skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However the problem with that is that the overwhelming majority of observations and models, many of which are far from simple and use large amounts of data, point to climate change being real, unusually rapid and anthropogenic

I think climate change is a problem (not a crisis) but it's important to note that if a scientist questions climate science, he becomes a pariah. In such an environment, it's hard to know how much confidence we should have in consensus.

> Models have for a long time shown that the overall global temperature will rise and observations over the years have proved the models reflect reality. Are all models 100% correct with predictions? No, but the trend the models show is proven, even if there is a margin of error which is typically always acknowledged during modelling.

My understanding is that we observe some climate trend over N years and then select the best model proposed in the past. This is where the "oil companies knew about climate change!" accusation comes from. But it's much harder to select the model before taking the measurements and climate models have obviously performed much worse at that.
I don't think there is any scarcity to housing, there is only a scarcity of housing where people want to live; safe, clean, hip walkable areas. There is an abundance of housing, just not wear people want to live. The irony of that is that if people did buy these homes, they would create over time the kinds of communities they can't afford to buy into.
Yup, I think most of Amazon's issues would be solved if they could uniquely identify items. Unfortunately, that would take human labor (can't trust third parties to be honest about it) and there's still room for errors--after getting the same wrong item again I looked at it carefully. They were shipping me a wrong but very similar (to the point that someone without domain knowledge would likely mistake them) item with a label stuck on that was for the item I was actually after.

The probably could do it with returned items, though.
It's new and it's different.

Don't dismiss it as "snake oil".

Approach it as any scientific topic - with curiosity and open mind.

Be rational with your skepticism.
> How were you convinced that you were hallucinating?

To be honest, some things were easier to spot than others. I used to have olfactory hallucination and it drove on ex girlfriend nuts cause I was always smelling things that were not there. I just invited she was not smelling anything.

I also have closed eye visions. These appear as faces and scenes when I close my eyes, mostly in the evening that are quite visually crisp. Most of the faces are frightening. I did not know I was dealing with this till I started Zyprexa and they stopped.

The visual hallucinations were easier since I would say "Did you see that cat?" and I would get strange looks or someone else there would not see them. And seriously, watching "A Beautiful Mind" helped me with this.

The thing that helped me most was Buddhism and meditation. Buddhism lead me to thinking more about the nature of perception and meditation allowed me to perceive without reaction so I can judge things better.

A also have perceptual changes, like being on psychedelics, but these are not hallucinations. I feel like I can see around things or everything has light trails or colors are really intense. When I was early in mediation the floor would always start waving like an ocean. When I was young I saw the faces of people on the TV change and I thought I was seeing them as they really were.

I get a lot of the talk that your girlfriend has, and that is hard an I still deal with it but mostly by ignoring it. It is by far the most difficult. Its base is paranoia I feel because those voices are always saying negative things, like I did not pay for my coffee right. Ha! Just happened today!

By the way, COVID threw me into my worst psychosis ever.

I do not know what to say about helping her. I was in her space and I know how it feels. No one could convince me of anything. I thought the water was "too blue" coming out of my faucet that I called the water department twice for them to check it.

1) Don't take things she does personally. That eases your stress.
2) Do not directly contradict her hallucinations but try guided questioning about them. That is what 30 years of therapy taught me. I question everything now.
3) You can call her doctor and leave a message.
4) I do not recommend ever having her involuntarily committed unless she is a serious danger.

But this is not something anyone else can force her into, it is a process of self discovery, a Shaman's journey. And maybe phrase it as that; A Shaman's Journey.

I lost my whole family, but frankly they were not good for me anyway. And I still have episodes, as you can see if you go through my history here, but I am much more stable now than ever and no longer need medications.

Good luck and if your want to email me: followingdao@proton.me
Suddenly? No.

Gradually? That's roughly what's happening in Denver right now - nobody's been building anything but luxury castles for years, but we saw our average rent drop last quarter for the first time since the recession.

Reason? There were 11,000 more units available than there were this time last year and there are 40k more on the way, so apartment managers are having to think about vacancy rates instead of myopically focusing on profit per unit for the first time since... probably the recession again.

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/25/apartments-metro-denve...
> Yes, but the problem is that meat consumes approximately 25 plant calories to produce 1 meat calorie.

Why is this a problem? Animals also produce higher quality protein with higher bioavailability, have a better amino acid profile that better suits what humans require, and provide nutrients that people cannot get from plants.

That's on top of the fact that a lot of those plant calories aren't even consumable by humans.
Only after 52 bits.
> its especially odd that even tech folks (who would be expected to understand it) appear to be so "luddite" on it.

Have you considered the alternative hypothesis that these smart people are actually understanding the true nature of crypto very well, and you are stuck in a confirmation bias loop?

Whether the "tech" works is very different question than the social effect of it. A biochemist can be awed by the effectiveness of fentanyl while also maintaining that the average person should never be getting their hands on it.
Yes but simply stating rent prices gives no context for whether it is expensive or not. Average net income in Austria is probably less than 2000 usd.
Yes I'm agreeing with you, I think the situation is much worse than that though.
I am sad that Lyft isn’t going to make it through, not only cause of the engineers but for their contributions for OSS and blogposts. I got some of their work as inspiration for some stuff. However, I acknowledge that some part of this can be a product of a ZIRP period.
Not offering mortgages against rentals (a buy to let mortgage as it’s known in the UK) would have a significant impact. Not claiming there wouldn’t be secondary effects though.
> Although every school in my county has a few 3d printers, so some schools could print directly.

Shared 3D printers almost always produce poor quality, inaccurate prints. Never mind maintenance, using them requires skill. Skill which teachers usually lack, and schoolchildren obviously lack.

They're still useful devices, but I wouldn't expect such prints to be strong enough and accurate enough to do the job.
San Francisco, crime density, and the feeling of safety
I mean I'd like you to have a word with the local appraisal district on that.

The appraisal for my land value is pretty fixed, but the value for improvements changes wildly.
‘No mow’ movement could transform our lawns
I don't feel like it does. The more vague you make a category, the easier it is to say it's the same as the general population.
Large Language Models and the Future of the ML Infrastructure Stack
I don't know exactly in this case, but congressmen have always been making NASA rockets more expensive. They often made it so that at least a part of the rockets were built in their respective states, making things more expensive than needed.
Many people in these roles are very ambitious, driven and frankly close to sociopathic or in extreme cases psychopathic:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-p...

For them money and people are basically numbers, and more money means more power.
Yes, we should develop a new theory of language based on an information theory approach rather than a discrete symbol approach, or maybe something involving both.

But you can’t say information theory as it stands gives us a completely satisfactory model of human language. Something will need to be built on top of it.
When something is "super strange," the odds are you don't understand the situation, as is the case here. No one cares about $8/mo. The problem is that these people at large don't agree with how Twitter was changed under Musk, not technically, not politically, not managerially, not in any way, and they don't want to vote in confidence of it by having this checkmark on. And the checkmark is now associated with trolling and fringe rightwing behavior.

Many of these people built their own audience on Twitter over the years, long before Musk decided to buy it. So they feel that's an investment they made in the site, and their followers are something they created, and Elon's Twitter is currently being only an unfortunate mediator of it, holding them hostage.

So they feel stuck. They don't want to quit yet, hoping for a change (ALTHOUGH MANY HAVE QUIT), but they also don't want to encourage Musk and be seen to support his behavior and actions... which are frankly embarrassing.
For one thing, in California, prop 13 means that property taxes on a newly purchased smaller home would be a lot more than a bigger/nicer home purchased decades ago. In a lot of other places, property taxes are similarly under-assessed on homes that were bought a long time ago, just not as egregiously.
Curious if that’s because AI provides better answers?

It’s certainly not quicker answers, right?
Maybe I'm missing something, but after a cursory glance, I can't find any place where that library does an fsync() call. How does it handle durability?
Probably this is the article you saw https://link.medium.com/bf81IpGM8yb
> enough is going wrong with this country that there is going to be a mass of young and angry protestors that's never been seen before

18 to 24-year olds still punch in around two-thirds weight at the voting booth [1]. Protesting is useless without the ballot-box threat; absent it, the politically savvy move is to crack down and preserve voters’ benefits.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096299/voter-turnout-pr...
I believe most people here use WhatsApp and they've gotten comfortable enough with the idea of trusting Facebook (even when nobody ever should if they respect themselves as a user).

This is proven by the fact that posts about WhatsApp, a closed source app from Facebook where you can never even confirm any of their security claims, gets a lot of praise compared to an open source app with a strong privacy and no-data-selling track record. Even here in the comments you can see people claiming about WhatsApp's E2EE when in reality they cannot prove it.

Telegram on the other hand has been audited multiple times by independent researchers and yet somehow, that's not enough. Apparently, symmetric encryption is considered plain-text these days and some closed source unverified implementation of E2EE as private and secure.

The world is a weird place.
Are you not fact checking chatgpt? I've seen wrong info, especially subtle things. It seemed reckless to use as-is.
Well, Climategate happened. So there is legitimate reason to be skeptical of dire claims. And yes, I’m aware all of those involved in the scandal were cleared of wrongdoing. That’s like the FBI investigating itself and finding nothing wrong.

Anyways, the fundamental assumption of most models—-that humans are behind climate change—-has not been sufficiently evaluated or tested. I find starting with that assumption unscientific.
> having to replace an entire Chromebook keyboard because a single key doesn't work.

Stopped reading there.

I'm typing on a Lenovo Thinkpad L430; it has a couple of defective keys - they're arrow keys, the keys I use most often, because I like to scroll using the keyboard.

I bought replaccement keys online, and had to buy them from Poland (Lenovo don't sell them). You have to go through a rigmarole to select your model, and then you have to select the key you want, and then eyeball the key and compare it to closeups on the order form.

Two weeks later they arrived; they look OK, but they don't fit. They're too big. You can't tell just by looking, but they're a fraction of a millimetre bigger than the hole they're supposed to fit in.

I gave up, and replaced the Thinkpad (a replacement keyboard would have cost as much as the Dell Inspiron I bought second-hand).
I see what you did there! :')
In our case: fraud detection.

We want to notice users who we ban for breaking the Terms of Use of our API SaaS, who then create new accounts and immediately resume doing the same thing they were doing before they were banned — where the metadata is all different (they're rotate VPNs, get a new [stolen] credit card, etc) but where there is a distinctive "activity-pattern fingerprint" to their ToU-breaking activity (different per violating user, but the same between the "incarnations" of the same user); and where having that fingerprint in the context of a brand new user is implausible, since nobody could learn to use our API to do such a complex thing so quickly.
When crafting more complex SQL queries it's quite easy to make a subtle mistake, mess up cardinality etc; I'm sure chatGPT would be excellent at mirroring those kinds of error unfortunately.
> It is oriented to appeasing stockholders (investors), who want to see earnings grow.

This strategy appeases short-term shareholders, at the cost of significantly penalizing long-term holders. It's not a simple case of "appeasing shareholders".
Yep exactly. I guess I haven't hit the 25 messages in 3 hours limit, but whenever there's an API or library I'm not familiar with. I can get my exact example in about 10 seconds from ChatGPT 4
By default, our hobby deployment reads from a local copy of clickhouse. If you want to point it to a cloud-hosted version, it would be pretty easy to adjust environment variables accordingly.

https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/self-host/self...

If you're interested in doing that, feel free to message us in our community.
I understand that 2d brain to 3d brain connection requires an intersection (criss-cross) I drew that on a piece of paper. But I didn't really get why that has to be the case with 3D brain to 3D brain mapping. I am able to connect them without a need for an intersection. Are there easier examples to understand the intuition behind this hypothesis?
How much energy would we save if we replaced all linear regulators by switched configurations?
How to worry wisely about artificial intelligence
https://archive.ph/CscxC
I've wondered if some of the value of being a skilled prompt engineer will be eroded as the LLMs get better, especially as they can reply to ask clarifying questions or ask if you want XYZ tweaks (e.g., in the voice of Author X, or from the perspective of an ant, with backlighting).

I'm sure there will always be some people who are better at this than others, but if the interface is sufficiently chatty and 'smart', that could significantly reduce the gap between newbies and seasoned prompters.
> Opinions are not facts.

Wouldn't expect bagholders to know the difference.

However, if you read my comments carefully, you'll see that I described an experiment that anyone can repeat and reproduce to come to their own conclusion.
Stable housing isn’t limited to owning a single family home. Renting a small apartment can be very stable (I’ve done this for the past 15 years). Owning a small condo can be very stable. There are also many stressed homeowners who worry about making mortgage payments.

The reason many see these as unstable today is because of the default-ness of single family housing as the default goal. Similarly how driving a car was the default goal for 16 year olds for several generations.

It’s hard to imagine not wanting to purchase a home because we’ve been sold it as the smart and obvious thing to do for quite awhile now.
I think you are VASTLY underestimating the amount of pigs cows and chicken.

The domesticated chicken is, for example, by far the most common bird with a population about 15 times larger than the second.

Humans make up between 30-40% of land mammal biomass, wild animals around 4% and domesticated animals make up the rest.

We have altered the ecological balance to an insane extent. Animal husbandry use almost 80% of arable land.

The wild animals are also a part of a circular ecosystem. They are, in contrast to domesticated animals, carbon neutral in most cases.

I am writing this on a slow GPRS connection, so I can't provide you with sources, but they are readily available. Both papers and news coverage. I managed to get into this page, but that is all: https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
Back in the 1980s Toyota started making super efficient cars that hardly ate any gas. So Detroit had to start going along with the idea. Cars back then got a lot more gas mileage than they do today even though the engines were not as sufficient but they did so because the cars had much lighter weight than they do today.. cars today are heavier per volume because of all the safety regulations. The safety regulations were pushed through Congress based on media scare propaganda about traffic safety and car crashes and so forth. But who paid the media to put out all that propaganda. That led to safer but heavier cars that consumed more gasoline? I have an idea. I think it was the oil companies that paid the media to put out scare propaganda about automobile safety and then they paid the politicians to pass the laws to make cars a lot safer and heavier.. that caused the price of gas to go back up
Sometimes people do not put words in the order you want. Sorry.

> And having a quick look through his post history I suspect it's a self diagnosis and one of several he has given himself, which is at times just "bipolar disorder".

Sorry I was not specific enough for random people on the internet who are not into psychiatry and would probably not know the distinction. I usually tell people I am just Bipolar because that is less scary to people than the "Schizo" part.

And you know, in general, I am nonsensical to most people, but most people are not as smart as me.

If you want to call my doctor to verify my condition. But I mean how does one get disability with a diagnosis I made up myself? A lot of people with Long COVID would like to know.
> in California, prop 13

This is orthogonal to housing delivering real returns. (Common cause, granted.)
I've figured that what happened generally was an error in shipping--two boxes got swapped. When it's low value they just replace, but when it's dramatic they resist and we see these issues.

I've gotten salsa rather than batteries, they simply refunded the batteries and told me to keep the salsa.
https://archive.ph/dQZOc
Horrible Website, who likes this sh*
No, it doesn't. The linked to press release says:

> The study found that the openness of the eye was most closely related to our ability to read others' mental states based on their eye expressions.

which is where you probably drew your conclusion. However, the actual paper goes into more details, and reading it show that conclusion is wrong. It says:

> For these analyses, we extracted seven eye features from each exemplar: vertical eye aperture, eyebrow distance, eyebrow slope, eyebrow curvature, nasal wrinkles, temporal wrinkles, and wrinkles below the eyes (Fig. 1). Euclidean coordinates from the appearance models were used to compute eye aperture (distance from top to bottom of eye), eyebrow distance (distance from top of eye to eyebrow), eyebrow slope (slope from start to end of eyebrow), and eyebrow curvature (angular change from start to end of eyebrow).

Fig. 1 in shows example of how they define eye aperture, and it is NOT the pupil size, but the size from the bottom to top of the center of the eye.

Further, their analysis suggests that eye pupil size is either strongly correlated with the seven components they analyzed, or has relatively small contribution to expressing mental state. They say aperture had the strongest correlation with mental-state, "explaining 61.7% of the variance; the valence dimension was the secondary component, explaining 26.8% of the variance. ... Together, these [seven] components captured 88.8% of the total variance."

That is, your claim about pupil size being an evolutionary benefit due to the increased ability to perceive mental state, appear to be contradicted by the very paper you say supports your hypothesis.

There's a long history where defenders of pseudoscience, including Young Earth Creationism and "scientific racism", of citing papers which supposedly support their claim, only to find that either they are irrelevant or say quite the opposites. If you want to make a solid claim, you need to avoid that style, otherwise you'll draw their pseudoscience stink onto you.
What are the risks of giving 2 weeks notice compared to 2 months?
The "magic" of course, is AC...
A bit of an unpopular opinion as it seems, but I would actually bet that the current prompt engineering is just a short term thing.
When the performance of LLMs continue to improve I actually expect that they will become much better to understand not so well formed prompts. Especially when you take into consideration that they now are trained with RLHF on _real_ users input.
So it will probably become less of an engineering problem but more an articulation of what exactly you want
Steve Ballmer stepped down in 2014. If we're giving credit to CEOs for things that happened while they were CEO (which isn't really valid), Azure was launched in 2010 and Office 365 was launched in 2011, both during Ballmer's tenure.
Mike Bloomberg is planning to leave his company to charity
And I can list counter examples for each.

Civil engineers and architects don’t “move fast and break things” or “fake it til you make it” after a 3 month bootcamp.
Thanks!

I've looked at haystack a little bit and was wondering how involved it would be to set up for a research spike.
Already done in most electronics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfil

"It was used in standard chess before being replaced by the bishop in the 15th and 16th centuries. [...] The alfil is a very old piece, appearing in some very early chess variants, such as Tamerlane chess and shatranj. It was originally called an elephant, hastīn or gāja in Sanskrit. [...] When chess spread to China, the piece became the elephant in xiangqi. [...] When chess came to Persia from India, the Sanskrit name was translated to pil, and when chess came to the Muslims from Persia, the move had not changed, and then the name changed into Arabic to fil, the already existing cognate to pil which comes from the Akkadian language and ultimately from the Egyptian language. The name thus became fil and then alfil (prefixing the Arabic definite article, al)."
Prompt engineering is a kind of prompting that is (in a sense) a kind of an engineering, but it's impossible to understand in what sense it is a kind of what engineering, that's why it is so hard to understand _coherent texts_ if they are not completely meaningful.

All this is so exciting and it promises many new jobs that require accelerated education of prompt engineers.