skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing this. A few family members consume a good amount of alternative medicine without any idea of what they consume as the products are not regulated, or they source products from places that make no claims that are for human consumption.
Many is relative to the amount of illegal police activity. Depending on your perspective, that is not nearly enough and so saying they won’t be charged is perfectly warranted.

That you posted this shows a lack of interest by you to look into the other perspective, and that you’d rather be pedantic and dismissive than acknowledge their viewpoint.
So the official explanation is that it was a weather balloon all along? The media threw a panic over nothing?

say it ain't so, my heart can't take the thought /s

There's people out there deeply convinced and ready to argue that the thing was under control the whole time and maneuvered against the wind (at least. some will claim it did UFO tricks).

There's a few that said the whole panic was horse shit and it was a weather balloon from the start. Them folks mostly quit arguing about it a long time ago. The people that want to believe otherwise will do so no matter what; and their disconnect from reality ain't our problem.

..its a good reminder to ask, tho: where's the "after action" reports on that whole fiasco? how were continental defense radar filters changed? did they finally hook up with the FAA's amateur balloon registry thing so as to keep from shooting down more high school kids' projects?

Or was the full result of that panic to get the media leaned on to stop talking about the unknown flying things that were drones and balloons and no one knew whose?
It's pretty cool actually. I wonder if you can show what percentage of news are good or bad and if it impact the following price changes.
If they're expecting text, then why even submit in PDF? Wouldn't a Word document be better? At the very least, if a system has limitations or and expected rigid input, then it should provide that information to the submitter. I'm sure there are terrible systems our there, but I'd be surprised if the average ones aren't decent at OCR.
Location plays a role here. If you are in the industry where your people are paid 200k usd minimum then cloud will probably pay off, if you can pay them 1/5 of that, then it is probably another way around. Ahrefs cloud story reminds me of this in some way.
As someone who interacted with Drew back in his calculator days, he has greatly improved since then.
I really can't believe there doesn't exist a good "home box."

There should be a product that you can buy (a computer) that you bring home, plug in, set up via your phone or computer that:

- can host websites

- can store your files and sync them to other devices

- control your home automation

- host your email

- anything else you might otherwise put on a server

And does it all EASILY with a simple phone or web UI.

Yes I know you can actually buy a computer or server or raspberry pi and put something like NextCloud or Home Assistant et al. on it, but the real barrier imo is the setup and configuration. Even I don't do all this because it seems daunting to configure all of it, and I consider myself a pretty technical person. I really just want to buy a box, plug it in, and like select which apps I want to use, and then it starts working for me.
I would not blame the software. I'm pretty sure that images are not generally used as formats for resumes.

I mean, at what point do you think it gets ridiculous? When it's a video instead of an image? When it's in Sanskrit? (Computer translation is a thing, after all.) When it's a video in Sanskrit?

Or maybe is it more reasonable to say, look, this is some text, submit it in a standard text format? And an image is not that, even though OCR is a thing.
Depending on your setup you can use dynamic DNS and save yourself the cost of the static IP. Either way it will always be cheaper per GB of storage to host at home than in 'the cloud.'
I think for something like this to be effective, you need the actual intent encoded correctly (so this use case wouldn’t have been solved), and lawmakers acting in good faith (i.e., not drafting legislation that’s intentionally vague such that it can cast a wide net and force people to use the courts to dispute things).
In case you missed it, that’s IBM’s plan (or at least their marketing team’s plan)!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ibms-...
Related:

Catala: a programming language for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948342 - Oct 2020 (37 comments)
visiting your family is not nexessary for survival or sustenance. In fact your survival most likely implies the destruction of habit for other animals thru consumption/farming
Why Is the Labor Share Declining?(2020)[pdf]
There will always be some edge cases where it can't identify or interpret something, but they're pretty good. It doesn't matter where something is located in the document, it can pull stuff out like an address or phone number based on format and stuff.
Would this middleware be relevant with Links [1]? I mean, could we browse heavy-on-js websites such as gmail, facebook ?
[1]: http://links.twibright.com/
Ask HN: Resources to keep up with developments in AI
What are good resources / newsletters that aggregate developments in AI?

Specifically looking for a one stop shop to understand the latest developments and inform decisions on "what's possible", for example, if trying to formulate a roadmap to evaluate and take advantage of new technologies.
It's a bit of a straw man we know for a fact that advanced lifeforms can develop in the universe because we are one.
I'm still using Twitter, and am still finding new sites, with content produced by interesting people. It doesn't seem as bad as people are making out, at least for my uses.
Minor quibble/correction request - the FreeFileSync section (Windows specific) includes some Mac-specific instructions in Step 8.
Yikes. PDF without any of the text embedded. Can't select, can't search, can't filter. He's basically sending everyone a JPEG!

I would expect this to totally not work. Maybe someone is going to have OCR somewhere in the chain, but... why would you bet on it??
It only takes 200 Joules to restart a heart
Personal essay about grief, love, and the limits of medicine.
How did you create the PDF?
Sounds a bit like the ff is a ligature (i.e. not simply two f’s, but like one special character consisting of two f’s)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)
> Hasn't Cyc impressively demonstrated just how incredibly difficult and costly it is to formalize even the most basic matters of daily life?

I would offer that the "cost/benefit" analysis for such a formalism exists on at least two axes: the concept domain which one is attempting to formalize, and the benefit (and/or size of consumers) of any such working system

I can wholly understand that trying to translate the entirety of English into a formal logic system sounds overwhelming. But to side with a sibling commenter, why not at least start with the tax code which is a personal pain point, has (presumably) a correct outcome for some cases, and is mostly algorithms-in-English

And then, for the consumer side: ok, if I snapped my fingers and Cyc existed and worked I struggle to think how exactly my life would change. If the formally-specified tax code existed and worked I wouldn't have to rage-upvote almost every comment on the annual tax hatred thread

I would even offer that an incomplete version could still be useful if one left "fuzzy" variables in the corpus, and said "welp, we can't define what a $Person is because of the hundreds of years of precedent, so you'll need an actual Judge for that". I don't meant to say that 50% of the corpus can be undefined variables, that's just silly, but I'd hope the tax code isn't built upon 50% undefined behavior, even if accountants want you to think it is
Leave Twitter standing as a failed experiment and a reminder that nothing is above 'enshitification.'
Why is this flagged? I started to see a lot of good discussion topic get flagged recently. I thought HN is more matured than reddit...
Too have fun with laws/rule systems take a look at nomic
There’s high less content in a number of “regular” supplements , too. Without third party testing it’s legal to sell anything in a capsule and call it a supplement, at least in the usa
It depends on your time horizon. Over a period of say ten years, cash is unlikely to lose almost all of its value, whereas for stocks the likelihood can be higher. The stock market may crash (like it has in the past) at an inconvenient moment where you’ll then be happy to have some cash on hand.
> Yes they are. All of these traits live on a bell curve.

Do you actually have a source to substantiate your belief, or is this something you feel is right just because?
To them, it's not about logics or understanding anything (and also not about religion, I don't think, even if some might say). It's biology, an animal species, built to reproduce.

Btw don't know if you've seen: Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905218
The article describes the literal opposite of "for fun and sport".
Unfortunately you can't really rely on this sort of comparison between numbers obtained from different sources, except in the most unambiguous circumstances, which rarely arise for a complex topic such as sector emissions and cost of mitigation. The 1.5% and 2.4% figures may use different methodologies. The total-cost-to-decarbonize estimate probably entails a variety of unrealistic assumptions; it's hard to take into account future improvements in technology, all of the different ways the market will find to minimize costs, etc.

If you're interested, I discuss the general danger of working with such quick-grab numbers in https://climateer.substack.com/p/numbers.
Escort carrier
WG21 ships a completely new language - very similar to but technically unrelated to the previous one - every three years. C++ 11, C++ 14, C++ 17, C++ 20, and (later this year presumably) C++ 23. It is fascinating that people consider the resulting arbitrary source code breaks to be complete compatibility and yet Rust's choice to offer ongoing compatibility to Rust 2015 edition (Rust 1.0) is somehow not enough...

C++ already changed the definition of std::string, that's why your Linux distro went through painful C++ ABI changes many years ago. They went from one terrible string design to a different terrible string design, ruling out some optimisations GNU can chosen, but mandating optimisations other groups had chosen.

Don't worry though, they didn't standardize an actual string slice type (Rust's &str) until much later, as std::string_view in C++ 17, so most software which didn't actually care about string allocation needed to be thrashed around anyway because there was no vocabulary type for this most obvious thing aside from the hopeless C-style "nul terminated char *".

It's actually hard to over-estimate how terrible they are at this (language standardization). Is it really just that there are too many of them? I find it hard to imagine that just large numbers of people can explain it, plenty of people co-operate to create Rust and the results aren't anywhere close to as awful. Maybe it's the ISO process? I have never participated in ISO standardization of something this complicated, maybe the process is somehow poisonous.

But I think the best explanation is the culture. C++ has developed a culture which prizes arcane nonsense.
It is actually not legal to sell anything in a capsule and call it a supplement in the USA. The FDA's guidance still applies.

There are lots and lots of unscrupulous online supplement merchants who are breaking the law.
I got the advice to imagify all the text in resumes, because some recruiters would 'upgrade' the text before sending it to companies. Next thing you know, you have 5 new skills for things you've never heard about that somehow happen to perfectly match whatever $random_corporation$ needs.
Megatextures on N64 [video]
Still, DN experience beats everything what we have today. Of course there were lot less features and many limitatitons, but the overall experience was great.
Apple iOS 17 option on only in lockdown mode for insecure 2G towers.

.. documents show the “Stingray II” device can impersonate four cellular communications towers at once, monitoring up to four cellular provider networks simultaneously, and with an add-on can operate on so-called 2G, 3G, and 4G networks simultaneously.

https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/long-secret-stingray-man...
so you're saying that big business should have colluded to brainwash the population into liking foreign products? they should have had better marketing? or lobbied government to force the population to buy more imported goods? How exactly is big business even one percent to blame in this scenario?
Why Discomfort Leads to Great Discovery
I still use twitter for news and occasional lulz. Seems about the same as it always was, I don't see what the fuss is about tbh.
The tax base in the suburbs needs to increase to the point that it can actually support the massive amount of infrastructure needed to support their desired lifestyle. Much like rural areas, the suburbs are heavily subsidized by urban residents and businesses. If low density housing had to realize all of their actual costs, it would probably be a lot less desirable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
In my very opinionated view, the concept of new company towns is missing. All the current efforts are around bringing jobs to people. Jobs are a side effect, things shouldn't be done for the sake of jobs.

The plains of nebraska for example are an excellent place (again, opinionated) for an assembly plant like foxconn but american. Mainly because a crapton of freight via railways passes through there and plenty of undeveloped cheap land. Such factories have high shipping/receiving volume and new towns with new cheap housing for potential workers is feasible.

Yuma is another great location because of it's stable (sunniest in US) climate, proximity to mexico boarder and like with TSMC and Tuscon it is very disaster safe, right on I10 and close to CA (the US might starve if Yuma was destroyed! A lot of food processing there for these reasons).

Manufacturing at old towns and factories will have minimal competitive advantage.

Lastly, the US does not have a "success at any cost" mindset towards manufacturing as the fuel for economic success. It is very much an afterthought. A lot of this and many other issues are a result of political divisions.
Marrying is getting to be a minority pursuit [0], bringing its own implications and political correlations.

[0] https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2019/04/01/married-by-30-youre-now-i...
You even send messages like "lol." with the period?
This was an opinion article though right? The NY Times seems to have always had a fairly diverse range of opinion writers. I know I have even read criticism recently saying that the times shouldn’t be giving such writers a platform, particularly when the writers are on the opposite end of the political spectrum usually associated with the paper, but I personally find it commendable. Mainly if you have an opinion section, but all of the writers have roughly the same opinion, that only contributes to the “echo chamber” effect. With that given example of the Iraq war being noble, even though many (but certainly not all) would strongly disagree in hindsight, it was definitely not a fringe opinion at the time. Would it really be better to have an opinion section that didn’t include popular sentiments at the time of publication, even if many readers disagree with them?

Obviously there’s a lot of grey area here, and I don’t think The NY Times always strikes the right balance, but the example of publishing a pro Iraq War opinion in 2003 doesn’t seem particularly unhinged.
> Of these, 11 pills contained lead levels greater than the detection limit
> and 1 pill contained 129,000 μg/g of lead (about 13% lead by weight),
> strongly suggesting that the pills were the source of the lead toxicity.

13% of the pill by weight, yikes!

> Four additional pills contained 7,900—33,000 μg/g of mercury.
Wow! Didn't expect to see it on Hacker News again.

Hello, hi! I'm Oleksandr Kaleniuk, and I wrote the thing back in 2020. Please don't take it all too seriously. There was COVID-19, I had nothing better to do.

I did write a new book since then, and my publisher would bite my head off for missing this opportunity. It's called Geometry for Programmers and it was published by Manning just this year. https://www.manning.com/books/geometry-for-programmers It's about curves, surfaces, transformations, homogeneous coordinates, rational splines, distance fields, and voxels. You don't have to know any advanced math to enjoy the book, but you might want to know a bit of Python. It's for programmers, so the didactic tools there are mostly code, not theorems.
In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.
This has been bugging me for years. The cost of a translator is basically insignificant, it's just one salary, it's a drop in the ocean of a corporate budget.

Hell, when I was a game dev, in a studio of less than 50 people we had a sudden and huge demand to port our game to China. It was a Czech studio making a game in English that was being translated to Mandarin. It cost us one single person, his entire job was translating text files we sent him and managing our China social media presence.

It absolutely boggles the mind that these Chinese companies can't or won't hire a single English-speaking copyeditor
Pretty cool! Although it's not obvious, without reading, that the issue falls at clock-bottom, which is counter to analog clock convention, both for 12 hour and 24 hour clocks. I would encourage some coloring, shading, or a larger mark.

Logically, reaching for a justification, an explanation, sure, it's reasonable that the MSB flips halfway around, but again it differs from the analog clock reading conventions.

v2 (+/v2.html) which he posted on another thread, does make it clearer

https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/v2.html

Other thread of his blog domain

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/unix-clock.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492371

The color separation is also a bit large, mainly 2-3 and 3-4, while 1-2 are similar but distinct.
> very little quality

Even then you get nothing - just ghosted.
Twitter is and was an awful, depressing place. The sooner it dies the better. Sadly it remains about as strong as ever.

But if it were to die (one can always hope) I suggest to fill the hole with things that bring joy. Like cake and butterflies.
Governments should give money for the RESULT.
It would likely not be tax free.

And with the risk of sounding cynical, remember that we are talking about normal people where a majority that likely will not plan-ahead that much or save up for when the last day dawns. They realize they need to find work again.

Also remember that large industries or businesses tend to attract many small ones around it that depend on it, just like any eco system.

Then unemployment rate goes up, people get angry, shady politicians see opportunity to gain votes from disgruntled people... And everything goes * up.
"Don't believe anything you read on the internet" -- Abraham Lincoln
Indeed is a virus that needs to die as soon as possible.

It has contributed to a situation where a normal resume now is worthless. It has caused massive inflation of what we write.

Everybody who doesn't excel at selling themselves ends up lower on the chain. But that absolutely doesn't mean they're a bad fit for the job.

And then there are the stupid personality tests. What are they looking for if I have to click the same buttons on 2 separate screens?
I have no evidence or reason to believe that the inputs to the corpus of valid word sources for the new system changed - most likely only the prediction model did. This misfeature only recently shipped (iOS 16, I think) and I’m sure Cupertino views it as a net gain.
earnings is economic reality and it directly, materially affects the long-term value proposition of the equity. you didn't know that?
I was going to mention this almost sounds like a vultr ad, but woah that's a really clever way to go about selling a company.
> Human authors who wrote original creative content, or wrote in a style that is personal and widely recognized, their rights to trade and commerce are in peril

I see what you're saying, but I fail to see how ChatGPT merely copying their style (not: content) might impact "their rights to trade and commerce". Suppose I ask ChatGPT to "tell me some jokes in the style of Louis CK". Would that make me less likely to stream a Louis CK comedy special?

(By contrast, if I ask ChatGPT to summarize the key revelations from a book like Fire and Fury, that probably would make me less likely to buy the book, because if I buy the book it'd be for the novel information contained in it, but ChatGPT already divulged it to me.)
From the article:

> When I asked Jody how much of his family’s meat is wild game, he initially said “about half.” Upon reflection, he bumped the number to 70 percent.

Doesn't sound like this is a justification for "culture" or "tradition". Certainly seems a lot more responsible than the average "tradition" of "I got it at the grocery store".

When you hunt for your own food, you are forced to consider the sacrifice of the animal and have to put in the work of preparing for the hunt and cleaning the animal. Things that anyone who's not done this takes for granted when they eat meat.
This is unfortunately one of the ways that alternative medicine can be smeared into disrepute by the medical and pharmaceutical establishment. Unregulated and forced into the shadows, manufacturers lack accountability, and contaminants get into the supply chain.

Of course it only takes one incident from one manufacturer to tar the whole line with the same brush. In this case study, there is one woman who was a patient at one clinic. They don't say how many suppliers or manufacturers were responsible for contamination. In the past, one bad batch of a supplement has been cause for the FDA to create a panic, and take regulatory action to ban anything they want.
I don't know why you are being downvoted, because it's true...

See page 92 of David MacKay's wonderful "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air" [1]. Figure 15.8 compares the energy intensity of different transport methods in kilo Watt hours per net ton kilometer. Shipping and rail are basically 1/10 to 1/20 of roadfreight. His conclusion is "Transporting freight by ship is surprisingly energy efficient".

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c15/page_92.shtml
Actually, rich people at that time were probably the least likely to own a computer. If you're talking about somebody who lives in mansion and has a butler and a chauffeur, that type of person was not buying computers and would not have had any interest in them. (I don't know what those people did with their time, but it sure as hell wasn't computing.)

Personal computers were expensive by middle class standards [1], and the sweet spot was educated professionals like doctors and lawyers because they could afford it and it was interesting/useful to them and their families. A rich person who inherited an oil fortune would have been able to afford it, but not interested. A teacher would have been interested, but unable to afford it.

[1] At a time when a decent, no-frills used car would have been around $1,000, you had something like this: ~$700 for a more limited VIC-20 or Z80-based machine, ~$2,000 for a PC-clone, and maybe double that for the Macintosh. For most buyers, it was a big but not impossible expense.