skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, sure. These aren’t exactly made for public consumption but you might find them helpful. They don’t have documentation so you’ll have to do investigation yourself.

https://github.com/btobolaski/mood-tracker

Very basic Django app. Poetry2Nix basically worked out of the box without fiddling. Can drop into a dev shell with `nix develop`. It also demonstrates building a container for the application with exactly the same dependencies using `nix build`

https://github.com/btobolaski/text-generation-webui/tree/nix...

The opposite end of the spectrum, this adds a nix dev environment for text-generation-webui with cuda support. It is much more complex and mixes wheels with python libraries from nixpkgs. Torch comes from nixpkgs which means that it needs to build from source which takes a while. I’m currently attempting to get it working with just wheels but I’m having some trouble getting all of the native library paths fixed. This demonstrates nix’s flexibility as it pulls two separate copies of nixpkgs in order to match cuda and the nvidia drivers to what my hardware is currently running with.
Where on earth did I say anything about trusting institutions? Or that there’s a solution?
"You can't fool me! It's bandaids all the way down"
As long as you know how to get out of technical debt (islands too) when you see one, you're suited for any task.
The fun thing is that, until CS slows down, stuff gets better so fast that we get to reimplement the same thing, but 10x better every 5 years or so.

First I wrote single threaded code code with automatic memory management, then single threaded synchronous with manual memory management, then synchronous multi-threaded, then async, and then async lock free.

Now I am writing async lock free, and the compiler is helping me prove it is data-race-free and memory safe.

Each time I rewrite this stuff, someone hands me 6-7 figures. This is awesome.
> I'm surprised about this kind of takes. Is it assuming that kids aren't affected by their dad getting laid off, or money getting tight in the family in general, adults' reactions to the news or everyday events etc

Except this trend didn't happen at any previous downturn, so now you're special pleading that this economic downturn specifically is different somehow, based on... What exactly? And again, these mental health trends are international and cross-cultural and none of the other explanations can account for this. In fact, your suggestion that it's due to economic downturn is essentially refuted since even nations that didn't experience a downturn saw these mental health declines.

> Adults' feelings, anxiety, pressure usually propagate through kids.

What about adult anxiety about the Vietnam war, the nuclear threat of the cold war, the anxiety over terrorism that took out the twin towers. No meaningful blips seen with those momentous events.

You keep pointing to possible second and third order effects that maybe-somehow-sort-of indirectly filtered down to kids through mechanisms like "parental anxiety", instead of a direct and obvious first-order effect from a device that's literally in their hands 16 hours of the day, and whose use we know has been algorithmically optimized to drive engagement, fear and anger, and whose second order effects are known to disrupt sleep, which is particularly important for teens going through puberty.

Like, don't you see how absurdly implausible your second and third order effects are by comparison? To say nothing of the fact that they don't even explain all of the data, which is not a problem for the social media hypothesis.
> It's not the compile time text processing that's interesting

You've talked right past me. Metaprogramming is not compile time text processing.

> Honestly even if some of this were possible with metaprogramming, my intuition is that it would be much more verbose and complex.

No. It's probably even how the Microsoft team are achieving the typing you're talking about. The special sauce here isn't as special as you think.

> I think we're reaching a bit of an impasse

Not really. I was just saying that what you're talking about is totally possible with metaprogramming. Not making some rhetorical play.

> José Valim's blog post on static typing ended with an announcement that they've sponsored a PhD student to work on these problems.

That's specifically because strict static typing with guards^ is at least difficult, but maybe impossible, and that's what the PhDs are trying to figure out. However, dialyzer isn't as hobbled as you imagine/purport it to be – the crux of my counterargument – and actual experience trumps speculation or casual reading on the topic.

FYI, guards and pattern matching are one of the reasons why Elixir is so damn expressive, and this kind of function typing isn't available/possible in most non-functional languages

^ https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/guards.html
Yes, but none of these require you to stare at a phone most of the time. Social media does, as it incessantly screams for your attention.

I don't know anyone other than me who uses their phone for as little as you list (I look at the sky for weather reports) though.
This is why I've been using VPN services for 10 years. In the very list it's a significant extra hoop someone has to jump through to correlate and read my ICRs
Thank you for reminding about Paul Wenzel’s music stuff. Building atop boilerplate is also good to remember and do.

> and a former musician in high school

s/former/recovering
Easy - even my kids when they were under 2 could drink without straws. Of course if you have ice cubes in everything then straws are needed - which is why we avoid ice cubes also.
Talk about a topic no one should be lectured about lol
It's a deeply selfish attitude for the elderly and obese (those most at risk from covid and influenza) to expect healthy people to take something that might have a net negative effect to them as individuals.
There's clearly a significant effort that went into compiling this. Good job
My understanding is that TEPS were used to determine computing for these types operations, rather than FLOPS, as they were more useful specifically for that comparison. There metrics put them in the same order of magnitude; however, as stated before, these miss the point by quite a bit, since much of the 'computations' humans do are quite irrelevant (taste, smell, etc) to producing language or solving algorithmic problems, etc.

For example, the cerebellum is 50-80% of what people keep quoting here (Number of neurons in the brain) and is not activated much in language processing.

Wernicke's area spans just a few percent of the cortical neurons.
The amount of pre processing we do by providing text is actually quite enormous, so that already removes a remarkable amount of complexity from the model. So, despite the differences between biology and ANNs, it's not unreasonable what were seeing right now.
Yeah, the parent comment illustrates a misunderstanding of how vaccines work.
I mean all of those are technically objective measurements:

"career opportunities , weather / outdoor activities, quality of food, and cultural enrichment for your children".

It's hard to beat the career opportunities (so far), the weather / outdoor activities ( https://weatherspark.com is awesome weather wise, and a trip to google maps will easily tell you the range of outdoor activities), the quality of food (that you'll have to discover by yourself), and the diversity of cultural enrichment activities for you and your children (same).

It'll cost you plenty of money to live in the bay area for sure, but there's a reason for that.
HN's software strips many leading thises! It's hard to lop off the trailing ones though.
I don't think you can know that until they start causing safety problems, right? If you develop a heuristic like overdose = harms other patients, then you are executing people who did nothing wrong except make one little mistake with some chemicals. You then get second order effects to further discriminate, "this guy is white and he's unconscious in a rich neighborhood" versus "this guy is black and he's unconscious in a poor neighborhood", and eventually it all starts to feel a little evil.

As a human race, we're supposed to be helping each other a little bit. It's how we're wired.
To be more precise, it's the model of engagement that bombards the eyes, ears and brain that's the problem. We need social media models that don't require 24/7 engagement.
Everyone would know it and the attestation key would be obsolete. New wallets will be made with another key, and for old wallets users already know they are genuine anyway.
I presume you mean mental health facilities? Many of them are in hospitals, but they aren’t as widely spread as they once were.
Yeah, that's because you decided it should be a hand-coded expert system. If you review the set of hand-coded neural networks, you will discover they even more bloated, and have an extreme low ceiling on usefulness.

Besides, keep in mind that the currently useful NNs are stuff that requires dozens of GB of memory to run.

Anyway, training a NN is also an attempt to codify what symbols we see on the world.
> Even if you don't get sick from the flu or don't mind getting it, by passing it around you increase the risk to those more vulnerable than you - the immunocompromised, and the elderly.

Isn't it backwards to ask the young to make health sacrifices for the elderly? Plus it seems influenza vaccines don't even reduce hospitalisation in the elderly: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37045684/ .
Does a particularly bad reaction to a flu shot correlate with an equally bad case of flu, had you not gotten the shot? Or is it just random?
The article uses the word "asked" not "demanded". This may be completely imprecise. If it was "demanded over Twitter's objections", then the reaction makes some sense. If it's "requested nicely", then it's a total cave-in and just an attempt to keep his other businesses in dictators' good graces.

What regulations are you referring to?
It’s likely nothing but if it does solve it for real that’ll be AI’s true mushroom cloud moment that the world has changed.
I feel like that’s the perfect climate and temperature for the hippos to thrive, they love the heat. I believe hippos were accidentally introduced into Columbia and took over some of the places because of the perfect climate conditions.
>You get syntactic sugar, but all the best parts of Make are thrown out of the window.

What does make have that just is missing? I have only dipped my toe into just, but it seems like a more-or-less superset of functionality. Plus, all sorts of niceties: built-in functions (path manipulation!), ability to declare scripting languages, self-documenting through `--list`, etc. Quite a lot of natural feature evolution if make was not forever frozen in time by the POSIX standard.
> so fast that we get to reimplement the same thing, but 10x better every 5 years or so.

Citation needed. Seems that it just us getting more and more abstracted which can make it easier but not necessarily easier.

The hardest part for the next gen of developers is not having Moore's law to save them from crappy coding.
Some references I recognize and some interesting new ones. Thanks!
Why not use SSH forwarding instead? Less suspicious and more control over the server, for less cost.
I think you’re missing the point: any confounding factor you can think of would foster before smartphones. So it doesn’t make sense to call phones a confounding factor.

For instance, people are saying “people who get phones earlier may have less involved parents, and less involved parents lead to worse mental health outcomes.” Sure, this is possible, but there have always been poor parents, yet these changes to mental health have only started with adoption of the smartphone.

> if you are arguing that smartphones increase global depression, then you are saying that smartphones induced a change in lifestyle. If smartphone can do it swiftly, then other things can do it too.

Yes, that’s exactly my point! It theoretically could be something else, but what else has so drastically changed in the last 15 years. We see plenty of evidence of how dramatic smartphone adoption has been. What else has experienced such a fundamental in adoption?

And now we’re back to Occam’s razor. Sure, the mental health crisis could be caused by some unseen force that has profoundly impacted life yet has so far eluded observation, or it could be smartphones, whose profound impact on lifestyle is easily observable.
This didn't generate anything like actual perl code but the paper did say it wasn't good at perl (relatively) and in their defense my code it was completing was full of regex. What I did enjoy was how it picked up on my style of extremely long variable and subroutine names without spaces. It even named them with swear words like I do.
> perhaps with fixes and improvements.

in my experience, if there's no will or budget for a rewrite, it gets virtualized, locked away behind a firewall/corporate network with a restricted set of users, and will basically run forever as long as the ISA and virtual storage is supported by emulation and the business process still exists and is able to support the infra/people involved.

think of it like a zero coupon 100 year bond in technical debt issuance underwritten by the central bank (corporate hq). and highly liquid in the sense that a virtual image is easy to move around.

the good part is it just gets faster and takes up less % resources as hardware improves, and forever-bugs are usually worked around and documented by the people pushing the buttons.
I hadn't come across this before. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
That was quite useful; you've convinced me to buy the book.

There's a lot to be said for empiricist approaches from real practitioners. I'm looking forward to checking out his techniques.
Have two, ten and eleven, they are.
Interesting how C programming has survived that entire time period in the operating system and embedded worlds, although the spread of multicore hardware running lots of threads in parallel has also led to many changes (but even those changes were beginning to be implemented 20 years ago).

20 years from now, C will probably still be a core language in its niche.
You were not kidding, I am not loving that syntax.
>Not giving these people the shots would have been immoral, it was already clear that they were effective and safe.

It was not clear that they were long-term safe; there was not enough long-term data yet to discover this. And by unblinding, they made it very hard to gather such data.

Now that we have some such data, we see that indeed there are some non-trivial long term risks, such as doubling the risk of blood clotting in the eyes: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00661-7 .
Unrestricted html leads to all sorts of nasty problems with user generated content. Things like <script> bringing in Javascript you don't want, or <iframe> pulling in content you don't want (and messing up the page) or in the days of table layout people just putting in </table>, or people with <a href="goatse.cx"> scattered about in links.

So, you limit the text that user generated content is allowed to use. And yet, you still need to figure out a way to allow links between pages within the site - but not allow the person to use an <a> tag.

The way c2 did it was with MixedCaseWords that were easy for a regex to pick out and create link targets to.

MixedCaseWords required no additional special characters to be used or worry about unmatched character pairs.
> You have to trust somebody

I know, all the time, and thus the entire premise of crypto is flawed, as are the libertarian ideals that birthed it.
Is a hospital not the right place to treat somebody overdosing? Or are you referring to long term care?
Hannah Wolfman-Jones and Nadine Strossen's (ex-ACLU president) take on what got Stallman cancelled years ago:

https://stallmansupport.org/nadine-strossen-hannah-wolfman-r...
>I honestly thought that by now, a poor kid in a remote village in Africa would have access to a guided education track that could give him the same knowledge as an Ivy League student

Khan Academy "courses" + MIT OCW gets anyone in the world from pre-elementary through an undergraduate engineering degree at a school arguably superior to the Ivy League.
As a hobbyist musician even I notice Live's flaws. And while it does indeed get out of your way most of the time, when it doesn't you can't change it and it becomes frustrating. While other larger players in the industry are farther ahead, just how far behind Live really is becomes especially apparent when you look at Reaper. They're fundamentally different in their approaches, yes. But Reaper's pace for adding new features and how up-to-date they are in terms of the changing landscape of the industry (CLAP plugins, ARA2 support, etc.) is impressive considering their small team. But Ableton's focus with Live seems to be more towards adding content rather than features or large overhauls. At least that's my impression.

I genuinely love Live's workflow. It feels the most natural to me. But the ever growing list of annoyances and shortcomings make me look into other DAWs fairly frequently. Though sadly no other one has really stuck with me so far.
that's how it is designed
Imagine if all you had to do at tax time was enumerate those deductions, instead of that and the rest of doing your taxes
And if the new vaccines are anything like the old ones they'll have almost no effect on that; https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/54/12/1778/455098 . Current flu vaccines slightly reduce the number of cases but have no effect on hospitalisations. And if you look at a chart of the amount of annual flu cases from before the flu vaccines were released to now, there's absolutely no notable overall reduction.
As a retail customer that has done volatility trading I've used RH and other brokers that route through Citadel, because they gave better fills/commissions that made my returns more profitable.

The reason for this is that they can give tighter fills to small scale (and presumably dumb) retail investors.

> and the Robinhood founders.

Do you mean the Robinhood shareholders?
Sure, I appreciate the recommendation. I’ve actually read a decent bit on the subject and having been born on an Indian Reservation and lived next door to them my entire adolescence (the impoverished kind, not the casinos-near-major-cities kind), participated in crown dances, etc it’s not all that alien to me.

Does this book explain how stealing children and sending them to boarding schools to be tortured, raped, murdered, and buried in unmarked mass graves is “not extermination” and is “an attempt to confine them” to the literal shittiest plots of land that settlers could locate on the continent?
These models are "unbiased" only if you define it as "the rough collective average of discussion on the internet" which well… is biased as hell. A lot of OpenAI's current research is quantifying and correcting that bias.

If you care about these models as a way to study humanity by acting as a mirror then sure, the bias correction gets in your way but I think it's hard to argue that the model is
better if it has negative sentiment towards black folks because people are racist.

It's the same process I do in real life. I'm loaded with internal biases which I'm not exactly proud of. When I have say a sexist thought, I have to be like "good lord Spivak that was fucked up" and try to use the front brain to correct it.
I guess guitar is much less of a statement these days (being in a band is no longer the coolest thing to do) so the social pressure bit feels less relatable to me. I did catch the tail end of that era though so I know what you're talking about.
Or we will move on to teaching higher conceptual skills which are actually relevant to a post-AI society.
These cost overruns are largely caused by the excessive regulations imposed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Even very minor changes to the design have to go through an extremely costly and time-consuming amendment process. In contrast, the NRC can decide whenever they want to change their mind about an already approved design, even after millions of dollars and years of time invested. That's why, until now, no nuclear reactor had ever gone from initial design to starting operations, all under the authority of the NRC (since 1974 when it was established).

https://atomicinsights.com/nrcs-imposition-of-aircraft-impac...

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/plant-vogtle-georgia-power-...

South Korea builds its nuclear plants on time and under budget. Our failures are a policy choice.
Our electronics and our churn through them already contribute so much. Getting a new phone every 12-18 months is a completely normal thing even though we've long passed the point of diminishing returns.

I like to think things like this are being properly recycled but I carry a lot of skepticism.
make your own. trust me: a minimum viable 2D gfx library based on OpenGL will take a day or two to put together, and you can hack at it as you work on your game. it's very comfy, and provides greater motivation for when gamedev drudgery threatens to stop your work.
Let's play hypothetical and say the people who are at risk are less than 1% then who is the selfish group? Less than 0.1%? Does that number ever cause you to switch positions or at an arbitrarily small number would the rest of the world be selfish to not get a medical intervention on their behalf?
> To me, that sounds like a person simply updating their views in response to new evidence-new to them even if much older to many others. Labelling it as “back-pedalling” seems to me to be needlessly uncharitable to him

> It might be hard to understand why it took him so long to realise this-but I think you have to understand he occupies a very different position in society from most people, with the result he is often ignorant of mainstream trends, or feels no motivation to care about them.

That's an absurd take on this. He's not updating his stance on over easy eggs, or beer preference (not as in free, but IPA vs porter), this is about children. And "different place in society" doesn't excuse it either, this isn't knowing the current memes or bands. This is simple fundamental logic, common sense, etc.

Before I had kids, it was still completely and utterly obvious that sex with kids is wrong. Yes, there's a grey area around age of consent + one year older or whatever, but that is entirely not applicable to his comments, Epstein, etc. Trying to justify Epstein is just wrong.
On a given trade, they might be required to provide a benefit to their customers, but what are they able to do with the combined data that is all the others they handle? Surely they are able to manipulate securities based on this data and short/long securities in ways that are typically in opposition to retail, thus costing their “customers” money.
I agree in principle.

But theoretically if the share is expected to go up at faster than the rate of compounded interest at the current interest rate, then it's a better deal for the seller to instead take out a loan using the share as collateral. And if the share is not expected to go up at faster than the rate of compounded interest at the current interest rate, then it might be a better deal for the buyer to loan out their money instead. The only thing that would make this a worse decision than the share trade are middleman costs.