skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we could just get people who aren't informed to recognize that they're not informed and not have an opinion, that would be a huge win for civil discourse.

I agree, but I think this falls into the category of "we've tried literally nothing and we're all out of ideas".

If someone is sitting on a pile of $, I think something quite effective (but oh, would it be controversial) could be built.

> I'm suggesting that you have the will to say "I am not fully informed" when you don't know the answer.

"The spirit (will) is willing (well, sometimes) but the flesh is weak". Free will, heuristics, and consciousness/reality are extremely complex topics. I believe very strongly that modern day people have this ability in similar quantities to the ability of people from 50 years ago to not be racist. It is innate, second nature, System 1, outside their control.

From below:

>> Eventually you have to trust someone with something.

You have to. While this is not logically, physically, necessarily true, I think this is literally true for most people, as a consequence of the evolved nature of consciousness, combined with culturally-ingrained norms, one of which is whether philosophy was a part of the educational curriculum one was exposed to... And even then, how good one is at it, in fact (which is typically inaccessible, thus imagined/simulated).

Another:

>> To you, the danger is not knowing that there are, in fact, lizard people controlling the government. To me, the danger is in ending up spending my free time poring over fringe lizard-people Twitter.

Also simulated. Sure, it's "just snark", "speaking colloquially", {excuse du jour}, but I wonder if the mind atrophies with lack of use like muscles do.
The trouble is that other US government interventions also eliminated a big chunk of the "anything else to do with it". In particular, most mortgages in the US are fixed rate for the entire duration of their term through government backing, which almost entirely eliminates one of the big sectors of loans that banks in other countries can use to make money on the premium from interest payments with less duration mismatch than 10-year or 30-year bonds. In most other countries, mortgages are either variable rate or only fixed rate for a relatively short period. Also, a substantial proportion of all US mortgages in existence apparently locked in their interest rates during the time period in 2020 and 2021 when they were at record lows.
The only ethical way out of this is a modern debt jubilee, as Steve Keen has been advocating for for years.

Keeping nominal interest rates low will just continue the malinvestment and speculative ridiculousness of the last decade (or three) and risk serious inflation and political instability. Raising nominal interest rates hurts everyone and, as always, the primary burden will fall on the now heavily-indebted working and middle classes (capitalism, red in tooth and claw, for the masses, socialism for the rich).

The problem is too much debt, full stop. The fair way to address this is a modern debt jubilee: everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt, non-debtors may keep the money and do what they please with it.

https://think-beyondtheobvious.com/reducing-debt-via-a-moder...

Of course, Keen is completely ignored by modern economists becase "debt doesn't matter" and "we owe it to ourselves." Meanwhile, in the real world, the who are whomsting the whom, good and hard, and paying court economists a tidy speakers fee to not notice.

So it goes.

At the end of the day, we get what we deserve.
For humans there's a social cost to wild lies and fabrications, even if one is otherwise generally reliable. I would probably consider a person who is wrong 50% of the time but can reason about how they came to a conclusion and the limits of their knowledge/certainty to be more reliable than someone who is correct 90% of the time but lies/fabricates/hallucinates the other 10% of what they say.

If a human acting in good faith is pressed for the evidence for something they said that is untrue, they will probably give a hazy recollection of how they got the information ("I think I read it in a NYT article", etc). They might be indignant, but they won't fabricate an equally erroneous trail of citations.

ChatGPT produces some shockingly good text, but the rate of hallucinations and its inability to reliably reason about either correct or incorrect statements would be enough to mark a human as untrustworthy.

The fact that LLMs can produce plausible, authoritative text that appears well evidenced, and can convincingly argue its validity regardless of any actual truth does however mean that we might be entering an era of ever more accessible and convincing fraud and misinformation.
That assumes the battery still works. I have some old laptops, but few have usable batteries.
I think this visualization would be a lot more informative if it was ... just a list of all the five letter words. lol.

I swear, data scientists just visualize things because they can, and don't think about what information they want people to take away.
PRNG?
We will never know
this is a weirdly incompetent attempt. if you’re gonna go to the effort of making x different accounts to promote a post, why not go to the slight extra effort of giving them even remotely convincing comments?
Not enough allocation of time, no high priority in my life.
Inflation can reduce my purchasing power for things experiencing inflation. Unemployment can reduce my income by 100% making my purchasing power equal to zero. Further, underemployment and lagging wage growth will be far worse for workers than 5% inflation.

The fed is a mechanical device designed to combat inflation by destroying productivity and growth and inducing economic contraction by spurring savings and making expansion more expensive and making businesses that operate on revolving credit lines impossible to run.

Not everything is inflating, and even if inflation eats away wage growth, at least people have jobs. Over time inflation drives investment - as there are more dollars the ability to capture them increases if you can increase your productivity and reduce the prices you charge. It’s perhaps counter intuitive but inflation induces a decrease in prices over time so long as you don’t make borrowing more expensive. the typical response to inflation is to raise borrowing which inhibits price competition.

Inflation is an excess of demand for supply. Supply increases to meet demand over time. It is true if you print money you see inflation. But when you stop printing money supply grows to meet demand. We stopped printing money already. If we left borrowing cheap, supply would meet demand and inflation would stop and we would probably see a growth based deflationary period.
(Wannabe) Despots attack all institutions. That by itself doesn't mean anything.
The core ideas for extracting the information with GPT are already available in the blog post linked above. Those are exactly the prompts I'm using. The rest is just a pretty simple Nuxt web application. So I'm not sure if open sourcing my mediocre frontend code would be of any value. Is there anything in particular you would be interested in?
I saw a lot of that while doing phone screens: People who were getting coached via earbuds, people who were frantically searching Google for answers, etc.

The 100% virtual hiring process means that it is much easier to sub out your interview as there’s no point in the process where you show up for an on-site, present your government issued ID, and then interview.
This is a letdown of the current state of technology - guess most of us expected to be able to run a (regular distro) Linux on $2 chips that could even embed a "real time processor" to do the bitbanging. The opposite happen: a Raspy Zero price rivals the NUC.
People don't like to lie, so the more they have to lie to commit fraud the fewer will commit fraud. If they have to lie up a whole paper very few will do it, if they just have to click a button and then the only lie is to say they did it on their own then many more will do it.
You’re clearly unwilling to assume any liability for your opinions of the matter; as such, in my opinion, you should explicitly acknowledge this, as it’s relevant to assessing the merits of your beliefs.

Beyond that, in this thread and in the comment you’re replied to, I already established legal basis for Facebook to contest any use of their property for commercial use as it relates to the topic at hand. Do you understand how contract law works?

Also pointed out that regardless of the presence of an existing precedent either via legal code or case law, Facebook has the legal right to file a legal complaint, have it ruled on, and judges are free to rule as they see fit.

Related comment on the impact of laundering stolen property on legal claims:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260528
How many servers do you have on this setup? How do you handle persistent storage with docker swarm?
From the comments, I gather the preference to use the keyboard and to search for bookmarks. I tend to use the mouse more and browse my "important" and not so ethereal links.

The sliding sidebar hierarchy of bookmarks in folders doesn't work for me. There is no sidebar using Firefox Nightly on Android — bookmarks in Safari are easier given the extremely constrained screen space. I'd much prefer a floating window web page. Sidebars consume and waste much of the space within each browser window. I'd like to be able to drag new links to be added to my local web page(s) and be able to use Command+B/Ctrl+B to make text Bold. Editing web pages within the web browser was abandoned long ago.
JPMorgan Chase buys data platform for startups in push to serve venture capital
> Consider a common scenario: childcare in or near a major city that would allow a dual-income household to work 9 AM - 5 PM with commute times factored in. In my experience, that's $15k - $30k per year, _per child_ [2]. Nanny care substantially minimizes marginal per-child cost for > 1 child, but still costs 25k - 40k per year.

This is true, but some times when I talk to young people about children they imagine these costs extending forever. Childcare is an expensive, albeit temporary, expense.

It helps to map out which expenses would be incurred in which years in a spreadsheet. For many, childcare might come down to effectively consuming most or all of one spouse’s after-tax income for a few years, but maintaining career continuity can be worth it.

As I get older, I’m also seeing more of my friends decide that one of them will become a stay at home parent - and ending up happier because of it. I never would have guessed I’d see some of these people voluntarily choose to give up their lucrative careers to stay home with the kids, but then I look and see that they’re happier and less stressed than I am
Ah, that kind of timing. I have made several kinds of clocks with RPis, one that ran fine for years driving a little servo to strike an hourly chime like a grandfather clock, which was all very easy thanks to having an OS with NTP and cron.

But I mostly agree with the article, I have a Gigabyte Brix fanless NUC-alike as my real home server, and a couple of Pis doing little things (and switched to 'overlay file system' so running only from memory and not writing to those frail SD cards).
Can you quantify or prove that we are more distracted?
I generally agree, there are a few places I'll throw a pi, because it's small and easy to set up and just hack something.. Like a print/scan server or an easy way to get a microphone or webcam hooked up to the LAN..

But a lot of times, an ESP8266 or even just ATmega part is just fine.. other times, some old laptop or PC is way better..

Currently, my only Pis in operation is the Pi400 on the living-room TV for retropie, and the one attached to the printer and scanner to network those without having to install weird stuff on the windows/linux clients
> 1) Jay Powell was nominated for Fed chair by Trump himself, so Trump had only himself to blame for any consequences of this.

Why did Trump do this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/business/economy/fed-chai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Powell
Have you even attempted to scrape Instagram? You're just throwing hypotheticals at me, but the reality is different if you even attempted to do it.
Go and fix some VLC bugs for us. I'm sure the thank you's will thank you for contributing.

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues
Show HN: Obituary bot eulogizes the long-dead using GPT-4
I made this Twitter bot a a few years back with the idea of scraping Wikipedia to help people learn about interesting, lesser-known people from history. It used to write obituaries by scraping the information directly from Wikipedia, but I found I was able to get surprisingly high-quality results by just showing GPT-4 the obituary format and allowing it to write everything. I’m pretty happy with the current iteration!

Source code, including the prompts, are in the bot’s bio.

By the way, you may notice that some of the prompts include “written by a leftist twitter account”. I just thought it’d be funny to see what would happen if you told a bot to take a political stance on obituaries. For the most part, that part of the prompt seems to get ignored other than that the bot occasionally calls a person an imperialist haha.
This is a nice visualization.

A feature request: I'd like to be able to enter more than one "yellow" letter in a given position.
BeOS felt like it was going to become a serious modern alternative OS for the PC focusing heavily on multimedia, similar to MacOS (Be was founded by ex Apple people so it makes sense.) Unfortunately it never happened. Thy pivoted to internet appliances, Palm bought them out, the end. I still have my R4 and R5 media somewhere.
Ask HN: Should HN officially experiment with improving its ranking algorithms?
Recently, we published our approach to improve the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183317

As a follow-up, we'd like to ask if the community is interested in official experiments with this or similar approaches. We'd suggest having a second, experimental front-page on HN, which applies the upoteRate metric to the HN formula, as described here: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#a-proposed-new-formula

To get a feeling how stories with a high upvoteRate look like, we prepared a page, where all frontpage stories are sorted by upvoteRate: https://news.social-protocols.org/best-upvoterate.

What do you think?
Most people aren't this consistent. At work does someone say that I will watch you code in a particular time of the day and you will be able to perform on a random question that's useless?

No.

Interviews have 0 context that's needed for anyone to perform. Usually you can't use your IDE, your settings or your ways of working and you've never paired up with the interviewer so might not feel comfortable.

To make matters worse the interview topic is 90% chance not what you do on a day-to-day basis. No 1 is answering leet code questions at work. We're going to be using a library or tool and not to try write an analytics algorithm.
There's also a very good resource for home labs, but I must warn you it can be a rabbit hole: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/
The Representational Status of Deep Learning Models
The paper aims to clarify the representational status of deep learning models (DLMs) in relation to their targets. It highlights the confusion caused by the interchangeable usage of terms 'representation' and 'model' in AI, neuroscience, and philosophy. The paper argues that while DLMs do represent their targets in a relational sense, there is no evidence to support the belief that they encode fine-grained representations. Instead, DLMs are more akin to highly idealized models. This has implications for explainable AI (XAI) and raises concerns about potential epistemic and practical risks associated with interpreting DLMs as having fine-grained representations. The paper also discusses the reasons for the neglect of representational status in deep learning, including ambiguity in the concept of representation and the lack of model transparency.
> As was the concern 150 years and 40 years ago. The report from the Club of Rome was the OG IPCC.

The difference is on the public ingesting the information I think.

The previous generation was raised in a climat of growth, and the notion of producing/consuming too much just doesn't resonate with most. A few decades ago, reports on pollutions were also met with a kind of "technology will fix that" attitude, as technology effectively fixed a lot of the existential problems they've seen in their life

The current generation looking at IPCC doesn't have that background. They had the societal and environmental issues thrown at them from the start, whith adults showing a very clear "our kids can deal with it" attitude.

Reports of future climate issues resonate a lot differently to the current generation IHMO.
You can even boot a "gotosocial" on a raspberri-pi at home for almost free (it'll cost a pi, and some electricity). Or on a €2/month VPS.

And while gotosocial is still a multitier server (it resembles mastodon in much), there's nothing fundamental stopping the development of an even simpler rust/go/x activitypub server that acts for one actor only - a single-user server, which could be far, far simpler and leaner even.
Get a new bank. Ally, SoFi, AmEx all pay upwards of 3.5% with no minimum.
I read that our (humanity's) wrist flexibility co-evolved with the presence of clubs and thrown stones, or rather was selected for due to the ability to easily swing clubs and and throw objects versus other hominids without that flexibility: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571064/

An interesting theory...
I wonder if you could get it into an infinite loop bug somehow
tl;dr, but here's the difference: we willingly purchase devices that are sworn servants of entities who profit from grabbing our attention, engagement, and cash.

I doubt that you can say a monk, who may be distrated by flies buzzing, or cows mooing, or his brothers' quills scratching at vellum, is on the same plane of distraction as someone who's jacked in to the Cybernet at all times.

There's an interdependence and reliance on these distraction factories, now, where people have given over functions to their phone: such as wallet, notebook, any and all communications with loved ones (especially in the post-C19, increasingly isolated urban wastelands.) If we can't live without our phones, and we rely on our phones for the minimum functions of life, what does that say for their ability to distract us?

Monks who are good at prayer are good at managing distractions. You don't simply "shut them out" or shun them. You roll with them like a reed swaying in the wind. I have practiced a tiny bit of Centering Prayer (see also, Hesychasm or Mindfulness). It is marvellous. I simply wish I could do it every day and live a lifestyle that's centered on Christ. Needs lots of devotion and practice. It won't reduce my distractions or ruminations, but it will help me become the master of my own thoughts.
The phrase is catchy but a bit too harsh.

First of all, software frameworks and technology evolve. Second, it's pretty hard to find someone who worked for 10 years at the same company with the same software project doing CRUD actions.

On the other side, if you meet linux kernel engineer who maintained kernel for the past 10 yers, this argument fails short. Same for someone who worked on Postgres internals.
We have a pretty good federally produced chart for inflation by sector: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Unless you suddenly think "rent seeking" jumped right as the Government happened to start printing more money, it sure looks like inflation tracks quite nicely.

Here's a nice investopedia breakdown of how printing money can cause inflation:
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-mon...
I'd guess they just talk about pub key authentication?
Copy paste has been cheap for a long time.
Cron/systemd timer to run updatedb every N hours.
> The new replacement fuels are good, but they have one general large drawback. They require a recertification of the engine/frame of the plane. According to the lobby group AOPA, it will cost the industry in excess of $150 billion annually in the US alone.

Also (at least in the UK), UL91 (the unleaded-alternative for some aeroplanes) is more expensive than 100LL. E.g. looking at a nearby (GA) airport, the price for 100LL is £2.22/litre and UL91 is £2.60. You can sometimes use Mogas (literally automotive unleaded) but this has some temperature restrictions due to the vapour point.
>The problem is too much debt, full stop. The fair way to address this is a modern debt jubilee: everyone gets the same nominal payout, debtors must use the payout to pay off debt, non-debtors may keep the money and do what they please with it.

Doesn't this fuck over savers who have their money parked in fixed income securities, while giving a huge boon to anyone owning equity in indebted companies? On a comparative basis, it also hugely benefits people in their late twenties/thirties who were able to take out massive loans (ie. mortgage) while not doing much for everyone else.
> he’s very much in the school of thought that “all publicity is good publicity”.

Yeah he is, but I just can't see it being profitable at this point. His base isn't THAT big is it? His base is the poorest amongst current and previous Presidents.
This is not what "missing" means, or else every parent at work with kids at school would have a missing child (after all, they don't have the kids right now). The banks have loaned out the money, but they do keep track of whom they loaned it to.
> novices should just learn embedded programming

For people that think this is a significant barrier, I'd suggest to take a look at MicroPython (on something like a ESP32 or RP2040 -- there's no reason to bother with the classic 8-bit Arduinos anymore). It gives you an environment that's surprisingly similar to what you'd use on a Pi.
Ranged weapons were slow to reload/fire and needed a lot of training to use. Slow to reload means that you have a reasonable change run up to someone with a bow and hit them with your club before they can shoot you. Needing a lot of training meant the enemy didn't have many, and if you were trying to wage war you can train a club force a lot faster than a bow force.

In the early years of the gun it was expected you fire once and then rush into battle with a sword. A gun was still better than a bow though as it is a lot easier to aim a gun, even though the gun was not very accurate. As guns got faster to reload and more accurate they slowly took over war, but it wasn't until the mid 1800s that a gun was conclusively better than someone training in a bow or sword, and it wasn't until the 1900s that battle tactics adjusted to that reality.
Thomas Berger another name in the American list.
Why should controlling inflation be used to transfer wealth from individuals to a for-profit third party (banks)?

Also, it doesn’t target the entire population fairly - surely there is a better way?

I found this a thought provoking starting place: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/abc-news-daily/id13495...
though unless you've disabled sampling it will be difficult to determine how prompts affect the output, these could just be due to RNG
ChatGPT writes like a college freshman trying to meet a pagecount requirement and the style seems to invite my eyes to slide down to the next item. But it is important to note that while you definitely notice the ones you notice, you don't know about the ones you don't notice. When I use cgpt I always instruct it to maximize for brevity because I am not interested in reading any academic papers. The output I get is much more bearable than 99% of the HN comments that lead with "I asked chatGPT to..."