skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself.

Yup, it is. Because like a cargo cult, most of the external signs are similar. The difference is in the depth of knowledge used, the rigor applied to the evidence, whether the person is actively avoiding or seeking confirmation bias, etc. So, yes, much of the time, it is actually anti-science.

That said, there is no reason to hide a person's own data from them. Even if statistically, they are more likely to abuse it.

The fact that he had to go get a gray-market machine hacked to use open-source to get his own data is unconscionable. It should simply be required that all medical devices have an easy method to provide data to the user/patient, such as a Patient_SDCard_Slot, or Patient_USB_port. Obviously it wouldn't provide access to the internals, but provide a parallel output data stream that they could use or not use as they choose.
There is an argument to be made that all journalism is intrinsically biased and the simple decision of _which_ statistic to publish is meaningful.
It sounds good in theory. Poor people don't buy new cars, they buy used cars. It's hard to lower the price of used cars by subsidizing them since they are in fixed supply. If you subsidize them the demand increases. The increased demand raises the price, neutering the subsidy.

The way to lower the price of used cars is to subsidize new cars and then waiting 3-10 years. But that doesn't work well either, because pricing is global, and because the demand split for EV/ICE changes every year.
Science says otherwise. Saw a study with no significant difference between the people who made decks and people who used premade decks. Too lazy to get source, sorry.
Capital gains is taxed at a lower % than salary. I work as a contractor to be able to save on taxes, while my co-workers doing the same work are taxed at around 50% total. I'm not sure what the solution is, but while the working and middle classes are taxed to death the rich have all kinds of loop-holes giving them an unfair advantage when they already own everything.

A good start would be to tax all income at the same rate. Raise it for capital and lower for salary to meet in the middle. This would mean I pay more yes, but I'm not a hypocrite and actually want to see a better system.
The problem is the animals eating feed grown with fossil fuel derived fertilizers: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/fertilizer-and-climate-ch...

Cattle eating grass is one thing- industrial feed lots are another and they're needed to produce beef at the scale humans are eating it.
If I were building new in the north, ground-loop heat pumps make more sense, less maintenance, less trying to eek out a temperature difference. You will likely already have the equipment on-site for grading and foundation work. No need to remove material permanently for it…
The new, (bio-)propane refigerated ones (R290) are pretty good and work well with the radiators most Europeans have at home.
They are reliably capable of emitting up to 75C outlet water.
At the moment they are approx. 1.5-2x more expensive, I hope that will come down somewhat. I really hope after a few years a good heatpump will reach cost parity with a good boiler (installation that is).
Travel CRM for Holidays is a must-have tool for any travel company that wants to succeed in today's competitive travel industry. The software offers a range of features that cater to the needs of travel companies. With Travel CRM for Holidays, travel companies such as hellogtx.com can streamline their operations, manage their customer data, and increase their sales.
What a disappointing take.

In fact Lee was looped in six weeks ago; there was an issue with Remix and CDN cache behavior which popped up on GitHub. I mentioned my issues in that thread thinking they were likely related. Lee responded and let me know he would talk to the internal team.[0] However, Lee did nothing that was ever visible to me. Moreover, I completely disagree with your assessment: it should not require Lee or social media posts to tackle issues like this, that’s completely unscalable and not a realistic way to run a business.

It’s pretty irresponsible of you to be suggesting folks reach out directly to Lee when frontline support fails. That sucks for Lee and it’s bad for the Vercel business.

To be blunt with you, your comment does not read well. It looks like you’re ignoring very real problems and doing everything you can to dismiss them as “bad faith” when in fact there’s a demonstrable problem which shouldn’t be excused as growing pains but instead addressed head on. This kind of fanboyism doesn’t help anyone and I hope Vercel takes the time to reflect on this feedback and make real, meaningful changes.

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/community/discussions/1559#discuss...
Aura – Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scale (2022)
In the 500 years since this event happened, you are the first person to think of this as an actual reason. Congrats, we can close the case, finally. Thank goodness for you.
The idea that these incredibly wealthy people are using their money to create jobs is nonsense, they play games with borrowing against their assets they don't spend it. Once money is in the hands of someone like this it is effectively taken out of circulation damaging the economy as a whole
It's the number of excessive deaths due to coal fired power plants in the US per year(~3000). Anyone can search for that and critique the methodology.
> It's not anti-science to take your health into your own hands.

It depends on how exactly it was taken into one’s hands right? Can’t really know if it’s pro-science or anti-science until you see what a person is doing. Most people do pretty irrational stuff, based on stories of a doctor in my family.
Yeah what you're looking for is "unnamed prepared statements". If your client supports this then you can use PgBouncer and get the throughput benefits.

Maybe binary_parameters is a different thing. Need to look into it more but this is a good one to add to the docs. And maybe officially support named prepared statements natively if lots of clients don't support unnamed prepared statements but definitely seems like we'd have to do much more accounting.
PalmOS was killed by its design mistakes and technical weaknesses.

16 bits memory limitation, even at the time that was silly.

Armlets? Extremely hard to write simple native code or to port apps and games from other platforms.

No file system, a custom and rather slow database instead…

But they had tons of documents on how to follow their UI/UX guidelines.

Basically, they had no real kernel upon which building an OS, they tried anyway and it was a mess of epic proportions.
You turned TWh/year into TWh/hour at some point, adding a factor of 8,760.
It impacts us all as members of society. Adulterated drugs are killing US addicts in record numbers.

There is a direct social cost in terms of health care, law enforcement, crimes committed to obtain drugs, fallout from broken families resulting in further dysfunction and more.

Then there is also the unseen cost of lost productivity. If users, deceased users, imprisoned users, distributors, deceased distributors, imprisoned distributors, and law enforcement personnel were not engaged in these activities, their efforts could be focused on more productive areas of the economy. We all pay for this policy socially and economically.
All they lost were money sinks. A place that money gets sucked out of the economy and does nothing, so it's a benefit overall
TSMC sales miss for second straight quarter on tepid demand
What developers need to know about generative AI
It cant possibly be as simple as that can it?

What’s wrong with banning those feeds and letting the price normalise causing the rate of consumption to drop to sustainable levels?

I must be missing something?
It's "ergot" in English:

> One of the most prominent theories is that victims suffered from ergot poisoning, which was known as St. Anthony's fire in the Middle Ages. During floods and damp periods, ergots were able to grow and affect rye and other crops. Ergotism can cause hallucinations and convulsions, but cannot account for the other strange behaviour most commonly identified with dancing mania. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
I don't understand why they don't have a big red STOP button on the roof or something to immediately call for either a driver or why don't these have remote control take over so they can be quickly moved out of the way? Imagine if one of these parks itself in front of an ambulance or fire truck?
Does anyone have any insight into deciding what information should be memorised, and what information it is sufficient to simply store in a searchable digital knowledge base for rapid retrieval when needed?

Takes a lot of effort to commit my notes from a book into my head, but a tiny amount of resources to store them on my computer.
Riemann Sphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sphere
AI Terminator Scenario
The Leitner system is designed with the assumption that you have lots of physical cards you need to organise without going insane, but you can do much better if you're using a program like Anki.

Anki's algorithm is based on an older version of the SuperMemo algorithm, with some evolution since then. The consensus seems to be that while you can fine tune it a bit with the settings, the returns are diminishing at this point.
You're missing politics.

Oil+gas companies, and fertilizer producers, are deep in the supply chain and are thus embedded in the governing bodies (because no country is very good at preventing corruption). Things only change when those companies let them change.
Agreed, giving the user a choice would be best here. Something tells me most users would not change it from whatever the default is, but yeah still good to expose this as a setting which should be doable. Thanks for the input!
I'd give it a try! What is the stack of the project?
Tax raises reduce inflation because hoarding money increases inflation. These people don't spend their money, they borrow against their assets. Taxing that hoarded money beings it out of the dragons' dens and back into circulation
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Yeah... That would be hard to do in the limited memory of the ESP32. Main issue is the cost of TLS connections.
that. is… upsetting.
Spaced repetition looks very promising to me. I've been a long-time Anki [1] user, and it allowed me to learn Czech much faster.

Recently I launched a website [2] where I try to blend a markdown-based knowledge manager with spaced repetition. It's not an easy task and there's a long way to go, but after adding and maintaining > 400 cards, I already

[1] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
[2] https://retaind.io/
(I work at Culture Amp)

In our interviews one of the things we look for is people who care about our mission (improving workplace cultures, basically). Its not a requirement but it is one of the factors when it comes to making a decision, particularly if we have more qualified candidates than roles.

> If someone came excited about Elm _and_ was interested in the company's product that was fine.

I'd even say if someone is excited about Elm _and_ was interested in making a great quality product (great UX, accessible, performant, maintainable etc.) that would also be a good fit.

I also mentioned above that the engineers we hired to work on features that happened to have Elm front ends would have been working on Ruby on Rails backends most of the time, and we generally expected engineers to be willing to jump into both sides of the stack, even if they specialised in one or the other. A person who is really excited about functional programming and joining only for the chance to work in functional programming languages might end up grating against working in a rails codebase. That's the sort of practical thing we were trying to avoid. (The same would be true today for candidates who are super excited about TS / React / Next.js - they're still going to be expected to occasionally jump into whatever backend stack their team is using).
they aren't free to leave if you setup the right policies.

just seize all their assets through imminent domain and don't allow them back in the country.

Obviously a little extreme but there are a lot of policy options between do nothing and the most extreme.
>and could even work when the power goes out.

AFAIK gas furnaces still need electricity for the fans to work. When you have no electricity you at best have a glorified fireplace. It's probably going to be a worse than a regular fireplace because it's not designed to output heat to its surroundings.
42M is the current number and Tesla would argue the worst case scenario. If you're calculating the cost of something you'd rather have a number closer to the worst case than the bad case.

If Tesla said that it would cost $5T instead of $10T to electrify the world because of FSD the world would laugh and dismiss the argument wholesale. 42M is the only defensible number they can use in their public calculations.
picovoice processes on the device and you can fine-tune the models
https://picovoice.ai/platform/cat/
I would assume the team knows the products they are installing
Why, were they spending that money or was it just sitting in bank accounts? Why does non circulating money matter? It seems like a drain more than anything else
Because there are other reasons extremely valid reasons why we shouldn't drug dealers and organized crime besides that they drugs they sell are ussually adulterated?

I mean you couldn't even get these legal/clean drugs directly before buying something from a street dealer under this scheme? Why? IMHO that's just beyond absurd we might just as well provide direct cash subsidies to drug cartels instead if that's your goal.
The cost of materials may be low for fission but convincing people to have a nuclear powerplant near there homes and engineering it to be safe are not.

Fusion on the other hand has no chance of a run away meltdown and the materials that are used are much easier to dispose of.
You could bring it in as an application but you already get pooling with Ecto via Postgrex and DBConnection.

If you're using Elixir there's really no need for separate connection pool until you have LOTS of nodes.
Countries are not people. Your worldview becomes more shifted from reality and full of holes the more you think of an entire country as one person.
IIRC they wanted to know the efficiency of different algorithms like big O notation stuff. Maybe it would be understandable if we were doing high performance real time programming in C. The job was writing HTTP APIs. I aced all the HTTP and SQL questions.
Interesting. With exception of the pandemic, I don't think I encountered that particular view often. If anything, taking medicine into your own hands tends to be a result of quick fix mentality ( which used to be a uniquely American issue ), lack of access to medicine and doctors.

I am not one to defend doctors too much as I did have a moment, where a whole series of trained professionals missed something obvious ( in retrospect ) to the point that made me question whether they were all just trying to drain my insurance as much as they could. It is a problem, as we are still learning how our bodies really work.

<< you need to sometimes tackle your own health

That 'sometimes' is important. You want to know the line where supplements and blinds are no longer sufficient.
I've been experimenting with "spaced free recall". So first, I'll read a section of a textbook. Then, I write down everything I can remember about it in a blank text file, organizing things in a way that makes sense to me. Next, look back at the section and compare to my recalled notes, filling in missing information and committing extra attention to missed spots. Repeat the process with increasing intervals between reviews.

From what I understand of the literature, free recall produces better learning compared to cued recall like flash cards. Part of the reason is that it forces you to organize information and associate it with existing knowledge.

Anecdotally, it's much easier to learn conceptual knowledge, and I don't really feel like my recall of specific facts has suffered compared to traditional SRS.
Nice work.
I have a question though. The example chat window you show has an interaction where AI explains that it cannot remember the previous question. Isn’t Langchain there for exact that purpose or am I missing something?
This is what happens when criminals produce drugs. Drugs of abuse should be legally produced by professionals and made available to adults, e.g. tobacco, cannabis, alcohol.
>we spoke to Kali Sedgemore, a long-time harm-reduction expert in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside who also works with Vancouver Coastal Health

I'm not shocked the article is from BC and even less that it was Downtown Eastside.. I think all Canadians know about the Downtown Eastside. Even here on the opposite coast I know its reputation.

YouTube suggested a video just a few days ago to me of a Vancouver fire hall located in the Downtown Eastside. Most fire halls in Vancouver average 600 calls per month but Fire hall 2 they get 1,600 calls per month!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVnmEpbWmhc
idk if you have ever been accused of doing something, and you didn't do it, and there is literally no way for you to prove your innocence of it. And the more you try to defend the more others pile on. It feels pretty bad.

It feels especially bad if you were even proud and happy that you did a clever thing (like guess the number meaning) and then this very thing that you were proud and happy of (the cleverness) is itself used as the rationalization that you are guilty of something bad (it was too clever to be true).

EDIT: maybe it could be possible @dang or some mod could back up that I am saying the truth, to stop the dogpiling and witchhunting me. They could backtrace the ip addresses. Some might say that I just used a VPN to make the throwaway, but if the one who actually made it didn't use one, the mods could see their real account and verify that it wasn't me without revealing who it really was. If that happened, maybe the hunters would say that my account is another of the throwaways of that user on a different IP address, but maybe that would be too much of a stretch of belief.
The `c_cc` array is configurable via the stty command or the termios(3) API.

To override the character for "EOF," change ^D to something else in the following command and run it:

stty eof ^D
>That's amazing and all

It earnestly is amazing.

>Why do you think LLM's can't "perform this kind of translation by merely comparing tokens statistically tending to be near one another".

The implication I gather from those dismissing this technology as "merely comparing tokens statistically tending to be near one another" is that they think the whole of the LLM is nothing but a trick, a sleight of hand where it generates output token by token Markov style after consuming enough text, just using some percent chance of tokens following on after another.

In my example, it generated the metaphor "sweeping the ice" as a replacement for "spinning my tires". Both are using in context to imply a level of busywork associated with the respective contexts. To generate such a transformation requires understanding this inner meaning and associating it. It requires a level of creativity to determine that "sweeping the ice" in curling is an appropriate replacement.

You cannot rearrange "spinning my tires" into "sweeping the ice" without having derived and translated the underlying meaning. There is nothing to connect the two sets of tokens except the metaphoric intent.

>Why should we assume that the well-known and understood design and functionality of LLMs is not enough to explain their behaviour?

Obviously LLMs are capable of this as it is an LLM that is producing it.

I am not denying that the inputs and outputs are tokens marked up with distance information, nor that the process of generating tokens is just a bunch of vector multiplication to generate neuron values from weights across the layers of the network. I am suggesting that with sufficient training, layers and parameters, that the neural net must be forced into a configuration that allows it to perform this meaning/intent based processing as gradient descent pushes and pulls its the network along the twelve thousand or so dimensions GPT-3 uses. Undoubtedly GPT-4 and soon 5 use even more.

LLMs have repeatedly been found to have developed novel and unintended capabilities as their complexity has increased.

Why do you think that LLMs shouldn't be capable of manipulating on the level of meanings and intents rather than just rearranging tokens?
I’d love to hear experiences on ground source installs in suburbs. I’d love to do one but feel like I’d be forced into a vertical well which I’ve always heard is an outrageous cost. I’d love to be wrong.
What? No. Please tell me this is not how you test your own code — only cases for “happy path”, ignore exceptions, no corner case coverage. Line coverage goals of 10% or so.

Waymo has a lot of miles in quiet suburbs with broad streets and light traffic. How has that helped them when they get to SF?
Thanks so much for your thoughts. I tried my app with a friend and it took a good amount of digging deeper to actually get to their root thoughts about their difficult event.

So to be successful with such a tool, a good level of self-awareness is required.

Yes a tool as an adjunct to regular therapy is a good opportunity. I discussed this actually with my own therapist and he thought it was a good idea, with the NHS being so overwhelmed here in the UK to be able to have a first-line resource-cheap option is appealing.

I suppose the thing to figure out is how this is best done in a safe and useful manner.
This is a great question. Data from this website[0] suggests heat pumps leak at 6%/year vs. traditional condensing units which leak on average at 10%/year, so it seems they are still an improvement over traditional ACs. One technician's experience[1] points to the steel accumulator rusting being the primary cause of heat pump leakage. There was a big 2014 study in the UK[2] on heat pump leakage, but no causes were identified, due to poor data collection.

[0] https://support.accuvio.com/support/solutions/articles/40000...

[1] https://highperformancehvac.com/heat-pump-leaking-refrigeran...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
If you have a badly soldered (brazed, welded, or other way to join pipes) joint it will still hold pressure for a month or two. Then mechanical vibration will slowly degrade the joint and eventually metallic fatigue will cause a small break and then you get a leak.

Note that most of these leaks are caused by installation. In the factory they have things they can do for quality control to make such things not an issue, but the refrigerant needs to get from inside each house to the outside and that means custom install which makes quality control harder.

Worse, it is hard to find leaks. Often the pipes are buried in walls and so all the tech can do is put some sealer in and hope that fixes the issue. There is the ability to put some leak detector in the lines, but then you need to spend a lot of labor and still not guarantee.

I don't know what can be done about it, but I know it is a real problem.
That would be illegal. Private property is private property. It belongs to the individual, not the state. The state can use eminent domain if it wants to build a road for example, but not to retaliate against a person leaving.
There's a significant portion of all human beings who ever lived who wouldn't partake in a hypothetical. They would just respond "I don't see that door" and go away thinking your question makes no sense.