skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's extreme is that the FDA has generally made the practice illegal, according to my GI. Some people suffered fatal bacterial infections so they pulled back on the topic. There might be still some experiments but I guess right now its still considered risky.
Apple Card’s Savings account by Goldman Sachs sees over $10B in deposits
It's modeled after Dockerfiles and is pretty easy to understand due to that. I don't know what advantage a more complex format would bring.
It was probably an issue with that particular merchants POS. Merchants have very little incentive to update their POS systems so technology changes are very hard to get rolled out. Especially for smaller merchants which many restaurants are.

It’s a network effect thing. Because tap to pay wasn’t supported by the POS vendors US consumers did not get much improvement in experience because of it, so there wasn’t demand from merchants. With Apple Pay there is a huge improvement for consumers (not having to carry the credit card) it has finally forced merchants and their supporting POS vendors to support it.

Between that and the disruption in the POS market the iPad (and similar devices) brought, POS vendors have had to become more flexible.
You could issue someone a new SSN. I know it rarely ever happens but it is certainly possible. Eyeball scans... less so.
Which graphics card would you recommend to run Llamma 2 locally? I'm about to buy a laptop and considering choosing a model with a good Nvidia GPU.
October 2021,

> The company has so far amassed over 100,000 users globally already, and aims to hit the 1 billion user milestone by 2023.

August 2023,

> Worldcoin says over 2 million people have already signed up
That post was from Feb 2014. I signed up with them in May 2014 (first payment received) according to my dashboard.
The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas
We are relearning a lesson from 100 years ago which is that the act of putting your name on a product enters you into a social contract where adulterated products lead to an unprofitable loss of status. It’s a form of mutually assured destruction.

If we finished decriminalizing the “alcohol tier” drugs and allowed for national brands, instead of a mosaic of companies who cannot legally transport product across state lines, then we would have a real alternative for people who think their highest priority is to check out of life for a while. For the people who want to check out as long as possible/forever, they already need loads of therapy. And legalizing or criminalizing activities they like to repeat doesn’t change that.

You take your average severely depressed person, who may describe themselves as too much of a coward to end it all. Now threaten them with ruining the rest of their life? I have news for you, most of them already believe their life is ruined. Putting yourself in harm’s way to feel something is a terrible existence, and I think the people who describe it as slow suicide are not wrong. I also worry sometimes about adrenaline junkies.

You can’t outlaw self destruction. What threat can you possibly make that will have any import?

You can outlaw reckless endangerment.
where are you applying that does NOT ask these types of questions? passing one to two rounds of LC type questions before going to the on-site seems like its the standard now
Or Bob's twin brother. Or someone that really looked like Bob.
All very interesting, but how would a musician ever be interested in creating the result of "Pop dance track with catchy melodies, tropical percussions, and upbeat rhythms, perfect for the beach"? This stuff will create a lot of Muzak for sure. Actually turning into anything useful for musician? I honestly doubt it, and I'm happy if it stays that way.

Saying that engineers don't understand the arts is a bit of a trite generalization, but reading the way Meta markets these "music making" contraptions is really cringe inducing. Have you ever, at least, listened to some music?
breast milk and vaginal births are large contributors to the gut microbiome of infants.
No, because the general public is comfortable with the words like 'physicist', 'chemist', 'biologist', 'geologist', etc.

If a particle physicist is opining on particle physics to the general public, they'll self describe "as a particle physicist" or at the very least "as a physicist". They'll use the most precise term that is likely to be understood by the audience. Only if that person isn't a physicist at all will 'scientist' be the most precise expertise they can claim. The general public is comfortable with the word physicist, so there's no reason for a physicist to avoid identifying as such when discussing physics with the general public.

On the other hand, a marine biologist who is opining on particle physics may self describe "as a scientist", because that's the most precise level of expertise they can claim without lying. Saying "as a biologist" when discussing particle physics wouldn't confer the desired credibility, so a less precise term is used.

Conspicuous lack of precision is the tell:

If people are discussing basketball and somebody says "as an athlete", it's safe to conclude they aren't a basketball player. They would have said "as a basketball player" if they were.

If people are discussing motherhood and somebody says "as a parent", it's fairly safe to conclude they aren't a mother. If they were a mother, they'd say "as a mother" because that more precisely relates to the topic of motherhood.

If somebody is opining on firefighting practices and says "as an emergency responder", they aren't a firefighter. They might be an EMT or a cop, but a firefighter would say "as a firefighter" when discussing firefighting.

And finally, if a Go backend engineer claims his expertise to be "programmer" to a general audience, that's fine. But if he's saying "as an engineer" or "as a scientist" then he should probably be ignored. Yes, I've known people to do this, programmers calling themselves "scientist" because they have a CS degree, opining on bullshit unrelated to anything they ever studied.
You could take a model trained on CC content and then fine tune it on copyrighted material cheaply and quickly
Would you pay for meat and dairy’s true cost? Supermarket trials true pricing
To offer a counter narrative to the all-too-commonly offered BS-Jobs-theory which almost always is used in discussions that shall end with „see, thats why we need UBI, eh?“ (as is the old automation-will-take-our-jobs chestnut):

Lots of the pointlessness stems from the many hours spent by white collar workers making up for other peoples laziness/uninformedness/stressedness, basically bridging the knowledge gap.

So instead of feasting in the idea that whole segments of society should succumb to government allowances (effectively ending social mobility) we might show more virtousness toward human progress by focusing on not wasting other peoples time.
I think "song" should go in quotes
> For an explanation, a look at America’s geography is revealing [...] the national trend of stagnant life expectancy reveals huge regional variation (see map). In a place like Hazard, in eastern Kentucky, life expectancy is lower now than it was in 1980. In a place like Manhattan, or some wealthier counties of Colorado, it has increased by not much less than anywhere in Europe.

If you actually look at the map, it's pretty clear that geography is the biggest factor. The rural lifestyle is killing people - poverty, the amount of time spent in a car, the boredom.
Or a way of looking at things.

Probably you're right:)
I'd really like to follow the ideas up, is much of my motivation.
Thank you
> I don't think it's going to be in any way easy to convince people that it's okay not to be useful.

Well, it certainly won't be possible as long as we tie people's housing, food, and health care to their ability to convince others they are useful.

Society currently sends the message: "If you aren't useful, you don't deserve housing, food, and health care". I think the existential angst is something we have to address as we transition into that post-work economic system, but I don't think it's actually possible to address until we make that transition.
I'm not ok with scamming people in 3rd world countries.
Sure, it doesn't nail it 100% on the first prompt 100% of the time. Sometimes it takes a few prompts. It's no big deal. If you can't get it to write effective code, either you're working in a very niche area, or you haven't figured out how to use it properly.
What about "video games with the elderly, video games with children, video games with dying people in hospice, and mentor the formerly-incarcerated in speedrunning"?
>and AI not yet capable of matching even average human content (much less pro level)

Yeah this is not true. Sota Text, Image generation is well above average baselines. You can certainly generate professional level art on Midjourney
It's your blog.

My take about it is this. If you pick a topic you think is interesting you'll likely wind up picking one of those topics like programming or anime that monetizes poorly. (like 1/10 or less of average!) If you had a huge list of possible topics and threw a dart to pick one at it you'd get average results.

Either way you need a lot of traffic to make significant amounts of money: it's one thing to have people think less of you and be making $500 a month, it's another thing to have people think less of you and be making $5.
I can empathize with the author. The first time you write some code collaboratively with GPT and it actually works, you feel a burning need to shout about it. Because it's one of those moments where something "clicks" and you suddenly feel like you've discovered fire. Once you figure out how to work with them, it makes you excited for the future and you can clearly see where LLMs will fit permanently
into your toolbelt. They're far from perfect now, and sometimes the time savings is a wash - you get instant specialized expertise that can produce code like a senior engineer, but you need to goad and coax it like it's a high maintenance intern. But the thinking power expended is still somehow lower - it's a new way of working with technology and deferring some of the grueling parts to the machine. This becomes especially obvious when the code requirements depend on an esoteric API or conventions that you'd normally need to spend time researching and manually enumerating.
The correlation is perhaps not the smoking gun OP thinks but your analysis seems to be based on the assumption there is no time lag in the population of children 6-21 with autism and glyphosate use on grains.

The most obvious one would be a six year lag. But it might have variance depending on crop cycles and whether glyphosate is handed off through the placenta and/or mother’s milk, and depending on the proposed mechanism of action and weaning age.
It is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_the_Law
If they're a good worker, then they'll learn. Quickly. Theres no reason any of these problems can't be overcome.
> Nearly 4,000 people died in fires, the highest number in close to 20 years, making for a death rate of nearly twice that of western Europe.

This seems particularly damning considering that in the name of fire safety, the USA (and Canada) goes to the effort to build two stairways in apartment buildings, which makes them harder to build, and compromises the design in making them subjectively worse to live in.

Europe does not do this extra safety step, which benefits their housing, and yet they have fewer fire deaths.
No, you just said "but polls!" and ignored everything else.
Changing the intended user from the developer to an external client is a really high g-force maneuver and past a certain level of complexity it’s likely to flameout the developer without a reliable support system.
I'm always skeptical of "before technology" comparison because they rarely account for the radical differences of the world today, like scale.

But in this case the comparison doesn't really work. If Bob went to a new town he could introduce himself as Dave and no-one would be any the wiser.

By comparison eyeball scans are owned by a private company, infinitely replicable and reusable. They could follow you absolutely everywhere you go without your permission.
I agree that some parts might be fluid, especially what the term autism denotes and entails. The way I use it, it summarizes my neurological differences compared to allistics (non-autistics), not today and right now but throughout my _whole_ life.

Anyone who says that autism can be cured, would therefore have to change my being fundamentally, which I personally would oppose, as it is this exact difference, that allowed me to get to points intelectualy where others were not before.

If anyone wants to eradicate autism, sure, go for it, just dont expext any dirac, newton, einstein, and many others to ever get Born again.

Yes, this topic releases a lot of emotions Im aware of that. Whats important to me is that being autistic means being different - not worse. "a relatively fixed mindset" sounds soo pathological.

Autistics hold onto their constructs and routines, because their minds are too flexible and boundry less. I could frame that NT "rigidness" as a pathology just as well.

Thanks for being that open and non black/white thinking to let that sink in and accept it because it comes from an autistic person who does know better about them than someone who is not.

And Im aware of not targeting the main subject of gut bacteria here, and apologize for that. Im sure with your mental fitness youll be able to separate the two aspects and still value the insights shared, thanks!
I've seen the complete opposite of this in Big Tech.

1. People notoriously lobby for greenfield projects. Obviously all the viable products are already built, they don't want to make research moonshots (bad for quick promos). So, they create do weak market research and justify their 1000th CRM project.

2. Once it's approved, the building is done by lowly SDEs. Meanwhile, managers and senior engineers are busy in Self-congratulatory emails, giving presentations and taking as much credit as they can.

3. In Bad Big Techs, the building part is fast-tracked so that upper-echelon can gather more kudos per quarter. This creates the toxic WLB scenario.

4. The product launches and gets initial users mainly due to large marketing push. Now the biggest task in hand is operational tasks such as handling outages, security risks etc. These are low visibility unthanked tasks.

5. The PMs/Managers/Senior Engineers don't believe their own product will actually get traction. They jump to another project after receiving virtual medals/promos and the cycle starts anew.

In the whole process, the top brass has done nothing but evangelize themselves. The only real skill they've demonstrated is convincing their seniors/ teaching their seniors to convince their seniors to greenlight the project.
I don't know if people realize this, but the game now allows you to continue past the "you've converted all matter in the universe" point. You get to convert matter in other universes! (There is still a finite endpoint; I think there's only ~19 other universes you get to do this to.)
I recently discovered, after almost a year, that I had put the wrong expiration date of a new card into my password manager. It was the correct year but the wrong month. Not a single transaction had failed with the wrong expiration date.
This used to be a popular theory when Trump did something stupid every single day.

Don't be distracted people warned, this is just him trying to cover up for the stupid thing he did yesterday.

Eventually people realised he had no plan and no filter and no consequences so the stupid was never going to stop.

> One common claim about Donald Trump is that he often says and does things not only for effect, but with the specific goal of distracting the public and news media from something else he wants to keep hidden. The claims have circulated for years, especially on social media; for example one Facebook post recently stated that “Trump’s quixotic attacks on immigrant children, Denmark, and American Jews are horrible, but even though we can’t ignore them, they are obviously meant to distract.”

https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/the-trump-distraction-quas...
The problem as summarized by the photo isn't drugs. The problem everywhere -- not just in Oregon -- is Human Overpopulation. The severity of it in Oregon has increased because of populations spilling over from elsewhere, most notably California. Sadly, Portland is finally a large city, thus it has the same issues all other large cities have. This overall problem of Human Overpopulation which is the root cause of pretty much every other problem in the entire world (climate change, wealth gap, dwindling resources, etc) is exacerbated by certain politicians opposing birth control.
The risk to this is that your competitors seize the opportunity to criticise your mistakes as if you're hiding them, even if you wrote about them yourself! As such, one justification for keeping problems secret is that your competitors don't know about them. It's unfortunate, as it stops a lot of good-faith collaboration, where strangers will come and offer support.
Annecdotaly, it'll last you through an entire work day, but probably not into double digits.
For the past year and half or so, Elon Musk has always acted up whenever he dropped out of the news cycle.
It’s about VRAM, I would say the more the better, 4060 with 8GB should be the starting point
> Ad value is not intrinsically tied to the extraction of personal data

Ad value may not be tied to the extraction of personal data, but it's unambiguously tied to the use of it. Obviously more targeted ads perform better.
Would some sort of UBI that requires you to do some public work, i.e. clean up a local park weekly be a good middle ground?
Whether or not you agree with it the argument for exception handling, rather than return values, is it lets the code more naturally flow for the successful case. The alternative is go's repetitive

f, err := fn(...)

if err != nil {
...
}

pattern. Which is better is really a matter of taste. To have error handling smattered all over the code seems more inelegant and messy to me.
You want to murder people? Remind me to stay away from you. Are you sure "most" is the correct qualifier or are you looking for "a lot." Those are very different. If you have 100 million people, most means that more than 50 people want to murder and that means there are some VERY effective counter measures out there. But with the same population, if 0.1% of people want to murder, you still got 100k murderers out there, which is still "a lot" in the total sense despite not being in the proportional. Make sure to not confuse these two things, it is extremely important.
I fear this is an instance of that old Upton Sinclair/H. L. Mencken quip—never be so foolish as to waste your breath believing that you can get a man to understand something which his salary requires him not to understand.

Engage with the argument you are being confronted with.

There is no difference between "Open Source" and "open-source". The former is generally associated with the OSD, and the latter is generally associated with people who insist on hyphenating* things—but are referring to the same thing; there is no "open-source" definition that is more relaxed than the "Open Source" definition. You are lying if you want to pretend that there is a widely recognized difference. There isn't.

The problem never was that you're using the Business Software License. The problem is that you are _lying_.

So stop lying.

It's that easy.

* EDIT: And removing the hyphen[1] doesn't fix anything. You have been through no fewer than four different variations of the title at this point[2][3][4]. The hyphen is not the problem. The problem is that you are lying. Try just not doing that.

1. <https://archive.is/XJz9r>

2. <https://archive.is/aSH9K>

3. Unarchived version that used lowercase "open-source" with a hyphen, cf <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974314>

4. <https://archive.is/XJz9r>
> I can guarantee people who spend years researching and building advanced language models have thought about the ramifications of their work.

Super easy to not think about something if your job depends on it. And even if you do, things don't go as you think (see bombings of civilian Hiroshima and Nagasaki despite objections of nuclear physicists).
There are useful tricks to changing CSS properties via checkbox state and pseudo-selectors to implement simple modals (which won’t be accessible), but you can’t open a modal <dialog> element without JS.

Weirdly, you can close them with a form submission, but you can’t open them with one.
https://archive.is/pMI7D
I knew one of these guys. A friend, though not one I knew well.

Mostly just a failure to launch situation. He ran into some road blocks, moved in with a (our mutual) friend, and stumbled a few times in life. Smart guy, genuine, but after he got fired for a 2nd time he just kinda gave up.

Couldn't get him out of the house except to get smokes or taco bell. He neglected his appearance and got uncomfortable around people.

He was going to go into the Air Force but ran into issues there and eventually killed himself. Still haunts me, cuz at times he expressed an interest hanging out more and I always thought about reaching out, but didn't...
What do you think pays for the free and open internet? Or are you just well off enough that you don't have to care?
Bored? How about learning about mobile-friendly CSS?
One of the dumbest ideas of the century.
I'd love to see some benchmarks! I have an M1 device and don't really love macOS, but the battery life is just sooo good.

I'd be super happy if I could just run Arch on this thing instead.
I think this comparison misses the impact of Baumol's cost disease in the US. I mean, your link says a primary care physician earns $161k in the US. That's after going into a ton of debt with 4 years of medical school, and then making slave wages and horrendous hours as a resident for 4-5 years.

Meanwhile, it's pretty easy for a software engineer in the US to make that much not long after graduating college (I don't want to over reference something like FAANG salaries, which relatively few engineers make, but still, it's totally reasonable for a software dev to make that much somewhere between 0-10 years after graduation). That's after going into much less debt, and software jobs are way, way, way easier than medical jobs - honestly I think anyone who says otherwise is just full of shit (I'm a software eng for what it's worth).

So most people who can go on to be doctors have at least a similar level of intelligence/work ethic etc. as software devs (or lots of other careers in business, etc.) There is no way doctors are ever going to get paid significantly less than similarly credentialed professionals in the US.
Could you have special markdown cells that have mixed python code blocks and other inline media that gets converted to stripped python cells? You might be able to write an ipython ‘magic’ for something like that
Finally, I was just trying to find similar models yesterday! Seems like "evil" was not the correct keyword .)
I'm happy to take a look at this for you. I also won't share any more details on this post unless you want to provide them yourself.

I will reiterate that we'd like to grow with any user we have (particularly a long-tenured one!). However, we can't support businesses with excessively high chargeback rates, no matter what. Keeping chargebacks at an acceptable level is a financial obligation for every business: https://stripe.com/docs/disputes/monitoring-programs.
It has long been noticed that many people with mental issues also have digestive issues. Imagine if the prescription for alot of health problems was to "eat a good diet and no amount of alcohol is beneficial"?

People don't want to make lifestyle changes, they want a pill and the pharmaceutical industry is happy to supply it.
Franzen was one of DFW's closest friends.