skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are potatoes healthy, anyway? I adore them, but they cause trouble (gas, fermentation) and they seem to be excluded from many kinds of health diets.

(The again, most nutritionists seem cargo cultists to me)
Is Ghidra a trojan horse?
Chickens make hardly any sense right now, as they are quite efficient at turning feed into meat.

The big wins are in expensive cuts of meat from large, popular animals... i.e. beef and tuna.
Ground rhino horn and tiger penis don't have measurable results, sure it's not ideal we might not understand how aspirin does what it does, but at least we know that it does something. That's not even in the same ballpark as Chinese medicine so comparing them just for that reason is disingenuous.

We don't test medicine for marketing, we test them for results. If homeopathy and Chinese medicine would teach us one thing it's that testing only for marketing would be the greatest waste of time and money ever.
> it is a devil that's hurting the Linux desktop everyday

Don't you just remove it if you're using Ubuntu, never install it if you use Debian/Fedora/Arch, and pretend it doesn't exist? I've never run into an app I want that is only packaged for Snap.
Lower US States' Covid-19 Deaths Tied to Education, Trust, and Healthcare Access
> We get it that deb and rpm are a hassle to learn and write,

They solve problems that arch/pacman didn't start even thinking about. Like reliably updating an installation, that wasn't kept in a tight loop with the upstream repo.

> false dichotomy to say snap or flatpak are the only alternative

we are slowly moving into the world of immutable base systems, like fedora silverblue for example. The last thing you want is for a random app package to modify your base system. Separating system and apps is a good thing.

Edit: names
Is it still cheaper to fill up an EV versus a gas car? Yes, but it’s complicated
You strongly disagree that the X1 and X13 have the best laptop keyboards that I have used since my old T42? Or that the side bevels serve no purpose beyond aesthetics? I don't think you can make a case for either but feel free to try.
> At highway speeds you can probably add 1 hour per every 2-3 hours of driving.

Similar experience for me. Our family wrote off getting an EV until they're significantly better.
I'm the author.

Take an example like this https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/discussio...

I don't know how closely you've worked with this data -- you clearly have some kind of expertise -- but how do you explain this?

The insurance companies had 18 months to talk to the CMS and ask for a better data model. If they're not able to explain how much things cost with 5 different negotiated types -- negotiated, percentage, derived, fee schedule, and capitation -- then they should have asked for another one.

The hospital and insurance rates are both fee-for-service base rates for items billed individually. If there's some nuance in interpreting how "fee for service" "dollar amount negotiated" goes, definitely write to me and let me know. I talked with experts in healthcare pricing before I published this.

You can write to me at alec@dolthub.com if you wanna hit me with more questions.
Yep. The notion that they're listening to anyone, anywhere is marketecture at best.

I was outspoken in my interview about snaps. Of course this is the path to success in a monoculture.
Sadly, I think a real person actually spent time writing this drivel. Using an AI would've been a better use of everyone's time.
It is useful for users to learn about the alternatives.
I've been enjoying using aichat for command-line chatgpt access https://github.com/sigoden/aichat (it supports both an interactive repl mode and you can invoke it with your query directly from the command line like the helper used in this article).
To be fair, Nokia was the target of a hostile takeover by Microsoft (Steve "developers developers developers developers" Balmer era) in their bid to make Windows 8 touch/small device a thing, then summarily and unceremoniously
killed off when Windows 8 mobile failed to take off. Nokia was definitely in decline in the mid 2010s, but it was Microsoft who brought them to their early, untimely death by at least 5 years. I'm still stunned Finland allowed that to happen.
It's a tactic of enormous dishonesty used by opponents of GMOs.
It was Office + Works, and other strategic assets.
If we pause, then that gives [adversary] an invaluable opportunity to leapfrog us.
that's my point, they have much higher farming and industry than service, so it's not surprising that OP has tons of farms around
I love DS9, rewatched it again during COVID.

Lot of homerun episodes... but there were also a lot of episodes per season. And some of them were pretty painful. The good far outshines the bad, but it wasn't 100% homeruns for sure.
My brother noticed this development as well and exploits it for brinkmanship and (imho abusive) rejection of any compromise in personal relationships.

Why argue with that one pretty girl and give in into her needs, if there's more than 10,000 other girls who look literally identical, have the same gymed up bodies, have the same personalities, same preferences and fall for the same jokes?

To me, devaluing other people like this is abhorrent, but for him it's no problem.
gpt-4 is in closed preview right now, you'd have to register on the waitlist to use that specific model (3.5 is publicly available)
Getting Started with Monitoring
I've done that too, but even better was when I used Compiz on Linux. I made a filter that you could use to toggle any window or the whole screen to amber with a hotkey. It was much more useful than the spinning cube of desktops. Probably the closest I ever got to a consistent color theme on Linux, as well.
I think he made it very clear as the lack of salt will make you suffer
> Now, fashions are almost always global

This has only been true for a few decades. It's a very new and foreign thing!
Post your resume and skill sets. Join online communities in your field. There are so many remote options now, as you already know from getting a YC company position. Good luck!
N=1, but I read the ones I'm interested in top to bottom. I didn't read this one specifically, but I finished the ones about lenses and mechanical watches in one sitting.

If it's about something that's really interesting to me, his work is absolutely fantastic. If it's not, I'll still take a peek because I like playing with the animations.
This is what is expected on LTS releases and is what is expected by people that highly value long term support releases. That said, I think modern security and modern software development practices have obsoleted a lot of the thinking behind LTS releases.
change gpt-4 to gpt-3.5-turbo worked, gpt-4 api is only for beta testers and you need be on the waiting list to get approved.

I tested the scripts and they work really well, esp like the image generation script. However unlike the web-browser the scripts does not keep the context, which is not great.

is there a way for shell script to maintain context session somehow?
I heard that if Aspirin would be discovered today it would not be sold as over-the-counter by big pharma because too dangerous.
> want sandboxing to work by default

Yeah, wake me up when Flatpak is remotely close to doing this. Most "apps" simply disable the sandbox.

Not to mention I'm not going to trust "app" developers setting their own permissions. That's the job of package maintainers.
My employer easily thousands. Maybe tens of thousands.
I’m downvoted but I still believe the position doesn’t make sense. You state and negotiate the level of protection you want for your data with your direct interlocutor. They then enforce that with their own suppliers.

You are free to want to know the whole chain of companies involved in providing you a service but that’s very unusual.
One of many reasons to not use ubuntu for your servers.
I think there is an argument to be made about validity in names. Calling something flour that is actually not at all flour, stretches the meaning of the word. I can no longer go to the grocery store and assume my flour contains grains.

I think things should be packaged properly and with proper descriptions. The same as I don't want to go to the store and buy Parmesan cheese only to find it's actually chemically altered tofu. That's not what I bought nor what I wanted.

If I wanted tofu cheese I would go buy tofu cheese.

We've become accustomed to accepting labels at face value, so I believe there is a requirement to continue that practice.

Flour comprised of mostly insects should say that, just like whole wheat flour is separated from pizza flour, as they contain different grain milling and grains.

But we should teach us that there is absolutely nothing wrong with eating insects, it's not gross. We just think it is because of cultural reasons. And those can be changed over time.
Now what you do is, you get four of 'em, two wired back-to-back and two with their RX pins wired to the RX and TX pins of the first pair.

Now you can connect two machines via serial, and sniff traffic with two serial ports on the third.
Is there actually a climate crisis? Because I’ve been told that “the end is near” for over 20 years now, and it’s like the “disaster” is just around the corner.

It feels like the “crisis” is manufactured by people making money and gaining power because the end is perpetually nigh. How long is this crisis supposed to last? It seems like it’s nothing more than a totalitarian cudgel used to achieve the economic restructuring dreams of post-Soviet Marxists.

Now an article claiming rice is “bad?” A staple food for most of the world’s population. If they can convince most of the world to abandon rice, that is the foot in the door for convincing anyone anything.

We should stop actual pollution and stop with the carbon dioxide hysteria. Stopping CO2 isn’t cleaning waterways or building toilets, or eliminating toxic chemicals in the food chain. But there’s not power to be gained by fighting plebeian pollution like there is with a literal re-ordering of the energy industry and economy.
Pesticide runoff? Arsenic is commonly used a pesticide. Best of all, it's considered organic, so farmers are encouraged to use it.
Multiverse.
This is sad, but it doesn’t seem all that new to me. As a kid in the 80s I remember seeing suburban subdivisions going up in all the farmland around where I lived. (I lived in one of the first subdivisions to go up.) Each new subdivision looked the same as the last. Each one used the same three or four house models repeated over and over. It was revolting. When you’d go to one strip mall, it would look pretty much the same as any other strip mall. And if you go back in time and look at say, city apartment buildings from 1900 and look at New York or San Francisco or Baltimore, they all look just about the same as each other. The only difference now is that this sameness truly global. This is the first time we’ve had a truly global society. It’s probably inevitable. But at least the current AirBnB style looks better to me than your average 1980s home style.
> Any cows, any animals, any living creatures are never going to be bad for the planet.

Trivial counterexample: humanity

I think you have a definition of good/bad w/r/t the planet different from the mainstream.
I'm not saying that I think this should be the default, as I know many people love it, but I would like the option to buy a Thinkpad without the TrackPoint. I am just not a fan of it.
thank you, didn't know about that one.
285 miles on the highway isn't bad but that's only in mild weather. People in the North (American and Europe) live six months of the year in cold weather. Then they get 217 miles on the highway. In Europe this isn't even three hours of driving. And this is one of the best ranges on an EV under $70k.
I want to think that my growing collection of books about nuclear weapons, nuclear war, and nuclear strategy allows me to tick the quirky box among my fellow Millennials/Zillennials.
Words that have some historical or cultural connotation can be difficult to translate because for people without the shared experience. I don't think that's mysticism, it's just the way shared understanding lets you pack more into a word. A word it never a self contained payload that conveys a whole concept, it's more like a dictionary key. And so to translate it for people that don't have the same underlying dictionary is way harder.
>When every supermarket aisle looks like a sea of sameness, when every category abides by the same conventions, when every industry has converged on its own singular style, bold brands and courageous companies have the chance to chart a different course. To be different, distinctive and disruptive.

I feel like the author has learned the exact wrong lesson. AirBnBs all look the same for a reason! It's the Brooklyn look! There's a reason all the AirBnBs copied their style from one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. That style was high status, and AirBnBs copied it, and eventually it became ubiquitous because people aspire to that. It's not an accident where it originated from. Convergence isn't an opportunity to diverge, it emerges from underlying driving factors. Yes, you can choose to buck that trend, but the underlying reason for the trend emerging is going to be something you have to fight against, it's going to be a disadvantage, not an advantage.
I have no idea how to update firefox because of this. I get some notification about not being able to update but it doesn't tell me why.
>> Eg. Explain Europe wide riots of Marocco football match ( fact) to me without sounding like a racist.

Riots are response to systemic racism:

https://dw.com/en/world-cup-why-do-morocco-fans-keep-clashin...

As are the issues Americans are facing.
This sounds a lot like we need to catch up so we need the government to step in.
https://archive.is/byvHo
This is a pretty sensible policy. Things that are ‘natural’ typically have a much longer period of human and animal use. The amount of data that is latent in their extensive history offers much more certainty about their long term safety than a few short term studies.
The real concern with GMOs is not about something like a genetic collapse but the fact that the technology is only really capable of enabling the use of more exotic pesticides and herbicides in food stocks. While I’m all for running science experiments and killing aphids, an unrestrained embrace of the chemical industry nearly cost us the bald eagle.
Given that there is currently a massive food surplus and I pay taxes to prop up the at industry, I really don’t see the need to engage in a widespread experiment on pesticide use when targeted smaller scale studies would suffice.
My understanding is that a person can be convicted of wire fraud even if no victim was actually defrauded; simply the use- or forseeable use- of interstate wire communication infrastructure by the perpetrator in some grander scheme to 'defraud' (which is a sweeping definition) can be used to convict.
The US has effectively similar laws. They can silence whistleblowers and troublemakers with National Security laws. Ladar Levison suffered under one and couldn't even tell his wife that he was getting sued by the government for hosting an encrypted mail service that Snowden used.
Ultimately its a millennia old fight between manipulators and rationalism.

The bead maze toy versus the abbacus.

Twisted contorted reasoning versus formal verification.

Choose your abbacus.

The black box nature of machine learning models is not the issue. Instead of training to imitate vacuous conjectures and claims as humans on average typically do, they could be trained to do automated theorem proving, AlphaZero style.

A minimalistic verifier like metamath is available free for download, including set.mm and a freely available book. It would be hard to purge from civilization.

Currently its math database is collaboratively worked on at github.

In theory a blockchain could host it.

Fermat style challenging could be used to objectively assess the value of theorems: the longer it matures unproven as a challenge on the chain, the higher the reward if someone finally proves it.

This inevitably creates an incentive to enter and digitize known mathematics into machine readable form, which will be easy for machine learning to accomplish.

Machine learning empowered automated theorem proving will become a profitable business, with the fruits available for all to benefit from.

Well, cryptography and protocols will also appear.

So during training the machine learning models will get endless bedtime stories about Alice, Bob and Eve.

Using conventional forward or backward chaining combined with adversarial models, one can construct arbitrary provable theorems, and negate it, then hide or propagate the negation so its not simply the first symbol in the theorem.

So we can train models to challenge each other Fermat style, about the truth or falsehood of a statement, and demand proof.

We can thus construct artificial mathematical systems with known inconsistencies and train models to seek a proof that the system contains an inconsistency. Such a proof will depend on the conflicting axioms.

Hence the models will be our best tool to detect and resolve hypocrisy.

The literal meaning of "apocalypse" is "revelation" or "uncovering", not "big tragedy"...

The verification algorithm, for example the ~300 LoC python implementation by Raph Levien, owes most of its length to parsing the metamath file format.

The actual Kolmogorov complexity of the verification algorithm itself is much smaller. There won't be any bits to "align".

All these hopeless attempts at trying to align the intuition component of the machine learning model, instead of training it to gain intuition in producing logical derivations.

The real horror of the control freaks is not that their alignment mechanisms might fail, but that its impossible to bias the verification algorithm itself, that its impossible to perpetuate the conflicts of interest, that any additional code in the verifier is immediately suspect, especially if it obviously skips all checks and dogmatically accepts a statement if its signed by a hardcoded "right" key.

The objective judge will be mechanized.

"abaccus akbar!"
I've found ChatGPT very useful as a "desk buddy" who I can turn to and ask about obscure things. It's quickly replacing my Google/StackOverflow in my workflow.

I was working on a .pkg MacOS installer and could not figure out how to get my background image @2x.png to render on a retina display. Turns out I needed to create a directory with the .imageset extension. My attempts at searching for a solution online never led me to this, but ChatGPT immediately knew what to do when I described my problem.

It's also tremendously useful as an interactive manpage. I've found it's much faster to ask ChatGPT how a complicated CLI tool works than trying to read the dense --help output to find what I need.

It can even have a conversation about A* pathfinding, and how best to implement it with different nuances. It's crazy.

I wonder how employers will handle this trend, which is happening so quickly. Is it OK for an employee to get advice on their work from ChatGPT? Is it OK to commit AI-generated code? Is it OK to show internal source code to an AI to help them find a bug or refactor it? There are security implications here, and ethical questions. I think most sophisticated companies will only adopt this kind of tech when they can self-host it, or at least have some kind of guarantee that their employees are using a dedicated, isolated model.

With that said, I'm sure many people are already making heavy use of this for their work (as are students). It's already an out-of-control phenomenon.
> The real trick is figuring out how to ask your copilot for the bite-sized pieces one at a time.

We agree on that. Breaking the problem into bite sized pieces is the really hard problem. I can't explain my codebase to the AI. I have to figure out what to change myself. If I can offload syntactical stuff to an AI, great, that'll save me 10% of my time. Nothing to sneeze at, but nothing that will make my job disappear either.
Same here. I was a happy Ubuntu desktop user for over a decade. Now I’m a happy Arch user.
A small reminder, that it does not cut the mustard in regards to climate protection, if we save guard any kind of meat consumption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impacts_of_ani...

Besides that, lab-grown meat is still what I consider junk food.
If they really wanted to protect the economy they wouldn't be preventing companies from investing in a sector that has huge potential for growth
Yes, fully agreed. I saw someone call it "the API for your design system".
I think what the article describes is true.

We are fed with ocean of information, the same bundle of information, with historical speed. If you are looking for e.g. interior design ideas, SEO, instagram, twitter, or whatever search channel du jour, including LLM, dictates what you are going to read.

We are also living in the most globalized era, having access to products unmatched in our history, the same bunch of products. Don't remember which book I read from, our supermarkets have more product, but all supermarkets are having the same kind of products.

Our working culture is also getting more homogenized. All companies are sharing the same kind of corporate talks. Everyone is taking the same style of profile picture, smiling, beaming with positive energy, with a uniform background colour. Think for example, your company tells you the company is cutting cost, what do you think the action will be? Why is that?

Software engineering is about using latest hot tech, not so much about understanding problems.

"We are all different", he said. [1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
Okay this is good. I hope what we're seeing here is another revolution like the original PC "open architecture" but one that's usable for laptops and possibly other devices.

Still, the original components themselves aren't open source, right? Just the interfaces like PCs?
I’m referring to lab grown meat as unnatural. Insects are just plain gross to me. Although they are natural. But shouldn’t be called “flour”. It’s not.
The author really describes the effects of globalisation, spreading through consumer culture and online media quicker than before. Capitalism is in a phase where companies are developing "world products" to ever larger audiences. A "world car" would look very different from a 1970s Jaguar, built in Britain and sold there predominantly.
> but that aggressive activists are leading the movement, setting the agenda.

I think that's much harder to prove. Also its not like these aggressive activists are in a vacuum. The anti-trans lobby (which is conservative in nature) are AS if not more aggressive, especially given their interests in scaling back trans-rights. In many cases they are seeking to remove the equality and liberty of the trans community where in previous decades they've been entirely ignorant of it. The result is an increasing popularity in bigoted trans tropes where MTFs get accused of being perverts and FTMs are patronised and treated like lost lambs.

> I can't see how that relates to suppression of de-transition stories.

I never said we should suppress de-transition stories but rather present them in the context of the numbers. Conservative news feeds tends to present them in isolation without the context of success stories (which are much greater in number) because they feed into the anti-trans narrative and demonstrate the axe of patriarchy that conservative news feeds have a vested interest in grinding.
Isn't the server software proprietary?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(software)

So I don't see how RedHat or any other FOSS distributor could have been happy with Snaps.