skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People should get paid for their commute. With compensation for gas and wear and tear on the car.

Support for return to the office would vaporize instantly.

Less pollution, less traffic, less wear on the roads, lives saved and injuries avoided.

You want people to come into the office? Pay for the privilege.
Most "side effects" of psychedelics occur in the short-term, while under the influence of the substance. I will focus on LSD, as it's the substance I am most familiar with. The side effects are mostly what people call the "body load". Most notably there is vasoconstriction, increased body temperature, increased blood pressure and heart rate, and of course, the possibility of a bad trip or triggering latent schizophrenia/psychosis or bipolar disorder in those with a predisposition.

Edit: There are also interactions with certain medications that can result in things like seizures, and very rarely people report "flashbacks" or HPPD.

Overall, in my extensive experimentation both with traditional psychiatric medications and with LSD... I think the side effects of the substance are overstated. I have far worse reactions to psychiatric medication. (Edit: your mileage may vary of course, different people will react differently to substance, illicit or otherwise - I don't mean to downplay the negative experiences that DO occur with psychedelic usage)
Here is how to build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) chatbot using the new Llama 2 model:

• Replicate for the endpoint to llama13b-v2-chat
• LlamaIndex for the LLM framework and query engine
• Weaviate for the vector store
So what OP is missing is the central limit theorem[1]. According to which any sum diatribution of independently-identically-distributed random variables in the limit becomes gaussian distributed.

So taking it apart, given some restrictions, any sum of randomly distributed data is gaussian distributed.

If you take an average of some value. E.g. sea ice extent at fixed date x, e.g. January 1st every year, you have a sum distribution.

So you're not talking about the random distribution of any date, but of the random distribution of the average value. Only this has the Gaussian distribution.

Now there are some restrictions IID - independently identically distributed. This is the part the quants got wrong. Identical distribution is usually not the issue, we can, for a certain timespan, assume that the random distribution stays roughly the same.

But independent was the issue. If one event is correlated with the next, the central limit theorem may hold for a bit, but if the correlation is, too extreme will break down, like in the quant models of yore.

Their estimates for the housing market risk were ok as long as the credit defaults were not highly correlated, but as soon as the crisis started some vicious cycles formed between the foreclosures and tumbling house prices causing more foreclosures.

The models broke down.

Back to the ice sheats, if we assume the melting of the ice sheats won't increase (or decrease) the melting of the ice sheats we're good. I don't know about causative mechanisms here, but it could be that the models do break down in these times of extreme change.

That doesn't mean that the extreme change is nothing to worry about, since only by being extreme might it break the models.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
How does AirTag calculate the relative position from an iPhone? (2021)
> Compensation isn't proportional to the value you produce.

Contrast that with product/service pricing where the business advice is to capture as big a slice of the end value produced as possible.

Compensation is proportional to the value produced, and is also constrained by factors like, how close the position is to the income stream, if the dept you're working for is considered a cost or profit center. But basically different companies, industries, and situations have different typical proportional factors.
MLS is currently being adopted by Google Messages for RCS (https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-to...)

(I'm a Google employee, but don't work on this, not speaking for the company, etc etc etc)
"The mainstream media and governments lie and make mistakes, so I am going to mindlessly believe everything this random asshole on YouTube says instead!"
Ok that makes a lot of sense.

Why do they call it reinforcement learning then? Is it not traditional RE such as Q learning?
Why would they remove that if you removed imperial usage?
At this point we can’t even manage 0.1C, how are we going to get 5C?
> It's particularly funny

Agreed. It's especially ironic because Red Hat itself was so precious about reading in an incompatibility re the ZFS-Linux combination, and now it's parsing the words of the GPL so closely.

> There's a pretty clear argument to be made that RHEL's actions in ending business relationships with any customers would be a restriction stemming from their having exercised their right.

Disagree, here, though. An additional restriction on the exercise of rights, might be, "This/your license terminates should you distribute the source packages distributed to you." Future updates and support are not guaranteed in the world of the GPL, are not even mentioned, and, your rights are not restricted, when I refuse to do business with you. You still have a license to the software you received. And you can go do business with SUSE or someone else!
Sometimes I'm overly relying on hn's ability catching dupes it seems.
Haven't you seen the large housing developments in the U.S., all single family homes, hundreds of them, under an HOA, with no other types of housing nor any kind of businesses allowed in the HOA controlled development? [0] [1]

I've seen these large developer single-family home neighborhoods all over the south - Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston, Florida, and Phoenix for example. As these cities grew they allowed these large national developers to clear cut hundreds of acres on the outskirts of town and build single family homes as quickly as they could. Traffic and commutes are really tough - everyone in these neighborhoods has to drive everywhere, including kids.

Contrast that with older neighborhoods in these same cities, and neighborhoods in older cities in the northeast, which have a lot of mixed use development on bigger streets [2], surrounded by side streets with duplexes and small apartment buildings [3] in addition to single family housing [4].

> I can't identify any differences between your description of Japan and anywhere I've been in the US.

Most places in the U.S. do not allow someone to convert their single family house into a duplex or a triplex, nor allow them to open a barber shop or a cafe or other small business in a portion of their house. That's a significant difference and completely changes the character of the neighborhoods.

> I haven't ever been to CA though.

California is interesting. They've had a problem with people leaving the state due to high housing costs. They are making changes to zoning to increase the supply of housing, allowing single family homes to be converted to triplexes in many places. Cities in other places with the same problem have made or are considering similar changes.

[0] https://www.planetizen.com/definition/single-family-zoning

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tract-housing-with-cul-d...

[2] https://www.completecommunitiesde.org/planning/landuse/mixed...

[3] https://www.cubesmart.com/blog/city-guides/chicago/chicago-m...

[4] https://greatruns.com/pittsburgh-shadyside-and-squirrel-hill...
This thing is going to get exploited to oblivion. They already have a culture to counter feedback. Good luck interfacing with security researchers.
I wish people who wrote these things would give a bit more context. Seems like the great temptation when writing about programming is to assume that your kind of work is the only kind of work any programmer ever does.

I write tools that help me test things. There are a lot of people like me who don’t work on big systems or write production code. Our priorities are different.

I need to duck tape a thing to another thing quickly. I happily accrue tech debt because getting my testing done today (not regression testing, but primary testing) is paramount. Later I will declare bankruptcy (abandon the code).

I work alone, mostly.

The dynamics change when I work with other guys, or when my software has to serve as a persistent framework into the future.

I’m just saying there are a lot of programmers like me. We are also interested in good craftsmanship— but we operate in a “battlefield” context, not a drawing room context.
“Light my strawman on fire for me.”

Grandpa’s definitions do not need to be our definitions.

People are playing some banal brinksmanship game “oooh that fall afoul of some vague mutable truth we’ve been conditioned to believe is immutable; get im fellas!”

What are you all going to do to STOP the problems? Debating the diagnosis is allowing it to spread. Only real change in agency will stop it and no one seems into that.

So why sit here thinking answering your questions is useful?
> That's fair, honestly gives you an advantage that you enjoy it.

I probably wouldn't if it were any longer, TBH. 30 minutes one-way is more-or-less my limit.

It's also terrible for the environment. IDK, I have mixed feelings about the whole thing, but I do know that I need it to reset my brain before work.

> My secret to getting away (its not forced though, lol) is a mini sauna.

That's awesome! How mini are we talking? I've seen some tiny ones!
Personally, having been led on wild goose chases by the medical system before in life led me to also be wary of any magic solution with no long term testing.
Pretty much everything has side effects - even the most safe drug or supplement has tradeoffs. For example, taking PPIs which are very safe will cause malabsorption of B12 over time leading to various health issues.
The net energy of the system will remain the same, just distributed somewhere else.
Oh there's plenty of dubious shit being sold as LSD. One of the most common has been 25I-NBOMe, which has the unfortunate ability to be lethal at a dose of a couple blotters(a fairly common dose for LSD).
Someone wrote about this in a previous discussion. The grift is to bilk you until you realize the charade. Even one American paycheck is golden in the developing world.
>Plenty of people also like the touchscreens or seemingly superflous features

There was a recent story about how people do not like the touchscreens and tech in their cars.

https://www.theverge.com/23801545/car-infotainment-customer-...

Personally I'm not a fan of most of the recent car tech, it's often trying too hard and not making things any easier for people.
> As soon as one person goes remote, the in-person experience is significantly degraded for everyone else.

Does the office fall apart when someone goes on vacation or is sick? If not, why then would one or two days away from the office have such a big impact?
Where do you see a picture of the scanner, I don't see any photos on the submitted link?
Aye, just gotta rip off the bandaid and make sure you're firm with the rules. My eldest boy has terrible separation anxiety and acted as though I had died for the first week or so, but adjustments were made and it's been relatively smooth sailing since.

I did acquiesce and allow interruptions when the door is open, for times I'm checking email or other administrative tasks. That same son has high-functioning autism so I do find myself bringing him in to calm him down on occasion.

I've found my wife is the one who refuses to follow these guidelines most often, lol.
You have a lot of faith in the New York Times to know what’s important.
Only if you agree that de Santis is, e.g., an ultra-nationalist. And if you do agree that all or most of those points apply to de Santis, then it's hard to see why you'd not agree that he's far right. I mean, who would be far right in that case? Only ultra-ultra-nationalists who are more-than-just-radically conservative?

To be clear, I'm not expressing an opinion here as to whether de Santis is far right. I'm saying that anyone who disagrees that he is will probably also disagree that at least one component of Wikipedia's definition applies to him.
Both do backpropagation, the difference is what you are backpropagating towards.

Think of it this way - there are an equal number of rude and polite comments online (actually probably way more rude ones).

If a model is trained on that data, how do you get it to only respond politely?

You could filter out the rude comments, but that's expensive and those rude comments may still have other helpful patterns that tech your model other stuff.

Alternatively, you could pre-train on the rude comments, but then after pre-training is done, you hire a ton of people in a low cost geo and ask them 'do you prefer comment 1 (a polite output of the pre-trained model) or comment 2 (a rude output).'

The model then 'learns' that comment 1 is better because it gets more votes, and adjusts parameter's (through backpropagation) to make comment 1 instead of comment 2

In practice, you can't control what the model outputs, so you just ask it to give you it's top N responses and the humans rank all of them, hoping you get a decent mix of rude and polite.
I use Mint directly. Maybe I made the wrong choice. Maybe I didn't. I tried to use Finch. Our application issues webhook updates from various devices to arbitrarily run time configured endpoints. And the devices come and go at run time as well. So I found the connection pooling of Finch just fought me and frequently produced errors I didn't understand.

Using Mint was definitely "more work" to handle all of the streamed updates of the the response, but in the end, it has worked really well for me. The documentation for Mint is really good IMO.
> That's very interesting. My experience has been the opposite, that people who are pro-remote are intense about it, that they often deny there being any benefits to working in an office and get angry and dismissive toward anyone who says they want to work in-person.

There is a difference between arguing that remote work is better and insisting everyone work remotely. I've seen lots of people say remote work should be an option. I have yet to see a single person, on Hacker News or elsewhere, insist that everyone be required to work remotely. On the opposite side of the argument, I've seen plenty of people argue that in-person work should be required for everyone on the other hand.
That makes me even more sceptical. In recent years confirmed discovery of superconducting materials have gone from working at best up to ~100K below room temperature to at best a few 10s of K below. To jump to a material that claims to exhibit superconductivity as far as >100K above room temperature, at ambient pressure too, is an extraordinary claim and so needs to be presented with extraordinary evidence.
I think the idea of measuring productivity by hours spent is absurd.

I manage my teams by tasks accomplished. I really don't care if they were able to complete it in 2 hours and take the rest of the day off.

I simply acknowledge formally what happens in practice anyway. The average "8 hour workday" only contains about three productive hours [1].

For me, it varies wildly. Some days, I'll get in "the zone" and 12 hours / and thousands of lines of code will fly by. Then I'll spend the next day or two in a brain funk waiting to recharge.

I've learned to embrace my "bursty" productivity patterns and to structure my delivery expectations around them. If I get trapped into a X number of hours per day butt-in-seat situation, my overall productivity declines sharply.

[1] https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/in-an-8-hour-day-the-aver...
But you can still get computers that have none of that stuff, or where it can be disabled.
> You could tell if a request is from a real browser or from a script.

Today websites already know if the request is from a real browser or not just by integrating with reCAPTCHA or hCAPTCHA. This is just taking a very popular category of security product and tightly integrating it with the browser itself.

Today, you can take a philosophical stance and categorically refuse to use any website that uses reCAPTCHA/hCAPTCHA. Tomorrow you can take a philosophical stance and refuse to use any website that uses PAT.
Our unix (Gould GLX or something?) with dozens of terminals lacked appropriate permissions on /dev/ttyNN - so we just piped rain directly to the neighbors terminal.
Over what timeframe?

Edit: a decade.
> It should matter, a lot, that even a group of scientists who believed a lab leak idea was plausible couldn't muster up an argument that would hold up under peer review.

"We can't say what we actually think because it'll never pass peer review" sounds like an argument against peer review...
do you clearly mention that the role is only for US candidates? what platforms do you use to source the candidates?
So you already have solution for non existing problem? Who cares about the imperial part if you already sell metric 568ml beers?
I use it fairly often and find it to be an invaluable resource when researching any new technology. Make sure to include comments as well.
https://www.eurogamer.net/brink-studio-splash-damage-announc...
I dislike when companies gives themselves names like this "The Browser company"

Just like the hotel in Las Vegas called "The Hotel". Is it arrogance, or ignorance?
Yeah my company has posted a couple of times and despite saying US only, we only got people from SEA and Eastern Europe...so we stopped posting.
How could we have both the AI that is indistinguishable from humans and the AI that can detect it with good accuracy? That would imply the race on both sides for an AI that is more intelligent than an high IQ human.
LibSQL: Diving into a Database Engineering Epic
People love to cite ad-hoc conversations and overhearing conversations to build context as in office advantages. These are true but they also include downsides. Constant distractions and interruptions.
> So then why do we never talk about long flu?

With both RSV and influenza, infection as a baby or toddler seems to increase the likelihood of asthma in later life. Do we talk about asthma?

I think it is just so ordinary, an accepted part of life, and often not thought of in terms of being caused by an identifiable pathogen, that it's not really remarkable. Sort of like the fact that viral pneumonia is what kills the very elderly -- if nothing else gets them first -- the older someone is the more likely viral pneumonia will be the cause of death, rising to around half of all deaths in the 90 yo+ demographic. RSV, rhinoviruses, influenza. We're used to it. And short of getting our influenza shots and washing our hands, there's not terribly much we can do about it.

> currently present case of COVID

Well, that's just people abusing terminology. Technically, COVID is not the virus; it's the illness caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. Same sort of distinction as between HIV/AIDS. A person with severe AIDS who hypothetically was cured of HIV, would still have severe AIDS until/unless they manage to recover some immune function.

It is poorly named I guess. People still mix up AIDS/HIV today and I don't even bother to correct them; can't really blame them for conflating two closely related concepts.

Anyway. A popsci article from 2018: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/31/health/flu-body-effects-partn... And if you want to dive in to it, the relevant search terms are: influenza pulmonary fibrosis
Hello, numbers.

Every infection has an R0 rate (average number of people infected by a single infected person). If it's greater than 1, the infection spreads exponentially. If it's lower than 1, it peters out.

Vaccinating X% of people pushes R0 lower by X * N, where N depends on mutation rate, how good is the vaccine at preventing the spread (vs. reducing symptoms), etc.

R0 is also affected by seasonality, immunity from earlier infections, etc.

Polio doesn't mutate as fast, the vaccine lasts long time, and prevents both symptoms and the spread. R0 drops below 1, polio defeated.

COVID mutates much faster, has one of the highest R0 rates among known diseases, vaccine lasts a limited time, considerably reduces mortality rate (which isn't much of a concern for fit healthy adults under 50), and somewhat reduces the spread. It pushes the R0 number somewhat down, but not below 1.

What actually ended the pandemic was the Omicron variant that mysteriously grew much faster in the upper respiratory tract, and got your body to start fighting it before it did anything to the lungs. It still has enough R0, but the symptoms are so mild, it became mostly indistinguishable from common cold, so people stopped caring.

Had we vaccinated the at-risk groups, and given strong incentives for others to lose weight and start exercising, we could have arrived at the same, or lower death toll with much less taxpayer money going towards the Big Pharma.
I took the comment about 5g killbot to really mean human engineered, which there is zero evidence of. Reasonable people since COVID happened considered that a leak is possible, but there is no evidence of it, and that the virus is definitely not human engineered.

I would like to see data on how many believe the 5g conspiracies, though. I have a cousin, a former nurse (fired for refusing to vaccinate) who absolutely does believe this and shares her opinion on it constantly. She also thinks the vaccines have killed more people than the covid virus, and has a pretty large social media following / echo chamber of evangelicals around this.
The killer app for large enterprises is Q&A against the corporate knowledgebase(s). Big companies have an insane amount of tribal knowledge locked away in documents sitting on Sharepoint, on Box, on file servers, etc. Best case scenario, their employees can do keyword search against a subset of those documents. Chunk those docs, run them through an embedding process, store the embeddings in a vector store, let employees ask questions, do a similarity search against the vector store, pass the top results and the question to the LMM, get an actual answer back to present to the employee. This unlocks a ton of knowledge and can be a massive productivity booster.
This statistic makes a lot of sense, and can only expect it will keep going up. Pre-pandemic companies suffered a lot from the lack of talent/talent war in their geography. Now they can hire the best person in the world for a given role, or at least in their timezone (I believe in the power of synchronous work to a certain extent).

If this is happening in the middle of a VC downturn, imagine how it's going to be once we're back to good times.
I'd much rather have Google's Project Starline than traditional AR/VR. It seems perfect to replace in person meetings (no goggles). Unfortunately, that is the only value, whereas AR provides virtual workspaces and is likely cheaper in mass production and space requirments (don't need large screens).

Given Google's history, my guess is that Starline is on the chopping block even if showcased at I/O with a scaled back price tag. I hope I'm wrong.
So you've formed a critical opinion of psychedelics without having tried them, based only on knowing enthusiasts? This would be like hating crossfit just because you know an annoying crossfitter, or vegan food just because you know an obnoxious vegan.
Pretty good article by Doctorow. Aside from the few glaring typos that is.

For a while he was trending towards clickbaity articles.
i just tired it and its even worse: they dont use the chrome bookmarks store at all so you can export it but the bookmarks will just be completely empty!
Ireland and Great Britain are at about the same latitude as Labrador in Canada, but benefit from heat transported across the North Atlantic from the Caribbean by warm water. Absent the current that is transporting that warm water, one would expect the GB climate to more closely resemble Labrador’s. In other words, much colder.