skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds to me that this is really the root cause of your unhappiness

I know it sounds that way but the truth is I'm doing pretty good myself. I too make 2-4x more than those doctors. I just talked to one on Instagram about it. When I calculate the value per hour, I'm actually outcompeting those full time software developers. I make good money and have lots of free time.

Still, it's a bleak picture. In a few decades, medicine went from an elite profession, essentially guaranteed prosperity, to basically a normal job. Soon it looks like the liabilities will exceed the returns. Too much responsibility for too little pay. People here love suing doctors just like in the US. Why would anyone want to put up with that if they're not making a fortune?

The best option right now is to use medicine to raise some quick capital, start a business then quit medicine.
I actually want that kind of AI, as long as I'm in control of it and it runs locally. I want a great foreign language tutor. I want an assistant who will figure out what I should be doing today to work towards the things that I want. Why wouldn't I? And there's no way you get those things without creating some kind of dependence. The more transparent AI is, the more I can train it and tune it myself, the more it will conform to my life, and paradoxically the more dependent I'll be upon it.

The big fear of AI is that it will be used to make people conform, but the ability for it to conform to us would embed it even deeper into our lives.
Defining a number of related functions seems to be a pattern that comes up elsewhere. For example, consider functions that compute a hash value, canonicalize, and compute some notion of equality. It would be useful to associate all of these.
As an RX580 user, I was hoping for a bit more memory - as it stands, this doesn't feel compelling for me to upgrade. Maybe there'll be a 7600xt or something, but I'll be holding out another year or three (and turning graphics settings down to medium)
The CBS Evening News was only 30 minutes long when Cronkite anchored it. :) We basically agree, though.
"a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism"

LOL. CNN needs tragedies: the Challenger disaster, the Gulf War, baby falling down a well. Those are the kind of things that made CNN popular.
Exercise Has Many Health Benefits. Weight Loss Isn't One of Them
This one?
https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem

Also futurama is coming back, in case you didn't know.
San Francisco Homeowners Lose $260B in Value
This is brilliant haha
> The CBS Evening News was only 30 minutes long when Cronkite anchored it.

Hm, yes, I'd forgotten that.
It’s more like telling them to exercise to burn off the fat.

That will be extremely hard at first, since they are probably starting from zero. However, as they get fitter, they will be able to burn more calories per day via exercise.

Of course, diet + exercise is much better than just one or the other.

We have to remove ~ 25% of the carbon currently in the atmosphere, or we’re screwed.

We definitely can’t reach that goal without carbon capture. We almost certainly can’t reach it without cutting emissions by >> 90%.
Not sure guns are the same thing. 200-500,000 guns are stolen each year in the US and then used to commit crimes. Really anything you can do to reduce the number of guns in the US is strictly a good thing. [1]

> The large number of guns stolen each year suggests that theft may be an important source of “crime guns.” Indeed, it appears that while gun theft is often not the proximate source of firearms for most criminals [...], it is often the ultimate source-the way guns initially enter into the illegal market.

It's not 'maybe a responsible gun owner would or wouldn't use it for crime' so much as reducing the surface area of a massive vulnerability.

[1] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/32630640/5385318...
Open Source Common API Framework (Capif)
The output isn't the only infringement, arguably. You could also argue (and I expect good lawyers will), that the numeric representation of the artist's works inside the model is already an infringing copy. (Just like the JPEG bytes stored on a server, even without them being blitted to a screen.)
It's not just music, it's also the noise of people talking, combined with the interior design of the restaurant so that sound bounces off all the surfaces. I read somewhere that there's been a trend in American restaurants to intentionally make them noisy like this.
Sounds like a great market for a health-only iot device or basic wristband with an e-sim. Tailor made for kids, at least to start.
How about “real, interesting stuff that appeals to more than 2 people”.
The bots name is Objective_Land_2849.

In the last year or so I've noticed a lot of accounts whose username follows this naming format. Usually its: Adjective_noun_1234 but sometimes the underscores are hyphens. I really do wonder if these are all bot accounts.
Interesting that the folks who wrote a proof based on the 4Chan user's post listed him as a first author. In all of my experience, Mathematics truly seems to be the field with the highest integrity.
It's awful, and it's shameful but nobody feels shame anymore. The moral bar is "what can I legally get away with taking from the world" now. Nobody is even capable of feeling shame for their actions. It's just "bank account goes up" = "i'm right".
Whoops, 5M down the drain.

Easier said than done, I guess.
We will need hydrogen anyways too. Not unless you think all of industry doesn't need to exist. Hydrogen can be delivered via pipeline just like natural gas. It is actually cheaper to move hydrogen around than electricity this way.
No, is not insane at all, a computer can generate millions of derivate copies in a second, a human has limited time for learning and for making artwork, so it doesn't make sense to compare them, not in the slightest.

If suddenly there was a race of humans who could read and retain entire books in a matter of seconds (and other similar feats) the implications would be almost the same, as it would break basic expectations of time and personal resources that our society relies on, and a lot of people would be rightfully worried about such people entering the workforce.
Are you actually allowed to use Super positions for this (watching the TV show in every order). Presumably the whole point is that you get a different experience from watching a certain episode after watching others and vice versa, and since our brains don't really exist in a state of quantum superposition, not sure you can kill two birds with one stone. You're either watching it in the context of earlier than these episodes or later than these episodes, but never really both.
I used to host a competition called Anything But Ethernet.

(You could use ethernet hops, they just didn't score points, so say you had some ethernet-to-whatever bridge, only the 'whatever' segment would count.)

Over the years, we saw physical proof that a T1 circuit would in fact run over barbed wire, we had a human-in-the-loop following a DDR-esque stream of arrows to stomp on a pad that encoded data from one hop to the next, we had a writable RFID tag stuck to the front bumper of an R/C car that would drive back and forth between readers...
No, I absolutely do not trust the applications I run natively. I trust the hardware, the OS, and the sandboxing layer. Mostly because I have to. I absolutely do not trust Spotify or Steam with my personal documents
No more in the ways of chemistry, specifically solid state and lithium air.
Ahh, my first workplace had a MicroVAX II and some SPARCstation 2s with a special place in my heart. We ran Ultrix/Motif and SunOS/OpenWindows, so these arcane screenies of MicroVMS, SunTools, and Display PostScript are educational for me.

The MicroVax was sort of the secondary, older system but it intrigued me, and I hacked on it, securing some career advancement along the way. I'd already saved our reputation and revenue bigtime by overhauling our authentication server. When word got around that I'd reconfigured the Ultrix kernel to my liking, I feared a reprimand but received a promotion to sysadmin and a 33% raise.

The SparcStation 2 was the jewel of the office and its printer was the bane of my existence. There was a storage pedestal and a SPARC Laser printer; this system was in a triple role as a desktop workstation, office print server, and customer/public Internet services of whatever sort existed before WWW.

Now the SPARC Printer used Display Postscript as its engine, and that's why I'm ranting about it here on this article. Display Postscript-based printers are like WinModems: they're essentially dumb devices, and IIUC, they appear somewhat like a monitor to the host system. So the Postscript engine runs on the host and then zaps rendered pages out to the device.

This is great in theory, and it's great in practice if you've got a dedicated print server and your printer never jams or fouls physically. Well guess what. We were heavy users on that thing, because everyone in the United States was phoning us asking how to get on the Internet, and we offered a free guide for that. So we printed a new copy and stuffed it in an envelope for every request!

When the printer hung, being dependent on the host system, its engine daemon hung in Device Wait on the server, and there was no way to unwedge it until we rebooted. So we'd all stop work, kick off the desktop user, reboot it, get the printer back, and try to pick up where we left off.

Upon promotion, I was provisioned with a SPARCstation LX, and I promptly eschewed OpenWindows in favor of twm.I ran rc, mh, Emacs, and sometimes I would fire up NCSA Mosaic, because these weirdos on the Internet were starting to "blog" about what they ate for lunch.
For all the ones that can't figure out the benefits - here is a quick demo video of the same approach:

https://youtu.be/ITogH7lJTyE
The whole point of QR codes is to paste URLs in real life. For non-real-life use cases even QR codes are unnecessary and people would just use links. For that, yes, typo-squatting and phishing are issues.

I'm suggesting that for real life we could just use URLs and OCR instead of QR codes.
Signals are a design paradigm for reactive programming which have recently trended in the JS frontend space. For e.g., https://preactjs.com/blog/introducing-signals/
The closest you can get, I think, is to position yourself as what works as an inoffensive, neutral, background option for always-on TVs (the cable news version of USA Today, basically). You can probably be (barely) profitable with such a model, but you're really going to have settle yourself with having no growth potential.

> Game of Thrones, which is premium cable content, averaged almost 30x more

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that Game of Thrones is the most-viewed premium cable content in history.
Bell Labs, JPL etc are part of a "lost" era of deep and broad research into CS, just like how NASA's push to the moon led to so many advancements still being used today. I dare say that the timeline of SVs and VC money, with focus on profit, has been the downfall of tech in the last decade or two (how many PhDs does it take to sell ads? There must be a joke about this...)
...there's a Rick that works more with wood, than with polarity plating. His name is Simple Rick, but he's no dumby. He realized long ago that the greatest thing he'd ever create was his daughter.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5218332/characters/nm0204797
Tunney is amazing relative to the average developer, but Bellard is another order of magnitude or more beyond this.
There's no reason a child that young "needs" to read either, but we tend to think it's a good idea to let them experience the modern world and get ready to live in it.

I predict these children will have more social issues in adulthood and thrive less well than those who had smartphones when they were younger.
That’s a funny guess. All those Egyptian troublemakers you hear about.
The readme isn’t super clear how you use this. Is there some way I can for example use this to install Spotify with no file system, microphone, and camera access?
> On the other hand, I suspect EPD companies try to keep the low-level details (like driving waveforms) secret because that's a large part of their IP. They want to be able to sell controllers for them too.

Could you share what evidence this is based on?
Step 1 would be careful observation. This might imply something special in the way of self-control.
> a user with 99+ tabs is already highly aberrant

I have 999+ tabs semi-regularly, what does that make me? :D
If you created your own accounts instead of buying them, you would know that this format is the username format reddit automatically suggests for you :).

Also residential proxies are overkill unless you're doing crime. They also likely expose you to participation in a criminal conspiracy since the provenance of those ips is sketchy at best. IANAL YMMV. Mullvad offers a year subscription for ~$50. Also they support wireguard and you could use something like wireproxy and violla, 100s of ips and no crime in your supply chain*.

* I haven't tried posting to reddit with mullvad ips.

edit: looks like you're not op, sorry... The first paragraph is for you tho.
Well the current implementation only comments on posts that already have a lot of upvotes so it's unlikely that most of the posts are read by humans. As far as I can tell there's no clear path to making any money with it short of becoming a foreign agent or selling upvotes, neither of which I am interested in. So I will shut it off soon because there's not really much else to do.
With skilled enough story telling a writer can make almost anything appeal to a mass audience.
The article you’re replying to is that 70% of household infections started with a child. That’s selective application of externalities, that’s a causal statement. So, you could without a huge stretch of conditional probability say that ~70% of fat people dying in a household were due to their kids infecting them, assuming the paper is right. I am not blaming kids for anything, or fat people. I’m saying the focus on preventing kids from being infected had important knock on implications - which is a restatement of the paper linked itself, with the extension that all mitigants were helpful in saving household lives.
Really it should be on a case by case basis. At 11 or 12, maybe even 10, I would have been pretty interested in trying different roms for phones and stuff like that.

In that sense they would be denying a kid an opportunity to self-learn, which I don't agree with.
It is just one common example, not the rule, there are many other situations where this comes into play. What would have happened with Pynchon's post Gravity's Rainbow works if he was not able to get royalties from his previous works during that long writers block he had? During that time his only output was a collection of his early short stories most of which (probably all) were over 20 years old and by the time he got Vineland out all of his work but Gravity's Rainbow would have lost protection with a 20 year copyright. But it paid off in the end and he produced some great works since.

1. Yes, and many never succeed in their life but getting royalties from old works is something to keep you going and a reason not to give up.

2. Those successful works will not be bringing in money for decades to come, just a year or two and then slow to a trickle of royalties. Having a single work which sells well does not mean you are set for life, just means you can breathe easier for awhile.

3. Piracy would not be an issue if that were the case, many already do not pay for it. Sure many say that is because they don't want to support the industry but they are also taking from the writer much of the time.

4. But anyone can now monetize it in all those ways and now the author has to compete for their own work on top of all these extra business dealings and working on new output. And even then things like a bad movie version (which author has little control over) can seriously hurt future sales. This is just trying to turn artist into a brand and not many have pulled that off successfully.

5. This is not really a condition for your point and not even a point.

6. Generally rights are not sold, publishing right are sold to the publisher for a certain number of years and after that time is up the author is free to go make a deal with another publisher or self publish it or what ever they desire.
If you're just pasting in the wikipedia article, why didn't you include the next paragraph?

Other reviewers praised the book's use of documentary research as well as its intricate construction. Irish novelist Colm Toibin wrote in his New York Times review that "the issues Baker wishes to raise, and the stark system he has used to dramatize his point, make his book a serious and conscientious contribution to the debate about pacifism."[1]

Anyway, I've actually read it and found the perspective enlightening even as someone obsessed with WWII since I was 12.
To be fair, amdgpu can be a dumpster fire at times...

I've also seen cases where I get that sdma ring buffer timeout, and rather than resetting the GPU, it spews garbage continuously in dmesg before I have to power cycle it.

On the other hand, that 2950x system is cursed. Half the time I boot it up, it downclocks the memory to 2400, won't detect USB devices... or part way through booting the kernel decides that it doesn't want anything to do with the pcie bus and panics.
Imagine getting disciplined for plagiarising your paper from 4chan tho…
I see your point. Perhaps they will move in that direction given time.
It's O(1), for high values of 1.
> "across the board, it looked like dieting induced a rapid shift in hormone levels that would tend to favor increased appetite (and thus weight gain); and this effect would not return to baseline even after many months had passed."

it's because they get hungry
It's not an objection, it was an observation.
So you're suggesting we re-wire every single building with these "simple" 20V DC plugs? We'd better get both the voltage and maximum current exactly right, because the last time we picked standards for this, they lasted for several centuries!

And if we do get it wrong, do we change the mechanical plug shape if we decide that no, actually 40V (or 15V, or 32.945V) would have been better so that no unsafe connections become possible?
I do this then forget, my “solution” is to use the “turn active tabs into bookmarks” feature on Brave Mobile so I can save everything with the promise to sort it later. That was easily 10,000 bookmarks ago.
Some would argue that cases where euthanasia is a serious option, healthcare in not healthcare either, and in fact may be closer to torture.

And I don’t have a problem with mental illness being the sole criteria. If drugs with horrible side effects are the only thing keeping me, sane but miserable, death my feel like the best option.
The dark side of GPT powered Chatbots in the retail industry
I thought it was the first version of the browser engine too --- which was released in 2013. Looking at the history, this one only showed up in late 2022, so the browser engine came first.
No one said anything about changing authorship; the poster farther up the thread could certainly make money selling those books up on Amazon with the original author's name intact.

Regardless, though, what repercussions are you referring to? There are no legal repercussions for taking public domain works and pretending you created them. Sure, there are potential social repercussions, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.
Impact of Generative AI on CMS Offerings
Seems a bit extreme.

Practically, 11+ year olds are capable of getting their hands on anything they want if they have the money and inclination for it. And they certainly have the inclination to get a smartphone.

So the only way to achieve your vision would be to ban giving money to anybody under the age of 18.
AC outlets have been the same on a per-country basis for decades and will be for several more decades.

USB, on the other hand, is "hey I have a new plug" every 5 years. We'll have USB-D in 2030 and everyone will have to buy new cables and adapters.

Anyone who needs 40V should just design it to use 120V/240V instead.
AutoGPT – The Autonomous AI Agent
> Is it really the case individuals can not assert their rights without a governments backing?

doesn't the word "rights" itself presuppose a governing/arbitrating body?
Web 3.0 – Emerging trends in the retail industry
If they have done any research into it or have a halfway decent agent, yes. A book that sells well is probably not going to set you up for life and at best will just cover the next year or two, only a tiny minority of writers get that massive best seller and movie deal that sets them up for life.
The real problem is viewport meta and how you have to opt in or opt out: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Viewport_m...

If you opt in, a simple page like this ends up looking pretty modern anyway, but plain, while if you opt out, your site is often rendered as if made for an older desktop monitor, like this one.

Another way of putting the problem, we preserved old desktop styles rather than invent new default responsive styles for touch-based browsers.

Without a standard like grey backgrounds and blue links to fall back on, websites had to start making decisions, especially when sites go responsive. At that point it is easier to invent new styles… there aren’t that many useful defaults to fall back on.

This is particularly true for HTML5 form controls, which rarely look good in any browser without styling…

But perhaps there’s hope for the future as new design language becomes HTML tags. E.g. details has an arrow, datalist builds a native autocomplete, and so on. It’s a shame that dialog doesn’t have native formatting tho, or that the idea of creating new, modern default styles hasn’t caught on yet in a cross-browser way.
Why do we care? I think he is/was a genius and would have developed groundbreaking things anywhere, but why the “negative curiosity” and what-ifs? Why not instead celebrate his life and accomplishments instead of dwelling on what he might or mightn’t have done without certain advantages or luck? Did Bell write C for him? These kinds of comments drive me nuts. Downvote as you wish.
I too balked at the absurd complexity in the HomeAssistant stack, and it's kinda kept me off the "smart home" train because I refuse to buy into somebody's walled garden.

As a result the sum total of smartness in my home is... A little STM32 Blue Pill that reports whether or not the basement door is locked or not. Yay?

Edit: oh and the raspberry pi that measures the moisture in the soil of my beloved Norfolk Island Spruce and tells me over IRC when it needs water.
> It would require only for cable to signal it's max current capacity.

As you say yourself a bit later, you'd need at least two "simple" resistors (one for the cable itself, one for the adapter) – otherwise it's only fixed-cable power supplies (and I really, really hate having to throw away an entire high-quality power supply just because the cable frayed at the laptop end).

> But USB-PD is generally horrifically complicated for what it does

Which parts would you suggest are safe to omit, in a world where you want to be able to charge both small accessories (Bluetooth headphones etc.), smartphones, and large laptops using a single connector?
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