skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best part of this article comes in a paragraph buried in the middle:

> Pregnancy decisions are complex decisions, and we live in an increasingly fast-paced society. Little wonder, then, that most women opt to err on the side of caution and adhere to the culture of restriction they find themselves in while pregnant. I, myself, with a background in quantitative research design and now a professor whose research focuses on the social construction of fact and risk, remember scowling each day when I microwaved my deli meat. I was frustrated that I was succumbing to acting on what I knew was a minute risk of listeria in the meat, but I knew I’d never forgive myself if something happened to my baby because I was too self-centered to microwave my bologna (which, to be clear, is disgusting). I felt overly equipped with my unique educational background — pairing critical analysis of study design and risk aversion in modern society — to think for myself about these issues. And yet here I was, microwaving meat anyway, because I had 15 minutes to get to work, I had to eat something, and I was tired from another uncomfortable night’s sleep while very pregnant. It was easiest to microwave the damn bologna.

I think women like the author, who are frustrated by how their lives are constricted by pregnancy, should own the very large degree to which they are doing this to themselves. If they want to change it, they need to start with what's going on in their own heads.

The extreme risk aversion some mothers exhibit, and the way it constricts their lives, emphatically does not end at birth, and after birth it begins to constrict the child's freedom as well.
Thank you for making this recommendation. I'll check out FIRE.
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I also don't understand it tbh but I started to see this too and leverage it.

How?

I worked in a simple startup 6 years ago. They didn't do anything difficult and still got the money.

Experiencing this made me understand that I'm already further down they road and can also get money.

And that's were I am. Searching for money this year and being actually optimistic about it.
In the city I live in it's borderline impossible to go outside during late hours in winter because you get literally gassed with smog from the various shit people burn for heating, it's absolutely unreal.
(Offtopic but) Kris, I have used your micro unit-test library in the past and it was a pleasure to look at your code. You're the kind of crazy guy (in a good way) that gives me the motivation to learn new stuff. Thanks.
Hi. Feedly employee here. There is no alternative because you have to pay a ton of fees to get Twitter access via API. The cheapest solution is to offer you Basic API token access ($100/month paid to Twitter). We’re working on that for our Enterprise customers and couple others might too. The question is if it is viable for single users.
I don't think you lose much tolerance within the week or so the acute withdrawal symptoms last.

I think the danger is from relapses long after withdrawal when both tolerance and knowledge of the supply has been lost. In some ways, withdrawal is the easy the bit - brutal but something to fight that gets easier as time passes. The nagging empty hole in your soul with sobriety is harder to fill and drags you back.
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Deaths of despair in the US are highest amongst rural white men. (Urban white men aren't too far behind.)
> In general, it's able to displace longer trips (other than biking for fun) than a non-electric bike.

Exactly.

Since converting to an e-bike, I am using it 4x as much. Especially in the summer, it changes from a sweaty trip to a pleasant one. Those tips would normally be public transport.

10K sounds a bit ambitious, but myself and a friend are on track to exceed 3K.

This whole discussion is splitting hairs -> out of a single electric car, you can make 150 ebikes.

A good ebike battery is 0.5 KWh, a an electric car is ~80 KWh. An electric car might weigh 1500 KG and an ebike like 15.

So really it seems the conclusion should be that the ebikes are overpriced and they should cost $500 if their productions was automated like production of cars is.
The results of studies and research are in no ways binding for human behavior.

I feel the authors are shouting into the mirror.
Suicidal is probably too strong a term. Addiction is a total mind f#*k because you can be totally rational, full of regret walking home from the ER and then think “hey a cold beer would be really delicious right now”. Then coming out of a blackout later like “hey, what happened?”

It’s more of a head space where you don’t care whether or not you are alive tomorrow, and I definitely shouldn’t be doing this, but that’s a problem for tomorrow.

If there’s even a brief moment of contemplation it is no match for the physical withdrawal that takes over from your rational mind, like a totally different person carjacking your your body at gunpoint with a sensible plan to save the day. The negotiation lasts less than one second.

Frustration, bewilderment, terror, despair, oblivion, repeat.

Recovery is not easy. It’s obviously a lot more complicated than “don’t do that, dummy!”, considering that message combined with gangrene loses the argument with the carjacker nine times out of ten.

Edit: sober for 9 years (one day at a time).
Its really hard to find stats for refinement. I thought I had seen 90%, but I do not remember where. Your [1] seems to suggest its only 60%. So I might have been wrong on that.
I see my server has restarted a few times! I imagine it's folks here since I haven't shared Chat Bling elsewhere yet. Sorry to anyone who started generating images, but haven't received a response. The 'jobs' for images generations are stored entirely within memory, so a server restart will lose all of that.

Going forward, I'll explore storing image jobs in redis or something, which will be more resilient to server crashes.

As for conversation history, I'll continue to keep that in memory for now (messages are evicted after a short time period, or if messages consume too many OpenAI tokens) - even that's lost during a server restart/crash. Feels like quite a big decision to store sensitive chat history in a persistent database, from a privacy standpoint.
Does the <Image> tag work with the docker container? GP's issue is with how vercel was pushing the <Image> tag a lot yet it doesn't work when in static site generation mode which is used by a lot of people.
If you want to call yourself open, you can start by making the development more open. Right now it’s almost all behind closed doors until it hits a PR, and once in a while the Vercel gods are feeling generous enough to share some slightly early plans in a discussion somewhere.

Simply “here’s what we have in mind for next release”. An open framework should not be developed like you folks do it. Look at how Python or Django develop their releases for better examples.

You have RFCs, but most of them are internal and don’t reach the public space. Why?

AppDir is a good example. Yeah you have an extremely high level table of what’s planned vs in progress but there’s nowhere public where these discussions are being held. We’re not able to see nor contribute to the decisions. We’re not able to chime in when bad decisions are obviously being taken. Some companies view this as an asset because they want the power to silently take decisions that are good for them but bad for their users.
Comic books at the time where generally anonymous work-for-hire. The publishers like DC deliberately avoided crediting the artists. The original creators of Superman ran multiple lawsuits against DC, but only got a payout in the 1970's because the media attention became too embarrassing.

Often the artists didn't even own the original drawings, so the comic publishers could sell the originals as collectors items without the artists warning a penny.

So while I don't particularly care for Lichtenstein, I think the comic book industry itself (and indirectly its consumers) is to blame for the anonymity of comic book artist. Creator-owned comics and artist credits only really became mainstream in the 1990's.

Interestingly, this is quite different from the European tradition, where artist were well known. No artist would get away with just swiping a panel from Tintin and present it as an original work, since everybody knew Tintin was created by Hergé (although to be fair Hergé himself had uncredited assistants.)
Im curious how the hell Australia is planning on making up its GDP if we and the world are "cleaning up fast" as the article puts it.

No manufacturing, no tech, no engineering...hmm...
This isn't the first time a company tries to import US norms about employment into Swedish labor relations.
I guess so, can't think of an example now but I'm pretty sure there are subtle corner cases (as always) and it depends on the testing, coverage and potential limitations of checking things at compile-time, though, IMHO, the technique is promissing and can help with a lot of use cases but defo not everything.
Maybe the finance system self-selects other people who seem like themselves? Like Ivy League graduates selecting to work with others like them?
Having something that is incredibly useful doesn't have to be profitable. High speed rail is infrastructure that will serve you well for literally the next 100+ years.

And as you improve your local rail network and amount of connections to that high speed rail, its a no brainer.
Pretty sure everyone is entitled to severance package regardless if you sign something or not.

In this case, one would suspect, they got either regular deal without gag order or a better one with one.

Now they don't want to follow on their part of the deal.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Lenovo Flex, Asus Vivobook, Dell XPS13

Desktops are a different breed. They last forever.
Others might disagree with your idea of what to upvote. It's very hard to benchmark something like this.
I would argue they are taking it seriously, just not in the way most of us would like.
I think you missed some nuance. I read it to mean that the Victorian models of motherhood and female-hood are magnified by the inability of (ethical) science to offer firm causal explanations for childhood outcomes. If there's a source it's good old fashioned Victorian patriarchy.
Is what eventually happens when the platform (macOS) does doesn't have enough features being added to it that benefit from improved hardware for the majority of its users.

Could argue that's because macOS is being neglected as it's slowly being replaced with iPadOS. Could argue it's just what happens with converging to an optimum. Either way outside of video editing - and perhaps AI dev - upgrading from last gen pro Intel and m1 doesn't feel very compelling at the moment.
Those things are not opposed to each other. In fact one benefits from the other. One is national, the other is more local.

And the main thing holding back cities is cars and removing them is not primarily a cost issue, but a political one.

As for what will it solve, it decarbonize the most important air routes in your country. It will serve as a backbone for the transportation network of your country for next 100 years.
(I may have misunderstood your comment to some extent, but I'm going to send this reply anyway even if just to clarify for anyone else who might misunderstand.)

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I agree with "be careful what you send to the chat bot", but let's clarify some things in case you or someone else reading your comment is misunderstanding.

LLMs aren't immature AI brains that "may even permanently ingest user data for training purposes". They're just models, which are represented by an architecture described in readable source code, and weights derived from training.

There is a very clear delineation between inference and training. Models are static when being used for inference. You don't need to "untrain" the model after you ask it something; you never trained it in the first place. Running inference does not change the trained weights.

If you're talking about OpenAI specifically saving ChatGPT data for later training purposes, they absolutely are doing that; they aren't hiding it. But that's a purposeful "let's take this data and use it for training", not "oh no, our immature tech accidentally ingested prompt data, how do we untrain it"?
> much more tolerant of deviance

Not dismissing your point, but there's probably also less of the bad side of landlord/owner-association overreach.
> Is there anything in OpenVMS that Linux is fundamentally lacking?

File versioning. This is bodged on in all xNixes by embedding version numbers into filenames, then writing a multi-tens-of-thousands-of-lines shell scripts to track all the versions, make loads of symlinks so programs can find them if they don't need specific revisions, occasionally add new versions and remap hundreds of links, occasionally prune old libraries, carefully manage umpteen paths to where different libraries are kept... and this is considered normal and nobody sees anything wrong with it, when in fact it's a vast ugly kludge of a hack, now fossilised as package managers and so on.

All because it's a braindead filesystem.
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That's really an example of execution being more important than ideas. I think tech people typically hate that, because we're often ideas people.
https://hnrankings.info graphs the history of every HN story, e.g. https://hnrankings.info/35510413/
I would be curious to know what proportion of PI time is spent preparing and getting approval for research grants for the various disciplines. Is it normal to have several different proposals submitted to the same or different agencies?
It is worse than that. You get paid 20k/y. You pay 20k/y in tuition. But only 40% of the grant money ends up going to this 40k. So it costs the funding institution $100,000 to pay you 20k.
I believe they would do it with full knowledge, and when they don’t have full knowledge that’s also intentional. They cultivate plausible deniability for these things they “coincidentally” profit from.

Which is precisely my point with this topic and the unions. Finally for once we see the real ethos.

There’s room to have faith in the executives of these megacorporations, I don’t.
Copper and Lithium mining.
The big consulting firm runs a program/project to deliver a result. Perhaps implement a new business system or technology or integration, optimize or implement a new process, perform some organizational change in the way things are done, etc.

Companies don’t have the skills or experience or expertise or resources or time in-house to do it themselves, so they essentially outsource the initiative or objective to a consulting firm.

It’s seen as less risky to go with name brand big consulting firm. But companies think they can pay little and get a quality delivery team, and the big consulting firms usually find a way to make a profit at the expense of quality by leveraging inexperienced consultants or consultants overseas with no real world experience.
To play devil's advocate: this puts higher-quality EVs within reach for more people. Some might go all out on a very expensive EV, but presumably most will just want bang for their buck. In turn, plenty of these vehicles will enter the second hand market, starting from a few years down the line.

Back to reality: such effects smell like trickle down economics to me. They may work, provided the rules stay the same. Around here, the govt eradicated the subsidies on hybrids right before the first generation lease hybrids were about to enter 2nd hand market. So we collectively sponsored a bunch of well-off consultants getting fancy cars that were, after the leases ended, all exported :s.
That's almost entirely Sweden having a high tax rate though.

I just priced out an M2 MBA with ram & ssd maxed out. $2499 USD in the US and 33009kr in Sweden. $2499 is 26163kr, +25% VAT is 32705kr. So you're paying 304kr / $29 more than the US price.
Thanks! Most likely not yet applicable at Google's scale but smaller project can defo leverage the approach. Personally, I'm writing most of my tests this way and with TDD the red phase is always a compilation fail which is quicker than buiding and running in my experience. But that's for a medium size project. But as always it depends there are trade offs.
Can you update the readme with some info privacy wise. Some info on who I'm sharing my data with?

Openai - fair enough, already doing that a fair amount .
I'm not sure what to expand on. Musk released a PDF and gave some interviews, some people talked about it. It had absolutely zero impact on the government, it changed nothing about the plans for HSR in California.

There was not even a single government hearing about it as far as I know. There was at that point no company that lobbied for it. There were no politicians coming out against HSR in favor of Hyperloop.
It could potentially be more meaningful than that, but it's hard to say, because the idea that neoliberalism has some kind of pervasive cultural influence is itself a subcultural concept that would have to be unpacked for those of us who are not in the subculture.
People continue to push this, without reading the privacy statements regarding API use.

https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis
The question has 300+ upvotes. That’s a proxy for how “good” it is. A person is curious about an aspect of mathematics and posed a well stated question. It is not a stupid question. From their perspective mathematicians appear to do something and they wonder why it can’t be done in other situations. Such a question is the basis of understanding. It is by wondering such things that enables one to gain true understanding of a topic.

Most questions asked by beginners in an area are “stupid” and few as insightful as this one. I’ve taught mathematics at a community college for 20 years and I would be delighted to have been asked this. Usually questions are mundane like, “Why did you add x to both sides?”. Here the person is trying to understand what mathematicians do, what the basis of expanding a number system really involves. This is a fantastic question.

Peoples’ curiosity ought not be labeled as stupid.
California’s beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back
With 100% certainty dang ("Dang") read this comment.
Nerve agent? Rabies?
I grew up in a small town in Ontario with a Vic 20, then C64. A few years after I moved to Toronto, the Amiga seemed the next logical step, but then PC "clones" started getting all the attention.

I really never met any Apple people. My focus at that point became PC clones, as clunky as they were. There were lots of shops that tried to sell Apple II clones, but Apple wiped them out. The PC has an open design.

I dropped the attachment to a particular brand, but the appeal of openness and choice has never left me. I've tried the Apple ecosystem a few times and do involuntary tech support for it, I'm just glad the industry has this foundation of openness.

edit: put "clones" in quotes, because that's not a fair characterization (open by design), but it's the one people use.
Ok, then you use your math to buy stocks and I'll use my definition, which is the one accepted by everyone else. I'll gladly be here with the idiots making bank, buying my overpriced index funds while you wait for them to return to their platonic price.
Where’s the AI Culture War?
Is it not Merkur?

The Czech version of the page says Frank Hornby patented the metal construction set in 1901. Merkur started just before the patent expired, long before the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur_(toy)

https://www.merkurtoys.cz/
I'm in the US and most people I know of was Commodore based.

I prefer "Fire in the Valley" and "the Home Computer Wars".
https://archive.is/nxm29
Have you tried the Layer Painter addon?

https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter
And it never ends well.
You are not at all alone in having this confusion. In fact, you are farther along than many learners in having gotten this far and being able to articulate your confusion so clearly.

The problem is with the statement `return a`. It should be read not as it's written, but rather as `return the value of a`. Once you realize that, much of your confusion will be resolved.

Over the past several years, my research group has studied and documented these kinds of programming misconceptions. We have abstracted them into a set of key issues we find people getting confused about in the basics of programming semantics that cut across languages like Python, JavaScript, OCaml, Racket, etc. — what I call "SMoL", the Standard Model of Languages.

My PhD student Kuang-Chen Lu has created an excellent SMoL Tutor that is a self-guided tool for learning these concepts clearly and addressing misconceptions. Please go to https://www.plai.org/ and pick either of the version 3.2.2 books, and in there go to page number 14/PDF page 15, "Teach Yourself SMoL". It provides links to all the tutors in order. Based on past student experience, you will need about 20 minutes per module. That's why they are broken down into several modules; so each one is relatively quick and you don't have to spend hours at one sitting.

We welcome feedback on the Tutor after people have done it.
Again, fitness functions aren't predetermined (by Darwin or anyone else) and they aren't static. Apex predators aren't required. The mosquito is the most deadly animal for humans (due to the diseases they transmit). About 1/4 to 1/3 of all human pregnancies end in miscarriage (which rarely has anything to do with any predators).

My comment was intended to get people to think more broadly about what the components of the fitness function could be.

I was also trying to point out that the fitness function for an employee doesn't exactly match the fitness function for the company. The delta is most likely what the OP was inquiring about.

> tons of dumb herd animals who are heavily rewarded by grass

Or they are evolved to take advantage of the low interest rate environment and VC funding model (lots of money thrown at rapid growth businesses in funding rounds).
Both Amazon and Google did not have usable language models prior to ChatGPT.

Certainly ML was used, but not in that particular application.
This argument is imbalanced. Not necessarily wrong.

To follow scientific method, you should specify what would be meaningful according to your parameters: not merely parroting. If and when that is achieved by LLMs, instead of moving the goalposts, accept that something genuine has happened.

>> We will be flooded with content that will get harder and harder to prove wrong, but it will be wrong.

I mostly agree, especially about quantity. But since you wish to draw a line in the sand, define quality. Or truth.
Emotions about the unfairness of profiteering companies aside. How would you even define those properties. "quick buck", "over people's backs", "contributing real value", "to society"?

It's easy when you have a nebulous and noble goal, but you have to define it in terms that make sense and can be quantified and defined. Otherwise you'll just create a "Ministry for Company Fairness Contributions" filled with angry people that will abuse their powers for any number of reasons falling on the "evil/noble" scale.
For people living in cities/towns, how much of an option is it to go car-less? Is it more like, say, Dutch cities, or more like in the US?

Anyway, whenever I hear talk of promoting EVs without mass transit being mentioned together with it, my instinct is to assume it's some sort of an upwards-transfer-of-wealth scheme in which richer people get subsidized.
This article is missing some key numbers, % of tax that these “lost” receipts make up. The investment that 30 people make up for the entire economy. How much investment does the country loose if any?