skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to have been covid cases in Europe in last-quarter 2019, which suggests it was there or brought there before the outbreak that made the news in 2020. Doesn’t rule out leaks and crossovers, just moves them elsewhere or else when. Viral pneumonia was occurring, symptoms turned out to match covid and nobody was saving or testing blood samples. Outside of a few places in Dec. But people had aggressive, surprising lung problems that didn’t present flu symptoms. Maybe that was a pre-covid leak or they’re incorrect when the leak occurred.

It also hit the initial sites very quickly, which suggests very contagious or already present in some form. To put my tin foil hat on, was omicron the “antidote” virus that was deliberately released to put the fire out? It was very different genetically and even more contagious.
They aren't dumb, companies reward this behavior. Go to company A, shit out some code that barely works (but it works) and is written without any thought for future changes to the product, get promoted, then leave to a different company when you have to deal with the fallout of what you created but now you join company b at a higher level.
Few users of reddit communities are dedicated enough to that community to be willing to use it via an app that doesn't aggregate their interests into one doom-scrollable UI, much less donate to a site for hosting costs to keep it afloat.
How often do you shutdown / reboot your personal computer(s) and why?

How often: Once per week for my workstation and all my servers and firewalls.

Why: Uptake the latest LTS kernel that is built weekly, sometimes once every two weeks depending on if the OS providers deem them important enough. Sometimes I will wait a patch cycle depending on what is in the changes [1].

[1] - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/
I Wrote 4k Lines of Code with ChatGPT in a Weekend
Losing access to personal comments from subreddit that's gone dark has also been PIA. I'll occasionally refer to past comments for links/citations.
Out of curiosity, what happens to an LLM if, over time, it's increasingly trained on its own output and/or that of other LLMs?

And has anyone figured out a good way to minimize that when sourcing training data from e.g. Reddit?
Sounds very american.

Yeah, it's not like that part of the story was condensed and might have left out a bunch of details that weren't important to the story. So let's give OP a hard time and make judgements about a situation for which we have not even the slightest bit of context.
Shouldn't it be spelled "de Kok" if that's a surname?
The schema struct itself has all keys as required (the keys are always present). The map you receive on your changeset has all keys as optional because they can be missing (which we convert into a changeset error if the field is validated as required).
Many kernel people really are stuck in their ways like that. They don't want to leave their Mutt (e-mail client) at any cost. I recall some are even to this day running using a text console (ie. no X11 or Wayland).
The future continues to be AGPL[0].

[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/the-future-of-free-and-open-source...
> Nope, I'm just a skilled fool. Probably learned my skill in the most inefficient way possible

You're saying it yourself right here. Just going out and "doing the thing" is not a time-effective way to learn. Nor, on average, is it going to get you to
the top of whatever discipline you are pursing (with the known caveat that certain disciplines do not lend themselves to deliberate practice).
Estimand AI for the New Frontier of Brewing
I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd almost rather use Discord than an unthreaded flat forum.

Still hopeful that Matrix will get Zulip style threading/UX and then I'll be so so so happy.
I saw that screenshot here: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/150912/did-googl...

However, this option is hidden for me on every result I’ve checked. Pages posted several years ago, pages posted within the past couple months, Reddit pages, StackOverflow pages, etc. Even pages from Google itself are missing a cached page option for me.
You want a all-knowing, well, relatively all-knowing, body, the master, to design what to be practiced. It is sometimes in direct conflict with another management fad - let people do their stuff. It is not specifically related to DP, but training in general. Just wanted to point it out
As someone who runs a startup, Id kill for a couple of "dumb" people who can get something done.

A number of years a go I worked at a startup, and we had a young inexperienced employee, who didn't know very much at all. When we had meetings he would unprompted send out lists of everything we had discussed, along with links and useful information. If someone had mentioned that we needed a to rent a truck once we get to LA, to move some gear, he would look up all the places where that could be done. Simple stuff like typing stuff in to google. One of the best employees i have ever worked with.

Every time he asked a question, it was a question based on all the research he had done based on the question he asked a few days ago.

Its great if you already have the solution, but what i really want is people who can go out and find the solution. There are a lot of smart and lazy people out there, but if you build the future you cant rely on old information, you need to iterate on new solutions, and that requires people who can get things done.

So please be smart and experienced, but unless you can get things done you are just in the way.
The center of the bell curve is moving, but what do the tails look like?
Yeah, I agree that there should be some sort of government subsidized program or resource rather than a privately funded company that can only exist by exploiting workers, restaurants, and customers to fulfill that need.

In the United States, there are in-home healthcare workers and adjacent support workers that can perform tasks such as grocery shopping and meal preparation, no?
> a name for this

The canny valley.

Aka just learned enough to be dangerous.
Many advanced economies are facing demographic collapse. Japan, Germany, China.

The United States is in a much more favorable demographic position than most, in part due to our comparatively liberal immigration policies.
The same is true for all of the other alts, they tend to be either minimally moderated, and/or full of ideologues who are too toxic for anything else.

That's not a winning formula.
Have been running into this the last few days and have realized just how much I use reddit in search results even though I don't visit the frontpage anymore.

Lot of pasting links into archive.org.

I've also been using Bing Chat to ask it what reddit thinks since it has most of reddit indexed.

Concerning though because it makes me feel like quite a lot of important information is rather fragile.

You can imagine various ways this data might be lost forever, I wish it felt more durable.
I like that you can get results quickly and it solves the "I don't know what I'm looking for" problem.

I'm learning typescript and ran into a weird typescript construct the other day, I threw it into chatgpt and asked "what is this" and it explained it to me. I'm not entirely sure if pasting in a bunch of braces and parentheses into google would find me the same result.
All of the Google sections seem to be terrible for their use case. Images are lacking filters and are filled with Pinterest results which send people into a cycle when trying to get to the actual image to save. News will sometimes show old news when it's obvious there should be new information about whatever you're searching, leading you to have to specifically indicate sort by date. Videos will prioritize certain domains even if the video itself is irrelevant to your search (ie searching up an actress, it'll show an IMDB video first, even if the video is very old and is just a generic trailer for some movie they were in ages ago). If you search something relatively generic, the new search bubbles will now hide the other categories (ie searching adele will hide categories like shopping or books). The finance option literally just redirects you to Google Finance now, doesn't even retain your search.

They've really let the core search experience be deteriorated so extensively, that we can't blame all of it on SEO.
The successor of a beastly serial killer?
Email is dying too. I have run my own email server for 20 years. A few years ago my original ISP was acquired, forcing me to switch providers and hence get a new IP address. Ever since then my server has been blacklisted by one major player or another as a source of spam. I even tried changing to a new IP address, but the result of that was just a different set of providers blacklisting me. I'm about ready to throw in the towel and switch to Fastmail. :-(
Zen 4 vs. Zen 4c differences are basically non existent – besides the L3 cache
The French atomic bomb, nuclear plants, high speed trains, and planes are not getting leapfrogged though ;)
He was let go after two weeks of not doing any work, despite the manager offering to help him.
> Perhaps Google also needs to learn to search those closed gardens better.

There's a hard limit at what is allowed by robots.txt since Google abides by this standard.
In the long term, one or both of the following is going to happen:

1. Delivery fees will go up.

2. Delivery companies will put strict limits on how many drivers can be online at once, crippling the narrative in their marketing that drivers can choose their own hours.

The latter is especially likely if companies are required to pay drivers when they're just sitting around and waiting for an order.
99% of phpBB installations were pwned and distributing malware. It’s a terrible model. If we want small distributed operation of software like that we need a revolution in software operability and quality.
No. That's why LLVM and Clang were developed.
https://archive.is/mhYIn
It is not clear to me that delivery companies have the agency to deny people's ability to work, however. If you must pay people for time that they are working, but there is no work to do, then you face a challenge with many people signing up to be paid for nothing. What do you do if 100 drivers start saying they're waiting for orders and there are no orders coming in?

What do you do if 100 drivers say they're waiting for orders, and a paltry number of orders come in that, unbenownst to Uber, get delegated to just 5 of those 100 while all 100 collect pay checks?
As someone in the pharmacy field, I would advise anyone against messing with the serotonergic pathway without knowing what they're doing. Serotonin serotonin syndrome can wreck you and complete recovery can take. Especially taking high doses of serotonin booster while consuming foods high in tyramine. Avoid quack pseudo-health care advices and supplements.
Am I the only one having DNS issues with this site? For some reason, no matter which DNS server I query, it resolves to my router, yet it seems most everyone reaches it without issue.
> Nothing work related should live on my work machine.

I thought this was a typo at first. Love this as an engineering koan.
reddit isn't doing so well either. The locking of posts was a terrible idea. The old.reddit vs reddit shows many like the old style. Hate the app.

All the information on reddit is user generated yet the reddit owners seems to think they own it. My view is the "frontpage" doesn't own the story just because they printed it.

Back in the 1990s I feel users were much more cable and there was so many more pages or forums especially as you noted forums.
hmm is there a way to access Discord through Matrix?

I meant not replacing Discord but rather connecting to it / siphoning the user-generated data to a more open place
The great global baby bust is under way
You're right, it was nitrous oxide. I gather also the name originates from a trademark "Whip-its" under which these "charger" canisters are sold.

This was probably all explained to me at the time, but mainly what I remember of it is a large balloon followed by spending an indefinite but subjectively very long time in a clangingly silent gray hell.
In the case of V, it's already there to do much of what is being wished for. V (an easier higher level C family language) can be transpiled to readable C. Even more, V can transpile C to V (C2V) and can be used like a scripting language, even though it's a compiled language.
There some strong assumptions under there. Both promised the future.
Nope lol.

I followed Patrick Collisons advice and started scouring through the research that generations past have done.

I was reading PG’s schlep blindness essay for inspiration, and the idea was right there in front of everyone, and thousands of people had passed over it; just as his essay suggested.

His essay also suggested ideas that help other startups like myself; and grow together with them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
I find their products hit or miss. I've burned through half a dozen of their USB-C to USB 2.0 adapters for my mouse (low power draw, how could it even burn them out?) Thankfully those adapters are dirt cheap, and the other products I've gotten from them have worked fine.
I think what's happening with Twitter and Reddit is actually a good thing in that it's exposing the failures of centralized networks. The thing is, these failures aren't big enough yet for people to jump ship and I think the main problem is none of the decentralized social networks have provided a solution that's better.

Mastodon is theoretically a better version of Twitter, but normal people get lost the moment someone starts talking about "instances". It's this gap we need to cross somehow. How do networks provide all or most of the pros of being centralized without being centralized?
In New York City you need to leave a tip otherwise the delivery worker won't pick up the order (found this out when trying to tip in cash one time). Tips don't seem to be optional when it comes to delivery in urban areas.

I've a feeling the delivery fee will increase, customers will continue to tip otherwise they won't receive their food, and overall the price of delivery will increase and the number of customers willing to foot the cost will lower.
Everything that poster said is true. And I am pro-psychedelics.
First and only Yelp review I ever left was three stars for an Indian restaurant in 2011. It was quickly hidden because "it didn't pass the bot filter" or something. I've never used it since as a reviewer or to find places. It lost all credibility on my first interaction with it.
nah, the corrected analogy you're responding to is better, where, after the singer joined when the club first started, and indeed made the club
what it is today (and wasn't ever paid), the owner boots said singer and plays recordings of them without compensation or permission instead

after all, reddit exists because of the users the company is abusing now, and in spite of said abusers + their abuse

like, sure the abusive club owner could physically do that, but most people there, like they do here, would recognize that the owner is in the wrong
That is hilarious, and it utter defeats one of the quality checks on MTurk style tasks: using agreement as a proxy for correctness.
Forest Fires Challenge Solar Forecast Models in New York
> My problem with your reasoning is that it relies on a literal interpretation of the words spoken in the book.

What? Now you are just desperately grasping at straws.

> The father says that "there are no other kids his age", yes, but remember...most of the book is told through the father's eyes.

And? So what? The kid also says so, not that it matters.

> There is no information technology anymore...

That's right. Before the internet and IT, nobody saw any children. This comment is the dumbest thing I've read in a long while.

> all he knows is that he has not seen any kids and that he hasn't heard of any kids. He is an unreliable narrator.

The kid also said so. And I don't think you know what "unreliable narrator" is. There has to be clues within the story to imply that he is unreliable ( psychologically, memorywise, etc ). Not that he doesn't have access to a smartphone.

> Have you ever picked up a six year old? They weigh practically nothing.

Yes. Not only that, I was six year old once. Long before I was 6 years old, my parents stopped carrying me around. And you are being intentionally sneaky here. Who said anything about picking up a 6 year old. I said carry a 6 year old how many miles they had to go.

> Perhaps if he gets off to the idea of betrayal, or if he really does think that having a kid follow him for 10 miles would be easier convincing him would be easier, but I have a hard time believing that.

Yes. It's easier to believe that in a starving world, a random kind couple is willing to take in someone else's child to feed. Something his own father struggled immensely to do. That is easier to believe.

It's obvious what happened. It's why you ignored every one of my points except the absolutely nonsense about "no more information technology..."

Let me guess, you are the type of person who watched the movie No Country for Old Men and believe that chigurh didn't kill the wife. Or that the girl in the red dress in schindler's list wasn't dead but playing dead because she was saved by some magical good nazis. At this point I hope you at pretending to be trolling to save yourself some embarrassment.

I'm so dumb. I forgot that before information technology, kids were invisible. Thank you.
I call them firemen who put out their own fires. Also annoying are the managers who suddenly champion mission continuity without wondering why operations have been free of disruption for years...
Not really a surprising result. It's a task tailor-made for LLMs and probably somewhat painstaking for a human--especially one that isn't a domain expert which the typical MTurk presumably wouldn't be.
One of the great mysteries of life is why Microsoft doesn't provide a good TypeScript notebook for VsCode. The JS notebook plugin is like a toy.
The article is indeed amusing, but it needs a closing statement as much as Schindler's List needed that coda.
However, anyone who wishes to delve deeper into the dangers of stupidity should read 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' by Hannah Arendt.
Using it since the Public Beta that came out in 2000, no complaints here
A related resource specific to amateur radio and GMRS repeaters is https://www.repeaterbook.com/. Very useful to find repeaters near you, if you're looking for them. You can find them in RadioReference too, but they tend to be a little more out of date.
We have all those posts kvetching about how small email providers have become collateral damage in the arms race against email spam. I don’t think anyone is truly successful in that space.

The issue is that ML is very expensive compared to spam generation. And the moment another search engine becomes popular, then the spam cannons will be used against it instead.
> I made $200.

You filthy \w slighty soiled speculator. Another six orders of magnitude, and you'll be worse than Soros.
Inverter drive is effectively soft-start.
I certainly have no idea but interesting to think about! One could argue that humans are trained on their own output so presumably interesting things could arise, especially if it's not a totally closed loop (LLM#1 -> some human curation -> LLM#2).
>Hard to believe, but in that case i would say that you are comparing libraries, not the languages.

No, you're not, because comparable libraries in C++ to do many activities, such as at-scale stream processing, simply do not exist in C++.
Google can't index an internet that doesn't exist. The open web is truly dying.

I believe in the open web, but it seems like an ideological position, not something most people want to participate in. (Just like decentralization!) There's a few reasons:

1. Putting things on the web means your words are public, so they can be archived forever, and anyone can look at them. Do I want employers looking at my high school blog? (Hell, mine is still up, go look it up and you'll find things I no longer believe are appropriate!) Recall that keeping posts private was an important innovation w/ Facebook, over MySpace, which was largely all-public.

2. Most people don't want to bother with hosting their own website. It costs money and requires expertise to run. And it can easily go awry (DDOS attacks! getting hacked! losing your domain!).

3. If you don't want to bother with hosting your own site, you are at the mercy of platforms that always (always!) devolve into bloat, over-commercialization, and perhaps censorship. Medium, Reddit, Wordpress.com, Tumblr - you name it!

4. Most people don't want to put the effort into writing/posting anything beyond basic food/vacation photos or whatnot. Even the people hyper-engaged in politics online are a minority. How often did people write a diary, even, before the internet. Putting in this sort of effort is not something most people want to do. I don't blame them - life's busy and work/school takes the lion's share of everyone's energy. Look at me - all I do is post comments on HN! I haven't updated my two-page static website in years!

5. It's lonely running a website! There's no guaranteed engagement, as there is with posting an Insta story or a Facebook profile picture. It really is like shouting into the void. Yes, one can join a web-ring, but you could also make your own butter...
I read (probably on HN) where someone suggested that pre-LLM data will become the 'low background steel' (pre-Nuclear-age steel with lower levels of internal radiation) of machine learning.

It seems like provenance/traceability of data sources will become important, both for the builders and users of LLMs.
Context drift.
Typescript has just about always supported ESM. (Since way back in 1.x somewhere. I'm too lazy to look up exactly where the line is that you get good ESM modules, but it was very early.) Typescript took a long time supporting Node's wacky multi-file-extension hijinks, but that's mostly on Node. You can make a package.json file with "type": "module" in current Node and use just about any ancient version of Typescript you want to output ESM.
How great is your wish? If you host your own instance of Whoogle, which gives Google search results, you can set one of the environment variables to block particular websites from search results.
also, do search engines even index mastodon? i've never seen a mastodon result in my life, compared to reddit.
> won’t it reduce demand significantly?

Of course it will. Supply+Demand, it's the law.
I was talking about San Francisco not the general Bay Area.
Google won the spam War, they were just fighting for the opposite side. I know it's trite but it bears repeating: Google only cares about user satisfaction if it positively impacts their bottom line.

As long as they can monetize remaining users more than what they lose from users abandoning search, the trend will continue
I've experienced this a lot myself.

It's weird.

I used to be considered a Digital Native.

Now I feel like an outsider on the internet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36319076
I'll preface this by saying I expect to get downvoted all to hell, but: if these jobs are so bad and so underpaid, why are people doing them in a period of what is reported to be incredible labor market tightness?
Still unused, in case anyone is wondering whether it's worth copying into a decoder. (Please comment when you use it btw.)
> are now reduced to be a Subreddit.

I don't know if anything else was possible, the IT need for communities is about the same and it makes total sense to have those on one place. It solves the infrastructure problem, it solves discoverability problem, it solves the user account management problem and it is all "free".

It comes at the cost of fragility, true, but as always convenience is the king.
That's not the point though.
It seems to me that Reddit knows about as much about its users as Twitter. Am I wrong?
Perfectly for me.

(Maybe if I had used IAM auth for the database it wouldn't have?)