skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be people with a bad case of it, I assume it's on a spectrum like many personality traits, but the term is heavily overused.

I see it mainly used when someone doesn't agree with the other person's line of reasoning.

Just right now, my denial of it nearly had you diagnosing me with it.

Might as well just go back to calling people heretics.
this should read 'when, for example, the divisor is 3 and the dividend is an integer not divisible by 3'
Now we need to make marshmallow vehicles, breathable water pool, warm fire that won't burn, antigravity flooring in case children might fall down.
For FLOSS use cases, the author may not want to deal with everything that comes from collecting money from people. So it's still useful to let users pay Google directly for their usage.
Or any philosophy, for that matter. I have been reading up on this subject, "What We Owe The Future" book lately. As I soak up more of the arguments, I see a lot of spilled ink, highly debatable key takeaways, and no practical recommendations for actions which were not already obvious.

In other words, the same thing you will get from any moral philosophy class. If you start philosophy expecting to get something tangibly productive... you are in for a disappointment.

For me, I think the important grain of salt is that better moral accuracy provides little to no value. You or I can do more good for the world with greater effort, but the efficacy of that good is mainly based on the real opportunities which we are connected to through the course of our actual lives. Different moral compasses would give slightly different answers, but the optimization makes a vanishingly thin difference. There was never much doubt about what was needed to be a better person, it's just self-interest and vices, which are completely known quantities, that keeps us from it. The exact flavor of utilitarianism under the hood is pretty much irrelevant.

I do find some value for philosophy as a thought exercise that allows us to entertain radical thought experiments far from the mainstream (see internet trolley cart memes). However, as I see longtermism now, it's pretty vanilla.
I did indeed, not in response to your comment, but to clarify that 'released' means on the search engine like their competitor has done, rather than a test URL.
I disagree with all of the above.

If we never had writing, would the Huns have carried forth Platonic wisdom? Would it really have survived thousands of years of cultural evolution and the decline of Greek civilization itself? Who even is the "we" who should consider it important?

> that would be another benefit: it would also filter unimportant works over time.

How would it even be possible to know what's been lost in the oral tradition without anyone writing things down? Only takes one autocrat to massacre followers of a specific tradition to effectively erase it. Things get filtered based on their ability to survive, which is partially a function of "importance", whatever that actually means at a given time.

> a third benefit: only people interested and caring enough would know Plato. Not dilletantes.

This just seems like unabashed elitism. A "benefit" of the oral tradition is that knowledge is reserved for the deserving? No thanks.
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At higher latitudes you can only get vitamin D from the sun for a few months of the year. In winter, the sun is too low in the sky, and the UV wavelengths needed to produce the vitamin D is entirely blocked by the atmosphere(though unfortunately the UV for sunburns is not).

This is a method of "storing" summer vitamin D for winter consumption.
Lets also not forget the danger of pinning the blame rather than finding the facts. Its like watching people leave in the bottom of the third cause they're just that cocky about their pet theory winning
Google feels like a stereotypical popular girl in high school. Google is well-liked and good at a myriad of things. Out of the blue, a charming new transfer student arrives, impressing everyone with her exceptional dancing prowess. Google, feeling a threat to her popularity, boldly asserts, "I'm the best dancer! I've been doing this for years! I'm popular, good-looking, and the best at everything." She then devotes weeks to choreographing a dance routine, which, while decent, doesn't quite measure up to the newcomer's flair.
I must be the only person left not writing TS at this point.

Once EcmaScript adopts optional static types or some kind of standardized type annotations [1] I will probably use those. At least in Node, where I have more control of the runtime version.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
I'm a Go dev these days and rather looking into TS and Rust.

I was just curious to be honest. With RoR being what it is PHP frameworks has to offer something on the same level (at least) to be of any interest (as a I see it). Not to mention ecosystem\packages\gems\etc.
That's great but the UK isn't the US. However I do hear of people doing it here, just to be able to pay their mortgage
What the hell has 'cancel culture' anything to do with it? It's basically boycott wrapped up in a boogeyman costume.
The UK currently has chronic labour shortages in many areas, so I don't think your take is particularly credible in this specific case.

Other cases, potentially, but not this one.
The problem with JS these days is not that what's there is bad. It's that there's not much there. Anything beyond the basics requires you to roll your own or go hunt for a library.
I just finished listening to _The Hot Zone_, and that virus is truly scary.
Yep, just noting for anyone who may not realize that "in mass" isn't really a thing in English.

As you note, en masse is common — enough so that you even don't need to italicize it (although you can).
For the UK: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

> During the autumn and winter, you need to get vitamin D from your diet because the sun is not strong enough for the body to make vitamin D.

Likely applies to many other countries.
Deep insight!

Retailers should only pay sales clerks when they are directly talking to customers!

Bus drivers should only be paid when the bus is moving!

I'm only going to pay my developers when they are writing lines of code!

All of the 'in between' time 'doesn't count as work'.
No problem, it definitely deserves front-page status, thanks for writing it :)
Hey thanks for pointing this out! Fixing it.
I agree on the spirit of your take but then you should count the commuting hours for the rest of workers as well. If you need 1 hour to get to work and 1 to get back, you are already working (or giving your time to your work place) 50 hours a week
It looks like they're offering this as an API with a free monthly $200 credit. Huge kudos to the Google cloud team for this!
If they did use that flawed method then the headline would be 0% of gig workers are earning below minimum wage.
Just a mounted drive over sshfs...
How lmuch big does an Uber driver “work” for Uber? How long does a “dasher” work? If folks aren’t paid for the 15 minute gap between orders, or the 10 minute commute to pickup location - then a 60 hour work week can easily turn into 30 hours of paid time.
My friend is an Uber driver, he’s an immigrant from Africa and has been running a small accounting business for years. He doesn’t always have a lot of work and it can be seasonal so he uses Uber to fill the gap (allowing him to completely stop doing Uber for a month or two and come back to it).

He also has small kids at home so helps with them during the day and does Uber at nights.

Gig work is very flexible that way, unlike almost any other side job accessible to most people.
> Any prediction more than 50 years in the future is pure guesswork.

Predictions are a curious thing. They also shape current behavior and thinking, either in alignment with making those predictions becoming more likely to be true eventually, or fires up opponents.

Put differently, predictions are also visions.
Aspiring authoritarian is a more apt description. The country has very real problems (housing, inflation, immigration, money laundering, health care) that get little attention, while his government focuses on regulating the internet, protecting friendly oligopolies that dominate our economy, and banning firearms while limiting debate and lying to the public every step of the way.

And I say this as someone who voted for him, or rather voted for who he appeared to be early on.
Legally speaking, they do. Not to the same degree as people, but still.
Apple is bigger than almost any stock market in the world
The degree of how locked down one was and for how long varied greatly depending on where you were.
I would expect that to be reflected by working 50-60+ hours per week.

That does not follow. Suppose the gig workers are doing food deliveries. Each day, the market places X food orders at a total of $Y including fees and tips. If the market clears (no one who places a food order has it left unfulfilled), a reasonable assumption, then the food delivery gig is a zero-sum game. If all the drivers work more hours that just means they’ll be waiting longer, on average, for orders to come in. No amount of extra hours worked will create additional food orders.
i think he was snarkily making an absurd comment for the humor value
Bison is apparently the second largest PaLM 2 model:

> Even as PaLM 2 is more capable, it’s also faster and more efficient than previous models — and it comes in a variety of sizes, which makes it easy to deploy for a wide range of use cases. We’ll be making PaLM 2 available in four sizes from smallest to largest: Gecko, Otter, Bison and Unicorn. Gecko is so lightweight that it can work on mobile devices and is fast enough for great interactive applications on-device, even when offline.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-palm-2-ai-large-lan...
> But actually what will happen is that they will get automated and then have no job.

I find this to be a lazy argument because the conclusion is that you should never try to improve your situation ever. Also the easy counter to this is to establish a welfare state by taxing profits across the board (not that this could successfully be done in the US).

The counter to that argument is that capital will flee overseas. The counter to that argument is to do what China did and remind the tech oligarchs who is really in charge. The counter to that argument is that it's bad to do that because property rights are sacred.

At the end of the day though, we should really want for all citizens to have as high of a living standard as possible. I think their humanity is a better argument than any alternatives that economists can come up with.
Are "gig" workers considered independent enterprises themselves? Do they need to pay self-employment taxes?
My body stopped making Vitamin D on its own. Taking D3/K supplements was a life saver and for seasonal affective disorder. And now I seem to be back to typical levels with just sun exposure.
> If they just want to let people know that there's a new iPhone out, that does the job.

Isn't the point of this video just to let people know that there's a new AI in search? It seems to do that job.

I think the HN audience is very interested in the technical details (myself included) and so is trying to parse the video more deeply than most people will.
I moved away from JavaScript because of the same reason I moved away from PHP.

An originally decent idea gone terribly wrong.
Total tax revenues in 2022 were $2.69T. Medicare and social security were $2.14T. National defense was $0.776T. The three absolutely-cannot-cut categories alone are more than revenue! Of course nobody is serious about balancing the budget.
Yeah I've encountered people like, "hey well if we find out it was China then there should be consequences." Uhh like what? Are we going to invade a nuclear adversary who the whole world is 100% dependent on and with a population of 1.4 billion people to shut down their labs that maybe produced a virus?

The best payback for millions of accidental deaths: a billion purposeful ones all over the globe and very possibly the destruction of human civilization itself.
"Can we sue you, or are you subject to prosecution under the CFAA? Thanks."
Except we really didn't. People are not in general paid for their time going to and from being on the clock which, in many cases, is significant.
Both. China was both business as the new normal early on, but also stuck with the new normal far harder and longer than anyone else.
Author here. Agree based on looking at other sources, my dating on OC-48 deployment seems to be off by ~a decade (it would be more like late 1990s/early 2000s, e.g. [0] says 1999 for a very early use). I sourced this from Fred Goldstein, The Great Telecom Meltdown, but I don't have the book handy to double-check whether I misread something. It may be confusion over just where in the network OC-48 was being used.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high-speed_Backbone_Netwo...
TVs are large enough now that square feet would work, for markets where that unit is used anyway. For other markets ... Uhhh, would anyone understand deci square meters?
Painful clickbait.

Amazon isn’t abandoning Serverless. One team did, after analyzing their utilization, and had measurable success.

They did the math.

What happens when people do the math? They make better decisions. Sometimes that might even mean to use Serverless.

But that’s a boring headline.

“Measure twice, cut once.”

Yawn.
This is touched on in the article, but these mushrooms would have vitamin D2. Studies find that supplementation with vitamin D3 is more effective(lower dose for the same effect) and longer lasting on blood vitamin D levels than vitamin D2. So frequently eating enough of the mushrooms would be important if facing a vitamin D deficiency.
> The Catholic Church is interesting counterpoint. Their religious teaching still openly draws upon tradition, institutional church authority and individuals like the Pope.

IIRC this was their main contention against the Protestant reformation. They believed that just pointing at scripture without some practice of custom and tradition to ensure you're properly interpreting it in a sensible way would lead people to folly and extremism/fundamentalism.

Granted it's sort of a pick your poison deal. You either get the fundamentalism of hardline scripturalists or you get the corruption that comes with a hierarchical institution that requires people to offloading some of their critical thinking. Or you can blend them together and get the worst of both worlds by creating something that looks like the more noxious elements of the American Evangelical movement.
At what point in the day does it make sense to start reading the time off this broken clock I have?
> It's a web terminal that you type queries into and it returns results

Even just chatGPT in its current form is more than that. It is a full-fledged virtual assistant - but an esoteric one. Using it as better search is one use case, but how about to write a novel? It isn't mature enough to write _good_ prose sufficient for the the whole length of a publication. But it is good enough to generate ideas for the plot, edit, identify continuity errors, flush out backstories, generate maps, new ideas, write starter content that you modify. It could seriously change how productive one is. Similarly for writing code, or putting together home remodel plans or whatever. Learning how to have an AI "assistant" is a new thing because the intuitions about what it will be good and or bad at, especially for folks less familiar with the underlying way LLMs are built is not something that you get automatically.

> AI powered music generation service

Your friend does sound a bit niave about the complexity of such a service. But even right now, you can ask ChatGPT to generate coord progression, or representative example pieces of music that match the prompts you gave that would could use with some downstream system without a full "music model" along the lines you described.

Plenty of us are finding dozens of new applications every day. But they don't all work 100% out of the box. Most don't. So understanding the limitations and what kind of integrations are needed is really key to leveraging the value.
Here's the 2023 thread for this, with links to the 2022 and 2021 versions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433

And a separate thread on ideas generation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942558
Sounds like a scripted and slower (not trying to diminish) version of Go.
This is in part because of exploitation and lack of credit/royalties given to the vocalists instead of the lack of importance to the music.

Take a look at the story of Martha Wash, the huge iconic voice behind "everybody dance now", "ride on time" etc. You can't deny that these type of vocals are the tent-pole of those tracks but they basically scammed her by using demo sessions and using lip-syncers in music videos.

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/martha-wash-the-most-fa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSefwVQVVpU
Minimum wage is a rate, not an amount. It doesn't matter what other jobs people have, it won't change the rate they're paid for gigwork.
RTO is never going to work with my team. More than half of my teammates are remote, and unlikely to move if asked. We’ve already lost one person that way. I used to have a private office, but when I came back they moved me to an open floorplan seating arrangement. I now don’t sit next to anyone I work with who are local, nor do I know what the people next to me even do. No conference rooms are ever available for meetings, and most of the people I collaborate with at this point aren’t in my office anyways and I know exclusively from webex and slack. I usually just take meetings from my car in the parking lot. And damnit, they “renovated” the office but it’s now just a collection of misshapen rooms and white walls.

I can’t believe I get paid as much as I do at such a reputable company and this is the current state of things. I feel like a dog being dragged on a leash by whatever god-emperor exec made this decision. Sorry for the ramble, but I’m sitting in bed procrastinating going to work when I could alternatively just pull out my laptop right now and get things done.
> Many of those big tech companies come from the US and their approach to freedom of speech is very very different ours so what we see as business as usual they see as an attack on free speech.

Brazilian here and many if not most of us value freedom of speech and don't see this as business as usual.
They actually covered that:

By expanding the breadth of their diets, the sea lions have been able to get bigger even as their numbers increased. In theory, larger sea lions should be able to travel further, dive deeper, and handle larger prey. In addition, as their breeding sites became more crowded, increased competition between males during the breeding season may have favored larger males over time.

“Body size is very important in competition with other males to control territory at breeding sites. Being bigger also means they can fast longer and stay on the beach to defend their territory,” Valenzuela-Toro said.
The lockdowns went on far longer than the "flatten the curve" phase. I think the lessons learned here were:

1. Once something like this escapes its confines and starts spreading as COVID did, it is here to stay and any lockdowns that are not to avoid hospital capacity problems just prolong the inevitable

2. Compromised people due to health conditions and age should definitely lay low when there is an outbreak. But locking down a populace at great financial and other costs does not help them. In fact it probably causes more harm as the cycle is prolonged. The more healthy people that recover the better.

Trump did his things based on stubbornness and stupidity. Persisting lockdowns and draconian restrictions past the hospital situation being resolved was also not wise either. I live in NY and in April 2020 locking down was essential. It was very bad with the hospitals and nursing homes being ravaged.
I like how we carve out acceptable targets for exploitation, and it's always young people.

Ive seen non-western societies discriminate against old and young.

Western society discriminates against young people but protects the older generation.

Combined with growing bon-working population, this is resulting in political disaster.

Majority of working age population voted against Brexit, against current conservative government in Britain, against Trump presidency.
Don't we have enough evidence from China it was the other way around? They seemingly imposed the most restrictive lockdowns in the world, and it took them the longest to get rid of the largest scale crisis.
I have seen this happen before my eyes:
When i was young (~17 y.o) i was able to remember all my family IDs, my friends phone numbers and a lot of data about them. Now i rely a lot on my smartphone to tell me their phone numbers, their birthdays, their address, etc... (Sadly today i dont even know the phone number of my gf, out of pure laziness). As i have become more and more lazy and let the tools do their job i'm losing my own skills on it "because i need my brain for bigger things - sure".
Or is it the microplastics?
In the third paragraph, the author writes that COVID was probably "cooked up in the kitchen of nature", and links to an article to support that assertion. But the linked-to article does not make that point. In the comments section of the article, a commenter pointed this out, and the author replied to that specific comment with an answer that did not address the issue but expressed the author's personal opinion on the matter, and has not updated the article to be more clear.
Welcome to being an airline flight attendant.

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