skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really just the latest is a list of reasons why I no longer consider reading by itself to be an intellectual past-time. The line between books and content is "blurring", and has been well-before ChatGPT. You could "write a book" with a modest budget using a team of ghostwriters on Fiverr. Splurge a bit more and you could commission some illustrations from a desperate artist in a country with significantly less purchasing power than the US. Instructional ebooks are little more than blog posts.

I mean, obviously, reading isn't bad, it's just that I have suspicions about anyone who prides themselves of being an avid reader.

That all being said, you'd be surprised by the money that exists out there. Coworker of mine had a wife who wrote erotic fiction in ebook formats. She made about $80,000 a month doing that, though about half of that went to advertising, and another chunk of money went to employing a bunch of ghostwriters, not to mention hiring models to do photoshoots for book covers. Still, that's nearly $1 million every year before taxes and expenses. Can you truly say your startup is doing better?
I'm just going to make this up and guess that mothers and women would have the same reaction as men IF the reduction of work hours left them with spare time.

We are dealing with averages here so just going by averages women spend a huge amount of time on non-work household tasks whereas on average men don't. My theory is therefore that women would find a maximum level of satisfaction if they had enough time for non-work tasks + work. And that their satisfaction would be reduced if they had too much time.

Or another totally different theory. Men find satisfaction in our jobs because they distract us from all the other things that we don't want to do. Like cleaning, diy tasks, exercise, or seeing a doctor about that long-term issue.
IIT has a common entrance exam and admissions are offered solely on your performance in that exam. If you see someone getting in with a very low score compared to the rest of the class, they will be rightfully branded as "diversity admission". It is no wonder that 60% of dropouts at 7 IITs are from reserved categories: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/parliament-proceeding...
Agreed on the Linux for your servers bit, for sure.
We're becoming fine with LLMs and other models having emergent aka "insightful" or "creative" properties, but not with the brain emergently generating concepts?
I have come into serious conflict with one of my coworkers over this. He thinks everyone (except him) is either overengineering or underengineering everything all the time, but usually he just doesn't understand the problem context and is making assumptions that turn out to be incomplete or incorrect. It's a great lesson in humility to realize that no matter how smart or capable you are, you don't know what you don't know until you find out that you don't know it. I used to be a lot like him until I got slapped around pretty hard (metaphorically) as a result of my arrogance.
Maybe Tesla should relocate their research center to the Carpathians.
The Apple Newton table computer was a complete disaster and thus all tablet computing devices thereafter will always suck, yes?
"We're 98.7% certain the user's payment go to the right account with this change"
I think for a good deal of them you're in silence (no cell phones or talking with others). It's really valuable to be in silence if you haven't before. You can gain awareness of random thoughts and things you don't notice when you're surrounded by distractions. Doing it for too long or with no stimulation (e.g. only sitting all day and meditating or wandering off w/ no structure when you can maybe do some activities in-between) can lead to strange things popping up.
> How does it then manage to be lower in the quality of care than all of those then?

it's not. the current issues are due to the covid backlogs and are present all over europe, including france, germany etc

https://www.statista.com/statistics/888735/quality-of-access...
You can update the fallback manually but at least you're somewhat covered until you do so.
> which is forbidden under current laws

That really varies quite a lot. My town has a lot of mixed use zones. But a few towns over, they only have the usual variations of residential, employment, commercial, along with a few niche zones (university, open space, county government, etc).
The creator also works for “Canadian TV” and didn’t think twice about buying voiceovers. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have other industry experience that they drew on here, e.g. seeing the success of paid PR.
> Statistically nobody considers those things offensive on face value.

Even if this were the case (and politicians repeating them indicates otherwise) the absolute number is what actually matters for human interactions — over Dunbar's number and it "feels like" everyone's against you, and that's less than 200 people.
I've seen this argument a bunch recently, and I firmly disagree with it. I just published this explaining why: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/21/in-defense-of-prompt-e...
Microsoft and Nvidia announce expansive new gaming deal
In Defense of Prompt Engineering
Judging by other sources [1][2], the more relevant information here is that employee data was accessed through a breached account with privileged access. As demonstrated by the original person who revealed the information on Twitter[3].

The roadmap for both games isn't surprising to any fans of the game, the response seems to largely be "meh".

And of course, SMS phishing as the culprit.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/21/23608750/call-of-duty-lea...

[2]: https://insider-gaming.com/activision-data-breach/

[3]: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1627477748359872513...
An endorsement: I've had a chance to talk with Permify folks on a casual basis (not wearing my work hat) and they seem very switched on. I think folks should take a closer look.
Racial segregation is really a different issue though, it involves excluding a person based on something out of their control.

Economic segregation is really a different issue, and it is not something you are going to fix with legislation. The people with money will always be able to live someplace acceptable to them. A government can force most entities to be non-racist through various laws and actions. But you really cannot force someone to live next to an area they do not desire.
From the intro: "Conflict theory argues that an individual’s time and energy are limited."

No. That's a fact!
I’ve done a lot of estimating for plans in spreadsheets. It’s awful. I’m really happy someone’s trying to innovate with an alternative.
Need to add "AI Whisperer" to my resume...
One, or three, or three-in-one?
“Appealing to authority” when it comes to deeply technical topics is the only sane approach because otherwise the zone is just flooded with morons who don’t understand the first thing about the topic promoting ivermectin or other random snake oils.

Do you think there’s some forum deep in the bowels of academia where immunologist and virologists are neck-deep in discussions about cryptographic hash functions?

I’m sure these threads have a huge selection bias because they become so toxic so quickly, but the quality of discussion on HN for anything Covid is one of the most confidently wrong places on the internet.
At the same time, not everything you ship needs to be a master work. "Working well enough to ship" is not the same as "flawlessly architected".

It also depends a lot on the business context, whether you can trust leadership to respect technical debt or not.
Most commercial buildings just aren't suitable for residential use. The plumbing, electrical, and interior walls are all wrong for code compliance and to make separate units where people actually want to live. Exterior windows and doors might also be missing. So developers have to completely gut the structure and rebuild.

In high cost areas, most of the cost comes from land acquisition, permitting, and various impact fees or mandates (like requirements for BMR units). The construction cost is a relatively small fraction. Might as well demolish the existing structure and rebuild from scratch.
Yeah, a lot of historical swords like the Roman gladius or the longsword actually had two edges. It's just effective weapon design (mainly it makes it better at thrusting), not a danger to the user.
Then is it fair to say that caste discrimination in India is akin to mass shootings in the US? In that they happen, but not a big deal for the rest of the society? Otherwise, something would have happened by now.
Never mind the article content. Did they actually pay someone for that kaleidoscope vomit illustration, at the top of the page?
The name "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor" vaguely sounds like it has something to do with rebalancing chemicals.
There is a fine distinction between scientific definitions of causality and association, incident rates and survival time, and other concepts....

Colloquially all of that is a lot easier to state.
Posted this article to r/science, got banned. Great.
Is there any writeup about passkeys privacy?

Tie everything to apple/whoever is pretty darn dystopian. And the "second factor" as described in this article doesn't exactly sound enticing.
Business requirements or engineering dependencies can change quickly in some scenarios, meaning code gets replaced regardless of its quality. I've had to delete a lot of code the past few years, much of it 1 year old and very carefully written. Someone wasted his time.
I was just talking to someone last night. Their company has apparently figured that they're basically in a post-COVID steady state at this point modulo any incremental hiring they do. So they're basically doing a full worldwide real estate audit to figure out where they need to get to.
There's a difference between errors in UI/reliability/performance/etc and errors in business logic. When there's an error in the business logic, then heads roll.
Tangentially, it would have been fun if Copilot and ChatGPT existed two decades ago when EJB was all the rage.
Converting dead malls to apartments is now a popular thing so there is a pathway for doing this.
Already, there is the IE to Edge BHO which forcefully launches a different browser when you attempt to visit a website. You can still turn it off, and proceed to use MSIE.
Applications of the 20 Most Popular Graph Algorithms
I think it comes down to framing and the vibe you project when you talk about it. Realistically, while the people interviewing you may be sympathetic on a human level to issues of burnout, mental health, etc., they are also going to be asking themselves whether it could happen again, which would make them look bad for taking a chance on you.

If it were me, I would just say I was taking time to explore the world and have fun, or work on non-tech projects, or read a lot of books, or something like that, but have now decided to it's time to buckle down and focus on career. Put a positive spin on it, in other words. Most people have dreams of doing those kinds of thing, so they're less likely to hold it against you, whereas anything that hints at you being difficult/high maintenance could get their guard up.
I can understand your point-of-view but honestly, working in the tech industry is all I've ever wanted to do. My poor health resulted mainly from my last job where I worked 17 hour days for around 10 months before my body and mind just gave up. I know now not to push myself that hard but evrn so I can't imagine myself working in anything except tech. :)
I teach OODA loop ideas to software teams, and have open source notes here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ooda-loop
We're in a thread about mindfulness.
I don't see this much different than what commonly happens with humans when we hear our named called when it was some environmental noise.

As for the silence, I wonder why the the model even receives it. I would think a lot of that would be compressed out of existence to save bandwidth.
> Yet the worldwide conspiracy to wake up absurdly early for any important matter is really annoying /s.

Doesn't need the "/s"

At some point I hope to see Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder treated like a proper medical disability and for discrimination cases to be won by people with it.

That should cause corporate legal departments to shift schedules to being later.
Point of order:

>>high fructose corn syrup causing diabetes

It's just too much sugar. Could be cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup, pure glucose, it doesn't matter.

There's just too much added sugar in things, we can all stop pretending HFCS is anything other than the cheapest (and therefor most common) type of sugar. If you got "the corporations" to stop using it tomorrow, we'd just have Coke made with cane sugar, and you'd still have the related health issues.

/rant
It's generic Apple-bashing from someone who mistakenly believes that x32/x64 laptops with 6-7 hour battery life were the pinnacle of computing.

The keyboards in the M1/M2 mac laptops are among the best ever shipped in any computers. They are absolutely not the janky butterfly ones Apple shipped some years ago.

Mankind has not made a better machine than the M2 MBA, seriously.
We already have this in the form of environmental regulations. They do a pretty good job preventing all but the most moneyed interests from doing stuff that will have effects off their and only their property.
The growth and size of the AirPods business alone is staggering.
"So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises. "

I'm sure it's different for most others, but I had the opposite experience. It has introduced a great calm into my life.

From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.
You get it.

These adverse experiences are the ego's last-ditch effort to maintain cohesion. It's the same with psychedelics. If you let go in the face of the terror and accept, the terror becomes utter bliss.

In response to these experiences, ask "Who exactly are they happening to?"
Correction: It's the producer of enterprise-adjacent PDF software, with some offering for smaller users.

Adobe is focused on capturing the media producing pipeline, and there is where it puts most of it efforts.
I just moved my office from Campbell to DTSJ right near Diridon. Campbell might be the worst "city" I've ever encountered. Was only located there because I could not afford SJ rents but now I am like so many other fleeing to quality.
This might sound gate-keepy and elitist (and, y'know what, it is, and I openly admit to it because I don't think it's necessarily bad), but I 100% agree. Not all reading is quality reading, and if you're just rushing through whatever YA novel is hot right now, it's not the same as sitting down and reading literature. Or working through dense non-fiction work à la Adler. It's nothing more engaging than binging Netflix or Marvel movies, but they certainly think it is.

It's also funny as this reminds me how little r/books actually talks about books. It's mostly validating each other for never challenging themselves, and - shock - "I read a classic and it's actually good".
The Legion 5/5 Pro/7 are very solid as workstations in my experience, and with the exception of the keyboard, everything I would want to service is accessible. I've switched the memory, added new SSDs and even repasted my Legion 7 Gen6. I've even been able to run VFIO virtualized Windows on these machines.

You're also exempt from the Lenovo panel lottery.
Some substantial subset of the tens of millions of players probably care. Call of Duty titles may not be innovative or particularly original, but they're undeniably popular.
I‘ve always been a night owl. Waking up at any time before 8am just left me groggy for most of the morning. It didn’t matter if I established a sleep schedule where I got a full 8 hours, my body just doesn’t like getting up that early.

But after returning from a trip to a different time zone, I discovered something kinda bizarre. If I wake up around 4:30am, I feel amazing and I’m super productive for the whole day. I have to be in bed by 9pm, but even with slightly less than 8 hours sleep, the effect is transformative.

But my problem ends up being that the world is super hostile to an adult going to bed by 9pm. It’s just really hard to keep on that schedule when you’re interacting with the rest of society. So I end up on my old night owl schedule because it’s the only one that somewhat works for my body and my interactions with other people. I really wish I could stay on the up-at-4:30 schedule, though, because it’s just so energizing.
That's not really true, there are no sockets for LPDDR4X or LPDDR5.
reddit is a lot more frendlier so I'm using SO mostly read only.
To me its the time commitment. I can easily play and win a half dozen rounds of traditional TDM in the time it takes to get to the final circle in a decent round of BR.
but if I move inland to get away from the coast I might end up near a train chemical spill right? You can't win!
Both JS and python are safe from races and corruption, unless you very explicitly go out of your way. JS has no parallelism, and python has the GIL.

Leaks are not a security concern (besides DOS attacks).
Almost every time I've thought to myself "I will probably need to refactor this later", I did indeed need to refactor it later. But I think a lot of those cases I still made the right decision.

The initial version took M hours to develop, and the refactor took N hours. If I had done it right the first time, it would have taken L hours, where M < L < N + M. But it's not hard to construct legitimate business scenarios where the "N + M" solution is better than the "L" solution in terms of meeting the business goals.
Related: The OSI Networking Model defines 7 layers (or stacks) to clearly define and separate the duties of each level of the networking. Having clear levels makes troubleshooting and debugging layers.

In practice there's only 4 or 5 layers depending on who you ask.
Criticism taken. I apologize and will make more constructive contributions. Thanks for linking the guidelines.
Nobody should feel silly! These are good conversations to have.

Would it not be more correct to say that the opposite of irrationality is, well, rationality? This is important because rationality is something I assume we agree is a characteristic of humans. Humans can't help but be rational, which is why irrational behavior can be the exception that proves the rule. To say "being smart" is the opposite suddenly creates a a somewhat unscientific rift among human animals, doesn't it? But I do get why you want to say that for your argument, but you should be a little more nuanced in order to get one over on me. Not that I am particularly smart or anything, but just because I am listening to what you are saying.

But otherwise, I think I see what you are saying, but why is living a long life the goal for you? That is a somewhat novel argument in this context.
As much as I admire Apple's products (I wouldn't buy anything else), I admit that Federighi's tenure has been a disaster for Apple system software and now the legitimacy of it's market position.
Brains are clocks, I mean machines, I mean computers, I mean neural nets.
It's interesting because the usual arguments against are that it will create too much traffic in a neighborhood, but if it is allowed everywhere, then no one would bother driving to a small corner market because there would already be one in walking distance.
Yeah, although Haiku seems to solve this problem more elegantly than Nix(the package manager) does(aka without a billion links). It is still great and I use it across many machines, including on OSX.

Another thing BeOS did well (and it's still ahead) was the filesystem. The mail program was implemented directly in the filesystem: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...

At one point in history, there was a chance that BeOS would be adopted as the Mac OS. I wonder how that fork in the road would look like.
I agree, who cares? Do we care when FIFA documents leak revealing how much certain countries pay for play?
I think a big problem is voters are not shown and verified. If you upvote or downvote a post your id should show and you must provide a reason why the vote.
> I've heard Albania is of a similar vibe as to these countries,...

That... is far from true. Even ex-YU countries you listed, which share lots of semi-recent history, are very different among themselves, but Albania is a whole new world altogether.
Your assumptions are all true, but your conclusion is not any more true because of the iCloud requirement.
Ask HN: Has the hype around ChatGPT died down yet? Did Bing miss the boat?
Remains to be seen, honestly. Clearly a noticeable leap has been made, but it's far short, so far at least, of many claims being made.

For what it's worth, "except it's really happening this time" has also been said before...
MacBooks, especially the new M1/M2 are pretty much the best built laptops you can buy. I’ve run Linux laptops before (Dell XPS, System76) and always wanted better build quality and battery life.

I am now running Asahi Linux on a M2 Air, because that’s the best combination for a user like me.
> I have done professional work with HIV

That's rather vague wording, so I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to make of that.

As I've pointed out multiple times, your comments include rather basic mistakes in terminology which demonstrate a lack of clinical familiarity with the topic at hand. Those misunderstandings are causing you to make make inferences that are not valid. You're reading this as "ignoring data showing [I am] wrong", but in reality, it's that the data simply doesn't say what you think it does.

If that isn't convincing, you can look at it from the other end entirely: the original claim you made (that "it’s important that people still disclose their status" because "having undetectable levels on day 1 doesn’t mean you have undetectable levels on day X and people don’t test every single day") is a conclusion that is soundly rejected by both public health experts and epidemiologists who specialize in HIV treatment and prevention.

As a rule of thumb: if you're citing orthodox methodology and research to make extremely heterodox claims, that's a good sign that you've made a mistake somewhere along the line.

That's as much time as I'm really going to spend discussing on a comment thread that I now see is inaccessible because the original comment is now flagged dead (and, frankly, for good reason).
> There's a reason it's called "rent seeking".

Because it's convenient terminology, not because it's exactly on point. When a company (or individual) leases/rents, they are definitely getting some value in return. Owning has both upsides and downsides.
I have some friends that have a bedroom wall TV that is a mirror, when it's off.

I suspect that it cost quite a bit. They have a nice crib.
Nhtsa asks Tesla for more information about Calif. fatal crash
Really?... Isn't the 'underlying' skill ( and it was hard for me to write that last word )... being able to communicate? Are we really going to call this anything but the ability to write one's thoughts intelligently?
Amusingly enough back in the day this is what it was with 16-bit, OS/2 and UNIX binaries
I'm sad that grad school got really busy and I had to drop out from being an editor on POSA, but it was absolutely fantastic to work with so many fantastic developers and get into their heads a bit. I think Tavish might be hanging around HN too.
I have a ThinkPad R61 from 2007 that still works. It's a core2duo 1.83ghz with 4gb of DDR2 and GMA950 graphics so even with a really lightweight Linux install it's basically useless-- but it boots right up and the battery still works.
Funny how little a splash this made then compared to now