skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the point. Social media algorithms amplify every form of madness and toxicity, because it draws people in and gets their attention. Crazy sorts of conspiracy theories, radical ideologies, cults, memetic mental illness, you name it... the more toxic it is the more it drives engagement.

This phenomenon isn't fundamentally new. Media has understood "if it bleeds it leads" for hundreds of years. What I think is new is how tight the optimization loop is, how personalized it is, and the way crowdsourcing the inputs leads to a firehose of content that isn't even attempting to be accurate or sane. It's a machine that automatically curates randomly sourced content for maximum inflammatory response and maximum addictiveness.

Here's another pile of examples unrelated to conspiracy theories:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/

This is what you get when you run the recommendation algorithm on random crowdsourced kids' content.
No, sentences are not served in parallel here, they are merged ("contopite") into a single one that is the longest plus a small extra that makes up for all others. For example 5 sentences of 5 years each are merged into one of ~ 6 years.
There's a difference between what conservatives profess to believe and what those stated beliefs, plus their actions, say about their worldview.
Likely nothing you can do anyway, unless you've already moved to patagonia or something.
https://archive.org/details/Idiocracy_201507
stackful coroutines is a feature that is on par with power of delimited continuations (proven fact in academia, you can easily find somewhat easy to follow papers on this topic), stackless coroutines is a stupid gimmick. You see the "compromise"? You have argued to have a case to add a car, but after long debate, politics and "compomsie" you got a TOY car instead.
the comma in the title made me read that as headlinese "Webb telescope['s] spots [are] super old, [also, there are] galaxies that shouldn't exist"
Eh?

That isn't an accurate picture you paint, at least in the UK: https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc2132/heatmap/datado...

Teen suicides first peaked in 1998 at 6.1 per 100,000. The numbers are noisy but it looks like it declines to a lower level of 3-4 in the 2005-2013 period (with an all time low of 3.1 in 2010 but still low at 3.6 at 2012), then starts to increase again to the 4-5 range, before covid gives it a giant spike to 6.5.

Teen suicides in the 90s were higher than the 21st century at between 5.0 and 6.1.

Social media and cellphones, if they are a factor, aren't dominant enough to be distinguished from the noise.
Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to NSA mass surveillance
HN reader spots extraneous, comma that shouldn't exist in the headline :-)
What happens to the chicken system when you go on vacation?

Edit: @voakbasda: thank you for the prompt and courteous reply, good info :)
That explains why Influencer is a career path today.
It's not just girls and teens. Fitness influencer culture promoted unrealistic expectations, body dysmorphia, etc. It's all bad. However, at the same time, social media is not the same as 'influencer culture'.
A decade is a long time for computers
It's an interesting idea, especially if you largely automate the analog->digital ingress process.

Unfortunately, you probably would have an adverse selection process. Anyone who can (or thinks they can) easily land a job will be F this crap. And the truly desperate will jump through the hoops.
As is often true of GPT responses, there's some nonsense interspersed here, e.g. the claim that R has "a more mature package universe" than Python.

I think this is false, but if you're reading quickly, it sounds cogent enough. As Sarah Constantin observed about GPT2 [0]:

> if you skim text, you miss obvious absurdities. The point is OpenAI HAS achieved the ability to pass the Turing test against humans on autopilot...The mental motion of “I didn’t really parse that paragraph, but sure, whatever, I’ll take the author’s word for it” is, in my introspective experience, absolutely identical to “I didn’t really parse that paragraph because it was bot-generated and didn’t make any sense so I couldn’t possibly have parsed it”, except that in the first case, I assume that the error lies with me rather than the text. This is not a safe assumption in a post-GPT2 world. Instead of “default to humility” (assume that when you don’t understand a passage, the passage is true and you’re just missing something) the ideal mental action in a world full of bots is “default to null” (if you don’t understand a passage, assume you’re in the same epistemic state as if you’d never read it at all.)

[0] https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/humans-not-concentrat...
Puns are truly your oeuvre.
So don't take this as me picking sides, but...

... that feedback loop describes plenty of "liberals", or rather left-wingers, whatever that actually means. The only way I could see someone thinking this is an exclusively conservative phenomenon is if they've never met any far leftists, or if they are far leftists themselves and believe they are more moderate than they are. Were movements like Occupy Wallstreet, Black Power, The Weather Underground, et al. actually cheering on the establishment and promoting conservative values?

While I think you have identified something real, it seems you're implying some form of intent on a large scale. I don't think the vast majority of disaffected conservatives are preaching faithlessness in an act of pretentiousness; they may actually have reasons to have little faith in government that are being dismissed, and aren't simply trying to corrode society for some ulterior motive like creating an ethnostate or whatever. Just saying your view comes off as a caricature, to say the least.
Your example implies some combination of (a) excessive data sharing between threads (b) possible need for core pinning.

If thread A is going to need to read all the data touched by thread B, then it's unclear why you've split the task across threads. If there are still good reasons, then probably pin A and B to core N (never pin anything to core 0, unrelated story), and let them interleave there.

If that doesn't make sense, then yep, you'll have to face the cost of ping-ponging.
Guys also just don't want to go to bars. Even in my 20s, "going out" always felt like a chore that I had to do to find a partner.

Approaching girls in public has high social consequences. I've read enough reddit [0][1][2] or seen enough news articles about people banned from businesses because a guy was seen as creepy.

Men need to learn what is ok and not ok when communicating with women. This is already an challenge because what is ok with one woman is not ok with another. Add in the shifting society view of what is appropriate turns it into an impossible task.

It just seems safer to do nothing and wait for the girl to make the first move.
Elbow fractures aren’t simple, it’s not just about identifying the presence of a fracture and putting it in a cast. They send you home in a sling for elbow fractures in adults, either with surgery or without it. PCPs aren’t qualified to make the determination about how it’s going to heal and whether surgery is needed.
What type of tasks do you get help from ChatGPT?

Curious to know some solid use cases of productivity improvements in real world?
For the collectible toy problem, how much money would you save if you paired up with someone else and purchased meals until you both had all 4 toys? My intuition says going from 1 collector to 2 collectors would help significantly (like queuing theory).
Totally agree and I think we are actually going toward that fast (though you could probably argue the opposite) with frameworks like Next and Remix supporting tools other than React. The permutations will be built into the frameworks so it's all connected automatically for you based on the tools you choose during setup. Before we get there though, I have seen some big starter businesses like https://saasrock.com/ https://usegravity.app/ etc and thought this might help people discover such solutions as well as their free counterparts in a single place
the models we have today will never be able to read .. they are just able to produce something that we cannot distinguish from human output.

we should be more careful on how we use them. in my opinion, ChatGPT and similar will be horrible for search on the web, as we are flooded with text that looks like a human wrote it but it does not add any knowledge or new insight.
So she's not even convicted yet, is that correct?
You might be able to leverage that if you didn't stop at fertilized egg, but pushed that insanity to its logical conclusion, where no sperm can be wasted and women must always be pregnant because anything else is genocide of the not-yet-to-be-conceived. As it stands it's like a burn victim quadruple amputee pointing at someone merely homely and calling them too ugly to look at.
I appreciate how important it was in the past, but in the era of inexpensive and powerful LED flashlights, streetlights do seem rather redundant and wasteful.
My way of looking at it was always this. If having a laptop will tend to encourage me to do more work, I will choose the laptop. Please note that I work for myself, and I like working.

This was a very successful method for me, since the MacBook Air was introduced. I am absolutely much more likely to earn more money because it’s easy to carry around my main computer.
> The Amish kinda slap

For anyone else who was confused by this: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/slap/
If all of their friends are socializing mostly, or exclusively, on social media then it could definitely be worse. They could easily miss out on in-person social interactions that are planned on social media as well, or just feel out of the loop when interacting in person since their friend group is discussing something they shared online earlier.
Same here.

I also thought it was a new kind of bug somewhere in Alaska.

Presented with the words "bug" and "airplane", "bug" is mostly associated with the insect kind, not the software kind.
This is so on point, back in the 20s I got my first tech job by putting an onion on my belt (that was the style at the time) and going to the company with a resume and shaking their hand and not releasing until they agreed to give me a job. Kids these days don’t know the value of a handshake and a drop by. I grew with them as a family and still hold the job to this day. The name of that company? The International Business Machines Corporation aka Big Blue.
Funny thing is, I'm not a parent and have no plans to be one. Just seems kinda obvious to me.

Edit: I guess I didn't word this very well. Please consider this comment in the context of my earlier one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34901931.
That's kind of glossing over the nonsense they did opt into.
Could you please share a prompt which resulted in a good Dr Seuss style story? Including the (changed) character names. Thanks!
New Twitter Developer API
I received an email with the following content today. I haven't been able to find the same content on the web, so I thought it might be worthwhile to post the email text here:

Hello,

We are excited to share some updates regarding the Twitter API so you can keep building and innovating with us. Twitter offers one of the world’s most powerful data sets, and our recent updates will enable you to continue to tap into all its potential.

Basic access
On February 13, we will introduce our new low-cost, basic access that offers a low level of API usage, and full access to Ads API for a $100 monthly fee. This basic access will replace our previous access levels (Essential, Elevated, and Academic Research). We will provide instructions on how to subscribe to the basic access through our website on Monday.

Limited free access
As this is extremely important to the developer ecosystem, we will also introduce a new form of free write access to the Twitter API limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, as well as including free access to Login with Twitter. If you are currently on a free tier and you want to take advantage of the new limited free access, no actions are necessary - you will automatically be switched to the new free access on February 13.

Premium API deprecation
On February 13, we will also deprecate the Premium API access. If you’re subscribed to Premium, you can apply for Enterprise access here to continue using these endpoints.

We truly believe that the developer community can continue to create value with our Twitter API. We hope you are excited about this new chapter of the Twitter Developer Platform as we continue to invest in our ecosystem’s success. Please continue to follow @TwitterDev for the latest updates.

Thank you,
The Twitter Developer Platform team
Not yet. In a few years, consumer GPUs or dedicated ML units (which Apple SOCs have) and local storage and ram will be large enough to run “a few years old” LLMs.

The cutting edge will always be in the cloud but a market for personal AI does exist.
> You don't actually take the 2014 referendum seriously do you?

What, you don't like democracy? Besides, they name dropped Kosovo in the Declaration for a reason. There is no logical argument for recognizing Kosovo (which we do) and not recognizing Crimea.

> Do you believe in international law?

See Kosovo.
Ironically, I was searching for just one visual or gif on the GitHub or documentation, to understand what it does.
In what sense is idle time useless? Working well after your needs are met is a far worse waste of life.

Time well spent can be lingering in a cafe with a good book, or riding your bicycle around a lake. It can be a lavish home-cooked meal, or time with people you love.

Perhaps you need to reconsider what constitutes time well spent, and where the hustle fits in this.
A lot of this is game theory at play.

> 1. Applicants must wade through large volumes of job postings, which are often poorly written, and frequently lacking key information which is important to the applicant.

This is nothing new - it's been this way for over 20 years. Job postings are not more poorly written than in the past.

> 2. Employers are overwhelmed with large numbers of applicants, most of whom don't meet the requested minimum requirements.

Because many/most employers are willing to hire people who don't meet the minimum requirements. Or rather, they are sloppy when they made the job posting. Therefore, applicants who actually honor the minimum requirements are at a disadvantage.

> 3. Employers are then too overwhelmed to reply to all the applicants.

Same reason as above. Employers got themselves into this mess because they are not strict with their minimum requirements.

I don't have solutions for the whole system, but a given employer can do much to improve things:

1. Employer posts accurate postings and are strict about minimum requirements. Applicants who submit applications where they clearly are not meeting the requirements are blacklisted for a year (make this clear up front).

2. Do not let people apply to more than 3 positions at once.

3. Require a proper cover letter.

4. Develop a reputation for good candidate management. If someone applies, they should hear from you in a decent timeframe (even if it is a simple rejection).

5. Write in reasonable detail about the interview process. Will it involve Leetcode style questions? Etc.

Most applicants will just not apply to you, but that's fine. The key to making it work is step 4. As an example, I almost never include a cover letter, because it consumes a lot of my time, and I discovered that over 90% of openings that have an option for a cover letter never read them. If I'm submitting a cover letter, I want a strong commitment that it will be read.
I have witnessed the same with my wife, we only have one girl.. the only thing I have imagined could work is keeping her busy and teaching her how to be attracted to decent communities that may not necessarily be who she goes to school with.

edit: but I have literally no clue what I am going to do, I have like another 5 years or so.
I know that's meant to be funny, but the Amish community is a nightmare, from the outside looking in, very closely. I live in an area where there is a large Amish community; they outnumber "English" about 4:1.

Patriarchy in all decisions. The old men make choices for families based on what they know is best, and you follow that rule, regardless of your own views. Women are not allowed a voice in formal decisions. Children are a tradable commodity. If you upset an elder, your life is over.

You're raised speaking German first, so that you can "learn your heritage" (read: always feel the divide between yourself and the rest of the country). You get up to an 8th grade education and nothing more. Only if it doesn't interfere with your chores. If you are sent off to college for whatever reason (my neighbor was a college educated Amish; he was the legal representative for the community) they treat you like an outsider. You are not allowed a voice in community votes, if they have them. You get the scraps. If you start a business, and someone else wants to start the same thing, you give it over to them, no questions asked.

God forbid you disagree with the elders. Imagine being in your 30's, with just an 8th grade education, and your entire community, family, and support system turns their back on you and yours. You're screwed.

If the bishop believes another community could use your skills, or doesn't like your family, you have to move, possibly hundreds of miles. That's after selling everything you own, usually at a loss. But that doesn't matter, because the community itself and the church actually own everything, you are just renting your own business and/or home from the church.

Absolute rule by the male elders. Lies and buried secrets. That's the way of the Amish. But they get a pass, because their beards and hats look funny.
there exit harmless herbal supplements that will likely result in false positives for many of the drugs on standard tests.

Had a buddy in rehab who wanted to screw around with them; so we researched and made up a "vitamin powder" he could put in his milkshakes there (and share freely: totally innocent, non-narcotic blah stuff). Which resulted in lighting up his urine tests like a Christmas tree. Poppy seeds, valerian root, morning glory ... i forget the rest. not much was needed.

It was hilarious but then they started doing the blood tests on him and kept him a while longer to counsel him on his attitude. Epic stunts may sometimes be worth the cost.
I was replying to a comment about a 6-egg breakfast. You're welcome to reduce my 600 hour/year calculation to a 200 hour/year calculation (assuming a three-meal day of an entirely normal family of runners), because I explained exactly what I was doing in a way that you completely understood.
Human migration (under various situations / stresses like famines) has been studied in economics, sociology, etc..

There are also studies about generational poverty, medical literature on helping people recover from traumatic conditions, etc..

Not to read any bad intent in your comment, but there also have been studies about social darwinism that have a long track record of problems. I think people do still do studies about genetic inheritance etc., but it's probably impossible to draw society-level conclusions without data.
> A single engineer with GPT4 could potentially do the work of 10 engineers right now

And the potential mistakes of several engineers too, so you would need more than one engineer to double-check the output. Remember that, even if they are truly amazing, LLMs are basically incredibly powerful predictive keyboards.
If you’re applying to jobs that you (more or less) meet the qualifications for, there’s nothing at all for anyone to object to.

What I do find negative (and unlikely to succeed anyway) is people shotgunning to roles that they aren’t remotely qualified for.

I think qualified applicants have a hard time believing the volume of utterly unqualified applicants who knock on the virtual door of every SWE opening.
It depends how much quality you want. Wolfram writes about experimenting with GPT2 which can run on his PC.
I’m doing this as part of the Solana hackathon with some extra bits.

We’ll share here if I can remember!

Use whisper for transcription. I have paid for Otter for years and am a little work away from replacing it with my own open source web socket based solution to phone home to whisper running on desktop

Also check out Deepgram for programmatic transcriptions with diarization.
I once sat next to a dean of private school on a plane—she mentioned that the ~100 parents that sent their children to the school signed an agreement that they would restrict their children's access to social media until 9th grade.

I have no idea how well it was adhered to or enforced, but it surprised me that the parents of the school and the dean were trying to collectively organize action around this issue to prevent the problems described above. I had never heard of that before.
But the original did not have the error message in it. So one would not come to that answer if they are searching for the error message. That's why I wanted it opened back up. Not because I thought it was a slight. The fact that after a short period of time my question got 10k views and a gold badge shows that people were coming to my question which had the error people were searching for.

So why does this matter? Well SO runs on points. If its ok to remove points from SO and still have a functioning site, then yeah I agree leave it a duplicate. But if SO's point system does matter, then leave it open and allow it to generate points for the person who asked the question that is helping many people stuck at the same place.
Oh no! I can't repro so maybe it was transient due to load or something? Vercel unfortunately doesn't give non-live logs unless you pay. If you could share the exact error, I could probably investigate more.
Given H. Sapiens' manifest unfitness for the planet-dominating role it has bred and slaughtered itself into, loss of it would be no bad thing. Shame about the other species though.
That servers love tip outs today doesn't necessarily mean it's an absolutely good model, or that they will be grateful for it in say 20 years when they can no longer succeed in these types of jobs.

I'm not claiming it should never be a thing. I just wonder if we should collectively accept it and want it to be part of our economy and how our communities function. I have had many friends who do well as servers (and indeed, one earning more than I did was a junior SWE), but it doesn't seem typical, nor does it seem sustainable.

The restaurant industry certainly can't be responsible for fixing any issues with this; it's a symptom of something greater. I just don't think we should accept it as okay. Primarily due to the variability of tipping... I will always need to pay enough to cover the cost of the food and kitchen, so the restaurant is okay. But how can I be certain that the person serving me is taken care of? My individual tip isn't enough, and I know many servers do terribly depending on time and location.

I've worked shitty jobs, but I always got paid the same amount by my employer and there were legal frameworks to protect me. Servers don't get the same from us, and I don't think that's alright. We can point to when it works out well for servers, but again, I don't think that's typical.
I'm curious though - if I'm a skilled person who wants to find "a place worth working for" how would I do that? Especially in a remote work world? Most of the places I've worked over the years are smaller and more niche companies and teams that I wouldn't have known to look for if I didn't already know someone working there.

If you're a small company who has tapped out their current team's referral network, how do you get out the word that you're a good place to work, and how would people find out that you're a good place to work?
I assume this is in reference to Elon Musk.

That story is bunk.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...