skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is inline with what my wife thinks. She's a psychology PhD who studied schizophrenia in young adults.

The way she phrases it is that the current best guess is that schizophrenia is a developmental disease.
As a former chemical engineer, I think software engineering is way harder.

Understanding with complex man made abstractions is much more difficult than plugging data into a thermodynamics calculator
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>I just don't think it's fair to go on a whole spiel about how a "dopamine system" doesn't even exist

Because it does not exist. The correct term is not "dopaminergic system". There is no system associated to any particular neurotransmitter.

>Not to mention that dopamine is the primary reward response for "doing things you enjoy"

It is not. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is used by neurons involved in reward circuits. The reward response consists of actual neuronal activation, not levels of extracellular neurotransmitters.
I really want to have these agents behave as artificial as they truly are, not some kind of human, especially not a known one. humans have so many flaws, we meatbags are full of emotions and other bad behaviors, and it really makes no sense to give them some artificial "feelings" like greed, fear and the like. that would influence/restrict their mental power too much, let them become and act as the machines they are. we should strive to become more like them, not the other way around, and eliminate the rampant egoism/individualism that destroys the planet and societies.
This "content" industry is a very recent phenomenon.

It used to be that if you wanted your voice to be heard, you had to either have something unique to say, or some unique way to say it.

We'll likely revert to the status quo - only people whose content will be consumed online will be original voices.
I guess it's a fairly low cost degree of some sort that I assume has more value than a list of MOOC certificates, evening classes, and maybe an industry cert or two in the case of IT. But there are a variety of lower cost options and I'm not sure where a community college degree sits in the hierarchy and in terms of cost/benefit.
From my experience (and those on a bipolar discord server) coping mechanisms can definitely be taught. Most of them are rather simple in concept but almost all of them are absolutely exhausting to use.

Trying to work full time while using coping mechanisms had me sitting in a chair, unable to function, after 5pm. I serious started to ask myself if living was worth living if that was all there was to it.
Looks like Model 3 can weigh 3,648 to 4,250 lbs depending on RWD/AWD and range (battery).

A basic F150 regular cab starts at 4,021 lbs.

But yeah, if you go quad cab, bump up from half-ton, get 4WD, etc. you can find much heavier examples. Still the heaviest is around 5,540 lbs which is about 50% heavier than the lightest Model 3, but nowhere near double.

Now a comparable car to a Model 3 (if you ignore their BMW / luxury price point) might be a Mazda 3:

3,088 to 3,391 lbs
As long as you've got some bootstrap weapons, you can always steal more from whatever force it is you're fighting against. In WW2 the US proposed sending resistance fighters a million single-shot handguns [1], allowing them to kill occupation forces and take their weapons.

And while men with guns very often get shot, they never starve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator
> Turned out that the average weight of an American had increased in the decades since

I suspect that part of the reason that the teenager fell out of the FreeFall drop tower ride in that horrifying video from a year or two ago was because he was too physically big to click the actual latch on the ride's locking mechanism. Who knows if the ride operator was trained on checking people or if he was scared of a confrontation or what the situation was there, but a lot of the world's engineering might not be designed for heavy people. Unfortunately people are going to suffer because of this.
hey hn, supabase ceo here

This is a webserver for Deno. It is MIT licensed, written in Rust, and based on the latest Deno Runtime (1.32+). It can serve TypeScript, JavaScript, and WASM functions.

This one is important for local development and self-hosting. For local development, it ensures there is parity between development and production. For self-hosting, it means you can deploy and manage your Deno Functions on your own hardware. We have provided a Demo repository for deploying to Fly.io [1]. The runtime is not production-ready, but it is in a usable state. Note that we still use Deno Deploy at Supabase, and strongly recommend it for your own Deno functions.

In the medium-term, this will reduce our tech-stack by 1 service. We'll remove Kong (a reverse proxy) and replace it with the Deno runtime. I'm excited about some other possibilities that this provides for self-hosting - one that we talked about was the ability to bundle a SQLite file with your functions, for a fully-contained and globally deployed webserver.

The team will be around if you have any questions

[1] Deploy on Fly: https://github.com/supabase/self-hosted-edge-functions-demo
Azure admins warned to disable shared key access as backdoor attack detailed
At highway speeds, tire and wind noise dominate over engine noise, even for ICE cars. That "roaring" sound you hear emanate from a highway is actually due to those two factors.

Tire noise in particular is affected by vehicle weight (I suspect--don't quote me--as a square of the weight). EVs are MUCH heavier that comparable ICE cars. The hummer EV weighs 9,000 lb (!). So they are extremely loud at highway speeds.
Which is insane. Local caches should be ubiquitous, along with lightweight validation checks.
Shortcuts are good for this type of functionality as well, and as a bonus, can be used from within apps like Twitter via the share sheet.
Show HN: Chat with multiple (100k words) PDFs privately
Embeddings and files stored locally. No Vector databases. Use your own API Key. No login required.
If you check /g/ on 4chan (NSFW!!!) you'll see multiple threads on LLMs and LLM-driven chatbots for such content.

Already quite advanced topic these days, all kinds of servers, locally run models, tips & tricks discussions, people sharing their prompts and "recipes", and so on.

It's a whole new world out there but I am not sure if such niche (albeit a potentially really big one, see pr0n sites for example) is worth all the liability issues these big AI companies might face (puritan/queasy payment processors, parental controls, NSFW content potentially blocking some enterprise access, etc, etc). But it will probably all be captured by one or two companies that will specialize in such "sexy" chatbots. Doubt it will be OpenAI and Anthropic, they have their sights on "world domination".
The role of USA healthcare is to fake it. To provide the appearance of healthcare without actually providing it.

In collusion are a swarm of insurance and medical businesses. Parasites and illusionists.
Don't look fundamentally different? May I'm missing something but I have not seen a single tutorial or article about something Debian or Firefox that starts that with the disclaimer "This is not affiliated with the official Debian etc" Like the R** Foundation is asking to.
Let's not even mention the unreasonables of not being able to name package writen in R** as package-rust.=, somethng that no other programing language forbids as far as I'm aware of.
The linked german wikipedia descibe Nash's illness quite different from the english wikipedia. With the german article being less specific about the illness and outcome.

Though, both are somewhat clear that the illness took him 20+ years of his life, which might be not a good proof for high IQ helps with mental illness.
I think with the advent of online education, community colleges as not seen as necessary. Why go to Hometown Community College when you can attend almost any school online.
Personally I'm a big fan of community colleges, they can be area specific and provide actual job training that online schools rally can't provide. They also turn out better students, student's that go to community colleges tend to do better when they go to a 4 year school and finally as someone who has been out of college over 30 years it's a place where I can continually retool at a reasonable price.
FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad
The judicial system is far from perfect even when the people involved are free to find their own representation or are able to freely do their own research. Someone who is not allowed to even access their own finances or sign legal contracts will naturally have a much harder time finding good legal representation. Someone in an institution even more so.
You can also read answer from this thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35495343
Let me try to steelman instead: my hypothesis is that copywriting for marketing emails A) has little value and B) can be done by humans much more cheaply than $80/hr. In regards to B), I know there are people doing that job that make a fraction of that wage. Is the author that much faster or does the author write "better" text? I'm skeptical of "better" because of A). But maybe someone has A/B tested marketing emails and can tell us that the text makes a difference?
Illinois hospital forced into EHR downtime after cyberattack
>Their largest hope is for a millionaire influencer/Deus ex machina to appear and pay ther treatment.

I try not to live for savior fantasies like that, but as a person with PTSD that's accomplished a number of remarkable things to overcome an unfortunately adverse background, having an isolating disorder that requires a complex arrangement of financial stability, social acceptance, safety, and mentoring/nurturance which would be easiest to attain and maintain with a big pile of cash... I feel trapped. I worked at a game developer when I was 16, my peers went off to achieve great things, and I can't stay stable enough to not lose everything on an annual basis so I can have the money to get the help I need to be stable.

Ultimately it's on me to figure out, but it's hard to see so many resources squandered in this world to fruitless, meaningless, or even harmful ends and know in my heart that I could make the world a better place if I were the one
"wasting" them pursuing my basic humanity enough to thrive.
Do Generative AI Companies even care about making money these days? They all just raise off of Twitter hype
Around the time NoSQL took off, the default choice for any kind of data storage scenario was a traditional relational database. Choosing anything else would have raised eyebrows. But once the concept of NoSQL spread, it became an acceptable alternative and no longer a big deal.

And sure, while the basic concept of NoSQL for data storage is not new, the core concepts were not widely known until the 2010s.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=n...
I’ve taken side classes at a local community college that were honestly more rigorous and better taught than the four year school I attended for my bachelors.
The UK - as usual - is a patchwork of conflicting traditions.

There is no Royal Army. But all members of the armed forces, police, and certain prominent political appointments, swear an Oath of Allegiance to the monarch.

Note this is not to the country. And certainly not to the people. Not even to the Crown, which is a kind of abstract superclass of British monarchs in general.

The Royal Navy does not have to swear this oath. It exists by direct Royal Prerogative which means it's assumed to be loyal, pretty much by definition.
I like the fact that one could use this within a CI/CD pipeline for example.

Well done, thanks for sharing!
I think that's because for most, it's moved from being a profession to a hobby. Many hobbyists dream of turning their hobby into a profession, and work towards that, yet for most it remains a hobby.

> but they are musicians

I think the GP meant professional musicians.
The key is both. Your family member at a gas station doing something.

A photo should tell a story. In twenty years you want the memory of the story not some posed artificial set up.

Like with all stories, the setting is important so you should not discount the gas station.
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It's a tough one. A lot of charge backs are fraudulent, so this would open retailers up to more fraud.

The ability to do charge backs will probably disappear in future. When the system was created we didn't have the same ability to authenticate cardholders that we do today and many jurisdictions didn't have small claims courts.
Jobs may even be outsourced from the cities to cheaper areas in US. Not many countries allow firing at will, and apparently this is needed every ~10 years for 20% of the staff.
I imagine someday we'll see a protocol like this - autonomy in a controlled situation, such as clearing out a traffic jam
For me, jails aren’t only technically better, but also have better ergonomics. With Docker:

- I always end up running out of disk space, because of Docker’s love of immutable layers for everything — my jails just live in a normal directory in the filesystem, no need to overthink it;

- I have no idea how to restrict /dev in Docker containers — I’m sure you can, but it’s a mystery to me;

- copying/moving files between host and container requires setting up volumes/ssh/whatever special ceremony; copying/moving files to/from jails is trivial, it’s the same as copying/moving files between any other directories;

- updating jails is easy; I use pkg and freebsd-update, just like with a normal system update, no need to update the host system one way, and the jails another way, like with Docker;

- jails don’t mess with my firewall rules, unlike Docker.

Overall, jails give me a much more cohesive experience.
No exaggeration to say that the EU might inadvertently divert the civilisational path of humanity
In Firefox, if you click a few times, it offers the option of suppressing that notice in the future.
Untrue on the one-way. Quite a few corporate entities have contributed back to FreeBSD over the years. Netapp, Netflix, Juniper, etc.
Thanks, you're right (I hadn't come across that before)
> Trying to 'kill the old ways' without understanding them is how we get junk such as Scrum.

You can hardly do better in understanding the "old ways" than reading Royce's paper. And the difference between Waterfall and Agile is not just iteration, it's rapid feedback. As noted in Royce's paper, Waterfall is inherently one way, hence the name. You don't see water flowing uphill, at least not without a lot of external force. Agility means feedback comes at every step of the way, not just at the end, when testing.

This is also the difference between what's been called "the Toyota way" vs prior automobile manufacturing. In the traditional automobile factory, the car was put together and completed, then a team of engineers would exercise it to find and fix defects. The Toyota was was to find and fix defects along the assembly line, and perhaps more importantly, learn from defects found during assembly to prevent or reduce defects before they appear.

The same applies to Waterfall vs. Agile. Instead of completing the entire system and then testing it and fixing defects, as waterfall would have, even when done iteratively, agility works out the defects in every aspect and uses what's found to reduce the rate of defect creation.
They’re selling nudes of imaginary women on Reddit
The psychology of split-brain is a nice gateway to 'The Bicameral Mind', a major theme about how the conception of the AI's works in the series Westworld. Nice!
>O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com will eventually have to raise their prices which is bad news for businesses not making enough money and still are sitting on their APIs as O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com themselves are running up huge costs for their AI models in the cloud for inferencing.

Do you have data supporting this or is it just speculation? Given we don't even know how many parameters GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have, yet alone how efficiently they are implemented, I don't see how we can go about coming up with an accurate estimate for the cost per token.
How many people die from snakebites?
More reactions on the same subject:

- From the Eclipse Foundation: https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/01/15/european-cyber-re... and https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/mike-milinkovich/cyber-resili...

- From the Internet Society: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/10/the-eus-propose...

With more to come... This is a serious situation.
A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived
When I first starting out using Linux, Slackware was my saving grace. A Linux distribution that was well organized, consistent, and just worked. It saved me from the disillusionment caused by RedHat and RPM hell.
This is the third big release this week (along with a Postgres Pooler and a Logging Server).

If you're wondering why there are so many, we generally "build for three months" then do all of our big product announcements in a "Launch Week". We're 2 days into this Launch Week so there will be a few more releases to come.
Windows has had support for DDC/CI for a long time.
Had one of those, too, and used to hide it in a pint of Guinness for a laugh. Dropped it in the sea a few times. Accidentally melted it slightly in a small housefire. It lived on after I moved on to a t68i as an SMS gateway for my home server for my one-man proto-Twitter.
That could be one option, but still has room for abuse. Maybe a homeless person shoplifts some candy three time. That's a felony in many states. Maybe they have a mental condition that causes them to shoplift, or maybe they were hungry. Now it's up to someone's opinion, who is likely overburdened, to decide which one it is. Either way, it's likely to result in custody, but one of those ways might involve mandated medication and a lifelong (mis)diagnosis. At least in this case it would be going through the court, and under the current laws should require some input on the part of the defendant to seek an insanity plea.
My wife briefly (a couple of semesters) tried to go through a software development curriculum at our community college, which is apparently decently funded as community colleges go.

Having gone through a 4-year Bachelor's in Computer Engineering at an ABET accredited university, the community college program was pathetic by comparison. There was one professor who seemed to have his shit together and worth the money. The rest were clearly half-assing it, assignments were poorly explained, grading was ludicrously pedantic (red marks for number of spaces on indentations in hand-written HTML), and the curriculum didn't structure prerequisites adequately so if you didn't know any better you'd be learning how to use a command line for the first time while someone is trying to teach you about RLC circuits with Arduino. It was quite bizarre, and they were clearly mostly dealing with the dregs who couldn't make it in a more serious university or in industry.

I guess I can't blame them, I can't imagine a community college teaching position pays all that well. But the only reason to go through that program is to do the bare minimum required for 2 years to trade up to a superior four year program at a major university, and you'll probably have to do a lot of remedial work when you get there.
The new EU AI Act also has this problem, in that it imposes liability for developing components that may at some future point be misused by others.

The source of the problem is a particular approach to legislation that has become popular in the EU that purports to regulate across the entire supply chain for a product. Which might make sense for production of physical items or for software developed completely from scratch 30 years ago under a waterfall model, but is strongly disconnected from the way software is currently built.
> I do wonder if people are going to start valuing in-person experiences more and more, as anything on the internet can now be faked

Probably not.

If I like some content, why would I care it it is "fake"?
I agree with you, but I would add stuff serving as a reminder. It may be also something you or people you know made. As for reminders think about a story from your life you like to tell people. I have a few photos like that, for example a parrot I have found one day. Landscapes can also work for this. I have a photo in Belvedere in Potsdam, it was a beautiful sunny day and the photo was nice even if made with 1st gen Moto G, I'm always reminded of that day just looking at that photo. Or a photo of a view from window in Supetar, Croatia.

I also prefer pictures of people, but I would generalize it to pictures that help form a memory, most are connected to people.
To be fair - if the SSO tax was just a single SKU for adding _just_ SSO to the platform and it was a reasonable like $2 - $4 a user addition, most people wouldn't care. When we refer to the SSO tax what we normally mean is that SSO is gated into the "Enterprise" category of a tool for some reason, implying that only Enterprises use SSO. The difference usually also includes other tools that the customer doesn't need (we only want SSO) and so the price difference is usually huge. It makes SSO unrealistic for non-enterprise size customers.

IMO thats generally what people refer to when they say SSO tax. It isnt discounting that providing SSO requires work, its that its never decoupled from a huge platform upsell.
It's basically impossible to be homeless and not commit crimes as a matter of course, which is intentional. This will absolutely be used punitively against homeless people.
One thing I've wondered about.

I've seen supermarkets built on top of a parking garage every place I've been outside the U.S. ex. California. This includes the U.K., Europe, Canada (where cold and snow makes it convenient) and Brazil (where that's not a concern at all.)

In the U.S. I see structured parking is widespread in districts where the buildings are all >5 stories in places like Boston and New York but I've only seen a single-story business built on a parking garage in Southern California, and being practically an island, California barely counts as part of the U.S.

The excuse is going to be "we can't afford it" but the U.S. is richer than Europe and certainly Brazil. I see this often in neighborhoods that are somewhat high density but not Manhattan or Singapore density. From the "Strong Towns" perspective the extra cost of infrastructure required to support the Wal-Mart style of development might, if it were properly attributed, make structured parking look more economical.
Interesting comment on Reddit from a Mozilla engineer: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/12hxqjl/comment/jf...

Careful to talk about how this is entirely a fix for Windows and will improve the experience of folks using other software, not just Firefox.
What's the floor space for that elevator though?

I can't think of any elevator placard I've ever seen where the rating was something you could realistically exceed. You'd need a "some tradesmen moving a big piece of equipment" or "highschool sports team sardine packing themselves in there for amusement" type of situation.