skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtually every other condition described by and psychology/psychiatry is descriptive, rather than explanatory, i.e., an appeal to causes (by which I mean explanatory in a manner worthy of the name, and not woolly and dubious notions like "chemical imbalance"). That is, we are describing some collection of symptoms, taken to be symptoms, which are grouped together for often tacit reasons and pathologized based on some pre-exiting intuition of the normative. (This intuition can be correct, but it need not be. I am merely making these things explicit.)

In the case of what we call ADHD, you are effectively saying, that the symptoms most commonly labeled as ADHD have a hereditary cause. I wonder what the environmental angle is here. That is, can what we call ADHD be a response to an environment that is novel or taken as normative, when it is not? If an environment (and I include parents in this) is poorly suited to the child and does not response to the child's objective needs, it would not surprise me if the result is some of the behavior described.

Take alcoholism. It is accepted that alcoholism can have a hereditary component. However, that doesn't mean everyone with this disposition becomes one. Environmental factors play a role in making alcoholism more likely. If your parents drink, or you fall in with a bad crowd that abuses alcohol, the chances that you will succumb to alcoholism increase. That doesn't mean it is deterministic, but if you have a predisposition, then it becomes more difficult to resist the temptation to abuse alcohol when put in a near occasion of sin. And culture can encourage or discourage such near occasions, or valorize or stigmatize the behavior in question. Obesity is another example.

In the case of ADHD, I can imagine several potential factors. An environment that is biased toward a sedentary lifestyle (kids have tons of energy that needs to go somewhere). A hostile school environment that produces a sense of anxiety and alienation, perhaps though the methods of 'school management' and pedagogy employed. A school environment that is abusive, e.g., through bullying, or by punishing reasonable acts of self-defense. Rigidity of the education system (prioritizing following some program above responding to a child's actual particular needs). Indulgence and softness and a lack of reasonable and age-appropriate discipline as a corrective measure. (We are squeamish about it today, but children have not yet developed their reasoning faculties well, and they haven't learned impulse control or disciplining their desires. This means punishment for obstinate bona fide bad behavior must rely on licit means of producing unpleasantness, as these are readily perceived by children and taken to counteract indulgence.) I can imagine some cocktail of these things playing a role. That rates seem to vary by country (for children <6 years of age, compare the US with Poland; for adults, Australia with China) means it is worth considering cultural factors, or else assume the genetic differences across populations play a significant role, and if so, what affected countries could do about it.
> People viewing explicit images of you without your consent — whether those images are real or fake — is a form of sexual violence.

What if you imagine it? What if you describe it to your friend? What if you sketch it on your tablet and then delete it?
Along those lines there was an interesting article on 'white hydrogen' the other day. Apparently there are vast quantities of hydrogen underground which could be drilled for and piped in a manner similar to natural gas. https://archive.ph/3c7Hs
Ha, that is funny! :-D Well, that's what the blog etc. are there for! And thanks for the wishes and kind words...

I sold my 2nd book -- on Kindle, and now deleted, sadly -- in 2012 and it paid for me to get a qualification as a TEFL teacher. I figured I'd rent my house out, go travelling, and maybe do a little writing on the side. I wouldn't make much but it would be fun and interesting. At 45, I concluded my career in tech was over.

I told a friend at a party, and she told me her then new employer was hiring. I looked, and they were -- but in Brno. She referred me, I got it, and that's how I got there.

That role didn't work out -- clash with company culture -- but immediately afterwards I had multiple competing offers of roles. That was a career first for me. I had a couple of other jobs, one permie, one a contract plus renewal, before a role in Prague came up and I moved there for that. Turned out to be my longest time in one role in my career to date.

When I moved to Brno I was an EU citizen so no paperwork was needed. Because of Brexit, I ceased to be. My late father was born in Northern Ireland, so he was a British citizen his whole life, but via him I was able to claim Irish citizenship. It took some fighting with bureaucracy but it worked. I suspect he wouldn't approve but he died over 30 years ago, so he gets no say in the matter.

After I lived there 5 years, I was able to get official permanent residence in Czechia, again facilitated by being an EU citizen. I've not needed to pass any language exams or anything for this, although my Czech is now somewhere between A2 and B1 level -- beginner-to-intermediate level. Post Brexit and things, the Czech government has made it a lot harder and to do it now I'd need to pass language competency tests.

It was all fairly easy, really. There are agencies you can hire to help with the paperwork, and in dealing with officialdom in Czech, and it's not that expensive to do so.

Sadly, for now, I don't live there any more, but I still own my home there and plan to return.
I'm a little surprised this teacher didn't have the support of a union. I was under the impression a lot of teachers were unionised in the United States.
As a dataset of one, I can tell you that I am aphantasic and have a lot of internal monologue from multiple voices (No I'm not schizophrenic). I also have very strong auditory memory and can, as other have said, "play songs in my head." Though translating those imagined songs to the real world is less then steller in my case. I can also fairly acutely imagine a touch/feeling.

Just for a little insight into my internal thoughts, most of my thought processes are highly object oriented. Conjuring up a picture of a chair isn't really neccessary when you have an understanding of the chair object and its properties. I understand how it would work with an image of a chair, and it does seem like it might have some advantages at times, but I don't think it is necessary for me to "see" the chair to know how it functions and its basic spacial properties. Nor do I think that it's neccessary someone with a very vivid pictorial imagination.

What I do have a hard time understanding is that people can conjure up smells and taste in their imagination. I do neither of those, but it sounds really quite intriguing to me. I've often wondered what it would be like to try to imagine a new recipe and get an imaginary sampling before the attempt.

To circle back to your original question, I don't think the absence of one of the modes of imagination necessarily enhances another. I don't even think there are complimentary modes of imagination as you put it. Nor do I think the fidelity of those modes are indicators of intelligence, ability, or personality. I also don't think they are indicative of actualizing particular thoughts into the real world, or is really a measure of anything other than the somewhat uniqueness of the individual human experience.

Lastly I don't think this short list if 5 senses begins to describe how humans actually think. Consider that there's probably more hidden subprocess that our brain is doing for thought then using these particular 5 sense modes of imagination. We obviously are not as aware of them because they don't have a real world translation in most cases. For instance, the way people memorize stuff isn't exactly a relational database, but it's kind of close. What exactly is that process called and why don't assign that a value on the imagination scale. As another example, large tree structure can somewhat represent, "a good sense of direction" but again we don't assign that an imagination scale either. Limiting the reaearch to the 5 senses is great for understanding how those processes work, but it is only a tiny baby step to further understanding how human thought works on the whole.
There's an imbalance because the robot.txt rule is something Google pushed forward (didn't invent it, but made it standard) and is opt-out. So yes, Google made up their rules and won't let other people to make up their own self-beneficial rules in a similar way.
This seems like an Innovator's Dilemma (adjacent) trap. The actors will prevent hollywood or the mainstream studios from using synthetic actors, writers, etc. so it will be left up to some completely new entity to create that infrastructure. It will happen anyway because it is so compelling, and there are tens of thousands of actors who never make a living who would happily become digital.

* The Innovator's Dilemma - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Bunch of posts and discussion last few days:

1 day ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800223

2 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789643

3 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781724
Secure Boot is often conflated with Measured Boot.

Measured Boot is essential for any attestation based scheme.
> I guess there's money in the ads.

I owned a basic wordpress site with some guides written during COVID for a couple of popular (at that time) mobile games. It appeared in top 3 searches for the <game name> + <guide/event/best ...> combination.

Ad revenue was around ~$100 per month peaking around ~$150 at the new content drops. I have abandoned the website since, but it still is generating $100 here and there without me actively working on it for the past 2 years.

To the point - yes, there's lot of money if you own a network of similar websites. My competitors were paying $10-30 per guide submitted on their website because a few guides could easily get paid off in a couple of months from ad revenue and keep generating it years afer.

I could write more detailed story if someone's interested.
If I understand you correctly, you do a sort of blue green deploy? Load balancing between two versions while deploying but only one most of the time?

How do you orchestrate the spinning up and down? Just a script to start service B, wait until service B is healthy, wait 10 seconds, stop service A, and caddy just smooths out the deployment?
You can by not using Google products.
Change the search for ddg or kagi. Change your email for proton.
Use Dropbox instead. Remove Chrome, live with iceweasel or Firefox.

It is not like you'll be loosing much. This is the time to change, while we still have other players in the market.
Switch test pilot with medical doctor from Harvard and you've got this guy: https://www.nasa.gov/content/jonny-kim-md-lcdr-us-navy-nasa-...
I wonder who they are targeting with this restriction on 700 million MAU.
then the next day a new deepfake porn shows up of the people who had them fired sleeping with the person they fired
There is a big difference if it's immature kids and a few trolls vs elected officials legitimizing this toxic shit. Another thing that contributes to the rise is traditional and social media, amplifying the controversies.
You can pay a price of $200--300 for a mobile cellular hotspot which provides this capability.

That's a hefty premium for a laptop, and is best approached with an external peripheral which multiple devices can share.

<https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-mobile-hotspots>
What degree of determinism do you actually have if provisioners can execute Turing complete code?
Gen X bought the hype mostly uncritically and helped to justify and normalize the techniques that are now widespread today. Especially the end-of-history techno-utopianism of Clinton et al.

Boomers were too late to the game but rode the wave once it was normalized. Millenials recognized the ills and tried to criticize to undo the justification. Gen Z never understood the world any differently and so are little more than victims.
That's true, but most medium articles & blogs are experts writing for other experts. I guess what's missing is broadly experts writing for laymen.
They wouldn't be less convincing than an anonymous denunciation, and nobody made that claim. They would be equally unconvincing.

If you don't want people fired for anonymous denunciations, you should concentrate on labor rights.
Thanks for replying! And agreed on the title change; I think your original title is much, much better phrased and I'm sorry that I glossed over it when reading the article (although I'm not sure "doesn't matter" fully captures the distinction you're making here) -- mods probably shouldn't have changed it.

> There's still plenty of value in this work that will flow to open source, even if it doesn't fit in the traditional labels.

That is a good point; the fight over what is open source and what is source available can get heated, and part of that is a defense against the erosion of the term. But... in general source available is better than closed source software. And LLaMA 2 is a significant improvement over LLaMA 1 in that regard, it really is. So I don't necessarily want to be down on it, in some ways it's just backlash of being tired of companies stretching definitions. But they're doing a thing that will absolutely help improve open access to LLMs.

I'm always a little bit torn about how to go about this kind of criticism of terminology, and I'm not trying to say that people shouldn't be excited about LLaMA 2. But the way it works out I'm often playing word police because the erosion of the term does make it harder to refer to models with actual open weights like StableLM. Facebook deserves real praise for releasing a model with weights that can be used commercially. It doesn't deserve to be treated as if what it's doing is equivalent to what StabilityAI or RedPanda is doing.

I do like your terminology of "open weights" and "restricted weights", and I wouldn't be opposed to even breaking that down even further, I think there's a clear difference between LLaMA 1 and 2 in terms of user freedom, so I'm not opposed to people trying to distinguish, just... it's not hitting the bar of being open weights.

It's a bit like if the word vegetarian didn't exist, and if everyone argued about how it's unhelpful to say that drinking milk isn't vegan because it's still tangibly different from eating meat. On one hand I agree, but on the other hand it's better to have another category for it that means "not vegan, but still not eating meat." There is an actual danger in blurring a line so much that the line doesn't mean anything anymore, and where people who mean something more rigorous no longer have a term to communicate amongst themselves. If average people get bothered by throwing LLaMA 2 into the "restricted weights" category, it's better to introduce another category between restricted and open that means "restricted but not commercially".

Beyond that though... yeah, I agree. I don't really have a problem with people calling open weights open source, my only objection to that is kind of technical and pedantic, but I don't think it causes any actual harm if someone wants to call StableLM open source.
Nothing but the truth though. For me the question is not if we get a serious left-wing terrorist uprising out of all the shit happening at the moment, it is when. Personal guess it's going to be either UK or German's environmental activists or Israel, with a serious leaning to the latter given that everyone over there gets a ton of military mandatory experience.
> I’m annoyed by todays cashless society too but there aren’t good answers to these problems.

Those problems have been solved for generations. The solutions aren’t free and require some work, but it’s a little crazy to say there “there aren’t good answers to these problems.” If they mandated that cash should be accepted, the companies would figure it out and it really would be fine.
Prosperity?
It seems that the plot of Stanislaw Lem’s “The Futurological Congress”, adapted into the film linked below, is fast becoming reality. The convergence between virtual reality and intellectual property here is a fascinating one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
There's a rule against editoralizing submission titles and thus OP just randomly finding a Play Store link is not an announcement in any way. Doubly so when no one can install the app, apparently
No they are not.

This articles doesn't appear on bbc.co.uk/news homepage so it is of little interest.

"Scientists" are not worried. If "Scientists" were worried theyt would be marching in the streets.
Can you recommend some sources?
I’m really not sure what you mean. There is literally zero evidence supporting a lab leak, while there’s multitudes of evidence of multiple contact leaps in the market.

Was there a time when the lab leak theory had the same credibility as it being naturally occurring in poor unsanitary market conditions? I’d personally say no, but for the sake of argument, forgetting basic tenants like “the simplest explanation is more likely the correct one”, let’s say that early on, both had little measurable credibility.

Now though, early contact tracing shows the earliest contractions are clustered to the market, and that the virus leaped across species multiple times during early phase. This is not a coincidence and it is also not what we’d expect from a lab leak.

The lab leak theory is conspiracy theory. Full stop.
> Most employees in the country are employed at will.

It's good that you understand the problem.
I'm seeing religion that way.

It's hard to go to dinner without the prayer drifting over from other tables, and even in LA most restaurants don't have no prayer zones yet. We have known for years that it's not good for anyone, but they have tough lobbyists, so getting rid of the problem just seems impossible. We all accept somehow that sports figures and celebrities endorse the product - they're adults. We accept that adults should be allowed to make their own decision. But just when we had religion-free zones for children, here comes the 10 commandments on the wall and creationism in biology class. No "this is your brain on religion" commercials yet that I know of. Etc.

Just like there was never a "war on tobacco," there will never be a "war on religion." Just like tobacco, there's too much money in religion for that to work.
> How can he reconciliate these views with this spec, which he is the main author of? Surely Ben sees the parallels?

It's easy: he works for Google. Every single public-ish web developer and/or devrel from Google will spend inordinate amounts of time lambasting Apple, writing eaassays on how Apple cripples the web etc.

While Google has broken the web so badly that Apple would need several decades to come anywhere close.

Note: the moment they leave Google, they may slightly change their tune and criticise Google a bit. For an example, see Alex Russel of web components when he went to work at Microsoft after spending a decade making sure that web browsers are turly unimplementable: https://infrequently.org/2021/07/hobsons-browser/
A hypothesis is also linked to metabolic psychiatry (having diabetes, mental illnesses like depression/paychosis), diabetes, insulin resistance in the brain.
>They also don't have "engagement stats" to worry about.

ChatGPT's engagement stats are the whole reason the latest LLM hype cycle began.
Nate Silver has no relevant qualifications, experience or anything of merit to justify people taking onboard his opinion without a healthy dose of skepticism. No different to any other random person on the street.

That doesn't mean he's wrong of course but this is a subject where right now everything is conjecture and hard proof may never be found. So cautious restraint is needed before jumping to any conclusions.
Your idea of being an expert because you majored in a related topic is amusingly misinformed as well. You are kidding yourself.

You need to critically look at how politics in real life works. On the level of presidential elections, the US is no "democracy" in any sensible meaning of the word to begin with. But that doesn't mean, votes there would be unimportant. The last few elections should make that exceedingly obvious.

In small, local elections, your vote has a more transparent relationship to outcomes. But those outcomes tend to be inconsequential. Presidential elections are quite the opposite really.
> 1. Report the fact that disagreement exists. Phrased differently, stop taking academics at their word when they claim there's a consensus. Do some basic web searches to find people who disagree. Get quotes from them. Stress on the word people; not just other academics but literally anyone disagreeing on scientific grounds eliminates the claim of consensus. Bloggers are fine.

This is how you get journalists to report disagreements that don't exist in reality. For example, whether the earth is flat, whether climate change is real, etc.

> 2. READ the papers.

Literally nobody reads the papers. A huge amount of news isn't even investigated. A large number of news these days is regurgitated from other sources.
Yea that’s my main frustration with overall journalism. The one subject where I’d consider myself in the 99th percentile of knowledge (more of a reflection of the sample) is basketball and it drives me up a wall the number of Medill type, classically trained journalists who write about a thing they barely understand. It’s such a disservice to the audience and borderline blatant misinformation
And with the better ones shared, iirc DS9 right.
Cache videos on disk aggressively
> Most journalists aren't experts on the law, either. How do they report on court cases?

Journalists have roughly the same undergraduate educational background as lawyers and receive a half-decent education on the high level basics of the American legal system in civics courses.

> They aren't experts on aviation safety. How do they report on airplane crashes?

Crashes themselves often don't require any amount of aviation expertise.

> They aren't experts on economics. How do they report financial news?

Mostly poorly, which is why eg Bloomberg's retail news business exists, and most of those folks have some financial background.
Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro
> For plastics we have no evolved tolerance.

Based on what evidence?

What do you think happens when you overheat animal fat or oils in a cooking vessel and "season" it? It forms a plastic. We've been living and eating alongside that type of plastic since we learned to cook food as a species.
I would really love more recommendations in this area if you have them
Seriously, shouldn't they at least get Matt Taibbi's take also
Yes, I don't personally invest in Chinese companies for a multitude of reasons. But it is the reality that a lot of the growth in the market is from people in low income parts of the world who may only have the choice between low-end Chinese ACs, or legacy alternatives to AC.
size_t is large enough to hold the size of the largest possible object in memory. In practice, on most architectures, that means it is the same size as pointers. I'm not sure if there is a case where start + end pointer can describe a valid string in memory that start pointer + size couldn't? If that was the case, that string wouldn't be an "object" by definition.
But we are talking about self-judgment here. What does it matter which flavour of good you expect your code to be if you actually don't believe good code by your definition can be realistically achieved?
If Firefox lies, sites will refuse to load in Firefox.