skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m always initially deceived by these posts from “nature.com”

“Nature Research Highlights” is the biomedical equivalent of “MIT News”, they’d lead one to think the cure for cancer and unlimited battery storage are around the corner.
Emacs 29's SQLite-Mode
i like the ending's implicit shout out to that of the Great Gatsby
A good point. Newer languages influenced by Go, like Vlang[1], have sum types partially for such reasons.

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#sum-types
Not for ai training though.
His solution and syntax remind me of Ada's variant records. Despite Ada's focus on safety, it also resorts to runtime exceptions for incompatible fields in that case. That's probably a local maximum in the language design space.
This is true for every kind of professional including realtors, lawyers, and financial advisors, just to name a few. At the end of the day everyone you hire is just doing a job, and it’s on you to learn enough to know that they are doing it to your satisfaction.
It always amazes me when discussing seatbelts how few people seem to know that they don't just protect you, they actually make for safer driving for everyone. When a collision occurs or even just in the face of evasive maneuvering the seatbelt keeps the driver in the driver's seat at the controls, and keeps other occupants from becoming projectiles. It's much harder to swerve, brake, or do whatever is necessary when the driver is now sitting in the passengers lap.
> You have to show the crowd-pleasing speeches and other pro-nazi propaganda

They do. You just can't deny the holocaust, spread anti-semitism, etc. [0]

My point, which I admittedly obscured, is that while there are things we censor and compel (which we mostly agree on), there are weirdly some things we don't censor that we also mostly agree on.

Anti-semitism is a good example. There's no value in talking about it. Anti-semitic hate groups use the shield of freedom of speech to spread their lies and recruit members. Proponents will spam forums, WhatsApp groups, social media, etc in what is effectively a DDoS on fact checkers. The thing that fixes anti-semitism isn't letting them say whatever they want wherever they want, it's a Wikipedia page on anti-semitism and a ban everywhere else.

It's also worth saying that while we're having a relatively academic debate, Jewish people, Black people, trans people, etc get to wade through a morass of hate on the internet which every so often leads to a mass murder. What's the value of that?

[0]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...
It's probably because pyproject.toml is the direction in which the python ecosystem is going.

On that note, I will never understand why they chose .toml instead of just json or yaml..
Maybe you filtered out java software?
These concerns are mostly orthogonal to the "grow at any cost - monopolize - enshittify" playbook. That, and startup executives at this stage are doing ok, but not spectacularly well.
As the article and others are pointing out, Google achieves 'free' Search through bundling and predatory pricing, which are both anticompetitive.
Pretty accurate, one of my previous bosses wanted me to be “normal” and just do 9-5 with all the meetings and he said he doesn’t mind that my productivity will be 70% less.. I left the job after few weeks.
This was one of the funniest things going around the Physics department when I was in school. I can assure you it is older than 2007. 1998 or ‘99 iirc.
Good point, I was using Firefox on both but as you said Firefox on iOS is just Safari. To be fair to Mozilla, I am running Firefox nightly on Android.
> Why do you hate Jupyter notebooks so much that it reaches “worst thing to ever have happened“ status?

It's the "with a passion" part. A certain sub-population is prone to deciding that they love or hate something, based on some early experience or social context, and then every future experience with the thing is then strong-armed into supporting that supposed strong opinion. There is no rational reason for this. It's a very extreme form of confirmation bias.

It's pretty fascinating actually, as it's often times employed by rather intelligent people. With a slight tendency towards the autistic end of the spectrum, but there is certainly more research into this needed. Perhaps somebody working on a degree in sociology is interested i digging further?
Same here, and really sad I have not seen it earlier. By skimming through it seems like a practical no bs product. May still unearth some opportunities to test it.
Show me a crash test for a stroller with a baby in it. Crashes are always bad and there are risks to living.
Then Bob has failed.

Academic science isn’t just the doing science part but the articulation and presentation of your work to the broader community. If Bob knows this space so well, he should be able to clearly communicate the issue and, ideally, present an easily understandable counter example to the existing theory.

Technical folks undervalue presentation when writing articles and presenting at conferences. The burden of proof is on the presenter, and, unless there’s some incredible demonstration at the end, most researchers won’t have the time or attention to slog through your mess of a paper to decipher it. There’s only so much time in the day and too many papers to read.

In my experience, the best researchers are also the best presenters. I’ve been to great talks out of my domain that I left feeling like I understood the importance of their work despite not understanding the details. I’ve also seen many talks in my field that I thought were awful because the presentation was convoluted or they didn’t motivate the importance of their problem / why their work addressed it
Beautifully written, even if I don’t necessarily agree with every single point made.

Especially towards the end, I feel that she tries to emphasize the nobility and radical nature of this work, taking umbrage at Eric Adam’s use of the word “low-skill” to describe some of these sorts of jobs. But it seems somewhat belied by the fact that, afaict, as soon as she had the means to escape, she did. And the romanticization of sex work as the only job where women get to call the shots and make profit off of men… I am curious the degree to which this is really true for these massage parlors, which are often managed or extorted by male-run organized crime. [0]

But the central message, one that seems like a call for dignity, really resonates with me. It is one of the most beautiful vignettes I have read in a long time.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/massage-parlors-human-...
Was military in the past, so on tricare. Base dentist was busy so they referred me off base to a local dental clinic for my regular cleaning.

That local dentist I guess saw a blank check when I walked in the door and tried to convince me I had 5 cavities that needed filling. I told him to finish just the cleaning and I’d check back in with my military dentist.

Military dentist later looked me over again and said I had one slowly developing potential cavity to keep an eye on. That’s it.

A lot of dentists are apparently unethical hack shops.
They already control all the market they'll control in Canada, and they won't expand outside Canada. Not a growth story.
Anyone know rough cost per sq ft?
Favorably comparing the US health system to the Canadian one is an interesting take indeed…
You are probably over-interpreting this interpreter.
OPEC has more support among Saudis than Germans
I think the current system is just measuring entirely the wrong thing. Yes, fewer papers would be published. But today's goal is "publish papers" not "learn and disseminate truly useful and novel things", and while this doesn't solve it entirely, it pushes incentives further away from "publish whatever pure crap you can get away with." You get what you measure -> sometimes you need to change what/how you measure.

> If someone cares enough about the work to build on it, they will replicate it anyway.

That's duplicative at the "oh maybe this will be useful to me" stage, with N different people trying to replicate. And with replication not a first-class part of the system, the effort of replication (e_R) is high. For appealing things, N is probably > 2. So N X e_R total effort.

If you move the burden at the "replicate to publish" stage, you can fix the number of replicas needed so N=2 (or whatever) and you incentive the orginal researchers to make e_R lower (which will improve the quality of their research even before the submit-for-publication stage).

I've been in the system, I spent a year or two chasing the tail of rewrites, submissions, etc, for something that was detectable as low-effect-size in the first place but I was told would still be publishable. I found out as part of that that it would only sometimes yield a good p-value! And everything in the system incentivized me to hide that for as long as possible, instead of incentivizing me to look for something else or make it easy for others to replicate and judge for themselves.

Hell, do something like "give undergrads the opportunity to earn Master's on top of their BSes, say, by replicating (or blowing holes in) other people's submissions." I would've eaten up an opportunity like that to go really really deep* in some specialized area in exchange for a masters degree in a less-structured way than "just take a bunch more courses."
Sorry, a decade of 1-2% growth is just not happening. There is still so much low hanging fruit in the Chinese economy and plenty of talented (perhaps overqualified) workers to pick them. I suppose this is where we disagree. Thier automobile industry is just begining in earnest, for example. They are in 1965-1970 era Japan, not 1990.

This was Japan's economy:

Junk -> steel -> automobiles -> computers/chemicals

China is only now geting to automobiles. They are making good progress on electronics as well. Thinking they will suddenly go to 1% is just ridiculus in my view when they have so much left. They also aren't strictly speaking as dependent on exports as Japan was considering the size of their domestic market. To me all of this signals that China will stay in the 6-7% range and will reach 40k GDP per ca in 15-20 years or so.
First line in TFA:
>Smartphone sales are down across the board, and that means component vendors like Qualcomm are also feeling the heat.
The extra invalidations are nasty, though. There's a reason the standard chose what it did.
I liked the testimonials part!
> Europe suffered no consequences as a result of disagreeing with the US over the Iraq War.

They also didn't prevent it, so I'm not sure what your point is here: Washington got their way. It was Europe that was burdened with millions of refugees created by Washington's unprovoked invasion of Iraq (then Libya, then Syria).

> It suffered no consequences as a result of disagreeing with the US (and other European country's) concerns over Russian imperialism.

This doesn't make any sense. Europe's economy is in dire straits, and Washington continues to get exactly what it wants.

> It continues to suffer no consequences as a result of disagreeing with the US over China.

Simply not true. One example from this week: https://www.ft.com/content/095e76a1-6ffd-4962-99e6-33268eebc...

> Turkey suffers no consequences of its considerable disagreement from US foreign policy

Huh? Erdoğan blames the US for being behind the failed Gulenist coup, and Türkiye continues to straddle the line between West and East.
Hola te amo
I worked long months in the forestry industry (re-planting trees) during university it’s not so tough as sex work but sometimes people throw it in the bag of “low-skill” or “manual labour” jobs as if thought or critical thinking we’re not required.

I have to say now working a “real” job now (for salary benefits etc.) I know way more forestry folks who could do my job today (consulting) than current coworkers who could dig out a stuck pickup truck properly, fix a broken generator, put out a brush fire…

there are jobs which require accreditation or whatever but there’s no such thing as truly no-skill-required labour
Pretty cool, but it acts more like a dense gas than water. Very bouncy and not sticky enough
I agree with most of your points and I think there’s a good argument that CS should use different terms that don’t overlap with biology, but I don’t agree with this:

> there is absolutely no evidence that supports this claim. Period

The evidence is that it understands and can respond with human language which arose from purely biological processes. So until we understand how this happens we can’t say for sure that these things are not statistical models of part of the human brain. Maybe these models are picking up on Chomsky’s universal grammar or maybe they are emulating brains. We just don’t know.

It might not be strong evidence, it might be indirect, but it is not a total and irrefutable absence of evidence.
I wasn't imagining one would be obliged. Merely that as a demonstrated vital good in modern society, it's something a government could, perhaps, guarantee a minimum standard on.

Ad-free tax-funded search would be kind of neat.
I would but it's been flagged
But is it free if it costs them billions?

That is, saying that customers /could/ switch is not necessarily relevant. There is evidence that they believe paying for the "default" billing is worth a ton of money. Not just to Apple, but to Mozilla, too.

That they could lose access to revenue streams by losing default billing is very relevant when that is also a large portion of how they are able to make that payment.

Could see it more as collusion with competition, I suppose? It isn't competing on the merits of their search, but more on their ability to afford default status. Which keeps Apple from entering search, and ostensibly keeps it more expensive for Microsoft to keep Bing.

Consider, if Apple could get more from MS to make Bing default, why wouldn't they?
Nice project. Keep. Pushing.
This is likely the intended result, without caring at all if it generates revenue for the large media corporations. Consolidated media is easier to influence and manipulate.
They're not vanishing silently and peacefully into the night, they're killing themselves with chronic poor health. That's the entire problem, they're not dodging it, they're embracing, amplifying, and accelerating it.
> I suspect Bard was just some PM's resume builder to get prompted in the company, nothing else.

It's pretty obvious that Bard was something Google had to do given the circumstances and there must have been a big push for it from very high up in the company; very unlikely that it's someone's promotion project.
Gravity batteries are practical if you don't have to construct most of the infrastructure. Examples would include a bunch of mountains already there to construct a dam and have hydro pump storage, or an unusually nice and straight mine shaft that was already paid by the mine.

Anything heavy can be used as a gravity battery. Water in hydro pump for example. Or lead, or concrete. Lead is not that cheap, concrete is not that effective. For water we usually have already constructed a dam, it's just a case of adding another pipe and a pump.

But I guarantee you that if we were to construct a dam, pipe and pump just for energy storage - instead of taking an already existing dam we built for another reason, it would also not be as good as a bunch of batteries in pretty much all relevant factors.
That sounds very much like someone I know. She had pain in her stomach that doctors in the US just refused to examine in depth. One prescribed her pain-killers and another steroid. She asked more tests but they declined. Her father is a doctor in India and when she finally told him (after a few months of suffering) about her ordeal, he asked her to come immediately to India. After some reluctance, she flew down, and the first thing they did after reviewing her reports was a simple ultrasound. They discovered a tumour in her stomach. Operated and removed it and luckily it was not cancerous. The irony is that when her father asked her to come down to India, she refused initially arguing that the US was at the forefront of medical science in the world. She now understands that doctors matter too. (And unfortunately doctor behaviour in the US is very much influenced by insurance provider policies).
> VCs and PEs are the "same" in the sense that they both structured as funds with "limited partners".

They also attract similar types of investors and are similarly affected by interest rates.
It started being silly when the bit about "taking credit for the work reports do" failed to mention that they ate also supposed to be accountable when the team fails.
> Note I didn't say your machine, I said one machine of yours.

This thread discusses peer replication, this is not even an analogy.
Why do you care so much? If you like GPT-4, you can still use it.

Nobody really has an incentive to go after OpenAI right now. They leverage a ton of proprietary research, millions of dollars of GPUs and millions of users who they serve at a loss. And when they modify their model, those users then accuse them of self-sabotage and censorship, threatening to take their business elsewhere.

The market doesn't even know what it wants yet. Serving a weak, neutered model for simple home assistant stuff is the least controversial and most profitable option.
It's interesting that the check-in agent was the one that attached the tag. I recently flew Melbourne to Frankfurt, and there was no interaction with staff at all during check-in and going through security, it was all DIY tagging and putting it on the conveyor. Similar story coming back via Heathrow airport.

Wonder if it's just Australia and Europe automating it and whether it actually helps lower lost bag numbers.
From the article:

“It is circular and dangerous,” Dr. Wells said. “You’ve got a very powerful tool that, if it searches enough faces, will always yield people who look like the person on the surveillance image.”

Dr. Wells said the technology compounds an existing problem with eyewitnesses. “They assume when you show them a six-pack, the real person is there,” he said.
Please refrain from whataboutism. We're not discussing Biden or the US. We're discussing the corrupt Chinese elites and the authoritarian regime of the PRC.
For those of us who are reactive to msg, the results can be absolutely debilitating. For those who are tolerant of msg, it offers zero nutritional benefit. Banning it would help millions of migraine sufferers and harm no consumer. In fact, it could benefit the obesity epidemic by removing that overeating urge msg creates. You know, that feeling you get when you try to eat just a handful of Doritos but then can’t stops. What’s worse is that modern food labels are misleading so it’s hard for people to choose to avoid it. The FDA allows msg to be labeled under the umbrella term “natural flavors”. We have embraced warning labels like “contains nuts” for those who are allergic to nuts but then hide the msg. It’s just not right. Then made worse by articles like this that try to say it xenophobic. And the absolute ridiculous suggestion that no one in China gets headaches.
Because the ends justify the means

/s
Looks great, but 159 a month to even use the tool at all is an instant no.
That’s not the law, so it’s irrelevant to the legal issues.
That is precisely correct. The article went to lengths to describe how they maintain cement's compression strength which is the primary stress axis for house foundations. It would definitely make constructing a foundation more time consuming (not the pump concrete out of a truck and fill up the forms that is is today) but there isn't anything in the article or their paper that suggests this wouldn't be a reasonable application. (again, maybe not cost effective, but that is a different axis of trade-offs)
Looks like you need to be o(europe) sized to bully big tech companies
iWater?!
I heard through an engineer friend how the notorious bureaucracy of Google is the reason for Bard’s failure. They can’t issue any improvements or do anything without taking it to the higher ups.
I don't want to derail the science discussion too much, but what if you actually had to reproduce the code by hand? Would that process produce anything of value? Would your habit of writing i+=1 instead of i++ matter? Or iteration instead of recursion?

Would code replication result in fewer use after free, or off by one than code review? Or would it mostly be a waste of resources including time?
ops, sorry.
Here it is: https://github.com/myscale/ChatData
That is a "perceptions" index. Note corruption is not something which can be reduced to a scalar value and analyzed like temperature or pressure. It's far more multivariate and complex than that.

Even if, for the sake of argument, it was possible to do so, you would have to interrogate the methodology used to produce this value. Note the complexity in analyzing corruption by country. How does one investigate in detail, the governments of almost 200 countries? If one relies on survey results from members of those countries, how was the survey consistently conducted across language barriers, cultural barriers, and legal barriers?

Finally, even if you believe all of those incredibly dubious factors were accounted for, it could be possible that being 14th in a world that is becoming more corrupt does not mean that Canada is improving in that regard.
Not knowing anything about x87 programming, but assuming the code is rational, I would guess this causes the code to work with a handful of _really_ broken or flakey FPUs. Or perhaps just one popular one.
Unless you have additional sources, you're not being very honest. Standards exist like FHIR, published by HL7 which sets global standards for healthcare. https://www.hl7.org/

Epic provides support for these standards.
https://fhir.epic.com/
While I agree with you, people making $50k a year are not missing out on many deductions. Putting its parent company aside, Turbo Tax is not a bad product for simple taxes at that income level.

What they are missing out is alternative investment categories only available to those with more money, or estate planning solutions that are expensive to setup.
If you tell them it makes you uncomfortable when you chew, they will probably grind down the filling for you at no charge--at least mine did.
Show HN: ChatData-yet another chat-with-document app, querying millions of files
While I fully agree, I multiply that by the value they get from these upvotes and impressions to get a solid, "meh".
The problem with all of these laws is the lack of integrity in the underlying logic. The laws are written because ad revenue is no longer supporting news. But the laws are written as if somehow this is connected to social media and search linking to news media content. It just isn't. You can take away all the news media content (as Facebook is) and you will still have no ad business left for news media. The ads are going where the eyeballs are and it's just a brutal fact that the eyeballs want much more than news media - they want a lot of other things that the news media aren't providing. So they go where they can get what they want.

Trying to fix any complex problem without addressing the root cause is nearly always going to be futile. The root cause here is something important to society (news media) is intrinsically / structurally impossible to fund organically. The people who need it most either can't or won't pay for it (and many are in the "can't" bucket).

Guess what, there are many things like that. We structurally can't fund hospitals, roads, defense either based on organic funding methods. When we want or need something that can't be funded like that, there is one party that is supposed to step up to the table - designed by intent for that purpose.

Which is all to say that to me, a lot of what is happening here is theatrics because governments want to avoid doing the actual hard thing which is convincing taxpayers that this should be part of what we support through broad based support as societies.