skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mindfulness frankly doesn't help a student with things like being bullied/harassed, having a bad home life, or food/shelter insecurity. Reframing helps in thinking about specific situations but, frankly, teenagers aren't equipped legally or otherwise to handle things themselves.
Very cool! Shoot me a note, I'd love to hear about your plans
Daniel Kahneman, the famous psychologist who authored the paper you're probably thinking of (the one popularized as "no increase in happiness above $75k/yr") actually just released a new paper a few days ago, finding that for the large majority of people, happiness continues to rise with income far past that point.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
This may be a good compromise for plausible deniability. Facebook can be "responsible" and release only to "researchers" and the public can get the model from torrents shortly after. So long as the models keep going public I'm satisfied.
Our shower didn't work in an airbnb (well-reviewed) in WA state. Another guy I know got a place with no heat in the winter in Montana (probably illegal). Airbnb can sometimes save you a buck or get you a unique place, but you're really rolling the dice without those pesky regulations and professional hospitality workers.
I learned quite a lot from this https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
NextJS compiler I think https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/compiler
The amount that Big Tech can afford to pay is correlated to their revenue.

The amount that Big Tech is willing to pay is correlated to the market supply of employees.

But I'm unconvinced that a very profitable company will decide to pay less than it can afford, in order to acquire the best engineering talent it can, when their revenue is directly linked to their engineering products.

The only thing that would make FAANG pay nosedive is if they made an organizational decision that they didn't want to prioritize software development.

So basically, if one of them decided to hire an Eddie Lampert type.
Given how they mock monopoly, If the tallow makers of France saw what we had done to capitalism they might fear our barons of industry would charge for sunlight or blot it out.

Universal human good appears on no financial report nor ballot sheet or any other objective of the mass of human work on the face of the earth (except perhaps a byline in a shrinking church or fraternal order).

If new suns are in store, how exactly are we to organize its distribution and protect its fertility? What commons has not been spoiled? What resource has not been extracted and hoarded?

The black gold of AI will be pumped from ground to mingle with the water of art and truth and community and education and as sure as such extraction has polluted the land it will sully our minds and squeeze our wallets.
You’ve both labeled therapy as an ivory tower and implied therapists don’t have much education; that’s somewhat of a contradiction. What’s your purpose here?

I think a much better analogy than surgery would be a software bootcamp. In the same sense that a classroom-oriented bootcamp is just discussion, therapy is just discussion.

There’s no replication crisis for the greater umbrella question of whether or not therapy is effective. Therapy in combination with medication is provably more effective than either alone (or nothing).
well spent 10min, this is a good game!
Your local laws will dictate what a contract can and can't do, but generally contracts require a "meeting of the minds" and it's up to a court to decide what that means and which clauses are actually enforceable (that's also why we have courts instead of the whole "code is law" crypto-dystopian BS, because not every possible edge-case can be predicted and written in the contract in advance).

In this case the guest did not realize the bookings were nominative, and once he made aware, he wanted to change the booking to the proper person. A shortcoming of the Airbnb platform is that there is no way to transfer a booking to another account, so the only way is to cancel and rebook.

Notice how at no point the guest's intention was to cancel and back out of the deal. The cancellation was suggested by the host themselves being unreasonable and trying to exploit a policy technicality to make a quick buck.
I had to turn Safari content blocking off to get the confirmation buttons to appear if that helps.
FWIW mortars and tanks are legal for the general public to own in US, although it does involve a bunch of forms and tax stamps if they're operable. It doesn't seem to be a problem in practice, though - at least, I've never heard of a legally owned tank or mortar being used for criminal or other harmful purposes.
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Avoiding doing assignments by having chatGPT do them is obviously a bad idea. Cheating has always been possible, it always will be, we try to prevent it, but cheaters are really creative and mostly hurting themselves. Any effort spent on preventing students from ripping themselves off is effort not spent on helping the students who are engaging with the system in good faith and trying to learn.

It seems more troubling if people can cheat their way all the way through college. There are a number of skills that really benefit from kind of boring/non-creative work. In intro classes, part of it is just spending enough time learn “reflexes” that will help later. I’m sure it is easy to find tools that will do this work for you.

But at some point, I mean, junior and senior (Err, I guess this is US lingo maybe, last couple years of college) should be doing actually interesting work, to the point where if they can “cheat” their way through the material with new tools, then… they’ve found an interesting new way to solve real problems. And if they aren’t doing anything interesting at all, then there are much, much deeper problems at the school.
Yes, that was the point I made. Either opportunity costs or it costs for if both parents work full time.

I do think that families that figure out how to at least have one parent home for the kids seem to have better relationships with them. I like the idea of families that can swap each parent having a year or something with the kids, the issue is that most careers don't support that model. You can't have multiple year gaps in your resume nor do both spouses often make the same income.
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Good point!
I think this is very dependent on what you do during the hours you’re not working. If you’re just scrolling your phone or playing video games, that’s probably not very restorative. A key thing would be to do other things, like exercise, take a cooking class, be social with other people, etc.
well that is why some argue that buying the 49€ ticket should be mandatory for anyone owning a car.

Funnily the people I know who say so are car owners which mostly use cars and hardly ever the train, but they are also rather well off.
There are a few community group types that do work in these areas. Worth seeing if any are based around where you live:

- Repair Cafes: People bring equipment (not just tech) in for repair, and work with the person repairing it. This gets the equipment repaired and teaches repair skills
- Tool libraries: borrow tools as you would borrow books from a normal library.
- Hackerspaces/makerspaces: if you are willing to repair yourself, but don't know how, hackerspaces might have people willing to give you pointers along that journey so you aren't just googling by yourself.
A bubble sort at startup co is annoying but often less likely to cost the company millions, at Google or Amazon it very well could. Extreme example, but I think the point stands.
There's something immensely satisfying, yet creepy, about pressing to play the audio version of the article, and getting an AI voice back reading you this AI article.

A human wrote this article, but in some years, AI will be able to write artistically like this, and then AI will write and voice content to humans without human input.
Recent (non-2007) version of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34989529
No. That there are differences in thinking speed is verifiable.

We can also verify that differences in thinking speed between individuals has a large component due to genetics, and also another large component due to environment. Everything from diet to the quality of parental interactions in early childhood.

What we can't determine is to whether genetics contributes to the differences in thinking speed between groups of people. We can identify important environmental factors like culture and racism. We can show that environmental facts matter. For example children of mixed race couples have a higher average IQ if they have white mothers. But nobody has found a way to measure what difference genetics might or might not make.
I'm aware, but the only people who write that today are calligraphers and monks.

You think finding an average American that does cursive is hard, finding an average Japanese that does cursive is even harder. :V
I think it's less about who can shape internet policy, and more of a rebuke on how technophobic regulation has led to Europe completely missing out on a key global industry despite many key innovations originating in Europe.
>Whoever claims to accurately predict what's going to happen in the next few years is talking out of their ass.

Especially since the same was true (financial experts were talking out of their ass) for the whole easier to predict zero interest rate period too!
You have your drones. You also have your own personal chatbot that tells you when to ignore instructions from super-persuader AIs that would get you to kill yourself , spend all your money, or fall madly in love with an LLM if you didn't have a personal chatbot to protect you from their persuasive capabilities.
Because the losses are concentrated and the gains are dispersed.

The total economy will be drastically better off with AI and robots to do more work for us, but a small overall fraction will see the greatest losses in employment and employability.

It's the illegal immigration debate all over again. Economically, they are a boon to the US economy over the long term. If you are low skilled or in other industries where you are competing with those migrants, it sucks for you. For everyone else, it is great. (Speaking purely from the standpoint of bringing in workers in their prime working years, ignoring cultural or other issues that arise with concentrations of out groups)
A large percentage of the population seems to believe that IQ and similar cognitive ability tests are something like a credit score, having no purpose but to direct society to the high scorers so that they can be showered with opportunity, while denying the same to low scorers. And it's true that tests like the SAT can have a big impact on the opportunities we get in life. But they can also be used in a more win-win way, to match people to opportunities they're ready for. And for that, you need an honest assessment of where the person is actually at, separate from how they got there.

A poor kid may score worse than they would have scored if they weren't poor, but if we want to know whether they're ready for MIT or a course above their grade level, it might do them a disservice to confound our perceptions of their actual current level with our personal indignation over socioeconomic inequalities and our hopes in the potential they'd realize if those inequalities were eliminated.
Many Year Two rejects from Amazon fall on this curve. They're hard to interview due to how pigeonholed and overworked they were.
Its called fizzbuzz.

Anything more complex than that is probably job specific anyways.
How does one figure out if any of their home systems is affected? I have 5 Linux installations(dev machines, router, nas, rpi, etc), multiple docker instances, a couple of windows machines and half a dozen phones at tablets at home.

What’s the best tool to find out if any of them is hacked?
> everybody speaks English to some degree

That's not even true in my European country, I'm pretty sure at most 50% of Iranians speak English (not even taking into account that to write comfortably you need B2 or better English proficiency).

Any kind of English-only media is automatically ignored by 90% of my countrymates, because most people prefer their native tongue.
How the U.S. improvised a plan to deal with a Chinese balloon
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X (1998)
What other occupation are you going to pick that you can a) get hired fairly easily right out of college, and b) make $150k+ in a few years with only an undergraduate degree?
I was just in Barbados and almost every house had a solar water heater on the roof. You still need hot water to wash dishes and clothes.
A better analogy would be if you were hiring rapists at your company and it turned out that they had themselves been victims of sexual assault, then you may want to know what's going on.

Your analogy is completely missing the entire point made in the paper, which is that an epidemic model applies in this case.
I don't understand why people continue to do IAT tests. One of the core authors of the original IAT paper released a paper last year showing how the test doesn't actually measure bias, and how it is not clear what this kind of test actually measures.

Brian Nosek who is one of the co-authors of the IAT test just released a paper [1] that show that changes in implicit bias don’t lead to changes in behaviour. You can find a summary of the article and its findings here [2].

The paper examining 499 studies over 20 years involving 80,859 participants that used the IAT and other, similar measures. They discovered two things:

* One is that the correlation between implicit bias and discriminatory behavior appears weaker than previously thought.
* They also conclude that there is very little evidence that changes in implicit bias have anything to do with changes in a person’s behavior.

These findings, they write, "produce a challenge for this area of research." The finding that changes in implicit bias don’t lead to changes in behavior, Forscher says, "should be stunning."

"I see implicit bias as a potential means to an end, something that tells us what to do and some possible remedies for what we see in the world," Forscher says. "So if there’s little evidence to show that changing implicit bias is a useful way of changing those behaviors, my next question is ‘What should we do?’"

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308926636_A_Meta-An...

[2] https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-We-Really-Measure-Impl...
I wish we would just refuse to recycle to push for reuse.

Reuse could actually work. If we were to standardize on thicker plastics, that could last longer, we could just have like 10-20 standard container sizes and constantly reuse them.
I don't mark receipts as spam, but I do delete them without opening them and I really can't blame the people who mark them as spam.

When I buy something, I get a notification from my bank, instantly, that's basically the receipt in a standardized compact form (2 lines of text) with the amount in my local currency. This is much more useful than the receipts online stores send where the relevant details are buried in some huge html template and the amount needs to be converted.

When I buy something in a physical store they have the decency to ask if I want a receipt. I don't understand why that's such a hard concept for online stores/services to get, ask me if I want a receipt, don't just stick it in my inbox because you have my email address.
> it's up to the host if they want your record checked...

Hosts have very little say about how the platform works. Airbnb suddenly hid guest account details (name, photo etc) from hosts during the booking process because they decided there would be less racial (or whatever) discrimination, and removed the requirement for people to have their face in their account image. The result was somebody would roll up at a property and the host has no idea who they are, and no way to verify whether they were the guest or not.
Even the Pylint codebase uses Ruff
Man has two more chances before $232M in Bitcoin is lost forever
What are “Berniebucks”? A cursory google search suggests that they are either Safari Ltd’s reward program or Bernie Sanders fundraising for his 2016 run for President, but neither of those seem germane to this conversation.

Is the notion that Bernie Sanders is somehow responsible for all of the economic stimulus given to US citizens during the pandemic?
Do I understand you correctly? After all that's happened in the last 12 months in Big Tech you tell them to pursue cheap Fed money infused talent hoarding jobs at FAANG companies?
If this is a psychological effect, then what a truly interesting defense mechanism. Because it is getting the parents pretty worked up.
How do bun, deno, and other typescript-built-in languages keep up with language features?
Did you? Second Reality worked fine on a Sound Blaster, and sounded only marginally different/better on a Gravis if at all. It was somewhat later than that, roughly around winter 1994-1995, that some demos started to work with the GUS only for music or used larger wave samples to make use of its RAM.
How many are dead or permanently disabled because of Covid, I wonder.
Sounds like a doctor told his obese patients they need to restrict their calories. Then 97% of them didn't listen. Big surprise - how is knowing that useful to anyone?

If instead you choose to be your own doctor, research the best approach you think might work and take responsibility for your health, then you have a good chance of succeeding. People can't be told what to do, they have to discover it.
Yeah, within a few years there will probably be tools that can reliably detect if a (long) passage was generated by chatGPT or not. I doubt they will be able to tell if the text was generated by whatever will replace chatGPT by that time.
Nice work!

I think speed should be in ft/s to match height in ft. IIRC on Apollo they used ft/s for descent speeds. (an option for metric would be nice also)
"Everyone gets a fair chance with me, regardless of background" is an _extremely_ different statement than "anyone with an ounce of technical hiring ability avoids those bootcampers like wildfire".

If you mean "in my experience, bootcampers fail technical screens at much higher rates", then say that, instead of implying that you're stupid if you even consider hiring someone who went to a bootcamp.
> But it is possible to have a private safe function that can only possibly be accessed from a small part of your code base.

This would also be unsound. Multiple people develop software in a library. Any future developer on your library will automatically assume that any safe Rust function can be called with any parameters and not invoke undefined behavior. That is the default assumption of any Rust developer. If you have such code in your libraries, you should fix them, or mark them as clearly unsafe such that any caller of that function ensures they keep the invariants that are required of that unsafe code that is propagated upward. You're falling back to old ideas from C.

> If you are careful in preserving this invariant

This is C/C++ mentality. The entire point about Rust is that you do not need to be careful. It's guaranteed and checked by the compiler. Again, if you can invoke undefined behavior by calling ANY safe function with ANY form of input, then the function is unsound. This is simply how Rust assumptions work.

> But this obviously gets more risky, the more code that has access to the function. I'll grant that it's not an uncommon pitfall to assume a crate-wide invariant somewhere that you later forget about.

I suggest you re-learn how to program Rust, personally. You've picked up some really bad habits that don't line up with general consensus on how to code in Rust.
While explicitly not trying to take a side:

>If that were the case population level rates would be relatively stable over time and not vary dramatically by country but that is wildly not the case.

That would be true if and only if the measurements were accurate and did not change by time or location.

The measurement strategies have been changing dramatically in the past decades, and countries are almost universally in disagreement over the (significant) details. Wide variance in time and location are definitely expected, drawing a conclusion based on that is very much standing on shaky ground.
I mean, it's happened before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morangos_com_A%C3%A7%C3%BAcar_...

Possibly multiple times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_student_poisoning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness#In_sc...
> the world's most popular programming language

lol
A VPN would already be banned or be considered a high-risk to begin with.

You'll need a clean, residential IP. Thankfully if you're on a dynamic IP all you need to do is restart your router, or just use your phone as pretty much every carrier only uses dynamic IPs for mobile devices.
Considering almost 7m people died from covid officially … Yeah they’re pretty missing

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

The Economist puts excess deaths at 20m

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Such “random number generator” would be equivalent to the training algorithm.
Why is there a place in South Africa also called Singapore?
> What will life look like for future generations when they can eat like gluttons, laze around with robot servants bringing us our every wish, and AI that can think for us?

Sign me up :D
I'm also super skeptical of quick fixes. We've actually had a set of diet pills in the 80s and 90s that were touted as similar miracle workers just like these ones, until they started killing people...

I'm all for trying to help obese people lose weight but what's the difference between these ones and the previous fen-phen craze?
When I was in high school, I rode my bike everywhere. I was mystified by this. I eventually did figure it out by carefully watching what I was doing in a turn. Weird that my body knew it, but my brain didn't!
Right, what parent called "expressiveness" is probably more accurately described as "flexibility". And flexibility is not always a good thing.
>our classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as “likely AI-written,” while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time (false positives)

That is... not impressive. I'm honestly surprised that OpenAI was willing to release the tool in this state, it's probably the least reponsible thing they have done since calling themselves "OpenAI". Some kids are going to get expelled for no reason.