skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is how many of the items on their list bring to mind a great short story

That may be how so many of these ended up on this list: someone wrote a great story with an original premise, and lots of other people are like "Oh, I like that idea, I'll write my own story using a similar idea", and then editors get sick of receiving them.
Unclear to me is whether steviosides are in the NSS category. WHO spells out xylitol and others in same category are not.
When I was growing up I was told all sorts of shit like this just about whatever was new tech at the time (e.g. TV rots your brain, Wikipedia is not a reliable source, you're going to get molested if you're not careful on chat rooms). "It feels good" is particularly dangerous for things like this because humans are terrible at making conclusions like this at scale.

It could also be that people in bad situations develop phone addictions and otherwise would be doing drugs. So from that perspective are smartphones causing bad mental health or are kids not being taught good coping strategies & would otherwise be displaying other negative symptoms? Is it possible that the vast majority of people don't do a good job regulating their kids' smartphone use & are the same people who use the TV/iPad/smartphone as a babysitter to quiet the kid whenever they get fussy and then those kids are the ones who develop problems with smartphones? This is extremely complex & hot takes lead to reactionary changes that don't move us forward as a society.
Might as well go to the authority for recycled story bits: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes
There is more to storytelling than just originality.
"your sense of sweetness adjusts to it."

Similar for salt for people on low sodium diets.
> Just don't make code online accessable

An AI model that correctly references copyright holders and the applicable licenses would be preferential to not having the code available, IMHO.

I dont see why you would be advocating for people not to share their code in the first place. That seems couterproductive, and against the spirit of open source in general.
I have a degree in electrical engineering and a degree in medical microbiology and immunology.

It was one of my (many) dreams to model the immune system in software, using control systems to create a reference model that you could challenge and get legitimate responses (like climate models today). This was 30 years ago.

One of the challenges is that most immunologists have never even heard of the concept of "control systems" and likely have no concept of the math involved.

1) The immune system (and really the entire body) is a giant control system with many feedback loops that arent understood at all. I for example was studying something very simplistic which was the IL-2 vs Il-4 pathway in response to tuberculosis infection. I havent kept up on the research so I have no idea what state of the art is in immunology 30 years later.

2) The immune system is a giant random number generator. Your body randomly generates antibody patterns in the womb, so everyone is different. The system is analog instead of digital creating a tremendous amount of variation. It is unlikely you could collect data sets large enough to start training an AI to model the immune system except maybe at the grossest level.

It sounds to me that AI is being used as a buzzword to get more attention.

This is a summary article aggregating papers that are attempting to model biological systems as control systems

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.6779...
> These conditions were almost non-existent until recent history

That's a myth, actually. ADHD has been studied and described for well over 100 years under different names: "Clumsy Child Syndrome", "Minor Brain Damage", and "Moral Failing".

Being present in medical literature for over a century actually makes it one of the better known mental medical conditions.
> People have been [claiming to] do this for years: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/monetizing-traffic-from-so...

The link you provided is an example of somebody making a "catfish" account on a "social media site". It's not an example of somebody "setting up fake personas/OnlyFans accounts using chatbots and SD images". Yes, men have been pretending to be women online since the stone age, that isn't news. That's different from using chatbots and SD images to maintain online personas.
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You have an inalienable right to express any view on flat earth in the US. But it doesn't matter if the state law is enforcing religious rules, like in the case of abortion ban.
> I think this is the easiest one to knock down. It's very, very attractive to intelligent people who define themselves as intelligent to believe that intelligence is a superpower, and that if you get more of it you eventually turn into Professor Xavier and gain the power to reshape the world with your mind alone.

Also it's not like human intelligence even works that way. IIRC, a lot of extremely intelligent people end up being failures or far less successful than you'd assume given their IQ number.

> The only realistic path to a global AI threat is a subset of the "nuclear war" human to human threat: by taking over (or being given control of) weapon systems.

That may be the only realistic prompt catastrophe threat, but a realistic longer term one is a withering of human capability and control due to over-delegation that eventually leads to domination. People and societies have been pretty prone to letting that kind of thing get them, if the path is lined with short-term benefits.
I feel like this is a bit unusual: "I told them they can get one when they write an app"

Why are you insisting that they publish an app on the app store, are they keenly interested in software development or something?
My sub 10 years old kid has a smartphone, but it has no sim card and runs a Google child account, so nothing can be installed without me approving, and it only knows about the home wi-fi. We also control how much it is used and it is not left in the bedroom at night. Previously it was actually locked into kiosk mode with Spotify Kids being the only accessible app. Great way to use an old phone. It even has a broken screen but we've now had 3 years extra use (Galaxy S7).
Brilliant, thanks. Even a brief mention of hyphen-minus!
Sure, to spend a few minutes playing life on Easy Difficulty, why not. I could tune an LLM with How To Win Friends and Influence People.
You're not being rude but dboreham is correct. Wyoming accents are not strong compared to most states in the US.
"I understand you think the water is wet and the sky is blue – but what does wet mean? What does blue mean?"

Great questions for interesting philosophical and academic debate.

Silly questions for deciding how to, say, raise kids.
It is turning out that Cholesterol/HDL ratio is more important and now mine is below 5 always. I do not care about my totals or my LDL.

HDL is an antioxidant and this why HDL rules over all:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607861/#:~:tex....
Like anything else, you may not agree with their argument, but their right to peacefully protest should not be trampled upon by the government.
... this is literally just a condensed version of the comment you just replied to, which happens to go into greater detail than your link, and does a far better job of explaining it from a nuanced perspective. I'm sure that that broad description you linked to helps you feel that it supports your argument, but once you dig down into that nuance, it really doesn't.
The benefit is that you don't have to type (or paste) your question for every engine you want to try.

You can also click on "more engines" and add Google or whichever engine you usually use and make it your one-stop-dashboard to search/ask the web.
Similar, this kinda reminds using Excite, Yahoo, and AltaVista.
> I read lots of children’s books [..] virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area.

And virtually all the movies we watch are made in Hollywood. I've always found it sad how impoverished this makes our media - having so much culture be produced by such a small group, we get a fairly narrow set of perspectives represented.
I've noticed that most devs, anyway, are either front-loaded or back-loaded.

"Front-loaded" means that the part of a project they really enjoy is the beginning part, design work, etc. Once those problems are largely worked out, the project becomes less interesting to them. A common refrain from this personality is "the rest is just implementation details".

"Back-loaded" is the opposite of that. They hate the initial work of a project and prefer to do the implementation details, after the road is mapped out.

Both sorts of devs are critical. Could it be that you're a front-loaded sort? If so, maybe the thing to do is to bring in someone who's back-loaded and work on the projects together?
Imploded?
Since the pandemic, food companies have cranked up the prices of anything that might be useful for someone wanting to avoid sugar. For example, pre-pandemic I could buy a box of low-carb cereal for $4. Now they're all in the $9 dollar and above range. Drink mixes that were a bit over $1 pre-pandemic are now double that at WalMart. I'd get a 12-pack of Coke Zero pre-pandemic for $3.50 to $4. Now it's $8.

If none of this is helpful, there are people throwing a lot of money down the drain.
isn't arithmetic a branch of mathematics? i guess a mathematic?
Wow. Mind blown! /s
This is probably impossible but also inadvisable since you likely can't eat any fruits or vegetable.
If the tax return said: repay your portion of the debt and you’re off the hook for any future deficit spending or moneys collected to service national debt, I would be tempted to take that offer.

Unless there is default, there’s no reason for the government to not to keep accumulating debt.
Yeah, it's kind of hand crafted. There's more to the story and more results. I would normally just Tweet but I think it's actually so interesting that it deserves more than a tweet, at least a thoughtful writeup or a youtube video. (And I need to catch up on real work this week first, so end of week at best.)
You should believe the patient unless they threaten your trust in the system. Then you should attack the patient's knowledge of themselves and their medical situation casually, and imply that this stupidity indicates something sinister about their character.
What I really want is food with less sugar. Call it a harm reduction approach.

A gram of sugar isn’t as bad as 20g, but it’s really hard to find just less sweet products. They all use artificial sweeteners to make it as sweet tasting or more.

Why is it so hard to find a ginger ale with only 5g of sugar? Or ketchup with 1/10th the sugar? It’s easy to find low sodium products.

Speaking of low sodium, I also wish more foods would mix potassium salt in with table salt. It’s not as “salty” but still improves the flavor and balances out the lack of potassium in Western diet.
> I think Americans are just parroting pop culture from GB, and doing their best to sound, I dunno: posh or proper or whatever

Agreed with your take, but there is another reason as well - just the whole "rubbing off" effect.

I've seen quite a ton of comments in more serious/non-joke threads all across social media (including HN), talking about people from all across the western europe getting pseudo-american accents (usually something generic in-between or more general like californian, not anything like the boston one lol) from consuming so much american media. And that includes countries where english was already the de-facto primary language, such as the UK. So it seems like it goes in both directions.

Anecdotally, as someone for whom american english (and english in general) wasn't the first language (but has been the primarily used language 99% of the time for the past 15 years), I definitely get the occasional slips of pronunciation if I watch a lot of british english media. That is entirely unintentional on my part though, and I correct rather quickly and return back to the baseline in a couple of days.

With this in mind, I wonder if there is data available that plots these incidences of "fake british accents" against worldwide consumption rates of british-english-heavy media. I suspect there would be a statistically-significant correlation.
the jar of hellman's in my fridge has sugar on the label.
Because it tastes good.
Same here. I was ordered to keep away from sugar for medical reasons for a few months. The most interesting part of that experience was noticing how my taste changed. So much so that I didn't really get back into sugar when I was allowed to do so. I can't stand the taste of classical sweets anymore. And most softdrinks simply taste weird. I am a bit of an outsider now, snce I decline almost every offer for a piece of cake for coffee. And I totally stopped sweetening coffee and tea. Something I couldn't even have imagined before I went on this journey.
I'm not sure that there is a terrible large correlation between "best of the best" and "refuse to ever work in office." When I think about the engineers that I most respect and admire, they are very split on wfh vs wfo opinions.
I think this is an important point. I see it with my own kids. I'd have no problem giving my 10 year old son a smartphone. My 12 year old daughter, on the other hand ... the thought terrifies me. I already know very much how they interact socially, both in person and online, and it's not the phone that worries me. It amplifies already existing issues.
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And almost every other entity with more than $1B in assets.
> As someone who was diagnosed several times with “adhd” - there is zero science to it.

How can you state this so confidently?

> You’ll just get a drug after the first or second visit and who doesn’t want to defend their addiction online?

Do you know how much people with ADHD hate their meds and want to avoid taking it, but cant?

Then they avoid taking it for a few days for a break, but the break turns into 2 weeks of disarray without medication.
I commented above, but I'm currently working with U.S. lobbying data so I can help answer that question!

Here's the U.S. disclosure site: https://lda.senate.gov/filings/public/filing/search/

I've been working on building an improved version of that site (allowing users to search by the issue being lobbied on, show trends by company, etc.) but it's still in the pretty early stages of development. Have a big update coming in the next few weeks though: https://www.quiverquant.com/lobbyingsearch/

OpenSecrets also does great work summarizing lobbying data: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying
I'm not familiar on the throughput, but their EUV lithography machines are some of the most complex machinery humanity has developed to date. We're lucky this even works, let alone dream of scaling it.
been a couple months for me as well. Actually forgot about `claude` and have just been using OpenAI's API instead.
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Your link does not support the claim I was asking the citation for. A chatbot service marketed as a chatbot service is distinctly different from a fake online persona constructed with chatbot and stable diffusion. In particular, the "honest chatbot" does not have anything to do with AI-generated images, and it's not purporting a fake persona.
What percentage of iOS users are really hardcore gamers? I don't know, but I doubt it's even close to 25%.

It's anecdotal but I don't know of any iOS/iPadOS user that plays anything remotely demanding. Most users I know don't game. Those that do usually play casual games like Candy Crush.
Diamonds are beautiful. Blood diamonds are horrific tragedies.

Elon Musk is in charge of some projects that have amazing outcomes, yes. But does he actually know the engineering (which is kind of not a very interesting question to me), and is he horrible to work for?

I'm pretty sure he's horrible to work for.
Didn’t America have churches before tax exempt laws? Tax laws came later. Your problem is with taxes and government spending. Remove taxes churches are exempt from and raise sales tax.
IMHO better to release early like this to a group of hackers than to wait until you have a nice out of the box setup going. This way you're going to get a lot of great feedback and hopefully some help. Awesome project!
> If OpenAI and Meta decide they’re closing up shop, a boomtown could become a backwater.

Strange how I read the same memo and came to the opposite conclusion.

Handouts suggest some form of charity, but in the memo it is clear that there it is to the benefit of the business that open source can advance the technology at a fraction of the cost.

Ie open source is saving these business millions of dollars and and months of research.

There’s no handout here.
Building a bomb isn’t a secret. Tom Clancy wrote a very technically detailed description of the tooling and process and building of a nuclear weapon in 1991 in The Sum of All Fears.
There's a reason Herbert's original idea for Butlerian Jihad was a spiritual revival and not a classic war of the machines that his son turned it into.
Weak. If you're B2B (and your business partners are in The Cloudz), or you're B2C and your customers have the opportunity to go to E2E managed telecomms (mobe, and they live in a coverage area) and have utilized it then they've got you covered.
As a former twitter entertainer once said, "I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."

I suppose we could do a nation-wide experiment by insisting that the sugar water vendors use only NSS for a year; but that would probably result in the overthrow of the government.
I'd like to see these on OpenJDK 11, since that's what Confluent is running on and the author makes a point of switching to 17 even though he works for Confluent.

In either case, Confluent Platform is ridiculously expensive and approached the costs (licensing alone) for our entire cloud spend. I'd love to see more run-on-k8s alternatives to CFK.
What will replace the International Space Station?
What is censorship if not an extreme form of bias?
I just added Apache 2.0. Thanks for the reminder, I've been meaning to add a license.

I tried `sed` as well, every variant of `diff` output, various json structured formats, etc. The edit block syntax I chose is modeled after the conflict resolution markup you get from a failed `git merge`. I find it's very helpful to ask GPT to output in a format that is already in popular use. It has probably seen plenty of examples in its training data.

Asking GPT to output edits really only works ~reliably in GPT-4. Even then, my parser has to be permissive and go with the flow. GPT-3.5 was a lost cause for outputting any editing syntax -- it only worked reliably by outputting the entire modified source file. Which was slow and wasted the small context window.

Both 3.5 and 4 seem to be able to think more clearly about the actual coding task when you allow them to use an output format they're comfortable with. If you require them to output a bespoke format, or try too hard to ask for "minimal" edits... the quality of the actual code changes suffers. The models are used to seeing uninterrupted blocks of code in plain text, and so they seem to do best if you choose an output format that embraces that.
Just a reminder - health and nutritional studies are hard to do and are often incomplete, bought-off, or non-reproducible, and the resulting meta-analysis will only amplify these problems.
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>> You know what is offline-tolerant? NNTP and email.

Imagine a distributed social network where updates come via email. Updates are identified by the email client (or other) and automatically sent to whatever program needs to process them. You end up with a local copy of everyones stuff that is kept for a period of time.
Congratulations. Want a cookie?

(yes, that's a joke)
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I'll add this. Smartphones give children instant access to instant stimulation, and it gives children access to an escapist fantasy world. Both of those things, if used to self-medicate, will cause mental health issues.
Google, how do I ask your AI the right questions?
Interesting use case, would you be open to sharing more information on how you're using LLMs for chemistry simulations?
> Training leave it and removing opportunities for her to steal worked out way better long term.

Yea, that's what we did to, but I don't really consider that training the dog not to jump on the counter.
I cannot help but wonder.

When did everyone suddenly start spending what seems to be a non negligible amount of time worrying if they are affected by this or that or that or this?

To be clear: I do not mean to belittle / deny the right or need of people who are genuinely affected by certain conditions.
But I do worry (as a parent of teenage children) as to whether this sudden (a few years? max a decade old) wave of "I'm pretty sure I have <INSERT_ACRONYM>" or "I'd better get tested for <INSERT_ANOTHER_CODE> before X or Y happens" is real or not. In some cases, could it be a fad?

As the insensitive bastard that I am (to almost quote my eldest the other day... :) my god I love this child), I cannot help but conflate this with how overwhelmingly present "mental health" issues have become. Twitter? Check. The BBC? Check. Instagram and YT? Check. Everywhere.
Like it or not, the "me-me-me-I'm-a-victim" also feels like a very trendy thing nowadays.

Whatever happened to toughing it out and becoming better/stronger in the process? Has such a view of things and self-betterment in adversity completely fallen out of fashion? Have we all become babies to be nannied? Is this now all viewed as "male, pale and stale"?

I cannot help but think (the "300x" is made up, but you will get the idea I hope):
. either genuine mental conditions have started to plague humanity 300x times more in the past 30 years
. or today's physicians have started to worry 300x more about it, hence diagnose it 300x more often
. or physicians from 30 years didn't give a flying flamingo about it
. or all of the above

What times we live in. We all have our small (or larger) problems -- and I do worry about the the system's influence on my children's ability to become beautiful, responsible and independent adults in the future.

To quote: "The busy bee has no time for sorrow".
I agree and Americans have been quoting funny British lines from media for decades.
Uh? I get saying its resembles more of a midwest Canadian slant than sounding like pure midwest American english, but Southern English? Having lived in Mississippi and worked with plenty of New Zealanders, I don't see that.
You must mean simple sugar, right? Or do you really eat no saccharides?
Any magic tricks to gaining access apart from waiting for months? I've been using GPT-4 and love it but would really love to test that 100k context window with long running chatbots.
I agree it's a moral panic piece, but I think certain regions probably have an easier time getting a diagnosis.

That seems to be a big source of disagreement and people talking past one another.
you can't quit sugar, fruits contains lot of sugar

what you wanted to say perhaps was: "i quit added sugar from my diet", that makes more sense

sugar is not the problem
Yes. To add, cravings regulated by hormones.. also related to set point.. also related to ozempic
I really hope so, I've been waiting for good audio assistant hardware forever. I hope this is finally the time where I ditch Alexa once and for all, thanks for releasing Willow!
I tend to bake my own stuff. I can't stand all the sugar in most grocery/bakery stuff here (US). People have asked what kind of cake I like so they can buy one for my birthday, but it's kind of a dick move to be like "I only like homemade cakes".