skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buried the lede:

> The overall migration rate in America today is historically low, and mobility has fallen since the 1980s for all kinds of demographic groups.
This. I understood the project as less about the flashy ten-year vision, and more about the same thing that drove Google to build Chrome and Android: not wanting to face lockout from competing platforms.

I don't think this has been _successful_, but the concern about platform access seems _reasonable_ to me. If you think it's existential, burning billions on a long-shot might even be a good strategy, though one that seems likely to fail.
Honestly, is it Pichai's fault for canceling the projects? Or is it Schmidt's fault for starting them, and for creating that short termism culture in the first place.

It could be the case that Pichai is Immelt while Schmidt is the Google Jack Welch.
this is after abusing illegal immigrant labor relentlessly for 25 years, kicking the can down the road; truly reprobate
I think the main battle for google will be that corpus poisoning might be the new SEO - wait for it!
Some telecom providers actually provide a public IP address that maps directly to your phone. You might have to change your APN settings to get one, and it might be dynamic.

It's a spectacularly bad idea that lets you serve HTTP (and any other port) directly from your phone without a SSH tunnel. You can also debug your Android with ADB... over the internet.
I’ll be a bit hyperbolic here but this is close to saying: “Dirty water isn’t the issue, the issue is the pathogens in the water”. I mean, yeah, but it’s hard to separate.
I'm a staunch support of the NY Times, but their Style section can be truly obnoxious. I appreciate they need to pay the bills and throwing a few bones to the white upper-middle class probably has pretty high ROI.
This is inevitable because there's no physiological test for ADHD; the only diagnostic criteria are how you behave and how you describe your experience. If you couldn't get treated with a convincing lie, you also couldn't get treated if you needed it.
Instead of hiding behind anonymity as in the olden days of the internet, the assholes now hide behind a deluded version of a moral high ground.

Interesting times indeed!
That has to be accounted for.
If you liked this list, you may also find the Turkey City Lexicon interesting:

https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer...

It's also aimed directly at aspiring science fiction writers, but it's been referenced enough times on Charles Stross's blog (and other SF venues) that some of its terms have entered my vocabulary and that of other SF readers I know.

EDIT: this list does contain the story type lifefeed mentions in a sibling content.

- Adam and Eve Story

Nauseatingly common subset of the “Shaggy God Story” in which a terrible apocalypse, spaceship crash, etc., leaves two survivors, man and woman, who turn out to be Adam and Eve, parents of the human race!!
> you can't do things like scribbling on whiteboards, and you have to run it from a space where video calling actually works.

Just get a Surface Hub.
And that’s good enough for that company. It’s a problem when they get ready to get a new job.
The US helps South Korea maintain a minefield in the DMZ.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106367928/us-landmine-ban-tr...
> This is like the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

C'mon. Guns are dumb. Smartphones are smart. It's entirely possible to set up a smartphone in a way that blocks access to certain apps, limits how many hours you can use an app in a day, etc etc.

The only way your parallel works is if guns had the ability to selectively target bad guys.
The EU radiation map site doesn't provide a link, but you can open the station with ID UA33429, which corresponds to Khmelnytskyi and see that the background radiation went from approx 100 nSv/h to 155 nSv/h. I can only look back to 10th of April and don't see a peak higher than approx 110 nSv/h, with the average hovering around 100.
That's just torturing the term "censorship" to the point of meaninglessness (a common refrain today).
English people are terrible at weak and standard American accents; they sound like they're head-injured, and put 'r's at the end of works that end with 'a's. The funniest examples are French & Saunders' bad American accents (but at least they're aware that they're terrible at it.)

English people vastly prefer trying to do a sterotypical New Yawk accent because they can hide their mistakes in the extremity.

Afaict, Scots are the best at doing an American accent, followed by the Irish, followed by the Australians and the Welsh, then you get to English people.
Check out the thelightphone dot com, they have already done an incredible job doing that for you.
this process does not carry the risk of getting caught buying street drugs or being caught in possession of those drugs which means you don't have to worry about court/jail or being ripped off via street crime
Good point. You're right. NIMBYism stands in the way, but I agree it's the more "obvious" solution.
anyone denying this is just coping with their bad parenting decisions lmao, it's obvious that smartphones are bad for mental health.
As someone with ADHD, I have to disagree with people in this thread who believe it’s easy to get medication.

It’s easy to get medication because you don’t have ADHD (or are high functioning). The rules that have formed around ADHD medication are designed to prevent abuse, but in reality are one huge ADHD obstacle course that is incredibly difficult to navigate for someone who actually has ADHD.

Many of the steps you take to get on medication when you don’t need it seem trivial. To someone with ADHD, each of those steps is a barrier that they have a high chance of failing to clear because they “just forget” or “don’t follow up.”

Needing to setup and coordinate appointments amplified by the regular required checkins, the monitoring of “steady use” in filling your prescriptions, on-again off-again potentially impacting your eligibility. Needing to coordinate migrating your entire diagnoses and treatment history over (including childhood) to get a new prescription from a new doctor. Etc.

I don’t like being on ADHD medication because of the side-effects and the impact on how I communicate. So I frequently fall off the wagon. As soon as I’m off my prescription, the obstacle course starts over and I have to navigate it to get back on my medication.
This is fascinating, because the current TV show _Mrs. Davis_ has references to hippo meat which I think really cements that it's a parallel universe.
They have been Intercepted (partnered with the Intercept mainly funded by billionaire Omidyhar). I observe them starting to follow the path of Vice.
As someone with ADHD (but not in a major city), it's been hard for me.

Every psychiatrist won't prescribe them unless I'm seeing a therapist that they personally know. The pharmacies often can't fill the prescription, and insurance requires significant pestering to pay for it.
Bingo. These conditions were almost non-existent until recent history and have risen sharply with white collar employment/globalization. Hell, the "father of ADHD" even said it was made up on his deathbed - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/work-of-fiction/
Copper Heist
“Its even easier now with the websites that do it.”

Ha. I just tried this and was told I didn’t score high enough on their assessment, mainly due to not having issues as a child in school.

For some reason, saying “school was easy for me because I was two to three levels ahead of the rest of the kids and I never had to do any real work” wasn’t a reasonable excuse.

Also, I talked about concentration issues at work but then was asked if I make careless mistakes. I explained it’s not really possible to make mistakes due to the nature of the job. This also meant that I don’t have ADHD, I guess.
It costs ~£1000 for a one hour assessment from non-MD assessors at private clinics.

What do you suppose the market rate for a 3 hour assessment from an MD that leads an ADHD specialist service for NIH?

It doesn't feel like a fair comparison, unless NIH is willing to provide everyone with easy access to the 3hour assessment.
> Smartphones give children the ability to bully eachother at a scale unlike any other.

It simply changed the methods. Bullying tended to be extremely physical until the "zero tolerance" crap in the 90s (that had the "side effect" that victims were also punished if they resisted).

In any case, the problem of bullying could be solved by schools having actually approachable and trained staff to serve as a contact point for students being bullied.

> Smartphones make every child hungry for validation from strangers, and makes them do crazy things to get said validation.

That was the case before smartphones as well. Stuff like "Jackass" and its culture didn't come out of nothing - adolescents across millennia did and do extremely dumb shit to impress their peers, which is also the cause of societies evolving distinct legal frameworks that differ between adolescents and adults in courts. Again, smartphones just changed the method (and, a bit, the audience potential).
I was instantly a big believer in Phind.

It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info.

I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved so much time, I'll never go back.
Why is it a problem that it's unmaintained? It's not like the TOTP standard is a moving target.
I don’t think there would be any controls that you won’t be able to bypass once this tech hits the market.

You can already order plasmids, various viruses and bacteria with custom sequenced and crispr kits online.

This is one tech that really needs to be tightly controlled as the capabilities to create really nasty things would outpace our ability to mitigate or protect against them.

This is likely the true risk of democratized manufacturing rather than the red herring that is 3D printed guns and other such nonsense.
How? Do they issue the kids phones? Assuming not because that seems implausibly expensive, what happens if you just don't give your kid a phone?
> If VR/AR glasses become no more burdensome than eyeglasses

I think the most important aspect of this is that such glasses don't introduce a separation between you and the rest of the world.

If people using AR are disconnected from interacting with others in real life (which seems very likely), then there will be a social cost for using it on the regular.

I think this, more than any other single thing, is what will keep AR in the realm of niche applications. The similar problem with smart phones is already one that people complain about a lot. AR would only make it worse.
Purely anecdotal, but my kids don't use social media at all and aren't interested. They were, however, both part of a years-long group text with a dozen of more classmates. I only peaked once or twice, but it was mostly mundane and at least once saw kids gang up on the side of social justice.
When Canada was founded, it was intended to be "Cnd", but the guy dictating the charter said "It's spelled C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?"
Paramters - number of internal variables/weights in the model

Context - Length of input/output buffer (number of input/output tokens possible).
There's millions of small businesses that don't know what CRUD or open source means.

Hell just last year I helped a neighbor get a basic informational website up for a non profit he was part of. They tried it themselves but bungled it a bit.

They want something a bit nicer now and he said they're paying someone $16k to redo it.
Do they allow tablets instead?
How is this proprietary standard designed for dot matrix printers a better choice than using standards-based image formats with their associated rich ecosystem of tools? In which use cases is converting a lossy JPEG image to Sixels considered a win?

https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
The company I work for is building a browser extension that involves ChatGPT, and we can unfortunately confirm that it is, in fact, not capable of writing browser extension code.
Plunging Tax Revenue Accelerates Debt-Ceiling Deadline
On one hand it makes it easy for people that don’t have ADHD to get the medication. On the other, I’m under the impression that one of the best ways to confirm you actually have ADHD is by taking a stimulant.

If you make it significantly harder those who actually need help might not get it, and the harm from a limited stimulant supply for everyone else isn’t all that bad compared to even things like alcohol, weed, etc.

Little kids are another thing entirely, though I know someone in my family in the US had to go through quite a lot until their 8 year old son was given medication. That included things like therapy with coping strategies.
Or could it just get some money, buy some AWS compute, and make a copy of itself there? How would you know if you'd turned all of it off?
We can do either.

For "basic" command recognition the ESP SR (speech recognition) library supports up to 400 defined speech commands that run completely on the device. For most people this is plenty to control devices around the home, etc. Because it is all local it's extremely fast - as I said in another comment pushing "Did that really just happen?" fast.

However, for cases where someone wants to be able to throw any kind of random speech at it "Hey Willow what is the weather in Sofia, Bulgaria?" that's probably beyond the fundamental capabilities of a device with enclosure, display, mics, etc that sells for $50.

That's why we plan to support any of the STT/TTS modules provided by Home Assistant to run on local Raspberry Pis or wherever they host HA. Additionally, we're open sourcing our extremely fast highly optimized Whisper/LLM/TTS inference server next week so people can self host that wherever they want.
No, your comment did totally miss the poiint. They were discussing how they believed a better implementation would have been doable, not too expensive, and fulfilled many needs in one device.

Your response was suggesting to just buy a second device. That wasn't useful; they know they can buy a second device, and we know they know that because they mentioned that device originally.

They never asked "How can I have all this functionality in my home?", but that's the question your comment was answering.

> I can dispute it's a) trivial, and b) sensible, for the vendor to have produced a different device instead

Agreed. That would have usefully contributed to the discussion about whether or not it would have been trivial and sensible.
It is not substantiated that all desires arise from an associated, achievable need.

I need food so I desire food and I eat to satisfy it.

I desire to have perfect love and relationships, but can’t seem to achieve it.

But if I cannot find a perfect slice of pizza, g-d exists and another world follows this one where the pizza is truly satisfying?

Believe whatever you like, but realize Faith is required for this to follow that.
Logic won’t do it for you alone.
Think of it as your PhD equivalent in the business world. One does a PhD not for mere survival, but for the thirst of knowledge, for engaging in stimulating intellectual activity and so on. The results from your PhD probably may not become famous, may not fetch you any big awards and whatnot, but it will mean something to you. It is essential that you aim for some sort of non-monetary returns, perhaps psychological and emotional results, first and foremost (since it's within your control).

If someone looks down upon you for trying and learning, then is it really worth associating with them?
> Then they started using them too and stopped complaining.

This is not a good thing.
Create texinfo files with org-mode for your personal notes
And the perpetual tale of the forum post that says "this has been asked before, use the search" and the first search result is this person saying to use search
My understanding is it was a constructed accent that took "upper class" elements from US and British English.
I'm inclined to agree with the obvious conclusions, but there's an obvious hidden variable of good parents not giving their children phones, hence those children have a bunch of other good influences.
> I am treating other people as professionals and letting them structure their work the way they think is best

Again, you're ignoring that the office workers preference isn't simply to work in an office. It's often to work in an office (only or primarily) with other people also in that office.

> I am questioning why the office workers try to make other people return to office with bad faith arguments (water cooler talk and synergies), when remote workers seem just happy to be working from home, without pressuring office workers to come and join them.

You're making the bad-faith argument that a person in the office and a person working at home is a win-win situation. The remote workers may be just as happy, but those in the office are not just as happy.

I get it. People like remote work. People want to protect their right to work remotely. But at least acknowledge that some people are negatively affected by the push for remote work.

The situation doesn't need to be a win-win! Somebody can lose out on what they think is best for them. That's 100% fine. It's up to the company to make a decision and then up to the employees to decide how they'll react to that decision.
The caliber stuff isn't about the "bear" minimum, it's about overkill because it not working can be an issue.

Reference that Tokyo Joe article posted here a few days ago where the dude took some number of .22 shells direct to the skull and lived.

I have read that too high powered a rifle can also be an issue, as the bullet just punches through the animal leaving a small entry wound and a relatively small exit wound, allowing the animal some significant time before it bleeds out.
Thankfully these specific examples are extremely rare and not shared by most of society, so these are not at all evidence of a lack of shared values. These aren’t difficult tradeoffs either, neither one of your examples is even the least bit tempting to the average person.

Shared values has never meant that every single person agrees including rich business owners who will hurt people to make money, or parents who would wish their kids dead. The whole reason these shocking and horrific viewpoints get talked about is because they’re so rare and so far away, so extreme, from what most people value. The trans debate is in full swing right now and there will continue to be awful headlines and more straw men and gas lighting for a while, but it’s following in the path of what black people, women, gay people, poor people, and others have all endured, and our shared values (in US centric terms, that all people are created equal and deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) will hopefully keep us moving in the right direction like it has in the past.

Same goes for environmental protection. It’s illegal to dump carcinogens in the river for a reason, and that reason is because we already collectively declared that kind of behavior to be anti-social and unsafe. (And BTW the ruthless billionaire might be amoral, but he’s probably not an idiot, and has a decent idea of where bottled water actually comes from.)

The one big danger of the culture wars and the war on science is that this all might be a ruse by some enterprising billionaires to get people to distrust government as being representative of our shared values. The billionaire might get his way and be allowed to pollute the river if he can convince us that we don’t share values with our neighbors. It might work, we might end up convinced we don’t share values with our neighbors, even when we actually do.
Pro-abortion protesters are not a thing. There are pro-choice protestors. There is long history of violence from anti-abortion movement including assaults and murders of clinic personnel & volunteers. Clinics have been physical damaged including being bombed.
I have no problem admitting this as an adult that I was addicted to the internet. My free and near unlimited access as a kid to the early internet, addicting online video games, and newfound smartphones apps like social media definitely led to mental health challenges in my late 20s and early 30s that were hard to overcome.

I even wrote a 200+ page book on this whole topic where I had "Enough" and wanted less in my life now that I'm a parent of two young kids.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9NZ1T8C

(If anyone else is struggling and wants a free copy, send me an email and I'd gladly send you one)

Also more thoughts on this: https://jondouglas.dev/entertained-from-disappointment/
I like the Northamptonshire village of Cogenhoe, which is obviously pronounced cook-no.

It sits on the River Nene, which is pronounced Neen or Nen depending on which bit of Northamptonshire you live in (Northamptonshire is not very big...)
If we are talking about DU dust cloud, maybe you could avoid going out for a while and doing intense physical activities. Also, avoiding freshly picked vegetables and resorting to packaged food for a while may help reduce exposure. AFAIK, most harm goes by inhaling the dust or eating it with contaminated food.
Went to a high school graduation this weekend. Because we were running behind, we were in the top of the seats, right in the middle. It was nice because we could see absolutely everything, and I did notice a trend -

In the crowd, the 50+ year olds were the ones getting their phones out to dick around during the ceremony.

Youth would get the phone out to take pictures, post quickly on socials, then put the phone away.

Older folks would take a picture, post on socials, scroll through socials, check the news or whatever, then take another picture and repeat.
Flawless AI – Hollywood 2.0
What IDIOTS like this poster don't understand is that "true" art doesn't sell ads!

AI will cheaply deliver us the "art" mankind actually salivates for: superficial, stimulating hits of sensation. They may not mean anything or reveal truth, but they keep the attention-manipulation gravy train humming.

What a time to be a alive!
Unfortunately we live in a world where business leadership at most companies can be boiled down to "monkey see, monkey do". Leaders at mediocre companies can mimic what great companies are doing, and usually get some percentage of the results that the great companies obtained.

And, merely appearing to increase productivity is often just as valuable as actually increasing productivity, at least from the perspective of an individual manager.

Forced return to office has the benefit of "everyone else is doing it" and at the same time, management can pretend like it has measurable benefits to the business, even if that runs contrary to the available evidence.
Technology has changed the world since I was young
have you found examples of new products with successful distribution using fine tuning
Actually I was just checking, and Bark isn't that close to maxing out GPU utilization. Running two instances on a 3090 seems like a throughput increase and the models fit. Update: And getting weird CUDA issues. Hmn...
>>Smartphones give children the ability to bully eachother at a scale unlike any other.

>No, social media does.

Social media (and other mindless media consumption) is perhaps the defining role for smartphones, especially for children.
You're doing pretty much exactly the dance here: https://twitter.com/natosaichek/status/1657422437951369218

Note that this is agreeing with a Gary Marcus Tweet - Gary Marcus not exactly being an AI hypester.

But of course there are some people for whom playing the role of real-no-bs-computer-knower is so attractive that no number of people like him, Geoffrey Hinton, Stuart Russell etc publicly worrying about x-risk will impact their tone of dismissive certitude. Are you one of those people?