skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I'm going to (continue to) take a daily vitamin D, because I recognize not everything can be confirmed by a double-blind experiment, and the cost is low."

Or it may be possible to prove the opposite, as with the parachute.

bmj: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

Results: Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury (0% for parachute v 0% for control; P>0.9). This finding was consistent across multiple subgroups. Compared with individuals screened but not enrolled, participants included in the study were on aircraft at significantly lower altitude (mean of 0.6 m for participants v mean of 9146 m for non-participants; P<0.001) and lower velocity (mean of 0 km/h v mean of 800 km/h; P<0.001).

"Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials might selectively enroll individuals with a lower perceived likelihood of benefit, thus diminishing the applicability of the results to clinical practice."

disclaimer:

I am pro-Parachute! I believe 100% in the effectiveness of the parachute!
A JVM in the browser wouldn't be so bad these days, since we have things like same-origin policies and sandboxing. Something like it could only run headless, had no AWT/Swing, and had an API to manipulate DOM and bindings to JS.
What leads you to suspect that Gödel incompleteness may be relevant here?

There's no formal axiom system being dealt with here, afaict?

Do you just generally mean "there may be some kind of self-reference, which may lead to some kind of liar-paradox-related issues"?
Ask HN: Which books helped you gain mathematical maturity?
Mathematical maturity is a term thrown around to mean that someone with it is well versed with the lingo and workings of the field of mathematics. You can't learn the entire field of mathematics in your lifetime. But what mathematical maturity gives you is the power to understand mathematics that is at the moment beyond your scope by searching the right things or by pattern matching.

You are confident that you can learn more and tackle challenging problems with the use of mathematics.

How and when did you gain that so called "mathematical maturity"?
So, you recommend that GP ignore his (in your words) "biggest social audience"?

Do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?
> Why I type this here? I found it interesting that I had to discover this cure on my own. The medical system wuldn't have figured that out on their own, let alone accept that it was the single solution.

It's because studies showing correlation between Vitamin D level and winter depression/SAD are mixed.

I'm not saying it's a placebo. If it works for some people - great! But you can't expect doctors to recommend it when the data is quite unclear.
no but look at how this very simple difference will lead to you being sued is very similar to look at how this very simple difference but slightly less simple than the other one and more of a real world scenario really will keep you from being sued.

It's very odd to not see the similarity between the two claims and how one exists as a critique of the other.
Statamic v4
I've been writing and recording music for 25 years. I wouldn't do it on an iPad if the app paid me. If there was ever a job that requires a mouse and multiple screens even more than coding and design, it's audio engineering. Try editing a piano roll with thousands of MIDI notes, adjusting thousands of automation points and fine tuning EQ settings on a touchscreen. The experience is terrible, and no software can fix that. A tablet is just the wrong tool for the job.
Why should I put any good faith reasoning for people that shout everyone else should do the stuff they aren't willing to?

I'm not going react in good faith to people that aren't acting in good faith to start with.
I get that such tool needs to exist. In this thread there are a bunch of use cases.
But node feels like it shouldn't be used for CLIs (generic ones, i.e. not tied to a specific language and use case).

Every time I see a tool that seems usefull its a hassle to install the correct node environment for it to work.
> Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas.

> but my take on it is, if I can't make friends with people who hold beliefs different from my own, then maybe I'm the asshole.

It's not only about getting along with people on an individual level.

"Politics" is why Massachusetts has a social safety net for many, there are abortion rights, the first gay marriage in the US was a short walk away, my trans neighbor can walk down the street without being hassled, there's countless different flavors of churches and other religious meeting places (as well as many seculars), and education and science are generally valued.

And when some people traveled to Boston to promote aggressive right-wing ideas, an overwhelming number of locals showed up to tell them to take a hike, and sent the message that they had the backs of the people the clowns were threatening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Free_Speech_Rally

This Blue State is far from perfect, but I see plenty of practical reasons for someone like myself to live here rather than in a Red State, no matter how nice and decent the typical Red State resident might be.
So, let's talk frankly here.

Many, though not all, of the people here and in the YC ecosystem etc., work or have had worked or otherwise made their careers (and fortunes),

helping concerns whose business model is entirely, openly, founded on maximizing user growth and user engagement. So as to sell personal data in one direction and ads in the other.

This has been something like at trillion-dollar endeavor, and a lot of those dollars have gone into the science (formal and "field") of ensuring those two things.

I.e, to MANUFACTURE ADDICTION.

It's not a bug. It's not just a feature. It's THE feature.

What I tell my own kids, who are not allowed on TikTok, or any Meta property, at all, full stop,

is that against the evolved state of these properties, on our twinkly devices, we have no more defense against addiction than we do against the physiologically analogous fat and sugar.

It's not about discipline.
It's not about habit formation.
It's not about best practices in schools.
It's not about "downtime" and tepid screen time controls.

The problem is more fundamental, and much, much, much uglier, and much, much, much intractable, than most discourse about it admits.

The only solution today, literally, is not to play the game.

Footnote: AI is going to make things 1000x worse, which I would not have believed possible a few years ago.
I only started noticing substack URLs very recently. I haven’t even taken the time to figure out what substack is. I can’t figure out if I am late or if you are early in saying it has already jumped the shark.
The mean transduction in the sense of sequence-to-sequence models (transducing one sequence to another).

Attention based models don't necessarily need to be sequence to sequence. They can be classifiers, decoder only, etc. Attention is just one tool in the ML architecture toolkit.
You said that if there is a legitimate need they can call the school office or have the office call the parents - so I'd expect the office to handle it.

For myself it was mostly that parents could simply call me 5 minutes before they picked me up for my dentist appointment (which I had at least monthly for 7 years due to having braces) instead of me waiting somewhere for who knows how long because there was a traffic jam (and missing more schooltime than necessary).

They could simply call me/send me a SMS and ask me to pick up my younger siblings when they had unexpected work and couldn't make it in time - but since they respected me as a person, I had to confirm that I will do it and don't have other plans. Obviously, if I saw the question only after school that'd be way too late and they would have to force me into it instead of simply asking the grandparents if I said I can't.

Because why the hell shouldn't we use modern technology if it's available to us? Thanks to it we were flexible, and we enjoyed it.

Yeah, I also used the phone during class. Because the lessons were shit. Though we had a few very engaging teachers and even though I had zero interest in their subjects, I never used phone in their class.

Schools have to improve, taking phones away is just bandaging the symptoms.
What do you think of https://pinggy.io in place of ngrok?
Falcon 9's price is a bit below its competitors. But remember, cost != price. There is not much reason for SpaceX to reduce the price further, if demand is sufficiently inelastic.

There is room to reduce cost much further. Discarding the second stage is a large cost. The propellants used by F9 cost $200K/launch, according to Musk. With full reusability costs should fall at least another order of magnitude.
The first price comparison website that manages to include these bullshit charges effectively will make a lot of money.

(part of which will no doubt be spent on made-up lawsuits by the businesses involved)
LUVOIR's planned to launch on Starship or something of its size.
Yeah, starving sounds awesome, hate that so many people will miss out on it.
Renowned Activist Sues over U.S. Cyber Tech Exports to Repressive Regimes
My kid's (American) schools have this policy before high-school. In High School, they can have a phone, but it can't be out during class.

Just depends on the school district.
https://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/sf-convert-downtown-offic...
Indeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

> Source-available software is software released through a source code distribution model that includes arrangements where the source can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but without necessarily meeting the criteria to be called open-source.
I had it for a while and mapped Ctrl+Alt+P to my password + Enter. This made the Unix guy at work groan audibly when I told him. :D
Damn if you're not right. I stand corrected. I wonder why I thought I needed to mentally camel-case it? Is that what it was? Was it ever capitalized this way or have I been making it up this whole time?

I think it's Mandela Effect. I don't know of any other words that can have the letters 'Xc' in sequence in a capitalized word, so my brain must just reject the idea even though I've literally seen it over and over right in front of my eyes.
That’s why I stick to cans of non-diet soda :D :D
The IP/Copyright belongs to you. It's a common concern when outsourcing software, so my goal is to make it concern-free like Upwork does. Def good question, I'll make changes. IP and trade secrets are protected by the contract with the engineers.

I'm targeting enterprise customers and they have more complex products and requirements so yes, $12,800/mo is for prototyping. My assumption is that mid-level tech execs have experience outsourcing software, so they know exactly when it's working out and when not. Yes, there will be daily and weekly check-ins and the process tracking tools in place, just like with the in-house team.
The definition of "quiet quitting" has been muddied. I feel as if its necessary for any discussion on the topic to include a definition to establish clarity. In my mind "quiet quitting" is the process of doing the bare minimum required by the job tasks and nothing more. If we go with this definition it seems pretty self explanatory. We have had terrible wage stagnation in many industries and a lack of the ability to change government policy has naturally led to this outcome.
> Those opposed to open-sourcing, like OpenAI,

so we're just saying the quiet part out loud now huh
Sure but it is also about storage and density. Oranges have peels and don't stack that well and can be damaged. Extracting the value into a mostly rectangular container allows for the same product in an easier to distribute form factor. The old tubes of concentrated orange juice took that to an extreme by also removing most of the water and freezing them.
Who said it is? There is no need for drive-by whataboutism.
Or, it shows that Google can’t deliver products in this space to (literally) save its life, no matter how good its technology is (which they’ve also shown lots of other ways.)
Can't the software correct for the iPad speaker so that it's effectively flat?
It was very useful. thanks!!
Let’s put aside hate, Twitter can‘t even filter raw violence (people shooting eachother) nowadays. It‘s really disturbing and I press I‘m not interested every time but these viral videos still pop up every once in a while. Sure the number of regrettable minutes might be minimized as Elon wants it to be. But the magnitude of regret of the few regrettable minutes is just off the charts
1. Nobody really uses those dinosaurs for modern tech writing.

2. Neither platform is VC funded with the expectation of hyper growth (which will eventually result in paywalls). One of them is owned by Google (and is more likely to get cancelled outright), and the other has grown naturally and organically over two decades.
"Cannot be inferred from its training set" is a pretty difficult hurdle. Human beings can infer patterns that aren't there, and we typically call those hallucinations or even psychoses. On the other hand, some unconfirmed, novel patterns that humans infer actually represent groundbreaking discoveries, like for example much of the work of Ramanujan.

In a real sense, all of the future discoveries of mathematics already exist in the "training set" of our present understanding, we just haven't thought it all the way through yet. If we discover something new, can we say that the concept didn't exist, or that it "couldn't be inferred" from previous work?

I think the same would apply to LLMs and their understanding of the way we encode information using language. Given their radically different approach to understanding the same medium, they are well poised to both confirm many things we understand intuitively as well as expose the shortcomings of our human-centric model of understanding.
I thought there was already data on this, this paper doesn't seem to be adding anything we didn't know before to the science. Can someone explain if that's actually the case or not?
I agree, for food, though it would still be nice to be able to "trust but verify". But the more common use case is testing water from old sketchy pipes.
Global Attitudes Towards AI
Locally:

exabrial@galactus:~$ jshell
| Welcome to JShell -- Version 17.0.6
| For an introduction type: /help intro

jshell> System.out.println("HelloWorld!");
HelloWorld!

jshell> /exit
| Goodbye
I'm very curious to see if patents/copyright/IP just become "washable" with AI making them near useless.

Given the recent determinations, it almost sounds like since it won't be human made, it might not be protectable? Not to mention the exceptions generally made for modifications to the IP to improve it.
> Adobe Photoshop features from 10 years ago is all I need for my use case

Cool. Who cares? Are you Adobe's target customer base?

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare-plans.html

No, you're not.
Are cans still coated?
Coinbase ex-manager sentenced to 2 years in prison in US insider trading case
Avoiding red states to avoid being shot would be extremely dumb for many reasons.

1. Cities and neighborhoods in any state can be safe, even in the states with the most shootings

2. If you have enough money to choose to live in another state, you're probably not going to be living in an extremely poor area that is the most likely to be beset with gun violence

3. Other commonplace things are much more likely to kill you than being shot (cars, for example).
What happened with people using one single version of something for 10 years? If there's a major update, it's a separate product that's a paid upgrade. We've had that figured out since the 90s. And quality software doesn't need maintenance.
> Beside that, permaculture is nothing more than a framework for systems design. Can be applied to much more than your garden.

And people do: http://permacomputing.net/
I'm not so sure it's going to break. Google may have a hard time enforcing this one thanks to Alice, but we will see if they try. Given that there has been no lawsuit against OpenAI, I'm guessing that they aren't planning to.
It's a moot point. In a free market, Tesla wouldn't exist either and neither would some of the biggest financial institutions, or the interstate highway system.
No they're not, they're inner city white women. None of them live life devoid of the modern convenience they're whining about. This is a lie and you know it.

Some of the most "passionate" outdoors people are hunters and fisherman that actually contribute to the land not environmentalists.

Besides, your point is moot. Merely going outdoors doesn't mean you eschew all the modern technological marvels provided to you. All of these people still have massive homes, use climate control, electricity, get their food delivered, drive etc.
Seems like this study was conducted primarily in Louisiana. "A total of 60 beverage samples purchased from local supermarkets/retail stores in New Orleans, Louisiana, were refrigerated and homogenized..."

Louisiana is not quite known for its strict environmental standards (including water quality). [1] Presumably most soft drinks and juices are bottled at plants locally using local water supplies as carrying liquids long distances is not economically advantageous.

Its unclear (to me at least) if any of these findings are applicable to soft drinks/juices in other states with stricter water quality standards.

[Edit] Definitely not saying soft drinks/juices aren't toxic, I'm mostly pointing out this is a local/regional study and I feel therefore its implications are therefore local/regional.

I'd prefer:

- more local/regional studies for my location or

- a randomly sampled nation wide study or

- a control group against local/regional bottled water

before I make broad conclusions/make a change in lifestyle.

That said I mostly don't drink soft drinks/bottled water.

[1] https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2022-09-29/louisiana-ranks...
As far as I'm concerned, in the imaginary sane world, I say if any users were to get sued by Dolby, then it's Adobe on the hook for that.

The fact that Adobe tries to make this a you problem instead of doing whatever they have to do to make good on their own obligations tells you all you need to know about Adobe, if you didn't already know many times over.
Maybe, but is anything I said inaccurate? Try telling a trans person that the local political environment shouldn't impact their decision on where to live. Your best case scenario is an eye roll.

Only certain people are given the freedom to ignore politics.
As an aside, ancient cultural knowledge for finding and preparing food is surprisingly sophisticated and non-obvious [1], even if it does not lend itself to an explicit rational model:

> A reasonable person would have asked why everyone was wasting so much time preparing manioc. When told “Because that’s how we’ve always done it”, they would have been unsatisfied with that answer. They would have done some experiments, and found that a simpler process of boiling it worked just as well. They would have saved lots of time, maybe converted all their friends to the new and easier method. Twenty years later, they would have gotten sick and died, in a way so causally distant from their decision to change manioc processing methods that nobody would ever have been able to link the two together.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...
I wonder will someone please check the neurons associated to the petertodd and other anomalous glitch tokens (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petert...)? I can see the github and I see that for any given neuron you can see associated tokens but I don't see how to do an inverse search.
I'm still struggling to find a comfortable grip for korea's flat steel chopsticks.
Even just making patents un-assignable would be an improvement.
I don't know what to tell you: I pay about $1600 for my part of a three bedroom, which is two bedrooms to myself (one is my office), a private back yard, a front patio, and a furnished basement. I don't think I got a particularly good deal on it either, from talking to my neighbors and friends. It's not "luxury," but it definitely isn't a dump either -- from seeing other units in the neighborhood, it's probably strictly average.

The rates provided on these kinds of sites don't necessarily reflect the median housing stock in neighborhoods in Brooklyn, which are frequently buildings where the owner lives in one of the units.
Nice to see the post here! Happy to answer any questions or discuss about different approaches!
Vegan D3 can also be derived from lichen; here's one such product:

https://www.futurekind.com/products/vegan-vitamin-d3
Do you not understand how minors are treated in the legal system?

You know full well, under the age of 18 you do not get full rights.
Precisely.

Economists like debt. It gets the economy moving. A debt-less economy is very slow. Most non-trivial projects require debt: starting a business, buying a house, getting an education. If you had to pay for those in cash, you'd do so much later if ever.

It's the reason most corporations have debt. They use it to fund expansion. As long as that expansion brings in more money than the interest payments, they literally never have to pay that debt back.

Human beings, unlike corporations, retire. Inflation certainly puts a crimp in that, but there are many other problems with retirement with larger effects. Ultimately, those problems come down to an economy that continues to expand even after they've left the workforce, such that they can outpace inflation by either their own investments, or the government's.

Which, as I started with, is all about somebody taking out debts so that the economy expands. A vastly slower economy without debts is more straightforward to understand, but it's also a much more primitive and less productive one, and so everyone is worse off.
#4: Reflections on the Pathless Path
Sharing a YC founder's reflection on a non-linear career, the allure of entrepreneurship, and loving one's fate.
Kind of annoying that the study doesn't name the actual drinks, it just breaks them down by categories and lists results for the worst soft drink/sports drink/juice
I will leave this here if you don't have "land" to grow your own crops. It is in Spanish.

The guy is from buenos Aires, doing everything with our selling anything and recycling everything with permacultura in mind.

As some of the comments said, it is more about how you see what you are doing in relation with others and why.

https://m.youtube.com/@ElRecicladorUrbano/videos
Whisking eggs with chopsticks works SO much better than using a fork, and the cleanup is a million times easier than using a whisk.

Additionally, you can use the chopsticks in the pan while you're cooking, saving another tool that would need cleaning
How is Kaiser? As a Newyorker looking to move to California at some point, I’ve heard both good and bad. But the fact that it seems more integrated and seamless than almost anything else in the US (maybe except concierge care?) is highly appealing.
If you didn't work, how would you pay your property taxes?
A lot of us wish we had businesses that were half the failure that Google is.