skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you happen to have an atopic skin condition, psoriasis, etc.

A bunch of the "shampoos" are combined with conditioner which means they're neither a good shampoo nor a conditioner. (Because those two are contradictory. Shampoo is to remove stuff from hair and skin, conditioner is to deposit.)

It also happens that quite a few shampoos have a lot of aggressive alcohol or phenolic preservatives.
Certain people are sensitive to these (most are not).

Some "men" shampoos also have wrong pH, way too acidic, causing skin and hair problems in the long run. Some even with pH of < 3. (Properly should be between 3.5 and 5.5)

And then there is the difference in strength of surfactant (SLS etc.) but that should affect just the dose.

So yes, they're definitely all the same. /s

The actual grift there is using weird oils, fruit additives which do nothing or just make the shampoo worse.
Hmm. I suppose some people who might benefit from being hospitalized were instead hiding their self harm, although i would assume then that suicides would be way down.
Elon Musk has been very public about his battle against “woke minds virus” (direct quote) His posts have led to front page discussions here and has made headlines in global news outlets. It’s been discussed ad nauseam to the point that it’s entirely reasonable to expect that people in this thread, with interest in the future of LLMs would not struggle to see how silly (yes, silly!) of a proposition it is that we all pause for “alignment” when the definitions of “alignment” are so wildly different.

In fact the only way I would expect a poster in a thread about the future of LLMs to not have heard about any of this would be because discussion on this topic has been literally suppressed and hidden. I know that it’s the official line that “LMAO stifles curiosity”, but applying it readily to the detriment of the sharing of knowledge deprives curiosity of oxygen.

Your literal line is “Nobody should be allowed to discuss this particularly obvious issue of alignment because I said a word that you didn’t like.” No warning, no chance to rephrase.

My understanding of this interaction is that you will readily assume that anything I post is in bad faith and will stamp out any post of mine that comes through your mod queue. This is your prerogative as a mod — you don’t like my posts.

That’s the most charitable read. The other possible interpretation is that it’s policy here to limit any discussion that might upset Elon Musk fans and there is an explicit bias in their favor.

I should add that my post didn’t seem to bother people much. The only responses to my post that weren’t complaining about decorum (which I’m kind of confused by. Is that on-topic?) were in agreement with my point and an obvious call for discussion. Aside from that, all those upvotes were from regular users too. I’m not sure who is being protected here, if anyone.
In prison or dead means they aren't on the streets and people don't have to face or interact with the problem. I would guess that many voters are much happier with "out of sight, out of mind"
That doesn't sound complete, are there steps you haven't written out? You've given some true facts about cycles. Why does your observation about Collatz cycles imply the Collatz conjecture, which is that every sequence is part of a cycle?
I happen to live in Kyle and also have the experience of attending rehab twice (2016 and 2019). I was never into pills, although I would gladly take them if they were being offered by a friend at a party, or there was a prescription lying around the house. Thankfully I got my shit together and don't engage in that type of destructive behavior anymore. Some of the comments and replies posted in this thread seem quite out of touch with reality though...

I spoke to a few folks I attended rehab / lived in a halfway house with, and those who had been using fentanyl said that nothing compared - subs, heroin, morphine, you name it. The first time I went to rehab, the majority of people there were there for pain pills and heroin. The second time around, almost all the opiate users were using or had at least tried fentanyl.

The problem with subs and methadone, is that it gets into your bones and both substances are addictive in themselves. Trading one addiction for another, even if less harmful, never works out well. Drugs being illegal isn't the problem here - I used to think that if the US followed in the steps of Portugal, the country would be much better off - we're talking school age kids here though. They're not thinking about legal consequences nor are they going to seek out help. They're going to try something out of boredom, some sort of mental state or because their friends are doing it, and with fentanyl many are going to end up dead.

It's easy to understand why kids are becoming increasingly despondent and increasingly turning to drugs for an escape. They don't have a chance to grow up before the weighty issues of the world are thrust upon their shoulders. Between social media, the news cycle, and the education system in our country - they're being done no favors. When they can't handle the load anymore, they often have no one to turn to as their parents are busy working to sustain a family. It's going to require a reckoning (for all of humanity) of what is truly valuable in life - chasing a dollar or being present.

Reading the headlines, seeing the billboards, hearing the stories on the radio while driving is all pretty surreal. I'm not sure what the solution to the problem is, other than making sure one's children know that they are loved and being the best parent one can. I know for me, fear is what caused me to use and that fear manifested itself in many forms - mostly a dissatisfaction with reality. I pretty much had to reshape my entire perspective regarding my existence and reason for being, before I found a way to move past my substance abuse issues. I'm not sure how you help a child realize there's more to life than what can be perceived with our five senses, and that every life is worth infinitely more than a pill or a fun time, but I suppose I get to figure this out with my own son.

I hope that we can all show one another a little more love in this world, and that we can also stop being sold on so much fear.
I've softened my language a bit over the years from approximately that to something more like:

"Hey, I think commit abc0123 might have broken the build, and it looks like it was yours (link to build results). Would you mind looking at it?"

I give myself a little room for being wrong (sometimes I am), and it comes across as being less of an ass, to which people generally respond positively.
What is work for, what are jobs for?

As a capitalist business, you have to fire people who can't do the work, or you can't find work that they can do, so long as you don't destroy morale by doing that.

But as a society, it's a human right to work or at least 'earn a living', even people who are not competent.

And honestly I think sometimes our current brand of rabid financial capitalism is the reason people won't do the work, seeing the owner drive a Ferrari while they struggle with rent, amid wage freezes and layoff threats.

So I don't know the answer, apart from violent revolution, lol.
They are at high risk of becoming another Docker.

Everyone uses it but nobody pays for it.
Hacker News is my river.
What if they're right?

https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Taylor+Swift&album=Red - one fairly recent album I found in which the vinyl version seems to have quite a bit more dynamic range than the digital or CD versions.

There's also the benefit of vinyl in that a single sale will typically send quite a bit of money actually to the band - vs streaming sending fractions of a penny, if that, per play. One of the best ways to actually support a band you like is to buy the LP, even if you don't have a turntable.
Yeah. And I'm not even sure why this is controversial.

We all know that JPEG is a really good format, but like all lossy formats it struggles with sharp pixel-perfect text. More generally, lossy data compression struggles with those sorts of razor-sharp details.

I don't know why some fight tooth and nail against this in the audio domain.

In practice, yeah, MP3 is usually good enough. An isolated plucked string or cymbal crash is not something you come across too often. And that's why MP3 fares so well in listening tests against uncompressed audio.

But if you really want a full fidelity experience it's not the ultimate choice, any more than a JPEG of the Sistine Chapel is a 1:1 substitute for the real thing.
Well I wouldn't ride a bike on the sorts of roads I had in mind either (and I'm generally comfortable riding on busy roads, but only when there's enough dedicated space for bikes.)
Based on what we've done for covid deaths, nothing, absolutely nothing will be done.

Also people need to stop having kids if they are only going to raise them while cute babies and then say "oh well I tried" when they are teens.
Can you explain what you mean? The USA never had “lockdowns” at all – to some degree because of public pressure though also because for the first year or so of the crisis the federal government flailed around passively/counterproductively due to abject incompetence (plus some grifting) at the top. Meanwhile China’s Covid policy had nothing whatsoever to do with the American electorate or stakeholders, but was instead driven by political pressures internal to China.

If your point is that different American states responded differently despite broadly similar public opinion based on party affiliation of the legislators and governors, that’s true, and part of how our the US system works. Public preferences clearly aren’t the only thing driving policy decisions.
It will frame such deaths in a different way, with a different idea of prevention
But that's only been over a couple of nights. How long had the hotel been running before the dog was killed? Over the course of time, it probably has a 99.999% uptime
It depends on what "algorithmically improve" means. If it's just a colour curve correction, HDR blending, or lens geometry fix, then I wouldn't put them in the same category at all.
> So basically it does not address anything. I begin to wonder what’s the point of this RFC.

If it doesn’t solve a problem you have, it’s okay to recognize that without categorically declaring it doesn’t solve any problems. The point of the RFC is very clearly stated, and its scope is intentionally limited and flexible.

The problem it identifies is a common set of error conditions, and some general ways that those general conditions might carry more detail. The solution proposed is a general way of modeling those, with some proscribed semantics for popular data formats and a less proscribed and very permissive way to incorporate the same approach in any format whatsoever.

> I mean, surely if you’re going to propose a standard that suppose to address some shortcomings of HTTP, you’d do it so that it can be used by anybody without any dependency other than HTTP itself. No?

They did do that. If you’re so insistent that it use headers only and no semantics specified outside of HTTP, you must already know that the Link header has all of the structural semantics you’d need to implement the same data structures. You’d still need to parse the header, but again if you’re so invested in that particular approach you probably already have a solution to that.

If your expectation is that this RFC uses only HTTP headers but comes with built in semantics for arbitrary structured data within HTTP headers, your demand is impossible to satisfy. HTTP headers are inherently a dictionary relation of strings to strings, until HTTP itself is modified to accommodate something more sophisticated. And if anyone tried to make that change it would face far more backlash than “feel free to pack whatever data into that dictionary you want, if that’s your thang”.
>govt.

So far in this thread I've only seen mention of:

- INcompetent and nice
- competent and NOT nice

... also, with the qualifier that both extremes seem to be minorities "on the team" however defined (Gauss comes to mind here).

But I as well as family and friends have also encountered the other variations, and more often than rarely. Incidentially a close relative has just had this experience in a public sector job (Health Care, Europe):

Person in question is

- competent and nice (as regards to her field of work and work ethic)

Person got hired to a small unit in which everybody else seemed to be:

- INcompetent and NOT nice

... except for the manager who was one of the types discussed here:

- INcompetent and nice

The work environment was fully toxic and not long after enrolling my competent and nice relative was on sick leave as a nervous wreck, and being laid off by the nice manager, because, as he said:

- "I'll have to fire either You or the full rest of the team, but as I need hands I have only one option."

(I have seen flavours of this happening in big private enterprises too, so it's not reserved for public/govt. jobs IMHO)
This is what people mean about DSLs needing to be small in scope.

If you go past that scope, you need to completely redesign, or create two separate DSLs. Surely not taking a super small, specific, DSL like "what if we made redundant styles automatic by cascading them down the DOM tree?" and try to extend that for every conceivable styling, layout, rendering, and animation need.
This is an absolutely ridiculous take - the Chinese government has over 1 million people in literal concentration camps.
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People already do all of these things: lie, cheat, steal, seek power, game the system. In order to counteract them, we have a variety of social mechanisms: laws and enforcement, reputation and social stigma, checks and balances, limitations on power. At minimum, we shouldn’t give AI any more power or freedom, with any less scrutiny, than we would give a human.

This is a point I have consistently also made. This is a big problem for alignment theory, which states that aligning to human values will achieve satisfactory behavior. However, humans don't have satisfactory behavior under our own values. Alignment theory is trying to fix human behavior, for which we have no solutions.

As the article pointed out, the only thing that keeps human behavior in check is that none of us individually have unlimited power.

My own very similar arguments on why alignment is impossible under this premise were made here - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Why not keep everything tightly contained?
Words come to mind when I think of using Prusas I have used: Reliable, Plug and Play, Workhorse, Industrial, Application

Every other 3D printer I have used: Calibration, Settings, Filament, Buggy, Spaghetti, Error.

Doubt this will be much of an improvement, there is little to improve upon with the MK3S+.
If speed is important, you're much better off using a larger model and whisper.cpp.
Houstonian here. non-White, non-evangelical Christian families seem to have no trouble here. The area I live in is near 50/50 white/Hispanic. I myself grew up in a non-religious family here and no one ever gave us grief for it, then or now. I know many LGBTQ adults here who also have no trouble.

I don't know about trans kids as I don't have any direct experience with that but I can't imagine it being an issue any more than any other city.

I'm often disheartened hearing tired tropes about Texas just being rednecks, klansmen, and bible thumpers. Yes, they do exist, as they do in California or Oregon or New York. But they are not anything like common. I can't even remember the last time I saw a confederate flag outside a historical reenactment context.
> It returns with four options, approximate travel times and advantages and disadvantages.

This trust in it's response reminds me early days of the internet. That would be the time when the people who created it were just exploring what the technology could do. It was a wonderful time. People posted amazing HOWTO's to Usenet that were chock full of useful information, you only received email from like minded friends, and almost nothing was censored and most of it was useful. It looked like the future was bright.

But then it grew so big you could not recognise most of the sources, and into that void stepped content aggregators like MySpace and Facebook I refuse to go near, and Alta Vista started ranking stuff by how much they were paid. Usenet was overrun by lies from spammers as was my inbox. And now if I don't run an ad-blocker, I find it difficult to differentiate Google's search results from the ads at the top, and near bloody impossible on sites like Amazon, and GMail / Hotmail mines my personal correspondence for ways to manipulate me.

And so it will be with those concise AI responses. Except you have absolutely no way to cross verify - you only get what a machine that will likely be far smarted than any of us wants you to know, in order to maximise it's profit.

Thank you, but I'll pass.
> But if they explicitly tell you they have hostile motives or the preponderance of the evidence suggests such,

... you don't have to assume, right? So I see no reason it is overly contradicting and would render that rule void.

Over here, to assume good faith is required by law to be the standard mode, you have to expect it otherwise society would crumble. IMHO you can't take and stress this far enough, and I can't imagine where it can be taken too far. But yes, please don't ignore your intellect.
They may not use this logic but it’s churn rate vs. customer lifetime value.

When your product is consumed by people who are at one point or another in the process of killing themselves, it’s all churn all the time.

Dealing opiates is a high volume, high frequency business. If cutting x or y with fentanyl both saves significant money and even helps you extract some more transactions from the customer before they OD for the last time, it’s a business advantage.

The market for junkies seeking out “high quality opiates” is vanishingly small. People get hooked on fentanyl, literally want it, and then it’s game over.

Basically death is where the high growth is.
As a loyal cultist, I'll drop here one of the most transformative "educational" or reading technique I have even encoutered: Incremental Reading[0].

I would recommend it to anyone to give it a try, it absolutely changed how I study.

[0] https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading
Proof of work is the key innovation that secures the decentralized network. Thinking that something is possible with no energy is the real fantasy land of scammers (aka proof of stake)
In my experience it still fails every two or three sentences unless the speakers are deliberately speaking clearly
I’ve never seen such a difficult form to fill out to get access to an API, it’s kafkaesque
The auto CC used by Youtube has improved greatly, when I started using it years ago it was almost unintelligible but now it's impressive. (At least in English and Italian is practically perfect now)
If you have stats to back this up, I’ll be more convinced
Hopefully there'll be enough enforcement so it won't matter if people tolerate it.
I never made any claims about phones. That was all you.

If you want an example of what I'm talking about, look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ergomechkeyboards/

Keyboards don't inherently need to have the keys laid out like a typewriter. Most people are only willing to use a keyboard that is, because that is what they already developed their muscle memory for. That's the motivation behind the conformity I'm talking about.

A natural convergence would start with many competing options, and gradually boil down to what's popular; but keyboard shapes have only recently seen meaningful diversity be available at all.
It’s not probabilistic — for any cycle length, you can compute the minimum possible x value that could possibly be the lowest odd number in the cycle. That value trends smaller as the cycle length grows.
> An isolated plucked string or cymbal crash is not something you come across too often.

It really depends on what you're listening to. If you're, say, a fan of high speed bluegrass, it's an awful lot of isolated plucked strings. :)
There are plenty of fallacies present in article. Appealing to the stuff that lasted a long time is the bullet-hole/armor meme. Modern Japan has plenty of examples of disposable consumerism. Invoking Blow and Muratori's names doesn't directly lead to "and therefore I will make a computer that does very little". Selling a good with less function as a luxury heirloom is just a common sales tactic.

A beautiful computer, to me, is a saddle to ride on - neither too cheap to respect, nor too expensive to use. That is, it's something akin to a Framework laptop with some nice peripherals and desk accessories, or FPGA recreations of old hardware. The mechanical keyboard market gets this - and it deserves further equivalents in other aspects of I/O, in the circuit designs and software stack.

Who will make the first heirloom printer/scanner?
Sounds suspiciously like apple is gradually blacklisting the serial numbers of the macs they use to send the iMessages (love to be wrong about this).
agreed, their lack of commitment in stopping any kind of ransomware attacks that come out of china speaks the same sentiment
My father in law applied for a visa to come to Australia about a decade ago. As part of this he had to do a medical checkup, and this caught some cancer that he didn’t know he had. Luckily this was early on, and after a few rounds of surgery he was in remission.

If he hadn’t applied for the visa at that time, it’s almost certain he wouldn’t have caught it and wouldn’t be alive today.

He had no trouble getting approved for the visa - we were sponsoring him so we had already signed an agreement saying that we would pay for any government benefits he might receive over the next 10 years. So I don’t think people in this particular visa situation can be a burden on the system.

But this might not be how every visa in Australia works, I’ve got no experience beyond that.
But the point remains, and kind of too my point, that "Free Speech" in most cases is not really free -- in that there are rules and regulations to how speech can be conducted.

So TikTok is covered by freedom of speech. Okay. But what about content coming from Chinese servers, or say, foreign companies that are obligated to give your personal information to a foreign government?

It's never been so much the speech itself but how it's presented to others.
A while ago I listened to an interview about drugs and drug manufacturing where one of the participants, and I wish I remembered who it was, said we probably should think about what is going on with fentanyl and the various other synthetic opiates through the lens of what happened with the Opium war. It didn't sound like fearmongering to me, but rather someone trying to describe to other people what he saw in his reporting or public health work.

I'll try to look at what I've listened to tomorrow and see if I can find it.
The business model is the interesting part - it's proving out OpenAI's model of selling access to a model, rather than insights that Google derived from the model
Would feeding the resultant recognized text into an LLM to have it correct the remaining mistakes be useful? Essentially to repair the transcription?

I did that with Whisper output and it helped improve a podcast transcription and logically inserted proper line spacing.
I’ve not found that they can
be taught. An inexperienced person may lack the knowledge of what to do but they can learn to ask, to read a book, to follow the state-of-the-art. An incompetent person will decide they know what to do (or wrongly conclude that that no one can possibly know what to do) and charge off in the wrong direction at 1000 miles per hour.
My guess is it's a reference to a blog. Replace "more" with "less".

I have seen claims that it's a cult, and also that "effective altruism" is a spin-off from this cult.