skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Social breakthroughs are going to need to keep pace with technological advancements, otherwise those same advancement can also help to bring minority holding power even more stronghold on the rest.

Which is why we should push for social breakthroughs instead of hindering technological advancements. Work for the sake of working is just
occupational therapy, nothing more.

I'm extremely optimistic regarding all this AI kerfuffle. "In fact, we can all easily imagine an Elite ruling the world at the helm of AI powered robots", yeah, sure, we can. We can also easily imagine us sharpening the good old guillotine.
> They are comfortable and secure in their personalities, styles, views, relations, and accomplishments, and rarely seek big changes to such things.

To me, most of these things are a feature not a bug. I am not just comfortable, I love who I am.
"First do no harm" sounds good on paper, but it fails the trolley problem. It leads you to harmful beliefs like "we should not use the AZ Covid vaccine to save thousands of lives because it might cause one person to die of blood clots".

The problem is that in the real world, it's extremely rarely the case that you can make an intervention that only has benefits, and doesn't have costs, so honestly applying "do no harm" is paralyzing. The medical ethics field understands this, but often the administrators/regulators are way too conservative.

A better model that generalizes without special-casing is "weigh costs and benefits, and be conservative but bounded about unknown risks before making an intervention". In this case the potential downsides are 1) the patient dies which is irrelevant because they are almost certain to die anyway (and they made the informed decision to take this risk), and 2) some reputational damage to the FDA and medical practice if it's seen to be "preying on patients with no other options".

I think 2) is being weighted way higher than it should.

The problem with this model is it requires an understanding of statistics to determine what is ethical and just, and many doctors don't even know how to properly reason about false positives/negatives, let alone the lay public. Yet members of the public aren't willing to forgo their outrage on a subject that they cannot actually conceptualize.

In some sense we are getting the regulators we deserve, not the ones we need; the FDA is probably rationally and correctly evaluating the political risks, media attention, and public backlash around allowing this sort of case.
> She may have something more, she isnt honest with anyone including therapists so its certainly possible.

When folks would ask me about what disorder she has, I'd answer All of them. When she drifts into psychosis she'll have symptoms common to schizoaffective and maybe dissociative.

I genuinely can't come up with one symptom group that she never dips into.
This is generally known as "freestanding" in the C/C++ world -- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/freestanding
I think you should be expelled from society for promulgating yet another sensationalist, inflammatory, absurd Internet theory. Why not? Who gets to say who is expelled?

That's why we have human rights - people are free to do what they want, without giving a f- if you like it or not. You are free to do what you want without giving a f- if I like it or not. Yes, there are limits where we harm others.

Let's be honest: People just don't like other people who lack housing and look dirty; people are scared of what's different; the rest is mostly rationalization for oppression.
> "I always talk to every potential renter on the phone. I feel I can discern a lot about someone from a phone call." Meanwhile, younger folks generally despised having to talk to someone on the phone

This works when the things you are purchasing are uncomplicated, like a toaster or a streaming subscription. Younger folks will realize that big-ticket purchases are precisely the kind of things that you will want to have some kind of human involved on the other side for when things go wrong.
I have a nephew that's a cop. I've had friends that are cops.

They do a hard job, protecting the public, for little pay. Every day they leave their home not knowing if some nut-job is going to try to kill them that day.

This is the truest view I know of.
Check spelling on Linux with this cool script
>In a sentence, we need a public infrastructure in place to care for the mentally ill that currently are forced to live on the streets of our major cities.

Your feelings, whatever they are, that lead you to your opinions, political principles, or ethics, are inherently immune to being invalidated by others.

However, it makes me nervous to read comments such as yours, because my first reaction is that I can't tell what motivates you.

Oftentimes deep feelings come from personal connections.

If person A had a loved one who became homeless, and person B spent a week in a mental hospital, then those people might naturally have very different reactions to history or public policy debates.

Neither is right or wrong, but either might learn from the other.
At least with waterfall you get a sense of completion
Lab grown meat is not going to be easy to scale up. Keeping giant bioreactors free of contaminations is hard.
Crabeaters are killed by leopard seals, so an explosion of crabeaters means and increase in leopard seals. And more leopard seals means much less penguins.

We will need to remember this later, when the article claims that the poor penguins are vanishing by the greed of fishermen
I feel like you are probably taking a lot of things for granted. Clothes, food, equipment, vehicles, etc. Heck, even just the ability to choose to live in a hut in the woods.
https://broadview.org/geel-belgium-mental-health/
The automation heavy factory that they couldn’t get to work is an old story.
GPT and Google results are extremely fundamentally different. I can use various heuristics to evaluate how trustworthy a site I find on Google is, and if I need to I can do any amount of research on the site itself, who wrote it, etc (and if I can't, then that's useful information too).

In contrast, GPT has no indication of where it got anything from, but even that's giving too much credit. It's just stringing words together. Whether it's wrong or right, I have no way of knowing. If I'm reading a website and I know the first thing it says is for sure correct (or incorrect) then I can judge the rest of it appropriately. That's absolutely not the case for GPT, because the correctness of each sentence is relatively (entirely?) statistically independent.

That's only the beginning of it. There are so many more ways that doing actual research is superior; there's just no contest.

I will be horrified if most searches are mediated by LLMs in the future and I will do my best to never use such a search product. (I use Kagi myself and haven't had a problem yet.)
The answer is right here:

> Public pools are costly for cities to maintain and insure.

> Cities also have struggled to staff pools with lifeguards. High-school and college students have more summer job options and are less likely to pick up a job as a lifeguard over the summer than they once did, [Kevin Roth, vice president of research, evaluation and technology at the National Recreation and Park Association] said.

The article also doesn’t mention the rise of the “splash pad” as a cheaper and safer alternative for cooling off in the hot summer months.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_pad
I'm not the person for the job you mention, but I'm interested in building domain specific adaptations of LLMs (as a consultant). Doing something like this right now related to engineering design, happy to talk if anyone is interested.
They don’t care about tasteless as in it tastes like nothing or it tastes foul and has a terrible odor and texture?
Leave it to an HN commenter to suggest that a marginalized group face the most draconian, outlandish, unrealistic proposition as a viable solution.

Might as well propose that we eat the homeless and mentally ill. Then we can complete the Jonathan Swift proposal and go back to the real world.
It seems folks are going the other way.

Instead of eliminating passwords, they are added to something else to get 2FA.
What happened in 2013 for things to change?
Adtech is basically a tsunami against human impulses. You're blaming everyone who gets engulfed by a tsunami that they obviously should have known that when the ocean recedes, a wave is coming, so it's their fault they drown. Unlike an actual tsunami, adtech is not a physical inevitability, so quit it with the simping.
One interesting development is the collaboration between the Ada/spark communities and the Rust community. For example, Adacore is releasing a certified Rust compiler pretty soon [1].

I seem to recall they were using Spark for some of the core libraries then exposing all the goodness to the Rust code.

[1]https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro-rust
Why would it be illegal? It clearly is something he wants to do, and something his employer wants him to do.

In the US, various forms of age discrimination against people over 40 have become illegal over the years, including mandatory retirement. So the law is moving the other way.
If they could do these things, they wouldn't be banished.
I like that framing, thanks. And thinking about that vision, I think people all too often conflate being a cog in a corporate machine with being “a contributing member of society.” Not discrediting the notion of everyone pulling their weight in a community, but the frequency that I encounter that take in the mainstream always irks me
https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net is the funniest thing I've seen in a while
I've noticed the self-checkouts seem to have some safeties in place which the normal cashiered checkouts don't (because they assume the cashier is trained). For example, if I buy ten cans of the same soup, the cashier's system seems to let her scan one can ten times, whereas I can't do the same on the self-checkout, even the Walmart ones that don't care about the weight being placed. They have a "prevent double-scan" delay built in that is long enough I may as well grab the next can.
Well the netherlands is funded by the tax avoidance in the rest of EU, so I don't really see the problem.
At least their chatbots might be better than the ‘humans’ we spoke to a few years ago at Shopify.

Atrocious company, zero ethics then and zero ethics now it appears.

We moved to Wordpress/Woocommerce and have never regretted it for a second. Well, I lie… we regret ever trying wordpress.com (they are short on ethics too, such as entering and walking around your house uninvited… like the orders screen of our back-end!).

Long story short: these big e-shop hosters seem to share something in common - Twattery.
Hey thanks for this post. You sound very knowledgeable.

Couple things: Jake’s SCC is non-HPV. He did Keytruda, and it had no effect. He’s being treated at the Mayo clinic where most of the oncologists were ambivalent about chemotherapy. He’s beginning platinum based chemo on Monday as a hail mary to try to kill this stuff.

And yeah — all the doctors have been flummoxed by the aggression of this cancer. It was the same when he had sarcoma twenty years ago.
I have the opposite approach when parking my car in San Francisco, I just leave the doors unlocked so they don't smash my window. I don't mind if they want to rummage around and find nothing but some old taco bell napkins.
I dunno, pedestrians in the US legally have the right of way and most motorists and the occasional altruistic bicyclist recognize that and act accordingly-ish. I was in Amsterdam for the first time this year and quickly recognized that folks on wheels (especially cyclists) don’t give a shit about pedestrians. Otherwise I totally I agree with your first sentence. :-)
Target and Home Depot have some of the best, but that may be because the anti-theft is tuned all the way down because they're in high-trust areas. Neither seems to complain much about the weights on the scale.
Nice plug in the article, too. kinda "the few 'Made in USA' Craftsman(TM) socket sets on store shelves now are sure to be collector's items, go snap one up before the sell out! We did!"
I'm European and my limited experience with the US (part personal experience, part YouTube documentaries from the likes of Not Just Bikes[1], Strong Towns[2], Climate Town[3] and Adam Something[4]) does indeed suggest that zoning laws and gigantic parking lots have a negative effect on life satisfaction.

That said, you're not rallying anyone to the cause of improving that situation by calling the place a hellhole. Some empathy would go a long way to getting people to see the problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@strongtowns

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@AdamSomething
In Rust there's actually deliberately a core library, and so no_std actually makes sense - you get the core library, not the larger std which re-exports all of core plus a lot more. There's quite a lot of stuff in that core library, just nothing that requires an operating system or an allocator. So Rust's Mutex isn't available (how can we provide a mutual exclusion mechanism on the bare hardware?) but Rust's Option<(core::net::IpAddr, core::time::Duration) is available everywhere, it's either None or a pair of an IP (v4 or v6) address and a duration, perhaps some sort of address lease because maybe we're an embedded device which has, or gives out, address leases.

In C++ this makes less sense because their standard library does have a defined "freestanding" subset but it doesn't make a very coherent whole, it's roughly the bits that seemed obviously to just not need any other components to work. It changes from version to version. And this stx library replaces what you might think of as core ideas, like an optional type, so you don't keep the shared vocabulary benefit.

[Edited to correct "standalone" to "freestanding"]
Essentially Marmite or Vegemite... Certainly an acquired taste. And somewhat comparable to Bovril, but not something to replace meat...
> What this person wants to bring back is the ability to lock people up and keep people locked up there with little recourse.

Yes. This is what we need; the fact is, many mentally ill individuals need help, but are not capable of realizing that they need help, and will refuse any attempt to offer it. Without the power to detain such an individual against their will, that person will remain on the streets, which is a worse outcome for both that person and also everyone else.
That's not interesting, it is the utterly predictable result of not making anything. Of course the only ones getting better at it and making machines for it are those doing the manufacturing.
Err, what exactly were you expecting, their telephone numbers? You got figures and probabilities in the conclusion and I can't see what else you could reasonably hope for.
For me (solo dev, doing both a project in an unfamiliar framework and a project in on an unfamiliar new microcontroller), GPT-4 has been a lifesaver.

Rather than spending potentially hours to sift through documentation or ask around on the forums to find the magic incantation I need, ChatGPT just spits it out instantly and I can move on to solving actual problems.

That said, in a team environment with experienced devs, it would probably be better for me to just ask someone more experienced. Learn faster and more in-depth.

Also worth pointing out that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are completely different beasts. If you were getting the devs to use 3.5, you will get bad results no matter who is using it.
Americans don't live evenly spread out of their country. There are a lot of very dense parts along the cost, and even in the interior, that are just as dense and sometimes even denser than anything in Netherland.

There's plenty of opportunity in the US to invest in other forms of transportation. The only thing that's missing is the political will, and that's because US politics has been bought by the oil industry, which benefits from inefficient transportation.
We need City Builder Netherlands.
The sequel, from what it seems like, is focused on zoning and growth via land values, and does feature some kind of trading mechanic, though I guess the real proof is when it comes out.

The question that is hard to balance in sims like this is how do you make something like this a fun game. it's a pretty tricky balance.
You perfectly describe my sentiment every time I try playing CS. No matter how gorgeous it looks at some point it just strikes as hollow and disengaging.
My local Walmart often has a line waiting for the ocean of self-checkouts whilst they have two or three humanned checkouts empty.

I prefer the human ones because they have the bag carousel which is faster.
It seems like those preteens from the 90s grew up into people getting high on their own supply. I'm not even sure why Floridians are trying to ban Arthur's Birthday from school libraries but here we are.
yeah bummed that skylines 2 won’t have cycling at launch… are there any good road + pedestrian + cyclist simulators?
Become too busy for it.
Relevant (and entertaining) “In the Pipeline” article.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/there-s-toxicity-a...
> She then spent six months looking at pixalated maps and essentially having pareidolia. None of her claims about the maps made any sense but she argues they prove she is right and "Since in 1900 when this was built they forgot to add a line here so we own all of our town". She only has made that claim a few times and I think understands others find it odd, but I'm pretty sure she believes it.

You might win here. Mine didn't have this kind of focus. Early on, maybe but her symptoms were much less pronounced in her 20s. In her 30s, psychosis started showing up along with the rest and with that came some persistent loopiness - which was a bit of a blessing.
> A person does not belong to society or to the government.

Then.....

> In communist governments for example, people are subjucts of the state and the state assumes authority even over what people belief.

That is a false dichotomy.

Who does a person belong too?

We are nothing without our communities. Naked apes at the mercy of fate.

It is our communities that make us able to survive. Our families, neighbors, friends, foes, we are all in it together. Bonds of love and mutual obligation

Supporting each other, meeting the needs of others and having our needs met does not mean we live in North Korea

Mutual aid is not the end of individual liberty. It is the engine that makes it possible
I split the difference and order for pickup - the local store holds them in the proper equipment until I arrive (at least at Walmart).

The convenience store, however, puts milk on a shelf so you better be there when they say it's ready (ordering when I leave from home works perfectly, and they throw free Doritos in for some reason).
The advantage of having two monitors is that I can look at two things at the same time.

I have my main monitor centered and my second off to the side. My browser mostly lives on my second monitor while my IDE lives on my main. I spend a large majority of my time looking at my center monitor, as I put my IDE there and also move my browser there when I need to look at it for any extended period of time.
Free upside down cake! Sounds like a winner.

(I only trust grocery delivery for things in impervious packaging or impossible to screw up).
What is the benefit of outsourcing that to a private company that pays its workers much less in salary and a benefits? The money spent on maintenance is roughy the same but now the jobs for the workers are less desirable less well paid. The money now goes to the business owner. All the business owner is doing to squeezing money out of the workers to enrich themselves. There is no benefit to society in doing this. Indeed it is a loss for the community.

Are you under the impression that government contracts for vehicle maintenance are immune to becoming sinecures for the politically connected? Only mechanics are subject to this possibility?
This is part 2 of a series of 7 articles. Navigation between the articles isn't super clear, so here's an index:

1. "M-series chips are different" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/03/making-the-most-of-apple...

2. "Core capabilities" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/05/making-the-most-of-apple... (this one)

3. "Controls" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/13/making-the-most-of-apple...

4. "Frequency" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/17/making-the-most-of-apple...

5. "User control" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/20/making-the-most-of-apple...

6. "Empowering users" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/24/making-the-most-of-apple...

7. "Virtualisation and core use" https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/27/making-the-most-of-apple...
> by low-cost Chinese labour.

Why are Chinese willing to do labor for low-cost while Americans are "unwilling/uninterested" in such labor?
Kudos for the author for raising this. I'd add one more thing to consider.

No Touch Typing.

Despite my many decades in IT I never learned to "properly" touch type. I type at the typical 40 wpm looking at the keyboard and moving my forearms and hands very frequently. However, recently I tried to learn touch typing. I set my chair/monitor/keyboard as recommended and I commenced some typing exercises with my fingers planted on the home row.

After an hour of this I felt my wrists are definitely going to give up if I carry on (mainly due to hands being held in this cramped position for a long time instead of random movements). Classic keyboards force you into a very unnatural angle where forearms point towards the centre and wrists are bent outwards to make both hands parallel. A split keyboard can probably resolve this. But entering into the realm of non standard keyboards has certain disadvantages (lack of portability). Then there is a slippery slope of.. If I'm contemplating a split keyboard why not go further into curved keyboards, key rows that are not offset and so on... It all becomes a long and expensive process of buying/building lots of "weird" keyboards. All of it could be avoided, just by giving up on touch typing.

Unless anyone has a better idea?
>In a sentence, we need a public infrastructure in place to care for the mentally ill that currently are forced to live on the streets of our major cities.

Maybe that's putting the cart before the horse?

How about what is needed is changing the conditions in society, workplace, and culture, so that fewer people end up "mentally ill", and those that are environmentally or genetically mentally ill do not get broken and marginalized and have their conditions gravely worsen, as do their "solutions" (from isolation, homelessness and living on the margins, to drug abuse, murders, or even mass shootings)?

(Wow, downvotes. Fixing the cause as opposed to a band-aid is controversial. Well, I guess you get the society you deserve).
Say all the capital disappears one day. It's magic. Poof, gone. What can you do that a human couldn't do in 2000BC? The answer you've given is sit around and discuss philosophy. Few people do that willingly.

All the knowledge is certainly important, but the practical reason for that is it is all knowledge of what type of capital we need, how to produce it and how to organise ourselves to produce it. Give people democracy, and note that they vote in capitalism.

Also, I note with a certain pedantry that you can't transfer complex knowledge without capital. A trivial amount of capital, but we still rely on recording the information on somewhere. In this information age the amount of capital used to record data has actually become quite substantial so the point is less pedantic than it once was.
You're fighting the wrong battle. The real galaxy brain move is to use a self-checkout and fuck up horribly so they have to send the staffer over anyway, and take ten times as long.

Then it appears on the balance sheet as a negative.