stay, doing nor thinking nothing about it? No, the problems is still there.

You don't make it go away with your wasting time doing nothing like a Buddha (Buddha has no life issues to solve).
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1:1 is still pretty great imo, and really difficult for a lot of people. That's probably about the average rate I put together my savings, and the result is that I get to look at layoffs as a potential paid sabbatical.
> write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom

And now ask yourself how many non-SE's can even ask that question to ChatGPT.
It's about measuring jitter caused by the OS. When you have a large message passing system like you see in HPC environments, delays in processing exactly the right messages add up to huge failures of utilization because of the dependency graph of work to be done. In the past I had even seen national labs write their own Linux syscall compatible kernels in order to combat jitter. For example: https://github.com/HobbesOSR/kitten
It sounds like you are defining "food additives" as the ones that you consider bad, and then saying they are bad in general.

According to the WHO [1], food additives are

> Substances that are added to food to maintain or improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, or appearance of food are known as food additives. Some food additives have been in use for centuries for preservation – such as salt (in meats such as bacon or dried fish), sugar (in marmalade), or sulfur dioxide (in wine).

I guess you could limit it to "food additives that are added only to maintain or improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, or appearance of food are bad", but even then I'd argue that's not true in any real sense. The ability to keep food in a good state for longer is a boon to society as a whole. We just need to be careful about the side effects.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/food-additi...
The PETALS project is a step in the right direction. A network of GPUs allows you to do inference (and even retrieve activations!) for the BLOOM model, a model so big it won’t fit on most regular hardware
The same for me. I love Rhino, and Rhino8 will have RhinoCode that I can use with F# instead of C# or Python. I was one of about 50 to 100 people who gave money back in early 2000s to take Blender opensource, and I used it to create wood carvings from photos using a shape-from-shading algorithm originally developed by NASA(?) to extract more information from single-lens, greyscale satelite imagery. I also used it to create other useful tools for myself. I am glad to see this CAD Sketcher developed, but as a long-time CAD user, I don't think it will reach critical mass or technical ability to compete with things like Fusion 360 ($400/year) but it includes so much - simulation, FEA, rendering, and a bunch of other goodies in a focused, minimal gui.
Only for arbitrary reasons. ChatGPT is entirely capable of being provided a block of code and then answering questions about it or making modifications to it. Without the token limit and with some way to guarantee that the code you provided won't make its way into their training data, this would be an entirely reasonable use case.
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Just to be blunt about it, people lie about the state of their mind all the time. People make stuff up for attention, to fit in, or just for fun.
Actually, the only two comparable / equivalent options exposed in this page related to this discussion, ul > * + * vs li:not(:first-child), are 50.8ms vs 40.9ms (respectively) for 10 page loads. The browser is not named, so I would guess Chrome. I'm not convinced the difference is not proven significant, we need more data points than that to know for sure, but it seems insignificant. So yes, readability should be the determining factor here.

Other browsers might see different results, especially Firefox which has a very fast / efficient CSS engine.

ps: a difference of 43 ms for one page load would be huge indeed. By comparison, a frame in a 30 fps video is 33 ms.
This is actually the primary message I got from the recent Bing announcement and demos. When the new Bing makes a suggestion for a TV, Microsoft wants to have sold those suggestion spots to the highest bidder.
I expect this theme to continue and expand across many "jobs". There are a lot of people who are just plugging numbers into spreadsheets all day and you would think "yes but when something doesn't fit they have to be smart and use human intelligence to fix the problem" However if you see what happens in practice all they do is send an e-mail to someone else saying there is a problem. ChatGTP can do that part. You don't need many of these pencil pushers
This Starbucks is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
It isn’t revolutionary but it provides value
Formatting is annoying in Teams but I've mostly learned to work around the issues. My number one annoyance, that doesn't seem to be mentioned that often, is that there are many places where you can't get a direct link to a message. I get a huge volume of activity in teams, and there are many things I need to bookmark for later action that would be too challenging to find again. Most of the time, I can't right click and save a link, although sometimes in the web interface it's enough to copy the url. Providing deep links to any message in teams is my number one feature request.
When you get out there in Queens (it’s a huge landmass) it’s single family homes.
Scrolling is driving me nuts. Wtf do you need to hijack that for
I was working on building something like this as an extension to Datasette and I still believe that would be a very powerful combination. Maybe this could be embedded with datasette via an extension? Maybe something I'll look into if I can find the time.