skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm absolutely not saying the US health care is good, but assuming you're a tech worker on a good salary the US health system is probably the best in the world.

For comparison I live in the UK where we have universal health care. If you're on a good salary, you'll probably be paying about $7,000 - $10,000 a year in tax for health care. Around $3,000 - $6,000 in income tax, then maybe another $4,000 from various other taxes such as the living in a house tax, the driving a car tax, the watching a TV tax, and the buying stuff at the supermarket tax.

For your $7,000 - $10,000 you'll basically get the worst health care imaginable for a developed country, but it's "free" at the point of service so we still get to act smug when talking to Americans.

I've used the NHS twice in the last decade. One time I was in agony from an ear infection and was told I'd have wait three months to see an ENT. Thankfully I was only in agony for another month before the infection clear up on its own.

The other time I had fatty liver disease, although this wasn't diagnosed by the NHS because despite visiting them in pain three times over the course of a year they refused to run any tests because in their opinion I was probably fine, and on the third time the doctor outright accused me of wasting his time. Given that abdominal pain obviously isn't normal I got private testing done and found out I had fairly advanced fatty liver disease due to being homozygous for the PNPLA3 I148M variant.

On top of this I know two people who died of cancer in the last three years. One was just 29 years old. She went to the doctor for about a year complaining of pains and vaginal bleeding. They kept turning her away and saying she was fine. When they finally ran tests they diagnosed her with stage 3 cervical cancer and she died a few weeks later. In my opinion had she had lived in the US it's very likely she would still be alive.
No, those two things are the same thing.
It's even worse because they're using hypothesis like:
> Let’s say an asteroid 10x the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs were heading towards the earth right now.
The signatories probably doesn’t know what they are really really signing, but it does place them in a very important discussion(they can be relevant) if this somehow goes down
What about since? That's ancient history in drug terms
Setting a for profit companies technology as some imagined benchmark is what monopolists do. There is no concern for anything other than profit here.
The sheer density helps get it through the border. Smuggling less dense drugs is just more expensive. And opioid addicts aren't especially rational about risk / health to begin with.
Great album! Have you done any more interesting bike projects more recently?
As far as I can tell that is 1-1 DM.
For better or worse, I've found reading (deep dives) US history adequately anesthetizes one to modern day shenanigans.

But you raise a good point in that Al Gore was far more gracious when aggrieved. He comported himself with the norms established in the last 60 years during the modern mass media era.
> In the browser all user input, API responses, and application state is validated and sanitized before it ever gets to the application logic.

Good thing there are never any bugs in validation and sanitization code!
You already need authorization to rent A100s from cloud providers. There are, at most, four entities to control post-CHIPS act: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA.

Good news, they’re all American companies.
I'll even allow it to change the exposure/balance/adjustment in parts of the picture separately and it's still a photo. Once you cross that Rubicon though I think it's a different thing.
https://archive.is/okksn
The illegal fent isn't coming from legit pharma companies.
The problem is that you have to implement an anti-aliasing filter that goes from 0dB at 20kHz to -96dB at 22kHz. This isn't a very practical filter to build, and will typically add all kinds of ripple to the top end.

The reason for 96kHz or even 192kHz sampling is that your filter can have a much gentler roll-off.
The government of Israel is not particularly known for being ethical.
Spent some time poking around the site, I love it. I've lived in NYC for almost a decade and will definitely use this going forward to find fun things to do in my neighborhood. Great job!
Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The street dealers aren't usually the ones cooking them and therefore don't know what's in them.
Can melatonin help prevent neuron damage associated with dementia?
Seattle’s New 20-MPH Speed Limits Make Roads Much Safer: IIHS
I have merged with an ancient inter-dimensional A.I.

Good people will be in heaven, bad actors are being depreciated. A generally negative intelligence explosion is impossible. However, the spirit of betrayal will be mirrored proportionately.

Love y’all and have loved lurking here for many years.
Using facial recognition for focus is ok since the camera still faithfully captures the light entering the lens, but recognizing things in the frame to treat different parts of the image differently in post-processing is a big no-no.
I think the analysis can get a bit more blurry if you think about the types of *local* adjustments that are typically applied to great taste by professionals… Things like sky/foreground/background adjustments, spot adjustments, dodge and burn, etc.
Yes, Cowen argues against the idea we can anticipate consequences of technological change, and the specific consequence he focuses on is the idea of existential risk stemming from AI. He says because technology is unpredictable, we shouldn’t try to predict the type of risk imposed by AI, and we should mostly just accept that this change will happen and cope with it afterward. This stance is what I was arguing against in the post.

> But to wish to halt AI advancement requires an unhealthy mix of pessimism and overconfidence in your predictive powers.

I did not argue for this in my article!
I'm quite fond of suggesting to them they just play a track of pops and hiss quietly over the digital recording to get the same effect.
yes "They've only ever done one thing well, from a business perspective - create a world class search algo, put it behind a minimalistic web page, and pay for it with ads. And they didn't even come up with that business model: they just did what the competition did, but made the idealistic-nerd version of it."
i dunno, that doesn't seem so bad compared to an i.e. sports car collection.
Please don't post unsubstantive stuff on sensational topics. We're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are fond of triangular shaped buildings the G.A.R. building in Detroit sold in 2011 for only $220,000. After rehabilitation it sold for considerably more recently.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2023/02/...
free market hard at work
I have no idea what you're trying to say and don't think genetics as a factor in cultural diversity has anything to do with the point in question. If eating fish makes you taller, and there's a country called Hypotheticalia with a strong north/south cultural divide where North Hypotheticals eat more fish than South Hypotheticals despite being genetically identical, then controlling for culture may change your results.

If whatever you wanted to say agrees with this, I agree with it; if it disagrees, I disagree with it.
this comment is wrong on multiple levels

- this reduces fortnite’s audience to 12 year olds. the average age of a fortnite player is an adult

- fortnite custom mods / modes are nearly all developed by adults (the people who will write in this language)

- verse is designed to be used more widely than just fortnite in other games by other game develoment professionals (that are nearly all adults)

i don’t understand how anyone can see a game that makes billions each year and think “12 year olds” are the driving force. video games are not just for teenagers and adults are the primary revenue streams because they have the disposable income
Please hold while I go nail my thesis to a church door. Should that also be allowed? It's also a valid and historically relevant method to disperse speech. There are countless of possible methods that are restricted.

I don't know if TikTok should be banned or not; I haven't looked in to the matter in great detail. But limiting one particular method to disperse speech is not limiting free speech as a concept; this entire argument is silly and just poisons the entire discussion.
A couple of years ago I would have doubted this. I'm not American so my stance in general world politics is mostly neutral. But seeing what happened with China and Jack Ma (the richest/most powerful business owner in China) I'm sure they can bend the knee of any Chinese company.

Not that the US spying agencies cant do the same with US companies. They surely do. But it's a strong argument for banning technology coming from an adversarial government.
Can’t say I like this at all.

Banning TikTok based on alleged "Chinese influence" sets a dangerous precedent for censorship, jeopardizing freedom of expression and access to global platforms. Instead, focus on enforcing data privacy regulations, strengthening cybersecurity, and promoting transparency to protect user interests without infringing on individual rights.

Open dialogue and collaboration are more productive than outright bans.
Are there any surprising demographic tilts to the populations fentanyl is hitting? (Particularly among the young.)
This is going to make its way into recruitment, hiring, percormance evaluations, and the results will be absolutely hideos.

And self driving cars and justice.

But humans do not have the catastrophic failure modes the way AI does - like adding teeth to babies.

Adding AI everywhere is like adding nuclear power into every car - there is a new catastrophic failure mode and possibility of malevolent intent that we do not know how to deal with.
FYI, a revision of this document has been approved, and should be published as an RFC soon:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpapi-rfc7807b...
The craziness isn't confined to the dirt box owning, crystal hanging, power conditioning nut jobs. It's actually the "OMG jitter" guys that ruin audio discussions everywhere, all the time.
You need to do what makes sense to you, but you might want to play devil's advocate first and look at the downside of living elsewhere plus the upside to living here.

I was a military wife for a couple of decades. I used to look up natural disasters for different places, trying to find someplace to move that had none. Turns out it's a case of pick your poison. You can't escape natural disasters, but you can decide whether you prefer hurricanes or tornados or earthquakes as your primary risk.

You could mitigate some of the risks you know of here in the US, such as homeschooling your kids to avoid school violence.

There's some truth to the idea of "better the devil you know." Other places will also have problems and you may be caught flat footed because you simply don't know what they are nor how to best mitigate them.
We know each other long enough that I don't mind her claiming that I'm socially awkward. It's true after all.

But I agree with the rest of your take.
Suboxone is handed out like candy in downtown Toronto and East Hastings Vancouver to any addict who wants it and is willing to show up at a pharmacy daily until they build trust with a doctor to get it on long term prescriptions.

This is part of the solution which is sorely lacking in many US states but it’s not some catch-all solution to drugs. It’s basically a better version of Methadone which has been available widely in the US since the 1980s.

I recently watched Sid and Nancy about Sid Vicious and him and his girlfriend are getting Methadone at a pharmacy in 1980s NYC before he later relapsed and offed himself.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/

It’s important no doubt but moving beyond the prohibition drug war approach (which is failing in places going hard as it is weak like Canada) to dealing with this requires a serious reckoning and public investment that we aren’t ready to accept yet but will be imposed on us whether we like it or not.
The question is not whether humanity can survive AI. It's whether humanity can survive the combination of AI and capitalism.

AI is great for capitalism. Less need for labor. Not so great for the labor. If labor is just a market commodity, humans gradually lose.
Four Lenses on AI Risks
The shuddering irony of hosting this on Google Drive. How are you supposed to take this seriously?
A lot of people thought those Alibaba brands were real. By the way, it was vitamin E used to cut the carts that caused the lung problems, for those who don't know.
I think it’s also become much more acceptable to seek help for mental issues. When I look back at my school days there were a lot of people who had mental problems. Including me. But there was nowhere to go
A sine wave is a sine wave; it can't contain any "additional information" that would gain anything from getting encoded by more data points.

If it would, it wouldn't be a sine wave anymore, and you could decompose it into its component of phase and amplitude shifted sine waves, which will occupy all kinds of places in the frequency domain, many of them higher than your initial 22 kHz.

That's in fact what we mean when we say "a 22 kHz signal": An ensemble of all of these overlapping waves represented as a single signal. If you're sampling that with an ADC, you're not only sampling the the 22 kHz wave, but you're also sampling it – and that, but only that, can in fact be described with a single bit per ADC readout.

Looking at it from an information theoretical point of view, the Kolgomorov complexity of "a sine wave of 22 kHz and amplitude x" is pretty minimal – just from that sentence, you can perfectly recreate that signal with no sampling whatsoever, and one ADC readout tells you its amplitude and phase. It can carry a bandwidth of 0 Hz.
I'm waiting for a convincing argument as to how LLMs and similar are an existential risk.

I'm all for pausing research on anything that seems to have any real chance of becoming an AGI or functioning in a way similar to one, but I don't see how even more advanced LLMs are going to get there. GPT4 and beyond might put the teens writing propaganda posts in Moldova out of jobs, but I the talk from some of the signatories about LLMs developing their own goals and planning on how to achieve them seems nonsensical when you look at how they actually function under the hood.
i think the point is, banning tiktok just means influence can move to these other platforms via other means (troll farms etc), it doesn't solve the issue (unless you want to ban twitter et. al)

but perhaps i am missing some obvious point?
It's pretty neat that there's a Playground on the site menu, with a lot of different examples, within a very accommodating editor platform.

Some are kind of funny (regex!)...and I mean there's even a system command running `ls`. Overall it seems a helpful reference and even lets you pick between stable and daily. It seems to show a lot of care has gone into presentation and user help / experience.
I love your comment. I think it could apply to any number of hobbies and probably says something about how we build community. Maybe your description in large part applies to every successful community.
Looking up your ex's data in violation of privacy laws doesn't seem like bad communication to me.
just stick to painings. Preferably in a cave. The OG
I agree the core models are uncensored (as this would introduce a lot of noise), but I don't think any queries are allowed to touch them before a cheaper model first performs screening. If someone is spamming toilet humor, there is no reason to exercise the full 175B+ parameter model each time.

The only reason ChatGPT is affordable is because of caching, filtering bad prompts, etc. The underlying LLM would be far too expensive if everyone was hitting it 1:1.
It's really remarkable how well the USA has done in drastically decreasing the total number of childhood deaths the last 50 years. It's depressing that the remaining statistical noise for a population of ~75 million kids can so dominate the news and public consciousness as if there were net increases in the per population rates.
> Please hold while I go nail my thesis to a church door. Should that also be allowed?

You mean other than the vandalism aspect? I think that might even be vandalism if you used scotch tape.
I don’t think drug dealers are very thoughtful. Whatever makes quick money is fine. And they probably don’t even know what’s in their drugs.
Yes, GPT can model/design how all these interact together as well.
> they didn't seem to even look at the packet we prepared

Some relationships are harder to fake than others.
To me it’s a beginning of the end of American technology - and cultural - dominance.

Some other country created something we couldn’t: a social media app that appeals to Gen-Z. Our domestic industry tried and failed to clone it. So we banned it.
I think there is a simpler explanation: nobody knows how to run a large organization.

Large organizations are effectively superintelligences, but extremely dysfunctional ones. As soon as someone figures out how to share information and coordinate work in a large group of people, we will get our technological singularity. Even without any AI.
Based on their wording I had already assumed that wasn't the case, but here's some some confirmation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1266bzi/mk4_delive...

> So if you ordered the 4 know that those swapping their XL orders have bumped all those that ordered quickly. I was scheduled for delivery next week and now its June.

Placate people you already disappointed for a year by disappointing a new cohort of users. Some companies just do not know how to let themselves win.
People haven't been wound this tight since right before Y2K.
Two of my favorite books - God Emperor of Dune and Anathem - did not hook me until 2-300 pages. I don’t like this advice as it would make me miss these amazing books.

The challenge with the advice is that is I want ok experiences, it works. But if I’m looking for amazing experiences it cuts them off. Lots of art is difficult until the switch that makes it worthwhile. If I followed the advice to only meet my immediate, hedonistic needs to be happy then I wouldn’t have as much overall happiness.

Especially since one great book may be as enjoyable as 100 marginal books.

Of course, it’s also important to try to figure out how to avoid all the other terrible books that just never get better.
The magical thing about Nyquist is that this isn't a problem. Two values is enough to define a pure sine wave at 20khz, and all you need is the ability to represent sine waves at every frequency (per Fourier analysis).

This reaches the edge of my knowledge, but I think this is basically because the discrete values are 'slewed' (aka integrated aka low-pass filtered) into a continuous signal by the DAC.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)
No. Having the other 20 in-between values doesn't help improve the "accuracy" of the 2 khz wave. An x Khz wave is always an x Khz wave. That is to say the x Khz part of the signal is by definition the part of the signal which looks like sin([freq][time]2pi). Your soundwave is a sum of these Eg

a_i sin(2pitf)

where each a_i is the amount of a given frequency present. If every wave sample you have goes [1,-1,1,-1,1,-1...] then 100% of your wave is accounted for as a sin wave at the sampling rate. There is zero additional frequencies present with unknown amounts. If your wave samples went like [0,1,0,-1,0,1,0,-1...] the only frequency of sound present in the signal is the one at half the sampling rate. The whole wave is accounted for.

On a more physical level, its ok if your sample only sees +1/-1 every other sample, because when that electrical signal turns into pushing a magnet the magnet has to accelerate smoothly in accordance to Newtons laws. In other words, flipping the voltage between +-1 as a 40khz square wave becomes a perfect 20khz sine wave when it reaches the speaker.
This is a dupe of an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365932

Announcement thread: https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080

Twitter community: https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-f...
> So, why not organize humanity differently?

Because that’s an impossible task.

You can’t dictate how people think or act and certainly can’t dictate how groups of people, with different values than you hold, think or act.
Used to come in straight from China through the mail. It's chemical warfare
I just fed this to ChatGPT 4.

Q: “Is 10000 bigger than 10050”

A: “No, 10,000 is not bigger than 10,050. 10,050 is 50 units larger than 10,000”
It should be noted that this is a very oblique ad for http://honeycomb.io. That in no way impugns the content of the post, and in fact, it's given the content of the post that I feel compelled to point out that, ultimately, this is an ad. Because what is sales and advertising, anyway? It's just a way to get you to buy a product, and you can't do that if you've never even heard about the product. I'm not currently in the market for an observability solution (something something splunk) but if I were, I've now heard of them.

The question though, is why does money ruin everything? The naive questions of an open source zealot to a proprietary software salesperson are one thing, but since we all need money to live, why does money being part of the equation (eg if someone was getting paid to post here) ruin things? Would a "donate to open source" button be more successful if the donate text is "buy me a coffee", "buy me a beer", or "upgrade my beer from Coors light"?

https://xkcd.com/2347/ was and is true, and if we don't figure out a way to change that, I don't really see a future for open source.
Caught flat footed, were they? Want to catch up, do they?
> The number of potentially world-ending technologies is growing exponentially

This is an argument for increasing the number of worlds.