skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That question frames it in reverse. The right question is whether gender should be culturally important. And I can't think of a single reason why it's good for anyone for cultural roles to be predicated on gender. It hurts men just as much to tell them that they're not supposed to be a nurturing full-time parent as it hurts women to tell them they're not supposed to be a breadwinner.

Now, you can certainly find a few places where men and women tend to have different biological capabilities due to how the body develops during puberty. Given that both height and strength have significantly non-overlapping distributions between men and women, it's unlikely you'll see a woman in the NBA. But that doesn't need to result in a cultural expectation regarding the acceptable gender of an NBA player. It's perfectly acceptable to say "most are men, but it's cool if a woman makes it" instead of "you can't do that, you're a woman."

So as to the question asked in the article? Well, you've got to be a little careful. Men, the individual people to whom the label "man" is applied, are absolutely not culturally redundant. They can participate in culture as much or as little as they desire. But it would be nice if the label "man" stopped carrying unique cultural expectations. Although as Betteridge's law would suggest, that's sure not a description of the present state of the world.
I am still waiting on them to put casks on a space ship, put it in orbit, and ship it back to Earth, like Linie Aquavit crossing the equator twice.[0] Space Aquavit (or Rumakvavit, if you will) will surely be a thing.

[0] https://linie.com/products/linie-aquavit-original/
Google, Facebook, Apple etc already have offices in lower cost locations.

Why would they keep their high rent offices in Silicon Valley open?

Are you saying they decision makers are all irrational? They still have to compete in the market. Any company that could get equal productivity out of random locations could eat their lunch with a lower cost base.
> the most brilliant minds in the world are researching best ways to make internet advertisements as addictive as they can be.

They're doing a great job, ads are so addictive I've even turned off my Ad blocker so I can get more of them! Won't someone save me!
Ford launches hands-free driving on UK motorways
If you think this is shocking, wait until you dig into the history of the EU countries selling arms and anti-protest gear to Russia despite the embargo that was put in place in 2014.
> Not only is it extremely slow to heat liquids

This isn't a function of fuel, it's a function of output, which varies model-by-model. I have an electric stove/hob in my flat in London, and it takes -- no joke -- well over 30 minutes to boil two litres of water.

Conversely, my last house in the US before moving to the UK had a 25,000 BTU gas burner which was so hot that you could barely use it. It boiled water extremely quickly, and it was great for seasoning cast iron because of how quickly it would reach temperature and polymerise the oil. The whole setup was also easy to clean, as pretty much the entire thing came apart. Sure, not quite as easy as a glass top, but it also wouldn't get scratched all to hell by sliding my cast iron around.
https://beamanalytics.io/blog/proxying-beam-through-cloudfla...

"Proxying Beam Analytics through Cloudflare"

"Use proxying to avoid adblockers distorting your data"

How does bypassing content/tracking/ad blockers fit into your privacy narrative?
Given how little information there's about him even after allegedly being CEO/President of PIA, I'm beginning to think its an alias.
Are women desperately lonely and unhappy?

Teenage mental health aside (probably not caused by lack of desirable marriage partners), loneliness and desperation, and the drug abuse and suicide that follows, seem to be primarily male problems.

Maybe enough women don't want to get married, or they have another way of dealing with that not happening, but I'm not sure there's a crisis there. Granted, I don't follow surveys closely, but generally if women are affected, it will be a widely known story and the news will pick it up. It's not, so I assume they aren't.
> Reminder that the moon does not have a "dark side". This is a misnomer.

It isn't. The side of the moon that cannot be seen from Earth is called the dark side of the moon. It's called that for the same reason that the Dark Ages are called dark: because we can't see them.

It is true that the dark side of the moon gets just as much sunlight as the light side does.
True, although as I understand it China has risen further and faster. Point taken though. Nigeria is one to watch on this.
I assume the price is calculated to be roughly on parity with the production costs of bottles. For cans which are clearly cheaper to produce maybe faking the logo and qr code isn't worth it if you can only dump a few dozen per shop and risk being detected. Good question though, needs external research.

additionally small damages caused by fraud may be far outweighed by the benefits. The question would be what ultimately pay for the fraud, the shop or some other entity.
On the last point, I must be missing something obvious, but why don't those workers who have their passports taken report them lost/stolen and get a new one from their embassy?
I think AI models are different form ML models, atleast mathematically. ML models and the mathematics behind it are explained thoroughly and people (who learnt about ML models) why certain ML models work or do not work. The AI models which are sprining left and right now I doubt people(again who learnt about AI models) have complete understanding about why they work, similar to how X-rays were used by doctors but they did not know why it worked. I guess for buisness case of ChatGPT if it is brining in the money why should it not be used?
> Adapt or perish

So they should be a man, basically. You can put the same message in different words, but the meaning stays the same.

I think this is a bit naive and also insulting to say the topic would be about self-image in the first place. The economic realities have changed, sure. Former skills became irrelevant, others more important.

Still, in the grand scheme of things, for the relevant group not much has changed. Go to work or perish is as as true today as it was in 1970. Just that the middle class shrank considerably and people are not able to afford housing or significant luxury. That has indeed changed and has nothing to do with men/women in particular.

> Now, unlike many men working in factory jobs, the male nurse is solidly middle-class.

Not really. Nurses are not paid very well for the work they do. The article claims they would be middle-class. But only if you change the definition from the definition 50 years ago. Again just a worsened economic development.
Ask HN: Is it worth writing informative books any more?
I'm thinking of some writing projects that would be fun to do. But I'm wondering if this whole category of literature is essentially dead because of ChatGPT.

What are your thoughts on how ChatGPT effects publishing going forwards?
Yes but if the header is present you already know the user will not consent so there is no need to even ask.
Generally speaking -- no, in many jurisdictions. It sounds like this is about whether the site itself has confirmed consent, though?
How is this different from other screen time reduction apps?
> A recent study from MIT, Harvard, The University of Monterrey, and Cambridge showed that..

The post implies ¨Cambridge¨ (University) was involved in this study, which is not correct: it is a purely U.S.-based study by the following four institutions:

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, Mexico

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, USA

Harvard University Medical School, Boston, USA
All bribes are illegal for US entities. If they were legal, they would call it something else...
Have you looked into an ADHD diagnosis?
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GPTs take:

Barcode scanning: When consumers return bottles to a collection point, the barcode on the bottle is scanned to ensure that it matches the barcodes registered in the system. If a bottle is not registered, it will not be accepted for the deposit refund.
Random checks: To prevent fraud and ensure compliance with the system, random checks are carried out at collection points to verify that the bottles being returned are genuine and have been purchased within Germany.
> My ideals are very egalitarian, I'd love to see a world in which men and women are equal and living in harmony.

But we're not equal - by definition. We're diverse and complementary.

What is it that drives the ravenous appetite of liberalism to flatten all diversity out of the world into a homogenous mass of goo?
Trying Node.js Test Runner
Phrasing like "losing relevance" would be more appropriate than degrade here I think
Compare https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161011-do-men-and-women...
I think that would still be illegal but just very hard to prove and prosecute.
Right. Also, note the publication date...
> As certain structural barriers that used to hinder women have been removed, women have proven their “natural advantage” in several areas, including in our colleges and universities.

This is part of the problem. You always hear of things that supposedly women are naturally better at than men, but nobody would dare say that the opposite might be true in some aspects.

Also it's completely lacking what those "natural advantages" are are supposed to be. After all, men still make up most of graduates in MINT as opposed to women who mainly graduate in humanities, except for medicine. Looking at it that way you might as well say women are better at obediently reading and learning by heart and men are better at actually thinking and figuring things out. I'm not trying to be inflammatory here, just pointing out how the point the article makes is generally considered acceptable, while framing it differently would be considered sexist.

> Reeves presents a cocktail of public policies that include longer and more generous paid leave for new dads, a reformed child-support system that no longer makes excessive demands of mothers, and more father-friendly employment opportunities (working from home, working part-time, or working flexible hours). This would help alleviate the gender-wage gap while also promoting a healthier model of fatherhood.

As always, the solution is government-mandated social change. And why, all of a sudden, when presenting solutions, is nature completely disregarded?
Yes, there's address on all three - passport, national ID and driving license.
Passport and national ID are from southern EU country, driving license is northern EU country and I live in Germany.
I have no intention on changing any of addresses on any of my IDs or driving license until legally required (10+ years from now).
And thus it came to pass that Futurama is becoming reality. If the prompt had mentioned liquor, we might as well call it Bender…
I was pleasantly suprised to see websites like medium.com disable their embeds and seemingly their tracking scripts when you have DNT enabled.

Most websites that use ads or (opt-out) tracking choose to ignore the header because there's no technical or legal reason why they can't.
Because their job is tied to company owned by the citizen of the host country who employs them (their visa sponsor), and they're probably sending money back home to India, Pakistan or Bangladesh to support a family of eight people. You report that and cause a legal fuss with your employers, you not only don't get paid your previous month of work, you get deported and banned from the UAE or Qatar or Saudi Arabia for life.
No, it has nothing to do with immutability. This "problem" with crypto is due to the lack of a central power to reverse a transaction.
I'm. Fully. Aware.

But there is a need for clarification here for the most often encountered consent case: web sites.

Basically the regulation could say: you must have consent to collect data, but you must ALSO observe specific standardized method X of of blanket disallowing all consent in specific contexts. For example, "if do-not-track is used in a web browser, then the user should not be shown a consent dialog but instead provided the service as if they had rejected the consent dialog".

I realize that regulators (for good reason!) are very reluctant to specify specific technologies. It's not their home turf, and it's likely to be quickly outdated. But I'm ready to accept that this would be a time when there is a good reason to make an exception to that rule.
Think he means low hanging fruit?
Parameter shift is nothing new.
For many use cases like summarization or information extraction, you can get deterministic and mostly non-creative results by adjusting the parameters (temperature, top-p, etc.). This is only possible via the API, though. And it work's most reliably when providing the whole input which should be worked on ("open book" as another commenter called it). I run a task like this for Hacker Jobs [1] and am quite happy with the results so far (there is also an article detailing how it works [2]). If you ask for facts that you hope are somehow remembered by the model itself, it is a different story.

[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com
[2] https://marcotm.com/articles/information-extraction-with-lar...
Why is it that I always have to "talk to you" when I'm at a big company to get a quote, instead of just receiving some standard price I can see on the page?

Is it because, working for a big company, there's a sales target on my back and you want to use that to extract the maximum tolerable pricing from my group, just because you can?

Is it because my use case is so complicated you think that you need to offer me value-added services that help you achieve the margins you want?

Why is it that you, even just as an individual with a startup idea, have already fallen into this kind of pricing behavior? Where did you learn to do this? Do you already have VC-backed sales people telling you to do this?

Why is this such a common practice?

Maybe that's why I use other services that at least treat me the same as everyone else.
Boring code is not bad code, overly verbose might be but descriptive verbose code is pretty damn good when you are maintaining something for 5-10 years.
Current gpt is knowledgable, however not smart enough to work without the humans. It can come to great results fast when aided by humans. So adding microwork (mTurk or others) APIs to its arsenal could make this vastly better and resolve the pitfalls until the AI gets better. If it ever does.

It saves tons and tons of work though; now that we integrated it into our pipeline after months of tweaking, 3.5 is really starting to remove the need for many of my colleagues. Some of us are needed to say ‘yes or no or redo’ as it were, but everything is far more efficient and much (100x $ or more less per day) cheaper.
Now, that is a beautiful tl;dr.

Also, in first sentence, we can have a glimpse of writer's life: "When I logged into OpenAI’s website on Monday morning to continue testing...". I wonder if it rained.

I dislike this (very popular) way of writing, didn't make it past the first sentence.
Why do people need things like Google Analytics when they can just self-host? I thought the reason people rather use actual Google Analytics is Google's ability to track specific people across multiple websites and promote websites with Analytics in the search results. But 3-rd party alternatives can't do this anyway or can they?
I worked on a program for a foreign military sale to a Middle East country and learned a lot like every foreign company had to pay someone to get ahead at all. It’s crazy to me this is news. It’s literally impossible to do business there without bribes. The USAF didn’t knoww and we had to work hard to hide the money used for that purpose. We lost part of a lucrative contract because of a rival defense company bribing a different prince.
"grease payments"
Citizens United case legalized bribes in the form of political campaign contributions.
Why do jumped-up little bureaucrats always appropriate other people’s power of choice? It’s like there’s some dark instinct to issue diktats so that everyone must follow The One True Way… as defined by you.
>That has indeed changed and has nothing to do with men/women in particular.

That's where you are wrong. The cultural expectations are still very similar to 1970, but the means to achieve them have worsened considerably. Something like unable to afford housing hits men far harder than women when it comes to social aspects. Language reflects this, with words demonizing men who still live at home or living in a bad place being far more prevalent than the other way around.

Men and women work on different formulae. You can't simply say 'oh we give both the same input so the effect is the same'.
Modern AI is just a variation on `mean()` -- the apparent intelligence comes from what it's averaging.

(In particular, it's just an `Expectation_weightDistribution[TrainingData|Query]` )

If you wanted to be, I think pathologically cynical about animal intelligence, and reduce it down to the same operation, then at the very least the "TrainingData" and the "weightDistribution" is specialised to the individual -- and so different from the average.

However, we cannot really be this extremely cynical (I find this pseudoscience) -- animals acquire novel training data by changing their environments. Animals are a source of data.

So even on this cynical reading we have to at least go towards,

while(Alive && ...)

MyExperiences = ChangeTheWorld(MyExperiences|Goal)
MyIdeas = Expectation_mySenseOfRelevance[MyExperiences|Goal]
...

Which makes `MyIdeas` quite radically different from the `mean()`ing of the Ai.
Did you think men are starving because they don't know how to eat, or that they only ever eat Ramen noodles? I can assure you: they don't, and self-starvation is very rare form of suicide.

I'm sorry, maybe there's some context I'm missing or you're quoting from some book or something else, but it sounds like telling someone who's legs were amputated that they should get a new haircut because that will immediately change their life.
Really worth not glossing over: Alice left £438 in funeral expenses. Going by the inflation calculation earlier in the article, that's over £130,000 in today's money.

Obviously by today's standards, that's outrageous. But this period of time is known for ornate mausoleums and whatnot. I think I'd appreciate a similar write-up, but specifically for the funeral arrangements of the wealthy.
I wonder if the department of justice is going to launch the same enthusiastic corruption investigations they used to massively fine foreign competitors of American companies. \s
Just tried it out and love the way it asks me whether I want to open Instagram every time I do so! How did you guys come up with this idea?
I spent quite a bit of time correcting its description of the compressor unit (probably half an hour); would those corrections be reflected in you now asking it now that it's been "trained"?
Yes, but it gets harder the more the odds get stacked against you.

The school system and university system is increasingly run by females for females.

Critical theories designed to dismantle the 'patriachy' both attack males and put in place gender quotas and limits to men.

Males are told that their very essence of being is toxic.

I really don't envy boys growing up these days and an very glad I have a daughter.
I suspect she’ll lose more sleep for feeling she’d let down Sagan than letting down a fictional character. Maybe you’re different, and that’s fine.
The course that's linked in this post is excellent for the price. Pretty much all of the engine stuff carries over to motorcycles. Everything else I pretty much learned by looking up specific instructions for my model along the way, either on Youtube or in the service manual for my bike.

As for what bike might be interesting, I bought a fuel injected, single cylinder bike. Pretty much as simple as it gets, and a great way to get started with the basics.

Don't be afraid to jump in, you'll be surprised at how easy it comes to you.
What a fun question!

Obviously the answer is that its a non-question. The amount an author reads doesn’t correlate to success. Plenty of authors are voracious readers, others rarely pick up a book.

What do you see with a lot of creative authors (but not all) is a dedication to the craft. Putting in hours of writing. Often editing or just tossing everything.

I have noticed though. People on my team best capable of writing technical documentation. Read a lot of technical documentation. This is the exact domain GPT can Excel at, and one where generic language is accepted.
It would, though I wonder where and how human behaviour would change in response.

If you see an orange vested church group
> Behind the thin layer of paint, the old culture and world continus happily on unphased by the hysterics

For instance:

I've always thought it was really funny when westerners adopted the belief that Benazir Bhutto was some enlightened champion of democracy and progress while remaining blissfully ignorant of the historical position of vast wealth and power her family occupies in Sindh.
I don't think that's a valid distinction. There's no such thing as "AI" models imho. ChatGPT is also just ML. It's just a specific type of model that's hard to explain because it has so many parameters and embeddings in-between layers and stuff like that. It's not as easily explainable as decision tree-based models maybe. You would be surprised by how many models are actually hard to explain.
I run Rockstor on my NAS which is an "old" Ryzen 3950x with 32GB RAM.

It has 4 SATA SSD drives

120GB - for the system itself

2x 960GB

1x 480GB

And it has 4 NVMe m.2 drives

1x 4TB

1x 250Gb

1x 750gb

1x 960GB

They all run as a single btrfs drive mode with no redundancy.

Been like that for almost a year now so far and all the drives we're previously used in other systems that I have before I put them in the nas.

Absolutely zero issues. Love it. Every single time that I've tried using a rotating drive in an nas it just fails. Be it a WD red NAS drive or some random laptop HDD I have lying around.

Don't listen to people that say ssds fail.

The way prices are going right now I'm going to try to pick up more of the four terabyte nvme drives and replace the rest of the nvme drives in this nas one by one. If I could get every drive except for the small system drive to be a 4 TB drive that would rule.

But there is one exception. I have had reliability issues on this machine using a external nvme dock that's over USB c. And it's only with this particular OS or maybe it's just with Linux because it's fine in Windows and it has to do with how the dock doesn't give a unique serial number to the drive and also sometimes it just provides a very flaky connection and I was having a little bit of problems with that and as soon as I removed it from the array all the problems went away.
I'm pretty sure, OP is aware of that. Someone found a passion project for themselves. Nothing to be snarky about, right?
People do stuff for the sake of doing stuff all the time.
I know quite a lot about being suicidal. Taking care of yourself is the best antidote there is.
Those aren't legal either, unless you go by the motto "you are only guilty if you get caught"...
This is incredible! Fantastic presentation and easy to follow code.