skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I think in general. It's a significant case of death.

My undergrad (supposedly) will not graduate you unless you pass a swim test, have a waiver, or take a swim class.

ADDED: Something I've observed in the UK is rescue lifebuoys along rivers. Not saying it's a bad idea at all but never seen in the US.
Most of mine do too so I don’t use them.

Either I use a short, easy to type password for my banking so I can log in all the time, or I use a long one and use a password manager to fill it for me and we’re basically back to “use the phone’s biometric authentication” with extra steps.

There’s already a strong, secure option for authenticating the user on a mobile device… I wish everyone would use it instead of trying to use the crap option we’re using elsewhere, especially since passwords are a pain on a tiny touchscreen keyboard.
It's incredibly high quality and heaps safer than torrents. I can't imagine why you wouldn't.
Mentally able =/= intellectually sophisticated to parse the legalese in the offer
Not a single sample conversion in the readme. Lame.
Is there anything this can do and XMPP with OMEMO can't?
Replying to this because I can't edit the comment anymore.

I overestimated the tax by a lot, I misread the chart and was adding the "Cuota" (sum of previous row taxes) from 1 row below what I should have.

They only pay 3,108.51 on the first 668,499.75. This puts the total tax at about half of my estimate, so only a ~0.35% drag on their 2M portfolio.

It's a very progressive tax, basically goes up 10X for really rich folks (>10M they take 3.5% of total wealth).
How did this “improve” the “per-human output” of those who lost their jobs?
What hypothetical evidence would cause you to change your mind about allowing American doctors to prescribe drugs approved by the EU?
"Nothing left" isn't right. There are memorials, monuments, and several notable absences. Emmy Noether died in America, after all.
It's conceivable that the Google index has a copy of SO
Boole figured out Boolean Algebra, but nobody paid attention until Claude Shannon realized we could use Boolean Algebra to design digital circuits. In his masters thesis.

Very few masters theses have changed the world, but Claude Shannon's was one of them.
It seems like a fundamental error to believe that money itself has value, but many people make this error all the time, as you just have.

Just because cash exists somewhere as numbers in a system, it doesn't mean those numbers can jump out of the system and suddenly manifest as young, capable humans who can help retires. Plus, as others have pointed out, 250 billion it isn't even a drop in the bucket.

If there is 2 trillion dollars of profit held as cash by companies, that doesn't mean they are holding back 2 trillion dollars worth of production. It means they're holding a claim on the purchasing power of 2 trillion dollars VS the total of all worldwide cash value, say 2% as an example.

If the 2 trillion is taken out of the bank and spent, say on social services, it just dilutes the current purchasing power of the remaining cash value. It does not create 2 trillion dollars worth of value from nowhere. I return to my opening claim, that money itself doesn't have value.

If anything, money could be described as, "A claim on a certain percentage of the worlds output at any given moment, limited by locale." That percentage claim is wildly unstable and changes as money is created/destroyed.
Their as-of-right zoning limits exceed your comfort level already, which makes it difficult to see why it matters if they get an additional 6 floors worth of housing.
It’s a blog post, it will be judged by its content. It does feel like at a minimum it was heavily edited with an AI assistant, verbose and elegant but light on specifics. And if the goal is to get people hooked on how to implement adaptive rate limiting (and maybe adopt fluxninja) it doesn’t seem to be hitting the right note.
I've found no research that indicates static stretching does anything except increase your tolerance for static stretching, anyway. No reduction in injury, no increase in range of motion, no functional benefits. Do it if it feels good, otherwise don't feel obligated.
I think regular sports involving use of muscles really helps with this. Either weight lifting, with an emphasis on squats and deadlifts, bouldering, certain forms of yoga, calisthetics etc. Keeping your overall muscles strong supports the rest of your body throughout the day while you work.
AI will just usher the next industrial revolution of the modern era.

How will it do that? So far the only things being automated are Q&A and image generation.
> a bunch of idiotic boomers who were way too butthurt over ...

This describes just about all current political events, so take your pick of any of them - it's gonna be dumb.
Any such post-AI jobs are predicated on there being a difference between AI and humans in favor of the latter.

I presume, you imagine large parts of the population will be happy working in the sex industry or similar?

People's irrational assumption, the past could always be linearly extrapolated into the future is remarkably out of place when it comes to the epitome of non-linearity, intelligent consciousness.
Sure, and their Federal labs are well-respected too:

https://ptb.de/

My post was about universities, not every research position available in the country.
No, that does not set the right incentives. You have completely written off the harm of dangerous or deadly drugs.

The HepC drug Sovaldi brought in around $50B-100B in sales, but probably costs less than $50 to administer. Under your scheme it would make economic sense for a company to kill 1,000,000,000 people testing variants until they chance upon the right one because they incur no costs for administering deadly experiments.

The problem with your scheme is that human lives are valuable. A unsafe drug that causes harm or death is immensely destructive. If we want to be completely reductive, the actuarial value of a human life is around $10,000,000. A unsafe drug could kill the person resulting in a $10M loss to society. Therefore, the company should be required to escrow $10M per person until the treatment is done, paid out proportionally to any potential death or harm in excess of the gold standard treatment. Only then would the incentives be reasonably aligned.

This is obviously a very reductive treatment, but it helps illustrate the problems with unrestricted testing.
Doing pretty well in Phoenix. For as long as the AC keeps up!
here’s few more:
- you never have to buy stamps. just put address where you want letter to be sent in the sender area of the envelope and address it to whomever and drop it in the mailbox without postage. post office will return mail without postage to sender which is exactly where you want letter to go

any more? ;)
Do you mind highlighting languages that have avoided making similar decisions?
This is a similar hack to what AMD does with their new 3D-series processors with two CCDs (or clusters following this article's terminology). One of them has a higher clock count but the other one has much more L3 cache. Since their target is gamers (at least at the consumer level chips), they basically ship a driver which detects when you launch a game and "parks" the low-cache CCD from being assigned tasks which effectively dispatches your processes to the high-cache ccd.
Ever been to Amsterdam? It is extremely busy. Getting rid of cruise ships will do little to affect that.
Why do you think that? To the extent that a correlation exists between the level of social benefits offered by a country and the amount of horrors committed by its government, I would expect it to go the opposite direction (i.e. brutal dictators are more likely to hoard resources than share them freely). I have heard some attempts to substantively make the argument that socialized economies lead to brutality before, but every one I have seen has relied on a pretty blatant sleight of hand where laissez-faire economics is conflated with democracy. If you're aware of an analysis that does an apples to apples comparison and comes to that conclusion, that would be very interesting.
Exactly that! Thank you :)
Similar question actually: If I fill my private notebook with hateful tirades against Johm Oliver, and someone finds my notebook and publishes the content online, am I liable for slander or insult?
Why just convert tables when you can convert whole rental_statements? When you can verify whether your conversion is correct by reconciling inputs and outputs? When the data gets inserted directly into the financial database? And that data can be 'SELECT'ed later into a spreadsheet whenever you so desire.

My comment is not quite so facetious as it might appear. I feel your price:effect ratio is a bit too high. Especially if you want to have a subscription model. Most people have instances of one-off requirements for an app like yours. Those instances may not occur regularly enough to justify a monthly subscription. I wrote my app above purely for our internal use, but that could be rewritten by you and be used by many small-business landlords out there every month.
You can't set a process's processor affinity (aka which core(s) the process will execute on)?
There is absolutely no guarantee that what worked for the industrial revolution will be repeated for the AI revolution. None. At. All. It might be. But there are a ton of ways in which this could result in some very serious problems for which we currently do not have any solutions. Making the assumption that because something worked the last time it will work this time as well given the same circumstances is simply wrong. Even if - and that is a pretty big if - the circumstances around such revolution would be identical there are many ways in which it could have played out differently. The outcome of this is at this point in time unknowable, so you can't make any claims about what it will be like if and when it happens.

Maybe you're right. But consider the possibility that you are wrong and what the various bad outcomes could be and maybe then you'll at least make some kind of qualification to that statement.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_determinism

Also note that the industrial revolution was a turning point and not necessarily a good one for everybody that was alive back then, and that there are plenty of bad effects from it into today.
Why do we have to tell other people how to work? Why can we not just empower people to work however they'll be most productive?
Why is that surprising? Isn't a typical engine for games?
Lots of people, also on HN, now follow climate friendly diets. In reality it is the meat eaters, not vegans, who are very loud and vocal about their diet.

But I agree we need much stronger regulation.
There are some who claim that people will demand a way to set their own passwords. This has not been my experience. At work, we have been setting random secure passwords for e-mail and web site customers for more than 10 years (the practice was in place before I started, so I can’t give an exact time). Very occasionally, a customer asks to change a password and give them a new one, which we gladly do.
AI can answer questions cheaper, but can it address real problems?

I worked at Shopify when it was much smaller, it was fairly common for support staff to reach out with questions for the product team which drive fixing bugs or improving features.

How can the AI chatbot fill that role? It’s a gap that offshoring/disintegrating support creates.
> Category B - approved by some other established regulatory body (EU). Comes with all the warnings, doctors can write it off-label, insurance companies may not cover it but doctors can ask for a variance

We can already prescribe off-label if the FDA has approved it for at least 1 indication, and it mostly gets reimbursed.

> Category C - approved by some non-OECD body. Insurance companies under no obligation to cover

There's very little that's approved by a non-US body and approved by the EU or non-OECD body that warrants clinical use, and if it is it gets reviewed quickly. The US is the largest market for manufacturers so they almost always start here.

> Category D - experimental, this is stuff maybe still only in animal models, but pharmacies can still order and dispense it

Pharmacists and physicians are ethically bound to prescribe to the best of their ability and avoid harm, by prescribing something only validated in animal models it means we are not prescribing/dispensing something validated in humans and therefore not meeting or exceeding the standard of care.

This sounds like a recipe for killing people.

> The latter category also opens the door for custom therapies (gene/mRNA) that you basically can't test the active pharmaceutical ingredient for efficacy on.

Huh? There are many ongoing gene-directed and mRNA studies being tested.
I guess I'm against the trend since I'm a gen z who also vastly prefers a phone call to online. Computer systems IME are riddled with dark patterns, bugs, ads, and terrible UIs that make it nearly impossible to figure out where to go to solve my problem. Could you give an example of "transactions happening easily and reliably through a computer system"?
I was among that folks, thank you!
Architecture looks identical to XMPP, just different tech stack.
Well, enjoyment or happiness is tricky to measure because happiness = reality - expectation. So people in the 1820s might've been "happy" enough because they simply didn't know a better life like today's was a possibility. There's no reason to think they were happier than today's population though. And certainly, you as someone who experienced today's conveniences will not be happy long term if all those were taken away suddenly.
Refrigerators. Just imagine your life without a refrigerator. If you go to 1820 you will have no refrigerator. From https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/worldwide-ave... , now the 80% of the homes in the world have a refrigerator.

[And 50% have a washing machine. Mine broke a few months and it was a big mess until we got a new one.]
the master "release valve" is important, but it's an early escape rather than a parallel non-prof phd path.

the non-prof path isn't for people that are 'bad at research', its for people that want to do research outside of universities. so their theses wouldn't be crafted around"what will get grants/be publishable" but instead focus on "what would an R&D department in my field find interesting/valuable".
The industrial revolution was also a period of incredible misery for a significant portion of the population. Without legal protection, and a strong social/political system, whole segments of the population were subject to poverty and filth.

The technological breakthroughs were great and we reap their benefits everyday. But, there was a lot more than simple technological revolution to get to the point where the majority of the population were no longer subject to immiseration at the behest of profit. There were a lot of hard legal and political arguments that had to end up on the side of labour to also give us the life of relative leisure we have now.
This is a gross misclassification, and both talent and motivation are not geographically constrained in any way. I dont see how you can justify an assertion like that.
Frequency distribution I think - normal, not uniform.
Sure, there's plenty of positives that came out of it, but lets not forget the downsides and the, quite literally, bloody struggles people had to go through to arrive where we are today.

Working conditions were for quite a long time absolutely horrendous. Child labour went from helping your parents on the farm to working in dangerous factories for 12 hour shifts.

Massive amounts of pollution, which we are seeing the effects of today, and that doesn't only include CO2 emissions.

Ideally, AI would help humanity work less or achieve more with less effort, but we both know that's not how corporations function. When there is more profit to be made, or money to be saved, they will.

AI will cost people jobs. Funnily enough, its trade jobs that are probably the safest from all these changes.
I had all sorts of random pains throughout my back/arms. After I started climbing almost everything disappeared. Being forced to stretch your hands above your body a few days a week is probably healthy for a programmer.
Barbarism usually wins. It always has so far.
The intellectual property lobby doesn't have much sway outside of countries with significant cultural exports, software businesses, and/or patent-protected manufacturing. That's basically the Anglosphere, richer parts of Europe, South Korea, and Japan. If countries outside this group can grow prosperous faster by pirating intellectual property than by continuing to play by WTO rules, they will.

If the only thing standing between poor countries and a world of cheap AI abundance is law, respect for those laws won't last. Why should e.g. India play by the normal rules of trade if foreign companies have developed do-everything robots that they want to license on a restrictive basis? India can obtain a few do-everything robots by means of normal trade, jailbreak or reverse engineer them, then duplicate do-everything robots domestically while ignoring the impotent griping of the original company and its government. There's no big IP lobby inside of India itself and it's really hard to see what "carrot" other countries could offer for compliance that tops the prize of having unlimited do-everything robots.
A government's primary purpose is to act on behalf of its constituents, and if these daytrippers are substantially detrimental to Amsterdam's livability, they should be discouraged from going there.

Or, to put it in more financial terms, the cost of compensating for the negative effects of these tourists might be much higher than the tax revenue they bring in.
I am reminded of an argument from [1] that the Industrial Revolution completely wiped out a class of workers - but they were horses - and that class of workers largely became cannon fodder in WW1. So it seems reasonable to speculate that the same fate could await some amount of human workers.

1. https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691121354/
Does that mean jobs or filling a captcha to get a food stamp?

I don’t see how that provides any employment.
The vast majority of COTUS has at least an undergrad, with more than a few having Ivy League credentials or JDs, making them more educated than 70% of the people in the country from some of the highest tier law schools in the country. I know HN has a bias toward SV, and therefore against non-STEMlords, lawyers, and MBAs, but that’s not “minimally-educated”.

Also, it’s probably not donors when the majority of their base is still skeptical of climate science: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/for-earth...
I’ll bet one hundred dollars on barbarism. Seems like a sure thing.
> The mean just isn't a useful metric for human emancipation.

For those at the top of the foodchain it is a very useful metric: it allows them to sleep at night.
cd to the dir of the binary first
I recall a big reason for that was because bigger ships like cruise liners damage and destroy the seabed which worsens Venice's flooding problems.
Clinical neurotechnology meets artificial intelligence [pdf]
and my post was that universities may have different tasks.
One of the problems of Jira is that it allows you to make any workflow for its issues.

Bugzilla had a "this is how it's done, and that it is" attitude to bug tracking workflow - it wasn't configureable. As such, it couldn't be perverted into a dozen gates with different approvals needed for each gated step.

It's really easy to copy Bugzilla's structure into Jira. It is very difficult to keep management from changing it into something else in Jira.
My experiments with 3.5 say that it does the easy 80% solution that takes 20% of my time.

The advantage, that actually is a game changer[0], is that it can do languages I can't. I'm an iOS dev, I've technically been paid to write JavaScript at various points, but the best of that was about 20 years ago and just before jQuery got popular.

ChatGPT lets me turn my ideas for JavaScript projects into things that almost work and are usually close enough for me to fix — turning me from an iOS dev into a JS project manager.

Likewise Stable Diffusion: I've done some game artwork when I tried self employed for a bit, SD can act like a mostly amazing artist that does a few bits (mostly hands) like it was temporarily high on LSD, and I can just highlight those messed up regions and say "do again five times", and the actual images get to me faster than a real human would notice a message on slack or email or whatever, let alone be able to actually attempt a fix.

As for music… I actually made a procedural music generator back then (for the games while self-employed), and while neither the music nor the generator is going to win any awards, the output was sufficient for the games it went with. All the various new music AI are way better than what I did.

[0] and now I realise the cliché; ugh
they had help from allies, but they still won those wars and not lost.
I mean, the experimental drugs are already provided free of charge to the group participating in the study. I have no idea how it would change the economics if the ones given under any kind of "right to try" were also required to be free.

As of now, "right to try" drugs are supplied by the manufacturer under whatever terms they want at their discretion.
> The only difference between 2023 AD and 2023 BC humans is the vast accumulations of capital we have in the modern world.

Lol whut? Unless you expand the definition of capital to include everything except labour, that’s wrong. Ideas and information are not capital, except maybe for brief periods of time while they are protected by legal systems to make them to act as capital. The periodic table of elements is not capital. It’s information. Democracy is not capital, it’s an idea.
Thankfully, outside of the US and a few neighbours nobody took up ATSC.
I've spent the best years of my life living in the woods and in wall-less huts w/ no water, plumbing or electricity. Imho our modern conveniences don't make life any richer, and in many cases take away the pleasure of things we take for granted. If I had medical problems I would probably feel differently.
No I prefer to use a normal user interface.
Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated
I mean, it jumped out me because ginger and blonde are both the two rarest hair colors and the ones more or less exclusive to people of European descent, but I also don't really want to waste energy debating someone who thinks it's "clownish" to note someone's race and gender in tandem, because we're clearly never gonna see eye-to-eye on this.

So yeah, I guess it was the most important thing.
As one of these tourists, who arrived back today form a European cruise, am I struggling to understand the issue (too close to my heart?).

We do need more regulation to force ship to use better fuel and more on-shore energy. More like France to ban short air trips.

By the way - I visit a museum at many places. Not sure what is meant by consuming the city. If you arrive by boat, you must use public transport (or good old feet) to get around. I understand that it is a a surge in demand, but I am putting money in to the local economy. I do not use international chain (except Ikea in Sweden - meat balls). Local worker in local shops.

Rotterdam is a nicer city to visit by cruise ship that Amsterdam. Apart from the Van Gogh museum.
To be fair, I recall him criticising the capitalist system too for not rewarding the scientists properly. He is not a simple person.
What did they have you don't?
Additionaly, medicine companies aren't going to waste money trying stuff they know is likely to fail (like the example "radium asbestos")