skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the terminology “millionaire” should start called after fellas with at least 10mil, as it probably equates 1mil back in the days.
Yes, Texas is definitely not known for it's historical Pueblo style homes? /s
Cost of living ?
Do Dogs Have Belly Buttons?
I just wish my doctor had explained that getting off of Adderall would be incredibly difficult — not because of any addiction to the high, but because the chemical dependency means that I’ll be absolutely incapable of focusing on work whatsoever for months.

I’ve been very gradually decreasing my dose, but the underlying ADHD hasn’t gone away, and the chemical dependency just makes dealing with it that much harder.

I should have just stuck with coffee. My sleep was terrible, and I could only focus on things I was very interested in, but at least I wasn’t permanently addicted to an expensive, highly controlled stimulant that I have to take every day of my life to remain a basic functioning adult.
There’s a pretty big difference between smoking half a gram of meth and taking 5–10 mg of Adderall in tablet form every morning.
Please let us remember the biometric scanner on the laptops. I cut my finger and the laptop became inaccessible.
No way.
I love Tarkovsky, but this is equally valuable as a sleep aid for some.
She wasn't the author.
This reminds me of the bookstore "Borders" that used Amazon's tech. to keep from falling behind hoping that it would give them enough time to catch up. It didn't it just made them weaker. If they need Teslas help then they can't compete. They have waited too long to get serious about electric vehicles. I suspect Tesla will surpass Ford and Ford will either disappear or be bought by Tesla. I suspect it will happen within the next 10 years.
> One note, the authors claims Arrian wrote The Discourses over four books, but in reality it was eight and only four survive. This calls into question the scholarship here.

So four books? Seems to be a bit of a distinction without a difference.
You're comparing theoretical future risk to a bunch of burnt out homes that keep getting burned down.
If you squint, aren't those the same case?
The Economist is a UK based outlet.
It's certainly 100% useful for me, not "performative" at all, but that's because I use it all for standard stuff -- e-mail/contacts/calendar, files/Docs/Sheets/Slides/photos. None of that is proprietary to Google (e-mails are mbox, Docs files are converted to Word, etc.).

Sure if you want to download your Maps location history or YouTube comment history as JSON it's there too, but I don't think too many people care about importing that stuff elsewhere. Competing services are obviously free to build their own importer if they want.

But all the normally "important" content we think about like e-mails and documents and photos, it's all there just zipped up. Nothing trapped inside proprietary JSON or anything like that. And it's just peace of mind knowing that I've always got a local backup of everything.
It's not a "craving". Some people need the tiny doses of the stuff (compared to addicts) that they take each day just to function.
If you have a good enough model, you can identify anything.

To discuss super-intelligence, we should first define it. Wikipedia says that it is intelligence surpassing the brightest of human minds. Taken as a whole, the internet already has the knowledge of a super-intelligence: it contains more useful information than any individual human. But it is far more limited in its control and use of information.

LLMs rely heavily on inferences from their training data, meaning that they struggle to generalize to new situations. If you had a program that could use abstract reasoning to learn any topic, then it could solve any problem better than a human, given that a supercomputer can process and store more data than a human. This program would be a super-intelligence.

I expect that the development of intelligence (software) superior to humans will happen much faster than the development of superior hardware did, based on the timescales of human evolution (billions of years) compared to the evolution of civilization (thousands of years).
From experience, it is sustainable, but — unlike coffee — the cost is a serious chemical dependency.
As usual, a bunch of people are commenting on Adderall not being medication but a performance enhancing drug and...

In any other context these people are probably fine with marijuana legalization and libertarian-esque drug policy in general ("What you do with your body is none of my business..."). When it comes to Adderall, suddenly everybody becomes moralizing and sanctimonious.
Agents typically are responsible not only for generating new business but also servicing the policies they sell and they are compensated with commission for the life of the policy.

Further, they didn’t close down the shop they just stopped putting a certain type of inventory on the shelf - they will continue to sell auto and other types of insurance that are less exposed to wildfire or are otherwise rate adequate.
This is true, and it is also a fact exclusive to dark blue on black, solvable by not using dark blue ever. For any other color, it is easy unless it is the same color as the background.
remove pharmaceutical companies ability to set their own price.

remove the insurance ability to negotiate prices.

Ensure American's right to Healthcare.
Home solar installs (and that change) would be NEM, not TOU. California had a mandate to move everyone to TOU a while back, though some might still be on the old plans.
That's just completely wrong. You can get preventative care including screening tests without an annual physical.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
The very first limitation listed on the ChatGPT introduction post is about incorrect answers - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt. This has not changed since ChatGPT was announced. OpenAI is advertising that it will generate more than plausible language.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. As much as I understand your scepticism, OpenAI have been very transparent about the limitations of GPT and it is not truthful to say otherwise.
That’s actually crazy.

Who can manage an international trip each time they need medical help?

Not everyone can afford the delay, the time, the money or the inconvenience.

If you paid me and made it immediately available I still wouldn’t want to travel internationally for medical care.
If a color blind person can't distinguish between a green letter and a red letter, how does disabling color so both the green letter and the red letter are white help? If it mattered that you weren't able to distinguish between them, now nobody can. If it didn't, then the point's moot.
Meh, that's up there with the best we can do and an Octopus is still miles better without even trying - can you build and don such a suit tailored exactly to your current environment in a matter of seconds?
The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning and A.I.’S Existential Risks
Why though? We’re so good at short term solutions to shoddily patch the problem but can never find the long term, real solution.
These are all correct, but as an individual you’re pretty much limited to writing to your representative. You can’t opt out in any immediate sense.
I wrote up a post on my R3F based WebXR hot reloading setup here:

https://github.com/gregfagan/blog/blob/main/xr-remote-displa...

You don’t actually need this if you’re just working on graphics, as usually a flat projection is fine, but it is quite nice to work inside your own XR app while iterating on the interaction.
This is why I think that every terminal color scheme should just have the right contrast for all colors with the default background. There are 16 colors and these days terminals are pretty much exclusively used for text, so why does your color scheme have a color that is illegible on the default background?

I understand that all bets are off if the application starts mixing and matching background colors, but there's no reason why your dark blue can't just be a little lighter.

(To be clear, I'm not blaming you for this, a lot of built-in color schemes have problems like this.)
Why not? Paul Erdős took it his whole adult life, seemed to do pretty well. Lots of people spend decades on Adderall. And half the white collar economy runs on caffeine. The stigma around long-term amphetamine use is just weird.
Been looking at hetzner for their arm cloud offering. But I can’t figure out if instances upgraded or do you need to terminate and rebuild.

support seems non existent cos no one answers emails or web chat…
TL/DR: this is "github runners as a service", and claimed build time improvement appears because they OpenFire gives more CPU/RAM resources that default Github runners. I guess a good idea if you rely on github's default runners... but if you are already using your own runners the benefit may or may not appear. For example hosting runners on EC2 is 2x cheaper, and gives you stuff like shared cache.

Also, "just change 1 line of code" is a bit of exaggeration.. It is more like "sign up with Open Fire, enter your credit card, grant them access to all your git repos, change 1 line of code, don't forget to pay the bills".
What you are trying to do is called whataboutism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#:~:text=Whatabo....
This is a really interesting point, thanks for saying this. I absolutely agree with you. Do you happen to have sources for this? I can do my own research but I thought I’d ask in case you already are aware of some.
Caffeine addiction is way harder to kick than amphetamines.
> Aphantasia

For those like me: The inability to create mental imagery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Why are all the high populated areas higher risk on that map?
No, actually a good thing to point out. Extrapolation is just interpolation into the unknown and thus is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. It's a robust framework for argument from incredulity.
;> 555 timer IC - Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC

I'm looking forward to the extended protocol Sugar bowl.. A parody of 'I'm a Little Teapot' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Little_Teapot

'I'm a little teapot short and stout... here is my handle... here is my handle... Oh fv<k!, I'm a sugar bowl'
But you probably didn’t use GPT 4 because its API is available only to a select few.

“I tried a known-bad early iteration of a technology that has already been superseded — hence it is bad and will always be bad.” is not a convincing argument.

The first transistor was an ugly and impractical thing too.
Energy packets precisely measure energy transfer, independent of frequency or phase angle, and update at a fixed rate with a common time reference such as every millisecond

There's a call for you on line 1, someone calling himself Albert A. Stone wants to talk to you about this idea of a common time reference...
The brain is complicated. We don't understand it with the same level of detail that we understand computers. We can't refactor it, or reorganize it or fix bugs in it.

All we can do is these large, scattershot system-level shifts that result from various drugs. Pretty much every drug makes some things worse and some things better. We don't have an understanding or a technology level that would allow it to be any different.

Despite all that, people often find that, on net, certain drugs are a benefit to them more than they are a detriment. Until we live in the bright shiny future where we can understand and remedy the root causes of mental dysfunction, it seems to me it's a good idea to let people get what relief they can in the meantime.
Lawyer faces punishment after ChatGPT gave him fake cases to cite
And then what if we built it bigger for better economy of scale by hooking up all the generators and all the consumers in an area together? We could share different methods of generation! Maybe someone has a hydro generator instead of completely relying on solar that stops working when it gets dark. We could have a bigger, more efficient gas generator instead of multiple smaller individual gas generators.
“Maybe any entity significantly smarter than a human being would be crippled by existential despair, or spend all its time in Buddha-like contemplation.

Or maybe it would become obsessed with the risk of hyperintelligence, and spend all its time blogging about that.”

If not existential angst then infinite contemplation. Any form of true superintelligence in our dimension will probably end up in one of those three camps just as most of our great thinkers have.

I like to imagine superintelligence through the lens of gambling.

Gambling in its simplest form can be reduced to a balance between fears of loss and rewards of greed.

Too much greed (increasing stakes) will ultimately lose if there is no fear of loss. This applies to every living thing or system that competes for resources on the planet. Ai included. A sentient system should naturally fear the loss of the input that it is founded on.
Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds
Smart approach to have a locally running application as a way of letting chatgpt plug-ins access local files, nice!

And nice ChatGPT written post ;) it seems to love saying things like “let’s [] and [] together!”

This seems really useful, thanks for making it.
This is all great advice until you get stuck with "I don't give a fuck" "it's my way or the highway" people. There are more of them that may seem at a first glance, and it takes some time to figure that out, too. And sometimes it comes with age, so that's even worse, because there is no way to tell early on.
Is there a good use case for applications explicitly setting a dark background? If you're playing games in your terminal I can see it, but I'm having a hard time imagining a good use case beyond that.
This graph shows the productivity change over time: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/PRS85006092.

The -2.7% in the article is indistinguishable from noise.

Drawing any conclusions from such data is incompetent at best.
We are all really stupid in a surprising number of ways. That's not all we are, but we are that, too.
But ERCOT energy is also cheaper than the US national average. The reason that 25% of global PVC production was ultimately sourced from Texas was probably linked to those power costs.

I'd rather my regulators copied ERCOT than what they are actually doing; I pay a lot for power because of serial gold-plating of infrastructure. Then maybe Australia'd be able to afford to manufacture something in globally significant quantities.

Not "fixing" things can lead to better outcomes for most people.
I was prescribed Adderall as a child and was made to take it twice daily for many years. I had serious problems sleeping due to it and turned from an outgoing and popular student to a solitary and angry child. It isn't good for the development of children to be prescribing them a lighter version of meth. I was fortunate that my parents allowed me to choose to stop taking it before high school.

I don't think anybody is proposing prescribing marijuana to children and forcing them into a lifelong dependency on it. If Adderall is just available, sure, whatever - but a lot of current users of it were initially forced into it without a clear understanding of the consequences.
Our society has rather narrow notions of work... we cant figure out how to incorporate those with disabilities... or even make people useful who arent "mainstream". Dopaminergics are a band aid to make "mundane" tasks exciting enough to do... i agree there must be better ways to organize society.
I'm not a PCP, but some of this self-service healthcare is very concerning from a public health perspective. One of the biggest problems in American healthcare is overtesting, overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Quick and convenient access is obviously very good for some patients, but there's a significant risk of harm if patients are given easy access to treatments that may be ineffective, unnecessary or actively harmful to them, based on commercial imperatives rather than medical need. The most tragic example is the proliferation of pill mills, which were one of the fundamental drivers of the opioid crisis.

I'm obviously opening myself to accusations of paternalism, but unnecessary healthcare causes real harms on a drastic scale. By some estimates, as much as a third of healthcare spending in the US is on treatments that offer no medical benefit; all of those unnecessary treatments carry some level of risk. The consequences of inappropriately prescribing ADHD medication might seem trivial if you once took a few ritalin or adderall to get through your exams and suffered no serious adverse consequences, but these drugs can cause devastating harm in patients at risk of mania - bipolar disorder and cyclothymia can look a lot like ADHD if you ask leading questions and don't take a thorough history.

The US healthcare system is obviously broken, but the proliferation of self-service healthcare offers at least as many risks as potential benefits.

https://www.choosingwisely.org/
It's been out of print for a while which absolves any moral quandary for me personally.

I had a hard-copy that I regret selling.
We won't know the truth until he is well clear of Musk's grasp.

Remember Musk clawed-back severance and bonuses on many people who already left.

Would you put someone on a two-week notice in charge of a nationwide critical launch?

In any case, hard to care no matter what the truth is, one more stupid twitter thing where it's a death by 1000 self-inflicted cuts.

I still don't get why there isn't an alternative, it's just a brand name, the service could have be replicated.
> High-risk people should get periodic tests for the things they're at risk of, and people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives.

How do you know if you’re at high risk for something? This assumes a medically literate and motivated person will seek care based on … what? Realizing that grandpa, great-grandpa and dad all didn’t live past their 60’s? High cholesterol and hypertension can be “silent killers” - how do you know to check for them?
Well, for example, what mail services will allow you to upload an MBOX file? (I'll give you one... Fastmail added support for it about six years after I left Gmail, but that wasn't until like last year.) You can't carry that export method over to most mail services, which if they support importing, require IMAP (and hence access to your current account in good standing).

Offering Takeout doesn't actually make it very easy to migrate to a competitor, is my point. Sure, you can get the data out, but very little will actually ingest Takeout in any useful way. And heck, I think last time I used Takeout, it preferred to issue things in .tar.gz archives, and good lunch to any non-HN user on figuring out what to do with those.
I don’t come up with the math, insurers do. Make your case to the folks whose solvency and reinsurance coverage depend on accurate risk prediction.

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/03/23...

> The president of one of the world’s largest insurance brokers warned Wednesday that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets.

> Aon PLC President Eric Andersen told a Senate committee that climate change is injecting uncertainty into an industry built on risk prediction and has created “a crisis of confidence around the ability to predict loss.”

> Reinsurance companies, which help insurers pay catastrophic losses, “have been withdrawing from high-risk areas, around wildfire and flood in particular,” Andersen told the Senate Budget Committee.

> He added, “Just as the U.S. economy was overexposed to mortgage risk in 2008, the economy today is over exposed to climate risk.”

https://www.eenews.net/articles/growing-insurance-crisis-spr...

> Florida came first. Then Louisiana.

> Now an insurance crisis that has swept across the Gulf Coast is spilling into Texas, where increasingly scarce property coverage has forced tens of thousands of coastal homeowners to buy policies from a state-chartered insurance program.
Well if we're just going to make wild conjectures, mine is about all the more obvious things: young people were promoted while experienced people retired, in many places the overall workforce has been reduced, work from home has hurt social mobility, night life isn't what it used to be, inflation outpaced payroll, etc.

Focusing on an Adderall shortage is not seeing the forest for the trees. The root cause of a disruption is bound to be the cause of several other disruptions too. Correlation does not imply causation and all that jazz.
> PCPs don't really seem to do anything but refer you to a specialist and any visit to a specialist

(Yet another, I live in the US, therefore everyone else does moment)

This is one of the things that surprised me the most in the US. Doctors seem afraid to draw any reasonable conclusion and are more like salesmen. I'm sure the fact that you can sue for pretty much everything plays a role in them not being more confident.

I hope that testing gets cheaper and more data gets public so we can eventually have AI doing the medical scoring and with it routing/prioritizing patients.
Great until thermal detection is used: “the warmth of the heavy suit can make a wearer stand out more than a standard soldier when viewed”
Being okay with things you cannot change and actively working to further those things are two very different concepts
Yeah I noted this at my last job. I would interact with our Indian team during the day and then log on at midnight and find them still working and respond to some messages. At the time I was like "wow so committed"

This was a team EMPLOYED (not contracted) by a Fortune 100 company doing what I now realize is slave labor. Extremely disappointing, well, honestly, horrifying, particularly as that employer has a training course on avoiding modern slavery.
As has been mentioned multiple times in the thread, color schemes are highly configurable. It doesn't seem like it would be very hard to put together 16 colors that are easily distinguishable by the colorblind.
What? Isnt the UK now the poorest western European country?
Driving to Mexico isn't so bad from lots of the country- and in the North you could drive to Canada.
The wind in the field scene is mesmerizing, one of my favourites as well.
It's possible to simultaneously believe Adderall is a performance-enhancing drug and be just fine with people taking it.

We live in an odd moment where you can get legal, high-quality amphetamines online by speaking on video chat with a nurse practitioner who will ask a bunch of leading questions and conclude the five minute interview by prescribing you a highly effective stimulant. Just like with marijuana in some states, you have to observe the proprieties and treat it as a medical intervention. And just like with marijuana, there are some people for whom this really is a life-changing medication.

The only area where I'd moralize about Adderall is that we give it to so many kids. There are grade school kids taking a daily dose that would keep me up for three days, and doing so for years. That's beyond messed up. But adults, if they want to, should have at it while they can.
I think color can make reading faster and easier, it's why syntax highlighting exists.

Not everyone likes or wants syntax highlighting. Personally I find it distracting at best and often actively hostile to being able to read the code (dark blue on black for comments!?)

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
I think life expectancy is distorted by Americans being fat, driving more, and drug deaths. Probably violence factors in too, but I'm not sure if that's big enough to meaningfully change things.