skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't see the overall negativity towards this bill. Yes, there may be problems with id verification, but outside of that, is it such a big deal that a parent needs to give permission for their kid to start using Instagram?

My kids don't get to start using Disney+ or Netflix without my permission -- namely my credit card on the family account. This doesn't feel much different.

Do you think kids under 14 shouldn't have parents involved in guiding them online? I agree once they're older they need more freedom. But an 11 year old who wants to use TikTok because all his friends do or a 12 year old who wants to use Instagram or Snap because all her friends want to message in a group there should have some parental involvement. The amount of bullying, wealth-shaming (your house sucks), etc going on is mind-boggling.

And yeah, we used to have bullies when I was a kid too, but it would be on the schoolyard in front of 2 or 3 other kids, not a chat thread with half the school on it.
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Money flow retracts if its cheaper to save than to borrow.
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Having gone through therapy for misophonia over the last year, I'm happy that research on the phenomenon has progressed quite a bit since I last gave up on treatment back in the early 2010s. While not 100% gone, I find my misophonia response is nearly gone and I now have skills to deal with it should a response happen. (My therapist's goal was to take misophonia "from the size of an elephant down to a mouse.")

Some interesting things to look for here in the comments of folks describing their own experiences:

- occurrences are often much stronger with family members or friends

- occurrences are often stronger at home or in places that "should" be safe and controllable.

- the content of the sound is what matters (e.g. chewing, engines, tapping, etc), not strictly the quality of the sound (loudness, pitch, etc) -- that's a different thing called hyperacusis

- misophonia often forms in childhood

Anyway, for the many folks here suffering from it: yes, misophonia is real, but also, it is treatable.
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Is that paper discussing LLMs though? That some sort of neural network can be trained to perform maths doesn't seem surprising and I would expect eventually it'll be a standard expectation they can do so even without being fed masses of training data (ideally no more than a human needs). It's the path from ChatGPT-4 to such a network I'm curious about.
For the above, I tried Google search with

site:slatestarcodex.com gpt-4

But only found one for GPT-3 as the author's follow-up.
Oh sweet. I've definitely used sqlite (in a zsh script) for file deduplication. Very simple, mostly just rows consisting of paths and file content hash.

But partial file deduplication is something else...
> But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you

If taste is subjective, then why bother forcing your taste on others, trying to convince others to like a certain work-of-art?
No, not in the slightest. I’m not one to hunt people down. I would tell the author that here’s what we do, why we hired them, if that isn’t in alignment then we wish you the best and will gladly offer a referral towards your next endeavor. Jesus. I’m not toxic. I’m also not going to let toxicity ruin my team(s). Such as baulking at requests for timelines. If you don’t know, say you don’t know to your manager and let the manager, manage. The author doesn’t understand their place in the business just like you don’t understand that you can have hard conversations without playing office politics or being a toxic manager. Hunting people out that don’t believe in the mission. I never work to get people fired. They usually do that on their own.
I thought it was a reminder of how far we’ve come. That long, highly technical upgrade process has now been more or less consolidated to a single mouse click.
I love JP but I always felt the odds of dinosaurs taking over the park would be similar to gorillas and tigers taking over a zoo.
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I mean, who owns Uniswap for instance? What can they do — start collegting the extra 0.3% fee? That’s about it. The people own the network, and they all rely on the same code.

Web3 protocols at their best are like that. By contrast, FTX and Binance are “crypto-adjacent”, they aren’t decentralized or onchain at all.
Why do you have to slow down?
> There are no reals in between 0.001 and 0.002, unless you generate them.

You seem to be thinking of a real as a string of digits, or a block of bits, which is just the representation of a real. Like, a number doesn't exist until you think of it. That view doesn't help much in thinking about these matters.

> So then what Cantors proof is saying is that if you could somehow count to infinity and get to a result, some infinities would have more elements than others. But that is a contradiction, because you can’t finish counting to infinity.

So you're saying Cantor's "proof" embodies a contradiction. You must be a very great mathematician. I'm not a mathematician, so I'd better just bow out now. Anyway, I'm way too old to start thinking of numbers as some kind of generative process.
OP is working in a dysfunctional workplace and has conflated that with "developer estimates are bad":

> 1. Give a very wide estimate with a lot of padding
> 2. Get pressured to be more accurate and to bring the estimate down
> 3. Get pressured to work unpaid overtime to meet that estimate
> 4. Watch management get congratulated by upper management for running a tight ship

Imagine I had plumber at my house and he gave an estimate of 3 to 4 hours to replace a rusted pipe. And I responded with "I think it should only take you 1 hour". He would look at me like I was crazy. That's because trying to substitute my layman's estimate for a professional estimate is crazy.

OP is providing estimates - that's a reasonable ask. The problem is management is ignoring the professional estimate and using their position to substitute in their preferred estimate. OP is being used to launder management's expectations. So of course they're patting themselves on the back. If the plumber ignored his own professional experience and only charged me for 1 hour of labor I would think of highly of myself as well, even though in reality I had no idea what I was talking about.

The solution is to set estimates that you can explain and justify. If management ignores your professional opinion you need to make it clear it's their decision and not yours. If you don't respect your own opinion no one else will.
Nvidia should stick with what they know - producing AI hardware and AI pipelines. This is how Intel got disrupted - by trying too much beyond what they were fundamentally innovating in. There are many useful applications in cryptocurrency tech. We are only at the beginning stages of R&D in this space.
English is distinct in the sense that there is no one claiming authority over the language the way French Academy rules over French, or similar organizations in other languages. Simply put there is no right or wrong way to write English
Wrong. Cryptocurrency demonstrate what electronic payment system should look like: without ability to sell user data and spy on users. Cryptocurrency is the payment system which is designed only for payment without unnecessary features.

Today if you pay with card you basically consent to collecting your data by corporations and following you offline and online, creating a detailed history of your activity. Corporations exchange data with each other, so using card on only one site or in one app can make your identity known to hundreds of other sites even when using incognito mode. With face recognition surveillance can be extended even to places where you don't use the card. And there is no way to opt out from it.
The sponsors of this bill are likely less worried about the 17yr olds who can hack around the restrictions. They're more worried about 12 and 13yr olds who are attempting suicide and experiencing mental health crises at a rate that far exceeds any previous time.
Yeah cause it worked out soooo great for those colonials in a multipolar world with the Spanish, Portugese, French, and British empires fighting over the new world or that time Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy tore it up in Africa.

Come to think of it, it worked out great for everyone a century ago. Three-peat here we go!
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I hate car noises. When I'm at home (working or not), I close my doors and thermopane windows so there's as little noise from outside as possible but still it's not enough. Even though I don't live on a busy street, there's enough traffic around to piss the hell out of me, I get into a visceral state of anxiety and hatred when I hear them passing.

So I'm using an additional trick: a white noise generator, an electric fan room heater ... without the heat. Only the fan which needs to be loud enough so it cancels out outside noise but not so loud to become stressful in it's own way.

I'm so used to this fan noise that I can't even sleep without it.

And don't get me started on ambulance sirens. The physical office where thankfully I don't have to work anymore on a regular basis is right on the way of ambulances going into and out of the city. I've calculated on a statistical base considering the number of people and life/death probability that it's an average of 2 minutes and a maximum of 5 between ambulance passes and reality has proved me correct. Funk ambulances and funk their sirens. I hate them deeply and wish they would all die. I don't care for the people in those ambulances, I cared for about the first 2873 siren passes, afterwards I realized I care more for my own mental/hearing sanity but noone gives a shit about me and sirens keep going.
Is it broken?

Also, language is an evolving tool that we all co-own. If you want to see a change, modify how you write. People do this all the time. If it’s a good idea, maybe it’ll catch on.
> From the client's perspective though, it just raises a bunch of uncertainty.

It may feel good to have some of the times quantified. But... If your estimates are literally fiction. It won't stop being fiction in front of the client. You should really spend that energy that went into the estimate for something useful instead.

Not to say you can't derive some useful information from a short planning session. Just don't expect anything other than thumb to the wind guesses.
It's a lot less self-evident when you've been on the receiving end of the "good" side politics. Or perhaps more, but different.
What a depressing world view.
That sounds a lot like prompt engineering for humans.
Also relevant in the context of partial file deduplication (to get robustness wrt inserts and deletions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hash
But that's another illusion mirroring the banking structure -- fractional reserve -- that some 90% of your assets should be generating rent, and 10% in reserves.

If banks pick winners, everything becomes a bank.
This is wrong. I waited in line for mine. It was quite clearly a toy. It was a cool but barely usable tech demo and it was completely outclassed in features and usefulness by contemporary devices like the Motorola Q.

It showed the way forward, but it was a frustratingly limited device and everyone around at the time recognized that immediately.
You're not seriously comparing research mathematics with software development, are you? You think you're expanding the breadth of human knowledge with your CSS tweaks of the shopping cart implementation? Give me a break.
Also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311765#35312653
Since when is anything having to do with the accumulation of wealth "punk"?
As a windows user, while we don't have an OS built-in equivalent, the standard for such tools (in the form of Sublime and the like) is just to operate with temporary buffers that get written out as files on user request. Sublime will write internal data to some persistent storage somewhere and be able to survive sudden crashes and restarts but when you'd like to save the data out to a fixed filepath it's pretty trivial to do so. I do find it quite weird that Apple has managed to cultivate a system where storage in separate files isn't taken as the default.
1. "Profits" is a relevant keyword there.

2. If Social Security were to fail, the US government would be free to decide between canning it (or reducing it) or funding it from more taxes (or delaying retirement age, which is kinda both); in none of these cases is this itself going to threaten the USA economy or the USD currency.
microprocessors? Geoffrey Hinton(I think that's his first name), the grandfather of ai recently said this is like the invention of the wheel, agriculture, or electricity.

ie even more foundational for everything that's coming in the future. ai will be as essential as electricity.
My point was about a desktop machine. You could access a cluster of Linux machines with NVIDIA cards from your AMD-based desktop.
Willing to bet most of the Utahns you lived around are more worried about the impact of these services on their kids than on government overreach. They can't figure out a non-governmental way to fix the issue.
Ontario already did, on condition Quebec and New York do too [0]

[0]: https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament...
The way articles like this end up down the grapevine, like a game of telephone, is “mac bad, Linux good.” And I’m considered the idiot for having to ask.

The article quotes Ken. Then in the next paragraph says “macOS move slowly towards closed standards and tighter control.” But is that what Ken was saying? That part isn’t a quote, and on a quick first read I almost thought that was the reason Ken gave.

Raspberry Pi is no more open than Apple. Sure it runs Linux, but is the ARM processor Raspberry Pi uses open? I recall it wasn’t.

So here are my questions:

1. Why did Ken throw away “zillion years in Apple”?

2. What Pi hardware is Ken using? Pi doesn’t come in laptop or desktop form factor.

3. How is driver support on Ashai? Is everything working?

4. Is there any laptop out there made from aluminum with a strong frame? And a 120hz mini LED or OLED display?

When I’ve look at the options from System76, Framework, Dell, Lenovo and others they all look like my PC laptops from the 2010’s just slightly thinner.

I don’t trust LG, Samsung or Lenovo. The latter due to its history with malware.
> are there clear opportunities for startups or smaller companies

There's opportunities for big and small. AI democratizes itself to everyone, it's very egalitarian and equal opportunity.
My point about them not being on my team is that I don’t run a daycare. I also don’t run a research firm with endless cash. I pay you a ridiculous salary to deliver business value. I get paid a ridiculous salary to deliver business value. Anyone in our profession needs to understand this. $150k+ salaries aren’t necessarily normal elsewhere. I’ll pay top dollar for top value but you have to deliver. Does that make sense?
Thanks for the hysteria, “throwaway account.” But it is obvious to even the most casual observer that it’s 5G networks causing all of this.
Pretending that there aren't fundamentals behind the USD is ridiculous.

How do those people collectively agree on the value of the USD? By looking at the fundamentals - the economy of the US, the stability of its government, the likelihood that it will make good on its bonds.
I wrote a similar tool in Python a few weeks ago, which uses AppleScript to liberate the data and saves it to a SQLite database: https://datasette.io/tools/apple-notes-to-sqlite

I didn't actually know AppleScript before writing this tool... but it turned out ChatGPT knew it well enough to unblock me and provide me with exactly the code I needed to build the rest of the project! https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/chatgpt-applescript

Apple Notes Liberator creates a copy of the SQLite database and then runs queries against that directly to extract the data.

I chose not to do that (despite being all-in on SQLite for everything) because I worry about future changes to the software baking my script - I figured the AppleScript interface was less likely to have breaking changes in the future.
That's how server-side interaction was in the early 00's with ASP.Net WebForms. This type of interaction is one of the things being proposed as opposed to client-side. And yeah, it definitely was a (very painful) thing. Server-driven Blazor has very similar (poor) behavior today. I know there's other frameworks that do similar things. Which really sucks if you have any latency or bandwidth issues.

Not that I like the idea of several MBs of JS being sent over the wire either... I know that is also a thing, not to mention poor state mgt, which is also a regular occurrence (most angular apps have many state bugs).

Personally, I'm not too bothered by client rendered/driven apps... They can often be split accordingly, and it's reasonable to stay under 500kb JS payload for a moderately sized web application. Not that everyone has as much awareness. I think of the browser as a thick-ish client toolkit as much as it is a rendering platform. That doesn't mean SPA is the right way for everything. I wouldn't do it for a mostly text content site (news, blog, etc). And most of my work is web based applications, not text driven content sites.
If we entertain the idea that VR has legs, Apple needs to be selling 300,000 units per quarter to compete with the Quest's slowest sales period. Advertising or reputation be damned, the Oculus Quest moved a lot of hardware; probably more hardware than Apple's headset will in it's entire product lifetime. If we entertain the idea that VR has legs, Mark Zuckerberg is around the corner with his legs propped up on a mahogany desk with a fat Cuban stogie in his mouth. He really only loses here if Apple fumbles really bad.

> which hitherto has been in the form of advertising.

Where are you getting that from? Their main revenue outlet is the same as Apple's, payment processing for their store: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/oculus-sold-5-million-wort...
> In contrast Spanish […] you can read anything correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying.

Except for the letter X which has 3 pronunciations, and some other weird stuff. Admittedly, nothing as bad as French or English.
That I would definitely not call a lazy Sunday...
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This is a logical fallacy - "Colorado is not X, therefore Utah is not either".

In your earlier comment, you noted religion's correlation with happiness, but allow me to quote from a review article about religion and suicide specifically [1]:

> Whether religious affiliation protects against suicide attempts may depend on the culture-specific implications of affiliating with a particular religion,

[...]

> The relationship between religion and suicide is complicated because both religion and suicide are complex constructs

You're making the mistake of conflating the individual's own degree of religious belief (which is _possibly_ mildly protective against suicide) with the _cultural context_ and its effect on people of varying religious belief and identity.

Colorado is not Utah. Utah is, as the saying almost goes, a bit "peculiar", and it's tricky.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310534/
Some additional ones I would suggest are Open Look, latter days Solaris, and Irix.

EDIT Never mind about the CDE era Solaris. That's already there.
I'm not too concerned about the details of how the kernel gets loaded into memory, whether it's the firmware or efistub or grub. I just like grub because it's familiar and has a nice menu that makes it easy to tweak options.
"Maneuver warfare and mission command can generate tremendous outcomes (but they do not guarantee them... see Battle of France vs Barbarossa)"

This is a nitpick, but really maneuver warfare is proven effective by both of those battles. And in the same way. The biggest difference is just that the Soviets had much, much more land to retreat through to prevent collapsing after one month, and also had way more men. But that doesn't really change the conclusion about maneuver warfare.
> If I stopped programming arbitrarily at 2:00pm when my hours are 9:00am-5:00pm I expect to be let go (unless I'm taking this as my lunch period). Especially to socialize over coffee. As a production-level IC I just can't do that ethically [...]

Just an aside, but at a senior level walking around and bullshitting with people is where a lot of the work gets done. At some point you'll get involved with a project that's so interesting you'll never really stop thinking about it, and then your idea of what someone looks like when they're "working" will change.
I mean it's not really on them, they're in the business of selling cards that happen to be usable for crypto mining, they even had an effort to stop it with lhr models.
It's not worth your time to use grub if you run zfs... the zfs module in grub only supports the ancient feature flag set from Solaris 9/10, its a miracle that it even works on Linux at all...

It also doesn't help that grub is spearheaded by Oracle employees, and as such, they couldn't give a rats ass about maintaining the module. (And if they do, it'll be to add more Oracle Solaris features rather than zfs on linux/bsd/illumos)
Lebanon split into two time zones in row over daylight saving
Why are you referring to the company by its stock mnemonic?
Touché. I don't have a lick of faith for their Metaverse future, but it's clear now that they were ahead of the game. If everyone is deciding to hop in this melee, my money's on the guy who got there first and built a small fort even when he was ridiculed for it.
The English translation includes "Clever Hans" which seems to be Der gescheite Hans.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2591/pg2591-images.html...
LLMs are bad at arithmetic due to tokenization limitations but they're actually pretty decent at mathematical reasoning. You don't know what you're talking about I'm afraid.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qy5dF7bQcFjSKaW58/bad-at-ari...
I am excited to see more ways to export data out of Apple Notes. Long term it would be amazing to see a solution that allows more interoperability with other apps.

Depending on what you are looking to achieve there are a few ways to export Apple Notes to Markdown files, but it's only a one-way out solution.

From the Obsidian forum:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/import-from-apple-notes-to-obsid...
> it takes some balls to stand up to the likelihood of a lawsuit.

Likelihood? It's been years Canonical is doing what I've told be the Reddit-rati is a blatant copyright violation and ... crickets.
> Yes, crypto's main use is crime.

It is quite a very poor use with such "crime" happening all on a public and transparent blockchain, making it very easy to trace all of that (even if they use a tumbler / mixer) with the funds certainly seized and frozen as soon as it hits the exchange.

In fact criminals and scammers still use banks and Zelle to facilitate their criminal enterprise - [0] [1] in the trillions of dollars.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-fil...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z...
The only social behavioral norms that cryptocurrency is about defying are "people shouldn't be scammed out of their money".
That’s a really specific and minor gripe. It doesn’t really reflect the way that I’ve used a desktop for, well, ever. Are there other examples that you have?