skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How many have the financial freedom to be able to comfortably support a 'single life style' nowadays that isn't to just stay at home and play on the computer?

That's what fascinates me the most. Why is it engaging anyone on HN?

Most people here are tech workers so if they stay single then they definitely make enough to have nice things, vacation almost anywhere, enjoy night life a few times week, etc.

In all those interactions there are people to meet and you don't have to meet very many people to find someone who likes you. Many prefer to keep things casual at first. This is not a "bad thing" unless you are more in love with the idea of a relationship than the person. Unpack where that expectation is coming from and then no more tears. As the saying goes: "if you have to force it, it's probably shit". It really is that simple and of course it doesn't take very many casual relationships to find someone who wants to try being serious after getting to know you. The "pain" I see most people experiencing is just indecision and impatience, not true loneliness.
Much longer. At least since 2014.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7912-...
Lindows was started by the same Michael Robertson[0], who was behind mp3.com[1], one of the early Internet's rather lucrative IPOs and also involved in a series of litigation around copyrights and later what Matt Levine might now file under "everything is securities fraud"[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robertson_(businessman...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3.com
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
> Less accurate, more abstracted, but more automatable.

That is true. In fact most job applications are sifted through by robots looking for relevant keywords in your CV, and this would only be the next logical step.
All of the above, same as any country.
> At the moment, I'm having a hard time imagining how this all does not terminate in people returning to more direct human engagements, and limiting interaction online to people we've physically met and validated.

That's hard to do if you're in a small town, or if your interests are rare in person, but have online watering holes.

These applications lower the cost of radicalization by a lot. Instead of imposing human moderation to ensure discussion (by other humans) is "on track" on current platforms, you can now drop the human moderator and contributors, and have various, always-on AI personas interacting with your mark. Bonus marks if you fine-tune with the marks interests (e.g. WWE, Minecraft & K-Pop).

I also expect Reddit astroturfing by all sorts of actors (marketers, political operatives, "reputation managers") to go up by a lot by boosting desired ideas and/or throwing FUD on undesired ones.
We have developers writing APIs for e-commerce platforms that don't know a lick of Linux, thus proving it's possible to write code without knowing how to deploy it.
How insecure is America's FirstNet emergency response system? No one's sure
Good point about eBPF. :) It is running in kernel space, but it's not code from the kernel, it's user code, which expands the model, that was kind of my thought.

DPDK did seem to be limited to pretty niche/exceptional applications. There's like a really fast Open Vswitch backend (and some other very network-centric projects). Practically a partial-unikernel system... trying to almost never ever use the kernel, just stay in user land with your own network stack forever. Just... In Linux.
GE writes a massive amount of software. Not just for their hardware products, but all sorts of other stuff that most folks won’t ever run across.

It’s a mess of a company for sure, but just because their software isn’t common on the web, I’d still classify them as a tech company.

I think of Twitter as a media outlet. They don’t directly employ news writers, but just about all media flows through Twitter in some form or fashion. They’re intrinsically linked to the media landscape.
Future proof security. I think that people discount that aspect of it. If your identity is cracked at any point in the future, perhaps using methods yet to be invented, all your transactions will still be there on the blockchain. I once heard someone refer to the blockchain as prosecution futures, and that is about right.
That sounds great! How does it work?
Yes, I wasn't really addressing those points. It's a bit pedantic to state that an axiom isn't a fact, as, while that's largely correct, it hampers communication.

Regarding your other points, I don't disagree per se, though you could make the argument that there is a substrate of existence that humans have sufficient intellect to accurately model.

If so, it isn't necessarily completely implausible that we'd be able to predict the goals of a superior intellect by assuming that it has to play by the same rules, and will be merely be superior at playing by those constraints. As such, as we could determine the goals, we needent determine the mechanisms to make accurate claims about the end result of what a superior intellect might achieve.

It's also possible that we simply understand nothing and are too limited to ever grasp anything beyond a certain point, in which case this entire argument is pointless.
The burden of proof justifying posting stolen materials from the laptop belonging to the family member of a politician is not on the person asking if this is in bounds, it is on the person defending obvious muckraking.
I had heard of it at the time, but never got a look at it. Thanks!
Interesting. Maybe each club is different. I’m pretty introverted but I’ve found that people frequently take breaks on the floor and chit chat with strangers in between climbs.
I expected the downvotes. The truth isn't always popular. My whole life I've been relentlessly told the fiction that inflation is caused by greedy speculators, etc.
About 15 years ago I'd have a similar-enough chat with a colleague that went the same way every time we had it. It was pointless. We'd polarise the same way every time, so why waste the energy. I proposed (and he agreed) that it would be easier to just turn our perspective into bots that could parrot the usual discussion so we could do something (or talk about something) more useful, unless we actually had some value to add that was non-obvious.
My understanding is that the eclipse moved the apparent position of the star compared to where it would normally be observed, but not by very much.

All I'm saying is some accounts seem to really exaggerate how much this effect was.
Also video version [1]; same content.

Initially I thought this was just a deep fake. Then I saw the original BBC article [2] (which conveniently leaves out all the embarrassing parts), and everyone else (but BBC) reporting on the blunder.

I normally despise Musk's antics, but I must admit I agree with him in this case. I don't have evidence to say if "hate speech" has increased or not, but whatever the case, it's unacceptable for a journalist to make blunt statements without having concrete examples to justify the point they're trying to make.

ps: having said that, I hate the "For you" page. Not due to hate speech, but I prefer to curate manually who I follow and what shows up in my timeline, so I don't want any of their recommendation engine crap. But that's beyond the point, and "Following" tab still works (for now).

[1] https://twitter.com/LayahHeilpern/status/1646140983023681537

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65251160
I think it was India, actually, but the rest sounds correct.
> the tradability of manufactured goods means that there are no such automatic limits to manufacturing growth

This statement seems at odds with the rest of the piece.

The problem with manufacturing as a development strategy (and I agree with the opening - it's the only proven development strategy) is that not everyone can manufacture. You'd have too many goods!

I've always disagreed with the economic belief that demand is infinite and only constrained by supply. As others in this thread have alluded to, our material progress (as opposed to digital progress) began to slow down in the 1970s. I think part of this is that to a large extent people's material needs in developed countries were met by things like plumbing and electrification. I use developed countries here both as an example of economic trends at the frontier, and as the most likely consumers of industrial goods given their wealth.

Of course that leaves the needs of 90% of people in developing countries unmet, but as the article explains China supplied those needs after 1979. Manufacturing is efficient and one factory worker can meet the material needs of 1+N consumers.

The whole world can't work in factories because there isn't enough demand for all those manufactured goods. Just look at the global steel industry.

A lot of people are too poor to engage in global trade, and manufacturers of any extraction will not give away their wares.

Development, unlike the global phenomenon observed from 1945-1975, seems more like taking turns being the workshop of the world. 1980-2020 was China's turn.
NRA membership has been in decline for a while. Meanwhile gun ownership is through the roof, especially first time owners. Huge numbers of them identify as "liberals" and wouldn't be caught dead at an NRA convention.
The magic is GPT4. Basically show GPT4 the right context, which today you can use a good retriever model for (I'm sure they also fine-tuned it, probably on GPT4 generated data...), a little bit of good prompt engineering, and viola.
It’s also the PPD. I believe you need something like 35, and only the consumer Varjo model even comes close. The Quest Pro is around 19 or 21. Other VR headsets are in a similar range.

Instead of pushing work, meta should be emphasizing fitness. Their headsets are no ready for work. It’s been two years now and I have yet to see infinite office. The nreal is closer to being ok for work than the quest pro
This isn't a doomsday scenario, this is just business as usual, but with better tools.

have you met capitalism?

I feel like I'm talking to someone from the timeline where Clearview AI and Cambridge Analytics never happened.
Scroll up the thread; your question is already answered. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542645

Federal funding isn't critical to NPR, but it's important to the public radio ecosystem of small local stations, who get ~13% of their funding from government.
Yet Another Cache, but for ChatGPT
We build a cache for cache for ChatGPT, see how it can save your money and time when build application on top of LLMs
Heathkit
Steve Jobs:

> I got to know this man, whose name was Larry Lang, and he taught me a lot of electronics. He was great. He used to build Heathkits. Heathkits were really great. Heathkits were these products that you would buy in kit form. You actually paid more money for them than if you just went and bought the finished product, if it was available. These Heathkits would come with these detailed manuals about how to put this thing together, and all the parts would be laid out in a certain way and color coded. You’d actually build this thing yourself.

> I would say that gave one several things. It gave one an understanding of what was inside a finished product and how it worked, because it would include a theory of operation. But maybe even more importantly, it gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore. I mean, you looked at a television set, and you would think, “I haven’t built one of those—but I could. There’s one of those in the Heathkit catalog, and I’ve built two other Heathkits, so I could build a television set.” Things became much more clear that they were the results of human creation, not these magical things that just appeared in one’s environment that one had no knowledge of their interiors. It gave a tremendous degree of self-confidence that, through exploration and learning, one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way.
> This can't scale to a continuous stream of observations.

My mind doesn’t scale to a continuous stream either.

While I’m typing this on my phone 99.99% of all my observations are immediately discarded, and since this memory ranks as zero, I very much doubt I’ll remember writing this tomorrow.
> the emotional distress and reverse placebo effect of coercing people to take a vaccine if they don't want it still outweighs any benefit

In a very hamfisted comparison, if the expected death rate is 1% then the expected deaths are > 3 million in the US. I think this outweighs nocebos.
One thing I learned the hard way in life is that unusual solutions can lead to unusual problems. Keto is very unusual and very recent, despite what people want to believe.
That's so weird, my great interview question is "Do you just make up self aggrandizing claims about how great your interview questions are, or do you have some kind of empirical basis for it?". And if you don't do well on it then I write a blog article to make fun of you for being an unscientific engineer who can not possibly be fit to work at the same internet advertising business as me.
FerretDB maintainer here: we are working on it. We are already getting reports of successful migrations with Meteor apps. [1]

Would you mind sharing the specific Meteor app you are looking to get supported?

MeteorJS is among the most requested applications/frameworks our users are looking to use with FerretDB.

[1]: https://twitter.com/CowboyCaramel/status/1646089964126347264
Superintelligence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence

Critical thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

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

Meta-analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis

Systematic review:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_review

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) > Applications: Medicine, Education, Meta-science, Public Policy; #EvidenceBasedPolicy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_practice#Applic... :

> The goal of evidence-based practice is to eliminate unsound or outdated practices in favor of more-effective ones by shifting the basis for decision making from tradition, intuition, and unsystematic experience to firmly grounded scientific research.[3]
Show HN: Letterflow: GPT4 Powered Newsletter Generator
Letterflow is a GPT-4 powered copywriting tool made specifically for newsletter generation from direct sources.
I think Letterflow can help newsletter editors save time on the writing by generating an initial draft that they can easily build from. Letterflow allows you to spend more time on finding relevant, exciting new sources of information for your newsletter subscribers.

Here's how I built Letterflow: I am using the Diffbot api to fetch the content from sources that users input in the sources textarea. I then feed this into the GPT4-api with a prompt based on the specifics that the user specified.

It is very slow right now, but I plan to change that very soon by: - Migrating to LangChain - Parallelizing the GPT-4 api requests - Realtime streaming GPT-4 api response

If there is interest, I would be more than happy to opensource the project. Many new things coming soon!

I would extremely appreciate it if anyone could try Letterflow out. There is NO SIGNUP at all, and it is completely free of course.

If you have any feedback, feel free to reach out at jmiran15@jhu.edu or leave it here.

Thanks!!
> Deflation is bad if you have debt

And inflation is equally bad if you have cash or any assets denoted in cash. It's also bad because taxes don't necessarily index with inflation. For example, much of capital gains are illusory because of inflation, yet you get taxed on that inflated value, not the real value.
You can't just threaten to kill people because they're rude on the internet.
> You go from Monero to cash

Then you end up like the guy asking for advice on how to sue his banks for freezing the accounts that he'd been using to run his Monero to UKP gateway.
You need to go talk to women in some sort of public setting, rather than expecting them to show up in the office. Don't just accept being lonely.
Lifeguard here. The brick is actually part of lifeguard training, at least where I'm from.
What is crime adjacent that isn't criminal activity?
Sure, but are we not precluding that the forces which gave rise to the genesis and evolution of life were able to search and select for functional quantum phenomena? We're talking about processes that can turn a pile of water, salt, sugar, nitrogen, and some vitamins into an obscenely complex, highly adaptable, self-replicating, self-regulating machine which can produce a variety of different micro and macromolecules in a baffling concert of physics and chemistry at scales and complexity humans can hardly work at, and certainly not so majestically.

And we've also got eyes, which in principal means that many life forms already have quantum-sensitive apparati, right? Magnetoreceptors as well, and they're also found in "lower lifeforms" in various different forms from the basest phototaxis to extraordinarily refined lens systems which can numerous wavelengths.

And then I suppose when talking in scale — what does it actually mean — to flip that coin when you've only got an N of one in reality.

Of course I would have to concede that I accept an element, even a large one of determinacy, but my experience also precludes the idea of it existing exclusively. I'm really just pattering away right now, frankly I know very little of quantum physics (nothing, really) it's just nice to know someone is willing to furnish a hypothesis contrary to what I believe is the consensus on the topic.
(Not) transposing a 16x16 bitmatrix
> something I noticed: maybe a societal-scale sort of euphemistic tactic to make people feel better.

I’ve noticed this pattern since I was an adolescent. In my opinion, the behavior is aimed at making the reassuring party feel better about the situation.

Individuals who recognize their unattractiveness and its negative consequences are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior, which is threatening to others. Hence, reassurances aimed at preventing such people from breaking with the group are part of the social script. Taboos on suicide serve a similar function — they deter antisocial individuals from depriving the group of resources (mainly labor, in the case of those who are secretly held to be nonviable for reproductive purposes). The gross inferiority of the reassured party can never be admitted, no matter how obvious, because doing so could justify behavior that the reassuring party finds undesirable.

This dynamic is the single biggest reason for the emergence and persistence of online “incel” communities. These communities provide a safe space for alienated individuals to refute the social script without facing ostracism from one another.
"Doctors are told to weigh the benefits vs. costs of every treatment. So what are the benefits and costs of IRBs?

"Whitney can find five people who unexpectedly died from research in the past twenty-five years. ...

"What are the costs? ...the monetary costs are around the order of $1.6 billion.

"What about non-monetary costs? ... Low confidence estimate, but somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 Americans probably die each year from IRB-related research delays.

"So the cost-benefit calculation looks like - save a tiny handful of people per year, while killing 10,000 to 100,000 more, for a price tag of $1.6 billion. If this were a medication, I would not prescribe it."
You are absolutely right. I should have been more clear about the dictionary size being large compared to n, and similar about the length of the longest word in it for all my analysis to follow.
Barry Kauler will tell you that a root by default user isn’t such a bad idea
"The Freaking Article", possibly
I believe they've all been AUMFs (Authorizations for the Use of Military Force), effectively bypassing various checks and safeguards in place when starting formal wars.
So is this the singularity?
> Let's say it did what they claimed at the start and stopped transmission 100% without ever causing a side effect.

Lying does not help your argument.
> It can also come from consumers reprioritizing.

That can cause the prices of some assets to go up, but others will correspondingly go down, making it a net zero effect.
> I am not arguing for or against either side, I am just pointing out a flaw in your logic.

I do not see a flaw in their logic:

> NPR continuing to publish programming critical of Trump during the Trump presidency, is a pretty strong indication they have editorial independence.

That is a strong indicator. An indicator that may not convince everyone by itself, but I do not see any flaw in their logic.
> Aren't there multiple Superintelligences, and how do they meta-analytically agree to disagree?

This doesn't necessarily follow. In fact, it brings up the question of what even makes an entity distinct at all from its substrate, which is philosophical.

Anyhow, "disagreement" as a concept seems to result logically from a divergence of goals or capability to model reality. As such, I suspect that it is a uniquely human (or limited agent, an agent that can't recursively self-improve and an agent that desires aggregation of resources) mode of cognition.

>Superintelligence might accountably cryptographically sign its communications or orders; e.g. with W3C Verified Claims and W3C PROV (so that we might ascertain that Superintelligence did indeed themself say or do things)

I don't know how to comment on this beyond thinking it kind of misses the point. You don't really need to spin your wheels worrying about how a superintellect would be "accountable" when your ability to model reality would be essentially worthless.
The featured article.

Aka, the article under discussion.

(Though some people use other words for the F part.)
What was wrong with KDE3? I never used 2 but I was very happy with 3
I really think that within 20 years a Linux desktop will be the dominant platform/choice.
This[0] gave me an answer that appears closer to what you want

0: https://www.phind.com/search?q=How+do+I+emit+JS+object+liter...
I’m starting to agree with this perspective. My opinion on generative AI is shifting from apocalyptic world breaking tech to something more like Siri 2.0.

It’ll be neat for sure, but I think the plateau of useful applications will arrive soon and it won’t be as game-changing as it initially seemed.

I kinda hope I’m wrong, but also hope I’m right.
> The worst part IMO? That the suitcase of cash didn’t work.

As a parent of young men, I'm glad it didn't work. IMHO it would have been bad for the character development of both parties.
This was inevitably going to get more popular after the new API pricing was announced. Unfortunately this also means they're going to start being more aggressive on bot detection.

We may soon find ourselves needing to run headless browsers to scrape data, like with TikTok: https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1
You'll get the most mileage out of anything centered around a personal goal or interest -- the more personal and genuine and less superficial the goal or interest is, the better. As an example, schools (as a student or postgrad) and religious groups (if you're religious) are very good if you're genuine in your involvement.

Also, social events connected in some way to people you already know (both family and friends) provide an incredibly high degree of optionality in all sorts of ways, including potential relationships.
This seems similar to basically all knowledge-work.

99% hampered with low-cognitive throughput tasks, where most of your business value is generated in the 1% of what you do.

It's possible that AI isn't close to replacing human efforts.
> It will be interesting to see if apple pushes for another exclusivity deal with TSMC for 3nm.

It’s pretty much guaranteed as it’s part of the deal Apple has with TSMC. They bankroll a significant part of costs for a new process node, in exchange they get exclusive access to the node for a number of years.