skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> De-biasing models is necessary. Anyone who claims otherwise... I just don't think that's a defensible position to take if you've ever worked with large datasets.

I don't know how to be more clear: nowhere in this thread have I argued for using raw models without any de-biasing. Twice now you have ascribed this position to me. Are you reading what I have actually written?

> but it is extremely reasonable for AI researches to say "Internet data biases against certain groups and we would like to correct for that bias when training models."

The idea that "Internet data biases against certain groups" seems itself a biased statement. I am pretty sure that Internet data is biased against all groups. I bet you can get a raw LLM to say offensive things about any group if you give it the right prompt.
> America is the only first world country to border South and Central America

The United States has one border with a central America country (Mexico). Please show on the map where it has a border with any south American country?
"Bacterial ‘Nanosyringe’ Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells" (2023)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bacterial-nanosyr... :

> In a paper published today in Nature, researchers report refashioning Photorhabdus’s syringe—called a contractile injection system—so that it can attach to human cells and inject large proteins into them. The work could provide a way to deliver various therapeutic proteins into any type of cell, including proteins that can “edit” the cell’s DNA. “It’s a very interesting approach,” says Mark Kay, a gene therapy researcher at Stanford University who was not involved in the study. “Where I think it could be very useful is when you want to express proteins that can do genome editing” to correct or knock out a gene that is mutated in a genetic disorder, he says.

> The nano injector could provide a critical tool for scientists interested in tweaking genes. “Delivery is probably the biggest unsolved problem for gene editing,” says study investigator Feng Zhang, a molecular biologist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard. Zhang is known for his work developing the gene editing system CRISPR-Cas9. Existing technology can insert the editing machinery “into a few tissues, blood and liver and the eye, but we don’t have a good way to get to anywhere else,” such as the brain, heart, lung or kidney, Zhang says. The syringe technology also holds promise for treating cancer because it can be engineered to attach to receptors on certain cancer cells.
Because you can push 200W over USB now
But then you need two systems - heatpump for most of the year, and natural gas for the cold days when you would die without it.

At least in Canada I’d need to know that my system can handle a week of -30 or -40C in my city. Some places are even colder, for longer at a time.
Same here

Also if you remove apparmor, snapd will be removed without telling you that this will break all snaps. That's not how a package manager is supposed to work
I must apologize. We have purposely trained them wrong. As a joke.
this is a great article because it's so actionable. just kind of happened to be in line with personal thoughts of this evening.

on a different note used to read aeon.co a lot and hadn't seen psyche.co at all prior to this post. thanks for sharing
I don't think Discord is a substitute for HN. If I know an exact community with a shared interest I want to join then yes, I can find their Discord an join it. But how am I supposed to come across that topic and become interested in the first place? HN (in its ideal form) is a place where I am introduced to a variety of random but potentially interesting technology-related topics, from programming languages to passion projects to lessons in business etc, some of which I will pursue and seek out a community for, and others which I only care about minimally, not enough to want to join a dedicated community for.

If you want to compare HN to Discord, I would say that HN is like joining 500 Discord servers that together comprise the type of content discussed and posted about on HN, and every day checking each one's announcements channel, and skimming through general chats. But you still have the issue of being introduced to new topics, for example if you're interested in the AI trends then your selection of Discord servers that comprise what's posted on HN would be dramatically changing in the past few months.
https://web0.cc/a/I3knw9CbOP
I grew up attending an explicitly irreligious "church" which provided stimulation, moral instruction, community - all the things about church that really matter to one's life, but minus dogma. Maybe you could find something similar?

(it was the Ethical Society in St. Louis, MO, in case you're curious)
So did Mc Donald’s and Starbucks.

I’m not entirely happy with the idea of living in a world conquered by the lowest common denominator solutions.
This makes sense.

You don’t start woodworking by cutting a hardwood timber to length by eye with a circular saw.

You get familiar with the basics like a hand saw, tape measure, and some soft wood like balsa.

You’re first vehicle was _probably_ a bicycle or go-kart, not a truck or race car.
>To exist means to locate the resources to live

I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence; does "means" here points to the expression of "requirement" or of "signification" ? (I am not a native speaker)
The cops didn't even look at the suspect and compare him to the surveillance image.

The judge approved the arrest warrant on the basis of AI alone.

And people want to blame Clearview? Why?

Do you actually care about wrongful arrests? Because when you take Clearview out of the picture, you still have these incompetent or overworked human beings cutting corners, arresting people, and having those people take a plea deals because they don't have money for lawyers so they can make their numbers and get whatever incentive they are chasing.
>Their spiritual frameworks provided direction on ... whom to marry and how to raise children.

As a non-religious man (no, not atheist: non-religious), I can definitely say that the lack of an overbearing deity or otherwise some sort of Code of Divine Conduct(tm) prescribing such things has led me to put such frivolous matters as marriage and family aside and very likely never touched upon again.

Objectively, I simply can't justify all the problems that come with associating with women in any capacity beyond that of simple friendship or professional relations (as in co-worker, etc.). I also see no need for myself to contribute another spawn to humanity, since humanity is clearly more than adequately providing for itself.

>This kind of modernist/progressive thinking towards history is probably the worst thing people take away from high school and undergrad history courses.

Whitewashing of history in general is abhorrent and patently worthless, we need to consider moments in history within the contexts of the time in order to derive anything of value to us in the present.
Polygon is a scam
AOC is also not a very common/popular three letter combination.
STK (based on GTK from GIMP 0.60)
What about when you try to have a social network without bots?
It's because of the ratio between how much it costed the taxpayer and how much the intern creating it was paid. Every person in the pipeline was high paid best-in-class expert. In fact no pixel is accidentally in its place.
Do you also know the plaquette "View this in any browser"??
She sold livestock at auction, and then stole the livestock back. The police took the livestock back to the auction, and it got barbecued.
Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot
Backblaze is terrible, but you will likely only find out when you need to restore.

When backup excluded some files, they blamed antivirus software and recommended to go without.

They actively deleted their only backup because the client couldn't read the original files (which was due to disk error).

They admitted that there isn't any guarantee or even effort to make the backup consistent - after asking me to explain the concept.

The only reason I still have my data is because of the very expensive cleanroom disk rescue that they of course refused to pay for - because why try to do what you can to compensate for failing at your only job?
You’d expect correctly; there is non-trivial number of people dying from those diseases between 40 and 65 in the USA, and the number is only increasing.

In the USA and Canada, the probability of death from these diseases is roughly 1 in 3.

As I recall, other developed countries are kind of catching up. Malignant neoplasms and cardiovascular disease are becoming the typical causes of death in the majority of cases in most countries, generally followed by accidental injuries and suicide.

The good news is that if you don’t kill yourself, you exercise, and you eat well, you can likely avoid or significantly delay these events. Accidental injury though, that’s hard to control for.
I'm asking again. What good is it performance when you don't need those people because you have no meaningful work to give them due to shifts in market/product development?

Keeping expensive seat warmers?
Nobody cares until to revolt. You’re centuries behind any other democracy.
And if I can't find a feature phone soon that actually meets my needs, I'll be looking at picking up a last gen Asus or Sony phone when a new one drops to replace my aging/security-updates-no-longer-coming device. KaiOS 3.x phones are only in the US and aren't developer-friendly models. I'd love to see Linux phones take off, but having toyed around with Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS, it's not really daily-drivable stuff that you could rely on. Luckily it seems OmniROM are consistently pumping out microG-supported options for Zenfones--whereas Sony the custom ROM scene appears weak likely due to the cost of the devices.
> Their employment contract can't possibly be so bullet proof as to fully waive their right to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unit...
But they're anything but.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35397752
Air quality sampling indicates they had dissipated if I understand correctly.
Yessss. I need this so badly.
- the enter command in Finder is a UI convention. Some Linux DEs have a similar one in their file managers.

- the OS uses Emacs key bindings throughout in standard input fields. Try it.

- Search for “Magnet” or, if you’re a tiling person, “Amethyst”

- Mice just work. You may get a dialog for weird HID devices, but I don’t get why you mention a tutorial

- hot keys are configurable in every single application - check the system preferences.

- brew is not the only option, you can also look into MacPorts (but I wouldn’t recommend it)

- there is an “open” CLI command that you can use for to invoke non-CLI apps that do not register themselves in PATH. Use “man open”.

Also, look into native CLI tools like sips, etc. There is a lot of CLI goodness in macOS that impatient people overlook.
Hey, you mentioned that you run a community of 10k chatgpt hackers some time ago on hacker news. Can I join? :)
Could also be psychosomatic.
Thinking back on my life, I can't remember a single example where I ever got a job just by submitting a resume. Either I already knew someone in the organization or otherwise had a relationship with it to begin with (e.g. I got a summer grounds job at a University because I was already a student there), or I met someone at an event who was looking for people to hire.
Activision already has a hard enough time getting out of its own way. Can you imagine how ridiculous things would get if it had a UAW style union?

I'm not saying the games industry isn't terrible, its probably one of the worst industries to work in. I don't think unions in the games industry would change a damn thing except reducing net efficiency, adding 1-2 years to every dev cycle without much gain for really anyone.
That's exactly why, if anything, the CDC is incentivized to overstate the risk. Credibility is their stock in trade.
The issue tracker and pull requests are being hit with very funny suggestions. Many people suspect this is an April Fools joke. It's possible this entire repo was generated by a LLM to appear plausible.

I especially like the suggestions to rewrite the algorithm in Rust [1] and this pull request which simplifies the algorithm to a single c file [2].

[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
[2] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/712
The solution to this is known by everyone, including those who will fain ignorance. Implement universal healthcare (including mental health), regulate guns (insurance, registration, training, buybacks, red flag laws) including banning weapons of war, build public transportation and transition away from car-mandatory living in all but the most rural areas, and push for democratically-controlled unions and worker co-ops. The second tier would be around children, namely we should reinstate the child tax credit, make university free, and provide childcare. We need to have a conversation around maternal mortality as well, because that is too darn high in the US (one theory is that we are too doctor-controlled and they will be more likely to induce or perform a c-section).

This may seem like a grabbag of policies, but it's because (as it is mentioned in the Twitter thread), there are a grabbag of failures: lack of healthcare, forced dependency on cars, and deaths of despair, which are very closely tied to our crushing work culture (especially for blue collar folks). The neoliberal capitalism alienates people from their labor and their fellow worker, and makes widely available drugs, alcohol, and ultra-processed foods to numb the pain after a long shift. We've created a machine that's very good at crushing people up to turn them into money for people who will never be able to spend what they have already (cf. the Sacklers and the opioid epidemic or Bezos and workers urinating in bottles).

America has so much potential. I still have great hope we can come together. Right now, it's like the Onion wrote: "'No Way to Prevent This', Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens". We have to stop pretending we don't know the solution. The jig is up. I feel like we're in the movie Fury. Everyone knows Germany is doomed, but more people have to die because of Hitler's ego and the cowardice of everyone around him. We've let the psychopaths run things for too long. We have to take our power back.
I have finally just started using completely and totally random upper/lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. No rhyme or reason. Usually 15 characters or more.

That's ok, isn't it?
> Almost everyone with insurance has a maximum out of pocket limit now.

"maximum out of pocket" does not mean what any normal person would interpret it to mean. More than one year I have had to pay way more than the "maximum out of pocket".

The insurance company gets to decide unilaterally how much of what you pay out of pocket is credited toward their tally of what you supposedly paid out of pocket. In several years I've paid a lot more out of pocket than what the insurance statement credits me for having paid.
Love my Synology, and I bought a 2-bay cus I thought it was just going to be a toy. Now I have everything on it and I’m dreading moving to a larger unit. It’s backed up nightly to whatever cloud provider I feel like at the moment, but it would be super cool to put a second unit at a friend’s house and back up to that.
Interestingly, Sam Altman is behind both OpenAI and Worldcoin. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/07/worldcoin-cofounded-by-sam...
> significant amount of time doing unpaid labor for a company

That’s such a strange way to look at it… if a company advertises, are they doing “unpaid labour to help me manage my purchasing”?
How to eliminate poverty
> A group of 50 applicants submit resumes for a job. 10 or so of them are delusional, and get cut.

I think the author never worked in hiring for an org that got a lot of applicants. When I was a hiring manager, we sometimes opened reqs and got hundreds of applications within the first one or two days.
Drive-by pull requests that break the intention of something aren't ever going to be taken by a maintainer.
Very interesting that google chose to do this instead of fixing the software that caused the limitation. No wonder that their products are seen as a joke in the business world.
From readme:

- Can it run doom

- Inference of LLaMA model in pure C/C++

- Plain C/C++ implementation without dependencies

It really does not explain itsef to the uniniated. I infer it is some kind of language model.

Why/how it differs any other impl/model, i do not know.
As always in economics, it's a question of price vs. alternatives and substitution effects.

Aluminum is a good, abundant conductor that can replace copper in most electric applications, with some loss of volume density but improved mass density. Copper-clad-aluminum wires, which combine the stable connectivity of copper with the low weight and price of the aluminum, are becoming standard in aero and trickle down into the automotive and construction sector. High power solid state devices vastly reduce the material needs for electric sub-stations. There are also traditional uses of large quantities of copper, such as roofing and plumbing, which are probably much more price sensitive than electric systems, and will switch to alternatives such as PEX pipe and alternate roofing materials.

So there is a complex web of price inflexion points and substitutes that kick in as the price rises; the energy transition will be just fine.
So very true. The pandemic was very eye opening to me in this regard: many people make no distinction whatsoever in how or why you die, or at least in how or why other people die. It’s truly disturbing…
I've build 3 houses. For the first I had to get a bid for 3 bore holes, that was too much for me. I opted to insulate like crazy and use natural gas.

I didn't bother with a bid the second time because the situation was the same. Air source was really coming along at this point (at least in the US), I should have pushed harder to get it.

My current home has enough land to go horizonal. There are 4 trenches, 6 feet deep, 3 feet wide and 300 feet long. The pipe loops down and back on each trench. Excavation was about $1000 (full day for a man and a machine) and another $1000 to bury them and a day of labor to lay the plastic pipe and weld it together.

Equipment was about $8,000 more than my other options (no natural gas here), but after tax breaks it was about $3000 more. I think it was worth it, even if there weren't tax breaks. I really had to push hard to get this. I had to use a general contractor on this house and he swore it wouldn't work. I made the calls and found someone to do it.

The system runs often when the highs are -20f, but I've never flipped on the backup electric resistance heat.

During the summer the A/C is so cheap it is practically free. It doesn't take much compared to heating. Cooling might have to get the house 30 degrees less than the outside air, but heating has to raise the house nearly 100 degrees f warmer than the outside air.

Ground source is always my first recommendation, but air source should be more popular than it is.

A funny note about the builder who thought ground source wouldn't work well, he also tried to talk me out of a tankless hot water heater because the well water would be too cold in the winter! I guess he didn't understand that the ground down far enough is a pretty steady temperature.
It was widely reported in the days following the Super Bowl that he personally ordered his Tweets be boosted after a Tweet by Biden got more engagement than his similar Tweet [0].

As far as I can tell, he did not instruct Twitter employees to make his Tweets appear to all users, but he did want them to make his posts appear in timelines significantly more often. This lead to reports of users suddenly getting their timelines flooded with lots of his Tweets.

It seems like there was a rush within Twitter to raise Musk’s engagement numbers by altering the recommendation algorithm to specifically boost posts from his accounts. The special boost factor was later reduced, but allegedly still exists.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...
I had to go to the second page to find this. I completely agree. I clicked this thread looking forward to seeing some intelligent discussion of the merits of the source and issues/interesting tidbits, instead I see a bunch of Elon Musk ranting and complaining and pointing out drive-by poor pull requests issues. I really wish the adults would start to talk.
I’ve tried Amethyst and Phoenix (the former is completely scriptable), and they’re workable.

Here’s my list: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers

You will never have the kind of control you have in Sway, but you can get really close.
It can be hit or miss.

Some places just give you loads of chips and naan bread, which is a bit of a con.

One near where I used to live had four different types of chicken chaat alone, which is kind of the opposite end of the scale. I guess curry isn't really a thing in the US?
9/11 was an unprecedented event; nobody had been exposed to that level of powdered modern-constructed building before in the US. Not in those population numbers.

Vinyl chloride exposure risk, in contrast, is pretty well understood; we've been working with it for over 100 years (and crashing trainloads of it for about that long).

I agree the EPA (not CDC) made errors after 9/11, but they were working with a novel threat.
LeBron started a school where poor kids can get free food and clothes. The man obviously cares.
Fascinating read. I've always maintained a position of being staunchly in favour of rent control, but hadn't considered a city could get it so ass-backwards as it sounds like San Francisco has.

In Vancouver, we have a housing crisis as well, but our rent control more or less makes sense: Landlords can raise rents every year, but up to a maximum allowed percentage which varies every year but (to my knowledge) is no more than 3-4% in any given year. If the leaseholder leaves, the lease is effectively over. Leases can't be transferred or reassigned (which does end up biting people sometimes when one of the people on a lease wants to leave, ending the lease and triggering an increase for the other person)

I'd take this any day over what would happen if we didn't have any rent control... even if initial rents on moving into a place might be roughly the same, renters as a whole would end up paying much more over time.
Your work on figuring out the isa is really impressive.
I know some very underqualified poor performers who also appear to be excellent networkers. I have yet to see them however, get promotions internally based on networking alone.
People aren't going to submit themselves to biometric checks just to post stuff on reddit...

These social media will probably die when people realize that they are wasting their time answering bots, but these bots will take over soon or later.
That's what knuth is, isn't it?
Eubucco – database of individual building footprints
Maybe they did it so that it would be easier to remove medical and CDC personnel from the area.

After all, protecting these people was the justification the public health administration used to say "masks don't work".

You have to be a total sucker to believe they're optimizing for your subpopulation. They're the #1 Greater Good Team.

If admitting they got sick would reduce faith in the government and that would be bad For The Greater Good, they would just lie.
The Potato Paradox: A Perplexing Puzzle of Proportion Perspective