skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With these kinds of headlines you always have to figure out how many actual radioisotope solutes are in the water solvent. Otherwise, dilution seems to make it worse. 1 liter of radioactive water diluted into 50 billion liters of water becomes 50 billion liters of radioactive water to the headline writers.

> The EPA safe drinking water concentration for tritium is 20,000 picocuries/liter. It is not expected or likely that this concentration would be exceeded as a result of this event.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/air/t...

I think radiation just freaks people out in general, so these headlines are super effective at getting engagement.
> The one showing hubris here is you, tossing around technical terms don't admit you don't understand.

Hence the disclaimer. I just think this stuff is fascinating. If you're interested, this is the article that originally got me thinking about these ideas as they relate to the flow of time: "Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math" [0]. It's effectively an appeal to intuitionist mathematics and a rejection of constructivism, where - simplified - every particle since the big bang can be assigned some "number" that describes its position on its world line, with a precision that is finite, but always increasing - and it's this increase in precision from which emerges the "flow" of time. If you ctrl+f the article for "continuum," you'll see some better constructed arguments for what I'm trying to argue, e.g.:

> Moreover, the continuum can’t be cleanly divided into two parts consisting of all numbers less than ½ and all those greater than or equal to ½. “If you try to cut the continuum in half, this number x is going to stick to the knife, and it won’t be on the left or on the right,” said Posy. “The continuum is viscous; it’s sticky.”

The impression I'm left with is that the difference between constructivist vs. intuitionist mathematics (which rejects the law of the excluded middle) has some parallels to the difference between eternalism (there is a past, present and future) vs. presentism (there is only the present).

As a layman, I just can't help but notice the same patterns come up again and again when looking at unresolved problems between classical and quantum mechanics, namely those that lie at the boundary between the continuous and discrete. FWIW, I asked ChatGPT for some unresolved mathematical problems that might relate to this, and it came up with: The Continuum Hypothesis, The Axiom of Choice, and The Riemann Hypothesis, all of which it admitted are possibly impossible to prove because they're effectively unfalsifiable. (I also showed it this entire thread, and it agreed with your critique of my arguments, but also that every argument in the thread is unfalsifiable - and then it pointed me to the Boltzmann Brain paradox).

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...
High level languages like Python abstract away boring specifics like memory management and implantation data structures.

Natural language programming via GPT instead abstracts away the actual functioning.

I’ve seen colleagues use snippets from chatGPT that are horrendously inefficient despite being “simple” prompts. They look fine at first glance, but work only 50% of the time.
I was saying believing self driving cars is a safety issue is only controversial if you also don't believe human driven cars are a safety issue. Basically I'm saying you should believe both are a safety issue.
Sounds like they take it more serious than Google does likes on Youtube. A competitor had a video that rapidly had over 100k likes - but if you looked at the total time played, each view averaged to just a couple of seconds on a video over 10 minutes. Reported it, but nothing came of it. (No, not something we regularly do. I think it may be the only video I've ever reported; just want a fair playing field)
I don't see how this is anti-competitive. It's a crappy business practice designed to promote lock-in, but Google Compute and Azure both exist and are run by large, well-known companies that have the marketing and technical prowess to compete with AWS (and they do, even if not as effectively as they--or the consumer--would like).
Anki is free. And the concept of SRS is free. There are apps that are clearly very good at capitalizing on the success of Anki and charging. If you found the paid iPad app, that's a one time fee to help the developers maintain it in the app store. I think it's pretty steep but otherwise Anki is free on other platforms. I actually don't like Anki but don't want it to be mischaracterized
I mean, the bank failed on Friday. They managed to get payroll out delayed a few days. It was a fast moving situation for everyone involved.

Being told that JPMorgan is taking over the deposit, and knowing your payroll payment automations are going to work a different things. I imagine they had to test, and likely rewrite them. Wiring $300M of pay checks as a “we’ll do it live” scenario seems unwise.

You’ve every right to be upset. But how long do you think it would take another payroll provider to recover after losing all funds due to their bank going under? 2-3 days seems pretty impressive.
Not sure where you found a subscription to Anki, but it's free and open source: https://github.com/ankitects/anki

The iOS app is a one-time payment though.

This article is definitely not written with an unfamiliar reader in mind though, that's for sure.
Some people in the US are seeing their net worth rapidly shrinking and they are mad about it

The west pays the price of their stagnation, they lost

The US banned China's 5G in 2016, we are in 2023 and they still haven't developed their own 5G

Let alone the upcoming 6G being tested in china already [1]

And that's an example in just one industry..

Where are the people who demonized cash less societies, big data and surveillance state? they said it was a bad thing, yet we are trying to replicate it as it's proven to be very effective!

"China bad" narrative shows its weakness, who was right?

Why are the people who are responsible of the current situation still holding the power and still get all the fruit of the society? They should be all replaced before it becomes too late

Western Civilization is slowly dying

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/4a1eaf64-c956-45ab-9473-d1437e36d...
At some point in the future the consequences of our actions are going to start emerging, and shit is going to get real for society.

Where in the world would be a good place to be living when this happens? Probably a relatively small, relatively undeveloped island in the pacific right? (if it isn't underwater by that point)
SQLite is great for datasets that fit comfortably into memory, but otherwise it starts to struggle.
Hey I don't fault them for that, at all, I just get annoyed when I am dumb enough to click on ads disguised as blog posts.
Anki is free on anything but iOS. Don't know why the iOS app is the only one with a fee.
If you think this leak, at these concentrations was unacceptable, we are going to need to shut down every chemical and industrial process in the world, starting today, and regress to a stone-age sort of level of technology.

Things leak all the time in industrial work. This one was not particularly damaging, but because it's nuclear, it's under a million times more microscopic scrutiny than any equivalent leak from a chemical plant.
Here's my realm: We have a react based "framework" that in the end is zipped up and delivered as a SCORM package to be embedded in a Learning Management System. We use React Router to manage navigation.

After a quick scan of the Next docs, all references to routing seem to tie back to server side which is a non starter, as the SCORM is standalone HTML/CSS/JS/Media - that we happen to embellish at run time with some api calls.

This is a case where the pure SPA with no server side is the only way to go; seems like a real pain to go against the default state of Next. Am I wrong and am just missing something? Again, been occasionally looking at next and the like over the past while, but never had time to really dig into into it.
That’s not your identity, it’s an access token protected by an advanced lock screen (which is greatly useful, but not the same). If you lose your device, the way you get back into your accounts is your de-facto identity—usually it ranges between the email you used during signup to your govt id.

There isn’t a widely deployed public key network with keys that represent a person, afaik. PGP is the closest maybe?
If he made 300k, those were probably 100g bars or smaller, not giant movie vault gold bars.
I don’t think this is any crazy level of gymnastics.

But not going to keep replying, you engage online in a way that will turn lots of people you talk to away.
Show HN: GPT-4 Analyzed Customer Feedback to Replace NPS Scores
I'm excited to share a new platform called AskHumans (askhumans.io), which aims to transform the way organizations gather customer feedback by leveraging GPT. The goal is to provide a more insightful and personalized alternative to the widely used but often limited Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Having launched startups before, a consistent challenge has been gathering meaningful customer feedback. We believe that large language models (LLMs) can enable personalized feedback at scale, which can be turned into weighted sentiment scores that offer more informative insights than traditional NPS scores.

Moreover, we think that the future advantage of firms with AI is not solely about the algorithms but also about the unique data sets these algorithms can analyze. By incentivizing customers to give open-ended feedback, organizations can create unique data streams that will become increasingly more valuable to them over time.

AskHumans' innovative tech stack includes React Native, Rails, and GPT for sentiment analysis (replacing IBM Watson). The platform allows organizations to ask open-ended questions to their customers or stakeholders, and collect verbal feedback. This feedback is then analyzed by AI to better understand service quality, product satisfaction, and customer experience at scale.

One regional coffee brand's district manager experienced the potential of AskHumans firsthand. Upon witnessing the sentiment analysis, he realized how much more comprehensive understanding of customer experiences he could gain compared to the limited information from his location's NPS score of 7.8.

We believe that the application of AI in customer feedback, combined with unique data sets, will usher in a new era of insights, allowing organizations to make better-informed decisions and enhance their customer experiences.

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the potential of AI-driven customer feedback, the tech stack behind AskHumans, or your own experiences with NPS scores. If you have any questions or comments, please share them below.
The late Republic is one of the most fascinating periods of history you can study, not least because the sources are so rich (albeit largely written by a bunch of self-aggrandizing aristocrats or their lackeys). But Caesar was largely a symptom of its decline and everyone can choose the seeds of destruction according to their tastes. Was it the First Slave Revolt, the Gracchi, the Social War, Marius, Sulla, the triumvirate, the optimates? Was it the lack of a common enemy after the sacks of Carthage and Corinth? Was it the unresolved tensions left over from the Conflict of Orders? Probably all of them, and you're just left to marvel, as Polybius did, that the Romans had a system that held the competing tensions in some sort of balance for as long as it did.

The angle I've most enjoyed lately is applying the framework from Robin Markwica's "Logic of Affect" to many of the figures in the build up to the civil war. Erich Gruen's "The Last Generation of the Roman Republic" is also very interesting, in that he portrays most Republican institutions (and even Caesar and Pompey's relationship) functioning quite well fairly late on. The entire standoff seemed so unnecessary and avoidable, but there's too much power and prestige at stake by the end for anybody to budge. Were I to point the finger at one man it would be Cato the Younger, but as I say, it's all personal taste at this point.
Honestly, I wish websites here were more information-dense. Many sites seem to have gone all-in on adding as much whitespace as possible, making them much harder to use on (say) smaller laptops.
Something like ysh and yam seems great as well, assuming ysh then means yam shell and the overall project name is related to yam in some way. I don’t have a better “rename everything” name in mind though, hard to say without a good understanding of the other components.

One thing to consider is you kind of get 1 “nonsense” pass in that you can really pick anything as the project name long as everything gets named in relation. E.g. hardly anyone knows rust is named after the rust fungus because it’s hardy but everyone gets that rustc is the compiler, rustup updates rust, .rs and .rlib are the file extensions, rust lang refers to the language in particular, and the community makes tons of rust related name puns from there. Oil was actually a really solid option for that kind of base beyond the connotation often being negative.
This. I can't understand people who want their plot of land to be without natural life. Might as well sell the house and move to a flat instead.
I also had a similar thought process regarding understanding vs memorizing facts while transitioning from studying CS (where I emphasized understanding the underlying concepts rather than trying to memorize atomic facts that I could derive) to medicine (where having facts memorized is also a key component). Interestingly, I found that committing to memorizing facts actually helped me gain a deeper understanding of the topics themselves, which was not what I originally expected! (I wrote a little bit about the above a few months ago -- https://samrawal.substack.com/p/on-the-relationship-between-...)
> Is there some huge wave of people being involuntarily committed I've somehow missed?

Sort of. It's more complicated than providers necessarily jumping through the formal hoops every time; it can be a mix of informal coercion, asking leading questions to prompt the necessary "red flag" answers, and putting up practical barriers to the person leaving even if they're "voluntarily" admitted on paper. [1] [2] [3] [4]

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/intake

[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/largest-u...

[3] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/pub...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9937983/
It’s not just tragedy of the commons, it’s also a lack of collective will to not keep borrowing from the future and kicking the can. Debt, the biome, economic systems depending on never ending growth and an ever growing population pyramid. There is no incentive to think long term and preserve for tomorrow.

This will catch up to us eventually, and ignorance will be plead.
> "Hey it's me {name} and today I will teach you about {topic}"

This is all over the tech-squee portion of the west though. Twitter, Mastodon, etc. Filter by tweet threads starting with "So, " and you'll find the most egregious IMO...

(Some very informational, but still)
There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ Against Misinformation
All environments are stateful, by necessity. A stateless system would have no input, no output, and consume no electricity. How much the programming requires thinking about that state is one technical dimension.
Oberon+ is not set in stone; if there are good ideas that fit into the concept of simplicity and add significant value, they should be considered. From my point of view, however, one should rather avoid proliferation, as one can observe it with e.g. C#, C++ or TypeScript.
> I really hope AGI will soon be able to replace those humans that cannot be reasoned with logic.

Great use case
Check out papers that cites this one.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1377111639896250698...
I've also heard there might be cultural differences in other ways...

There is no tipping in japan. If there is bad service at a restaurant, people... just don't ever come back. I suspect that folks might treat 404's as a similar type of "bad server"... and not return.
Why would engineers need their environment shipped to them by a human?
> Let’s say I want to run something open-source in my AWS account; call it MySQL for this thought experiment. I can set up MySQL on an EC2 instance, or I can use AWS’s own managed service (in this case, RDS) to do it for me. I’ll pay slightly more for RDS, but that’s fair; there’s value in having AWS’s operational expertise applied to running infrastructure for me.

The author acknowledges they know they are already paying a premium for the managed service. With that premium you are also paying for the traffic between instances. If the price was the same I'd see how this is anti-competitive but like this I don't understand the argument.
Not only that. I'm assuming that in Norway you have a notice period which is tied to how long you work there.

Not the case here.

I could sign a mortgage Monday and be laid off Tuesday.

So then my income and insurance just stop.

Companies have no obligation to give you notice. Anything they do is literally out of the good of their PR people.
Some states require payout of accrued vacation days (notice the government doesn't mandate any amount of vacation days, it's all up to negotiation).

Then you can go on unemployment, but for some reason it's capped in amount per month, so even if I make $200,000/year, which after taxes becomes $11,000/month. I live in a HCOL, my unemployment would be ~$450/week, so ~ $2,000/month. Which is less than my rent.
And I pay A LOT of taxes.
>Why do they allow the Crap And Turds department to piss all over their work?

Because Windows is a free-in-practice product and it needs/wants a revenue stream.

Remember that Windows 11 can be activated with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 keys; as if that wasn't crazy enough you can straight up not activate it and you won't lose out on anything important.

As for install media? You can download those for free any time. No strings attached.

As for Edge, that really is a free-as-in-beer product. You literally can't buy it.
Huberman and Walker cover some of this in the linked materials, but “The Mind After Midnight: Nocturnal Wakefulness, Behavioral Dysregulation, and Psychopathology” [0] is a pretty interesting review of the literature on this.

In short, we’re becoming increasingly aware of the impact of light throughout the day on the body’s circadian rhythm. Bottom line: natural selection didn’t design to be up throughout the night.

As for the benefits I’ve personally noticed:

- I’m significantly clearer in the head throughout the day and feel more able to make better choices during the day (about food, time spent, etc)

- My mental/emotional state has improved, and I have more capacity to deal with challenging emotions

- Increasingly (this has been shifting steadily) I start each day ready to tackle the hard stuff and I don’t have to use as much willpower

- This is the other side of the “mental/emotional” item but I generally feel happier, or have more capacity to experience happy feelings

- There is also a body of research about getting morning sunlight in your eyes, and I’ve found that on days that I do, I sleep much better. Sleep tracking confirms this. Having a science-backed reason to witness/enjoy the sunrise is nice on mornings when my body just wants to stay in bed.

More generally, such a question is starting to look like similar to questions about a healthy/balanced diet: some of the benefits can be experienced now, but prevention of long term issues is just as important. The links between lack of healthy sleep and degenerative brain issues later in life (dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc) seem to be getting stronger based on recent research.

- [0] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnetp.2021.8303...
Why is stale a bad thing? It could be something that was created to serve a purpose, developed to the point that it was feature complete for that purpose, and now requires no more development yet continues to do its purpose without modifications.

It's almost like you are thinking of it as an expiration date and the software has spoiled.
It’s fertilizers but it’s also declining biodiversity. We’re razing down natural habitats and covering it up with other things. When you dig up the prairies and build McMansions with decorative grass at best, turf or concrete at worst, all the native insects go to die, and so does the rest of the food chain.
Detecting Hidden Brain States with Mathematical Models
The Rust community always had a deep interest to sell Rust and did so through blog posts, comments and projects. I’ve seen this with many other languages on HN, but the zeal with which Rust is constantly shoved in the face of everyone is a tad more irritating than what I remember about what seemed to be grassroots interest in Ruby, Haskell or Objective-C.

When I read your top-level comment I don’t read a story from a random developer, I read an endorsement from a prominent member of the Rust community trying to paint Rust in a positive light, but conveniently omitting any negative aspects. This happens way too often to be a coincidence: the polite Rust developer educating others about the benefits of Rust may as well be a recurring character in this series.

Yet as companies actually start to use Rust and hit various problems, these are not given the same amount of attention. Obviously you don’t care about that, but this kind of submarine advertisement is a pet peeve of mine, so don’t be surprised if I continue to comment.
I believe locking customers in to proprietary services is called "going full IBM."
Yes, Caesar's death opened the field for Octavian. But Octavian was such a political genius that we can easily imagine him assuming dictatorial power after Caesar no matter how long the latter lived, and institutionalizing in substantially the same form.
Efficient Cross-Lingual and Progressive Transfer Learning
JavaScript is popular because people like half-baked hacky things that give them instant rush/feeling they can do something (i.e. show something basic in a browser). So much effort was spent on painting a lipstick on this pig or to replace it but nothing succeeded unfortunately. It's the equivalent of some fast food in mental domain. If I wanted to damage programmers' minds I would push for this atrocity to become a universal standard. The quality of most node.js modules is horrible which never disappoint in reinventing existing things from other languages/frameworks in inferior ways.
I expect that's where we're heading. But then, as somebody who writes online mostly under my own name, maybe I'm just biased. Come on in, the water's fine!

I think there are cases for anonymous/pseudonymous speech, but I think that's going to have to shift away from disposable identities. Newspapers, for example, have been providing selective anonymity for hundreds of years, so I think there's a model to follow: trusted people/organizations who validate the quality of a non-public identity.

So a place like HN, for example, could promise that each pseudonymous account is connected to a unique human via some sort of government ID with challenge/response capability. Or you could end up with third-party ID providers that provide a similar service that goes beyond mere identity, like the Twitter Verified program scaled up.

Disposable identities have always been a struggle. E.g., look at Reddit's very popular Am I the Asshole, where people widely believe a lot of the content is creative writing exercises. But keeping up a fake identity over the long term was a lot of work. Not anymore, though!
Somewhere with lots of natural resources, not too hot and few people. Alaska perhaps? Siberia would work if the local government wasn't so crazy.