skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I gather, she's so sick that it's possible the infection is interfering with her thinking. Whatever her tragic backstory, history of trauma, instances of injustice, she's currently a threat to public health and I think most people will feel the authorities are in the right to detain her at this point.
This is one peculiarly shrill post. Can you explain your mention of "division, hatred, polarization, radicalization" related to this article? I'm not saying you're wrong but it's a very strange opinion and seemingly entirely disproportionate.
For B, SO still has voting on answers as well as acceptance of answers

It's not as valuable as raw text input, but it's still marked up and classified
The same claims have been made in the past. Europe was out of wood, coal smoke was choking cities, disease was insurmountable, environmental issues in the 60s/70s, ozone depletion, looming extinction of charismatic species, and so on.

> the green revolution allowing us to feed people by basically converting petroleum products into agricultural yiel

The green revolution was largely about shuttle breeding in wheat, corn, and rice. Higher yields mean less land can be used for agriculture. Were we see most biodiversity loss and deforestation, people are subsistence farming, engaging in slash and burn agriculture, and using unimproved seeds/methods.

> You can't eat cheap electricity provided by solar panels,

You can split water and force the H2 under pressure to combine with atmospheric nitrogen and create 0 CO2 fertilizer. So you kind of can eat cheap electricity once its cheap enough.

> that WE MUST GROW at all costs

Economic growth isn't tethered to land use anymore and is increasingly detached from CO2 emissions. A few centuries what little economic growth that existed required grain and wood. Economic growth makes us richer, and that extra accumulated wealth allows us to do things like environmental protections. You see the world over, as countries become richer they devote more resources to environmental protection.

> I think its pretty clear that there is no sustainable QUALITY of life at 9 billion

That isn't clear at all. Paul Ehrlich predicted that 6-7 billion people would lead to mass starvation, yet food insecurity is at an all time low. The Club of Rome predicted we would be out of resources by 1992. You're making the argument that people made about the end of whale oil. The mistake is that thinking resources are fixed and finite arrangements of particular atoms in the ground, rather than the application of human ingenuity to raw inputs. Oil was originally useless black gunk.

I'm not denying that there are problems and that there will be consequences of the old carbon economy. I'm not saying that habitat loss isn't a problem. I'm am however pointing out that these are solvable problems and a lot of very capable people are hard at work. Low and no carbon energy is now a solved technical problem and has become merely an infrastructure challenge. That's pretty amazing. Agriculture isn't standing still, there are a ton of gains to be had in land use. Society has managed to solve a lot of hard problems, we have the ability here.
Nah, it's Big Atmosphere.

You can survive the landing. On Titan or Venus. (Surviving the environment is another matter...)
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It’s not pedantry to call things what they are.

A crystal and this cooler - have moving parts. And don’t fit even a laissez-faire definition.
And with that income it will be hard to support social programs like pensions. So the pyramid scheme might just collapse and retirees are screwed. In that sense the talk about UBI looks completely bonkers if no high earners left to fund it.
Years ago I was relocating to the Bay Area for personal reasons and asked someone I knew if he had any recruiter recommendations. He didn’t, but he was a YC founder, so he posted my details in a corner of HN reserved for them. I woke up to quite a few emails in my inbox, and one of them ended up being a match. Learned a ton from being employee #3, after the two founders.

I think I generally have a more skeptical view of HN than most others posting in this thread, but the value and uniqueness of parts of this community isn’t lost on me, especially with that personal experience.
no.

it has always been possible to make money with low quality product.

as long as there has been money, and product, there has been someone aiming to make a cheaper product to make more money.

software is a product.

the markets and the shareholders demand profits, so that necessitates corners be cut, usually. lest someone else get there first.

while the above is too broad, aggrandizing those greedy buffoons by giving them credit for this pattern, creation or refinement of it as an idea, is too much.

look closer at the billionaires and they start looking like any monkey. greedy, horny, dishonest. these just have a lot more bananas.
Now apply that argument to the pay of the writers who provide the backbone of in-house content.
If someone has already put in the right prompt to get the best answer, you will now not have to do that.

Also, SO isn't just about getting the right answer, it's also about finding the pros and cons of each proposed solution.
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What were the hedge funds, what happened? I’m a fan of NNT, but I want to get a more complete picture of whether his “stuff” works or not, and good info is hard to come by.
That doesn't invalidate the comparison to Typhoid Mary...
> Can't I get access to the social network direct from the source, for free?

For free? No, you can't.

- You (or someone else) will have to develop the software. The source code doesn't just show up magically on github.

- You (or someone else) will have to test the software, triage bugs, help with documentation, etc.

- You (or someone else) will have to pay for the servers.

- You (or someone else) will have to do content moderation

None of these things are free. TANSTAAFL. If you are using it, it will cost you something, it's up to you if you want to pay with your money, your time, or your data.
I would go with only human code should exist.
Educated guess: From its use as an azeotrope breaker in the distillation of ethanol from water. Normally its impossible to achieve greater than ~95% ethanol from an ethanol water mixture, but it is possible to achieve ~100% ethanol from a water/benzene/ethanol mixture[0].

[0]There of course have been methods invented which do not involve benzene.
I have 2 copies of this book, one that we keep at my work office and one I bought for myself. It's a good book!
I'd propose a different solution. For every single new question, auto-generate an answer with GPT and mark it as AI-generated.
C biggest "mistake" (there are historical reasons for this, though, but it doesn't make it acceptable nowadays) is the concept of undefined behavior, period.
> the World Health Organization stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air.

I mean, I don't believe the WHO actually stated that in those terms. This is probably a paraphrase of a more nuanced statement that erases the nuance.
Thank you for reminding me to err on the side of compassion and understanding!
These are assumptions. If you think the assumption of continuity is ridiculous, note that the definition of universal Turing machines requires an infinitely long tape (infinite memory), which of course conflicts with the finite memory of any actually implementable digital computer.
I think ESG will actually shift the balance of power towards CEO's and away from shareholders.

If the CEO only has one job and that is to make profits for shareholders that is a single measurable benchmark the shareholders can hold him accountable to. But now the CEO can make whatever decision he would like and use nebulous and hard to track ESG goals to justify it.
With generative AI (text, images, videos), I'm of the opinion that very soon -- if not now -- every"one" on the internet should be assumed a bot until proven otherwise.

In other words, it's now trivial to fake a digital persona, including "selfies", "personalities", and more.

How do you know I'm not an LLM?
What percentage is the budget do you imagine is being spent on homelessness?
The big question is why do other societies (I'm not American) not value engineering. And when I say "value", I mean "with money".

Some professions push society forward and create long-term wealth. In my mind these are professions where you make decisions with skin in the game, persuade others to do things a better way, and all of STEM. Leadership, sales, engineering, science.

Other professions exist to describe what these prime movers do, or to maintain their work, or to support the people doing it. This is also vital and every society needs this too, but it's just not as important.

So, if in the USA they pay engineers 3x better than in other countries, the question is: what the hell is the rest of the world thinking?
Why is that a bad thing? People do ask very similar things on Stackoverflow so if an AI can answer that, let it!
Yup, this sort of factor can make it hard to find the answer.

Do some patients benefit from D supplements? Certainly. Yet you can find a group that gains no benefit. In this case we obviously can divide them up but in many cases the division is unknown.
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Probably scaling moderation to account for increasingly wrong and right-looking answers.
Might as well just toss it unless you regularly need to kill bacteria on your hands away from running water.
AI generated can be somewhat sniffed out today but I'm not sure how long that will even last. Usually you can tell when the writing is great but the points made are trash or miss the point.

I personally wouldn't find it helpful. I'd say let the question poster and visitor decide if they want to see AI generated stuff. But that does rely on AI answers being marked as such or detected.
At least this far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVazQVycP4

RP2040 running Doom, includes VGA, Adlib emulation, PCM sound effects, 4 player "LAN". Pretty much the same experience as Doom on a DOS PC.

264 kB of total RAM is the main restriction.
But just in these threads I read that talent and ability is not valued in America.
If you buy an option (the right but not obligation to either buy or sell at a certain price), then your liability is limited to what you pay for it.
The point is that discrete computers can exactly and trivially emulate each other. The inability to emulate an analog computer by a digital or analog computer kind of is the whole point.
Honestly, that's not a bad assessment of the problems with software. "Bill taketh away" as the addage goes, and the business obsession of Bezos mixed with the "breaking things" of Zuckerberg has yielded some pretty terrible software products over the past decade.

The real problem is that selling competitive software is a terrible business. The "good" products are the free ones that are built by the community and maintained/provided unconditionally. To make money or compete with the big guys (like Bill, Bezos and Zuckerberg) you have to cut corners. Cut corners are the cornerstones of FAANG.
I feel like all of Reddit has become political, even the niche forums. It’s all the same moaning and groaning
We are remembering things differently. I do not remember any consensus on these items within the first year of the pandemic. I remember things being uncertain. I think demanding vaccines for travel was reasonable, given the circumstances of the time. I do not think the mandates were pointless given what we knew at the time, and I think people who flouted them acted selfishly.
I hate this sort of retort since it’s fundamentally meaningless. All atoms that will ever exist were in the singularity and exploded during the big bang to encompass all of the universe, and so we are all just moving along. Ok, so what.
Or better yet have corporate governance in place that doesn't allow a few board members to completely override the will of the people who own the company.
Question since you appear familiar with math simulation, could you do what you're describing with Matlab with Octave instead?
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Well there is interrogate, there is i2i, and then there is something in between. You encode the image directly into latent space vectors, and it applies the general "style" of the input, much closer than a text prompt would.

I think this is called pix2pix or style transfer.
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>"std::array<type,N>"

Unless you mean array of anything like in typeless dynamic languages I do not see anything awkward about STL arrays in C++.
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The declaration syntax and the lack of a proper module/namespacing system is also a mistake, but perhaps not as big as the way arrays decays into pointers.
Implicit conversions I suppose could also be classified as a mistake.
> The original claim I responded to was that the medical establishment claimed airborne transmission was impossible.

The WHO literally made a blanket statement that Covid was NOT airborne.

> FACT: COVID-19 is NOT airborne.

The CDC also denied airborne spread for quite some time.

>As the pandemic unfolded last year, infectious disease experts warned for months that both the C.D.C. and the World Health Organization were overlooking research that strongly suggested the coronavirus traveled aloft in small, airborne particles. Several scientists on Friday welcomed the agency’s scrapping of the term “close contact,” which they criticized as vague and said did not necessarily capture the nuances of aerosol transmission.

“C.D.C. has now caught up to the latest scientific evidence, and they’ve gotten rid of some old problematic terms and thinking about how transmission occurs,” said Linsey Marr, an aerosol expert at Virginia Tech.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/health/coronavirus-airbor...

The CDC's flip flopping on the issue did not inspire confidence.

>CDC reverses again, now says Covid-19 is 'sometimes' airborne

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-reverses-agai...
Not sure about that logic. If true, you could never find anything better for less. And that is just plain wrong.
Be nice if the board had wireless built in, though I believe adafruit provides a clip on wireless module.
$2400/month premiums ($2800 this year), $4k in copays (capped), uncovered compounded medications, an out-of-network provider because the in-network ones have a year's wait, dental/braces/vision, etc. (Plus mileage/parking incurred with a medically complex family.)
you're on HN. The majority opinion here is bound to be a hot take. Reality is the official app isn't THAT bad.
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.3 seconds after jumping from a high altitude plane there was no colleration to parachute usage wrt injuries, ramdomized trial confirms. (Double blind study awaiting approval)
Agreed. I also like seeing more sanitizer dispensers when I go in grocery stores or other places where I'm going to touch things many other people touch. Use it on the way in to not spread things to others, then on the way out to not take theirs home. Even better when they provide wipes for cart handles.
C-level folks make huge strategic and tactical mistakes _all the time_. They are humans. Amazon has burned tens of billions of dollars on dead-end consumer electronics devices (fire phone?). Facebook is shoveling money into a burning pit trying to convince people to wear goggles for eight hours a day so that they can beam ads directly into our eyes using lasers. Huge companies fail and flounder for decades before toppling over under the weight of incompetent, highly-compensated leadership - this is the norm, not the exception.

The assertion that paying more money to the folks at the top has yielded commensurate returns is really not backed by ... anything at all, as far as I can see.
Agreed. I have found myself sometimes asking Chat-GPT for guidance related to obscure error messages and occasionally its more useful than google or stack overflow.
> SO still has voting on answers

We call it RLHF these days
> If answers are good, keep them. If they're bad, downvote them. If they're redundant or off-topic or gibberish, delete them.

Yeah, lets us keep providing free labor to help train somebody else's models, improve somebody else's infrastructure so that they can even more effectively dominate.
if they charge for api usage for activities they allow for free in the web app, all they will do is shuffle traffic to more expensive heavyweight calls by crawlers and client-side javascript hacks.
I thought he was talking about phones my bad
Several people submitted this, but it gets swept off the HN front page by loyal Apple fans flagging it.
Logging Personal Data Matters Now More Than Ever for LLMs
The age of personalized LLMs is coming and we need to develop a habit of logging our personal information, thoughts, and experiences in a structured way that can better interface with upcoming AI Tools.

Hear me out. Large Language Models (LLMs) are getting more advanced, and rumors are circulating about major tech companies (like Apple) stepping into the AI journaling game. While this news is exciting, it also underscores the urgency of adapting our practices now to better interact with our future AI companions.

Why start logging personal info/data?

Better Interaction with AI: LLMs learn from your inputs to create a customized, dynamic interaction. The more consistent and detailed our logs are, the more context and personalization the AI can bring to our conversations.

Chronological Self-Reflection: Keeping a regular log of our thoughts and ideas creates a rich, chronological record that's not only beneficial for AI interaction but also serves as a powerful tool for personal growth and self-reflection. Question based AI can help us dig deeper into our minds to ensure greater detail is added to our timeline.

Future Proofing: With rumors of big tech stepping into AI journaling, now is the time to cultivate this habit. Those who adapt early will be better prepared for seamless interaction with future AI tools and companions.

As someone who's spent some time working with conversational AI tools (bias alert!), I can't emphasize enough how much value this habit can bring. I've personally seen how logging our data can improve our interactions with AI and offer a unique perspective on our own growth and evolution.

What are your thoughts on personal data logging as preparation for the coming AI revolution?
It will only look like the French Revolution up until the point where fully-autonomous battalions churned out by fully-autonomous factories fed raw materials by fully-autonomous mining and transportation operations make the owners of AI untouchable.

There comes a point at which the plebs can't do anything about their fate.

But that's why we have TikTok, Instagram, Netflix, cheap Corn Syrup, and Porn. You keep the plebs hedonistically satisfied while you slowly consolidate your power and protect it with an autonomous army. THEN you pull the plug.
I don’t know, no one asked that followup question, everyone just accepted it. There’s probably more to it he didn’t elaborate on.

I assume it depends partly on asymmetry of information between a more sophisticated option seller (like Universa) and buyers (especially retail). Maybe also the ability of the seller to sell a diverse heterogenous mix of options and construct the mix to achieve a small positive net revenue. Options sellers tend to blow up eventually when they sell way out-of-the-money options, and this strat avoids that at least.
If you did understood it, then explain it so I can understood it too.
Why use brave when Firefox and Chrome exists?
That was mostly just my cynical take.

Around 2007-08 I read in a(physical) Brazilian web design magazine that you can have two types of design:
- for short, ephemeral experience, your design should be striking - the user will just look at the thing once anyway, so you should capture the attention in spite of how ease of navigation. Eg. a website for a rock band tour.
- for experiences that will need to be repeated lots of times (eg. using a corporate system, reading the news), you want the design to be boring and predictable.

I think that minimalism has been used to push interfaces that reduce information density - regardless of how the density would be useful in that context!

After the original Material Design video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrT6v5sOwJg the writing was on the wall: if you want to build a google-grade portfolio, create designs that resemble this. After some time users got used to that kind of look and now sites with high density of information look alien.
I meant to write 7. That's why I said "measure of" instead of "number of", because you need to multiply by 2.
LLMs will usually lag a lot though. Often a human has more up to date knowledge. Computers being such an active and ever changing field, that matters. OpenAI should want people to keep contributing original answers to feed its AI.
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> note that it is not much higher

1,5 (or 1,2) vs 2 is a lot. It is close to 3 so confidently above replacement for the whole secular+non-Haredim religious group (reminder that nominally the US is nearly completely "religious") and very close to replacement rate for secular Jews only; they will not experience significant population contraction in the next 100 years even if left on their own. This is important in that it means they also will never run into dependency ratio problems and necessity of mass immigration to prop up the failing economy, at the current rate; they will also never experience the cultural impact of extreme geriatrization of the society (some European nations are at average age 45 and higher now). Trends are also completely different, there is no precipitous decline (in fact it looks like a slow wobble and their TFR may return to 2+). If secular Jews were their own country they'd have been doing fine, arguably better than now and clearly unlike the rest of OECD TFR-wise.

> the biological costs of having children, which are immutable, and the "economic" costs of having children, which are mutable.

While the biological costs are not trivially mutable, there is a world of difference between having a child at 21, 27 or 35. The toll childcare takes on the body ramps up rapidly with age, while the ability to provide care declines. Older people fail to function well in a sleep-deprived state. We are doing everyone and especially women a disservice by suggesting that this decision is most wise to postpone.
For agriculture - maybe. For residential use - not so much.

You can use solar and only run the pumps while the sun is shining. Which should be most days in Arizona