skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was lucky enough to work at copy.ai as they were defining their PTO policy and got the CEO to agree to unlimited PTO along with a minimum of 3 weeks.
Standard dose sertraline has a cognitive effect in non-depressed people, as besides being a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, it also has a slight dopaminergic effect (irrelevant for therapeutic purposes it seems, but still noted in case reports) I've had friends that don't use stimulant medication, reporting positive effects in both mood and cognition with a short low dose trial (25mg/d)

If you go down this path, use your newfound perspective and mood (as you'll probably feel different) to learn more about your personality and work on improving it, so that you are able to deal better with life, and find out in what things your usual self falls short when dealing with others. The comment from austin-cheney seems very good addressing a similar thing.

About diet, check out this talk from Georgia Ede called 'Nutritional and Metabolic Strategies for Optimizing Mental Health':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkqZW_sBPTg

Not gonna touch on other good habits, as it seems already covered in general, but just going to add a few mindset related things I found that resonate with my experience:

Becoming smarter shouldn't be a goal in itself, as intelligence is already set. Whenever I spent days reading studies, reviews and guidelines trying to search for an edge or better health in general, it was mostly a form a entertainment. I did learn a lot with those deep dives, and I incorporated a lot of these things in my life, but the gains are very marginal over less detailed advice.

At this age your brain is already wired for specialization. Which is probably why learning from textbooks and other structured ways seems easier now than when you were young and exploring, learning by exposure. You can tell the difference especially with language-learning and music.

This is bad if you are just expecting to absorb a topic intuitively, but it doesn't mean you can't conquer and become an expert on it. Or become a quick responder at it. This is where after you have covered some ground, you continue learning using projects and examples.

Life is more complex also than in your early 20s. There's more to do in general, expectations from others and yourself, which sometimes gets in the way of learning, eventually becoming distracting and energy sucking instead of having everything taken care of, or not being bothered by it. You can optimize this by hiring help or finding ways to living a lower maintenance life, keeping a low maint. household.

I find whenever I take steps to simplify my life and time sinks, and take a little time off out of my usual environment, creativity in problem-solving and learning tasks follow.
Whereabouts did that actually work? I can't think of a west coast locale where electricity is actually cheap and you get anything remotely resembling a winter.

I can see places like coastal california where you're on AC virtually year around and maybe need a day or two of heat.
I'm not sure why you're framing that PoV as the undeniable truth when it is far from the current consensus. And yes, manchuria was invaded but considering the fact that even after that AND the first nuke, the japanese government wasn't willing to surrender... that point is completely moot. It's pure speculation, and not an objective fact.
Another +1 for Inoreader. So many great features
I feel I made it clear in my post that indivual integrity matters and has real consequences. But you as a citizen have 1 no way of validating a CEOs real intentions and 2 no recourse when that CEO fails to live up to those intentions. If you only fight for the protections you want once you need them, you will be at a serious disadvantage to win them.
That's how I buy tech too, anymore.

As cheap as possible while not frustrating to use doing the job.

No matter what I pay, there's still a chance the thing falls apart in 3 months and catches fire anyway.
It’s all about risk and rewards, nobody who owns openai is going say let’s pause. It also never stopped the country that first invented nuclear bomb, sure they could paus and then Russia would have done it and would have it first, and then said “thanks for pausing”
>funneled $10B to OpenAI from the CIA

Without some evidence to support it, this really sounds like a conspiracy theory.
>film-makers to make insane, ego-driven choices without consequences.

Isn't that their job description? Which filmmaker doesn't fit this? The best art is often made by an 'insane' person.
Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content
Hello everyone,

I am the founder of a blogging platform called Feather.so.

People can sign up and create their own blogs using Feather.

Now, with OpenAI releasing their API, they made using AI so accessible for someone like me. So I wanted to add a chatbot functionality to my customer blogs. Basically, I wanted to automatically create a chatbot for each of my customer blogs. That chatbot will be trained on the content on their blog.

When I set out to do this using Open AI, I thought I could do this for every website, not just for my customer blogs.

So I ended up creating an entirely new product called SiteGPT.ai so that it can be used on any website.

The workflow works like this. People login the platform, they enter their website url, and click on a button to start training. Then I start creating a chatbot and train the chatbot will all the content on the website that the user enters.

That chatbot now knows everything about that website. It can answer any questions related to that website.

I have also added a demo chatbot at the bottom right of the sitegpt.ai website. That chatbot is trained on the content of SiteGPT.ai. So it can answer any questions related to its own website.

Please try it out and let me know if you have any feedback. I am also happy to take any other technical questions you may have.

Thanks.
Why wouldn't the US Government invest billions of dollars in a technology that it sees as essential? What's FUD-y about that? Most of our industry itself is the result of the US Government's past investments for military-related purposes.

Later edit: Also, article from 2016 [1]

> There’s more to the Allen & Co annual Sun Valley mogul gathering than talk about potential media deals: The industry’s corporate elite spent this morning listening to a panel about advances in artificial intelligence, following sessions yesterday dealing with education, biotech and gene splicing, and the status of Middle East.

> Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen led the AI session with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Y Combinator’s Sam Altman. The main themes: AI will affect lots of businesses, and it’s coming quickly.

> Yesterday’s sessions included one with former CIA director George Tenant who spoke about the Middle East and terrorism with New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counter-terrorism John Miller and a former chief of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

So, yes, all the intelligence agencies are pretty involved in this AI thing, they'd be stupid not to be.

[1] https://deadline.com/2016/07/sun-valley-moguls-artificial-in...
That's a trade-off I'm fine making, because time is in short supply - a snappier experience using my computer is worth it, and I have everything backup up in three places (Backblaze, 6 Drive RaidZ2 array in my home server, and from there to JottaCloud via Restic).
The R in RDBMS stands for the mathematical term of relations which is defined as a subset of a cartesian product.
My biggest complaint with Firefox on macOS is the lack of support for native picture-in-picture. They implement their own version that doesn’t stay visible when you swap between the virtual desktops; won’t overlay on top of full screen applications; and can’t be moved across monitors (iirc) either.
I have been main driving Firefox on Linux for the past six years, on Lubuntu, without any kind of problems. None whatsoever. It's fast and it's rock solid stable.

Edit: some people mentioned it's Firefox snap that has problems. I'm using the apt-get package one.
It was in the 50's, not now. The world looked a bit fucking different than now.
> super-PACs or lobbyists

Presidents don't make zoning decisions. Next time you attend a zoning meeting, take a good look at the people who are most passionately creating friction (or their power base, if they are outsiders). You will find a bunch of property owners looking after their property values.
The analogy is more apt with a reference to "a stage of bird-level flight". Humans can't fly at all, but in the same way birds and planes both fly, but humans and machines both process information about the world, just in very different ways and for different reasons.

But yes, the notion of "human level AI" seems to be irrelevant at best.
The fundamental issue is that Dropbox changes are non-atomic w.r.t. what git considers "atoms." See my other comment in this thread. You're right that there's usually not a problem with a single contributor, but if you ever have two or more contributors sharing a Dropbox-contained repo it will be bad news.
4 weeks leave is a legal minimum where I live and public holidays come on top of that (12 per year).

Many employers give 5. It accrues if you don’t take it.
Large companies do generally have short-term and long-term disability benefits in addition to pooled PTO or sick time.

But they have some limits after which it becomes government or individual insurance.
Explain why anybody would accept your premise that "Iran actually has a setup similar to the US, where moral issues are removed from the democratic process and turned over to elites"?

The "elites" in Iran are the Shi'a hierarchy. The "elites" in the US are, in your formulation, people who went to college and who live in major US metros. These are not comparable sets. Elite control over US policy is implicit (one might even say supposed); elite control over Iranian policy is explicit and rigidly formalized. These are not comparable notions of "turned over to".
> I can't think of a west coast locale where electricity is actually cheap and you get anything remotely resembling a winter.

Eastern Washington? 10 cents kWH in Spokane.

I don’t know if any coastal Californian locale that needs AC for more than one or two weeks a year. Even in LA you can get by without AC.
Very true. I wanted to buy an investment property in Sweden, and rent it out while waiting for prices to go back up in a few years... but learned that this is not a thing here! If you want to rent out, you need permission of your building association, which normally won't give it... or you can buy a "detached house" (no association) which is usually much more expensive, but then you must deal with renters and find them yourself, as the real estate agents , apparently, are not allowed to handle that. WTF?! Makes me wonder how the heck prices got so bloody high in the big cities when investing in property is virtually impossible.
"Carbon is extracted from the air in the form of CO2 and combined with the hydrogen in a process called synthesis."

It seems like at least re-burning the carbon that's already in the air is better than burning new dug up carbon? This is at least not net atmospheric carbon positive. You can do sequestration too...
> I disagree. You can create a CRDT flavor of data structure whose ops are not commutative. For example, a Set's add and delete operations. These are not commutative. You cannot switch the order of the ops for meaningfully processing them. However, you can create a CRDT Set.

set add (union) is commutative, set delete is not. so a set with only the add (union) operation is a CRDT, but a set that supports both add and delete is not a CRDT, at least not without very specific caveats.

you can create an add-only CRDT set, or an add-remove CRDT set, or a variety of other CRDT sets that support specific operations with specific caveats. but you can't create a CRDT set that is a fully-fledged set, with all the operations that sets generally provide.

> You do that by adding metadata to the ops, and having the instances always process them in the only order that makes sense even if such instances receive the ops in a different order.

so this is the crux of the issue, I think -- "having the instances always process [ops] in the same order" is basically not possible in any real-world network

first, because it's not possible to decide what the "correct" set of ops actually is, nodes are always subject to partitions, faults, etc. which prevent reliable dissemination of knowledge, and plus all the stuff about light cones and etc.

second, because "the same order" implies a specific total ordering of events is unknowable (see prior comments)

> you are "ensuring" ops are behaving like they are commutative and not "requiring" them to be so

converting a non-commutative operation to a commutative operation in a distributed system requires reliable delivery, which no network provides

the whole point of CRDTs is that they give you a formally strong version of eventual consistency that holds even in the face of (unavoidably) unreliable delivery

> My understanding is that a CRDT is op-based or state-based depending on what is "communicated" between the instances. If ops are communicated, then it is op-based CRDT, whereas if states (or delta-states) are communicated, then it is state-based.

this is true in the abstract, but the issue is that "what is communicated" is not a given, it's subject to the choices you make when you encounter a network fault -- or in the CAP model, a partition

CRDTs are tools for eventually consistent (AP) systems, which means that you have to keep making forward progress if there are partitions, which means that message delivery between nodes is not reliable, it can always fail

for state-based CRDTs if you fail to deliver a message it's fine, the information in that message is not lost forever, it will be included in the next message, and (if the partition is eventually healed) the ultimate state will converge. this is also true for delta states

but for op-based CRDTs if you fail to deliver a message it's not fine, the information in that message is lost forever, it won't be included in the next message, and (even if the partition is eventually healed) the ultimate state will not converge
Drive is a consumer product. Having to explain to a user why they were charged an extra 5 cent because of a feature they don't even understand is not viable. If you want no limits granular pricing. Use S3 or the Google version of it.

They provide exactly the product you want, it just isn't Drive.
I'm in the UK and a lot of my travel over the years has been to places relatively far away (Asia, Americas).

Travel in Europe is expensive when you're there so a lot of people from Europe travel to SE Asia and similar destinations (althought the cost differential is reducing)
vetinari, please do tell us how you did this
> There's plenty of information to contextualize.

There's nothing, that's what the point of this thread/argument is. The portion that Twitter has opened (or even simply committed to opening) is not remotely enough to hold them accountable.

The code they've released here is less helpful than a single Helm chart.

>>>What is the net benefit from rushing to condemn something that can only be a net positive compared to the past alternatives?

Because this is useless, and worse yet, it's pointless and blatant virtue signalling. I stood up in defense of Musk's private bid for Twitter, but there's nothing worth licking his boot over here. The suits don't care. The Open Source community gains nothing. The users will never see, interact with or modify the recommendation code. Nobody will be able to meaningfully audit anything until Musk stops selectively burning the books at Twitter HQ.

If Elon wants Twitter, he has the money to go get it. If he wants my respect, he's got to do an awful lot more than making "the algorithm" public. This release is so pathetic that it's probably colored my opinion of Musk more than any of the opinion rags I've seen yet.
Sure, but it is equally likely that your old perspective was the result of propaganda and your new one is a rational adjustment in the face of new information. Or that both are propaganda, I suppose.
trees?

The marketing blurb for this fuel can say: we only kill birds!
(Because wind turbines)
Part of the difference is that the modern web is built for Chrome. Even checking ones site or service with Firefox for functionality is a bridge too far, much less performance.
OK thanks for the recommendation then :) I might give it a try
Do you honestly think that AWS or Google Cloud would have given them billions in credits just because they're a nonprofit? I'm all for being skeptical of powerful people's motives but that suggests a major disconnect from reality somewhere in your thinking.
The Sweden story sounds so much like the SF story.

Area doesn’t building housing, leading to a massive increase in house prices and a destruction of class mobility as the rich get richer (as their houses get more valuable) and the poor get poorer (as they pay more to rent the same living space).

The growing wealth inequality leads to all sorts of other dysfunction including increased crime, worsening services, etc. as the govt cannot raise enough taxes.

And finally, instead of solving the fundamental expensive housing problem, opportunists will blame the other. More often than not the other are the victims of the problems. Immigrants in Sweden’s case, and since one can’t blame immigrants for obvious reasons in SF, homeless people in SF.
> Most people want to follow the law, they just want to optimize taxes.

How does the average person avail these optimisation schemes? Do they also get to lobby for the loopholes?
TBH, I am equally worried about the other side of the tax party. How my tax funds are spent and how efficiently they are allocated.
Ah, I see you may have stumbled upon our Lord and Savior, the Basilisk's, great teaching. Would you like to donate your entire fortune to the cause?

A full on ASI would not be bothered with the trivialities. By definition, it is beyond human's understanding and comprehension. Just like I don't care about the hardships the bacteria caused me when I was a fetus.
There is no government that isn't hopeless inept at regulating technology.
Which leads to the questions, dominance for whom, and over whom. And why, if we're supposedly entering an age of post-scarcity where AI can enable anyone to do anything, we would need dominance in the first place.
I've noticed over the years they have been cutting off all the unlimited stuff. Docs used to be unmeasured and unlimited, now they actually count the doc size to your storage, which is still effectively unlimited under non abuse use cases.
Weird behaviour I’ve noticed is a lot of folks on the unimpressed/doomism side of AI consistently say GTP instead of GPT, I wonder why this pattern exists?
What the hell are they going to do with an M1 Abrams?

Having said that, I dread to see what the NYPD manage to achieve with an F-35B.
Altman "hadn’t been to a grocery store in four or five years". He is so out of touch with real world, people needs and desires, and fantasies about the future world based on the assumption that most people want to be free "to pursue more creative work."
I think most people don't actually dream about pursuing creative work. Being absolutely "free" of work doesn't make one more creative. Real problems and constraints force people to come up with creative solutions.
>Besides, there is an alternative model where there are competing groups of people and I can pick the best among them based on price and services.

In the absence of government, what's stopping these groups from simply joining forces into a cartel, getting some armed thugs and making you an offer you can't refuse? History suggests that to be a far more likely scenario. Oligarchy, rather than competition, is the natural state of capitalism.
this is fun because the snap works perfectly on my machine, and it's fast as the native version.
I think the snap version is far better than running it natively (more secure). A web browser is a hacker's dream.
Tall teenagers would also count. It's not something I'd notice, so I have no idea how common it is.

I do it occasionally for hiking trips and similar with friends. Someone doing this every weekend might want more comfort.
Sure, don't share. But there's a good use case for putting a single-user checkout into Dropbox, and that's because it adds convenience and gives you continuous backups.

Though outside of garbage collecting, git doesn't have many files that actually get changed. Mainly the ref pointers which are easy to resolve and the logs which aren't very important.
I think you have a point there. AGI doesn't have a straight-forward litmus test.
> Except they're a failure at it. We have boom and bust cycles anyway. Remember 2000, 2008, 2022?

Those cycles weren't nearly as bad as the ones that came before it.

> The "whole point" of fiat money is to be able to spend money without having to tax it first. That's why the European powers adopted it in WW1 - to finance the war.

Sure. You haven't explained why this is bad except 'inflation'. I think inflation is a small price to pay for relative stability.

> It refutes the notion that the quantity of gold in an economy has anything to do with prosperity.

No it doesn't. It illustrates that idiotic people with a lot of resources can do stupid things with them.

> Why have Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, S Korea, and New York City become economic powerhouses despite little or no land?

Poor people do become rich, but that doesn't refute that it is a lot easier to become rich(er) when you already have a lot of money.
I don't know why people think nukes are a good example here. Nukes were outright birthed within the government within that government at its height of intervention into the market, at the height of its reach into the daily lives of every American, at the height of American civic engagement.

Policy makers spent a huge amount of time creating a framework for them. Specifically there was a huge debate about whether they should be under the direct control of the military. The careful decision to place them in civilian control under the Department of Energy is probably part of the reason they haven't been unleashed since.
> The reason to lie about this is that it makes him appear weak, needy, and a target of even more mockery. Given the purchase of Twitter seems to have been a vanity project, having this be exposed and leaving it in goes directly against his apparent goal.

I think it only makes sense to think like you are if you've adopted equilibrium assumptions; if you haven't then I find this sort of reasoning to be a conjunction fallacy causing an epistemic closure.
Indeed it is a scam. Biggest problem with unlimited pto is that managers don’t care until you take what they feel is a disproportionate amount of time off. With a fixed number of PTO days, managers can tell you take time off , so they don’t have to pay out at end of fiscal year for unused days.
It's regulatory/legislative capture by the very rich of the US gov.

Change the political operating system from the top. It cannot be reformed from within. The perpetual failures of campaign finance reform proves this. The only path forward is nonviolent mass mobilization. Never give in to learned helplessness.
>Next time you attend a zoning meeting, take a good look at the people who are most passionately creating friction (or their power base, if they are outsiders). You will find a bunch of property owners looking after their property values.

That's... exactly what I was arguing for? In the subsequent sentence:

>They're just people showing up to local government meetings in their spare time.
You can use JS to set `display: none` on the relevant HTML elements
This is a fair point, breaking mechanical compatibility will at least stop any electrically exciting goofs from occurring from plugging a low voltage DC lamp into a (comparatively) high voltage AC socket.