skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's cars (and private automobiles in general) are not a compelling vision, they're toys for rich people. I looked it up. About a million Teslas have ever been manufactured. Round the population to a power of 10... 10 billion people. So one human in 10k gets a Tesla. The main thing most climate activists that I talk to want is for billions of people to not have to die off due to resource mismanagement. People don't believe that it's even possible for our civilization to collapse, even though entire civilizations have collapsed numerous times over the course of history. This is not a world we're envisioning, is a world we're ~visioning. With our eyeballs.
What a smart summary of TBL's career.
> For example, during the conquest of Gaul, ~1/3 of the population was killed and another ~1/3 were sold off as slaves. The tactics you're talking about were used on the remaining 1/3.

And that one small, pesky village of Gauls the Romans just could NOT conquer, try as they might.
I know very little about hypoglycemia (though I’m naturally prone to sugar lows rather than highs) and your problem is likely more complex than diet.

That said, wouldn’t it be better to be doing the opposite of what you’re being told, and cut down on carbs (both simple and complex) to eat more protein and fat which body can use to slow-release blood sugar for a longer duration? (For routine diet I mean - obviously at the onset of an attack you’ll want to consume sugar).
Yes, the solution to the gun problem is MORE GUNS.

"Americans die from gunfire in proportions unparalleled in the civilized world because Americans own guns in proportions unparalleled in the civilized world. More guns mean more lethal accidents, more suicides, more everyday arguments escalated into murderous fusillades." - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/the-rea...

"We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him. We have to make that offering, out of devotion to our Moloch, our god. The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily." - https://www.nybooks.com/online/2012/12/15/our-moloch
Everything that is wrong with security and expectations set by banks and merchants. SMS links are normal (should they be?). Non 2FA online card txns normal (should they be?). Weird domains to pay for things are normal.

But then when I legit want to send $1000 my bank makes me go through
a rat maze of a quiz where I need to answer correctly (rather than honestly/accurately) in order to send the money!
eLife is most likely what you’re thinking of:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/q-a-why-elife-is-...
33 years later and I'm still waiting for my dad to apologize for trying to convince 9-year-old me that he was justified in hitting my mom.

Hearing the author's dad apologize to her made me happy (and, if I'm honest, a tad jealous). I hope the apology is genuine and, on top of that, he takes action to make amends.
2023? It's been around since the 1990s!
DEC's documentation for VAX/VMS and related apps. The great orange/gray wall of heavy-duty binders. What wowed me: whatever I needed to know, it was in there, I could find it, and the software behaved as the documentation said.
> isn't overweight

i am not overweight but i am fat, if that makes sense. Lacking muscle makes you prone to low insulin sensitivity and t2d.
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This already is done to some degree (at local scales), but there's the issue that both the cost and the density are pretty prohibitive for large populations.

Whether large populations should exist or not, they do today, and this makes us pretty reliant on high-yield low-cost food production.
TCL is fine. It's easy to embed, small, and has a low memory footprint. Interop with C (or anything that knows how to interop with C) is very easy. It's powerful enough for complex automation, and simple enough that you can almost use it like a DSL.

It might not be the fastest language, but TCL is much faster than the things you typically see it used to automate. Certainly more than fine on any computer built within the last 15 years, even with all the string parsing.

It's stable, well documented, and has a huge codebase available on the internet. There is also a stable user community.

TCL has a foothold in the EDA industry, yes. I think that's mostly because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Vivado and Quartus might each be hot garbage in their own unique ways, but that's not the fault of their scripting language.

I admit that TCL is a litle weird looking, and it doesn't feel like any other language. It's closer to LISP than to C, and closer to BASH than to LISP. But it's powerful, stable, and entrenched. And beautiful in its own way.
Honestly in this day and age of keeping your stuff plugged-in every night the self-discharge of nimmies seems less of a concern. It's only a real pain when you put rechargables into a remote or a flashlight and then find out in a week it's already dead just from sitting and you have to pull the batteries out (which involves screws if it's a children's toy) to recharge them.

But the lower energy to weight ratio would be a showstopper for a car, yeah.
Not allowed, because the privacy is non-existant, the licensing is questionable, Microsoft sees everything, and the responses are often wrong and require more work to verify. The risks are greater than the reward.
Zig Language Server and Cancellation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
Technofad Driven Development
Made my day:
"TECHNOFAD" - "Technologies Embraced for Career and Hype Over Functionality and Durability." (courtesy of ChatGPT)

Also good:
"CASHUP" - "Career Advancement over Suitable Technology in the Use of Programming."

TAH syndrome, which stands for "Technology Advancement Hyping."
Do you know the URL of that page? Is it available on archive.org?
I think we're quite a ways away from that.

Also, there was that case with the Uber self-driving car hitting the person crossing the street with a bicycle in Phoenix, because they had turned off the bicycle detection resulting in automatic braking.
Which is why we see rock steady concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. We have been keeping records for seventy years now and have seen no increase in atmospheric CO2 whatsoever. It is the tree-huggers who have their heads in the sand, not you.

(Less sarcastically, please share the source of your claims. Obviously they're wrong, but I'd like to know how they're wrong.)
I use ChatGPT for a wide variety of tasks throughout my day, but my favorite use case is generating one-off utilities quickly. A recent example of this was when I needed to move and reorganize approximately 1 million files from one hard drive to another over a six-week period. Unfortunately, the destination hard drive began to malfunction – I could access metadata, but file transfers to and from the drive would fail almost immediately.

With ChatGPT's assistance, I was able to create a utility that scanned the 1 million+ files on the faulty destination drive and then re-copied those files from the original source drive to a new destination drive, all while maintaining the updated directory and file structure.
They should change the state motto to, “a slightly less boring version of Nebraska”
Crypto Exchange OKX suddenly drastically limits withdrawals
Externality taxes would solve many of today's pressing problems, implemented such that the externality tax is equal to the cost to "undo" whatever externality is imposed (and assuming the government actually spends the money to do so). I.e. we should recognize that we shouldn't outlaw useful and fundamentally positive things that emit CO2 like driving a car, but rather tax the pollution according to the cost to recapture that carbon from the shared environment.
I'm not in tech like most of y'all. I help out my dad with his consulting company for mostly public agencies. The other day a group we're working with wanted my dad to write some media notes for the unveiling of a project that's been in the works for a while. I gave chatgpt a quick prompt of what the project is, who the audience is, how it's important for a certain demographic and for the community, etc. My dad edited it and sent it over to the leader of this group for his speech the next day. Even though it was edited, I laughed because a chatgpt quote that wasn't edited made it on to the government's website for a pretty big announcement.

Other than that I used it this morning while editing a report we hired a team to create. It was helpful to reword some sentences that weren't very clear before sending it off to the client.

Other than that, I mostly use it to brainstorm ideas/give me related concepts to something I'm working on.

Also, not work related, but last week I used chatgpt to create an opening message for a dating app. I knew the gist of a joke I wanted to say related to this woman's interests, but had chatgpt word it for me. There was a lot more to our conversations, but she did at least respond to the opener and we got the conversation rolling. We actually went on a date this weekend, where I had to rely on my own brain's inefficient language model! It went pretty well though.
Thanks for the idea of gists-as-a-blog. I think it is cool and reduces the friction. It also means you are less likely to get start-again-itis or perfectionism!

You gave me an idea I might build in a hour (or you can)

In vanilla JS write code that fetches and reasonable formats gists. Then sitename.com/githubuser generates a SPA blog client side based on that user. Can be hosted on netlify with no maintenance forever.

An example of something like this is my HN Badges which has been hosted for almost 2 years with zero thought from me! E.g. https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=quickthrower2
So I mentioned in another reply that I’m in a plane more than once a month on average between nomadding and consulting.

The rest of the story is that my wife and I literally have everything we own - aside from our former home that’s now a rental and our “winter home” thats rented out 7 months a year - in 4 suitcases and two carryon book bags.

If we lost all four of our suitcases, it would be a nuisance. But we could rebuy everything for less than $1000.

The only time that our stuff was mishandled was when I made a mistake and put her portable mixer (Amazon
- not an affiliate link https://a.co/d/iBQivv5) in my checked bag. I could see why X-rays thought it looked suspicious. They broke the power cord.
see also Peking/Beijing, Mumbai/Bombay
The conclusion isn't that all industries would be unprofitable if they ignored externalities. The conclusion is that they are unprofitable as they are currently designed.

In the face of a actually having to price in externalities, entire industries may end up with fundamental changes.
Several governments have lists of "good" journals that "count" (tenure, grant considerations, etc), and those lists take into account things like impact factor over the past several years. Needless to say, there is a lot of inertia in the system beyond the authors themselves.
Nowadays the devkits require a license key to operate, which only works for a limited amount of time, so when they do slip into the wild it's generally not possible to do anything interesting with them. You can find videos of people playing with PS4/PS5 devkits and they just throw an error that the system has expired and needs to be renewed. They're just collectors items now, unfortunately.
Right so Bing is going to decide it doesn’t want to answer your queries anymore because you left a rude comment to someone they’re friends with on Reddit some day?

That’s what makes my day: AGI folks have to rely on myth-making and speculation.

The here and now incarnation of GPT-4 is what it is.

I’m not saying it isn’t useful, powerful, or interesting. I’m saying that needless speculation isn’t helping to inform people of the real dangers that such proselytizing is causing.
Anything I put into ChatGPT I scrub the crap out of. I'm sure in the near future MSFT/OpenAI will figure out my redactions but until then...
Thanks, I just spent the last 3 hours of my life playing this. I have no idea why it's so addicting, but man do I want to win...
It doesn't have to be that way: the best way to learn is by not repeating the mistakes of others, but we overpersonalise the situation if cute and innocent puppies were involved, and especially if we were the puppies.

Compare that to the situation where you saw some idiot kid fuck himself up at school, and immediately learned not to do that.

Why learn from the latter but not the former? The stakes in either situation are equally high.

As to how we act, in the negation of what not to do there is the freedom to think and be creative; just be reasonable about it.
Dodging the question, no?
What makes you think that? I don’t believe in magic. Science has brought us many answers and more questions.

An algorithm may perform a task such as building models that allow it to solve complex problems without supervision in training. That doesn’t mean it’s intelligent.
I’ve always viewed “free forever” as “we will not sneakily start charging you for it”, not that the price tier itself will be available forever.

Because nobody can guarantee the later even if it’s a paid tier, much less a no-cost loss leader.
Lots of studies out there which are correlational and thus meaningless, or worse, studies which intentionally produce false results due to being bought-and-paid-for. I don't have time to look at each link that page cites, but for example the American Heart Association is a terrible entity with worse than worthless recommendations which are completely not backed up by science.

Most of human evolutionary history was hunter-gatherer times, and they were not eating wheat. Farming is a relatively recent invention.
Like what? Another homophobe southern republican politician gets outted as a pedophile?

A half dozen people testifying that our last president was a serial rapist?

The head of the Supreme Court whining that when congress appoints a probable rapist to the court, the double standard is that the court should be above politics, and not comment on such things, but the press covers it anyway?

At least two of those things actually made the news yesterday.

I’m really not able to think of anything sufficiently salacious to get any more shit on the fan.
Google it yourself if your curious. But here’s a link to get you started: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
California’s Income Tax on Electricity
> Wanting to be able to ensure firmware isn't maliciously modified is a good thing.

I'm not sure it's a good thing at its core. The intent seems legit on the surface, but digging into the implementation you'll always end up having an adversarial relation with your user's security and device ownership.

On games, I kinda see this as an argument for preserving a special status for consoles, where the maker keep a right to secure everything to insane levels. Doing the same on general purpose computing platform isn't acceptable. Banking and digital currencies are morr of a blurry line, but games definitely shouldn't be accessing the utter most secure system of the platform.

If anything, opening the door to a whole community to hack the base security of your computing life when litteral life and death applications also rely on those shouldn't be allowed.
And at the same time Google started inserting ads into users email lists so no, it doesn't change everything. The user still gets spammed only now it's Google getting paid for it.
He didn’t care about abortion. He was pro choice most of his life. That was clearly a pandering move and now he is being criticized by the anti abortion crowd because he said he doesn’t think there should be a federal ban.
First, my original comment wasn't about defending anything. My objection was limited to a specific justification the Wikipedia editor made.

Second, the phrase is "comprised of," not "to comprise."

Finally, I'd also like to point out that the editor and all people in this thread clearly knows how the phrase is used today. What's the point of arguing about the correctness of a phrase when it does a perfect job of conveying meaning?
We run a public crowdsourced forecasting site for the government here: https://inferpub.com. For our various stakeholders, we're using ChatGPT to summarize forecaster's rationales for their probabilistic forecast. We ask it to both summarize the arguments for the event happening, and against. We still need a human in the loop given who the information it's going to, but it's been an excellent starting point.
I find it is really useful for giving me a base to start from, especially when it’s writing code for tools that I am not very comfortable with. It usually won’t spit out the ultimate solution on the first try, but it can give me an idea of how to modify what it gave to do exactly what I want, in way less time than actually writing it.
Contracts don't work. IMO Intel should not provide raw keys to the OEMs but HSMs with the keys preloaded. And MS should require good key management for the Secured Core sticker (although probably few/no MSI products are Secured Core anyway).
Apart from exhausting natural resources, industry also makes our lives miserable in other, more subtle ways. Compared to 150 years ago, the air we breathe is foul, the water we drink is contaminated by plastics and other chemicals, the food we eat is less flavorful and is low on nutrients. We've had clothing, running water and warm homes for ages, what we have now compared to then doesn't seem worth the effort.
"I didn't distribute the movie, just a file that XOR'd every byte with 255!"

Technical people tend to see the law as a technical thing, where technical arguments will win. Courts are generally unamused, since every judge has years of experience with defendants who think that they've discovered one simple trick.
This comment triggered a lot of cope, congrats.
>I ate a huge honeycrisp apple for breakfast. It probably weighed 400 or 500g

that is huge... a half kilo apple?!?!
This isn't true. You should eat whole grains. Plenty of them. Go nuts.
The problem with 'high income countries' is that, well, East Asia exists.

TBH, they should probably break down East Asia into China, the rest of East Asia, and SEA. That's a huge lump of very wildly varying peoples.
Not hypoglycemia, but I have IBS. Doctors usually run some basic standard health panels, everything comes back pretty close to normal, they tell me I look super healthy, and that if a food bothers me, don't eat it. It took me two years of this to start to have an idea of which foods bother me, but no doctor has been helpful with figuring out what is going on with my body or why so many foods bother me.
Also, there would be penalties for filing false or invalid DMCA claims.
This is a pretty uninformed take. The tech in AirPods is great, but people using a normal earphone as a hearing aid will be disappointed. The vast majority of people with hearing loss have a degree of loss that varies by sound frequency. If you boost everything 40 dB so the high pitches are back to normal, the low pitches will be extremely uncomfortable. The programming of a hearing aid is in many ways more important than the "engineering" that makes an AirPod Pro a great listening device.
Did you try GPT4? The quality are far better.
I use AirPods for music. The battery life isn't long enough to wear all day, so they'd have to do something different for hearing aids.

I can also play music using the bluetooth support on my hearing aids, but the sound isn't as good, since they're optimized for voice and have little bass. (They let some sound through, so that's normally not a problem.)

Also, hearing aid algorithms are tuned to maximize voice comprehension rather than to make music sound good. The default setting on mine makes a piano sound like a toy piano due to boosting the treble so much. I have another setting for live music.
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Microsoft allows Xbox One/Series owners to enable Dev Mode on their consoles and run their own adhoc software on them. No secret contract allowed until you want to start selling your game.
The TPM2 spec allows it to do much more than just hold private keys, it can act as a device identifier for attestation. If that's something you care about, then you might want to disable it.

The fact that Windows 11 won't work without a TPM is a bonus.
there's no reason you can't filter privately in the client as well, if you have a client that wants to prioritize privacy. but blocking/muting seems like a reasonable thing to include in the protocol, for clients that are prioritizing resources and not ingesting more posts than they need to and as a signal for algorithms to determine users who are frequently blocked or muted.

for somebody like myself, i'm just some dude nobody cares about. my twitter blocklist was major public figures who i didn't want to see retweets of in my feed. donald trump wasn't going to get angry at me because i blocked him, it's fine if that's included in some public list.
Again I said the symptoms of abuse might be the same but the root causes are different. You blatantly ignore that.
The greatest idea corporations ever came up with was to convince us all that we can individually stop what’s happening. Remember the fantasy that many of us grew up on that recycling would save the planet? Turns out things like plastic recycling is a joke.

Or how about when the oil companies invented the idea of “carbon footprint” to convince the public it was their responsibility to curb emissions, even though the vast majority of pollution isn’t from consumers?
Ha ha, I know both states well. Kansas City does have a certain draw that Omaha can't quite compete with.

But when I was living in K.C. we were jealous of so-much-more cosmopolitan Chicago.
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You don't need a CGM, just get a GM. I had a case where I wanted to see the effect of foods, and the feeling of blood sugar levels that change during the day. I thought of going through one of the brands to get one but the per month price was decently high. The other issue with CGMs is they're for people with high blood sugar, so they're more tuned to high levels, not low levels you'd have from hypoglycemia, so I'm not sure how accurate those numbers would be. Besides, it's 15 minutes late and doesn't test the blood sugar directly (got this info when asked nutritionist friend who helps people with CGMs).

Getting the normal glucose meter was great. The poking of the needle barely causes an effect, and you can get pretty ingrained with numbers. The first couple weeks with the thing I went through tons of tests, before meals, various times after meals, and then if the sugar level was high, meaning over 130 for me, I'd go for a 10 minute walk and could see and feel that the numbers dropped to the low 100s so quickly. At this point I can tell decently well what level my number is.

The glucose monitor with poking stick is really great. Better, faster, cheaper, more trustworthy data than the current continuous monitors out there.
Asked it to write Python code to dump data from Dataframe to GCS and it wrote a perfect function that I can immediately plug in my class.

Also asked it to write a few commands for BigQuery admin, so far so good but I always double checked due to the nature of those commands.

For my study I asked it to write a C program about processes. It got it almost right except for one place that costed me a while to figure out. But still faster than me banging random stackoverflow doors. It also helps a LOT giving me information of which kernel source code file ti find a random functionality.

My real concern is that I'd rely on it too much whenever I couldn't figure out something. That's fine for work because work is boring anyway and I want to end it asap, but not good for study because I want to grow grit.