skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just Hardell. It's also Martin Pall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pall), though that Wikipedia page does not do him justice. Any time you see "EMF interferes with calcium channels", that's Pall. The linked article avoids naming him by using the Trump-esque "lots of people are saying" phrasing regarding calcium channels.

Pall has written numerous "research" papers about how smart electric meters, cell phones (especially 5g), and Wifi will lead to the imminent extinction of the human race[0].

His 2018 paper[1] found that "oxidative stress, sperm/testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including changes in the encephalogram (EEG), apoptosis, cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload are established effects of WiFi exposure". Which sounds pretty bad!

However, as a meta study noted[2] in referencing that 2018 paper, "this review was heavily criticized for selective reporting, for ignoring the quality of the studies, for ignoring the level of exposure, for including studies that did not apply WiFi signals, and for inadequate description of the study results"

That's typical; every time Pall publishes, the journal is flooded with rebuttals from misquoted sources and readers who note things like (regarding Pall's claims that 5G causes mass sterilization): "In the case of the effects on sperm and infertility, effects should exclusively be included in humans (or human cells), but of the 8 articles cited in this section, only 1 was in humans (Yildirim et al., 2015) based on anonymous questionnaires. It is not an adequate study to conclude any possible effect of exposure to Wi-Fi in humans since no other variables were controlled (food, air pollution, antecedents, previous pathologies ...). Even, the sample was obtained from an infertility clinic and there was no control group and the authors claim that no differences were found."[3]

Pall's game is a long con -- he's been at it so long that he can cite his own body of work as "massive literature, providing a high level of scientific certainty, for each of eight pathophysiological effects caused by non-thermal microwave frequency EMF exposures"[4]

Not coincidentally, Pall runs the non-profit 5G Free Oregon[5], where you are invited to contribute funds to combat the scourge of EMF that is always just on the verge of causing total societal collapse.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/how-basel...

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511...

2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10643389.2021.1...

3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511...

4. https://www.icnirp.org/cms/upload/consultation_upload/Respon...

5. https://5gfreeoregon.org/
> "make a linked list" no, just use a library like everyone else.

If you cannot sketch out a simple linked list on a whiteboard, you’re not an engineer and have no business being hired as one at a place like Apple, full stop.

I was asked to sketch out a hash table on the whiteboard. It was trivial, because a trivial hash table is trivial.
Sure, but we don't know if there was a flagger either. Only a single construction worker standing to the side.

I'm not debating whether an AI car should "see" possible construction, even when not marked appropriately (most humans can too). Only pointing out we don't know if this zone was marked/flagged - and if it wasn't, there's a higher likelihood of human driver error as well.
Free speech is a fundamental human right.
I was under the impression RISC architectures usually(?) don't use microcode. Or am I mistaken?
Is it using the Barcode Detection API for browsers that support it natively?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
Different. It's just a different way to enjoy coffee that is dramatically more creamy and dominated by different flavors extracted.
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Zero mention of the increasingly popular federated alternatives just seems like bad, corpocentric journalism
Author here. Thanks for the feedback! and yeah I agree adding those features to the landing page is a good idea. I'll add them.

Regarding tools that offer similar capabilities in other languages, I'm not aware, and I have my opinion on why this could be https://github.com/jpmonettas/flow-storm-debugger#arent-omni... but I could be wrong.

But there are time travel debuggers for other languages for sure, and some omniscient debuggers too, but with different capabilities.
This is a natural consequence of Twitter's design, which rewards attention and users with high follower counts. "Omg I too love sandwiches" is not going to get a lot of likes, whereas outrage sells. There's no way to punish toxic behavior, so the only direction is up.
Unlike oil and coal which are very ecologically beneficial?
Natural evolution may have its limits, but we don't yet know how much we can improve by artificial means.

We will have the technology to alter the DNA to increase our intelligence significantly. There are limits, but I don't think it is likely that human beings are at the peak of what is biological possible.

- When we reach the biological limit, we may extend ourselves by merging with technology. Our brains might be connected to a computing device that amplifies our capabilities. It may be so seamless that when answering a question, you won't notice if the knowledge was stored in your physical brain or retrieved from a central archive.
I'm going to talk out of my ass here because I am not involved enough to know the mechanics of how LLMs are really trained at any deep level, but from the surface level understanding I have, I would expect any attempt to eliminate hallucination to be intractable given the techniques in use. As far as I understand, the initial training run is simply fed raw text and it works on the basis of predicting a next token. Then these are find-tuned using RLHF and potentially other techniques I don't know much about.

To truly eliminate hallucinations, I would think you'd have to change the initial training phase. Rather than only feeding raw text and predicting next tokens, you'd need to feed propositions labeled with some probability that they are actually true. Doing this with real fidelity is clearly not possible. No one has a database of all fact claims quantified by probability of truth. But you could potentially use the same heuristics used by human learners and impart some encoding of hierarchy of evidence. Give high weight to claims made by professional scientific organizations, high but somewhat lesser to conclusions of large-scale meta-analyses in relatively mechanistic fields, give very low weight to comments on Reddit.

That is all entirely possible but the manual human labor required seems antithetical to the business goals of anyone actually doing this kind of research. Without it, though, you're seemingly limited to either playing whack-a-mole with fine tuning out specific classes of error when they're caught or relying on a dubious assumption that plausibly human-generated utterances you're trying to mimic are sufficiently more likely to be true than false.

This problem arguably goes away if people treat LLMs for what they are, generators of strings that look like plausible human-generated utterances, rather than generators of fact claims likely to be true. But if we really want strong AI, we clearly need the latter. There is a reason epistemologists have long defined knowledge as justified true belief, not just incidentally lucking into being correct.
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behind-the-overlay...

Safari on iPhone.
I think avalanche transceivers need alkaline batteries because they work better in the cold and have a more reliable voltage drop as the energy is drained. But beyond niche applications, rechargeable all the way :).
That provision is intended to exclude licenses that say things like "you must show a modal GUI window crediting this software" which would exclude the software from being used in a server application, library or command-line interface. Or a clause like "you must provide a copy of this software on a zip-disk if asked", which over time would become increasingly hard to do.

The AGPLv3 is not predicated on a particular technology or interface so it doesn't run afoul of this. You can use it in networked software, or un-networked software. If a license said something like "you cannot use this for software that users interact with over a network" then it would violate this principle.
I wonder if there could be a service which you use with your real identity registered, but the certs it gives you are untracked to still allow for possibility of being anonymous. Although it seems like it should limit it to giving you only a few certs a month. But then bad actors could start buying those certs from people themselves. Still would make it much harder to spam requests.
Hard pass. I don't want Google, or even a trustworthy neutral party, to decide my view of the world. (Compromised as it may be already.)

We're all unique and unpredictable. In a given article, a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me.

I've been trained not to even trust the basic facts they pull of out content like movie showtimes or whatever. Once you see it wrong a few times you realize it's folly not to keep the responsibility of finding information yourself.
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They are too busy turning their browser and search experience into crap. For instance what's with search results in gmail and google drive? I literaly search for a file by name, doesn't find it, I search by extension ... it finds it? Then there's chrome - right click on selected text to search on google, instead of opening at tab it opens a crammed side bar? Has google gone insane?
Will definitely try this. Right now, I am finding ChatGPT a great tutor during coding interview prep (I don't really use it for hints that much, personally; I've mostly been asking it to explain the optimal solutions to various problems, because the Leetcode editorials are usually pretty poorly written, and in any event I want to be able to ask questions about them).

One thing I would like to add as a pain-point when studying for algo interviews is that I want sources of questions other than LeetCode. Maybe this has some.
don't worry, it gets shutdown in 2 years
I think one issue is that unlike physical objects like phones, software doesn't occupy physical space or respect national borders. So trying to enforce "all software of such and such category within our physical borders must have this property" is impractical without draconian measures that pose a significant threat to software freedom. It creates legal hazards to otherwise perfectly benign actions like downloading open source software from a foreign country, compiling your own browser, publishing software or offering network services for free on the global internet, etc.

That's not to say a regulation like this couldn't be done in a reasonable way, but it needs to be handled with care.
I'd trade this for the eradication of shorts. The format is simply mind-numbing, and the volume of low effort content with zero relevance is a big turn off.
Or rather; "Move to the appropriate bubble of Mastodon where the views align with your own"
Things like this have been done many times before. Houdini lets you create shaders with node graphs and plenty of other programs have done the same thing. It has a lot of advantages in that more constrained space.

The problems are always the same but I think they aren't clear until someone has already gone down this road.

1. Building expressions out of nodes is much less information dense that just typing them out. What would be a single line of text can end up being a lot of nodes and taking up a lot of screen space.

2. Expression ordering isn't as clear, since it is a graph of dependencies and to figure out what runs when you have to keep tracing dependencies backwards.

3. Branching is tricky for the same reason. A graph of dependencies makes branching much less clear due to order and a scrambled graph of nodes.

4. Loops are more difficult because they also depend on the order of execution and graphs can make that difficult to decipher and difficult to illustrate.

5. State becomes difficult because you need ordering and it depends on external dependencies.

A lot of graph problems can be seen in haskell too. You have something that works very well when what you are doing is all a series of transformations, but there are large chunks of programming that don't fit in to this model.
If public transit is normalized (used by the majority of people, particularly those with money and some political power), those people will demand enforcement of "don't piss in the corner" laws. The problem today is mass transit (outside NYC and a few other places) is largely used by working class with neither the means, power, or time to push for change.
You don't need rivers or even much of a slope for pumped storage. Just water and a few hundred feet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
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Yes and:

Startups like ETFuels are decarbonizing other industries, like transportation and fertilizers.

We'll need all the solutions. Not either-or, but yes-to-all-and-more-of-it-please.
I don't know about fear. The Django migrations are a bit stupid in some ways so introduces some fear.

It's more about the speed of development. I sometimes make many migrations per day. It's just so fast I don't really think about changing models at all.
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You would have to solve the problem of getting soggy toast from the exhaust steam.
I would expect not, as that API does not currently support iOS (which is a real shame). What's annoying is that iOS bundles an excellent barcode scanning framework in Vision, so it wouldn't be tremendously difficult to add to safari.
Because it’s still being sold for 70$ in ebook form.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400830398/the-pr...
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Crateroid?
considering the difference between the words mask and hide, i would assume it's replacing them with canned values.
> I was exposed to topics and classes I would have laughed at earlier (philosophy, for one)

Same here. Thought I left the horrors of pointless essays and open-ended questions ( what do you mean there isn't a correct answer? ) once I left high school. My college required that we take philosophy, literature and history classes as electives. Turned out to be my favorite classes and where I learned the most. Especially philosophy and history.

> I really miss the youthful naïveté

Yes. And the LAN parties.
If you don't follow people, they don't show up in your feed.

If you lurk on the firehose you get it all. Including all the parts you may disagree with or find despicable or... Perhaps also something nice?

I really don't get this point... What do you expect exactly on a large platform?
The airplane was invented in the US so what has Airbus accomplished?
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Yeah, I also wish for such a way. Global metered system for services like those.

I don't ever read one single thing, but I read an article or two from countless of services.
Making another company host your speech is not.
This was my experience as well. I found the first few chapters, which discuss the neurology and fundamentals, to be very interesting. The part that extended beyond individual-level habits started to lose me.
Nearly all the failures of the internet come down to advertising. The surveillance state was built to sell you advertising. Spam isn't exactly advertising but it's not not-advertising either. Captchas are built to protect sites from being viewed without making advertising impressions, usually so the content can be stolen to sell to other advertisers.

We need a new foundation. I don't know what it looks like, exactly, but I think it's going to have to built around micropayments.
Just a friendly reminder that Schmidt is kind of scary - he has all the money and fewer of the ethics/morals regarding privacy.

Don't forget his quotes after Snowden and how he believes that nobody deserves privacy - and recall his role in the salary and poaching scandals between FB apple and Google.

But hopefully something great comes from this
>Basically we don’t know much

Could you give a bit more background info on the motivation and history behind your decision to purchase this product?
Wait, isn't everyone else in the world living in a western democracy like me ??
You just need to cover the easy 80%, and nicely tell you to go to the documentation for the other cases.

Django migrations have been doing this for a long time...
The article presents small discussion forums as safe and cosy, which they can be, but their insular nature also makes them a perfect breeding ground for extremist views. We shouldn’t ignore that most of the radical politics and conspiracy theories swirling Twitter are born in such small forums.
In most jurisdictions buying drugs is a criminal act, or why would you buying them online? If you commit a crime you are a criminal, by the definition of the word. You can argue about the merits of the law, but it doesn't mean that you've not committed the crime.
Every time I read a variation of the "for the benefit of the org" phrase I cannot help but laugh at the absurdity of it.

Do I own the org? If I produce 5x more, do I get rewarded 5x more? What about the other way around: will the org work "for my benefit" every step of the way?

Folks, most people work where they work because they have to. You work or you starve, that's the deal society gives us.

So many clueless managers buy into this crap and go on to become horrible managers "for the benefit of the org".

This phrase is completely nonsensical because it implies that the employee, that has no real stake in the company (no, stock options don't count), should be altruistic and work in the benefit of the organization above his own interests. I say above his own interests because if the interests of the organization and the individual's were aligned, this would be a non-issue.

The reality is that the absolute majority of organizations don't want to fix their incentives because it's cheaper and easier to label people "difficult employees" and fire them. After all, we're all replaceable.

Anecdotal but I've never come across someone that was actively trying to harm their employers. Even the ones labelled "difficult". It was always about bad incentives from the organization.
> "They were very precise about it. 104.8ºC," says Prashant Jain, a chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. "I was like, wait a minute, I know this temperature."

Their favorite radio station in IL? 104.8 KCRF, all phase transitions, all the time.
But lipo AA exist now.
This is bizarre. Why would Tor lend the credibility of their association to an inferior privacy product? My spidey senses are tingling, something is very wrong here.
I agree with this. I think there will still be niche products using liquid fuels. Like for example "explorer" or "offroader" type vehicles that require higher energy densities. And aviation of course. But commuter transportation will be using direct current or batteries.

But the two chief uses will be in industrial processes that use hydrogen directly, in chemical processes that use hydrocarbons directly, and in energy storage applications where you need to store large quantities of energy for weeks or months or years.
1 star reviews are often skewed by the "delivery company did something dumb" reviews or a part was missing or there was a problem with returning it or that kind of thing. I often just look that the average rating isn't complete trash, if it's averaging 2 star on a lot of ratings the product probably is not worth considering. Then I pick some longer 4-star reviews and read the text. In the long reviews someone's put some thought into it and they're often more balanced.
Not much to add to this thread, except to congratulate you both on such funny little quips.

Top of the morning to both of you!
That is a wildly lazy "translation" of the subtitle of an article you clearly didn't actually read or engage with. His argument boils down to none of the above, and your final point is such an incredibly ironic statement, that it's hard to believe it wasn't intentional.

Twitter is, to his point, largely a worthless platform for discussion if you don't heavily curate your experience, because it does, by design (unintentionally, possibly), massively elevate bad takes, noise, and quick, pithy attacks, because they're easy to propagate, and it very clearly downgrades any argument that requires more than a few hundred characters to present (especially now, with the changes to how threaded conversations can be linked). Threads idea of moderating that changes the dynamic and value. Neither is actually good, and neither is particularly beneficial compared to other models.

But sure, "governments" and "media companies" and rabble rabble rabble. Next time, RTFA.
That they can't make enough money from contextual advertising with literally the entire internet linking to them all the time is a spectacular failure.
An Ariane 5 failed because of bitrot, so the headline comparison of rocket failures makes sense. Not testing software with new performance parameters before launch sounds like catastrophic management to me.
Refactoring is the best kind of test! It has a slight bias for programming languages but the bias can be mitigated by having refactorable libraries in many languages.
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Hi HN

I'd like to share my open-source project "Incognito Pilot". It is similar to ChatGPT Code Interpreter, but the interpreter runs locally and it can use open-source models like Llama 2.

Would be great to hear your thoughts! Thanks a lot.
"a similar fingerprint for all of its users", to me, makes it sound like they accept the fact that users will be fingerpritable as Mullvad Browser users (but not more precise than that).

Actually, which other crowd could they even be referring to with "hide-in-the-crowd"?
I'd stay away from anything Google does. They have proved to be sectarians in politics and machiavellian in business and privacy
It’s a perfectly legitimate source, the only problem is your personal political disagreements with them.

Do better.
That’s hardly a “scam” though. The use cases are simply different. Batteries are good. Transportable fuel is also good.
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Hi! No it does not use the Barcode Detection API, as that is not widely supported, and the last time I tried it (which is admittedly a while ago) performance did not seem great.
This doc was updated 3 weeks ago?

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr...

> This could've eliminated so much sickening codegen.

Also this is funny because what do you think static metaprogramming is if not codegen? Templates macros etc are all codegen. They're just codegen you can't see (or easily steer either).
In the 18th century people literally owned pirate ships with cannons and hired themselves out as privateers.
uBlock is the only one of those I've even heard of.
It is open source. https://docs.iommi.rocks/en/latest/
Then they tell us our Java app consumes too much CO2.
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