skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't Mastodon supposed to do that?

Meta has been around almost as long as Twitter and couldn't compete with Twitter during the heyday of new social networks. What makes you so confident they can succeed when they have a history of consistently dropped the ball to other social networks like TikTok and Twitter?
Great, but what are the side effects of releasing these? I agree a lab contamination is unlikely and that the science assures that these mosquitoes can't spread or carry it. But, what are the side effects of releasing these? How many times have we released something to an environment only to realize there were unintended consequences?

> The same mosquitos been deployed outside the US, since 2009.

In places that already have malaria as far as I know. Plus, a different environment.

> There's a saying about being so open minded your brain falls out.

Agreed, but there's a certain narrow mindedness to not looking outside the direct effects of doing something.

I'd at least review what we are doing and consider unintended consequences.
its worse than that, i have some examples of what always annoyed me:

- a terrible kid was constantly given presents from a teacher, chocolates, and small things she could give him so that he would stop misbehaving in class. normally these prizes would go to a single student every day, for merit, but once this terrible person kept getting them, everyone else became pissed and demoralized.

- the young kids copy the teachers behavior, and it creates this culture of "they have a harder life than you" when trying to complain about the terrible students in their vicinity (which i completely disagree with, they're not trying hard at all that's why they get like this), so when terrible people bully decent, kind, and hardworking students, there's no sympathy for the hardworking students. they get treated like shit and abused from the future-criminals who do nothing but degrade the experience of everyone who attends, then they get told "get over it, you have everything" by their peers who for whatever reason weren't bullied, and refuse to help. its cult-like behavior

- you also have kids who are way too old for their grade, by at least 4 years. someone who should otherwise be way ahead of the classroom they're in is 2x the size of anyone else, is a literal delinquent, and is for some reason still allowed in the public school system where they either terrorize their classmates, get them into their same terrible habits, or bully people who express any kind of discontent with their behavior.
U like that HN cuts the URL to "elon-musks-mommy-says-hes-14..."
On that I agree, but specifying "discipline" for the average person often means punishment only. This is why the prison system is the way it is... no one wants to pay for things that benefit the prisoners, just the punishment.
Why does Vitamin D supplementation have to be conclusive for people to see it can be beneficial on a personal basis? Majority of science is tentative/inconclusive by nature.

Medicine is moving to become more personal and preventive rather than purely guess and scientific method driven, especially with the advancement of AI and modern medicine.

When I read this trial, I see good news for those who personally believe in Vitamin D and have experienced benefits from it. I see no news for those who do not care for Vitamin D and have not tried it.

This is an incremental study that helps push Vitamin D forward in my opinion, even if the findings are weak.
Best I can find is about 17% of GDP in Norway is from Oil and Gas. While that per capita number is high, it's not Saudi Arabia levels.
I've been following it with updates from Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes.

Great work, much appreciated.
Ask HN:

put that in your post titles
Stupidity with a hint of racism. Nice.
Replying so I can read all of these later.
https://orlp.net/

I post occasionally, usually with mathy or low-level optimization content.
Our society (and every parent I know) has established that kids are highly impressionable. That’s why so many laws are written to moderate advertising (eg not show a camel smoking a cigarette), moderate content (tv and movie ratings) etc. I can’t go a day without people telling me how manipulative social media is on the news for both kids and adult minds. We casually acknowledge entire elections have been manipulated by the content shown to people on television.

So what is it about video games that have absolutely zero negative impact on impressionable and unstable minds?

Speaking purely for myself, as a life longer gamer (I’m 37), I personally don’t believe video games have inclined me in any way towards violence. I do believe that the idea of handling assault weapons was normalized by video games (it was a non event for me to shoot them at a range when I eventually sought them out), and that trashing cities and committing vandalism became fun. Doesn’t seem like a stretch to me that boys being boys are going to be more inclined to do it, especially without some overarching moral construct to counter balance or (like church).
> the Firefox plugin for 1password

No one calls it that. That's the point. It's the 1Password plugin for Firefox.
isn't thi assuming sustained, averaged growth of some portfolio over decades will continue?

isn't this literally past results guarantee future returns?
There's at least two different lab tests for vitamin D, one that measures the level in its inactive form, and one that measures the level in its active form. The inactive level is what you'll get for a routine test. The other test takes a long time to process and is more expensive, and in my experience, health insurance really doesn't like having to pay for it. The active level is ultimately what's important because it's what's interacting with your bodily functions. The tricky bit is that the relationship between the two levels is fairly inconsistent from individual to individual, and variably determined by poorly understood mechanisms. A decent subset of the population has under-diagnosed inflammatory diseases, and for whatever reason inflammatory disease tends to increase the ratio of active to inactive vitamin D. Outside of rheumatology, this dynamic isn't really known about by most doctors. There's therefore a non-zero risk of vitamin D poisoning from supplementing based purely on low test results from a primary care provider. Regulating your inactive level to the "normal" range may unknowingly increase your active level to the point that it causes problems like hypercalcemia and eventual bone damage.
Note: I've misread the comment I replied to, and blitzar person wasn't defending the industry.

I should re-read things before I reply :)
Question is, how did the US slide down below Russia and Romania? That's not a good sign.
The west already has been working on a malaria vaccine for a while now, which has been gradually earning public use authorizations.

Not to mention actually authorizing genetic tampering to limit mosquito populations and potentially even prevent them from being able to spread the disease outright. I think that being willing to risk genetic tampering indicates a pretty serious commitment to solving the problem.
Rehabilitation. We need to help people understand why they're constantly angry and impulsive, it can not be beaten out of them. For some people this can take a lifetime of mental health counseling.

I've seen irate voters at town meetings upset that tax dollars were being using to pay for books and tutoring for inmates, let alone mental health counseling. As a country the US is incredibly far off from the mindset of prisoner rehabilitation. We treat prisoners like animals, and for some reason are surprised when they keep acting like animals.
Open the start menu on a consumer version of Windows today and you mY think this already happened: Candy crush, Bejeweled, Netflix…
because construction methods are not what's stopping new housing maybe?
Building Blocks of Memory in the Brain [video]
> Great, but what are the side effects of releasing these?

Go ahead and propose a novel one. You're not the first to try and poke holes in the concept, nor is this the first test run.

For these to be able to spread malaria, they have to be biting malaria infected people in the area. The harm you're proposing has to already exist.
Vision Pro is Apple’s most complex rollout ever, will require appointment to buy
I think you are 100% right about TikTok.

I think it is planned.
Hard to say. It has been known for years that for very busy rail lines electric is cheaper than diesel, and the American main lines are more than busy enough to cross the threshold. However the long tail of not busy enough rail combined with the logistics of getting diesel to those less busy rail when they are used mean overall diesel is cheaper. (though I suspect the rails are not running honest numbers here, but that is a different debate).
I’m continually struck by how brave Andreas is for talking about his addiction problems out in public. In most every interview he leads with it when he could just easily say a vague: “I found myself with a lot of free time”.

Addiction can come with a LOT of shame baggage. To embrace vulnerability over it is quite substantial. Thank you Andreas for being a positive example for the world! Keep up the great work!
> Once it starts rolling, it’s not clear how far it will go. In any case, the brush keeps moving.

I like this. Sounds like one can have multiple drips going at once, including some that hve been dripping for a long time.

> Eventually the last drip stops and a new one starts.

Is this sentence saying that at some point the multiple ongoing drips might stop (or slow to a crawl), but the person is still learning, because they're already starting new drips?

I'd prefer to avoid misinterpretations of short-attention-span or serial-dabbler.

Also, the characterization of T-shaped here speaks of interests, but the motivations for skill development might actually be necessities, such as in an early startup. The interest can be a side-effect of something needing doing. You start to dig into the solution domain, anchored around a real problem, and it becomes interesting.

If only we could be comb-shaped.
I haven't read the link and I'm not going to.

I realized that jupyter notebooks are a flawed idea when I've tried vs code. vs code uses jupyter-the-protocol (as opposed to jupyter-the-notebooks) in order to give you a notebook-like experience that doesn't involve the jupyter notebook file format. VS code's interactive files are valid python code.

To me that killed jupyter notebooks. Why use something that is strictly worse in every respect?
Why MediaMath Filed for Bankruptcy
In 2016 Macron said he didn't want to be a "normal" president and made references to being like Jupiter, the guy has always been a power hungry psycho with an inflated ego
Close to nobody works on forth compilers nowadays, and the compilers that are optimising or even fast is very small.

People say that forth isn't very optimisable for our register machines, but I reckon that you can get pretty good results with some clever stack analysis. It's actually possible to determine arity statically if you don't have multiple-arity words, which are very rare. That allows you to pass arguments by register.

Anyway, I'm not even close to an expert so don't take what I said as facts.
> Since you are a Unix develope, listen to the guys that invented the technology we are talking about. Release your huge ego and read literature on AI alignment and problems.

Which ones? The OpenAI lobbyist constituents? The guys on Twitter who have never deployed a model in their life? The developers of Talk-to-Transformer or the developers of the Markov chain? The people who wrote GANBreeder or the guy who made AI dungeon? Sam Altman? Mark Zuckerberg? Timnit Gebru?

They all have different opinions. Many of them hold non-insignificant stock in AI-related business. I will trust them about as far as I can throw them.

> I will not talk with technical terms to a Unix dev. Know thyself.

That's a convenient excuse to not discuss the exact exploit chain that you claim is pre-eminent and obvious. Shame, since I really wanted to assess it with you.

> I will leave you with some food for thought. First read some of the relevant literature, don't argue with shower thoughts.

I think this is what my Youth Pastor told me verbatim growing up.

> Second think: car manufacturer comes and tells you if you overheat the car it may explode. Wife is a teacher says "nah I know better than the manufacturer it will not". You put your kids in trusting manufacturer or wife? In this case, all top level ai lab heads have a different opinion than the Unix guy.

As-written, I will defer to whoever produces the more conclusive evidence. If the car manufacturer comes and tells me part of our car could overheat, but my wife tells me she had that component replaced years ago, then she's likely right. If the manufacturer points out plastic explosive hidden in the frame or a broken drivetrain then maybe I'll change my mind.

...nevermind the fact that your hypothetical is just wrong in the first place. It's more like if Honda came to tell me that my 4-door was too dangerous for the road, and my only reasonable replacement was a new Honda. If I buy any other brand then I might put myself back in danger, according to them.

So, do I trust Honda or buy a car from another manufacturer? Frankly it doesn't matter. Both cars are prone to user error and death when mishandled. Making promises around "safety" and keeping users eternally fearful is a classic marketing tactic. Apple has successfully employed it for a decade and became the largest company in the world. It's not surprising to see Sam Altman pick up the mantle there. Maybe I'll trust him when he releases a Jupyter notebook describing how AI killed his dog or whatever.
All these papers, articles, blogposts and talking heads on the news shouting about catastrophic AI risks and related nonsense is incredibly relentless. Most of it is vague handwaving with a lot of shouty “think of the politicians” and “think of the children”.

The big players are desperate for a moat. They spent billions, and now need to keep the riffraff out. So they panic the general population, and then push the politicians to install and legitimise committees, working groups, and regulatory bodies filled with “experts” on their payroll to ensure it is pay to play from here on out. The EU - champions of regulation, and not wanting to be seen to be lagging when it comes to stifling technology - are already playing ball.

It is boring and infuriating at the same time, and I strongly believe we are 12-18 months out from a point where storing, developing, or running LLMs will be only be allowed for the select few that will act as gatekeepers of the technology to the hoi-polloi

I want out, please.
Looks like so.

And it's bigger than that. It's one of the few large and well controlled studies done on the subject. It invalidates most of what was known about it (even though AFAIK, it doesn't contradict them).
Stuff like SIPs (structural insulated panels) and CLT (cross laminated timber) are kind of changing the game on prefabrication offsite for homes. The components are small enough for trucking but assembling each lego blocks onsite gets you far closer to a completed house per unit time compared to stick framing. I've even seen some smaller SIP houses that don't need a crane onsite. You also don't end up with the modular house stigma.

It's still a small % of houses built, but it's very cost effective and getting better (and more common)
What about the second question? Is it desirable to tolerate abusive employees? Should managers who do something about it be considered problematic because they're shielding people from the real-life learning experience of being bullied?

These are not gotcha questions. I'm honestly trying to understand your worldview here.
I will still not try it out.

There is too much security issues by just browsing the web.

Security is hard and thanks to browser we are moving a lot into quite secure sandbox.
https://archive.is/TtrPH
Where do you find tonic water that doesn't have quinine in it?
Interesting that in Mexico and Peru the wallet without money was returned more often than the one with money. The gap was larger in Mexico.
Since we're down here in the bottom most flagged comment, what I like to call "Hacker News Conspiracy Theorist Edition", I think OP's conspiracy theory works like this. It's similar to the Wuhan lab.

1. Say you are running a mosquito breeding factory to help humanity.

2. Import mosquitos from subsaharan africa

3. Say you checked every mosquito for Malaria.

4. Pay a subcontractor a lot of money to not do this, but make it look like a mistake or lazyness or incompetence or a mixup.

5. Deny everything when asked. Deny when whistleblower leaks information. Say it was a mistake and an oversight when physical proof of malaria mosquitos are discovered in your facility and that you've been breeding them. Mysterious bad things happen to subcontractor who are likely whistleblowers.

6. 80% of the population will believe you unconditionally and flag anyone on HN who dares not believe you.
And they love patronizing everyone about human rights and democracy, while in practice taking model on Russia and China. The very definition of hypocrisy.
I wonder if this is affected by number of pedestrians. If you left a wallet a block from me in Canada I’d never see it as I drive past it.
You mean like this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum
It's not pure luck tho. The GPGPU research started in early 2000s IIRC. Nvidia had invested into it earlier than anyone and more than anyone. That's how they got CUDA. Nvidia was ready for the next generation computing. It's just that no one, including Nvidia, knew when it's gonna hit the market.
> I don't think most high-level tech jobs are at risk to losing to AI/ML

Not yet, but it will get there imho. LLM are at their early stages of development.
Presumably you're a good manager but the way you told it makes you sound like a bad manager that didn't dig into what's going on with a poor performing employee and let them flail around until you had to fire them. There's more to that story and it's not really about ChatGPT at all.

There are other stories out there, like https://hyperbo.la/w/chatgpt-4000/ which shows it can useful and a force multiplier when used well, but it's like giving a faster car to a bad driver. It'll just result in them crashing faster. If you've got a programmer that doesn't want to program, ChatGPT can't help them be a better programmer since they don't actually want to be one!
Jensen made good bets on AI, and of course without OPenAI breakthru it would have delayed them winning this big, just a delay
I see that you have pretty extreme takes on what constitutes "exploitation". It's one thing to pretend that you're not part of it if you live on another part of the planet and pretend globalization doesn't exist, but I was wondering how you'd avoid participating in it if you lived in the same country and economic bubble as the ones you claim are exploited.

If you had a morally consistent way to live that life, you'd have my respect. But no, you had to deflect the topic to a phrase I wrote and make presumptions about what I really meant.

FYI, I'm morally at ease with myself, I don't need to justify anything to anyone.
The next obvious step is to transition short haul trucks to electric, and then slowly ramp up the range. Tesla Semi is a decent proof of concept to show that fuel savings can offset the cost of the massive batteries, at least for shorter trips.

The other option for long haul trucking is hydrogen. In the short term that's probably more realistic than full electric.

We are absolutely making progress towards eliminating emissions for all vehicle types, its just taking longer than most would like.
All McMansions are ultimately delivered on a bunch of trailers. It's just a matter of how much of it is pre-assembled. But I understand what you are saying, it looks more impressive to have it built onsite instead of having a handful of large pieces trucked in and dropped in place.
The unemployment is part of the system. Without the threats of cheap replacement the employees would hold power.
While tests arent perfect, then they are at least fair, transparent and almost bias free unlike other methods.

>tends to bias for those who have time and money to prep.

Hmm?

So you have time to do various stuff for grades, but dont have time to prepare for exam?

It feels like copy pasted argument from discussions about exams in general, not when comparing them with grades like we do.

>But if you put them all together one can get a decent picture.

Concrete things, please.

How would you evaluate person.
https://climatechange.lta.org/climate-impacts/migrating-spec...

I'm guessing you have been actively ignoring the thousands of news articles about the expected animal migrations that have been released over the last decade, eh?
In other words, there was an oversupply and futures contracts couldn't be fulfilled. Partly due to Saudi and Russia having a disagreement over production cuts in response to the massive demand shock.
Appreciate the input. And you’re right, I shouldn’t have made the Reddit jab. It’s as childish as what I’ve been seeing here.
Perhaps it’s not meant for you. Does not mean it’s not meant for others.
I actually had a low C average, and I only got my first job because I didn't put my GPA on my resume and one company forgot to ask me my GPA; the interviewer later confirmed that they would not have moved on to a second round (much less hired me) had they known my GPA.

At e.g. a college job fair, not having the GPA on the resume jumps out immediately and the recruiter would ask me for my GPA and write it on the resume if it wasn't there. With the GPA on my resume, I had several recruiters say "You might want to save this for another company because we aren't calling you back with that GPA" and hand me my resume back. This included, with zero exceptions, every SV company at the CS job fair at my college.

After the first job, you are much less likely to be asked for GPA, but it does still occasionally happen.

Weirdest (right out of college) interview was where I had gone through all the stages, including a multi-hour on-site, they were talking salary range, specific roles, and when I could start, but then they had to fill out a form for HR. The dialogue was roughly:

Interviewer: You're coming right out of school, right?

Me: Yes

I: Okay, I need your GPA

M: 2.2

I: Oh. (long pause, looked very uncomfortable) alright then.

They suddenly switched from being obviously ready to hire me to perfunctorily filling out the form.
Yeah it isn't straightforward and you put trust in the community sort of thing. I've forked a previous version of one of the repos that has a GitHub workflow to build it automatically and have gone through that to make sure it's clean. I can make suggestions as to a repo to use but mine is private since they get DMCA notices I believe.
Yay, I'm listed!
But what about chess? We should ban that too. Maybe checkers and monopoly too just to be sure /s
A little different stance on the topic:
AI being able to replace these people at their jobs is not because AI has to be better than these people but because most of the people working at call centres or supply chains are extremely bad at what they are supposed to do.
So AI just needs to be at par whatever the industry requires.

Only matters that require a transaction are to be dealt with with caution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death
> For me 4k IU a day seems to be the perfect dosage

How did you come to this conclusion?