skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to use a smartphone with palmar hyperhidrosis?
I've been suffering secondary hyperhidrosis(excessive sweating, partcularly bad on my palms) due to a recent adjustment in medication that hasn't "settled" yet. This has led to my phone being a nightmare to use. I only have to sweep a few times for false touches to start happening. I constantly have to turn off the screen to wipe it down. As an example I'm writing this on my phone right now and so far I've had to do this 5 times just to be able to type it.

So I'm curious, if anyone struggles with palmar hyperhidrosis, how do you use your phone without losing your minds(up to 7 now)?
The interesting part is mostly comparing the nordic countries against each other. Sweden seemed to be doing much much worse early on due to the chosen strategy, but that no longer seems to be the case.
Is there some sort of definitive, or at least thorough analysis on this? With actual calculations and references to studies.
The early 2000 say hi, welcome back!
Back then I needed nothing more than a simple $('container').html(response) to make a "SPA".
This just sounds like a run of the mill malware attack... I don't know any security researcher that'd be complying with this stuff or running executables outside of a sandbox.
Sadly yes, none of the big players work on anything other than windows as far as I'm aware.
Energy dissipation. It's enough energy to temporarily heat the rock and the impactor to the point that they start glowing very brightly.
I would give this 10 points if I could! But that’s level 2 driving. It is not nothing.
According to Bloomberg, YC was amongst the ones encouraging the bank run.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/svb-ceo-b...
I think people, Chomsky included, are really missing the point or else find a way to place themselves in the milieau of oppositional thinkers to attract fame and credibility. Chomsky, by the way, is also a notorious supporter of "Russia's interests" in its criminal prosecution of its invasion into Ukraine. So those lauding his intelligence and wisdom should already have serious reservations before diving in. But let's just get right to it.

People who rely on LLMs to do their work in domains they understand find them useful in the sense of hefting another useful tool as humans have done throughout their existence. That's it. Among serious users of LLMs as a productive tool there's no wistful wonder that they may be speaking to a truly understanding intelligence. So Chomsky and the rest of the critics don't really have a foot to stand on when they say things like

> It is at once comic and tragic, as Borges might have noted, that so much money and attention should be concentrated on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted with the human mind, which by dint of language, in the words of Wilhelm von Humboldt, can make “infinite use of finite means”, creating ideas and theories with universal reach.

Why is it comic and tragic? LLMs are genuinely useful tools and one of my biggest productivity boosters at work since I learned how to make a computer do my bidding. Of course huge amounts of money are being poured in when it's so helpful across a number of domains for getting work done.

Really, folks, there's nothing to see here. Make use of these marvelous tools and continue doing what humans have done best, a truly innate human inheritance, to use tools to support our goals.
Chomsky may be right or wrong. The problem the philosophers face is the high likelihood that the "a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating" [0] is going to just be more effective than whatever it is human brains do, similar to how rocks turn out to be more effective at adding numbers together than a mathematician despite the early indications from prehistory to whenever the calculator became viable.

Statistical models turn out to be enough to get past the Turing test. They're probably going to be better at interpreting vague requirements and making decisions than most humans too. They're better at art than the average, and better at explaining themselves than most humans.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...
Ohh yes, reducing the amount of tasks the hyphen is used for helps as well
I wonder if UE5 or Blender have similar and perhaps competitive methods for the Loki water state machine in generating realistic water and mist. The article uses a lot of jargon:
Navier-Stokes simulators, Lagrangian wave packets attached to spline curves, incompressible two-phase Navier-Stokes solvers on a Eulerian grid, and air phase representation by FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particle) and APIC (Affine Particle-in-Cell) solvers.

I remember the Quake I water simulation, which I found amazing at the time. I knew water is hard to simulate, but understanding fluid dynamics and the above jargon seems hard to grok too.
First Republic, other regional bank stocks sink after failure of SVB
Is this a satirical comment about how people try to inject blatant guilt by association under the guise of "context"?
The wants of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

The most important want is that of the executive who can open the door of his office and gaze out at the sea of reportees and down-levels assigned under him in the corporate org chart. After all, he's the one who decides on office layout and WFH policies.
The fact that SVB just went under disproved your point. Without a moat a company is relegated to ways of making money that at some point in time become unsustainable (i.e. when interest rates change) and then go under. As opposed to companies with strong moats that defend their free cash flow (i.e. Apple).
As an individual it is generally advised and expected to have 3-6 months of living expenses saved up in a secure location. Yey these VC backed startups can’t even cover a single missed payroll with emergency funds of any kind. It really does go to show how smart and sophisticated they aren’t.
It is a lot easier to start a subscription box company than a bank. That's a moat.
This is now pretty much nonsense, because of technology every dash is a hypen.
Not necessarily a profession, but I noticed on Tinder that I would frequently match with women who rode horses and would never click with them personality wise. If I see a photo of a woman riding a horse nowadays I will tend to swipe left unless there’s something exceptional on their profile as I don’t think it’s worth the time.

The culture might be different in the US and other countries to the UK, I don’t know.
Chomsky is saying things that are completely obvious, and that's where the comedy comes in.

The tragedy seems to be that during the hype of any technological bubble, someone of the scale of Chomsky is needed to make at least someone hear the obvious. But maybe it's also a comedy.

However, it doesn't matter. All flying cars will be on RISK V and Rust and on the blockchain soon. That's what's main.
Have you used Solidworks or Creo? Is Alibre relatively inline with their workflow/layout?
It may be observed that Chomskys piece is in this sense much a modern take on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, who also starts in his exposition with the core theme of negativity, as the very base of "sense certainty" (better: sensual certainty, sinnliche Gewissheit), what Hegel called the "teachings of Ceres", the very origin of conceptuality, in order to expand on this in his grand scheme. (I find it quite remarkable that Chomsky would fall back on this classic line of thought on this occasion.)
Maybe I don't understand what they're trying to say using word "meme", but browsing I found no memes at all
> I'm not sure how long you've been in the industry. But you sound like it is less than maybe 10 years.

Okay. No offence, but so do you.

> Before react and such, you were considered a frontend developer when you delivered your javascript + html + css from any backend, though typically it would be served by php, RoR, or, more limitedly, by some python.

Not really. Back in the day, before the great divide [1], the terms we used were "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". We also had "Flash Developer" but I digress. A web designer was expected to know all the front-end stuff including JS, since the front-end was not that complex. Almost all complexity was at the back-end, and that was the job of a web developer. The term "front-end web developer" simply did not exist in 2003. There was nothing to "develop" in the front end, since all complexity was on the back. Yes, there were some exceptions, but in those days, PHP was king. React is current king, and it's funny how it gets the same hate PHP got back in the day. Some people just like to tear down and burn whatever is at the top. Reacts successor will get the same hate. Thats how you know who the king is.

> Again, back in the day, you wouldn't call yourself a backend dev if you did anything meaningful with html UI. You would still call yourself frontend even though you had to work through templating in a given backend language.

Wrong. Why would someone working on PHP and MySQL call themselves frontend? So who were the backends back then? Strange thing to call yourself "front", when no one called themselves "back", don't your think? Like I said, the
terms back then were web developer and web designer.

> Source: I've been doing this for a couple of decades.

Source: So have I.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/
I can't quite wrap my head around this. Apparently they advertised a consumer device with remote access over the WWW as "No Clouds"? And the advertisement actually worked, as in, many "privacy-minded security camera buyers" believed that obvious bullshit?
I'm surprised no one has brought up the excessive waste of energy that has occurred when m-dashes have been misused when the correct character should have been an hyphen or an n-dash. Those additional pixels have no doubt contributed to kilograms of mankind's carbon footprint.

/s
The hard part will be figuring out your different categories to classify.

As some have pointed out, embedding your documents using an LLM would be a good bet.

If you take the time to manually annotate a portion of your data, you could then fine tune a model. You could also try doing some few shot / zero shot with chat GPT. You could also try to do some clustering on your embeddings to see if categories emerge and try to attribute them afterwards
The first Avatar had zero lasting cultural impact and this one will be the same. Name me one quotable line from either film. “I see you” lol

You seem like a very shallow person if you think these films are any good.
The Lab Leak Theory – A Bayesian Approach
Gave me the fun thought that this person can only be productive working in Emacs on a vintage eMac.
Posix Shell and Utilities: Detailed Toc
My language allowed for the acknowledgement of few and far between cases of suicide. It’s not a fair comparison to smoking deaths. Social media suicides get a lot of attention because, like you said, adolescent suicide is particularly sad. The numbers, however, are completely different orders of magnitudes; deaths by social media are insignificant when compared to smoking.
Maybe I am following the hive mind unknowingly, but my personal affection with vinyl is very similar to how I enjoy cooking even if I can get better meals in restaurants or creating furniture even though I can buy stuff pre-made that is higher quality: it's just a nice feeling.

The rotating disk in the room adds atmosphere, and there is a bit of commitment -- I can't easily skip that one song I dislike, so I listen to the album the way the artist made it. Sometimes that is annoying, but quite often, I have ended up enjoying the harder-to-digest songs even more than the others.
Because they don't do anything but generate text when prompted, while humans are walking around doing things. I would expect at least two things from an AGI, weak or strong:

1. It has agency.
2. It can move about and manipulate the world in a general as opposed to predefined sense.
Or go to Costco
Yes, because population has lost the implication of people due to its usage as a technical term in statistics [1]. Demographics does not have a similar usage history. If it had, there would not be any cause for confusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_population
It’s only good if the “questioning received wisdom” actually involves questioning it. Not throwing it out and insisting that your idea is better, with zero evidence or even plausibility, for decades.
Choose Boring Tools
"Tell me you're a scammer without telling me you're a scammer."
Men paying to have their jaws broken in the name of ‘manliness’
I thought the idea was great and I subscribed to Harry’s at one point. The premise was that I wouldn’t have to think about razors any more and would always have them. That seemed like a good deal to me.

The problem was the razors just sucked.
Using SQLite for logging and ad-hoc profiling
As opposed to left to their own devices with almost no public transit infrastructure and unwalkable curbs if their condition does not allow them to drive a car?

Also roads still exist in Europe, you know.
Tilde is already used for approximation though.

The sentence as you wrote it could be misinterpreted as "the conflict spanning the years 1939 to ca. 1945...".

Had you used a dash/hyphen/minus/whatever nobody would be likely to misinterpret that as "the conflict spanning the years minus six..."
Why? It's $100 for you and nothing for me, I think. Here's what I see on that page:

https://wakatime.com/static/img/ScreenShots/Screenshot%20202...

Edit: Now I notice the "Referral payout" column. I guess that means I get something too, but I didn't think that was the case when posting the link originally.
email me @ endigma@fastmail.com, hiring, interested in what you say, in Canada
I read kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain and picked up this concept there, and I thought it was fitting for what I need to be productive.
What happens if you 'cover up' a ransomware infection?
It’s unclear to me exactly what role a local bank is supposed to play in the modern era. In the old days when banks did real underwriting, a local banker would know a small business or would-be homeowner’s reputation and take it into account (for better or worse.)

Now banks just originate mortgages and use the standardized underwriting criteria provided by the buyer, usually GSEs.

All other consumer lending is almost strictly driven by credit scores.

Even medium sized businesses now have access to debt and equity markets. There are national companies that specialize in things like factoring.

I guess maybe local banks are still making loans to hyperlocal businesses like pizza shops and hair salons?
the forum is up. due to an attack, I had to block US IPs.
> Shareholders could lose 100% of their investment, their EV is not +5%.

Converting from (EV on bank accounts) to return for shareholders is non-trivial, but as long as shareholders get > 100% RoI in successful case their EV is positive.

> Bank employees could get higher bonuses, but also run higher risk of 0% bonus and losing their job.

Losing job aside, equal chances of 100% and 0% bonus is better than guaranteed 30% bonus. Depending on premium you put on having the same job, it may be better even with risk of losing job.

This scenario will not work for investments, as people understand that if startup X fails - you loose money. In "government bails out depositors completely" scenario: you invest money in bank, bank loans it to startup X, startup X fails - you get your money back (from government and ultimately taxpayers).
No, content creators gave the internet to advertisers because they needed something to eat.
Literally noöne
It seems like your job is so high level you lost track of the fact that virtual machines run on actual machines :)
If Pence wishes to speak truth to power he can testify under oath.
Aaronson works on quantum complexity theory. He has almost no papers on language or AI (classical one, the one that has produced LLMs in question). He is going to go to OpenAI soon for some sort of position (perhaps PR around quantum ML, that is nevertheless important for the company).

Chomsky has around half a million citations to his scientific work, mostly on language. The guy is amazing. At age 94, he is productive, sharp and very well spoken. I tend to take him more seriously on this.

One problem is that, experts in one domain opine about domains they have not worked on. Another problem is, some people apparently hold a view that, if you make a product that works and sells, nothing else matters. Everyone will rush to earn a living around it. They feel empowered to take any position. So Science doesn’t matter if it’s not aligned, products do. Aaronson didn’t publish a proper article addressing Chomsky’s arguments.
¿But which tilde? I'm a fan of typographical abuse of the ⁓ swung dash myself.
Don’t most luxury things serve a mental health function?

I know people whose mental health would suffer if you took away their beach house or private jet. That doesn’t make those things not luxury items.
You're probably not wrong, but then this is completely orthogonal to this discussion.
Google "unsupervised clustering". There are many well known algorithms.
Why momentum rather than kinetic energy?
Oh, so that’s where “Antipodean” to refer to Aussies comes from! Neat!
If anyone is looking for remote/Canada, email me at endigma@fastmail.com, we may have a position for you.

I will reply to every person, no ghosting here.
A word of advice: read your links before you send them next time; it could make you look smarter.
Good luck with those doors in a parking lot in a shopping centre.. how do you go out?
I'm very interested in those Boox tablets.
Is there a way to have them display a static image (a custom website or Android app) when they are in standby? Or do they force-switch to some screen saver mode, like many e-readers do?
I ignore karma, points, etc on all forums and websites; it's a needless dick shaking exercise. I'd rather people know me for my comments than what position I'm at on a ranking board.

I run a forum (like message board style) after an older one kicked it, one of the things I did was turn off displaying post count, because that ended up being a thing that people used to gamify the experience and measure each other up.
ok, this is my Euro brain's fault, we have a monthly payroll.
Sure you can do it, to people with criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution isn't regulation. If the only deterrent to stealing things were fines, the poor would only be stealing things all day. They would have nothing to lose and everything to win .

But when you're up against corporations, the only thing they can lose is money. And the incentive structure is such that losing 100% with some probability is still profitable. That's why this happens. No regulation can bring the loss further down. Therefore you can't regulate it away.

Regulation is only a possible solution to a problem when it has a high enough probably for a penalty, and high enough penalty (100% is always the maximum!), to tilt back the expectation value from different choices.

You can't solve this with regulation. Regulation can't, by definition, solve misaligned behavior which already happens under when the risk is 100% loss on getting discovered.
The reply you’re quoting could be written by me, though I’m a decade short. It gets complicated for people that compete (bodybuilders, powerlifters, weightlifters, strongmen, crossfitters… and insert the most of the sports), but that is around nationals level specialization. And it gets complicated because the actual problem space varies a lot from sport to sport. But to get there up to that point, one needs the consistency that the most of the people don’t have.

Edit: For an example a bodybuilder, an olympic weightlifter and a greco-roman wrestler all have muscle, but the problem space is very different even though they all share some common set of tools. But in any of these three you’ll get pretty far and see quite a lot of progress just keeping it simple. Optimization is needed only at the very top.

Lift or train about every other day, try to improve from the last time. Eat. If you feel extra tired, rest. If you dont seem to progress, change your regime a bit. Human body is built for adaptation, it’s the only thing we have. It is not complicated.
I’ve worked in cubicles with high walls, cubicles with low walls, a “pit” (high cubicle walls surrounding a whole team of devs), open offices, and remote.

Cubicles with high walls was my favorite configuration. I have a really hard time focusing when people are constantly moving through my field of view, and it makes me uncomfortable when I am constantly in someone else’s field of view. High cubicle walls solve that. They also provide a little sound absorption. But you still get the benefit of being in an office and meeting with people face to face.

Open office was the worst for me, by far. It was so noisy, with so many distractions. I would never work in an open office again. The “pit” and the low-wall cubicle were similar, though not quite as bad.

I have worked remote for many years, and it’s the best for work-life balance (emphasis on the life part), but have found that collaboration and team morale suffer pretty significantly.

Edit: one other note about cubicles is that if the ceiling is high and the windows are large, you can still get a large amount of natural light even if you aren’t next to a window. The cubicle setup felt way less claustrophobic to me than the open office.
I think the underlying goal is to have people not be sleeping at times when the sun is up because that's a waste.

In the bay area daylight hours will vary, going as low as 10 hours in winter and as high as 14 hours in summer.

Standard time in December has 5pm occur after sunset.

Assume a standard 8 hour workday of 9 to 5. That's 8 of the 10 daylight hours dedicated to "work" with none left over for after work leisure time.

Numbers above are rough estimates, don't come at me with exact sunset time of some arbitrary day.

I propose that a very large percentage of workers do not do a type of work that is dependent on sunlight. The vast majority of people work indoors in a building with electric lights. Leisure time on the other hand is often spent outdoors. Or would be if we were to arrange our clocks so that there was more daylight after work.

Let's go wildly overboard with this thought experiment: Create a time zone overlay called "Fun in the Sun Time". FitST has 12 noon occur around the time when the sun rises. Everyone will have woken up while it's still dark out using some electric lights at home, then gone to work (where the lights are on 100% of the work hours regardless of what timezone, real or imagined). Lunch break takes place during sunlight hours, and after work there are still at least 5 hours to go hiking/biking/sun bathing/BBQing/whatever.

This is a bit extreme, obviously, but a somewhat less extreme version of this would be to have the bay area run on Eastern Standard Time (or equivalent) year round. This 3 hour shift would synchronize businesses here with the east coast.

Or we could do the easiest, least intrusive thing, shift to PDT now in March and never switch back.
It's a shame when technology fails us in this way - I just mean that computers are created to be our tools, and if we want to easily write «this», we can make that happen. If we only have people with this mindset (computers are our tools) in the right places.
Also see Sheldon Brown!