skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who lived with their problems for twenty years before doing anything about it due to anecdotes like the one shared above, consider rolling the dice.

Are these considered the most productive years of your life? What are the most productive years of your life worth? What could they be worth if you weren't mentally fucked? That question is going to vary depending on the individual, but even if you're not interested in the monetary worth—well, you only go round the once. Is it money thrown away if you eventually solve your problem? The way to look at is R&D of your mental health.

Wishing you better mental health.
in red hat you need to compile bash to have scripts run?
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lol, forgot to update card for AWS

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Heavily corroborated in this Wirecutter hiking boot review (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-hiking-boots...), but NOT in the article... in the comments. One of the clearest readings I have ever seen on marketing versus experience. Truly eye-opening.

Regular people do it. Journalists do it. And AI does it up the wazoo. We are all doomed.

Example:

This article is like a guide for choosing the best flip phone with a full keyboard. The entire category is obsolete. The authors are simply parroting marketing myths from twenty years ago. Like an AI chatbot, the writing appears thorough, but they did NOT do their research by talking to human hikers.

They looked at catalogs of products instead of examining a task and finding the best tool for it.

Here's the real story: No experienced hikers use waterproof boots except in deep snow where insulation and a high top is necessary. They use trail runners. Why? Because gore tex membranes lead to sweaty feet, which causes blisters and damp boots the next day ('waterproof' boots do get wet but take forever to dry out). Boots are heavy and clunky, encouraging a stompy, imprecise style that results in more slips, twists and jerks in each stride.

Boots are sold because uninformed consumers demand them. Boots match the aesthetic of hiking.

Ankle support is a complete myth. When you roll your ankle, an inch of extra fabric is not going to resist the full leverage of your body and protect your foot. What helps is a more sensitive shoe that avoids the ankle roll in the first place, and allows a nimble correction if it starts rolling.

In 2023, ALL experienced hikers wear trail runners unless the snow is deep.
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> what is intelligence

The only way anybody has ever come up with to measure it is test-taking - which machines can already do far better than we can. Real intelligence is creativity, but good luck measuring that.
Something about the page's structure causes Safari's reader mode to only display the first quoted section but no other part of the content. Those mirrors don't do anything to help the page's structure unfortunately.
Quarter to quarter comparisons make absolutely no sense because sales are cyclical, hence why they're comparing to the same quarter last year from which they've demonstrated 400% year-over-year growth.
Thanks.

I've actually silently been wondering about this phrase for years!
AI could help reduce military suicides, nonprofit hopes
I sometimes have trouble with message threads, too.
The absolute rate isn't a problem right now, it's the Fed bouncing between extremes. Keeping rates extremely low for many years, followed by a very fast series of increases. If they had been more moderate with either of those factors things would be a lot less painful right now.

None of this is all that surprising either, which makes it even more frustrating. A great many folks were critisizing the Fed for keeping rates so low when the economy was booming, and I don't think many are surprised that the rapid increases have created instability.
reveddit is precisely an example of one of those sites which uses Pushshift to display removed content
Why Micropayments Don’t Work and People Hate Paywalls
Customers want micropayments but they’re a bad option for news organizations. What they should do instead is provide us with better paywalls.
Ask HN: What databases are you working with day to day?
Look at my bash history over the past week:

- Postgres

- Clickhouse

- SQLite
I tried to read the article but it became an uncommon bore. Their parents were spies. Awful experience but that is life. Nobody gets to choose their parents and they got got up it unfortunately. The US does the same stuff. It is a sinister game that pulls people in that wanted nothing to do with it. The world does not work like the masses think. All one can do is hope they never get ensnarled in the barbed wire of it.
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Bachs brandenberg concerto #3 is always a nice choice. One of my faves
Couldn't this be partially resolved by converting routes with 6 departures a day on regional jets to 2 departures a day on 737/A320s? I'm thinking of the SFO-Southern California routes right now where Skywest flys the small regional jets.
Fascinating to see a frequent use of emoticons in replies from early 1984, only two years after their invention.
i agree! hamming even talks about this a bit in his talk

your chances of doing great research are slim if you're born in kenya in the 01940s, no matter how much drive and creativity you have, but that's not because 'research advances' have 'droughts', it's because you're not being allowed to do great research, even if plenty of research advances are happening out of your reach

(unless you're richard leakey)

that's what's happened to modern surgeons, nuclear engineers, aeronautical engineers, chemists, etc. the usa and eu today have mostly become the kenya of the 01940s, where only the occasional richard leakey is allowed to excel, and thus we have entered the so-called great stagnation

but restrictions are much looser in computer science than in most fields. we still have:

- oleg kiselyov (sxml, probabilistic programming, relational programming and thence the reasoned schemer, type checking as small-step abstract evaluation, tagless staged interpreters, stream processing without runtime overhead)

- dan bernstein (twisted edwards curves including curve25519, breaking aes with cache timing attacks, nacl, tweetnacl, qmail, salsa, poly1305, striking down usa export controls, organizing the pqc conferences)

- fabrice bellard (qemu, ffmpeg, tcc, lzexe, and bellard's formula, aside from nncp, which is deep learning)

- jeff dean and sanjay ghemawat (epi info, leveldb, tensorflow, bigtable, mapreduce, spanner, 'the google cluster architecture', lots of internal google stuff, and again a bunch of deep learning stuff)

- raph levien (io, advogato, the gnome canvas, libart)

- graydon hoare (monotone and thence git, rust), and

- rob pike (blit, utf-8, much of plan9, sawzall, and golang)

- wouter van oortmerssen (cube/sauerbraten, flatbuffers, amiga e, false and thus more or less the field of esolangs, lobster, bla with first-class environments, aardappel, fisheye quake)

i've left out the people i personally know well
Finally made up my mind to learn Swift and SwiftUI...currently working on a Hacker News app: https://github.com/Livinglist/ZCombinator
Yeah, I know, but 'export -f' is not POSIX compliant [1]. In addition, I have read, that this solution has quite a bad performance [2].

1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

2: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67780632/1149404
I don't understand how these things are connected. The market being free doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the customer is satisfied - take telecom in the U.S. for example. Competition is sparse and nobody is satisfied.

What you're describing is a buyer's market, which is only one case out of many.
Not new
Thanks for the idea! I never considered it to be an option outside chromebooks.
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Wrong. Life dissipates energy and thus increases dS/dt. The converse isn't applicable.
If you start off bullshitting people, right of the gate -- you deserve whatever "weirdness" comes your way as a result.
Maxmind will be requiring email or security key 2FA
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For personal projects I'm using sqlite and postgres.

At work we're using MySQL 8.0 (RDS)
Life, like any other physical process, provides additional pathways to increase entropy. Otherwise that process wouldn't have a gradient to go through.
That needs to be put into context of the cost to acquire a customer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_acquisition_cost

Various sources:

$80 https://askwonder.com/research/average-customer-acquisition-...

> The short version is that it costs around $80 to acquire a customer who returns about $120 in profit.

https://medium.com/unifimoney/changing-the-vicious-cycle-of-...

> It costs on average around $200 to acquire a credit card customer in the US (up to and beyond $1,000 if they are affluent cards like MasterCard World Elite and Visa Infinite).

https://runningwithmiles.boardingarea.com/apple-card-custome...

> The Apple Card doesn’t need any affiliates or marketing yet analysts say that this new card has a customer acquisition cost of $350 and will take several years for Goldman Sachs to turn a profit on it.

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So the corresponding part of that is "we spent a lot to get a lot of customers. If they remain loyal, then GS will have something quite profitable for a long time." Spending $350 per customer is more than the $200 mentioned... but also much less than the $1000 for high end cards (and the tales of Chase Sapphire Reserve).
150 EUR vs 9 EUR and one still had to use slow regional trains once reaching Ulm so it was not that much different time-wise to justify much higher cost. Regional Express trains I used from Frankfurt to Ulm are also pretty fast (not ICE level, but not much time lost either).
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about: "well, substantively they're the same, but, uh, well, S&L's emphasized mortgages more". Um, okay. But, at the end of the day, I'm not seeing the substantive financial relationship I can't have today that I could during the S&L era. Or, by extension, what's so different today, now that that "sector" of finance is gone, as suggested in the original comment[1]. What do I not get as a result of not having lived through that time?[2]

I don't feel like I've learned anything more than a factoid I can repeat now. We "have S&Ls". We "didn't have S&L's" then. Okay. We still put savings in a financial institution. Those FI's still lend the money out. Many are still mutuals.

Aha! But back in the day, you'd have to be a member of a selective organization to be part of a mutual that doesn't all of that!

>Over time, S&Ls started taking demand deposits and credit unions broadened the definition of a member to the point of meaninglessness.

Oh. So not that, either.

I guess I just have different standards for what a meaningful difference looks like?

[1] "Given that this is a financial sector that no longer exists, it's hard for people who weren't around then to understand what a huge deal this was at the time."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776271

[2] I mean, I did, but was too young to get what was going on for adults.
Russia is literally claiming that the Ukraine is run by Nazis. Not that there are people there who see the Nazis as a lesser threat than the Reds, but run by Nazis today.

That's a lie so big it's visible from space.
For me it was electricity, make sure you're not exposed to high currents and strong electrical fields. Especially things like a modern macbook charger plugged in is capable of producing fields up to 1000v according to the emf meter I got on hand.

My own experience is very consistent confirms it as well.

Check how can a two hour session where you get your body voltage close to 0 can reduce inflammation. Imagine the opposite effect, possibly multiples.
https://yewtu.be/44ddtR0XDVU?t=1667

You can also check this lecture by Dr Jerry Tennant which may give you a better understanding overall.
Hope this helps someone.
I speculated last year that various known diseases could turn out to have some sort of microbe, or microbe-like cause that we're unaware of; things we haven't seen or noticed yet. And that we might occasionally find out, with new tools, that a difficult condition has an understandable, discrete, physical cause. Similar to how people discovered that the flu and strep-throat and meningitis etc were caused by the tiny living or life-like critters (are viruses alive?).

I was insulted and mocked by everyone I said it to

But if nobody looks, we'll never find out. It looks like somebody looked in the case of ulcers and arthritis
The version of the quote I've heard (and which sounds better to me) is this:

"Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it." -John von Neumann
Makes you wonder why they don't have forward-facing sonar as standard during non-secret ops. I mean, there's not a whole lot of shifty things you can be doing off Guam, if you already own the place.
Chatgpt or a successor dynamically generating in-game dialogue could be fun. Or maybe it won't be. I'm interested in seeing it done.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIMEDSL

Not sure if I see it.

If it's a total expenditure graph, then surely it's obvious that expanding coverage would cost money?
This line of thought shows a fundamental difference in perception. To a lot of people, working a 9 to 5 will never make you respectable no matter what it is you're actually doing. These people work to live, whereas your stance is that of someone who lives to work. I don't care how the company remembers me after I've retired and never have to give them so much as a spare thought. I have a whole life ahead of me that I intend to live without having their massive black hole of time waste looming over me.
The problem with planned economies is not self-sustainability. The USSR proved it could be done.

The problem is that they aren't competitive because their planning process is too low bandwidth to incorporate change of any kind. They're working blind and the only way to make the thing work at all is to simply clone the non-planned economies seen elsewhere, which means they always lag behind. Eventually the citizens tire of their relative poverty even if it may have improved a bit in absolute terms.
I didn't say GPT-4 was superintelligent. This is about further improvements.
Thanks, I'm glad to have your approval.

If you're curious how I handle those friendships: I invite them to dinner at my place. Much as discussed in the article.

And our friend group periodically chips in a bit so that they can make important purchases, especially health-related ones.
Thanks for this link, I was actually chatting with someone today about good VPN providers and went to privacy tools. I was very confused why the top recommended VPN was Nord with an affiliate link.

Your link cleared up my confusion. It’s a shame that the project had to be forked.
Every living thing radiates black body radiation which is higher entropy than sunlight.
> this removes any need/justification to carpet bomb anything,

You totally missed the point. The mass bombing in WW2 was intentional. That was specifically the goal, to kill as many civilians as possible.
I don't see how this scenario justifies AI development being accelerated - could you put some more color on that?

Regulated, sure. Open sourced, probably. But accelerated?

I'm not sure accelerating an arms race is going to help those who are least currently able to take advantage of arms.
Is there something like that on Linux that's gtk based but not as complicated as Gimp?
I don't know how they work internally, but I can say that power hammers used for blacksmithing sound similar to the woodpecker in the video, only much slower. A couple hard, fast hits with absurd force before slowing down and stopping.

I'm guessing the woodpecker behaves that way because it's putting momentum into the hitting, even if that doesn't totally make sense in my head. When hammering on something, it's easiest to let the gravity do most of the work and focus your effort on aiming and raising the hammer, so you naturally have 1-2 hits that are solely momentum based at the end.

The woodpecker is horizontal, though, - not pecking in line with gravity - so my thought process isn't a perfect analogue. But if their tongue works like a spring then I can imagine it making sense.
Because a government would never freeze the funds in your bank account.

Oh wait: that is what Canadian government did to tractor-trailer protesters a few years ago.
"It's everything else that's broken, not us!" is the battle cry of crypto. You may as well cry, "wolf!"
>>you'd expect a superbug to have broken out

You'd expect it, and it has.
That doesn't look tiny at all.
Good management is measured in years
Actually, as i recall, that statement is somewhat foundational for human computer interaction...of course my recollection is from my HCI college course a couple of decades ago...But, yeah, whenever i make something - digital or otherwise - i hope to design it properly enough that the intended user intuitively understands how it should be used. (I do add documentation beyond the base design, but because i want to further help the person.)
The article definitely tries to spin it otherwise
I guess it must depend on what function the AI is trying to maximize/minimize. If it is number of paper clips, they are automatically aligned, right? If it is number of AIs, same. If it is amount of energy available to one particular AI, I guess it gets kind of philosophical; how does the AI identify what is itself and what is a foreign AI.
Which countries are you thinking of? This used to be more acceptable in the US, but norms are changing, and they are changing globally. There are still some places in the US where nobody would care, but these places are becoming less frequent over time. And I’d agree that the images do not automatically make someone creepy, but I would say that it might automatically make someone insensitive to those around them, maybe women in particular in this case. This may be true regardless of the past culture of acceptance of such imagery.
Mail clients do not filter html, that's a losing strategy, they use APIs on the rendering engine they use to prevent the engine from doing anything "bad" e.g. you don't try and filter JS, you tell the engine to not enable JS, you don't try to filter urls or resources by regex on the source, you use the engine APIs to manage resource loading yourself. Then it doesn't matter what absurd syntax or encoding is being used, if the engine thinks it should do a load, or run some scripts, it asks the host app.

But it doesn't matter what proportion of the app ecosystem is or is not using the system webkit framework, we both know that if Apple does update only Safari say, and then people are compromised through their RSS reader, the HN comments will be asking why Apple didn't update the system framework.

Don't get me wrong - I do get annoyed at having to reboot, but I'm not sure what the better solution is given the constraints of macOS and iOS (at least iOS apps are better designed in terms of saving and restoring state).