skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd encourage you to just search google scholar for "nicotine and parkinsons" there are dozens and dozens of studies. It's been well established for decades now, as it stood out, especially in the past, that cigarette smokers weren't developing parkinsons as expected. Here is a recent meta study though:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

There have also been numerous studies that have found that starting nicotine once symptoms begin is too late, with little or no effect. It is hypothesized that there is some critical point that once crossed, nicotine no longer has an effect. Parkinsons is believed to slowly develop over years or decades, and nicotine stunts this early progression.
First off, you wouldn't need to do that specifically. You'd only need to know that most of the people you talk to are above an 80 IQ on any given topic, in fact most people are about a 100 IQ on any given topic. So you already have a reasonable baseline for comparison.

Secondly, I'd say you're likely the one missing OPs point by trying to take a mostly colloquial statement about how ChatGPT is about as informed as the bottomish X% of the population on any given topic and trying to be pedantic about it. Furthermore the real purpose of OPs point is that the X% is now a lower bound, even if X isn't 16% but 5%, it's only going to go up from here. Yes there's evidence of diminishing returns with the current architectures but there's also a lot of room for growth with newer architectures or multimodal modals.

I think most people understand OPs point without having the need to go around asking everyone what their IQ is. There are numerous indicators, both formal and informal, that indicate that ChatGPT is as informed on most any given topic as the bottom 16% of the population. In fact, it's likely much much higher than that.
I don't see how this line of thinking makes sense. Where do you believe research funds come from?
Another example: the underwater structures off the coast of Cuba

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_underwater_formation
Not until after it went away.
>> You make it sound very simple. Its not.

It's clearly not that hard, if most of Europe can pull it off with dramatically less money than the US. Where's our American exceptionalism when it comes to catching up with any random European country?

The issue in the US isn't a lack of means, it's a lack of will. Our political system is bought out by unimaginably rich interests, who's interest in the common welfare will only begin when it has fully eroded the foundation that they built their wealth on.
That makes sense. I forget sometimes that we got vacation and sick days munged together into PTO.

"You'll get more time off!†"

† assuming you never get sick.

Thanks!
structurally lower growth and inflation (even if inflation is high right now). Can't use an average of whatever long-length time series you're using when that's just not how rates work.
How is Bitcoin a scam.
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You should of course start with your highest-conviction fixes and I don’t think TikTok lands there. But no, most persistent behaviors, not even problems specifically, are multicausal and overdetermined. Behaviors that are not this way are fragile and rarely persist long enough to even be labeled as “a behavior”.
Twitter is definitely being side eyed for sure. Currently keeping a check of how much I'm using it, but I do use that partially for marketing and keeping an eye on new tech

HN also has a pass for now for the same new tech reason
That's if hashed by md5, which really shouldn't be the case anymore. SHA-1 isn't much better, aiui, but would still be a more reasonable reference today - at least as far as I can see.

I wish it were scrypt, PBKDF2 or argon2id - but I realize those are still rare.
No, I simply don't accept that politics is preference. Politics is in some ways the physical manifestations of our values into the world. They affect people in real and profound ways.

A "preference" for the subservience or disenfranchisement of certain people, for example, is no mere preference.
Right, this is the kind of seductive but ultimately unrealistic kind of thinking that ropes in the vulnerable.

Shouldn't people be incentivized to pursue work that they are good at, enjoy AND which society actually demands?

If good art is rare and in higher demand, good artists will be able to demand higher pay. If good art is in high supply because many people prefer the artist lifestyle, artists will not be able to demand as high of pay. Both of these situations seem perfectly reasonable to me.
Agnostics?
>More money chasing fewer goods equals inflation, not complicated

It's not complicated, except those who missed out on the 0% rates are hit the hardest and want to catch a similar boom that isn't coming back.

Those looking to buy a house now feel cheated. The prices are similar to ~2020-2022 but the rates are much higher. The rates being lower than historical average is irelevant for those looking to buy know because the current housing prices are also much higher than historical averages.

Our entire economy is now addicted to cheap money so those who missed out on the cheap money will want it back.
They were too early, and then too late. CE and Mobile just never had devices with enough processing power or good enough hardware UI to make them viable and enticing for developers.
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> Even within the US, we talk a big game but - have you ever felt it wise to "exercise free speech" with law enforcement?

Uhhhh... we literally just had an entire summer of people shutting down cities to voice their frustration over police.

My personal unwillingness to start cursing out every cop I see is not actually a good litmus test for my freedom of speech.
The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.

Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath.

"The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
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A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

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This is not a legally-sound solution for secure data destruction of patient or client data, and could result in financial penalties and/or jail time, depending on how severe the violation. (I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
To me that seems about as likely as drug addicts suddenly growing tired of shooting up stuff and going into gardening as a hobby instead. Sure, it's not theoretically impossible, but I definitely wouldn't start a gardening platform targeting those people. Pre-facebook basically means a 90s style forum with highly specialised zed communities. You don't need decentralised approaches for that.
Unfortunately the promise did not specify how many pieces Jeb was to return in.

Uh.. the spirit of the promise was kept?
AFAIK there are no frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum we are not aware of, but our techniques and signal processing can potentially improve. There are also frequencies of waves other than light that we can use, such as sonar - but not from a satellite of course.
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Nice this is awesome! Well done. Once you have everything in NMEA it really does become very easy to integrate with other marine hardware/software. Literally everything runs on it :)
The reasoning is: Mormon is a character in their scripture (The Book of Mormon), but he is not the main figurehead for the church, so referring to them as though he is, is a misrepresentation.

That's the explanation I was given as well. Thanks for clarifying and thank you all for the explanations.
What do you think of Bluesky TOS?
the rejection of examples of what was requested is weak

labeling the victims as "corrupt" is also weak

saying 'ok you're right but maybe it's a good thing' is weak

none of the arguments really seem great against the evidence presented. anything else?
that part was the nemesis of my childhood. Almost impossible to balance.
Today, the real world is so intertwined with the digital world that it may as well be one thing. If an AI decided it wanted more power, and took over every computer on the planet with it's exceptional speed and intelligence (to be clear, I know this isn't possible today, but someday), we could do nothing to stop it, we'd have to just unplug and reset ALL of our technology, literally replacing any digital storage with zeros as to eliminate the infection. I don't think that's possible without billions of people dying in the interim.
Presumably a graduate from Texas A&M (the other organization identified).
Any ETA for Damus on Android?
Our hunter gatherer ancestors living in bands suffered from drastically fewer respiratory diseases than we do, you need a large connected population for something like the flu to survive in a human population in the long term. The issue with sterile environments is about the lack of random bacteria, not human adapted pathogens.
As we can see from more current situations, cops rarely think beating a black guy is wrong at all, so they don't even believe they had a lapse in judgement, they think they were right!
>Using compilers for highlighting basically doesn't happen because they are too slow.

This is not completely accurate, as clangd does support this: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/clang-tools-e...

Getting a syntax tree from clangd is faster than you might think because it just needs to hook into the lexing/parsing portion of the compiler, which is actually pretty fast and much, much faster than actually compiling code. And generating fixes and warnings using clang-tidy (which can be built as a standalone binary, but is typically just linked into clangd) requires parsing and lexing anyway, so the parse information is basically "free" since it's work clangd needs to do regardless. And at least for C/C++ you can't really do accurate parsing without the compiler anyway due to the fact that preprocessor macros can do nearly anything. Even if your preprocessor macros are generally doing sane things and could be parsed without the compiler, most people want to see things like #if/#else/#endif branches highlighted so they can see which code paths the compiler is actually going to select when it compiles code, and again that requires actually running a full preprocessor with the same flags as the code will use when it is compiled.

That being said, I believe that most editors do a hybrid approach to lexing/parsing because getting syntax information entirely from clangd is too much to ask. So basically the editor will do a best-effort parse in real time of your code using some built-in syntax highlighting engine (possibly tree-sitter, possibly something else) and then once clangd sends syntax information they'll update the document as necessary.
I am not aware of any theory that would suggest humans in forcible future will eradicate violent conflicts, regarding past there is great book;

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
History tends to disagree with your Pollyanna view
Should mobile device notifications self-dismiss when no longer relevant?
Notifications for various messaging apps dismiss when the triggering messages have been answered elsewhere. Why shouldn't other notifications self-dismiss when no longer relevant?

- Weather updates/warnings for times in the past
- "Find-My" notifications for devices no longer left behind
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https://reflect.app/ relaunched their website today, their new feature is AI inside the note-taking app. I'm not a fan of their website design, too dark, too many animations. https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/1653089823660425262 says there is an easter egg of playing Tetris on the website, too.
> I think a big part of the idea is that relays just dont carry spam/bad actors.

How would the relay evaluate what is spam and what is not?
Most won't frame it to themselves in an unethical way, they will see a true capability of companionship as a service to help those in need, which will be the more motivational driver for getting a product off the ground. It's the same as cereal companies framing their product as full of fruit and nutrients, when those products are anything but.
The company I work for uses Requests for Discussion (RFD) where they really mean RFPs. Drives me batty.

And yes, all the documentation just said RFD as well. :)
Ask HN: How to update HN post thread display?
Why is HN designed such that, in the post thread, when we click a HN title, the associated target URL is launched?

For me this is confusing and mildly irritating, as I expect the individual post to be displayed, not the target URL. Instead, to get to the individual page of the post item I have to carefully maneuver to the "discuss/comments" section in the subline.

For me, design implementation could be improved in two simple ways:

(1) include target="_blank" inside the < a > element, so that the URL link opens a new tab (super simple).

(2) On the post stream, map the Post Title to the HN URL containing the unique item_id generated by HN (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=s%), and within the individual post item map the URL provided by the post author to the Post Title (e.g., https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematicians-re-prove-w...).

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Could AI save the Amazon rainforest?
As someone that's been dealing with SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), I'm confident that most diseases are the result of your gut microbiome.

Really looking forward to research in this field and I hope the US starts putting more focus on phage therapy.
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replying to your old message [1]. The openqnx monartis source code is on github:

https://github.com/vocho/openqnx

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26255095
I have ~ 15y of experience and I have a grand total of 3 weeks PTO. My father, at my age had 5 whole weeks and doesn't understand why I don't take big trips more. Despite the trend in 'unlimited vacation', I feel it's only getting worse.
The flip-flopping of AI critics is completely explainable by flip-flopping morals of the architects.

> Dr. Hinton said that when people used to ask him how he could work on technology that was potentially dangerous, he would paraphrase Robert Oppenheimer, who led the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb: “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it.”

If anyone outside the core architects changes their mind on AI either way, I don't think negatively at all. It's all confounded by the naivete of a few, which by definition is open to constant change. The critics just did or didn't think someone so naive could rise to so much power.
Happened to us in Berlin on my visit. We were seated with two elderly ladies. Their English wasn't great but they were very friendly.
You can infer that it is newsworthy.

> One engineer made a preliminary estimate that the chance of another Max crash was more than 13 times greater than FAA risk guidelines allow.

> However, this document was not completed and did not go through managerial review due to lack of detailed flight data

A plane crash is too significant for the FAA not to even disposition the analysis, meaning formally receiving, reviewing, and deciding what to do. Incomplete data would just be part of the decision process, it's not a legitimate excuse for not looking at it. Killing the report like this where no one is on record opposing it is a pretty common tactic to at least buy some time when you know what the result will be.

They were hoping to find a reason not to ground the plane. They didn't find one, so they eventually ground it.
I've encountered less about rice, but the transitional practices I described can be used in the (otherwise conventional) growing of corn and wheat and can produce comparable yields for lower cost to the farmer, directly in the case of reduced fertilizer cost, but especially when you factor in reduced losses to drought events from the ability for high organic matter soil to absorb and retain water, as well as greater resilience to disease and pest wipeouts due to healthier plants and a more diverse farm ecosystem. It's all somewhat anecdotal, though, since this sort of thing resists formal research, both from the funding angle (doesn't lead to profitable results for industry; not sexy/high-tech enough for ambitious academics and their departments) and the experimental design angle (too many variables; farmers are all trying out different things in different ways and different climates).

From the permaculture/food forest/holistic side, you can certainly vastly beat the economic output of conventional agriculture (e.g. just growing corn) on a $/acre basis when you integrate all the possible enterprises available (meat, eggs, vegetables, herbs, fruit, wood products, flowers, ecotourism, etc.). I'm not sure in terms of marketable calories per acre, i.e. stuff human beings actually want to eat, but I'd think at least within an order of magnitude of corn (eggs go a long way). But you're right, the bottleneck is availability of farmers, since one farmer with machinery can grow hundreds of acres of corn or wheat at millions of calories per acre. I think it's fair to say there's plenty of opportunity for people to become farmers if they want to, though, in that information is more accessible than ever and there's land available.

We do have the example of Gabe Brown [0], who I believe manages 1000+ acres regeneratively with only his family for labor. I don't recall any attempts to calculate his kcal/acre, though. Farmers are understandably more concerned with $/acre.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXwGkJ1oGI
I said that Brock Turner got the amount of hate he deserved; I was talking about the guy who pushed an empty wheelchair down the stairs.
Plenty of homeless people, tourists, people who’ve just been out too long on a single charge and need 5 minutes of juice to get them to their next destination, delivery workers. It’s a nice thing to make cities friendlier, along with things like free wifi, water fountains, benches, and restrooms.
Bashing an intact device with a sledgehammer does not materially increase the odds of data destruction occurring, as the relevant chips are protected against sharp shocks and blunt force trauma.
My personal hot-take is we will hit the singularity when it's possible to self-host a truly complex LLM on your own PC or a smart phone.

When that convergence takes place (probably a few years out), we will see what the "Killer App" truly looks like.

It won't happen for as long as some corporate CEO has the ability to pull the plug for whatever reason.

What was it that Oppenheimer said, if it's technologically sweet, sooner or later someone will find a way to pull it off.

And the "Her" scenario is definitely that thing.
Within a few minutes I can deactivate Google Play Services on an Android phone using ADB. The universal android debloater available on Github makes it easier. The better solution is a custom OS forked from Android, but what is possible depends on the device.
This doesn't mean film makers and other employers are or should be *forced* to do it.

If you want credit, feel free to negotiate the point. But there is no legal precedent for forcing it once you are paid for your work. By default, the work belongs to your employer once you are paid.
Probably the single purchase that's had the greatest impact for me was my Bose noise-cancelling headphones. That was quite a while back, as they're the QC-15. However, they still work great and I still use them often.
I work in ecommerce as my day job for a larger company. I currently built a package of web components that can be mixed and matched to build a wide variety of templates / ecommerce without worrying about accessibility, performance, or responsiveness. It also addresses some of the pain points I've seen, like being able to swap an image for a video.

The components were built about a year ago, I'm now working on a WYSIWYG that lets you start from a template. Because it's web components, I'm able to export the Props each component. The WYSIWYG reads the export and creates a CMS based on the template you selected.

Not sure if I will leave it at that and just give you some HTML you can copy into your own site, or go one step further and start branching into a whole self-hosted content solution.
It's a bit in the category of "When you consider all factors, how important was Isaac Newton's work to Einstein's discoveries?"
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...said the Russians. Until they got drafted into an illegal war...
There's an excellent fictionalized book about this topic called Red Plenty. I just read it recently and found it thoroughly enjoyable. It's a very humanizing account of a potentially dull and abstract idea.
Is GPT more knowledgeable though than an individual person using Google?