skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it doesn't.

If you have 100 people of which 50 died below age 10 and the 50 that survived lived to 75 that's a lot of retirees.

If all 100 survive past age 10 but 90 of them die before age 65 you have not a lot of retirees.

The exact numbers can work out to the same "life expectancy" with wildly different results for retirement planning. And also in genealogy the high infant mortality rate makes for small average life expectancies and you might be surprised how old most people that survived to adulthood actually got.
You’ll realize gear matters when you stop taking shitty iPhone photos of everything and use a proper camera with actual focal lengths.
That's a supremely anti-intellectual take.
Isn't this also how thieves know there is a MacBook in a car? They scan for telltale signals?

https://www.wired.com/story/bluetooth-scanner-car-thefts/
Not just regenerate power on braking, but regenerative braking also means fewer consumables in the form of brake pads. Which, interestingly, the dust from pads is third after tires which is second to the ICE engine.

The other thing we've still haven't had enough time to fully discover is how much individual cells wear out and the big picture of the economics of swapping out only the individual cell that's bad. There's already been some practical work doing that, I'm just not aware of any longitudinal studies about it.
Don't confuse the metrics with the thing itself. The economy is not metrics in the human mind. The economy is me liking Envy apples more than disgusting Red Delicious apples and buying Envy instead. The economy is an employee getting a good offer to fill a need a company has and going back to their current employer to find out who will pay them more / gets more value from them and it's willing to thus pay more. Things like the GDP just try to approximate the sum of all these actions and exchanges.
> ... from a group with severe anxiety.

Maybe they have a good reason for it, which is the point? :p
If you're unsure why this must be said, you've never worked in a large corporate environment. People will spend weeks on decisions like this.
Very cool project.

A little feedback:

Something is off with the graph when I try to use multitouch gestures. May need to adjust the call in whichever javascript library to disable zoom if that is desired, or correct some parameter.

I might find it easier to read if there were fewer x major ticks, so one per year for instance.

But overall very nice. Simple and to-the-point data visualisation without bloat
Indeed. Ads enable shitty products to exist, products people wouldn't pay for. That's why half the stuff on the Internet has ads -- it's complete and utter garbage nobody wants.
> binary '3' is inexact

Huh? Do you mean '0.3'?
It is not pay-to-win. There is no way to use actual money to improve your chances of winning. The only things you can buy are cosmetics, and there are no randomized lootbox/gambling mechanics.

There have been some cosmetics that give a slight advantage (blending in with the background too much), but they're pretty good about updating these to reduce the impact they have. Basically, those articles are complaining about the game being pay-to-win by accident.

Don't get me wrong though. Fortnite does use the psychological tricks described in the video to make you want to buy things, and I'm sure the tricks are very effective at separating kids from their money, so he's not entirely off the mark. I just think it's a bit better than most free-to-play games, and it would have been fair to also call out some of the tricks that Fortnite won't do. I play the game and I feel like I've gotten way more enjoyment out of it than the $10 I spent on a battle pass.

But maybe this is just an indication of how much worse it's gotten in the 3 years since the video was made?
Social Security taxes are just ordinary income taxes, no different than the rest of the income taxes you may have paid. It does not entitle you to anything.

This was settled by the US Supreme Court in 1960.
The user you are replying to has an authoritarian nature.

See this thread where he extolled the virtues of confining people who didn't get the covid vaccine to their homes, and insisted that natural immunity wasn't a thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120181
Congrats. You're the first person I know of to accuse me of dog whistling. Being "extremely online" for about two decades now, I'd say that's pretty damn good. So what am I dog whistling exactly? That people shouldn't use 'unsafe'? Lol. Wow, I really came out swinging! pats self on back

I am actually teaching my toddler how to use a knife. So I'm not sure how that follows...

The GP is right. My comment was sincere and means the exact opposite of what you accuse me of "implying" or "dog whistling."
Since they're ccTLDs, the governments of those countries can designate new operators. The root nameservers (operated by a variety of operators, under ICANN's supervision) would have to update their top level record but they are generally hands off for ccTLDs (because if they were not, a country could just mandate its ISPs use a different set of root servers)
I expect that this will be tried, and I worry about some negative consequences if it works well. It could be a way of generating very effective propaganda, that defeats the efforts of the opposing LLM to call bullshit.

On the other hand, diffusion models seem to have replaced GANs for image synthesis, so perhaps there's something I'm missing, or perhaps there's a way to combine both techniques.
How long until there’s an automated daily submission to OEIS of the first 180 integers not covered by an OEIS sequence.
Show HN: Postcard Bot – Send Any Photo as a Postcard with a Text Message
Hey HN! This is a fun little project that I built over a weekend back in 2016, and then as life happened I let it dwindle and die. Per request from friends and family, I’ve brought it back to life. Check it out if you want! It’s surprisingly fun receiving physical postcards in the mail.

I’ve also got WhatsApp integration and some more fun things in the works, so stay tuned!
Bing AI often tells me that something is not known and when it hasn’t found any sources to confirm something. I think ChatGPT is worse off though.
Oh, there are other issues with self-distributed apps too. I use the Bitwarden desktop app (not the MAS version, as I don't use an Apple ID any longer) and the feature where it can cross-communicate to the Bitwarden firefox extension to enable TouchID login is not available in the self-distributed one.

Apple is slowly boiling the frog; every year there are more APIs in the OS that you can't use unless you are distributing via the MAS, which demands a phone number for an Apple ID even to download free apps.

I wish the FTC would come down hard on them, but unfortunately Apple has too much money and is too important of a bargaining chip in the coming Chinese trade war.
Privacy will more than likely be totally gone around that time.
They are contributing to entertaining end users of the casino. Entertainment is a valid need. You or some academic in an ivory tower can't dictate worth or contribution. It is determined democratically by actions of consumers (literally voting with dollars).

That said, there are some jobs we can easily label as zero wroth. E.g., jobs where people dig pits and fill them up (common in job schemes in socialist countries). These are jobs that powerful folks invent to remain in power by bribing poorer folks.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mgnrega-easy-jobs-may-harmed-...

A mega job-guarantee program to alleviate massive rural distress may have had an unexpected, deleterious effect: luring India’s skilled labour away from the organised sector. ... Lured by the lesser effort involved—MGNREGA jobs like digging pits and filling them don’t need any skills—they leave their factory jobs to work for 100 days under the program and then take up other contractual jobs for the rest of the year.

Or the famous wages for just looking:

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

Nokku kooli is a euphemism for extortion by organized labour unions in Kerala under which bribes are paid to trade union activists in exchange for allowing unaffiliated workers to unload their own belongings and materials.[1] This happens with the tacit support of political parties including those in government. In Malayalam, 'nokku kooli', translates into 'gawking wages' or 'wages for (just) looking on'.[2]
> I hope this idea catches on

This already exists with Ethereum Name Service (ENS) https://ens.domains and Sign-in With Ethereum.
This comment gave me a sense of nostalgia in two weird ways. My dad used get addicted to a few select games too and play them through. I remember him playing Zelda and Metroid obsessively. The other thing was how communal playing video games was, when there was only one tv and everyone watched others play, while awaiting their turn.
Agreed. Although I think it has to do with more than location. For a childless couple, the cost of a 3 bedroom house in the suburbs might be the same as for a one room apartment in the city. If they choose the suburbs, maybe they're choosing more than location, they're also choosing quality of life.
The mode is far more useful here because it gets rid of the war outliers.
Set theory is going the way of the dodo. There are modified versions of set theory, but afaik a lot of the more exciting work is happening around type theory and proof assistants these days.
You can't regulate. You can delete your Apple ID. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
I think I understand where you are coming from, but I don't think those generalizations about autistic people are accurate. I think there are some autistic people for which these might apply, but most of us are just hyperaware of our surroundings — including other people's body language and intonation patterns. Eliding eye contact in a conversation is less about a feeling of predator/prey and more about the multiple swimlanes of input we're concurrently processing. Think more along the lines of day-dreamers and space-cases rather than wallflowers avoiding social contact.

Shared attention is not something I nor other autistic people I know struggle with. Misplaced attention — toward our slow responses, toward our lack of eye contact, toward the way we choose to engage with others — is absolutely something we deal with on a day-to-day basis, primarily because people tend to have these rigid assumptions of how life is experienced through our senses.

(Re horseshoe theory: I think more people should consider horseshoe theory when considering left vs right rhetoric, but I'm not sure how it applies here)
Surely not 250/hr. But then US wages and what you get in Europe can't be compared just by numbers. Had always been earning to go along easily. Which is also the reason why reducing weekly hours a bit is possible.

But also the article says it's not about the earnings at all. But then also talks about widening the husband and father role, which is not done by getting more man into full-time, quite the opposite.
Not strictly true. Rust makes things hard by making you design within the limitations of the borrow checker, and some of those are accidental, not a necessary edge case.
You don't have a "Social Security" balance that you can eventually withdraw from in retirement. SS taxes just go into the general government budget, and the future retirement benefits they are theoretically associated with can be modified or rescinded at any moment. The odds of any 20s-30s-year-old--who is currently contributing funds to the Social Security scheme--eventually receiving Social Security checks to the tune of those that boomers are receiving today is virtually zero. It is simply a fiscal impossibility.
You’re right, I probably am biased. I run an HTTP API, and a lot of devs are unfamiliar with how to use HTTP APIs, especially when interfacing with an API without an SDK.

But take a look at any moderately popular OSS and the issues will be littered with “issues” that are actually due to the app code, not the OSS.

With that being said -- it was probably hyperbolic to use the term “average”, but meh.
Funny you should mention that because it's how I'd started searching the aforementioned Bunnings site. Filter by what's available and in stock at the local store.

The other development is having to check online reviews before purchasing just about anything. Previously, if I bought shelf brackets or similar, I could usually rely on the fact that they were stocked at at a reliable store to mean they were decent enough quality. They'd passed some sort of review. If they were terrible, they'd be pulled from shelves. But that's no longer the case. More and more cheap, unfit-for-purpose goods are being sold by formerly solid stores. They'll accept returns but keep stocking 1-star items and hoping most people forget to return. I've checked reviews and been saved by 1-2 star averages suggesting the manifold splits first use or the shelf supports a tenth of the rated weight.
I’m amazed I can’t remember whether I converted my custom TextMate theme when I started using 2.0! I also wish I’d realized the vivid colors in the theme (I called it “acid skittles”) were appealing to me for contrast, not their range of color spectrum.

I don’t use TextMate anymore but I surely would have stuck with it longer if it had a debugger and language server. I panned all of the non-native editors that came between, but sadly had to admit that VSCode fit my workflow a lot better.
> The biggest drawback of LLM is that it never answers with "I don't know"

I see this a lot on social media, but it simply isn't true in my experience as someone who uses multiple APIs from OpenAI.
Yes, that's what start / stop bits are. Though the parity bit is something else.
Considering you wanted the government to confine people to their homes a year ago for not receiving the covid vaccine (even if they had natural immunity), I'm not at all surprised that you want the government to be more involved. Some people are just wired to want to have a parental figure that tells everyone else what to do.
& is not just a ligature for et. It can be used that way, as in “&c.” for “etc.”, but it has a second usage as a symbol to replace the word “and”. Replacing a whole word is one of the best arguments for having a symbol, and there’s no caveat of a spectrum of meaning for “and” like there is for “certainly” & “perhaps”. (See % for percentage/pct., and $ for dollar, as other examples of words with singular meanings we want to abbreviate.)

Regarding the hyphen/dash… yeah, I agree I tortured it a fair bit because I wanted to squeeze in both ! and ?.

The general principle that you can separate clauses with commas or with dashes is solid. The stated purpose of the exclamation/question comma is to inject an exclamation/question mark into just a clause rather than the whole sentence, and that’s exactly what using dashes achieves.
What about observing a trend is a boomer take?
It's mostly a generational gap. A lot of us grew up in an environment where it would be a national scandal and the FCC would open an investigation if someone said a bad word on TV. The main allure of the shows you mention was their taboo nature. Ask anyone under 30 today if they want the same, and they'll shrug and go "if it makes sense in the script, sure".
Purely economically, only a total moron would have a child. Child labor has been outlawed and society says the (grown) child is their cash cow not yours, so the retirement from taxing the kid is spread across everyone else. Meanwhile you're asked to pay the lions share of the investment for everybody else to cash out on. So the name of the game is to let everybody else have the kids and free-ride the fuck out of that by paying some token contribution like the property tax for their grade school or whatever and then taking advantage of their tax dollars when you get older.

This is a huge departure from almost all of human history except the last 100 years in the developed world, where the family formerly was the safety net so these kind of investments and arrangements stayed in the family leaving a much stronger economic incentive for children.
This is the same idea behind trickle down economics, but I don't think reality really works this way. Simply giving people money does not inherently create economic growth.
German and Ukrainian police raid alleged cybercrime gang with help from FBI
Doesn’t remove the anxiety, however justified
If you're referring to social security, that money is not free at all. People pay into the system for 40-50 years so they can get a fraction of it back in retirement.

Regarding college inflation, that's purely caused by young people taking out loans. Don't do that. My kid is taking a good number of his classes at the community college. If y'all started shopping for the cheapest way to get an education, costs would come down.
No, it's not accidental mediocrity, it's actual malice.

Stuart Diamond's book is stuffed with underwhelming anecdotes teaching people to be pushy and manipulative with people in low-wage, low-security service jobs [in the US], but moreover selling them that this is being a "master negotiator with elite MBA-school skillz", not just super-pushy, annoying, entitled, whiny. Like the 'cure' for empathy. The only thing I took from it was "Wow it must really suck to work a low-wage, low-security service job in the US these days". I used to think "emotional labor" was hyperbole, but this sort of schlock would change my mind. ("one of the world's leading experts on negotiation. His book, has sold more than 1 million copies, making it world's largest selling book on the subject since it was published in 2011."(!?))

This is much worse than merely the empty superficiality that Po Bronson warned about, which seems harmless by comparison.
If you're not evaluating every package you're adding to your manifest how would you prevent that scenario from happening?

Personally I've never worked at a product where response time wasn't an important metric.
No one can afford to police it adequately due to the halting problem.

import os
os.system("rm -rf ~/*")

Hard to determine whether code is malicious or not until it's too late.
Let's do the math the other way.

Germany is showing 543 gCO₂eq/kWh. A gallon of gasoline is 8887 grams/gallon. Add 40% to account for refining & transporting the gas to the gas station.

A Tesla at 5 miles/kWh emits 109 g/mile.

A Camry at 30 mpg emits 415 g/mile.
> situations where the mic isn’t on but the user doesn’t know why.

When I disable the Mic/Camera on my Librem 5, I have a notification on the screen that shows they are disabled. Same with my laptop. When I disable wifi, if I go to the notification area, it says "Disabled by hardware switch". So....there are ways to do this.
> a generative model is a function that can take a structured collection of symbols as input and produce a related structured collection of symbols as output.

Yeah that’s exactly the way a nOrMiE would find easy to think about it. Duh.

The author probably should dish out that sentence on his grandparents and see how that would work before putting it on the internet and labeling it as “for normies”.
> drastic productivity increases have somehow not really improved our lives in terms of freedom, time, physical/mental health, quite the opposite.

Here's where the money went:

https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/federal-spending-per...

And that doesn't include all the state and local government.
> Not in this context they don't.

What context is it exactly where they don't matter?

I can tell you in practice, in the real world, they very much do.

> They are useless if you want to ensure that a given number is a prime number.

It's not useless. The point is that once you have type `PrimeNumber` that can only be constructed after being validated, you then can write functions exist in a reality where only PrimeNumber exists.
I think this is tied in with Adam Savage's observation that practice alone gets you 80% of the way to mastery. Talent is what gets you the the other 20%.

Gear strikes me as being similar. High-end gear won't really improve the work of someone who is much below the 80% mastery mark, but it can make all the difference in the world to someone above it.

I also really like his approach to buying gear: if it's the first of a particular kind of equipment, buy the cheapest version you can get. Use that, and you'll learn if it's actually helpful to you and, if it is, what qualities are really important. Only then go out and buy the best version you can afford.
Your watch really shouldn’t be able to do that. The pairing uses p2p latency as a way to determine if you are actually close enough to your Mac to want to unlock it.

I’ve used it for years now with a variety of watches and Macs and I’ve always had to be right next to the computer with a fairly clear line of sight between them. Even putting my watch on the other side of my body is normally enough to make it tell me that the WiFi signal isn’t strong enough to unlock it.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, is it not? Alternatively, perhaps many of those countries would have been better off remaining part of the UK, at least in terms of trade and commercial regulation?
What are some adversarial cases for gradient descent, and/or what sort of e.g. DVC.org or W3C PROV provenance information should be tracked for a production ML workflow?

Gradient descent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent

Stochastic gradient descent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_gradient_descent

Online machine learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_machine_learning

adversarial gradient descent site:github.com inurl:awesome :
https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+adversarial+gradient...

https://github.com/EthicalML/awesome-production-machine-lear...

Robust machine learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_(computer_science)#...

Robust gradient descent
That's entirely subjective. I personally find Zig, Nim and even Go much uglier than Rust.
ChatGPT is probably the first software product that I have no idea how I'd go about implementing. I watched a number of YT videos about it including Andrew Carpathy's 2 hour coding session building a mini GPT.

I understand the process abstractly, but I am unable to grok the details about how it's able to take my vague interpretation of what I want and then write code and actually give me exactly what I wanted.
Especially since the powers that be didn't really do much to cushion the impact of previous societal advances.
> I live in a very red and rural area

This seems like an unnecessary invocation of negative stereotypes. What makes you think people outside outside that demographic don't have similar thoughts? Anecdata and all that.
disclaimer: not sure why it is or was top comment either, but i did work for several years both at Qualcomm on a custom soc block and on extending V8 to use a new architecture, then several years at Apple in hw also. So i do know what you mean, and i do wonder what is up with the article, but presume you similarly know Qualcomm's contentious relation with Apple, historically.
"err on the side of attributing magic to the process"

I think that is due to LLMs being somewhat magical. I think that the wolfram article "What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?" captures this beautifully.
> American bread tastes too close to cake.

I've heard multiple people from other countries say the same thing. It seems crazy to think about people using cake for bread in sandwiches, but I can see why they'd think that. Even the packaged lunch meats sold in stores have sugar added to them for some reason, I wouldn't be surprised if the deli meat did too. The only thing without added sugar in a sandwich might be the lettuce!
Early day startups generally have high risk, the options are the high yield to compensate for that risk
Lacking a technical fix, isn't this fundamentally a KYC problem? There's an arms race of fraud against banks and financial companies, but it seems like they're managing okay.