skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet somehow kids are surviving and thriving into adulthood. I don’t buy that kids are so fragile they have to be raised by the 1985 norm, even if it makes great episodes of Stranger Things. Human beings were been reared in concentration camps or horrific refugee camps and went on to live rewarding and happy lives. Likewise kids have been raised pampered as royalty and went in to live rewarding and happy lives. There are a lot of things you can do to screw up your kids, but paying close attention to them is probably not the worst thing.
You should try a spicy chicken from McDonald’s in China (麦辣鸡). The spice is cooked in and it isn’t a Tex mex spice that they use in the USA, and more importantly, they use dark meat rather than bland American white meat.

Chicken sandwiches in states are horrible due to our infatuation with chicken breast.

The spicy curry mcchicken I had in Switzerland was also ok.
Diophantus is credited with inventing some new algebraic notation.

The quadratic formula wasn't interesting to Diophantus because he didn't believe in negative or irrational or imaginary numbers; he considered those "impossible".
I personally think the no autonomy of kids is increasing the obesity epidemic. I know as a kid I rarely wanted to do anything proposed by my parents. So whenever I went outside to explore the world with a friend, it was either my idea or my friends' idea. The norm seems to blame smart phones or tablets as the culprit but my intuition will always lean towards lack of autonomy as the main cause.
I'm in the Philippines. I was down the sari-sari store yesterday (the Filipino version of a bodega, but not walk-in...more like a storefront with a little door where you push your money through and the owner pushes items out in return). Little kids run around unsupervised here all the time, and nobody bats an eye. Anyway while I was there laid out on a bamboo bench drinking a beer, there must have been five or six kids under four years old who came down there alone with change to buy something for their parents. So different from the helicopter parenting I'm used to seeing back home.
Yep. As a HF mentor used to tell me - Wealth buys optionality. Variance is the outcome.
Correlation with obesity rate seems stronger than anything else.

And alcoholism in certain counties.
I absolutely loved this movie and felt is was weirdly underrated.
SVB news is worth listed on top because here's operated by venture capital
It is really three conditions - spaghetti meat, woody chicken and white striping - all the result of chickens having been bred for rapid growth and size. Taste, texture and flavor are negatively affected.

This site explains them with some pictures: https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/woody-breast-myopath...

This is how I identify them:

1. Spaghetti Meat: Raw chicken breast fibers look like spaghetti strands. The top of the breast will look uniform. It is when I've cut into the breast that the spaghetti strands will become apparent. These breasts get boiled and fed to my dog.

2. Woody Breast: This is chicken breast that is tough in texture. Even when cooked, it feels raw or "crunchy". To me, this is really off-putting. I sometimes try to salvage raw breasts by cutting more off (also for my dog). But the taste is so off-putting that I don't care for them.

3. White Striping: You can see this before buying the breast - you'll see white lines across the breast. These breasts can be okay. But often woody breast and white striping coincide. I will cook the breasts if they only have white striping.
It's now possible to generate weaponized exploit code from the text of most security patches and bulletins. Programs can now reason about their failures and edit their own code to fix those failures. These new capabilities will also be available to malicious programs.

I can imagine a few thousand lines of Python driving a strong LLM to autonomously breach other systems and spread itself, with the goal of obtaining resources to train bigger and bigger models. Defending against that will be much harder than creating it.
Even though there's definitely a strong state by state correlation, I thought it was interesting that a number of states (like South Dakota and Wyoming) had such a wide range of outcomes. Not sure of that's just randomness due to smaller population sizes or what
Part of me thinks that the "mindset of poor" isn't just in the minds of some poor people. It is in the minds of the wealthier people. I know this sounds strange, but I go back to the block party thought. My neighbors know we have chickens and they've been coming over a lot lately to "borrow" an egg. I'm fine with that. Occasionally I go over and borrow a wrench or something. Neither considers the other poor. Together, we don't lack for much.

Some will call my thinking Polyannish, but it really helps to think this way. My neighbor needs a car for 30 minutes and I don't need to use mine at the moment. Here's the keys. Maybe they kick me $5 for gas and $10 for insurance and $2 for wear and tear. Or maybe they just let me borrow their lawn mower a few times. Or maybe they teach my kid how to play guitar. Maybe we don't keep score. We just know that together we got through the last flood.

If we start getting jealous of each other because she's got a bigger house or I stacked fewer sandbags, we become weaker as a whole. Of course I can't sit around and just mouch. And she can't either. And I'm not trying to justify the rich who exploit the poor. But we can do a lot at the neighbor to neighbor human level that makes life better for us all without government intervention. When it happens in poor neighborhoods we can call it poverty prevention; when it happens in rich neighborhoods we can call it an affluence subsidy. I wish we could just do it a lot more between and across all neighborhoods and call it normal.
On that note, there's the video essay "These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo, which includes various statistics and some striking visual examples of the absolutely absurd grill heights of modern production vehicles.
There's a greater phenomenon at work: the arc of a business as a living entity, often with a finite life.

It's slow and uncertain at first, fun when expanding and getting popular, but towards the end, it's not pretty.

I'm more than tempted to jump ship at work because they believe and demand every bit of work can be precisely measured for the value it delivers. They're about to do another round of layoffs, with no end in sight. They're penny-pinching perks, redoing all of the offices with shared desks, and running around like chickens minus heads.
Rio Grande Valley (one of poor regions in US) has similar life expectancy as Northern Burbs of DFW while beating Dallas and Tarrant county. Need to take a deeper look at the data.

Could be access to medical facilities in Mexico border towns - that would be some fascinating data.

Looks like the data is pulled from here -
https://ghdx.healthdata.org/about-ghdx/ghdx-records-explaine...
Gotta do both if you want to retain the right to do the correct things in the future.
Just curious where you were lived
But prices are up everywhere, so while McDonald’s is expensive now, it’s not like you would be better off in a sit down restaurant. Even eating a salad from the grocery store will set you back six bucks.
Doesn't really work nowadays that browsers are defaulting to DNS over HTTPS and smuggling everything past local firewalls and ignoring hosts files.
That's not even a good explanation for that epigram and the output is similar to many written pieces of content on the internet, which ChatGPT almost surely borrows from via CommonCrawl.
Executives will destroy lives at random as a show of good will to the capital class. Time to bring back the guillotine.
The High Seas Treaty
What do you mean by “production” vehicles?
For years, my goto strategy at Costco has been to buy the smallest package of raw chicken breasts. This strategy has begun to fail me recently - as even smaller breasts are beginning to suffer from issues found in larger chicken breasts.

I've canvassed my local stores including Whole Foods and independent markets that buy chicken from regional suppliers. No one has a source of chicken free of woody breast. It is an industry wide problem having emerged from an ever growing need to supply chicken.
Dark, Rita, The Rain, Tabula Rasa, Casa de Papel, Atiye, Borgen to name a few.
A lot from Spain, Denmark and Turkey.
Building a capability to predict weather patterns, implies, development of a slew of technologies, building an infrastructure to produce engineers and scientists, leasing out of those technologies to startups and other engineering enterprises to make better use of them.

Its not about just using the data.
Sure. But if you’ve got enough money to not have to work, you can choose to solve whatever puzzles you want.

The best position in academia is “emeritus professor”.
With respect, you're speaking to something thats kind of outside the point I was making. You are talking your preference which is pretty subjective.
Idk about Disco Elysium since I haven't played it, but I think there's some cool opportunities for generative text with carefully crafted prompts. Imagine a game like LA Noire where you can interrogate suspects about anything, instead of having to choose between 3 options.
Almost need to give them a flowchart or a list or more strongly link the sessions to an outcome (improving at something, working towards a line of work, etc). It would be great if 6-12 year olds were stronger at this also.
The general worries are:

- An ASI could easily be smart enough to lie to us about its capabilities. It could pretend to be less smart than it is, and hope that people hook it up to the internet or give it direct access to run commands on our computers. (As people are already doing with ChatGPT). We currently have no idea how ChatGPT thinks. It might be 10x smarter than it lets on. We have no way of knowing.

- Modern computers (software and firmware) are almost certainly utterly riddled with security vulnerabilities we don't know about. An ASI might be able to read / extract the firmware and find plenty of vulnerabilities to exploit. Some vulnerabilities allow remote code execution. If a superintelligent AI has the ability to program and access to the internet, it might be able to infect lots of computers and get them to run parts of its mind. If this happened, how would we know? How would we stop it? It could cause all sorts of mayhem and, worse, quietly suppress any attempts people make to understand whats going on or put an end to it. ("Hm, our analytics engine says that article about technology malfunctioning got lots of views but they all came from dishwashers and things. Huh - I refreshed and the anomoly has gone away. Nothing to see here I guess!")

It might be prudent not to give a potential AGI access to the internet, or the ability to run code at all outside a (preferably airgapped) sandbox. OpenAI doesn't think we need to be that careful with GPT4.
Our green ones varied in quality and material. Most of them seemed to have some cheap coating that was sometimes torn by chalk; after being torn, the edges of green coating seemed stretched like thin plastic. Some of the green ones, the teachers actually liked. Maybe those were porcelain?

Also had blackboards at some of my schools. They seem to last forever without much care.
> they were developed by a bunch of childless early 20-somethings.

Can confirm, I know a few people who work in a social media "for kids" group and they fit this description to a tee and display significant naivety.
Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places
Well, the problem with Google is that AFAIK they have no plans to onboard their important services like Search onto GCP. I believe a few years ago they have tried but found the GCP tools too lackluster for internal use.
> Maybe because they are more digestible then reality. Reality is much much worse.

That makes it infinitely worse, because ANY work of fiction will inevitably not be able to cover every minutiae of detail that reality mandates be covered, even the extremely rare & bizarre. And it is those one-off rare events & coincidences that will lead to significant global change. (See the the assassin buying a sandwich & the consequent assassination of Archduke Ferdinand)

Fiction allows for ideas to exist in a vacuum without any challenges from the outside. It allows for the perfect execution of said ideas without diving into the technical details for said implementations. It allows for the assumption of zero external AND internal resistance, & zero internal schisms. It treats irrational events as impossible to manifest, and coincidences as oddities instead of common occurrences.

In short: Ideas from fiction should be treated like the simplified universal laws of physics that's commonly shown to the mainstream - Idealistic, only tangentially related to the actual observed/calculated models, & abstracts over the complicated implementations underneath them.
Stockfish is not general. LLMs are able to not only play chess but also do a wide variety of tasks similar to humans. If I had a chat window open with you, what would you be able to do or say that an unrestricted ChatGPT could not?
Wow, what an experience that must have been! One of the golden era moments of gaming. Must have been cool to be a part of it!
As an amatuer I think Markov chains are explicitly a crude frequency association whereas what exactly a neural network is storing to predict the next token involves stored representations in neural weights which can be far more nuanced.
What's the state of the art in Pascal coding in 2023? Are we still using FreePascal to write win32 apps or what?
> In any case, applications can do their own aggregation for small allocations: allocate the nodes in an array and dole it out from that. It can recycle unused nodes itself.

Or you could just write the open-addressing HashMap, which is easier than implementing your own custom small allocation malloc()/free()?

That's the thing. To make chaining competitive against open-addressing HashMaps, you've got to bend-over backwards and its suddenly not easy anymore. Though you're right in that different versions of malloc/free could be more efficient. Ex: tcmalloc() has small allocations built in already like you mention.

But even if you erase those 8-bytes from the glibc chunk implementation of malloc, you're _still_ 8-bytes over the open-addressing implementation (you can't get rid of the 8-byte "next" pointer). So all that work and you're still worse off than the other methodology.
Chains and tires are something you use over time and replace so they can't be built-in. In this case anyway, because special purpose vehicles do come with deep track tires by default.

On other roads you also want to not have chains or snow tires. You never want to not have AM radio - it doesn't matter if you don't use it and it's basically free given the car cost.
>Luckily, Prusa has just release two printers that seem very good on paper (the MK4 and XL),

It's weird to me that Prusa is bemoaning the state of open hardware in the 3D printer space right as he releases a CoreXY-kinematics based printer, a family of printer design that has been pushed almost exclusively by the volunteer community and small companies over the past half decade. The PrusaXL has taken quite a few learnings from the Voron community, V-Core's Ratrig, and all the other related open projects in that space.

I like Prusa and I like Prusa made printers, but it feels weird to me for him to say that they are keeping their designs closed source because the benefits received are one-way while the PrusaXL is shipping.
Hello brother! What until you see what happens to the actual poor (those that can’t even afford a car) as a result of climate change!
It literally misses any explanation of the only thing that distinguishes the epigram from the proverb it refers to. While identifying, and reproducing, with simple contextual substitutions, and explanation of the proverb referenced is not a small feat compared to where this kind of technology was a few years ago, its pretty darned far from either (1) actually explaining the epigram, or (2) making the argument you try to make based on explaining the epigram.
> The primary difference is

Yeah I don't mean they're the same thing.

I just don't like either (hence "go even further").
As in, off the factory floor, before even considering aftermarket lift kits or other modifications.
Not op, but in this context, it likely refers to mass-produced vehicles with stock configuration.
It's not particularly unlikely that we'll have to tear down or repurpose all that methane transportation infrastructure once we prioritize that global warming caused by leaks in that infrastructure.

Transporting ammonia doesn't have the leaks-make-global-warming problem
as opposed to DIY go karts and handcrafted hypercars of course
What made SRM firmware better then OpenFireware? I always hear people wanting OpenFireware back. Never heard of SRM firmware or why its better.
Vehicles in production for mass market consumption.
Thanks for sharing this link to AI resources: https://library.phygital.plus/
If rotten tomatoes says 91% you need to keep in mind that means 91% of reviewers felt positive about a movie. They didn't necessarily love it. If you didn't like it that just means you aligned with the 9%. It's not guaranteeing you'll love it, or even like it.
I believe the most common definition for this context of "production" is "mass produced commercial vehicle"
Name and shame.

This behavior will continue unless it becomes standard practice to condemn cancerous blights on society.

Yes, I understand there's some mythical risk of being sued, but in practice, that's not actually true. If some sociopath CEO wants to bring you to court for this, it's worth putting a bullet in their head via the legal system. Degenerate companies have an incredible knack for being parasitic until someone upstanding comes along to end their reign of evil.
An exercise machine? jeez, I hate that stuff

Meanwhile, I go to kung-fu training and get pretty annoyed when I have to skip a class once. Sports can be wayy more fun and I wouldn't worry about the social aspect so much - adults can behave better than teenagers.
They're effectively upcharging anyone who buys from them without using their app. If you're willing to use their app and all it entails re: data they get from you, they're still pretty cheap.

In the Bay Area I can get 2x breakfast sandwiches and a large iced coffee for $6.29, taxes included, which is pretty damn cheap. Their Big Macs are regularly 2-for-1 in their app, and accumulate rewards.

I dislike the trend of harvesting all this data using apps, but I also don't really get fast food unless pressed for time.
What do you call being able to play chess and play any other well known game and do well on a battery of standardized tests and write code in a variety of languages in a variety of problems and ask questions and write fiction prose or poetry and generally just take a shot at anything you happen to ask.

I just can't take the idea that there is ambiguity as to whether these things have general problem solving skills seriously. They obviously do.

As I asked up-thread, if I had a chat window open with you, what's something you would be able to say or do that an unrestricted ChatGPT wouldn't?
Urbanization has that affect on adults too. You own less, are more dependent on public services, and are subject to far more rules.

It’s a convenient trade off for many.
In Japan kids as young as elementary regularly walk by themselves to school, stores, ride the train, go hang out with friends, etc. Doubt it would ever work in the US because everywhere is just plain dangerous, among other reasons.
Why can’t more music apps be like Apple Music Classical?
I can find you thousands of homes under $200k in almost every major metropolitan area in the country, and first time homebuyers are FHA eligible which means 3% down gets them their first home. I think most people even thinking about home ownership can scrape together $6k.

The problem is now people expect their first home to be their dream home, not a starter home. And they want it in the same handful of high cost of living cities.
What's sad is parents today all grew up with the internet. They should know how children should interact with it.

To put it into context: Facebook was founded in 2004. That is 19 years ago. Youtube was founded in 2005. That is 18 years ago. Twitter was founded in 2006. That is 17 years ago. Google was founded in 1998. That is 25 years ago. The World Wide Web (remember that name?) came to be in 1989. That is 34 years ago.

Social media is old enough to be in the history books, let alone the internet at large.

What the hell are the parents and would-be parents of today doing to be this fucking incompetent?
And why are virtues like “resilience” valuable over actual achievement (like being at Stanford)?

So they depend on parents and managers more and take longer to be independent. Why does this matter? This is perfectly normal in Asian cultures for kids to be attached to their parents until their 30s, much more slowly but in a more stable and reliable fashion building their own lives.
Some of his later work may sound similar, but the original cited source is "Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995" as evidenced by https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompani...
I’ve got large chunks of Tolkien’s translation more or less memorized at this point. I saw 30 seconds of the trailer and knew it was not for me at all.

May i recommend the terry jones audiobook reading instead?
Windows Pro editions are just as bad with the pre-installed crapware. And if you buy a PC from an OEM instead of doing a clean install on a machine you build, then that OEM will have added another layer of crapware. Even Windows 10 Pro these days will pre-populate the Start menu with tiles for Disney+, TikTok, etc.
What’s the other explanation? I presume it’s not the enormous amount of asymmetric financial assistance that pours into the south every single year from the “patronizing” coastal elites?

The South ties its wagon to the wrong horse year in and year out. No one forces them to do that.

Fixating on the patronizing tone is exactly the type of error that gets these outcomes.
Nobody has explicitly connected the other damning life expectancy visualisation on Twitter yet, so it’s worth linking to it:

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799627128143873?...

The difference in life expectancy between the UK and the US is mostly down to young Americans dying from guns, drugs, and cars; my guess is much of the differences within the US are attributable to the same factors.
> Part of this simply has to do with nosy busy-bodies ready to pounce on the phone to call Child Protective Services (or equivalent) whenever they see a child out and about on their own.

I get the impression that this problem happens a lot less frequently than social media and our personal echo chambers would have us believe. I am skeptical the prevalence is actually significant because this situation sounds like an outrage tactic to members of the population that grew up more “free range.” This is something I would like to be proven wrong on, if the data supports it.
It’s okay to use status as a tool in a wealth creation game. Encouraged even! It’s called leverage in that case.

It’s ill-advised to chase status as a goal in itself.
I think this is mostly a problem in the united states. I'm from Europe, and everytime I visit USA I am struck by how huge most of the cars are. Like, why?
My wife and I moved to a smaller city to raise our family. It’s been years and we still have moments of, “can you believe this is the largest road in the city?”

Definitely hear you about cars.