skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Why candy lovers shouldn’t panic over California’s ‘Skittle ban’
Lex interviewing MrBeast a couple months ago was the most unintentionally hilarious interview I can remember. Lex could not engage MB on _anything_, they speak entirely different languages. I don’t expect MB to be a genius, but Lex couldn’t modulate his style to connect which I thought reflected badly. Like watching two beached dolphins play table tennis.
> Google have got their own chips for Android

What chips for Android?
> "I don't know, sir, but one day you may be able to tax it".

You can't just take any and every topic of research and apply this quote to it. There are always more potential research topics than there is research funding. You need to prioritize somehow.

> when you are researching the frontiers of science

There are many other frontiers of science, than just theoretical particle physics. Maybe some other topics would deserve a bit more resources now?
What did Sam do to his face?
It could represent a bottom's up engineering culture, but the graphic would be missing junior engineers and leadership which would add more tree like shapes into it.
1. Alice turns a concise summary into corporate bullshit using AI and sends it to Bob.

2. Bob uses AI to convert Alice's corporate bullshit into concise summary.
That was my experience. It was basically "use rust" or "nothing useful is implemented".
How are fines from fda and epa different than fees?
Can anyone suggest what "CJer" is short for in "AA CJer"? It apparently is used to refer to Asian American pre-med type students, but I'm curious was the CJer part is.
When we're studying physical phenomena that require machines the size of a small country to test, it's difficult to see how there can be any practical application. The practical application would have to be much smaller, in which case it would be a much smaller test.
Because the barrier to entry in programming is zero. Or near enough to it. Code on your free time, learn php on your free time. Suddenly you are WordPress developer.

Learning a trade can require very expensive tools, often time as an apprentice or journeyman, and learning at the very first stage of your career that your labor has value and you need to charge for that.

I can hire a programmer from anywhere in the world and often incredibly cheaply. I can't do that with a tradesman, they actually have to be local, often have more work than they can ever get done, and know that I can't outsource the construction project to someone 1,000 miles away.
Where I live, programmers tend to be book smart and very arrogant about it.

Plenty of people from my college and department genuinely think they are smarter than everyone else.

This blinds them to the kind of street smarts required to understand even basic ideas of how to not get exploited, the utility of unions, power dynamics between employers and employees.
Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days?
Just curious
Take it just a little further: why not ballistic flight? Sure, they call it the "vomit comet" for a reason but with the right marketing and some investment in gravol, I feel like the zero g portion of the flight should be a selling point.
You are no pro China but you are pro China. If you want a communist system then go live there. Who wants to live in a society where bad mouthing the system puts you in jail? Or you have to live a lunatic(i.e dictator) at the helm your whole life.

Surely the U.S is defending its interests first but if I have to choose who will influence my life more I will choose the system aligned with my values.
My old manager at a 150-person company used to do it for experienced candidates. It was shocking to me. I think his idea was that he wanted you to be at least thoughtful enough to say something specific about the job and your experience.
I love cover letters for this reason. It’s easy to tell who is shotgunning and who is thoughtfully applying. I might be lucky in the sense that I still get the latter.
Unfortunately, there is a massive sale going on for bullshit at the moment.

It's not surprising that people are trying to start businesses which would not be viable in a market where bullshit was more expensive.
Soon, a GPT/LLM will auto-deny an order of magnitude more than that!
> We value people who are loyal. We think about them in positive terms. They get awarded often. It's not just the negative side

If the managers also award loyal workers in various ways, it would hardly be exploitative. As a manager, if something absolutely needs to get done outside of normal work hours, of course I would lean towards asking the person most likely to say yes. And of course I would also give that person a larger end-of-year salary increase, bonus, or fast-tracked promotion to recognize their efforts and commitment. It seems odd for the study to focus purely on the additional work the loyal workers are doing, and ignore the various ways in which they would be rewarded for it.
Fomenting civil unrest and disunity should be under the exclusive control of US corporations! /s
> free or negative power cost at peak supply times,

The electricity price already turns negative in quite a few countries with larger shares of renewables at peak times, but isn't really being exploited right now due to the high capital cost and low usage for most things that need electricity.
BTW ping me for a coupon code to make it free if you want to actually use it!

Edit: Forgot no DMs on HN. Use code "beta"!
What we now need is an AI that actually reads all that AI generated stuff.

It’s like we solved one problem (creation), and created another (consumption).
If you reach out to the medical licensing board and communicated that situation it's not implausible that there would be consequences.

Here is what it is for California:

https://www.mbc.ca.gov/Consumers/File-a-Complaint/complaint-...

https://www.mbc.ca.gov/FAQs/?cat=Complaint&topic=Complaint:%...

What kinds of complaints warrant a formal investigation?

In general, any complaint that would warrant disciplinary action if
substantiated (e.g., sexual misconduct, gross negligence and/or
incompetence, etc.) is referred for investigation. Other kinds of
complaints may also require a formal investigation. These include physician
impairment, unprofessional conduct and unlicensed practice issues.
I already did this with ChatGPT straight up though, and there I can adjust and specify parameters as I wish, why would I use this instead?
Given the ecological cost, the economic balance has to be thumbed; taxed to the hilt to fund restorative programmes.

Being absurdly rich shouldn't give you license to destroy the planet.
> How would you balance who to let in between a kid who has tutors and no job who gets higher marks than a kid who has to work to feed their family and has lower marks if you don't have a holistic review process?

Give a bonus to kids with low parental income/assets.
Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker
I think that factor is taken into account here:

> These calculations were then adjusted to take into account established risk factors such as body mass index (BMI), number of recorded births, and the time since a woman’s last birth.

Is it the same as yours?
> JLCPCB Green 5 €1.86 total €0.37 each (Minimum order qty 5)

How much would you pay to get 5 boards delivered? (And in what timeframe)

Actual example from a 33x55mm board I have on my account:

Price for 3 boards in 7 working days: €18.04. 2 working days: €24.56
What's the ordinal sin?
https://archive.md/liNNl
The incentive to maximize profits (i.e. minimize costs and maximize number of customers) is the benefit of a privatized market. The profit-minimizing mechanism is supposed to be competition, because then people switch away from plans that have a poor balance between price and rejecting claims. But because most plans are tied to employers, that part doesn't work.

If you had a non-profit with no competition it would be little different than the government, i.e. susceptible to regulatory capture and with poor incentives to constrain bureaucratic inefficiency.

Non-profits in a competitive market would be better, but so would for-profit insurers in a competitive market. The problem isn't that somebody is making money -- a service is being provided and somebody is getting paid one way or another -- the problem is it's too hard to switch so bad providers proliferate.
Use of Weapons is my favorite book, and this edition may be well made, but I could not get past its cover - a Soviet submarine from the fifties, why? What does this have to do with the story? This seems like the publisher just did not care. Or is there some explanation in the foreword?
I think so too, and, sounds like:

"Keep your identity small",
http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

I wonder if you've read it
Assuming they give it a once over sanity check, who cares? Hiring is already a smoke and mirrors game where job seekers have zero insight into what is happening behind the scenes.

Is the job posting real? Has it already been promised to someone's buddy? Is the job real, but significantly below market rate? Will this be pre-screened by HR looking for magical keyword X else it gets thrown in the bin? Has John Carmack already applied, and I would be wasting my time? Is the job real, but it will take six weeks before someone deign acknowledges I applied?
I understand that, but how is it legal to refuse to fullfil your insurance obligations without revealing the reasons?

Like in US insurance is at will, okay, fine.

But insurance is surely under a legal obligation to fullfill their end if the bargain?
The impact of test prep is commonly overstated.

According to Washington Post and Slate, both being rather progressive, SAT prep might improve scores 10-20 points on average, with greater effect on the math section. There is a paper on the ACT website suggesting 30-60 points.

Downward adjustments for high performing demographics can be double that.

A cup of coffee would probably see similar or better improvements than test prep.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/...

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...

https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/R171...
Agree. Reminds me of the quote, "going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than living in a garage makes you a car".

If you feel compelled to label yourself as X, then you're probably not actually X.
I feel otherwise, but please expand a bit.
I have seen loyal people get exploited, frustrated and leave more often.
I just imagined this as Nethack, where a pilot readout suddenly says, "Oh wow! Everything looks so cosmic!" and then everyone/everything in the cabin begins hallucinating.
I asked about high school aged kids, not hospitals, but thanks for the oddly hostile comment anyway. Fun to be a dick to strangers, huh?
> All of this might sound obvious and even a little cynical. But it's given me a strange sense of comfort and helped me find "myself".

I don't think is not about being cynical. We are what we experience and for me at least is the only existence that matter. I want to make my day to day on this earth relevant and enjoyable and as for now entrepreneurship checks a lot of boxes, I also revisit this belief very often.

> Also curious to konw if you've found the answer to your question since the time of this post!

No, and I wasn't expecting/hoping to (probably only 1% of my was). What I was able to do today was to do more writing exercises using some of the content that was posted which lead me to:

What do I regret not doing?
- Learn how to play music
- Why am I not doing it? Because I feel I would take time from something more important?

Today I booked a music tutor. I guess I consider this as a win.
Claims about masculinity are often defined in opposition to ideas about femininity.

The claim that woman cannot be courageous or independent thinkers is wrong.

And as for societal ideals, specifically in response to a post showing that the concept of being a leader through aggression is also wrong.

Aggression is often a response to fear.

Aggression is a secondary emotion, typically a response to pain or fear.

I personally view aggressive behavior and the attempt to gain status through aggression as a reason to pity someone far more than it ever makes me respect them.

If aggression is your primary method of gaining status you are not courageous, you are weak and lashing out.

I pity those people because they tend to undervalued their own merits and instead of having the courage to lead by example or to be confident in their positions they have to resort to methods ranging from name calling to physical violence.

A true leader doesn't need to resort to unrestrained fear based responses to gain or maintain status.

By definition those who have to resort to aggression are weak and full of self doubt.

Actions based on fear are not the actions of confident individuals but the actions of cowards resorting to letting fear drive their lives.

Which is exactly why the original studies found 'alpha' behaviors in stressed populations.

If you read the above papers you will find that in wolves, submission for the betterment of the pack takes much more courage than aggression.

Incels tend to like the 'alpha' concept because it is justification for not stepping up and accepting that they have caused many of their own problems.

It is only viewed as 'courage' to other individuals with low self worth.

If you truly believe that aggression is courageous I sincerely suggest you work on looking at the examples of truly courageous people and not seeking the approval of low esteem individuals who make other low self esteem individuals feel better by idealizing fear based outbursts.
Bullies are pitiful creatures who have to resort victimizing others to feel better about themselves.

Typically people who yield to bullies don't respect them and those who aren't filled with self doubt simply pity them.

Aggression for personal gain is a sign of weakness and doesn't relate to the concepts you mentioned.
What would be an example of a non-bullshit form?
Sometimes stupid people are malicious, muddying attempts to distinguish.
If we had a robust carbon pollution tax, then this wouldn’t be a problem. The emissions would be priced into the ticket, and we could all (theoretically) fly easy.

The root of all this is really just that the pollution from fossil fuels needs to be paid for.
Yes, it's called reinsurance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
CBC Wiretap – guide to seasons 1-5 (2019)
That link is fake, whoever downloads from there better compare checksums, because God knows what they may put in that APK.

The real website is vancedapp.com but the project is discontinued. Revanced on GitHub (only) is continuing development.
HN does this automatically.
Windows handles this by giving the foreground window time slots that are three times longer than normal (unless you are on a server version or change the setting).

It also boosts the priority of threads that get woken up after waiting for IO, events, etc, as opposed to being CPU bound. Which I guess Linux's fair scheduler also kind of ends up doing, even if via an entirely different mechanism (simply by observing that they used less CPU).

It's interesting how different operating systems take completely different approaches to their schedulers. Linux seems to try to make quite sophisticated schedulers, trying out very different concepts, but keeps the scheduler very seperated and "blind" to the rest of the system. Meanwhile Windows has an incredibly simple scheduler (run the highest-priority runnable thread, interrupt it if its timeslot is over or a more important thread become ready, repeat) and puts all the effort into letting the rest of the kernel nudge priorities and timeslot lengths based on what the process or thread is doing.
Have you tried a low-latency kernel, like Liquorix?
A lot of similar projects

- https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/tree/main/sampl...

- https://www.producthunt.com/posts/gitterbot-io-conversationa...

- https://github.com/neuml/txtai/blob/master/examples/03_Build...

- https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...
Scraping/structuring data seems to be an area where LLMs are just great. This is a use-case that I think has a lot of potential, it's worth exploring.

That being said, I still have to be a stick in the mud and point out that GPT-4 is probably still vulnerable to 3rd-party prompt injection while scraping websites. I've run into people on HN who think that problem is easy to solve. Maybe they're right, maybe they're not, but I haven't seen evidence that OpenAI in particular has solved it yet.

For a lot of scraping/categorizing that risk won't matter because you won't be working with hostile content. But you do have to keep in mind that there is a risk here if you scrape a website and it ends up prompting GPT to return incorrect data or execute some kind of attack.

GPT-4 is (as far as I know) vulnerable to the Billy Tables attack, and I don't think there is (currently) any mitigation for that.
> This just devalues cover letters
cover letters are already dead a waste of time

For technical hires I'd be looking at their interests i.e. github likes on followed projects, created works, etc.

This makes for good conversation in interviews are gets to the point of seeing if their a good fit.
I guess Tesla will have to train it's own assistent anyways, it feels natural for the robot and car.
I was recently wondering how well a language model trained on file formats like an Ableton Live would work with input prompts. I suppose we have all the pieces and only have to connect them as has been done in a growing number of areas.
The ACA just gave more power and money to these same scummy insurance companies.
there's dpans2texi https://github.com/rebcabin/dpans2texi, which lets you convert dpans https://github.com/xach/dpans the tex source for the Common Lisp standard to texinfo which you can open in emacs
fwiw when it comes to SATA I've had good luck with Crucial MX500
This is incorrect, Neither are banned in Taiwan, which the US recognizes as part of China.
Just want to remind people, Lex is a human being. So is Sam, keep it constructive ?
If you live in a society where most people go to university, and average IQ is 100 (by definition it was when it was normed) then you're going to get people with <100 IQs going to university, and some of them will graduate.
Might as well have AI apply for and do these jobs to complete the circle.
>> the number of "perfect" (as measured by objective criteria) candidates is so high versus available spots

"Elite overproduction"
Ask HN: People here seem to really dislike Lex Fridman. What's the backstory?
I enjoy some of Lex's guests. They're some of the smartest people I've listened to.

It felt weird when I first listened to his podcast: his tone was uniquely dull, in spite of how interesting the content actually was. I've developed a taste for it though, and I look forward to episodes when the topics are promising.

So I get it, he's got a peculiar style on and off his show that won't appeal to everyone. What I don't get is just how vitriolic some of the comments HNers make about him are.

What did he do?
How are the embeddings created? How does it scan, index and find the appropriate information to feed to the prompt?
100%.

I like to bring up the question of how many startups and how much innovation is stifled because people stay with their jobs because of the healthcare.
This is a shame as bing search api was much better documented, and supported (at least as of a few years ago). Google switched api specs and dropped features at an even faster rate than their consumer facing products.
This gets tossed out, but didn't Snowden literally prove they weren't the same?

In that the NSA had to tap backhaul links because they couldn't simply order Google to turn over Gmail data.

And was trawling internet traffic flows because it couldn't get the data it wanted from the providers themselves.

If you have an easy button... you use it. You don't accomplish secret and expensive engineering miracles just for the hell of it. Especially not with government budgets.
Even if we assume you're right, the way that the system is setup and the fact that there are constant fuck ups, but no effort to fix them are not accidents. Yes, there are conspiracies out there (surprise, most people are not angels) and the US health system is definitely one.

Check out the insurance companies profits. Those are directly linked to denied customer claims. Claims are not denied en-mass, by accident obviously - unless you're a complete fool.
In the 19th century you could get a degree in Divinity, which is clearly ideological and unrigorous.
Apparently it does.
The same shifting criteria were applied to Jews. In the early 1900s proficiency in Latin was required because only prep school offered Latin, so it was an implied filter that’s nonetheless “impartial”. Then Jews became very good at Latin, so the ivies phased out Latin as a criteria and began admitting talent from the interior, because Jews did not settle there. So this whole game is applies to Asian Americans now, not at all surprising
The article says nothing that hasn't been said a thousand times.

I don't mean to direct my ire at you personally, but I frankly find it frustrating the degree to which the rich tech class gets fresh wind of this every few weeks, says "gee whiz something should be done!" and then continues scrolling their feed. Public school teachers have been crying and screaming about widespread societal failure for literally decades now.
I haven’t, but thank you for sharing. You just introduced me to the concept of a technological singularity.
yes, i certainly used the university that i worked for facilities when i was starting out, but only for my own projects (arguably bad, i might admit) - i never did or have done any work for my employers that i wasn't compensated for, and i can't imagine why anyone would.
Techstars unexpectedly pulls out of Sweden mid-programme
In 5 years time everyone is just going to be hurling pages and pages of ai generated babble at each other. Either party not bothering to read any of it.