skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drug policy is larger than this single man. There are trade offs with different approaches here. “There is literally nothing to lose” is simply false. Restrictions against selling whatever to dying patients is because people _will_ take advantage of them and sell snake oil. If you’re okay with that, why not just let people steal from those terminally ill?

My dad recently died. There are always new treatments being studied and some day one of those treatments might actually be able to cure people with the same disease. That day didn’t come early enough for my dad. That sucks but it doesn’t change the fact that drug policy is made for society as a whole and not only for my dad. This isn’t some conspiracy where a cold bureaucracy is letting people die. Sometimes your luck just runs out.
They could maliciously label stuff. I'd imagine there is a way to bias a model against wealthy people.
Alas, too late. Add half our walks after lunch and diner, in addition to the other habits mentioned.
> Is it also too much to ask that someone explain how they think a technology which has been chosen by market participants and is used widely and (apparently) successfully by them does not actually match the real constraints of the market or participants?

Kind of, yes. Since instead of evaluating based on an understanding of the technology you're saying "In this universe was chosen for a project, the project was successful, show me the universes where the alternative decision was made".
There are better solutions perhaps, but this article (as many others here have pointed out) reads as if it were written by someone that just "graduated" from a security bootcamp and thinks that they have some earth-shattering revelation to share.
These port replicators are easily replaced by a monitor with a high-speed usb c hub now a days.

I have not needed one in years, power, peripherals, and networking all go through the single usb-c connection.
Same with EZPass
I guess this comes a few iterations after, "Consider a spherical cow..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
Yeah this is an issue with my current company's use of Jira. They're super worried about tickets being "lost" so they all have to be assigned to one person, but then that means you can't tell who is actually working on something.

My previous company used Phabricator and you only assigned yourself a task when you actually started working on it. It meant anyone could work on anything - much more agile and much much better knowledge spreading and teamwork.

But I understand where my current company is coming from. You want a "person who is responsible for making sure this eventually gets done" field and a "person who is currently working on this" field.
There’s a fun book called Jennifer Government by Max Barry about corporations fielding their own armies and directly controlling countries.
> if mortgage is a lot cheaper than renting

Lots of people don't have the downpayment or upfront legal fees available. They cannot buy.
Agreed. And chatbots also leave no room for discretionary exemptions. My headset microphone broke recently (after the warranty period) - emailing the company and asking if there was any way I could buy a new one netted me a free replacement and a nice note from a real person. I’m 100% convinced that a chatbot would have told me that based on the serial number my headset was out of warranty and ended the chat.
To extend on this: application developers can actually guarantee it, because they control the compilation process, which is what decides if it aborts or not. Libraries have less control / no guarantee.
They consistently disregard evidence that contradicts their core beliefs.
That's fair, I'll admit I didn't check the inclusion criteria in the case of OP.

I'll take your point, and I appreciate the time you took to write a good response, though I've read about enough examples other than the current article that I feel this may be rejecting a wider pattern on the details of the current submission (but maybe I'm wrong, and they all happened to be incorrect for similar reasons).

But I'd like to hear your thoughts on the broader argument of being more aggressive with trials in general. What sticks with me each time this argument comes up, regardless of the particular situation, is this idea that despite some mechanisms for accelerated approvals, we are still far slower than we could be, if we take into account the number of people saved by bringing therapies sooner.

There is a cost to letting people take dangerous medication. I hate the idea of peddling dubious cures to vulnerable people as much as I'm sure you do. It's the counterfactual that makes the argument, the people who do not receive treatment due to delay seems to vastly outnumber the people harmed by experimental treatments.
And the difference seems large enough that it would remain true even if we went much faster. I think that's the strongest objection to the current system.
Fuck off. Automation is the only thing that increases real wealth over the long term.

All jobs should be done by machines.
We’re clearly not talking about the same problem. There isn’t a direct line from you not being able to find the same square footage for $1600 in 2019 as you did in 2009, and you winding up as a hopeless drug addict in Cal Anderson. I’m all for draconian policies to address rising housing costs (such a extreme excise taxes on vacant units, of which there are a lot in Seattle and Portland), but that doesn’t have anything to do with tent cities in the Puget Sound area. If Capital Hill suddenly had the same inventory of 2 bedroom units with parking at $1600 a month that it did in 2009, the broader problems do not go away.

These people we’re talking about will all be dead by the time any of yours or my pet ideas to increase housing supply come to fruition. And yet, in the here and now, there’s a continuing escalation of health and safety issues that, again, don’t go away if rents suddenly drop.
The Wonder Drug for Aging(Made from One of the Deadliest Toxins on Earth) (2017)
Mosh and tmux have worked great for me for the last 12 years. Different strokes I guess.
I wonder if something similar might explain the recent aggressive behaviour of orcas.
At this point it’s just legalized bribery and apartheid (how many Muslims pass the screening? How many Yemenis?).

The TSA should be abolished but if it’s going to exist it should be equally efficient (or miserable) for everyone.
Not as reductive as your typical Certified Cloud “Architect’s” pitch ;)

This is not a question of why they did it (although they pretty clearly expand on it in those posts and everyone who didn’t flunk middleschool math can do the same with their setup) but question of can you do it. And the answer is pretty clearly - yes. But ofc you won’t, and not because of technical reasons either.
I'm surprised (or maybe not that surprised) no one has countered the "This is just how networking works" argument with: Yes, but if the network you're pulling from is mostly white guys, doesn't that signal a problem in itself?
Redmine is the best. I use it on the projects, as help desk, as HR platform, as company day to day management. Not sure why people look elsewhere. Its open source, extremely performant with hundreeds of projects and thousands of users, extremely customizable. What more can one want.
Every other company with a GPU farm is getting into the LLM space. There will be plenty of competition keeping prices low.
Theres not a big sample size to pick from.

How many people have led armies fighting British, let alone beat them?
This is why you don’t just copy and paste I researched answers from SO.
Yes, it's gonna end up badly for most.
The point I'm making is all these shenanigans are completely unnecessary, don't really help, and make everything extremely hard to manage, reason about, and get performance from - all to try to force usage of a specific key format (UUID) in a situation which it is not designed for, and for which it is not suited.

It's square peg, round hole.

And folks working on Exabyte sized indexed datasets generally already get this. So I'm not sure why i'm even having this discussion? I'm not even getting paid for this!

Ciao!
> For one thing, I now have to be logged in on my mail on the device I am using, and that means if the device is unsafe, I am exposing far more of a risk that way

What's preventing you from getting the email code from another device?
> Meanwhile all of my peer group is obsessed with FIRE and dream of retiring early.

I'm a SWE and I would love to FIRE one day but the goal of my retirement is very different from others. I want to buy some land with a house and a workshop, learn machining, chemistry, electrical engineering, etc and either contract for startups or start my own projects. Also, I'd like to bring some polish to the free software stack by rebuilding some foundational pieces of technology.

It is very hard to have the energy to do a full day of work, come home, and do a full night of work. Unfortunately, the market is not set up in a way where creative people (who can transform various verticals) can get funded to do good work.
No it's not. Everyone has obligations. You cannot un-invent this stuff. That's like trying to stop air planes, rockets, photography, combustion engine, calculators, the personal pc, etc. It's the next phase of technology and it will be developed regardless if you like it or not. It's here to stay and thinking otherwise does everyone a disservice. We should be trying to figure out how to leverage this and ride the next wave.

Honestly, this might even make support much easier to interact with. If you can filter this stuff you could probably have a much better support experience. ChatGPT has proved this to be true. I cannot tell you how many times I've used support and the person is some entry level tech who has no idea.
The point isn't really whether its a net benefit or not, the point it's a "luxury" of tens to several hundred dollars per month that is almost universal at this point that is not really comparable to any other discretionary purchase historically.
Deadlifts are the best, not just for the back benefits but for hand strength as well - my wrist pain is a distant memory now.
> I wonder what people like Peter Thiel have to say about it

The people I know who look down on modern academics, tend to dislike a set of changes that started happening in the mid-late sixties and ramped up through at least the 2010s.

I'm not sure that's applicable to someone who got their PhD in 1946.
So you don’t know many people, thanks for noting it but not sure how relevant it is to the conversation.

It seems a third of users use iMessage [0].

You not knowing one of 20 million people in your country seems more like a curiosity of why your social circle is so similar.

[0] https://www.statista.com/forecasts/1328650/imessage-messenge...
I've watched people who claim it is a game changer try to use it and I can see routinely leading them down rabbit holes in real time which they struggle to get out of.

Meanwhile, the stuff it is good at filling in - it was never that hard to google it and copy and paste it in the first place.

I've seen this like 20 times in tech before. We're peak hype cycle for LLMs and the trough of disillusionment has yet to set in. During peak hype cycle for any tech a lot of people defer to the crowd's excitable opinion, disbelieve the evidence in front of their own eyes and express a level of optimism over future developments that is ludicrous.
Onefetch: Command-line Git information tool
The biggest problem with adaptive rate limiting is that, in many contexts, clients value predictability more than they do peak performance. Adaptive rate limits change client behavior in ways that clients can't predict or control.

Even in networking, the classic application domain of adaptive rate limits (like TCP's algorithms), core networks are built to offer predictable performance. Edge networks, like public WiFi, that offers best-effort performance with adaptive rate limits, are often met with frustration and even anger the moment those limits kick in.
I'm curious to see how empowered the LLM customer service of the future is. Are they going to be allowed to process refunds? People will find out how to convince the LLM you do meet the requirements for a refund.

And if you check the requirements using something deterministic (last order was within last 2 weeks, customer has a high loyalty points score, they're subscribed to some premium service) then why do you need an agent at all? The real point of the agent when it comes to something like that is reducing churn by making the process harder. The LLM isn't working for you, just like the human agent isn't working for you.

I do think this sort of thing could be good for digging up information though, as technical support before you get to a technician, could be good. Probably less aggravating than "Before we connect you, please turn on and off the rout-... you pressed 1, that is an invalid option. Before we connect you, please turn..."
Some are and some aren't. The key question is whether the fruits grown on grafted branches have the toxins. There's no definitive study. This rootstock appears to be S. torvum. The gardener who's doing it has been doing it for years apparently with no ill health effects. Might be worth someone studying both his produce and his health to find out.
Thanks. To be honest, I felt the review above was a bit on the nose. But I guess it's considered OK if one is punching up, even if there's a bit of snobbishness in the put-down.

I have read DVC. I must say, I don't remember it!
> that's really hard for anything that doesn't involve going to a local store or service.

Is that such a bad thing?

FWIW it used to be that you could pick up the phone, dial '0', and talk to an operator, a real human being with significant power over the system they operated.

When the phone companies got rid of human operators: that was the beginning of the end of ...something?
The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web
Its a very different kind of "reading". Condensing 50 pages into about 7. I can read papers in my field fairly well because I have understanding of the ideas but it takes me hours to read a single paper from outside my field.

This, and I cant stress this enough, is a good thing. You've probably complained that people spend way too much time waffling nonsense instead of simply writing the ingredients in cooking recipies. Scientific papers ARE the list of ingredients without anything else. If you feel like they missed three steps, go back and actually read it, bit by bit. Read the prior art if youre really confused. You simply cannot skim read them, each sentence is important.
Philips was a big proponent of MSX.
You don’t force login on your banking apps? Eek. Or maybe you mean they do biometric auth instead of user/pwd? Leaving banking/finance apps unprotected sounds sketchy AF to me.
Many of us have built software that at some point has eliminated roles. It's turtles all the way down.
The amount of times I've "felt bad and didn't go to a doctor" means that when I read a story like this, I have to NOPE out of a whole geographical region.

At least you can usually see scorpions and Senators bearing down on you with their poison in Texas.
> its semantics do not depend on how a process is executed by the host operating system

Implementation details can leak though. For example on unix, if your process uses a lot of memory, a fork can result in an out of memory error, if there isn't enough memory left on the system to copy the parent process memory. And afaict things like how file descriptors are inherited are implementation defined.

> which works more or less in the same way under any OS

Even ignoring subtle differences in how subprocesses are spawned, there is the little issue that shell escaping and argument splitting works differently on different OSes, or even different shells on the same OS.
Different people different experiences I guess.

I used to work in the industry and my experience had been that companies who don't care about customer service will have shitty customer service, bots or not. The opposite is true as well.

I have seen simple request bounce between up to 15 customer service reps without the end user getting what they wanted. On the contrary I think some of the best customer service is when there is no need for customer service at all.
Great, so some day, coworkers will get up at least once an hour for pizza breaks?
I connect my ThinkPad P51 to two external monitors, an external trackpoing keyboard 2, and a logitech trackpad. It works perfect, and if i need to work on the road, I just disconnect it and take it with me.
I found my neck and shoulder a lot less tense since I started using split keyboards, and my overall posture also improved.
The downside is trying (and building!) new split keyboards starts to become an addicting hobby, and I keep finding my next keyboard with fewer keys than the previous. Settled with a 36-key Skeletyl for now.
https://archive.is/kQIgV
No, it doesn't. This is the entire title: "Bun v0.7.0"
Assuming I agree with your premise, which some might find deeply disturbing in the context of government, doesn’t it seem shady that this one for-profit private company is deputized to offer this service? I too want to know the terms, and at least whether these contracts are up for bid regularly. If I were the negotiator for the government side, I’d feel obliged to cap subscriber fees as a condition of the deal, and also to encourage multiple companies to compete for the contracts on how much of the revenue they’ll give the government/airport. The lack of competitors makes it seem like a sweetheart deal.
Seems like paying to create two classes of citizens
Working _outside_ of the educational systems vs _Never_Leaving_ the educational system?

Yea... that's apples and oranges in many respects.
There is no second sentence. It says merely "Bun v0.7.0".
It's nothing new - Outlook / Exchange and counterparts replaced secretaries. Intelligent IDES let me do the job of many. The list goes on. The rate of replacement may be great or greatly exaggerated. Taxing profits is the key. I'm not holding my breath.
You couldn't design a better society than the modern US to cause all this shit. There's a reason everyone from overseas who travels here puts on weight.

I have to be fastidious to the point of obsession to not gain. Intermittent fasting and the like don't circumvent the bare fact that you need to eat fewer calories than you burn; they're clever "hacks" and in fact make my binge-eating habit worse. It's so goddamn irritating.

I actually can pretty accurately estimate the calories I eat at, eg, a restaurant, but I have to do it all the time. I can't use food as an emotional release or social lubricant. I grew up without being taught to manage my emotions, so I ate them, which is how I got to be 5'7" and >200# in the first place.
EZ Pass is a cooperative partnership between all of the participating toll agencies, not a private corporation.
The sample size is people who led successful revolutions. There are plenty in history you can compare Washington to.
I liked that era Apple. Engineers called the shots, made things they would want.
Insta-closed when I saw that hideous AI “art” at the top. How is that at all better than nothing at all?
>My Dad's doctor wouldn't even discuss it and dismissed it outright.

Given metformins safety and cost profile, your dads doctor sucked. They should put it in the water of the 60+ crowd.
This is a prevalent problem in the industry, but perhaps he's mixing for an idea theatre setup that exists only in his screening room.
Wait, you actually think that AI will improve any of this?
That's awfully precise, but how about this one?

Handbook of signalling symbols and terminology

https://rdso.indianrailways.gov.in/works/uploads/File/Handbo...
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Morale is down because of the enshittification.
>The employee’s Twitter thread also raised concerns about the well-being of Shopify’s workforce. Since the layoffs, remaining staff members have reportedly faced increased workloads without proportional compensation or benefits, leading to burnout, anxiety, and stress leave.

Companies who outsource customer support to cheap subsidiaries or bots have no respect for either their customers or their workers, both low and high paid, who will inevitably have to fix and respond to the crap coming their way. For me it has become the most important factor in not choosing to buy anything from a business. It is the canary in the coal mine for future degrading quality.
Same goes for almost all grocery shops here - Publix, Kroger, target etc replacing checkout with self-checkout kiosks completely.

I absolute hate using self-checkout for non-packaged groceries items. Especially if I have lots of stuff. Freaking "unintended item in baggage area".

Not to mention, I feel like Publix etc in particular employed lots of folks with disability. It warmed my heart to talk to them.

I don't know what humanity plans is. Even if we pay folks free money, they still loose on social interactions.
Waiting for a politician to run on a platform of rolling back all of this nonsense to pre 911. No nudie scanners, no enhanced gropings erm patdowns, just good ol effective measures like reinforced cockpit doors.

All of these measures do didly to stop weapons.
Have you been using ChatGPT to solve work problems? I have. It's amazing. This technology can do amazing things and companies should be using it to solve problems. Of course I think it can improve things. Think about what happens when companies start to build corporate LLM's trained on their docs, code, knowledge base, support tickets, etc. You're going to have super human support. Sure, this might assist the current staff but they are going to be so much better equipped to solve problems.

Imagine for a second, that there is actually a LLM agent that can not only understand what you want but actually do things too. Like, why not have these systems reset passwords, check on the status of a refund, update a mailing address, change billing info, cancel your account, email me some documents, etc. This frees up people to actually work on more important things. The hardest part of all this pre-ChatGPT was understanding fully what the person wanted. That's petty much solved now.

I think we're headed to a future where you'll actually want an LLM agent vs a human in that they will know everything and can solve your issue in seconds. It's like when you win the lottery and get the support person who's been at the company 15 years and knows everything in and out. That's what these LLM's can be.
I’ve been asking myself why I’m not already doing this now. Why not spend a bit of time on reading about it now?
> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with.

Yep! That's pretty much what agreeing or disagreeing with something means.

But the reasoning you seem to be proposing is "here is something you agree with and something you disagree with, therefore those two things are interchangeable and you should not favor one over the other."

> Now what do you do? Both sides can say their cause is “advancing rights”.

I exercise human discretion and decide which of those rights is better, more valuable, more important.

In this case, that's not a tough call. Marriage provides a bunch of very concrete mechanical effects, from inheritance to medical decision making to finances to immigration. Whereas some people feeling happy about the fact that some other people can't access those rights is, at best, abstract and intangible.

And you'll also note that some of my previous references were to the uniformity of rights. Generally speaking, making rights more uniformly accessible to all people is better than having rights be selectively, arbitrarily limited to some people.
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