skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And be sure when combining medications not to exceed four thousand milligrams each day."

That's all very well if people adhere to the instructions but many don't. It's pretty clear why this is so. First, it's an OTC drug and most people associate that with not being as efficacious as drugs that are prescribed by a doctor. Second, people believe OTC drugs to be safe because they are OTC drugs. Third, with the other two factors in mind, given that acetaminophen (paracetamol) is barely an effective painkiller, they opt to up the dose in the hope of obtaining relief.

When I take the drug I'm careful not to take more than 4000mg because of its dangers, in fact I don't ever recall ever taking the maximum daily amount.

I also know the reasons why acetaminophen is dangerous and that further raises my caution. A metabolite of acetaminophen, NAPQI, is toxic to liver cells, it also reduces production of glutathione the agent the liver uses to mop up toxic metabolites. Thus, all's well until the glutathione runs out, after that NAPQI is free to do its damage.

The FDA, doctors and the medical profession need to explain in very simple terms by way of major campaign the reasons for why the drug becomes very dangerous after a certain threshold.

I'm sure an advertising agency could produce a pithy explanation the public would understand (and it should be printed on the box). Irrespective, we urgently need to do something to reduce the thousands of annual acetaminophen poisonings.
I think these days, proportion of cash buyers in the last several years was highest in history - inequality did it's job and most people who can afford buying a house, can afford buying it on cash. And before, prices were much lower so most certainly won't fall down back again, forcing banks to invoke foreclosures. So i don't even think rising rates or falling prices may cause a snowballing collapse like they did in 2008. It's permanent - inequality and urban concentration locked next generations out of affordable housing and there's likely nothing that can be done about it.

But in Europe, we lived like that for at least two generations now. This is what a stable state, fully urbanised society looks like. Here, it's typical for someone with a mid-level management position in a bank or an IT company, with million dollar net worth and managing dozens of employees, ride a train to job an hour each day, because they can't afford to rent in the city. And people who live in the city are simply those who's families bought pre-WWI. Or those with a regulated rent contract passed down generations from the 1950s, being an overwhelming portion of the family's effective net worth.
I feel like this is a response to the exponential popularity of sites like r/exmormon among younger generations. For example, look at these exceptions. It seems like organic, unapproved discussion between users is what the bill is trying to stifle:

> (D) news, sports, entertainment, or other content that is preselected by the provider and not user generated, ... (Q) to permit comments on a digital news website, if the news content is posted only by the provider of the digital news website,

If this law was in place when I was growing up, my life would probably look very different, and not for the better. My interests, hobbies, profession, my sense of humor etc, all have deep roots in the online communities I participated as a kid. More importantly, those communities gave me a sense of hope when I didn't have much.

Parental approval does nothing to stop the real harm that social media can cause, nor does this bill provide incentives for platforms to improve past that potential for harm. It's about ensuring that kids aren't exposed to their peers, or ideas, that might disagree with what their parents believe.
Said gatekeeper is also the author of the implementation in TFA...
The last point is neither right nor wrong, it's fanfiction.

The second point is wrong. You can automatically synthesize code from a specification (and you could already do so before LLMs, arguably even better with SMT solvers), but who is going to write the specification in the first place, buddy?

That's the problem that's never been solved, and it will never be solved because it can't be solved. It is not easier to write a specification in English than it is to write it in C++. It's like saying that math would become easier if we took away the burden of using mathematical notation. Not only it wouldn't get any easier, it would get significantly more difficult!

Lies are dangerous, because if you say too many of them, you start believing your own. "AI is like a human you can talk to", they said. Now they act as though that's true, and they talk to the AI, without realizing it's the same faithful mechanical slave it has always been, perfectly capable of carrying out nonsensical instructions to their nonsensical results.

And the instructions are necessarily nonsensical, because they insist on using an interface too wide, where saying something precise is all but impossible.
Taking a mentally ill fentanyl addict from San Francisco and dropping them in a condemned house in Scranton PA is not actually going to solve the problems you think it will.
I still would argue against AI being able to do art better.

There’s a line of thought that art is specifically meaningful because it’s humans thinking about things, but let’s leave that aside for now.

Generative models are revealing how many jobs in e.g. entertainment are essentially mechanical, from management’s POV. So far, they’ve just happened to require an artist’s education to do well. Now, the craft part is going out the window, and artistic creativity, if it was ever required, is being pushed out of production roles.

This is going to change the type of person who works in entertainment. I expect, while by technical metrics we will probably see quality stay the same or even improve while output increases, we’re also going to see a kind of McDonaldsification of entertainment, even more than we already see, because we’re pushing creative people out of the industry.

TL;DR: Process matters. Art is notoriously difficult to manage and predict what will or will not be successful , in large part because it’s a classic greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts thing. Devalue the process, devalue the end product.
Converting OpenSSL Engines to OpenSSL-3 Providers
Regardless of your ethical stance on the subject, it would be a good exercise to consider who you're ok with determining what kind of content your children can view. Allowing a government to step in to pass laws like this is a draconian step too far.

As a parent do you not already have all the tools you need to ensure your children don't use tik Tok? From the light touch and mundane, using the built in features of the operating system (parental blockers and app timers are available on Android and IOS) to the heavy touch of not allowing your kid to have a smartphone.

Why do you want the government taking over this role for you? Maybe there's some parents who don't care if their children are on tik tok. Why should they follow the same parental strategy you have?
Anyone who is capable of getting a second mortgage will consider holding it and renting it out if they can. The yield is very likely to be higher than the payments these days.
Previous user of both, but have opted to pay for Reflect, after Mem added AI features before adding a dark mode.

Any notes app that doesn't give a dark mode to their customers as high priority, no matter how cool, is not listening to their customers.

Alex has been obsessed with customer feedback, answering support emails, and on discord, and it shows. Reflect is beautiful, fast and super secure.

Mem has the twitter bot, which is really cool!
I just did some testing, and Ruffle can now play Hot Throttle, the weird AS3 / Flixel based game we made for Adult Swim in 2011. This is great progress! Previous Ruffle versions just quietly failed. Unfortunately, the framerate during gameplay is still a bit slow on my M1 Pro-powered MacBook Pro, but I'm looking forward to the game being live on the web again soon.
You only need to care about those if you need to find a new job though, at least until they make a dent.
Thank goodness teeangers will still be able to frequent 4chan just like I did when I was a teen.
The BBC Micro and Acorn Archimedes were very sophisticated -- with the Archimedes being lauded as more powerful than the Amiga.

The ZX Spectrum was garbage in comparison with some of these other machines, but it was much, much cheaper, and enabled British people in lower income brackets to get involved with computing at home than would otherwise have been able to. There's a vibe to the Spectrum scene that's as British as meat pie and Queen Elizabeth -- of doing a lot with a little, and of being able to obtain cheap games for your cheap computer, or even write your own, that look grotty compared to the posh kids' computers but are still fun.
Yes exactly. My company has asked AWS if they will be adding support for pgvector for rds but they haven't been able to confirm if that will happen any time soon.

If the vectors are in the same database as the tabular/structured data then text to sql applications of llm's are so much more powerful. The generative models will then be able to form complex queries to find similarity as well as perform aggregation, filtering and joining across datasets. To do this today with a separate dedicated vector db is quite painful.
Learn faiss first. Mullvus is very complicated in comparison and faiss will work in many cases.

I mean look at their system diagram https://milvus.io/static/0bc2e74d0a1b20bbfb91bdbd03f77e5e/bb.... Not fun...
It was however also massively inefficient, to the point that this quality is one that I remember Flash the most for. I don’t miss random websites with flash ads and YouTube videos spiking CPU to 100% on my single core system, slowing everything down and spinning fans up.

Had Adobe fixed this (along with the numerous vulnerabilities) I don’t think users would’ve so eager to rid themselves of it.
Don't forget trying to tee things up for our extremist leaning SCOTUS bench.
This reads as if floor sweeper is complaining that a company bought a machine to do the sweeping. And now he has to ride the machine all day and it took all the joy of his job because he really liked the hand motions and walking around and was very good at it. His colleague doesn't mind and is no longer slightly worse at sweeping than him. And boss sees it as a huge money saver because floors are vast.
Yes. I would gladly prefer to live in Europe and benefit from a sane healthcare model.

I don’t and neither do the hundreds of millions of others who remain in the US. So for those people, I wanted to provide a data point that might help them when they, like me, are forced to make decisions about their healthcare in this system.
> I think AMD should be to able compete pretty well soon.

AMD has been trying to catch up in the machine learning space for many years now, and it hasn't happened. For things to finally improve, I guess something needs to change internally at AMD. Even Apple Silicon, in the short time it has existed, has gained better support for ML (e.g. compare running PyTorch on Apple Silicon vs running PyTorch on AMD).
> Of course, now that I’m on the bullet train to Hsinchu, I realize that the precise hazard against which the Sacred Mountain offers protection is not to be uttered.

This article seems overly dramatic. I've been living in Taiwan for over a year now, it's not like you can't utter the word "China."
> Not OP, but disk space maybe? It's pretty big.

> $ du -Ash Xcode.app

> 22G Xcode.app

My installation of Xcode only takes up 3.6G and is still fully operational.

As a developer of both desktop and mobile apps, I discovered some time ago that I could delete most, if not all, of the Xcode simulators that I don’t use without affecting the functionality of the IDE. The software is smart enough to download additional assets when you attempt to launch one of the simulators. I believe that, by default, Xcode comes with simulators for the latest versions of iOS, iPad OS, Watch OS, and Apple TV, sometimes including two or three versions for each platform.

I think this is the reason why your installation weights 22G.
Would be interesting to see how different the costs and difficulties compare to the prior building boom. The red tape involved in building today is off the charts - prior generations had a much easier time building houses.
Given sufficient axioms, I can make any theorem trivial.
k8s is good, I don't get the hate against k8s.
I agree, at least with Firefox we can put in read mode, in this case it was much better.
Interesting license! Thanks for sharing this.

> Hippocratic License. A license that prohibits use of the software in the violation of internationally recognized human rights.

[1]: https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/
> Children are not entitled to autonomy

Counterpoint: Of coursw they are.
> Also this is anecdotal. I too have an Aetna PPO and can tell you of horrid stories and countless hours on repeated phone calls with them

Please do!

My point was simply to say that this option is one that has done right by me so far. If there is significant evidence this is an outlier experience, I (and I’m sure others) would benefit from knowing so.
I'm a bit concerned about this as previously we'd build communities in chat but now the chat is just with the bot. Not wasting folks' time is great, but you'll miss out on the social parts by not asking around the IRC, Matrix room, or MUC.
Nvidia has an install-base of several million desktop GPUs, though I'm not sure what that's worth in the long run. They've done a good job providing edge services like Shadowplay in the past, I wouldn't count them out on delivering client-side AI.
If they publish design rules and you violate them, any changes to make the board comply are not random. Even without communication.
Tacit assumption that every pair is ordered.
Almost all software bugs come from managing state. Which is why hoarding state management in PID 0 is a dumb idea. I said this when systemd was gaining traction and I'm still saying it now.

When Debian switched to systemd in the default was when I began to seriously use OpenBSD and I've never regretted the decision.
Correct, but the reason those happen is because JDK, despite being on version 17 is still missing core features that are necessary for modern day use, like logging, backend web stuff, json parsing, e.t.c. So delegation to that is left to a large number of 3d party developers, and risk of pollution goes up, especially when you consider that there is financial incentive in the case of orgs like Apache to keep developing new features.

There should be no reason why someone deliberately writes code for a logging library to go fetch and execute code over the internet, and make that the default behavior. The fact that someone did that, and it got approved and published to production, should be an indicator for anyone competent to stay away from Java completely. There is plenty of other compiled languages out there for whatever use case you need.
Namespaces are so important to ecosystems. See the issues with NPM packages, discussions about Cargo organisation names, etc. I was a huge fan of Deno early on because it used "the web" as its package namespace. Every time I see a new tool come out which bakes an assumed default into a "bare name" I die a little.
On Nvidia seemingly being in perfect position to ride successive hype cycles of technology: their product category is one of the few types of hardware with significant technical advancement in the last decade, making it only natural that people would seek to leverage that category of hardware with new software efforts. So less that they have been brilliant strategically and more that they have been brilliant technically and that has been creating the market so to speak. What is not clear is whether, as an industry, we are constrained by this technology into seeking solutions that can be massively parallelized.

More simply, when every leap in compute is a massively parallel architecture, every problem seems like it needs to be solved by a massively parallel system. But I'm guessing before this cycle is over we start to see the limitations of that.
If that’s your concern, try ranking realities.

As Phillip K. Dick put it, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.”

> Scientific theories are predictions

No. If you’re not familiar with philosophy of science at all, Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a good starting point, although keep in mind it’s only a starting point.
We got our six year old daughter an Apple Watch with cell service. I think that’s allowed her a lot of freedom since she can walk to her friends house without crazy people calling CPS on us (totally happened before). She just met another girl with the same watch and now they are best friends.
Oh right my bad. People MUST live in a house, I completely forgot thats a law in US.
> If home prices are going up, that means that demand exceeds supply. If home prices are going up everywhere that means demand is exceeding supply everywhere.

Misses the fact that homes are bought (most of the time) with borrowed money and leverage.

You can either look at that as increasing the supply of money or lowering the cost of money, and its reflection in housing prices.
I've been a reflect user since the beta, paid and then stopped.

Switched to mem (never paid them) and really liked the quickness with which I can just "dump" my brain into mem. But their are not customer focused, and seeing that they kept piling on VC money, felt wrong to me.

Then a friend suggested that I try Reflect again, I think after they added tasks, and I resubscribed and couldn't be happier. But I was, when they added whisper voice notes, and then implemented AI features, and then upgraded to GPT-4!

The customer attention is top notch, the interface was recently re-designed by the designer of tailwind UI, James.

It's a joy to use, super fast, stupid simple.
All these people commenting on the positive relationship between amount of code and technical debt. Generative AI can refactor code too (making it smaller)
How ChatGPT will end life on earth
This is word salad. Was this article written by ChatGPT again?
Yes, GPT (more accurately, GPT-4) is a tool. But future AIs will be more than that. Obviously, the current generation of AIs hasn't made humans obsolete yet. But consider that 5 years ago, AIs couldn't pass elementary school reading tests, and today they perform in the top 10% of law students in the bar exam. Unless something unforeseen happens, superhuman performance is just a matter of time.
PeerConnection, clearly, would be very hard. For NetConnection I was just thinking about basic REST calls. Almost all my AS3 game code starts with long polling to APIs and upgrades to a Socket.

The trouble with ExternalInterface (if I even remember) is that it makes you define custom methods on the Javascript side to link to active AS3 methods... I guess what I mean is could there be a common wrapper that sets up a web worker which can open either WebSockets or `fetch` / XMLHttpRequests arbitrarily and stream messages back and forth to a Ruffle class that implements all of the normal AS3 socket / NetConnection functions? Like, browser middleware in a worker to do all the outbound connections? I don't mean opening inbound sockets -- that was never really a feature of AS3 except through RTMP, and that's not what I'm referring to. I mean connecting up to server sockets. Maybe I'm not making sense or I'm too far out of this and need to just start tinkering ;)
Qdrant also offers a 1GB free tier https://cloud.qdrant.io
I think that's the model SQLite follows. Open source, closed development.
Don't start with mullivus if you're learning. Too much yak shaving. Try https://github.com/criteo/autofaiss.

Also, TBH, it is a lot cheaper to run a simple faiss index.
> What are your thoughts on pharmaceutical/heroin legislation?

The USA government already makes the incorrect decision regarding these substances by criminalizing them, banning them, and throwing users in prison. Evidence shows that legalizing these substances and providing addiction care and universal healthcare, as well as tackling homelessness with empathetic solutions (literally just give them housing, it's that simple), is the so far most effective method to reduce usage of these substances.

Thus the highly retributive, reactionary USA government, or its local manifestations, can't be trusted to make these kinds of laws well.

Great, it banned tik tok for the kids. It passed a morality law. You know, fox news isn't really news, and some have suggested to that it provides a direct path to radicalization that leads to political violence. We should probably ban that, too. Don't worry, if you want to watch it, you can unlock it by applying at the local Office of Moral Wellbeing, just provide a photocopy of your photo ID and proof of address for them to file. That way if Fox changes channel registration, they have a list of all the people that watch it, so they can send someone to let you know the channel number changed.
Very nice!

This reminds me of a similar trick to speed up deallocations by moving them to a new thread: https://abramov.io/rust-dropping-things-in-another-thread
Supporting Developers with Disabilities
There is a saying

"but can it run Doom?"

Because when Doom came out there were a lot of systems that could not do so. So the question was asked a lot and it became embedded in computer culture. Then came the hackers that realised that you get cred by actually running Doom on systems that it was not designed for it. Thus culturally it was passed down over time.

Note that the phrase which came later "but can it run Crysis" is similar but Crysis doesn't have its code under an open source licence.
It's a useful comparison, although Boost has traditionally been the home of cool template code you're not supposed to understand but can use. For Rust, the problem is widely used crates such as "hyper" (http), "tokio" (support for async), and "glam" (2D and 3D vectors and matrices.) These are widely used, but not part of the standard library. They're not basic enough to be standard, and they all have alternatives. But if you use them, you need them to be stable.
In my reply the poster, I did directly point out that we're using a mostly anonymous platform to discuss this issue. However, I agree with you.. it's about how the platform encourages or ignores bad outcomes.
I think it is the opposite, actually.

A professional gets shit done. With my higher experience, I have a better understanding of what provides business value and don't work on it more than that, because it is not valuable.

I am passionated about technology, programming and system design. I have about zero passion for writing documentation and good pull requests - but I do it anyway, and I like to think I do it well.

If I only did the parts of my job I had passion for, I wouldn't be a very good employee. If people only worked for companies they were passioned about most companies would have so much more trouble hiring (who is passionate about working for Wells Fargo? Doing SCADA work for a flour factory?).
Universal basic income is always the answer. Since progress bringsuch unpredictability to labor market we need to detach survival from labor so people can survive while they are figuring the stuff out.
In terms of general benefits, maybe. In terms of provider coverage - I couldn't find an individual plan at coveredca.com that was accepted by doctors at Stanford Hospital.
Acetaminophen is not patentable and it's dirt cheap to produce. So what unpatentable drugs are better?
As a Senior Engineer, dealing with “poorly written” code is just your job. Don’t get high and mighty about it. It’s likely covering edge cases you don’t know about too.

Read Working with Legacy Code and uses its techniques to add tests before making changes.
It is a web app, every keystroke is transmitted to someone else's computer.