skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Puberty blockers themselves are not free of risk of irreversible damage, as you very well know.

Their risk is miniscule compared to the risk of untreated gender dysphoria.

> And if you had to bet money, if I told you some kid started on puberty blockers, what would be the odds they later got surgery or further irreversible damage done? Higher or lower than if they didn't start on puberty blockers, as they did 10 years ago?

Irrelevant, as if they later get surgery it is because they, once they are mature enough to decide, determine that it is the best outcome for them. If that number is higher than 10 years ago it is likely to be because the chance of an outcome that will actually help them will be drastically improved when they've not been forced to endure the massive harm of going through puberty with dysphoria.

Your reasoning is still invalid.

> If I'm right and social contagion is much more prevalent than "real dysphoria", that is a very relevant point, and makes fighting against the contagion the right thing to do, not dishing out puberty blockers like candy.

If social contagion is much more prevalent than "real dysphoria" that would justify trying to fix that, but it would still not justify doing massive harm to those suffering from that dysphoria whether or not caused by social contagion.

Irrespective of the source of the dysphoria, it exists, and it correlates to immense harm when untreated, and so arguing for withholding treatment is deeply immoral.

That you're suggesting this is out of some desire to "roid kids up" is just vile.
> Take for example in philosophy of mind where qualitative descriptions of the colour red are more relevant to the discussion than quantitative descriptions of it, such as it’s frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum.

How is it more relevant? Is there some property of the color red that physics doesn't cover?

> Your average philosophy graduate student is comfortable expressing virtually any proposition in first order logic, or even other types of symbolic logic.

So can mathematicians and most engineers. So we are on the same level.

So what is it that students of humanities supposedly can do that STEM can't?
Agree with sibling comment that this is more "heuristic" than "law". There are many things that have basically 0 utility up until some threshold, there are things that become more marginally useful the more of them you have (users for your social media app)
First open source instruction following LLM licensed for commercial use
An idea along the same lines: https://www.cnet.com/culture/eternime-wants-you-to-live-fore...

Replacing you after you're dead for your loved ones to keep interacting with you.
I’d go a step further and separate smarts from sentience.

Meditation-induced states are orthogonal to smarts and the calculating mind but I consider them conscious.
T-Display-S3 ESP32 board with 1.9-inch AMOLED screen
NPCs that are convincing if you ignore the fact that they only can remember less than 5 minutes of interaction because they lack long-term context due to the nature of LLMs?

I'm not sure if lonely people would rather talk to an Alzheimers anime girl or be alone.
Why is there a surprise when a larger model works better? And call it emergent?
What do you make of the AIBO line, the Net Yaroze and the PS2 Linux kit then? (Just really curious about your assertion they have no interest in the hobbyist and education markets, since those are some admittedly outdated examples)
We crawl through data like this professionally and from what we see, Hetzner isn't actually that bad at combating fraud. They are not GCP or AWS but there are other hosters of similar scale that have significantly worse response times and leave up clearly compromised machines for a lot longer.
You're not actually "hearing" anything. For one, the sound (usually) does not actually exist. In many cases it's more like an inappropriate signal from a damaged nerve or some of the teeny tiny "hairs" within the ear that sense sounds.
Hmm, can I have my private version of HN where everyone upvotes my witty comments?
All of Michael Sugrue's (former Princeton professor) lectures on YouTube are phenomenal. They single-handedly inspired me to study philosophy. His style is eloquent but off-the-cuff, he is so knowledgeable and ties together the history of philosophy so gracefully that all the lectures left me enraptured.

Example: https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U
ChatGPT’s “voice” changes dramatically in diction and prose when you ask it to generate text in the style of a popular author like Hunter S Thompson, Charles Bukowski, or Terry Pratchett. You can even ask it to generate text in the style of a specific HN user if they’re prolific enough in the training data set.

Fine tuning would allow you to achieve that for people who aren’t notable enough to be all over the training data
Using a VPN is one of the easiest way to get rejected. Most automated systems flag stuff coming from them as highly suspicious due to the sheer amount of crap coming through them.
> for possibly stealing artist's work in the open source domain

The provenance of the training set is key. Every LLM company so far has been extremely careful to avoid using people's private data for LLM training, and for good reason.

If a company were to train an LLM exclusively on a single person's private data and then use that LLM to make decisions about that person, the intention is very clearly to access that person's private data. There is no way they could argue otherwise.
That’s not the contract. That’s the advertising.
And too bad, also, since the On The Media hosts seem to have joined a journalist-centric server that would have been the perfect place for them: https://journa.host/about

I wouldn't envy the hosts having to read our their addresses but npr.org could absolutely implement WebFinger if they were thus inclined
Surely the cap is gray, and the font color is Ed:black, except for "HTML" which is blue and "again" which is purple (and possibly both are underlined)?
I also don’t worry too much, that’s why I got the lifetime pass instead of a yearly subscription.
My washing machine displays a remaining time when you start it but is constantly wrong. So you go to the basement to find out it needs 15 more minutes. You go down 20min later and still 5min left. It is very pleasant to know when it is ready without going to the basement
I know Jobs tried to talk up webapps as being the future at the time, but apps were very clearly coming - it was touted as a computer for your pocket, there's no way they weren't going to let people write software for it. And if they didn't, then someone else would make one that could, and completely eat their lunch.
There is indeed a cheap product that does exactly this: https://o.mg.lol/
That's exactly why they have draconian KYC measures in place)
It’s very clear when you buy a Tesla that the car does not completely drive itself without human supervision. It’s part of the agreement, and the use of FSD as the marketing name of the feature doesn’t change that.

>The conduct of delivering something that is not what you advertised fulfills the elements.

The issue is what was promised. The promise is not just the title of the feature, but all of the information presented to you when you buy a Tesla.

And I’ll contradict you all day if I want because you’re not just wrong, but clearly suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome.

You’re clearly not a lawyer even if you role play one online.
> HN hates crypto for no apparent reason other than hive-mind.

To give you an example of a HN reader with reasons to dislike most cryptocoin stuff:

- cryptocurrencies, particularly those mineable on CPUs and/or easily laundrable, provide a serious financial incentive for scriptkiddies and other hackers to go and hack systems to have them mine for coins, encrypt them in coin-extortion schemes, or steal the content of wallets they find. Basically, it's like the absence of STIR/SHAKEN on a phone network - it invites scammers to robocall people and pull scams on them.

- mining of cryptocurrencies, especially on Bitcoin and other ASIC based coins, consumes an awful lot of electricity, which has been incentive enough for multiple operators to reactivate fossil fuel plants that had already been shut.

- cryptocurrency mines of everything but proof-of-stake coins produce an awful lot of e-waste. Some of that can be repurposed (e.g. CPUs, RAM, GPUs, FPGAs) which has serious side effects on its own (such as enormous gluts in the used markets when miners drop their rigs), some of that is uneconomical to repurpose (HDDs/SSDs for proof-of-storage coins, the mining process eats through them at an insane pace) and some of that is impossible to reuse (ASICs).

- cryptocurrency mines can lock up large parts of the hardware supply because miners pay so much more than even the richest gamer can afford. One might argue that that's a natural function of a capitalist economy, but sorry when you can't get a new halfway-decent GPU for years because scalpers buy up all the stock then the market has fucking failed.

- cryptocurrencies invite undesirable people and events. There have been almost infinite amounts of these, documented on [1] - legitimate hacks, legitimate coding issues that sent coins to null addresses, rug-pulls disguised as hacks, shoddy accounting or general business practices by people who got in way over their head (MtGox) or had no idea WTF they were doing (FTX). Or NFTs which all went down the drain once the free money spigot and the novelty wore off (on top of the OG NFT Bored Ape copying and thus promoting outright Third Reich Nazi symbols and edgy far-right memes [2]).

- cryptocurrencies invite those who think it's a good idea to use them as a proxy to evade securities laws or KYC rules, luring in gullible morons in the process and leading to loss of money.

tl;dr: too much money lures in too many morons and everyone but the original "investors" loses.

[1] https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

[2] https://gordongoner.com/
some 10y+(?) ago, i had an idea of building a model/graph of one's own notions (what is "red"?) and how do they relate to one another, and to others' such graphs - from your perspective... Back then abandoned it because looked like impossibly-huge to build, semantical-web was only leftovers-and-promises.. But a year later, this same thing you are talking about, occured to me and then i abandoned it completely. Crossed it out. Yeah, That thing would be extremely useful but even more dangerous as it will know more about you than you.

btw. There's a new book by Kazuo Ishiguro - named Klara and the sun. Along the same vein - Have a look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_and_the_Sun

ciao

p.s. see also Lena by Charles Stross. or this:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/01/make-up...
yes, but please don't - there's a good dear.
You know, that's not the sentiment I've been experiencing in the industry. There's certainly some uncertainty and risk-taking on the margins, e.g. what exactly constitutes "fair use", how do design user consent flows, and so on. But it's broadly accepted that you can't do anything with personal data without user consent, and I've found companies to be very careful in that regard.

Recently, Meta was fined $400MM for forcing users to consent to targeted advertising [0]. Note how Meta was careful to get consent (even if the way they did it was illegitimate). Sure, $400MM may not be a lot for a company that size, but I genuinely believe that the fines would be an order of magnitude higher if a company intentionally decided to do something with personal data without consent. GDPR fines may reach up to 4% of worldwide revenue, plus likely any proceeds from the illegitimate venture.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/meta-fined-more-than-400-mil...
Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
I implore ppl to stop assuming a machine can be conscious when we ourselfs don’t know anything about what consciousness really is. It’s such a loose term right now, it’s used to sensationalize AI
RHEL, Debian.

If you're serious about running _everything_ in containers, then maybe RHEL Edge? RHEL + microshift? Fedora Silverblue? openSUSE MicroOS?
Digital fashion, what your article is describing, is fascinating topic but I don't really see the connection with it and the fashion items in this thread.
Meta isn't giving up on the metaverse. The effort is not a failure. The plan was always going to take closer to 10 years to realize. They were explicit about it being a long term goal, not a short term one.

They've made some missteps, but it's not even close to being over.
That was my experience as well. The power difference between players is too great. I would get killed by randos in cloaked ships using missiles worth several time my ship and its entire loadout. What's the fun in that?

At some point I realized that this is an financial game with a space setting, not a space game with a rich economy, and I never played again.
There’s a (good) short story in a (great) sci-fi book called “Valuable Humans in Transit” about something like this. If I remember correctly, Google learns to perfectly simulate people and then the real people disappear.
These are the prices w/o IPv4 added aren't they.
> I still don't understand why we are conscious and aware if there is no free will and we just react to stimuli.

In computing systems it's fairly common to have a monitoring and control layer on top of the core functionality. Is it beyond the bounds of possibility that evolution could have come up with something similar and that control view is what we call "consciousness"?
We must have very different trust levels in the military industrial complex then. I think it's worth pointing out this program happened in 2000. Do you think it just went away? Do you think that when obama legalized spreading propaganda in the US no one capitalized on it?

I agree that the issues you listed are indeed real and challenging, but I also think that the media's heavy reliance on the "intelligence community" making claims as evidence when there is none is a more pressing one.
>> "I don't know if I'd call a currency "stable" when it's lost 80% of it's own value since being introduced and can have new liquidity created with little due process."

By that logic, Earth is tilting dangerously out of control and the moon is hurtling off into deep space.
Just under 8kHz. The tinnitus frequency seems like its about about a major fifth higher, so ~12kHz.

I also notice in general that it's much more pronounced after I've been wearing earbuds, even if the volume is turned way down.
We are experiencing a mental health catastrophe. Anxiety disorders, sadness, and despair are on the rise, and suicide rates are rising across North America, parts of Europe, and other parts of the world. This mental health crisis is caused and exacerbated by problems in the environment and the political system, which are in turn entwined with a deeper cultural historical catastrophe that I refer to as "The Meaning Crisis." It is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives. And there's a feeling of drowning in this old ocean of nonsense. And we need to figure out why this is the case. And what are we going to do about it?

Mentioning a number of folks who have talked in ways that will supply us with the resources we require. We'll discuss ancient figures such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, and the Buddha, as well as present significant figures. We'll discuss people like Carl Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche. We'll discuss Heidegger.
> Hiring managers would scroll through your e-mails and make judgment calls based on their content.

> Training an LLM on your e-mails and then feeding it questions is just a lower accuracy, more abstracted version of the above, but it's the same concept.

Its also one that once you have cheap enough computing resources scales better, because you don't need to assign literally any time from your more limited pool of human resources to it. Yes, baroque artisanal manual review of your online presence might be more “accurate” (though there's probably no applicable objective figure of merit), but megacorporate hiring filters aren't about maximizing accuracy they are about efficiently trimming the applicant pool before hiring managers have to engage with it.
Wonder what all those social media interns are going to do all day long when they shut down those 52 accounts.
Getting a phone with a large enough battery (>5000mAh) is good opsec. I have a 10000 mAh battery in my phone, and I only need to charge about twice a week.
Not to beat this horse, but I know the items I get from JetPens are not counterfeit. I’ve seen too many fountain pens reviews on Amazon where pens were counterfeit or gold nip was swapped with stainless. I usually buy from sellers such as JetPens or Goulet. With that said, I’ve bought a few FP from Amazon and AliExpress as well over the years.
Just send the one you have? I don’t see the problem.
Admittedly, it's a Peruvian restaurant, and not really a taqueria, but an honorable mention for Estampas Peruanas on El Camino would have been nice. Most of my friends loathe this place, but I love it.

Also, a shout-out for the memory of Viva Mexico! whose remains lie under the Box offices. They only killed two patrons, but had some very nice Tex Mex style food. (An investigation found their kitchen was fine, but their meat supplier was unwholesome.)
I don't think I agree with the "dishonest" label, but lifetime licenses are a bit scammy even when they're offered earnestly.
Question: if a non-psychotic psychiatric patient cannot be trusted to perform first-hand accounts of their own abuse, and psychiatric wards are tightly controlled such that lawyers and patient advocates can only be allowed in when deemed reasonable by the hospital, how does a sexually assaulted patient navigate reporting their abuse?

Believing that all patients, regardless of their exact illness, cannot be trusted to accurately describe abuse done to them is precisely what enables abuse in the first place. Suicidal thoughts is not a condition where you cannot tell if you're being taken out of bed in the middle of sleep. Suicidal thoughts is not a condition where you cannot understand someone is threatening you.
GMO Oral Probiotic Attenuates Damage Caused by Acute Alcohol Consumption in Mice
I was watching the Netflix documentary about Abercrombie & Fitch [1] the other day. At some point they were forced by a court to improve the diversity of the company.

How did they handle it? (a) They created a Chief Diversity Officer position, and hired a black guy to staff it, (b) they padded their diversity numbers with low-pay/0-hour contract employees at the lowest level possible.

Diversity is fostered by initiatives, not mandates.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19034522/
Ask HN: Best banks for bootstrapped SaaS business?
What are the best banks for a bootstrapped SaaS business, and why?
"Coming back to customers. Do you invest in extracting short term money from customers? Or do you invest in long term relations. In the case of ManyCam they could have sold me add-ons that feel like they are worth it. By honoring the lifetime license the likelihood of me buying from them increases. It is the same as from the detour. In the beginning it’s about getting traction, then about getting money. And then the key to growth is retention. If you want to grow your customer base, the first thing is to prevent customers leaving. If you fill water in a bucket with a hole - something I’ve seen in to many startups on how they use marketing without product market fit - then after some time the bucket is empty when you stop pouring. So don’t make your customers run away."

When I was in high school I had an opportunity to learn customer service from one of the greatest businessmen that lived. My grandpa, the produce farmer and peach orchardist. He owned and operated the largest peach orchard in Oregon at the time and had customers that had been returning to his orchard for a lifetime.

Why, would they keep coming back?

Because he made a produced a final product that was so sweet and juicy the flavors would explode in your mouth and the juice would run down you arm and drip off your elbow.

Because they wanted to support a family man that was dedicated to providing a good living for his family, who also worked for him.

Because they wanted to get out of the city and see, for the briefest of moments, what is was like in the fresh air and sunshine of the Oregon countryside.

Because they wanted the opportunity to harvest the food they were going to eat and choose what they wanted for themselves.

and many other reasons... He would talk with customers he would see only once or twice a year and discuss the topics of the day in a down to earth way that only a farmer can express. And they would keep coming back...

Don't run off your customers. They are a business' most valuable asset.

If you want to know more about customer service and how it used to be, read Les Schwab's book, "Pride in Performance: Keep It Going".
We decided at work to run a little experiment with GPT3 to see if/how-much it was 'worth it'.

Since baseball is back and most of us are fans, we decided to write a baseball simulator. We each had a Friday afternoon to write one up. Half of us got to use the free GPT3, and half had just regular googling. After the jam, we'd compare notes at the bar and see what the difference, if any, was.

Holy cow, was there ever a difference.

Those without GPT3 got pretty far. Got the balls and strikes and bases and 9 innings. Most got extra innings down. One even tried the integration with ERA and batting stats in the probabilities of an event occurring but was unable to get it done.

The GPT3 group was estimated to be 2 weeks worth of work ahead of the googling group. Turns out, there is a whole python library for baseball simulations and statistics. The googling group didn't find that, but GPT3 just prompted it outright on the first query for everyone using it. This group got the basics of the game done in ~30 minutes. Managed to get integration with actual MLB statistics. Built somewhat real physics simulators of balls in play and distances, adjusted for temperature and altitude. Not all of them at once, but a lot of really great stuff.

Aside: Did you know that MLB publishes, in real time, all 6 degrees of freedom for a ball, from where it leaves a pitchers hand to where a catcher/batter interacts with it? They put out the spin rates in three axes! Wild stuff.

Our conclusions were that it's totally 'worth it' and is a ~20x multiplier in coding speed. It spits out a lot of really bad code, but it gets the skeletons out very quickly and just rockets you to the crux of the problems. For example: it gave out a lot of jibberish code with the python baseball library; like trying to pass a date into a function that only takes in names. But it gives you the correct functions. Easy enough to go and figure out the documentation on that function.

Like I said, it's a ~20x multiplier for our little experiment.

Action Items for management: Pay whatever you have to and let us use it all the time.
+1 anecdatum
But dependencies are somehow needed for Java (otherwise, what are you excluding? Log4j is not there by default)? How is that a fair comparison?
A totally legitimate use case for crypto is moving money into countries that have bogus official exchange rates (e.g. Argentina). I've got multiple friends that hire developers in Argentina and pay them using crypto in order to avoid the 90% haircut.
A lot of people confuse the passport (Pass) with the national identity card (Personalausweis). There's no place of residence stated on the German passport, but it is part of the Personalausweis. Since German citizens by law are required to own a Personalausweis (there's no mandate to carry it around, just having it somewhere in a drawer suffices), practically all businesses in Germany do rely on the Personalausweis to validate identities. And of course if the place of residence stated on the Personalausweis doesn't match the actual place of residence this is going to trigger some red flags.