skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Dimwitted" author here. Sorry for making people upset. The text content of the blog is all hand-written by me, not AI, although I do use AI (Stability) to create the header images.

I started the blog recently because I wanted to separate out coding stuff from my personal blog (link in profile if you're interested) into its own place. I prefer to list just my first name only but my surname is Davis if that helps with investigation. My wife took that photo a couple of months ago for my profile so no, it's probably not in image searches yet. I don't link my CV because I'm not looking for work and don't want to share too much personal info.

As for the post, I live in Japan and go to a 接骨院 which I assumed was chiropractor, but maybe osteopath is a better translation. I didn't realise there was a difference and should have researched before posting. Sorry. I've updated the post.

I still stand by the recommendations though, as they've helped me overall, and I've suffered from not following my own advice.
You got the propaganda line down pat.
> Teaching is generally not considered an important metric.

The main problem is that no one knows how to measure it. There are many metrics, and as far as I know, all of them are mostly noise.

In research, metrics are highly imperfect, but at least they do carry some signal.
Yep, real. It's me.
As the article says, premium wrenches are already made in America. Consumers pay for comparatively-expensive American labour in comparatively-expensive premium products.

The article is about an attempt to onshore the wrenches for a low-price tools brand. Those wrenches are currently made in a labour-intensive process by low-cost Chinese labour. If they use USA labour they'll have to charge premium tool prices and consumers won't go for it. So they tried to automate. Yes, reducing the need for American labour, but not because they wanted to charge premium prices for the result.

Interestingly, even the machines required to bring manufacturing back to America aren't made in America.
That's really sad. The article is also surprising to me because in my area there are a lot of public pools, many of which have been recently built. Staffing and maintenance isn't a problem either - for example [1]. I'm in the suburbs instead of the city, and the current trend is for every suburb to compete to have the nicest pool and amenities. The one nearest to me has water slides and a lazy river, a diving well that includes a 3-meter diving board, etc.

But if you want to know why they take swimming seriously, it's a safety issue: [2]

[1] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-77-public-poo...

[2] https://glsrp.org/statistics/
>This was a very formative paper for me. If correct—and it certainly seems correct to me—then it completely dissolves the Fermi paradox.

Could you please explain it then? Make the argument that dissolves FP.
Author here. It's hand-written, not AI-generated, although the header images are (Stability).
Amsterdam's old town is tiny if you compare it to NYC, if you have limited capacity it's also rational to prioritize tourists who are likely to spend more per capita (I'm not sure if this will necessarily be the long-term outcome of the band though).
It's weird to me that you are conflating asking GPT a question related to your article and writing your article. Would you have a similar reaction if he had said "according to google"? There does not seem to be any evidence at all that the author didn't write this entire article, and the fact that they explicitly reference that they consulted GPT on some related point seems further evidence that they _didn't_ have GPT write it (I think if they _had_ had GPT write it, they would have avoided mentioning GPT at all)
Cirrus sounds useful for us MacOS users.

> Cirrus has four main functions. It can download and evict (from local storage) items stored in iCloud so that you can manage them properly. It provides full details about files and folders held in iCloud. It performs a test file upload, which can help unstick pending uploads. It also provides specialised access to iCloud-related log activity.
There are states in the US who want to enjoy all the benefits of living in an advanced society but also want the social and political status quo of the 1910s.
The heart attack thing isn't a tradeoff. Whether they test now or test later it has basically the same chance of happening.
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I have never successfully used automated voice support, even for getting information plainly available on the place's database.

But I have tried to use it plenty of times.
Kind of... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/world/europe/amsterdam-uk...
Thanks for the links! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that “E2E” doesn’t mean much for a meta service.
Thanks for the tip. I think I used the wrong term in the post (now updated). I live in Japan and go to a 接骨院 which I assumed was chiropractor, but osteopath is probably a better translation. I should have researched before posting.
> Antipsychotics are incredibly important medications for a lot of people.

Agree.

> It really matters that amisulpride is not available.

Not sure about this, I'm not a psychiatric expert but my cursory lit review shows conflicting meta-analysis as to whether amisulpride is better than 2nd gen. Although your source is newer Cochrane is generally the gold-standard on SRs and the included studies in the 2019 JAMA article predate the Cochrane review, they detail the limitations of comparison.

Looking at Canada, amisulpride is limited to special access and is also not first line.

The UK pharmacotherapy guidelines are also waffly and cite limited evidence to guide firs-line decision making.

A systematic-review from China showed different side-effect profile for both, hard to say which is better. Amisulpride was cheaper.

In any case old drugs that were never approved are part of that "very little" I was referring to that fall through the cracks.

Not sure I'd call this one tragic though given that other countries also don't use it or limit access and there are good alternatives.
Most of mathematics has no use whatsoever in physics. Physicists select the mathematical tools that best enable them to build their models. In other cases, the necessary tools do not exist and they are built for purpose.

In many cases, physicists are not so successful. Look at the current debates in particle physics and the grand unified theory. Progress has largely stalled.

In other cases, models are revised continually as new information comes to light. For example, the age of the universe as we know it may double [1] from 13.79 billion years to 26.7 billion years.

You might call this “unreasonable effectiveness,” I call it a process of messy refinement and rethinking over thousands of years, much of it later shown to be invalid, despite mathematical correctness.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-pre...
That's a good point, the alignment approach doesn't scale as the team grows from dozens to thousands.

But the fundamental question isn't "how can we support ever larger teams" but "how can we create better software"? I don't see any evidence that "larger teams" produce fundamentally better outcomes.
Clearly social epistemology is something that you know nothing about and thus something that you should keep quiet about.
...while simultaneously driving out the type of visitor they do want to attract.
US military has been using AI for quite some time for ISR - scanning satellite data and detecting targets of interest, especially Navy.

What will be new AI development - is "self-driving" anti-personnel/anti-materiel drones.

Current capabilities are already pretty close to "self-driving" - for example HARM missiles that home in on AA radar.

and the next frontier will be autonomous robots conducting combat missions automatically

the sole reason why US protects Taiwan for its microchips is because they can be used in military AI. Not because iPhones or smart fridges will lose microchip supplier.

At scale these chips will pave the way for autonomous smart combat platforms in any domain.
>Precisely. Tourists are like locusts.

Ok - so how to I go on holiday and not be a locust ?
What is the solution no holidays, no travel ?

I live in London and its can be fun trying to get a real work meeting near Houses of Parliament as 'locusts' are all around. However - quid pro quo

>And that's before you get into drug tourism, which Amsterdam has a lot of as well.
Not sure the tourism came before the changes to local drug enforcement.
> If the promise of AI means I can do 1/2 the amount of work and maintain my high quality life, then I'm all for it. However, every advancement that has come in the last 100 years that improved efficiency has only meant we're pushed to work more and do more. So I am now expected to do 2x the work.

If you're content to live at the same quality-of-life that people had in 1923, you can certainly achieve that by doing half the amount of work. The cost of living that quality of life is dirt-cheap - median household real-income back then in today's dollars is less than $30k. The average person back then had a life expectancy of ~60, barely traveled long distances, had minimal electronic gadgets, and lived in houses that have none of today's modern amenities.

If you're content with that kind of lifestyle, you can easily achieve that by either working as a freelancer for 20 hours per week. Or by working a high-paying job, saving most of your money, and retiring in your 30s/40s.

Most people don't do this because ... they don't want to live like someone in 1923. Our own life expectations today are far higher, and hence, we push ourselves to work 40+ hours/week to meet them.

The risk of hyper-income-inequality is real. Fortunately we also live in a democracy. Billionaires like Murdoch will be able to exploit wedge issues like guns and LGBT for only so long. Sooner or later a critical mass of people will demand sharply more progressive tax rates, and even things like UBI, if too much wealth is concentrated in too few hands.
Just what an AI would say... /s
This is puerile melodrama.

I get out in my urban metro with rivers and ponds all over.

I’ve never almost accidentally drown.

What is wrong with peoples risk assessment these days?

Maybe you should have a balance test done. Might be a tumor pushing on something.

BRB going for a bike ride. If I don’t reply I drown.
„personnel”, really?
Thanks. I'm learning a lot all of a sudden! The profile on the wall of the clinic looked OK to me, but I'll read more carefully next time I go.
I'm willing to bet that removing spam from real-time search is a challenge Facebook haven't solved and they didn't want to have any spam issues on first impression
Fear of embarrassment, arrogance (not having legal counsel present), or ignorance (not realizing that it was a hostile interview with the FBI, rather than information gathering).

Those charges aren't the end goal of a serious investigation. Papadopoulos, for example served 12 days in jail. Flynn was pardoned and served zero. They are just a pressure tactic to try to convince low-level people to provide information or testimony. The fact that they cite those convictions as crowning achievements of their investigation means that they utterly failed in accomplishing their goal.
Sometimes on social media I get shown videos of chiropractors practicing on babies which looks really scary. If there's such a high risk factor I don't understand how it can remain legal and not be scrutinized more closely.

As for the field as a whole, I don't fully know what to make of it. My understanding is that some fairly large and prominent companies (think Fortune 100) keep multiple chiropractors on retainer for their employee's benefit. Is it possible that there's something of value there which isn't fully understood or are these companies just acting irrationally? Worded a bit differently: if it's a scam, why are so many big companies paying for these services?
I’m assuming this can only be used to chat with other users/instances of databag, for now.

But is the vision to be able to “DM” with users on instances of mastodon, Lemmy, etc?? (anything that supports activity pub)
>You'd think a place like HN would know that the only way the world has ever gotten better has been innovation

Since 2013 this site has not been the optimistic hacker/startup forum Paul Graham envisioned in 2007. For a decade it has just been a higher quality version of r/technology but with the same reddit-tier doomposting.
That's not nothing, but it's not a usable and flexible enough solution -- people end up giving far too coarse-grained authority because that's seemingly the only way that's easy.
This kind of thinking gutted small towns across America. Main Street businesses folded and were boarded up, replaced by mcdonalds and shartmart. Economic death for the town.
It's hard to take a comment like this seriously given all the bloodshed that has come about because of capitalism.

Now, it could just be that people who accumulate power also accumulate the means to defend that power, and that to accumulate it in the first place you've almost got to be a sociopath, but that's actually being thoughtful instead of bringing up context-barren boogeymen.
Nobody wants this type of tourism, pollution and massive groups of people wandering around with little economic impact.

Barcelona is trying to limit them also [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/09/a-plague-of-lo...
I thought the same thing. Half the answers were about calculating the perfect mathematical shape completely unaswering anything about the origin of the phenomenon. The shape wasn't even in the original question at all but only included as an example (how would he even measure it?)
Why should police departments do automobile maintenance?

Other than to add more sinecures for the politically connected…
The heavier the vehicle, the more particles.

Yeah. EVs are much worse, until we find some magical battery breakthrough or realize not everyone needs 350 mile range.

That said I’ll take worse tire emissions over better tire emissions plus CO2 + CO + NO2 + whatever else + all the emissions creating/moving gas.

You want lower EV tire emissions? Cut down own the need to drive.
Before approval it's research, it's an investment. When in developing phase it's normal not to make money.

After approval it's the health insurance or the patient that pay. In countries like Singapore or France the taxes pay so it's "free" (actually it's an "insurance" backed by the govt)
You can access your mails on your computer, so it's not necessary to access GMail on the remote desktop computer.

Sounds more like Google isn't talking about workstations but the peoples normal computer they work one, just with limited internet access.
WebGPU as a cross-platform graphics API
> why are they not treated with similar security measures as CA keys?

Well, that's an unintentionally loaded question if I've ever seen one.
Actually I've only been anywhere near them when they're docked, presumably taking on passengers.

They're not supposed to run on the bunker oil near shore, but the stink from them just idling there is always exceptionally bad.

Incidentally, we also learned one time that if you get too close (on the order of hundreds of yards) to a docked cruise ship the USCG will appear with a large deck-mounted machine gun trained on your bow while ordering you to change course. So not only are the cruise ships making the air disgusting for everyone nearby, our tax dollars are spent guarding them from terrorist attacks while doing so too.

I'm sure container ships are disgusting too.. but they don't generally sit docked idling for ages where people are doing recreation.
This is surprisingly close to what some folks are working on, or so i am told.

Green goo endgame!
Hard agree.

I can count on one hand the services that are critically important enough to warrant unique passwords and good practices anyway.

All the other services I have accounts for? I literally can't care if some yahoo in WhereTheHellistan wants to and does get in, there's nothing valuable in there. They all get the same, simple, short password because that's the value of the things behind the password.

Yes, this means all of you reading this are quite welcome to try and steal this HN account guarded by the same, simple, short password. I don't care, all you'll be getting are worthless shitposts and things of similar value in any other services you can find and breach with the same credentials.
Yeah. Cities: Skylines just feels so soulless to me. It's like me looking at a model railway - it might look cute but it's just dead. The game is effectively a traffic simulator, with citizens not really having agency (beyond the Chirper which most people are annoyed by), and next to zero economic management. No mixed zoning or organic growth, you effectively run a completely planned economy. There's not much external trade or a real economy which needs all sorts of skills to function. It feels really eery and creepy to me.
There's the bonus problem of: even if you magically have correct priors, you still need to assume that Drake's Equation is a good model for the generation process of civilizations. If the equation is missing terms or has extra terms, no amount of Bayesian reasoning helps correct for that.

It's like thinking that you can use Bayesian reasoning to determine the likelihood of Russell's Teapot existing.
Author here. I did the first API key hiding post (and accompanying video) for local code, but got a question about how to hide API keys when deploying code remotely. I couldn't update the original video so I decided to create a new one instead, and accompanying post, and then link them to each other.

For the header images, I use Stability and yes, use the same base prompt so they all have a consistent feel.

The posts so far are about using the GPT API because there was a positive reaction to an initial post I put out, so I expanded on that. I wanted to have a specific focus rather than just learning Python in general. It's still early days for the site so I'm still finding my way.
https://archive.ph/d948j
You’re not going to take someone who takes twelve hours to learn how to fold a letter for an envelope and teach them a demanding cognitive job like programming.
> the vast majority of poverty reduction in the last century has been in China, a non-capitalist country

Can't it also be said that the vast majority of poverty reduction has been in China...once they began to adopt capitalist economic principles in the last 40 years ?
"Information theory and statistical mechanics" by E.T. Jaynes [0]. Starting from a Bayesian/information-theoretic perspective, he derived statistical mechanics in just a few pages. This approach finally made stat-mech 'click' for me.

It's a paradigm shift. Entropy (in the Bayesian sense) is fundamentally a subjective quantity. Maximizing entropy is just minimizing the assumed information. When dealing with large complex systems over long timescales, the only pieces of information one is justified in assuming are the values of those quantities that are conserved globally by the dynamics (eg, total energy, total mass, etc). The "thermodynamic entropy" S is just the maximum entropy, given a certain set of conserved quantities (an "ensemble") -- it is therefore more or less objective, modulo the conserved quantities.

The second law of thermodynamics is just the information processing inequality: you don't have any more information about the future state of the system than you do about the present state. If anything, you have less, because if you have any information about the current state of non-conserved quantities, that information is not valid at other times (assuming you don't have complete information & the ability to fully simulate the dynamics). From this perspective, entropy does not generate the "arrow of time": the argument is symmetric in time.

Another from Jaynes worthy of mention: "Prior probabilities" [1] discusses the use of group theory to derive "non-informative" prior distributions by considering the set of transformations that result in equivalent inference scenarios. This is resolved another question I had when studying stat mech: "How come we start with an assumption of uniform probability in phase space as expressed in (x,p) coordinates -- if we transformed to a different coordinate system, it would look like a non-uniform distribution!" The answer is that we assume Galilean invariance. The concept applies outside stat mech as well.

Plenty of other interesting stuff [2].

[0] https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf
[1] https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prior.pdf
[2] https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/node1.html
VSC Remote I can agree with. Gateway feels like such an after thought. So many bugs and it's very resource intense in my experience. I really like Jetbrains products but their remote offerings are lacking. Makes me wonder if that’s why they are working on Fleet to fill that gap.
The US does not prioritize small business, or sole proprietorships.

Anyone even adjacent to business or finance during COVID could very clearly witness the wealth transfer, and the smaller competitors being swallowed.
We'll be lucky to make it that far.
Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs
In my opinion, western countries (namely the USA) should model itself after Amsterdam and the Dutch in general.

They figured out (or at least improved on) transportation of people. City design is amazing and they have a multitude of options to move around (bike, train, walkable, or micro transportation). Their cities are much more cleaner, enjoyable, not as noisy, and everyone in general seems much more happier.

Contrast this to hellholes like most of the USA where it is an absolute necessity to own a car. Minimal alternatives. High dependency on highway / street infrastructure that requires significant resources to build AND maintain.
Turns out you can only do this to people from your own country https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_pHZmn5QM
He also gave up the Presidency after 2 terms, though he was a shoo-in to be re-elected.
Were small-brained early humans intelligent? Row erupts over scientists’ claim
How do you cope with sea sickness while sailing?

I've been wanting to take sailing lessons but I'm worried my queasiness will rear it's ugly head.
I left a job they were still using SVN in 2021. Still worked just fine.
And there's the other shoe. Every major security incident is always worse than initially reported. This one probably has more gas in the tank yet.
Are we not solving that with this whole web thing?
At least on Apple systems, I have always found paid good apps at fair prices for all my needs.
> comprised of four space-separated words

correct horse battery staple?

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Str...
> then set them towards further specialization with the new freed up workload

Or innovation. Imagine not hiring McKinsey or IDEO to 'innovent' new market opportunities but instead, y'know, listening to your frontline about what they think customers might want...
The market-based solution for that of course would be to engineer municipal power to the docks along with estimated costs for the project.

Set a required minimum risk-weighted profit to the city of 2x or so. Then solicit bids for binding long-term contracts from cruise companies, with the stipulation that their generators stay off while in port. If no bids meet the minimum, shelve the whole thing. Otherwise, proceed and enjoy the boost to the city treasury.

Of course in the real world this would be a political process and highly vulnerable to corruption by private interests.