skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because many of us understand human history, and understand that we humans will resolve this by technological advancement often at the time the need arises.

Using government to artificially inflate prices on what you perceive to be a problem rarely results in good outcomes for anyone and even rarer does it actually resolve the problem it was claimed to solve

More often the new regulations will be abused to profit a few, and hold back actual technological progress for decades (see Ethanol as an example)

For my entire long long long life, people have been predicting the end of the world as we know it, always 10 years off before we are all dead. having lived many decades now, hearing these 10 year predictions often, and seeing them never come well color me unamused, and unmoved by this latest call to action.

Instead i choose to believe we will over come the challenges in the future has we have the ones from the past. With technological advancement, and market economics. Not government
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Do you use any tools to track performance or keep logs of previous prompts ?
Train an LLM to turn plain language prompts into your engineered prompts ;)
> I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016

Those are $40 light bulbs. 99.999% of people do not have $2000 to spend on light bulbs, or laugh at the ludicrousness of such a thought, possibly both.

This is not the metric by which you judge everyone else's experiences. It is luxury/entitlement at its finest. Most commodity LED bulbs are garbage.
> Is ChatGPT 4 significantly better than 3.5?

Yes. You should try it. It is genuinely useful.
So easy it would be futile to make it assigned reading for 13-14 year olds, who could not possibly grasp the nuance.
Why not try a Nitter instance. It offers RSS and none of the URLs are shortened with "t.co".
Agreed. As someone that off and on designs electronics a standard light bulb + fixture is a bad match for LED lighting because it's not really designed for heat dissipation. And keeping the temp down is really important if you want long life.

You also need regulations that will bitch slap manufactures that underrate components. Seriously if an LED light burns out inside 10 years you should be able to exchange it for two similar ones at the manufacturers expense.
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> Would appreciate it if folks would abstain from responding with how the record companies are greedy bastards,

How else would you interpret their behavior though? They are hundreds of thousands of dead artists on this archive and they specifically attack the ones which made money.

The conclusion can only be that those record companies are just after the money, I don't see any other possible one from this behavior.
Exactly. To go deeper in this topic, you may find this interesting: "The thinking styles of Chinese people", http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199541850.013.0012
I'm familiar with the indirect evidence, and there's a lot of it.

This article [1] seems to affirm my understanding that this is still all indirect evidence until LISA becomes operational.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/after-decades-effort...
Vote for the least worse. There is one party that wants to reduce spending and at least try to be fiscally responsible.
Ivermectin is a good start.
You absolutely can dim an LED via constant current control. Nobody does it that way at scale, but the LEDs work that way just fine.

Source: I have a 5-way constant-current dimmer on a breadboard on my desk driving 5 CREE XLamp CXA Series LED's.
Do English intellectuals even criticise Churchill?
Brandon describes slowly improving over ~1.5 years up to April 2023 when he was walking ~0.9 miles/day which so far is concordant with ME/CFS but where it gets discordant is that he progressed to multi-organ failure and death within 3 months.

I'm not questioning whether he suffered from ME/CFS but mortality is not reported in the Stanford data or what I've heard described of the syndrome.

It's hard to wrap my head around ME/CFS as he has described it being causative of organ failure. Did something happen? Is this a consequence of the therapeutic he tried?

Organ failure in a 37 year old without a history of end-organ dysfunction or acutely inciting event like a toxicity is incredibly unusual.
The whole Covid fiasco can't really be discussed on HN. If you try, you either get flagged to death or told to "get over it".
what's preventing them from getting sued for the websites? it's the same copyright law being infringed on, on the same pretenses
"If you want to get posh, have it use Jekyll"
Every other news article from reasonable sources that I could find indicate Long COVID exacerbates underlying conditions (cancer, respiratory diseases, heart disease), or triggers type II diabetes (something to do with the virus damaging the pancreas to tip conditions over some line).

The only place I can find claims for organ failure are on conspiracy forums. I can't put much credence in the idea, yet. (But I'm just a software geek, not a physician.)
I'd like to invoke Hanlon's razor here to at least cut down on the potential for over-the-top reactions that can be somewhat embarassing in retrospect:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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You have to host copyrighted work to make an archive, there's no other choice since the current copyright system swallowed the whole culture. The problem isn't them, it's the law.
Shellac can be made out of different things, and has been a common polish for wooden instruments for example, before we got chemical protections like nitrocellulose lacquer. For handmade instruments [shellac and french polishing](https://www.lmii.com/blog/2017/10/07/finishing-options-for-m...) is still often preferred due to being environment and human friendly (chemical lacks are often non-healthy for the human who works with them), relatively inexpensive (cook your oyster shell :)), and for being do-it-yourself solution which many luthiers prefer. Some people claims a guitar polished with shellac sounds better than one with a cellulose lack, but I am not sure if I agree that is a deciding factor for the sound, probably more of a psychological factor.
US spies on China. China spies on US.

Is anyone really shocked?

In US mainstream media, we only read about China spying on US. But it's clear that both countries do it.
On the positive side, and maybe surprisingly so given the flak that Twitter / X has correctly received as of late, the discussion thread below this tweet / post is rather diverse, faceted, and informative. There's your Climate Change DOUBTer alright, but there's also supplementary info on how you shouldn't throw burns of annual fuels (grasslands) into one bucket with wild fires in long-standing forests for several reasons (volume of biomass, CO2-neutral vs source of CO2). There's also two tweets / posts that call the author a well-known liar and payed propagandist. There's a real smorgasboard of additional data, and I actually find this tweet / post should be shown to people who don't understand the potential of and reason for having something like Twitter / Not-X.
What current topics and ideas do you fear will be harmful to society in the long run then? What will the consequences be to individuals, communities, etc?

This is HN, we can discuss all sorts of deep insights. For that discussion to be able to take place please give examples and explain what you see based on your unique experiences.

That way you can win people over and slowly transform views of people, communities etc.
Three serious questions:

1) do you believe we can stop it?
2) Do you believe we want to stop it?
3) What is the root cause?
Which made the game arguably better. Because rounds got faster and CTF was more fun.
Could it just be rotting infrastructure? I.e there is some logic on most visited domains to allow ease of moderation, that logic is read heavy and is now bucking under skew.

Or even like some junior dev removed an index
That's what "random 10 out of 67k sites" gives you. Your set was cherry-picked, dang's wasn't.

That said, dailykos.com seems to be banned. Happy now?
> The HN crowd is not your average layman - it's largely well read and educated people. Why not let them decide what is propaganda and what's not (as opposed to some arbitrary authority deciding this)?

That is at best a very naïve take. This is a public forum, not some secret society of like-minded intelligentsia.
Content moderation systems often hide mod actions from the content author [1]. That's a secret.

The opposite would be to show the author of the content some indicator that it's been removed, and I would call that transparent or disclosed moderation.

Interestingly, your comment first appeared to me as "* * *" with no author [2]. I wonder if that is some kind of ban.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e6BIkKBZpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/oGnXc6W.png

edit I know you commented again but it's got that "* * *" thing again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130675

https://archive.is/Eov7z
So, this is a very niche community specific inside joke (or diss) which I think never really went away, you just need to find a small and nerdy community and you'll see this kind of stuff come up from time to time. I used to see this in forums but now I'd argue this sort of thing is easier to find on Discord, maybe.
I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. But I agree there are some viewpoints more likely to be downvoted than others.

I strongly disagree with Graham's view that disagreement is a good reason for downvoting.
> The first link was about repeat infections. It seems possible that he could have had multiple infections and then that caused MoD?

His timeline on the Google document ends in April 2023 when he reported he was slowly improving. It's certainly possible another infection resulted in multi-organ failure and unfortunately his death but that would be "acute covid" and not "long-covid".

> Oh, you didn't mention that in the first post... I'm sure you know better than I.

I don't see long-covid in my practice and hence why I'm asking. I know some of the literature around it and tried searching without success, I'm wondering if someone who knows more can fill in some of the blanks here.
I disagree with the specifics (eg music doesn't "objectively suck," that's an oxymoron) but I think we're directionally on the same page. I have a similar hypothesis I call "The Complexity Crisis," which is that our willingness to create new systems and to expand existing ones outpaces our ability to manage that complexity. Leading to a constellation of seemingly independent crises (eg, the climate crisis, financial crises, armed conflicts, ...).
There's a lot of user hostile moderation practices that occur on this site, manual and automatic. They're not often, or really at all, discussed. Some of them don't work well, and haven't for as long as they've existed.
This looks like a thorough treatment of the subject. But my intuition is that B-trees are better than BSTs in almost every context. A good B-tree implementation is more cache-friendly, so faster to insert, delete, traverse. In my previous job I used to replace STL map uses with a btree implementation. It was always faster.
Claiming $4.8M in revenue but you have lorem ipsum on your page. Not a good first impression.
Your comment seems to have been written by an untrained chatbot!
Curbside pickup, and delivery are quite different economically, but I agree that "enjoy walking the isles" is nonsense.

I'm not sure the economics of delivery (in a general context) work. Sure, there are folk who are time-poor, and cash-rich, and for them it makes sense, but for the rest the price either has to go up to reflect the cost, or the delivery cost has to be subsidised.

Curbside pickup is a happy medium ground. Picking the groceries is cheap, and the expensive part (delivery) is handled by the customer using their time and their car.
Net neutrality has been dead since 2017.
> Suggestions welcome

"This domain is not allowed on HN" as an error message upon submission.
Whenever someone says a particular art form sucks now, what they are really saying is that they don't like the mainstream version of that art form. The thing about art is that people are self-motivated to make it. Sure, the financial incentives aligning with good art can help spur more of it by allowing people to dedicate their whole lives to making art. However, there is always someone making cool stuff in their free time regardless of the financial reward.

There is more good art out there than any individual could possibly consume, it just becomes a little more difficult to find it when it isn't playing on the radio.
One of Graeber's points not included in OP's article is that these jobs partially exist as a signal of power: the big manager needs to show status by having three EAs, not just one, even though three EAs do not much. LLMs can't replace power-signaling and politics!
> Current consensus is that b holes exist.

I don't think it works like that?

My read from looking at the literature is that the feeling is more like "black holes are a mathematical theory that have not been falsified by observational evidence, and for which we have some compelling, but inconclusive data, reconstructed from intensely noisy and poor resolution sources. Seems likely, but more data needed."
>Juggling Wood, Food, Gold and Stone has far more strategic depth than just Starcraft's Minerals + Gas

Does AoE have the unit caps as well? That's the resource I think is hardest to manage, though I think Warcraft handled it better with the upkeep. It made macro far more interesting when watching competitive play, as creating too many gatherers still hampered you beyond being unprepared for a rush.
why did they make this? what is the purpose? why do they want "to see the community build more complex interactions on top of this" - what's in it for them?
A few years ago I remember their URL shortener on android app directing somewhere that my hostfile adblocker would catch (like an analytics domain or something). This made it so first click on certain twitter links would fail, but if I clicked it again it would go successfully. Ultimately I never researched it deeply enough but my guess is they had some sort of handler that would log whether loading their analytics service failed and serve up the direct link on the second attempt.
This is just not very interesting. Compensation is far more messed up in the private sector.
I dropped out to focus on college and then all the FBI busts happened. I work in tech now. I lost touch with most people.

I can still find my name and groups in the scene reports that have been archived on defacto2.
The raw NASA data is that:

Open savannah, grasslands, managed area burns are greatly reduced - yes.

Wildfires in dense forest areas that have not seen massive fires for decades have increased.

Total square area burned per annum has been trending downwards for a few years now, a bland 2D figure that doesn't capture the increase in intense burning of very 3D woodlands.
The most harmful current idea is that there is such a thing as a "harmful idea that must be censored for the good of society".

I think this is one place where tolerance paradox arises.
Yep. A pointer/reference is just an index into a giant shared mutable array of bytes, which is exactly what causes all of the problems :)
Just tried this - loaded almost instantly. But that's only the link in the profile. Not shared links in tweets.

Leaning towards there's something else going on deep in the DNS/ad servers/cdn/who knows. Not the first I've seen/heard of resolving delays with t.co... maybe it's even just something with legacy non-SSL links being redirected etc
I wouldn't really call working an average of nearly 15 hours a day, 7 days a week, living their best lives. I would argue that that is actually a really shit way to live your life.
Sure. The benchmark from Epsilla https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*dDy..., the benchmark for the same dataset and same K (10) from ann benchmark https://ann-benchmarks.com/gist-960-euclidean_10_euclidean.h...
At fixed recall (which is the mentioned accuracy) 0.95 Epsilla gets 200 QPS using multiple intra-threads and a single inter-thread. Hnswlib gets more than 370 QPS at higher 0.97 recall and both single intra- and inter- threads, which is much faster and uses less CPU.

Because hnswlib does not use intra-threads it will scale much better in terms of full throughput, probably close to 7X-8X with 16 threads on 16 vCPUs (compared to Epsilla which saturates with 2.2X improvement from multiple threads).
The main premise of Epsilla's solution is trading throughput for latency, which is probably legit but would not work for all.

Note that even though the hardware between the benchmarks is not controlled (Epsilla only says it is some AWS EC2
16C32G, ann benchmark uses AWS r6i.16xlarge), it does not matter that much since the single threaded cpu speeds are pretty stagnant over the years, so ann benchmark single-thread results can be transferred (unless Epsilla is using non-x64 hardware, which would be a weird choice).
There is a constant overhead from communication between the nodes in Epsilla, but it is constant and should not affect the speed at high recalls (for which the hnswlib is also faster).
Does reading an academic text trump personal experience?
The video doesn't actually explain the title.

As a SC1 and SC2 player, I think the most reasonable analysis to the title is that Blizzard never intended Starcraft 1 to be played with 400+ APM like the Korean Pros were doing.

The speed is just insane. I doubt any SC1 developer even surpassed 200 APM when developing the game.
Music only sucks if you're over 35. Always has.
> find what works for them without judgement

Okay, so abolish divorce courts then? No lawsuits, custody, paternity suits, alimony judgements allowed?

> without rules made up by illiterate shepherds and grifters

Also abolish legislation by Congress/Parliament? Is that what you're aiming for by casting this net?
I wonder if there's a word in English to describe this.
A headline/sentence like this would be so absolutely ridiculous in a work of fiction, but there's no such bar, so to speak, for real life!
These features are always nice for meta-magic and monkey-patching but those are usually exactly the reasons why a language can only be optimized so much. It's often a worthwhile tradeoff but needs to be carefully considered.
Supervised Fine Tuning, I believe.
It's not the wall power, it's the heat from the LEDs as far as I know, plus the fact consumer power conversion electronics just aren't as reliable in general as other things.

Maybe one of these HN startup people will make the first modular light fixture with separate "ballast", LED, and "Smart Element", if desired. There's not really any technical barriers to making 10 or 20 year fixtures (I suspect a large number of cheap LED desk lights today will be around in a few decades if not tossed while perfectly good).
The thing I really want to get working is retrieval augmented generation - so effectively answering questions based on a blob of context that I pass in, and being able to do good-enough summarization.

I haven't quite proved this to myself yet but I think it's going to work pretty well.
(Here is an example from another post on the frontpage where the community is engaging in the 1st sense on a side project: Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37122927 )
There are a number of reasons this could be that are not necessarily nefarious. It's odd to jump straight to "something evil is going on"

Tell me this, does Twitter have some kind of "play nice" code that slows down inbound clicks through to a site so it doesn't DDOS other sites? I can easily imagine a scenario where anti DDOS caode would allow small sites to pass through quickly, yet sites under heavy "click through" load are being slightly throttled.
That’s not going to work, because now that’s an API for spammers to bulk process against a domain list. The only available API must be human communication to the mod team, or the spammers will overcome it with automation.
Interest thing. Before Ukrainian war I have very critical view on Great_man_theory, but during war my opinion changed.

What I really see, at calm time, great man is not important, because just free market work good enough.

But at tough time, great man could save lot of lives, lot of resources.

Same thing works at very large organizations - at lowest levels of hierarchy, general persons are good enough, but on top, need great man.

So idea, that at some scale, need exceptional people.
> Your set was cherry-picked

Not exactly cherry-picked, these were from things I submitted myself and noticed that were shadow flagged.

> That said, dailykos.com seems to be banned. Happy now?

No, I'd be happy when archive.is, Federalist and the rest of the non-spammy ones are unbanned. (Also, even if "balanced" censorship was the desired goal, having a single unreliable left-wing source banned vs a ton of right-wing ones doesn't really achieve that.)
we've been waiting a long time :)
it isn't. hawking radiation slows as the black hole size increases. I believe it's more just that it's very unlikely for too much mass to pass by a black hole
Why wait for OpenAI?
For people that didn't see article:

"In 2020, the CEO took home over $800,000. Combined, Kiva’s top 10 executives made nearly $3.5 million in 2020. In 2021, nearly half of Kiva’s revenue went to staff salaries."

Also interestingly I spoke to someone about running AdWords campaigns for them as a volunteer and got ghosted. Always felt that was a bit rude. Say if they found another preferred or decided to not run the ads. But from this I wonder how much additional staff not in the salary stats is voluntary if they used volunteers for various kinds of internal activities.
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This is a case where Occam's Razor trumps Hanlon's Razor.
> The best thing about animal farm is that it tells you that it doesn't matter what someone tells you they want to do, once they have power, they are likely be corrupted by it.

I think it was more that a system will abused by the extent to which abuse is possible. Someone benevolent (in the book snowball who was a stand in for Trotsky) will get out maneuvered by someone willing to weaponize all available power (Napolean in the book, Stalin). It’s possible to have someone good for a time (there are occasionally successful monarchs), but the system is not resilient to bad actors.

Norms or good intentions are not enough, you have to look at incentives and what abuse is possible within the system.

The US is a more resilient system (trump failed to hold onto power despite best efforts), but even so it has weaknesses in places governed primarily by norms. A political system needs to be evaluated by its outcomes in practice, not hypothetical “best case” implementations that ignore incentives.