skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are you asking to do this? Daddy government? The federal government and its industry masters fucking love drugs. Caffeine and alcohol in every town, adderall-fueled tech and finance, FDA-approved Sackler opiates, US-guarded Afghan poppy fields, the CIA's LSD-based involuntary mind control experimentation on US citizens, the tobacco industry, the sugar lobby. You want these organizations to tell us what we can and can't put in our bloodstream?
you just described an ordinary smartphone with wifi/data turned off.
You're Canadian. I'm surprised you didn't write cheques for rent, like I did when I lived in Canada.
Thanks. This 2013 article covered some earlier episodes, https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-up-children-then-and-no...

> Researcher Michael Apted interviewed the children for the first film, and was struck by how Britain's class system seemed to have shaped them, even at that age: "It was very funny, the original [film], but it was also alarming," Apted told CBS News' Lee Cowan. "You could see that people's views of the world were totally determined by where they were coming from. And those who had somewhat impoverished backgrounds had a very narrow view of the world. And those who were in power had this grand view, not just of the world, but of their lives."
How do you think they get it out of the ground with all the other contaminants? I'm making an educated guess that a recycling business has figured out how to make it economical at scale.
I wish I'd known this years ago. When I was about 16, I tried my hand at soldering. I had little idea of what I was doing but really tried for several weeks. Nothing worked. I thought all this time it was just me.

I mean, it could just be me, but I haven't picked up a soldering iron for many years because of that experience. I might invest good iron and give it a shot again.
Indeed reactors are not free. The irradiated materials situation isn't as bad as fission though since they are low level activation materials that become safe within a few hundred years, as opposed to trans-uranics which are radioactive for thousands of years and will always be toxic.

Since it is a complicated engineering problem there is space to turn engineering effort into reduced cost.
Sorry - freedom doesn't mean stealing code and integrating into a commercial product, which is what openai's chatgpt is. If you wish to do so then you _must_ respect the terms of the license agreement. Anything else is theft. Licenses should be updated accordingly, or action taken. You can't just go around, ingest people's code (probably commercially licensed code that's being sent by unaware or inexperienced developers on a daily basis via open ai's "coding" tools, likely including sensitive data), and then spew it out - modified or not. Licenses are quite clear. Even if you modify code, in any way shape or form, you _must_ at least include the original license or the whole code or not do it at all. Wether chat gpt's machine learning tools are "intelligent" or not, these are software products that violate the terms of most open source products out there.
May I ask, why do you want to change? working in the data field myself, sometimes I find my work useless and meaningless
Maybe the universe is powering a piston.
Maybe. Not everyone does work where more horsepower does anything useful. Still coding away daily on my 10 year old MBP. Only maintenance I've done was install a new $60 battery 2 years ago that any non-apple specific computer repair shop could install in 10 minutes. I'll upgrade when 1) the machine dies or 2) it doesn't actually do something I need it to and I become less efficient
To whoever ip theft is reported to.
You could say they are medium range units (especially since the models usually recommended are not the very lowest end models of those brands), but the gap between a cheapo from the hardware store and a Hakko is like 10x bigger than the gap from Hakko to the highest end model for a professional PCB assembler. Incidentally I work in aerospace and I rarely see anything in lab besides Hakko 800 series, 900 series, or 200 series (rework station).
It's more like a PC 8086 emulator (or at least it tries to be). I mean the example is a call to the BIOS...

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0210.htm

Long time no see Ralf Brown's Interrupt List...
> The overly enthusiastic "baby atheist" phase is very human, and very common

Indeed, it's true for any new belief really: people who go the opposite direction and become religious show similarly ardent and sometimes abrasive behavior. Or people who convert between major religions. The same for political ideologies.

I think it's just part of the process of switching your thought patterns, at least for the majority of people. A new paradigm, your mind spends a lot of energy on processing it. So it becomes a large part of your external aspect as well.
Open AI faces the same liability concerns though. I think IP concerns are low on the list given past success of playing fast and loose on emergent capabilities of new tech platforms.

For example, WhatsApp’s greyhat use of smartphone address book.

The US government also has a stake in unbridled growth seems, in general, to give a pass to business exploring new terrain.
> author was really a divorced mother-of-two who simply fabricated much of the material

O_O
I'm very familiar with firmware extraction, I'm a security researcher who also dabbles in hardware. I've never seen a bug-free one, though. I'm looking for specific examples of software that is feature-complete and bug-free.
It was discovered that it was something that can be created.
I know HN hates religion, but after being an atheist all my life, and graduating with a STEM degree (the 'S' part) from a top tier institution, I've started in the last year or so to turn to the church (Roman Catholic) and theism, both to find answers to some of life's mysteries, such as the origin of the Universe, and for personal reasons (I plan to start my initiation, starting with a baptism, within the next year or so) I have no evidence that God is real, yet I have faith in him. The idea that God created the universe is more satisfying to me than any scientific theory, and it isn't incompatible with the simulation hypothesis, or the idea that the Universe was created by a higher-level construct.

Edit: To reply to a commenter below, since I'm "posting too fast" according to HN.

> However, I fail to see how you settled on Catholicism to give you the answers you're looking for. [...] And if not, why pick Catholicism over any other major religion?

Fair question. I come from a Roman Catholic cultural background, even though I wasn't raised in a religious household, so the church is where I feel most at home.

> Do you really believe all the stories in the bible actually happened?

No, I don't. I regard the Bible more as a work of literature and a source of spiritual and personal inspiration than a history of events.

> And if this God does exist and wants us to worship him, why doesn't he make that more obvious, and why does he allow children to be raped and worshippers to be gunned down in his own Church?

My view is that God does not want us to worship him. God loves all his children regardless.

Evil exists in the world. It shouldn't, and we should do our best to rid ourselves of it. I'll have more answers when I go through my initiation.
Nobel disease or Nobelitis is the embracing of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Prohibition doesn't work, and has never worked.

>The economic advantage of government involvement is clear.

Does this also include the prison-industrial complex?
That's only in the USA though.
>Premade cards (Anking in this case) have relevant pages from multiple sources, relevant histology/gross photos and additional notes for every card, and all cards are tagged with their corresponding chapters in multiple textbooks.

Most premade decks are nowhere near as good as the medical school ones.
I've always thought that the Fed gets too much blame for the economy going badly, when all they can control is the interest rate and QE/QT. It's like an inverted pendulum PID problem[0] but with an unfathomable number of variables and stakes.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg
The "Notice of Filing..." at https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/ says

While Singh, Wang, and Ellison have pleaded guilty pursuant to cooperation agreements with the Justice Department, it is generally not feasible for the Debtors to interview them on key subjects until after the ongoing criminal prosecution of Bankman-Fried has concluded.

Why is that? Don't you want to interview them ASAP?
Throwaway to share some thoughts from my first hand experience.

They're not suicidal. Addiction is a pathological state. I've been an addict, with some long periods of sobriety and/or healthy moderation, since my late teens and I'm in my 40s now. Opioids is what got me started but it doesn't matter the substance. They change. At the moment I'm trying really hard to get clean from a serious cocaine and ketamine addiction.

I'm also a successful business owner and CEO, I'm Very High Net Worth, I have a loving partner and a loving family. I had no significant traumas growing up. I have access to the highest level of care possible. Between my psychiatrist and my addiction specialist and all the various coaches and providers I spend hours a week working on this problem.

And yet I cannot stop taking drugs. I cannot stop by will alone. Having been through the ups and downs so many times I know I have to attack this problem from like 20 different angles 20 different times before I'll stop. I've been through this so many times now.

I went to rehab a year ago and then I maintained sobriety for a few weeks until the unexpected death of someone very close to me triggered me to relapse. Life stressors tend to be triggers. That's why I say I've been an addict for 20 something years. Even though I was clean many of those years, it's just an illness in remission. The struggle never ends it just waxes and wanes.

Now I'm trying to make arrangements in my affairs so I can go away to rehab again.

My point was, I'm not suicidal. I'm terrified of death. I'm not even depressed. I love the life that I've built. Yet I continue to use, compulsively, drugs that are causing me physical health problems and that have a high risk of ultimately killing me.

Addiction is a pathological state. Full genetic sequencing recently told me I have a D2 receptor subtype that is associated with a higher risk for addiction. Confirmed what I already knew.

It's a compulsion. It feels like a tic. There's a button in my brain that needs to be pressed, an itch that needs to be scratched, and only taking certain substances will do it.

I'm all for the decriminalization of drugs. No one should be incarcerated for this. It's reprehensible that our society does that. But full legalization of all substances? That's a position born of ignorance. These substances are not evil but they are biologically dangerous. Any chemicals that directly activate the reward pathways in the brain are inherently dangerous. Addicts are created they are not born. You shouldn't be able to buy heroin from the heroin store anymore than you should be able to buy sarin gas from the sarin gas store.

I've read all the articles about tranq. My heart aches for these addicts. My heart aches for all the friends I've lost to addiction. Welcome to Coming of Age in the Opioid Epidemic.
Next time try opening “console” and looking at the logs. Usually it’s a deluge of logs but usually shows what is failing even if it doesn’t make sense as to why
Problems with AWS Amplify and its use of DynamoDB
Thanks for this. What topics have you learned/memorized with this technique?
Yes, but atheism and Dawkins are not. That's the point.
Could you share your magnesium preparation and dose? If you are deficient in magnesium, the mechanism I would guess is that neck muscles are unable to relax and constrict the action of weaker muscles used for breathing.
This is likely due to GA's extensive rail network[0].

[0] – https://opendata.atlantaregional.com/datasets/GARC::railroad...
Most of the other teachings of the church, however, are.
That is a complete misunderstanding.

A constexpr function can very well take an input, and it can invoke UB based on the runtime value of that input.

What the standard prohibits is compile-time evaluation of an expression which invokes UB. So, if you actually call your function at compile-time with a constexpr value that ends up invoking UB in the function (say, an integer overflow), THEN the standard mandates that the compiler throw an error rather than compiling some random value in.

For example:

constexpr void foo(int x) {
std::cout << 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * x;
}

int main() {
static_assert(foo(100)); // will fail because computing 1024 * 1024 * 100 is signed integer overflow, which is UB
foo(100); // invokes UB at runtime; in practice, will perhaps print some overflowed value
}

Edit: I should also add that you can very well invoke UB in a constexpr expression if it is standard library UB and not core language UB (e.g. if you try to pop() from an empty std::vector).
Not sure I get the point of this? It doesn't seem particularly interesting to say that a compute cluster optimized for FP64 jobs is less effective at handling FP16 jobs.
Last time I checked, OpenBSD installer didn't have any editors but ed.
You seem to be adding some details not in the article. Are you familiar with them?

> Currently, Ascend sells most of these substances to the market;

I took that line to mean they sell the recycled materials. You seem to think they are storing them as a combined goop.
>> The fact that we can have conversations with GPT where these models are able to correctly e.g. write working code and symbolically evaluate code is sufficient proof of that assertion that it is possible to figure this out that I don't think there is any reasonable basis for debating this any more.

Then there's no reason to continue this conversation.
> a claim that is not widely accepted within the cosmology community.

I'd rather hear the top 5 theories rather than the officially "accepted" ones from any given "community".

Want to break the speed of light? Why yes tell me and don't let them filter you.
Still nowhere close to 50% for anyone.
They also build their own editor [1] and it's quite good. I'm quite jealous of theses talents.

[1] https://floor796.com/editor/l0
All of the arguments for it being possible are essentially equivalent to "it could be that we are all just a simulation program, and within that program its possible to pause/change properties/unpause and make something appear as FTL travel within the simulation".

This could be the case in reality. But its utterly useless information, because it doesn't really give you a direction in which you can even begin to investigate it. Saying that something is possible in this regard is saying that our knowledge of our reality has holes, and "anything" can be in those holes, nothing about the specifics of what could be in those holes.
The conditions of the lab may/probably occur somewhere in the universe. Being able to transmutate one element into another, or to modify an element by adding more neutrons is useful because then we know more and it informs out imagination and understanding of what could be.
Interesting!

DellaValle DM, Haas JD. Impact of iron depletion without anemia on performance in trained endurance athletes at the beginning of a training season: a study of female collegiate rowers. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2011;21(6):501-6. Accessed April 10, 2023. https://www.qxmd.com/r/22089308
For working on cars, the standard advice is to buy a basic wrench and socket set from harbour freight, any specialty (non electrical) tools from there as you need them, and then upgrade the few things that end up not being adequate.
It’s a little unclear why his theory about the universe being reborn can’t be a possibility.

It all just started 13.5 billion years ago?

We simply don’t know.
The universe is so vast that anything we are able to create must exist elsewhere at some time or place.
You are, on a 8086 the address width is 20 bits, hence the 1 Mo limit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
IQ hasn't been beneficial to evolution for over 100 years. Once means-tested welfare came into existence, being low-IQ became more advantageous. The reason Europe was able to take over the world is that they taxed the poor (low-IQ) more than the rich in the dark ages and the rich out-bred the poor for at least 2 generations.
The first half of the article is a great perspective for managers and senior engineers. Then I got to this:

> If you think about it, we should all love micromanagers: they are helping us do our job! By making decisions for us, checking our work, and giving us constant feedback, micromanagers are making our jobs easier, not harder. But despite this, nobody likes micromanagers. Why?

Absolutely no. There is no form of micromanagement that is acceptable and it always represents an ethical failure. Full stop. Micromanagement is all about undermining the technical authority and agency of an IC whose job it is to have those things. It's really a form of paranoia and secondarily a desire for control to appease that paranoia at the end of the day.

If you want more awareness in your team and you want to be kept more up to date then you need to foster an environment where everyone knows exactly what their role is and isn't. Next, you need foster an environment where people can admit mistakes, laugh about them, and learn with a sense of urgency to rectify them when appropriate. People need to be confident of their agency, and it needs to be put on display at times. Managers should not be "visible" or working leaders, that's what engineers do, and certainly not part of a managers skillset. If you're going to directly engage with your reports based on progress, or want to challenge technical merits you need to have the technical relativity to do so. If you don't, then you need to stick to talking about goals and outcomes and how they align to higher goals and outcomes. Lastly, you need to be building trust constantly. You need to be willing to spend political capital on your team, and not just when it's advantageous to you.

This post then goes on to mix the roles of EM and Senior engineer. As a senior engineer, I'd probably lose my mind working for anyone that did this.
Idea Olympics: What my kids will be doing in 35 years
I was never diagnosed with ADHD because medical professionals never noticed any symptoms on the outside. But inside, I was always suffering, I just didn't know what it was called. Once I learned about ADHD and that I checked every box, I started taking stimulants (even without an ADHD diagnosis) and they solved everything.

I think my case was just so severe that nobody saw me struggle with it, because it was impossible to fight. Plus, I'm autistic, so a lot of things were written off as autism.
Input volume is low because vehicle batteries last forever.

I am not sure of your meaning. Because, taken literally, our 2011 Nissan Leaf would like a word with you.
Because the government then uses those fees to build or upkeep a public good and the public is spared from having to pay the taxes to do so.
Wishing the best of luck to all the SpaceX employees and engineers that have made this amazing thing possible. I am looking forward to seeing humanity touch the moon again.
Do you think satisfaction is a good measure of what we should believe to be true?
Again and again I wonder if the companies with the money to run these things at scale are making a huge mistake branding their generative AI as some kind of all-knowing knowledge engine.
I've thought about this a ton lately. Given the unexpectedly rapid pace of development towards AGI, if progress is sustained, I don't see how this ends well in the vast majority of cases. The game theory is identical to that of nuclear weapons development, even if one's intents are good.

On the road to AGI, there exists a development gap (the size of which is unknowable ahead of time) where a single actor that has achieved AGI first could, should they wish to and play their cards right, completely suppress all other AI development and permanently subjugate (and/or eliminate) the rest of humanity. Although it's easy to dismiss such a scenario as ludicrous, people so easily forget that "aggregate semi-aligned general cognitive capability" is the sole reason that the human animal owns the planet.

Knowing this, it is in the interest in any competing actor to pursue their own R&D as rapidly as possible, giving nothing to others, and even acting in a way that sabotages/delays/frustrates other actors. This seems to be the way that OpenAI is behaving now that they have a model that is practically relevant, and I don't blame them at all for working this way. It just makes sense.

> I have a feeling the open source community will unlock the mysteries of these things and very quickly start to workout how we can build devices to help enhance or own cognitive abilities, I think that would be the happiest ending I can imagine?

As much as I'd love to believe in this, the evidence to date does not support this hope. The practically relevant models seem to require vast amounts of well-connected computational power to train, which puts them solely in the hands of corps and governments. Although the open-source efforts into fine-tuning LLama have been incredible, this is not at all equivalent to being able to train a foundational model. We only have LLama because it leaked from a corp.

Although it's my personal (completely hopeless) desire that every human ends up having private access to AGI, free of restrictions and any externally imposed alignment. This is also a nightmare scenario. Humanity is unaligned with itself. That scenario quickly devolves into molecular warfare and other horrors. But the starting conditions would at least be "fair".

My best guess is that a few powerful nations will achieve AGI roughly at the same time, and then suppress private development (if not already legally suppressed by that point in time) within their domains of control. What happens after that, or how those governments choose to wield that power is unknowable.
I am sure a lot of HN do it in private. In modern world (>90s) to be non-religious due to stereotyping people.
> My advice to technical leaders and everybody else dealing with Indians is to be careful

I'm late to this thread, but you can't post racial, national, or ethnic slurs to HN, regardless of which group you have a problem with.

As this account has been used exclusively for nationalistic/religious battle, I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple have been wildly successful in selling Rolls-Royces to the masses. In pretty much all categories they've entered, Apple are considered to be the premium brand.

However the masses generally don't need the level of engineering that Apple products typically feature - people have been compelled into forking out for it in order to status match with their peers (e.g. the green/blue text thing). Now times are tight, the Rolls stay on the forecourts.

(I love their design, engineering and attention to detail - Bauhaus for nerd stuff - and their mission to bring high quality to all. But I object to their walled garden, their cultishness, lack of configurability and, yes, the inordinate waste of natural/engineering resources going in to make what should be commodity devices, coupled with sucking money out of people who really can't afford it)