skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the set it and forget it, I can reliably steam to perfection any of the vegetables we regularly eat just by setting the pressure cook time to one minute. I don't have to constantly monitor the firmness, worry about the pot running out of water, or have uneven results. The device is worth it for that alone.
There are a bunch of companies that are out there, like, killing people and spewing pollution into the environment, but I guess moving formerly local program into the cloud is annoying too.
Having universal healthcare 100% free at the point of use is unusual. French people, like most Europeans, do pay out of pocket for healthcare, it's just heavily subsidized and regulated.
I suppose that depends on ones opinion regarding the Copilot situation.
KiCAD has improved massively since version 5, although the switch will still take some brain-contortion. IMHO it's worth it, and the sooner you take the plunge the better.
Chatgpt
The new burgers are better as well. It's not in-and-out but they improved the cheese and the patties have gone from "circular cardboard" to "kind of resembles a burger" on the quality scale. For folks that live in Europe and have access to better McDonalds this might not be anything new, but for us it's a big upgrade.
Suttree is a masterpiece.
> the ink in it evaporates really quickly

I wonder, what kind of ink? Noodler inks last forever in my pens, and I've also been having good luck with some of the india inks.

That said, some of the older style pigment inks do tend to gum up a lot more, but they're falling out of favor more and more.
What's inefficient about pensions? Pension funds can also participate in a wider variety of investments than individual 401k holders. Employer funded 401ks (at least in Canada) are also a free payday for fund managers since they can charge a premium over "normal" funds and the investor is a captive audience since they can't move their investments elsewhere until they change jobs.
For a conversation about healthcare, household income is probably more relevant than personal income (since members of a household usually, but not always, are in the same health care plan)

About a third of American households make 100k a year. Median household is about 70k a year:

https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator/
If only there was a way to prevent prompt injection.
Google, unless Reddit upgraded their search. I can't find stuff on Reddit without Google, and I can't find quality reviews and (lesser quality) opinions on Google without reddit.
Of course I do not ship a lot of personal projects. That’s why they’re personal.

I have enough to ship in my day job. Not shipping my personal projects is my prerogative.
Interesting that although the dollar has declined for the last two decades as the global reserve currency, there apparently is no alternative currency taking its place; rather, countries are slowly moving some currency into assets. They aren't moving US dollars into China's Yuan.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ve been working on something for editing exiting code by using GitHub Issues and Actions for prompting, with the response from GPT as a Pull Request/Comment on the Issue[1]. I will definitely try out your project!

[1] https://github.com/busse/kodumisto
A Google ad market implosion would be so good for the internet... And dare I say, all of humanity.

I could live without google search or reddit results, but I would be minorly annoyed with the loss of either.

People act like Reddit is this great source of information, but it seems pretty shakey or uninformed whenever I search for something specific. Seems like all the good info is being siloed away in Discord now.

Google search, meanwhile, has deteriorated, but it still indexes obscure things I can't find on other search engines.
Oh, you totally can add a YouTube channel (or any other feed) manually - just paste the link into Apricot! For Tattooed Traveler, for example, paste in https://www.youtube.com/@TattooedTraveler.

As you can probably tell, I'm trying the "ship when still a little embarrassed" approach. It stings a bit, but it does get the product out the door...
The other poster had it right, I get to HN by typing ne (enter) or n (enter) in my browser address bar.
I love writing, it’s the only way I really know how to express myself.
However, my writing at the moment serves a specific function, which is to make money. while I do it, I still have to work my ‘real’ job. It’s not a hobby or a career, it’s a means to an end.
Wait for my forthcoming article "Contra Dwarkesh Patel on Marc Andreessen"
Yes, the results are inaccessible during the blackout.
Original report is available on the verge[1], which contains the full message sent by reddit CEO.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-...
Part of what you're touching on is a general problem with rent-seeking, regulatory costs to entry, and monopolization in general, in the US at least. With physicians, this is kind of a consequence of a system their professional organizations have shaped: they kind of brought this ("this" being lack of buyers) on themselves to some extent by restricting supply.

But even outside of that, if you ignore that part of it, there's monopolization costs coming from other directions. Many physicians are getting squeezed by decreases in their options, as hospitals and clinics merge, which creates efficiencies that make it hard for small clinics to compete with, which in turn leads to fewer administrative options should a physician choose to try somsething else. My sense is it's even worse than that, because even if you still have a few large hospital systems to choose from, the administrators are being incentivized in the same ways across the chains, so it's one flavor of hyperprofitized healthcare corporation versus another flavor of hyperprofitized healthcare corporation. Basically, it's hard for small clinics to compete even if someone wants to, because healthcare has become a cuthroat profit-driven market, with lots of big money and plenty of opportunities for those in power to take advantage of advantages.

I guess what I'm saying is it's not just the debt for the young physician: it's a very risky thing to do, period, being a small clinic versus an oligopoly of large chains. "A doctor knows what his practice is worth and wants every cent he can get out of it" is one possibility, but another is that that seller is in a position of survivorship bias, and can't find buyers because they don't see it as a rational decision even outside of the debt question.

The reason why you don't see this with landscapers or plumbers or whatever is because those markets have far more competition, and they're not overregulated (at least to the same extent). Healthcare as a market is characterized by obstacles to competition everywhere: if you ignore the rationale for those obstacles, and just look at it for what it is, you're left with an infrastructure that's constituted largely of barriers and costs to entry and participation. Basically, the market has become too expensive even for practitioners to participate fully in, so the only thing left are financial heavyweights.
Alcohol 120%
Having grown up in Canada and now living in the US for several years, I'm just now learning about the "metric cup." I've just been assuming all this time that the cups here are 250 mL!
Usual bait and switch from Reddit. Pretty much all investor funded companies follow this path sooner or later. Lock the platform, squeeze the profit. Sad, but not much can be done about it.
Are reddit posts not archived or cached anywhere?
I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.
TLDR, you can now pass a list of functions into a chat completion and the model will respond appropriately to "call" your function.

response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0613",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like in Boston?"}],
functions=[
{
"name": "get_current_weather",
"description": "Get the current weather in a given location",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"location": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
},
"unit": {"type": "string", "enum": ["celsius", "fahrenheit"]},
},
"required": ["location"],
},
}
],
function_call="auto",
)
End-users lose too. There's a lot of information that is now harder to find (assuming it's cached by a 3rd party) or not reachable at all.
Re-engineering a qsort function (part 1)
I suspect this kind of occurrence, while being an exceedingly rare occurrence, is yet far more common than what we dare to imagine.
It was a thing in NYC last time I rented an apartment there, though that was 15+ years ago. But, it was deeply ingrained enough at that time I can’t imagine it went away, unless it was legislated out of existence.
The human equivalent would be the process of armchair philosophizing. Humans get around the limit by being able to go and look at the world to obtain more knowledge -- if you didn't let humans look at the world, they too would have a "knowledge limit".

And if you _do_ let LLMs look at the world, and train on that, they also wouldn't have that limitation.
Ghost: Create an AI replica of yourself that is accessible via SMS
Man, I haven't been on Slashdot in like 15 years. My username has four characters. To give you an idea how long ago that was.

You're right, it was a pretty good way to do moderation. As in everything with software, what old is new, right?
Reminds me of the period of people coming to America during colonial times. That there were stories and tales of people joining Native American tribes, completely leaving their old lives behind and becoming happier but you never heard accounts of the reverse. Native Americans willing joining the colonist, this rarely, if ever, happened.
Microsoft Purchase of Activision Temporarily Blocked by Judge
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/09/aws-healt...

If you login, you can specify what timezone for timestamps and for the text to be parsed into your timezone preference.
Honestly the best thing to do is to decrease the scope of the project, cut lots of feature until you can finish it in a reasonable amount of time.
While histrionic, the person you're replying to sounds a lot like many Maya users. It's really shocking how low-quality Maya is compared to how much it costs.
I’m just annoyed the local community group I primarily use Reddit for is dark. I don’t see why this helps anyone. Reddit is a private company, go someplace else. I think 99% of users don’t care, or don’t care enough to do anything substantial. Just move on.
Here's another guess - my rice cooker has line for cups that are for filling with water after you add rice. So, in your case, you put in 9 cups of rice, then add water until it is at the 9 cup line, then that's the right amount of water. The water fills the space between the rice and then fills up to the line.
They did that: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/09/aws-healt...
A lot of the Google search results for reddit lead to a error page or subreddit is now private, not the content Google originally indexed.
No thanks. Don’t need anything she’s selling.
I feel like Robert Evans is a pretty close replacement, albeit an updated version for the 21st century.

For his book “A Brief History on Vice” he talks about the drugs that shaped our early culture, and then tried those drugs while trying to remain as authentic to the traditional uses as he possibly could.
Seems applicable - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/chestertons-fe...
In my experience, after you've finished 90% of the work, there's the other 90% ... in the other aspects.

Like, you finished your software? Great. Now you have to make a sales funnel, do PR, push news about it, etc. Slack off on anything and it is a flop.

In short, if you're dreading work, chances are you need partners!
If GPT thinks a function call is warranted based on the input, then it fills in a "function_call" parameter in its response and provides the arguments. You then call the function using those arguments and in your next call to ChatCompletion, you pass in the response from your function.

message = response["choices"][0]["message"]

# Step 2, check if the model wants to call a function
if message.get("function_call"):
function_name = message["function_call"]["name"]

...

second_response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0613",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather like in boston?"},
message,
{
"role": "function",
"name": function_name,
"content": function_response,
},
],
)
> If we solve alignment, we can look forward to material and cultural abundance.

I don’t know what it would mean to “solve alignment”. I am skeptical it’s even a coherent possibility.

Let’s assume we had a perfect AI. It does everything we want it to but is much more effective at accomplishing our goals.

The United States government takes control of the AI and uses it to attack China. China would say the AI is misaligned. Or China takes control of it and uses it to attack the US. The US would say it’s misaligned.

Ok, you might say that the issue was that in the above case the AI was acting as a tool rather than an independent agent. Fine. Now, the AI acts on its own to further goals which would be beneficial to humanity. Very quickly we will want to disable it because we don’t even agree on what’s best for humanity, and even if we can agree on general principles any action will have externalities that someone won’t like.
Because when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.
I did start with username & password, but it was pretty annoying to have to type the password on the phone. I thought the email magic link would be easier until I hit the problem with iOS progressive web apps.

Now that you mention it, I'll have to re-think -- with the Google option there as the "easy" route, maybe username & password is a better backup option because it's more universal.
I used OrCad in industrial embedded products in the late 90's. I'm surprised it's still going.
It is good value, but I don't feel it's worth the $70 a month they charge, especially when compared with other subscription application prices. The Adobe Creative Cloud subscription at $54.99 includes quite a few applications, and while they have their issues as well I'm not sure I'd put Fusion 360 above in value. Of course it depends on what you do with the tools.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/getting-started...
An absolute ton of search results can't be viewed right now because subreddits are locked down.
I don’t think it’s really fair to count projects on your day job, unless you have the option of unilaterally cancelling those by yourself?

And even then, you have a lot of extra external motivation (money, peer pressure, boss) to keep pushing when you’d otherwise give up.

Not to say that the satisfaction is any less, but the environment seems different.
Yes, ambiguous - 'dropped' as in 'content drop' (release), not as in 'dropped from the list'.
Comparing to a country whose practices in this regard are broadly considered authoritarian makes a lot of sense here. It is quite descriptive. IMO no less descriptive than post-9/11 surveillance
This point has been discussed to death already. Reddit is extremely reliant on a small percentage of users who moderate and post content. Those are the ones being impacted and complaining the loudest. The majority of users just passively absorb the work of the few.
Do you believe reddit’s API pricing is reasonable?
Anti-scope has been in common use for decades already.
There's the notion of "vetocracy", which has been proposed by Francis Fukiyama, in an interview with Ezra Klein (see: "Francis Fukuyama: America is in 'one of the most severe political crises I have experienced'" <https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13352946/francis-fukuyama-ezr...>.

Power structures tend to form either where a single individual can bring things about, or where they can prevent their occurrence.

In a consensus organisation (either intentionally so or de facto), the individual or faction which can prevent business from transacting has effective control. If there are multiple such entities, what results is gridlock. This is unfortunately one potential failure mode of democratic or representational government.

Sabotage is one means of accomplishing that goal.
Scott Locklin – Chesterton's Fence
Love the knowledge drop! Thank you!
I'm confident an AI can be utilized for 'remove duplicate content' type of operation.

AMAs don't require a mod to participate, just the community. All mods really do is sticky a thread.

People deceptively promoting their own products, others are free to down vote them and report the post.
A subreddit is a group of private individuals, go someplace else. Just move on.
Yup, this is why I always say “US ET” (I'm on the east coast). I don't trust myself or anyone else to get it right, and if the other party is converting anyway, their conversion tool (google?) should be able to handle that. (Of course, the date is necessary but implicit, but that's usually fine too.)
I found Echopraxia a disappointing follow-up to Blindsight, because the thematic core was much harder to grok, and it felt diffuse and attenuated. It's very hard to write a novel that explores what it means for scientists to encounter the limits of scientific rationality as we understand it.

Interestingly, (and apropos) McCarthy's last, Stella Maris, I think, did a much more eloquent job of exploring the same themes. Stella Maris is astounding, it's cosmic horror without the 'supernatural.' Instead there's only Gödel and Metzinger.
I found Scott Alexander’s article on the same topic more informative and accurate to what I’ve experienced https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/hypergamy-muc...
Go read Blood Meridian. And then struggle to suffer anything else in the world compared against it. It is stunning.
Perhaps the relevant thing is "household where at least one person makes >100K/yr" since the benefits are probably tied to the type of job.

But I suspect the person making the claim was just picking an arbitrary number where most people in that salary band will have decent benefits, and can usually afford the out of pocket portion also
Google maps, email, search (as a backend to privacy respecting gateways), Android and... I feel like I'm just getting warmed up.

Google and it's not even close.

Reddit is a good way to connect. But it's social media. There's lots of players here. Reddit's strength was the (false) perception that it was 'one of us'.

Reddit (via /u/spez) made it clear that they'll step over their users. They made it clear that to engage in conversation with them - you need everything well documented (and recorded). They feel dirty to me now.

The users made reddit. Seems like many are headed to the fediverse. It may never have the numbers reddit has but it seems destined to carry its spirit. See you there...
Is he worth reading if you don't have a vivid visual imagination? From the glowing praise here I feel like I should finally check him out, but all these comments sharing people's favorite quotes are just falling flat with me. I don't picture things in my head real well, and usually skim over description. I'm generally more captivated by interesting ideas than interesting ways of expressing the ideas.
But are they serving a 410 (or other eeror code?) ? Looks like no to me. The algo may not respond as fast
I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that Sega lost a major court case in regards to this nearly 30 years ago.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade?wprov=sfti1
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Not to mention most all subreddits had votes beforehand that were overwhelming in favor of going private or read only. This isn't a small group unilaterally deciding to take reddit down. This is akin to a union holding a vote and overwhelmingly deciding to strike.
Something something Glanton... he was complete at every hour... he would chase the sun to its final endarkenment in the West as if it had been ordained ages since...

That's one of the ones I remember, if you loosen the definition of "remember." I liked it because here's the ostensible leader of a gang of homicidal mo fo's, and not because of that, not despite it, but possibly quite irrelevantly to it, he's just as sure of himself and his "vision" as any other person we would normally think of as a leader.
Red herring unrelated to the topic. Corporations have too much power because people put too much faith in them, depend on them too much, and give them passes when they cause economic and actual harm. Corporations should be abolished.
Another vote for ChatGPT.

Google is ad-ridden and results are crappy (have been for a long time)

reddit is good, but ehhhh… it can be a mixed bag.
Damn, that's a hell of a message. it'll be interesting to see if it starts to go dark again, if slacktavism takes over and there is no follow through.
Anyone else remember the giant exodus from Digg.com to Reddit? No one I know talks about Digg.com any more. But hey, maybe it is profitable.
I'll have to check it out. I have looked at it previously but it's somewhat overwhelming to figure out what it actually does. My sense previously was that is it was more like a dependency graph thing similar to a makefile but I'll give it a closer look.
I'd say it does influence my opinion to be more positive knowing that you're not necessarily in the palm of Githubs hands, though my underlying cynicism still remains - I think part of that is that I've grown significantly more cynical of written pieces over the years having watched online content succumb more and more fervently to the game of monetization and opinion influence.

Additionally, I think this article strikes a bit at my person as I struggle immensely with finishing anything I start, to the point where I've began projects (plural!) meant to act as tooling to create project boilerplates, and I still haven't finished even those. Regardless, I do feel the message shared is a positive one that does come from a place of benevolence.

Tangentially, I'm curious if you could speak to what it's like creating content as a third party author? Are you given prompts regarding the tone or content of your work? Have you ever had work you've produced be rejected by a publisher? I'm not at all familiar with this aspect of online content (despite being stuck to a screen reading it all day), so I'd appreciate some insight on the matter if you're willing and able to share any.
You cited the post I replied to. I just replied with the post one level up from that one.

OP says: social status is baked into us at a biochemical level
another commentor: How do you explain why some people are insentive to status

You cited the 2nd commentor. I was linking that top comment to show you that both comments are linked in terms of framing the subject.
I hope this unleashes a wave of tools that allow you to exfiltrate content from these systems and put them in longer lasting storage that can be searched even when the original goes down.

Then we can just let all these services die every few years.
Reddit is a private company that runs on the donated labor of thousands of people doing moderation and policing.

99% of users rely on that labor. And it isn't a given some other forums will rise to the same level.

This dumb trope of "economics will ensure an equivalent product will appear" is a laissez faire fantasy.
Enshittification. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/