skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I can say without the hypothetical. A while ago, when I had the problem, it took me a while to accept the results of the self-assessment tests, and I only really believed on them after treatment.
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So I’m a tech noob, but I recently finished the Lex Friedman podcast with Max Tegmark. This is a serious person with strong credentials ringing the warning bell about AI. Yet, a lot of people in my tech circle seem to swing between being unconcerned and unimpressed by AI.

Where exactly are we with AI as a legitimate threat if we continue down our current path? Are people like Max just jockeying for attention? Or is there merit to their concerns?
Maybe someone remind me, why Intel leadership thought they should get into the business of doing this?
At this point, with your Smaug-related comment, etc-- I've become convinced you're trolling.

But just to humor you: the desire is to have a system where floating point neither surprisingly kills nor gives characters extra hit points. There's a lot of subtlety in this. Schemes where all damage are percents don't preserve the essential pieces of RPG combat systems. Moving the threshold from 1 to 0 HP violates the conventions of the art and doesn't eliminate the problems (you can still end up with hit points epsilon away from 0, instead of 1).
I can't speak to common practices in the popular apt repos, but for PyPi (pip) - no. No vetting.
I don't see that as the point, or at least it wasn't mine, but I'd probably disagree in most cases anyway. What is critical for market success isn't for someone to bet their time on unless they stand to directly control the outcome of that market success, kn what would otherwise be labelled agency or a stake in it.

If I'm over here spending my late nights trying to pare down our webpack bundle, but my actual day is already done because it was decided that it should be spent doing something else, then someone is liable to get frustrated with how little influence they have over the outcome or reward system. If a customer then comes back and says "oh I love how snappy it is" you can certainly pat yourself on the back for it, but you have no real control over whether that translates into compensation for your effort, either in terms of accolades or money or product direction, unless you're the one making those decisions already.

Part of the reason, in that specific case, is that not only is it hard to say as an IC what the results would be otherwise had you not done X, but also what future results might be if you were to do X again.

It's not that those choices are irrelevant or that they don't have an impact, but if you don't get to allocate company resources to it, and are hoping for a better outcome but can't control that outcome or perception of your work, then it's not worth it.

If I'm John Carmack, I'm going to care deeply about rendering performance of my game, because if it's great, I might make millions, and I get to decide that that's what my employees are optimizing for. If I'm one of those employees, I'm going to meet his expectations, and if I'm very lucky, he'll think highly of me later on. That's... it. Unless I have decent shares or something.

Likewise if you're repeatedly trying to position yourself as the tryhard, you run the risk of reducing your capacity for doing literally anything else in life, which should be a real concern, because if you're not allocating resources at the company to your time, then you're devaluing your own time and resources for no reason; burnout.

Now out yourself in the same position at a massive company that has hierarchies of managers who's sole job it is to check that the status of tickets have changed or whatever. The chance your extracurricular work will influence a better outcome for you is basically nil, because the value of anyone's job is not defined by anything related to quality.
Par for the course.

Musk has a knack for getting attention -- to the benefit of his companies.
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That is also explicitly prohibited by the PyPI rules[1]:

“A project published on the Package Index meeting [...] the following is considered invalid and will be removed from the Index: [...] project is name squatting (package has no functionality or is empty);”

although the enforcement of that rule is lax in general, not only in this instance[2].

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#invalid-projects

[2] e.g. https://pypi.org/project/requests3/ off the top of my head
So you regard it as backwards that Apple and Microsoft give users what they prefer including a better user experience? Do you seriously wonder why the “the year of the Linux desktop” never came?

And what good is this supposed “technical superiority” if it doesn’t have any end use benefit? Does it integrate with my other hardware seamlessly like my headphones that switch automatically between my phone, computer and watch? I can start an SMS message thread on my phone and finish on my computer or if I’m sitting at my computer and my phone rings, I answer it from my computer? Does it give me 16 hours of battery life?

And the Mac is kind of known to be great for audio editing if you’re not aware and has first rate software.

I haven’t heard anyone say that the ARM based Mac are poor performers

> I like being in control of my technology in a way that Microsoft and Apple increasingly do not allow me to be.

Would I rather be “in control” of hardware that sounds like a 747 when you do something even mildly intensive with piss poor battery life by modern standards or have a laptop that I can actually work with on my lap and have 16 hour battery life?
It's possible to mitigate, but it's impossible to realistically prevent unless you disconnect your employees from the internet. Which is probably costlier than any losses they are ever likely to end up having due to this.
> So question for you, with regards to cross-platform, insofar as you value it as a goal, is that to help spread the user base of libre software?

Essentially, yes. As a developer, I'd like my work to be available to as many people as possible, and I'm not dogmatic enough to insist that they choose to use Linux or another libre OS as their platform. If I want users of other platforms to be able to use my work, I need to somehow do cross-platform development. That means either creating my own cross-platform toolkit, or using an existing one.

As a side note, I'd also say that cross-platform development turns out to be great for finding bugs and design flaws in your software. Exposing it to other compilers, linkers and UI/UX design models has always been a positive experiences, even if often frustrating.
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It is mind-boggling how the "trends" and the non-stop race for validation make all lose their minds.
How on earth a photo contest cannot see the false anatomy of the hands and person behind? Did someone in this concourse is actual photographer?
Maybe not.

So, on AI generators. I am an artist, I have painted and photographed all my life. The average prompter has no chance to win against a professional. I know which artist is presented in the data set, how to use the light and composition.
So basically speaking, this is the new Photoshop. The interesting question is what will hold long term more value in the future? The generated content or analogue product.
Accidents are a big risk, but don't underestimate the number of individuals and small groups that have fundamentally anti-social philosophies. I think of groups like antinatalists, doomsday religious groups, traditional terrorist orgs. There is even a sort of post-human futurist that sees humanity's purpose being to create a great super intelligence to replace us (may be overlap with this group and antinatalists).

So, I think there we be more chances for legit accidents, but also some motivated people intentionally trying to cause harm.
Look, there's nothing unusual or ironic about the use of "silver bullet" in either the top level comment or the first response. That's just how the idiom is used.

I would be curious if you could offer an example of "silver bullet" used as you're saying some people do. All the examples I can find are the the way I've been saying. For example, the top three Google News hits for "silver bullet":

* Be excited about EPR, even if it’s not a silver bullet [0]

* Immigration: Silver Bullet for Nursing Shortage? [1]

* Offsets Are Not A Silver Bullet [2]

In all of these, "silver bullet" could be replaced with "totally effective solution". That's how OP used it as well.

You're saying that a "silver bullet" could mean "ineffective but seducing". If that were the case, the headlines would instead be:

* Be excited about EPR, because it's not a silver bullet.

* Offsets Are A Silver Bullet.

I've never seen it used that way. And that's not how the OP used it or the first commenter interpreted it.

It's not impossible it's used differently somewhere, if so I'd be curious to know. I know, for example, that "the point is moot" and "let's table the discussion" have opposite meanings in British and American English, for example.

[0] https://www.greenbiz.com/article/be-excited-about-epr-even-i...

[1] https://www.globest.com/2023/04/11/immigration-silver-bullet...

[3] https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/04/06/offsets-are-not-a-silver...
A bit of a circular argument. They have money because they don't spend it on unprofitable activities like supporting decade old hardware.
Even more amazing still is that it still has a large active player base and YouTube streamers make money playing it and casting videos of their play through. I'm routinely shocked by how easily I can join online multiplayer matches.

For a 24 year old game!

A bunch of guys in my company play it. Most of them were 3 or 4 years when the game was released. A couple of them weren't even born.

Real kudos to the team maintaining it. They constantly listen to player feedback and keep updating the various unit stats and bonuses to keep the game balanced.
Your own link says that "leaky gut" and "leaky gut syndrome" are not the same.
Discord doesn't have a revenue stream that makes sense given the scope of services they offer for free. Discord Store is a flop, Discord Nitro subscription fees can't add up to much. Selling digital 'stickers' is a joke. To keep the boat afloat they keep having new investment rounds, but unless they plan on running a ponzi scheme they need to find a real source of revenue.

They have user data in troves, even logs of all the programs that (non-browser) users are running. Expecting them to not sell access/use of that data seems very naive. They could already be selling access to this data under the table to their 'investors.'
I do agree with you that people are way too quick to politically dismiss criticism and questions surrounding the vaccine. However the logic you're showing here seems very quick to draw the causal connection between vaccines and long covid.

I got covid immediately after receiving my first Nintendo Switch for a Christmas present, but most people would consider it absurd to blame the switch for my covid.

On a more serious note, my grandmother did die of heart failure very shortly after her covid vaccine. However she was 91 and in poor health.

It's not outside the realm of possibility that your wife happened to get covid roughly the same day as she got her vaccine. The claim that "there are indeed a very small % of people whose symptoms started after a vaccine" also covers this possibility unless you can clearly show that the incidence of getting covid among this population is significantly higher than would be expected.

It wouldn't surprise me terribly if there was eventually found to be a variety of complications caused by the vaccine which explain many of these things, but I also see people making very quick causal connections between events that seem to have a great many other plausible explanations.
Ukraine's Western supporters can propose a ceasefire but why would either side agree to one? Putin seems to be in it for the long haul, he probably knows Western support for Ukraine will gradually go down and then once Russia's military recovers a bit they can go back their original aim of taking all of Ukraine. For Zelenskyy there exists plenty of popular support for trying to take back territory, and unless the US says they'll completely throw them to the wolves and cut off all aid (which would make the US look completely terrible internationally), why would he agree to a ceasefire if he thinks Russia will go back to war once they recover anyway?
Nope, you made up some history of the origin of the phrase.

Practically everyone uses "silver bullet" to mean something that works incredibly well. If you have examples of your alternative usage, feel free to show us some. You're the only example so far.
Essentially it’s impossible. You can make it harder, but if you grant developer machines access to the internet, they can download an untrustworthy package from anywhere and use it as a local dependency.

You can protect production and CI systems by restricting their internet access, but who can reasonably do work with such a restriction.
It's usually someone you know that does this for you. I've put 10.14 on some 27" iMacs from 2009 that have been rock solid for those I gave them too.
Linux for the desktop indeed has hardly progressed the last decade, and it sucks. Sure, gnome is more polished, but it's still a system for tinkerers. It's not user friendly and it's not a complete environment for end-users.
Your bias is showing in this comment. I was just trying to be helpful. I have no agenda here. There’s plenty of articles indexed on pubmed about long Covid and GI issues.
Two 3.5" and one 5.25". All nice and toolless.
Tesla Stropkov was just branch. We had this phone at home but also products from Tesla Bratislava (like PMD) or Tesla Praha.

Interesting that Tesla Stropkov is still existing and has retained Tesla logo. I always forget that there is still something in the east (of Bratislava).
> There is no way in hell Nintendo still makes significant revenue from selling, say, the Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge, or its software image.

I mean, I bought it for the Wii Virtual Console, I got the mini NES, I got the mini SNES (that has all-stars right? although that's a port not the ROM, I suppose), I've paid for switch online from time to time which provides it. Mario 35 was pretty neat and I'd pay for it to return if it was offered; again, that's not really the ROM, but still.

It's not yet 40 years old, which is pretty young to be considered an old work, IMHO.

All that said, in terms of just copying, there's not much meaningful enforcement: the roms are out there. You can get them all over the net; you can buy unlicensed hardware devices that include them at all your favorite bazaars, etc. Not much in the way of unlicensed derivative works (other than some unlicensed ports or reimplimentations to similar hardware back in the day), but trademark most likely prevents broad commercial reach of derivative works anyway.
> As if creating can only happen in an IDE and not in ProCreate or iMovie.

Short answer is yes. Don't you see how much video environment sucks to text environment? You can not do science in ProCreate or iMovie.
Whoa, so the dollar really is in danger. Damn.
So then provide federal funding for HEPA filters and make exceptions in the mask mandate for those classrooms where those are present? Just a thought.

Do something instead of playing Bush on that bloody ship under the banner Mission Accomplished by declaring the pandemic over?
How do those payments work? Are you allowed them if you're also working?

Separate question: I vaguely remember that everything else made COVID more likely to kill, so how many people already on disability were killed, proportionately speaking?
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thanks a lot man, very nice
Having access, using access, using access to detect threats, and using access to detect leaks are 4 different capabilities. If I was NSA chief I personally would rank "proactive leak detection" far below "proactive threat detection".

As an aside, if lack of critical thinking skills sets you off easily, you are in for a rough ride. It's particularly dangerous because directed at others, it gives you clout in with the wrong people, and directed at yourself contempt can lead to self-loathing and depression.
Can you be more specific? A threat to what exactly?
Approximately how capable/accurate is OpenAssistant compared with GPT-3/3.5/4?

Edit - Neck and neck with GPT-3.5 according to their own research: https://youtu.be/ddG2fM9i4Kk?t=772
Because FAISS and hnswlib don’t have “pine cronies” as advocates on HN, I guess.
> It's a hypothesis supposedly testable in a month. Now what?

Your guess is as good as mine.

There's a lot of politics embedded in science now: I learned on the tinnitus thread posted here a few days ago that the side effect of tinnitus after vaccination was very likely to be real, but that research had been suppressed to help with vaccine adoption. It's possible it's a psyops, but here, on HN? By several people with a valid post history? Extremely unlikely.

For this, given how simple the confirmation is (test lactate levels), I hope sufferers of long covid will measure their levels and try the simple suggested approach, for which there should be very little risks of drawbacks (supplementing in a few amino acids and carnitine, taking some sodium bicarbonate)

Hopefully, enough of a critical mass of confirmation for both the proposed confirmation test + simple treatment option will lead to actual research, but what a shame it didn't come from mainstream science, and what a shame independant researchers are being put on the defensive: as the author said in a link just posted: https://mastodon.nl/@vickyvdtogt/110202251308724694

> I want to state again: this is not a suggestion to what people should do, as it needs to be studied and clinically tested first.

Well, maybe it should be, I don't see the risks of people trying stretching exercices, breathing exercices, supplementing in a few amino acids or drinking alkaline water.

I can already imagine comments "BUT WHAT IF PEOPLE DRINK GALLONS OF PH BUFFERS???" Well, it's not what's suggested, and even water can kill if drinking too much of it.

The real shame is how many people have learned to distrust science and how the political takeover has damaged the trust network necessary for society to work.
Comparing to other systems, I really don’t like the narrative that if you don’t like X then it’s Y, just because capitalism is a failure it doesn’t mean communism is the solution. I’ve been reading about other systems, one that really stands out is the Islamic one especially in the financial part, there is no taxes or interests of any sort, and that removes anything enables such corruption, or banks dominance, in fact, if interests is removed most banks would close as they lend an “imaginary” money while leeching on the interest rates.
"Due to Brexit" is a simplification, it should be "due to passport control failure" - it's possible to have easy border crossing, it's just that most countries are too inept to implement it.
Syncthing (the most recent versions, at least) also allows for password-encrypted sharing. So even if you are syncing across a relay, no data is in clear.
> I would wager there are 100x the number of Qt/GTK apps than there are electron apps. That number could go up or down by an order of magnitude, and the older widget-based toolkits would still be ahead. So ... I don't think that citing numbers of developers doing X or Y is helpful here.

If making the comparison is not helpful, then why make the comparison in the first place? I was just observing that "many" developers made the choice to use Electron; I am not trying to compare numbers of developers here.

> More similar to WxWidgets then, which uses native widgets but wraps them in lowest common denominator API. For one reason or another WxWidgets hasn't been as successful as one might expect.

Yeah, although I think WxWidgets abstracts too much.

Maybe I can frame it this way--I'm not really against cross-platform toolkits in the first place, and I'm not complaining about cross-platform toolkits on a conceptual level. I do think that apps made with cross-platform toolkits often have UX problems and I think part of the reason is because the underlying platforms are too different. Those differences are both (edit: fix) technical differences and differences of conventions / expectations.

React Native seems to have less abstraction. Maybe that's just my subjective thoughts on it.

> Anyway, as I've noted elsewhere in this thread, the majority of creative apps (including Logic) barely use any of the native toolkit within their main windows.

Sure, if you focus narrowly on the main content of the main window, you'll see less of the native toolkit being used. But that's only one part of the app, and it's still built to match platform expectations, in a way that is not easily abstracted out by cross-platform toolkits.

Logic is a bit of a funny example because Apple has a separate set of "pro" widgets they use for their creative apps, like Logic and Final Cut. You can see that, for example, Logic has a decent number of .nib files, which means that it's making use of the native toolkit, even if it's not everywhere.
None of these would be a problem if people would round instead of truncate by default.
Your theory sounds conspiratorial and lacking in evidence.
Yes, right wing means wrong because they fund bogus studies. Plenty of those around. There's a lot of money into going into mishandling this.
I'll check it out! Any notable issues/differences between this and pinecone that I should keep an eye out for when getting started?
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Hypothesis: "highly conjectural; not well supported by available evidence."

This should be obvious...
I think you can use wired CarPlay in Kia even though it has wireless. I use wired in my 2023 Kia and love it!
> Better question, why do _you_ care when _others_ decide to stop wearing a mask?

The issue isn't that others are still wearing masks themselves. It's that they're trying their hardest to force the rest of us to wear masks still too. E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35582836
I'm not sure they should refuse to distribute it. But all those things on the comment should be actively disclaimed with high emphasis before you buy the game, and stay available for consultation indefinitely afterwards.
Is this ecDNA of similar size to the circular DNA of the mitochondria?

This seems like a reversion of the form of DNA to a prokaryotic state.
The key line from the study that that cites:

> The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions

Source: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

They asked people to wear masks, and they didn't wear masks, so they had trouble concluding things about masks.

This New York Times article prompted the Cochrane review to issue a statement:

> The Cochrane Review 'Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses' was published in January 2023 and has been widely misinterpreted.

Source: https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...
The discussion is about cross platform “frameworks” versus writing apps using the native frameworks.

Adobe and Microsoft basically use native frameworks for most of their apps.

It’s the difference between most of Office and Teams and VSCode.
How does this compare to AutoGPT? I've been using that so far to explore this space, to little success.