skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fish sauce? Unless it is a regular part of your diet, most people won't like it. The smell is incredibly off-putting. And, the reason you like it probably isn't the salt. It is the umami (savoriness) from the naturally occurring MSG. Japanese miso and soy sauce can do similar things to bland veggies.
How did the world get convinced it was OK and normal to spray our foods with poisons?

And we are still super OK with it today, mostly.
Thank you very much, wmf, for clarifying. I am doing some research to replace the Java dependencies with Python exclusively, so I can create a .dmg installer using PyInstaller or similar tool. This appears to be a more straightforward approach
Of course. The complexity is too massive for us to understand. We just understand the overall algorithm as an abstraction.

You can imagine 2 billion people as an abstraction. But you can't imagine all of their faces and names individually.

We use automated systems to build the LLM by simply by describing the abstraction to a machine. The machine takes that description and builds the LLM for us automatically.

This abstraction (the "algorithm") is what's on a trendline for improvement based on the past decade.

Understanding of the system below the abstraction, however, has been at a almost standstill for a much longer timespan then a decade. The trendline for low level understanding points to little future improvement.
I'm in the same boat -- same age of diagnosis, same qualms, etc..

I am at the point in my life, a decade later, where I couldn't care less if there are longterm harmful effects.

1. I'm sure my unmedicated life would have continued to be equally unhealthy in different ways.

2. It's not like old age is sunshine in rainbows. I rather die in my 60s or 70s from a heart attack, with dignity, than live long enough to slowly watch everything and everyone I ever experienced dissipate from my mind until I am husk of a human being due Alzheimer's or Dementia.
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That's what standards are for. It makes sense for open source projects but not necessarily for commercial ones, especially if they are successful.
> I don’t know how the tweet author got around that.

If I had to defeat such a thing, I'd try to fake the voice using a good-enough AI running locally.

Alternatively use some voice-changer/editing magic to make your own voice sound "good enough".
Anyone can go on Alibaba and buy 55-gallon drums of pure antibiotics at a fraction of a fraction of a cent per dose.
In split brain experiments (where the corpus callosum is cut), sometimes the half which is nonverbal is prompted and the action is taken. Yet when the experimenter asks for the explanation the verbal half supplies an (incorrect) explanation. How much of human reasoning when prompted occurs before the prompt? it's a question you have to ask as well.
There are lots of ways "can't function socially, at work, and/or take care of yourself" can manifest even if you're in the top 5% of the income distribution. For example, that person's house might be an absolute disaster zone, with overgrown lawns, tasks piling up and a million tiny piles of bills and papers to be done "later". They might need 4 separate alarm clocks in 3 different physical places in order to wake up on time every day. They might be constantly forgetting to follow up with family and friends all the time and isolated and alone when they're not in the office. They might be the co-worker that when everyone is talking about what they did over the holiday weekend responds with "not much" because they're otherwise too embarrassed to admit they spent the whole 3 days in a state of paralysis over what to even do. They might be putting all their energy into appearing normal and functional at work because the alternative is being homeless or starving and you might never know because you don't see them outside the office.

All that to basically say income and job descriptions do not inherently say anything about what disorders a person may or may not be suffering from.
How much COBOL runs on platforms other then the Mainframe? My limited COBOL experience was while working for a Mainframe software vender. I have not scene anything about people running COBOL in production on non Mainframe platforms, doesn't mean it isn't happening though.
Plus I don’t even think PRoC would know how to operate the EUV machines.
> It is impressive to me the amount of time others are willing to spend in order to avoid even considering what is arguably the cleanest, most business-friendly stack in 2023.

This is totally correct if you are doing small scale stuff in the cloud or just random "enterprise" for sub-thousand person companies. Azure is playing a distant third in reliability, maybe even fourth behind Alibaba.
I hadn’t read this before, thanks for sharing it. Also this site is perfect, it reminds me of the feeling I got using StumbleUpon so long ago. Finding a super specific site someone passionate was hosting, the best!
In my experience working on anything that's exciting and full of marketing buzz is a sure road to burnout, with hype-dictated unrealistic deadlines and all.

My personal preference is to avoid this.
More proof that there are no new ideas under the sun! It is interesting to me that they chose the CMB as well. Although, looking at the Wikipedia synopsis it seems to speculate: "This discovery suggested the possibility of life before or immediately after the Big Bang, and Destiny was launched millions of years ago to study and gather data regarding this possibility."

I wonder if they were going towards a purposeful communication plot as well, or even a plot suggesting a recurrence theme. I think of it sometimes like the ouroboros/eternal-return mystical philosophy. Like, the advanced life that we end up creating in this universe knows that the only way it can recreate itself is to recreate us, like we are just some kind of bootstrap for the universe's final form.
OT I know, but what make loader is that? I could use something that size.
Well creating a node and hooking it up to other nods is most probabily something like this under the hood:

pd_node = PointDistributeNode(type = PDType.RANDON, seed=149)
scaleRandomizerNode.geometry_input.connect(pdNode.geometry_output)

So far it's perfectly represented by node editor.

How about creating a dynamic number of point distribution nodes and adding them all together? Trivial in code, most likely impossible in node editor.

The most flexible UI is a good programming language, anything else comes with flexibility compromises in favour of something else.
it can't be the only check that's for sure. They aren't gonna break x11 users yet.
You can acknowledge and treat it without "using it as an excuse". And there's certainly no need to define yourself by it. Imagine having that same mindset with other treatable disorders. Cataracts. Eczema. Addison’s disease. Cavities. There's a million examples where most folks wouldn't even consider ignoring - let alone embracing any "quirkiness".
> generate lifelike bird sounds to enhance the samples of underrepresented species. These can then be used to train audio identification tools used in ecological monitoring

That's a pretty neat idea. "feature generation" but for rare birdsong spectrograms.
I’m sure you know more than the ophthalmologist and the rest of the surgical team. What are your credentials to opine so confidently on this topic?
I see a couple things interacting here to promote this kind of post.

1. The bar is low to call yourself a programmer and have a programmer's blog. Maybe they have a university degree that required them to take courses in a variety of fields to become well rounded. Maybe they just went to a technical school and got good job experience. Maybe they just jumped into a programming job after dropping out of highschool. They might be very good programmers, but not knowledgeable about anything else and not particularly aware of it.

2. HNews has a lot of programmers in it's membership. Earth shaking stuff from a variety of diverse fields gets promoted because programmers have diverse interests, but they also tend to read a lot of other programmers' blogs and post them, even if they are somewhat less than earthshaking.

Every news source has its weaknesses, and the tendency to see low-effort, poorly researched programmer blog posts promoted above genuinely interesting material is one of HNews's problems.
I think you’ll have better code on average if you always apply these rules than if you don’t.

It’s not always helpful to give people the option to do it as they think is best.
Friendly Brit coaxes sour Big Apple to see its own reflection
Why would they care at all?
There isn't an easy shortcut. Experts exist for reasons. Just like Doctors and other specialists, find a good expert you trust and evaluate their evaluation of the topic.
I’m saying most users of hard drugs are not addicts.
"Public Discourse" being "Private"? Public is in the name, though. So that statement seems... well... weird?

"Public" and "Private" and "Government" mean different things at different times.

In this case I think you mean Public Discourse is not controlled by the Government. And that's where a lot of confusion is coming in.
The most promising way to reduce the use of pesticides is development of gene drive to eliminate common pest species, and precise genetic editing of crops transplanting existing pest resistance features from one variety to others. Sadly both are slowed down due to irrational fear of GMOs and overregulation.
How do you breed antibiotic resistant gonorrhea without giving antibiotics to someone with gonorrhea? Giving someone a mild dose to treat some other infection, but not enough to properly treat the gonorrhea?

I think if we are serious about antibiotic use in humans, we need to test for pathogens before or during treatment. Is there a mechanism to affordably do a broad spectrum screening of infections?
I don't know. I feel like creative output on the web is orders of magnitude greater now than it ever was on the 90's web. Unless you limit "creativity" to the design of custom HTML and CSS.

Yes, that output exists primarily on services and yes that presents issues with control over data, data mining, AI training, etc. But the premise that the internet is no longer a creative space simply because people use it as a tool to publish to, rather than an expression of programming and design in and of itself, to me seems to miss the forest for the trees.
> How did the world get convinced it was OK and normal to spray our foods with poisons?

If this isn't a rhetorical question, farmers didn't want to lose their crops to bugs. Honestly, it's a pretty reasonable request.

> And we are still super OK with it today, mostly.

The problem of course is the farmer doesn't care about your or the worldwide sperm count, at least not yet. So we desperately need gov to step in and raise the bar.
When those solutions don't wreak environmental havoc (dams [0]) or are out of the experimental stage, I'll be interested. I'm actually following Ambri for this reason [1].

Even if you go with "muh flow batteries" or "muh hydrogen", we would require far more land with wind/solar to fill up those storage technologies than just use nuclear plants.

Even if I were to concede that covering every last surface with solar cells is a good idea (or what to do when recycling them), this doesn't take into account the enormous amount of energy currently used to make process heat. Neither wind nor solar are able to generate the hundreds of degrees necessary for so many chemical and manufacturing processes.

Don't let yourself get bamboozled by shiny futuristic graphics of storage or generation solutions without at least doing some basic napkin math about feasibility.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...
[1] https://ambri.com/
Tencent Stockpiled Nvidia AI Chips for 'A Couple of Generations'
plus you can use it as a battle language for your clan
The big thing I notice with firefox wayland on nixos are cursor issues. It seems to have fewer cursors and sometimes uses obviously wrong ones (text selection cursor when it should be a pointer). So I'm still using it on xwayland
Absolutely phenomenal. I take my hat off to this young individual.
By all means, apply to medical school, complete all the training, and try for yourself. Or continue to shit remotely from a distance on other people’s work you can’t possibly comprehend.
Ask HN: Photographers: How did you learn?
To me photography is right smack dab at the intersection of art and science. About six weeks ago I bought my first camera an OMDS OM-1 mirrorless camera. I'd like to eventually take it backcountry skiing and hiking. I started with P mode and have been trying to get more comfortable with manually setting aperture/shutter/iso. Just walking around the neighborhood between calls/code.

I'm curious about blogs, books, etc regarding either of both art and science of photography. It's fun to learn something new as an adult so I'm hungry for it all. Also, in an age of screens I'm loving the physical nobs and buttons of the camera :)
> the baseline of usability for many areas has hugely increased over the last 20 years.

I genuinely think the opposite has happened. Most of the things you cite as being problems with UI of the 2000s is really better applied to software of the late 80s/early 90s, although in all eras there have been both fantastic and terrible UIs.

But from a usability perspective, I think things peaked in the early 2000s.

> It's really amazing what non-techy people can do easily on their phones and computers now

It truly is! But that's about functionality improving, not about usability improving.
boson? That you Alex?
Pretty cool, a couple of months back a friend asked me if I could get him a Carl Rogers audiobook, I forget which one. I told him sure and jokingly asked if he wanted David Attenborough reading it. He said yes. I had myself a challenge. Long story short, I was able to create an audio book for a friend, the voice was meh!
This hasn't been the case for most GP's for a while now. Bulk billing is becoming quite rare if you're not a pensioner.
Because of microsoft office ( particularly excel ). It's just as simple as that. I remember years ago people thought that google's free office/spreadsheet offering was going to be the end of microsoft office/excel. I remember having a good laugh back then. The business world, especially finance, runs on microsoft office. I just don't see it changing anytime soon. It's amazing how entrenched it is.
> I’d get into electrical engineering just for this

I get the impression it's mostly physics guys.
> As a user of GPTs I’ve realized that I don’t actually want to use a GPT if I can’t see its prompt. I wouldn’t want to use ChatGPT if some stranger had the option to inject weird behaviour into it without my knowledge—and that’s exactly what a GPT is.

Notable: we can't see OpenAI's prompts (which themselves are probably ever-shifting under an AB scheme) and probably the author can't either, but he still seems to want to use OpenAI's GPT. I'm in the same two boats.

There's a pretty large trust leap going on here. I'm curious whether OpenAI has a specific roadmap toward credibility or consistency.
Oct 7 a wake-up call for US to ban TikTok
What if it wasn’t antibiotics alone but the use of some pesticide that is interacting with them and the immune system and bacteria to make this more likely?

Is the rate of resistance formation, the same as what you would expect from looking at other countries with the same usage profile of antibiotics? Have all other variables been controlled for?
An argument from incredulity is not an argument (and is equivalent to saying "because I am ignorant of how it works, it must not be true").
Wow I had not considered this at all. We used a bit of sign language before my toddler started talking, but have more recently run into these situations where big feelings are crowding out speech and it’d be useful to get anything through. I’ll give this a shot tomorrow
Fascinating, thanks for explaining that
For the community; the space of AI is expanding so fast. You’ll have to work faster.
Training crap is way more complicated than prompt predication and also limiting the flexibility of the model.

You'd be hard pressed to train a visual model so that every group of 3 or more people is "ethnically diverse".

Also ChatGPT climate, race and many other reponses are short-circuited to boilerplate answers, not dogma-trained.
It didn't resolve yet hence me rooting for Getty. They won't lose, though.
Ask HN: Should upvotes/downvotes show the user?
I believe it would be an interesting implementation for HN. I rarely comment, but when I do, I think it would be interesting to read the comments of users who upvoted or downvoted, potentially gauging the reaction behind their vote, especially if they choose not to reply. I don’t know of a website that does something similar, and flaws might exist, such as commenters retaliating against recurring downvotes from specific individuals. However, implementing something like a timeout for downvoting the person who has downvoted could be considered. Even seeing who is upvoting whom could be interesting, and I’m sure collecting and analyzing such data would be useful for mods to prevent abuse of the voting system if not already done. Another ideal situation is to have a comment field that could be required for downvoting to possibly inform why.
My experience with Visible is exactly the same. I've seen < 50 KB/sec regularly.
very nice! Can this be done with Java and/or Rust? Or does it only work with C ATM?
Because revolutions happen on empty stomachs.

Food security is key for a stable government. So governments push for policies that maximize food output like fertilizers and pesticides. You can blame farmers all you want but national policies heavily shape farmer behavior.

Look at Sri Lanka. They banned fertilizer and they have partially collapsed.
I'm not convinced nicotine is not a better medication. Sure, it's probably more addicting, but it also seems to have plenty of other benefits, is more socially acceptable, and seems to have much less a profile of debilitating side-effects.

Of course, the same tolerance issues will creep up, perhaps even more so, but there is no red-tape, no doctor visits, no shortages, easy access, etc..

Is nicotine as effective as amphetamines or methylphenidate? I have no idea, but probably not, and that is mainly why I haven't experimented much with it. I will say that it's effective enough to plenty of people with ADHD self-medicate with nicotine, and seem to do fine enough.

If nicotine were half as effective, it still might be better, at least for my circumstances.
Groq is planning to do that. https://twitter.com/GroqInc/status/1691436573014020096
Say there's no mistakes. Its literally perfectly logical and conventionally written code. Its the epitome of that thing with Michaelangelo where he assumes his vision for the sculpture is correct and all he needs to do is surgically remove the excess marble to get to the essential form that is perfect and ideal and intutitive.
It's a good thing no one defines disorders the way you do. Going through life miserable but have set up your life in such a way and with a set of coping mechanisms that help you stay afloat is apparently fine and your life needs to be in shambles. Do you feel the same way about chronic pain? Is dragging yourself to work despite it prove you don't need help? Clearly you can handle the suffering. It's the exact same.

Surviving only because you've structured your life to revolve around the limitations of your disorder isn't a sign that everything is fine.

Adderall and its contemporaries aren't speed and I promise you it isn't fun. Stimulant medications are miserable to be on, it's just that not being on them is worse. That one time you took high-dose adderall in college is not at all reflective of what the experience is like.
Obsidian works on locally stored markdown files in any directories structure you use, so you can bring them into anything from VS code, to Joplin, to typora.

It's one of the main reasons that I swapped from Evernote - zero vendor lock-in and plain text format.
This was one of the only 3D games that worked on my father's 7mhz Amiga 500 when I was a kid.
ROCm was a bull signal
I've enabled the environment variable (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND) if memory serves just fine

... for years, on i3 (X11) and Sway (Wayland).

I'm lazy and use basically the same config files between them! Point being, it's probably fine: for wlroots things at the very least, perhaps more :)
I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing against here. The blocker for this launch was an FAA license, because the Federal Aviation Administration regulates what flies in the atmosphere, up to 30km or so (the highest aircraft can fly). There's no way to get to space without traversing this zone, but once you're up there, the universe is your oyster.
Redshift is so crazy expensive
Yeah but, not checking for null in C can cause undefined behavior. One possible outcome of undefined behavior is that your program doesn't even crash, but rather continues running in a weird state. So such a bug doesn't always "expose itself".

If we accept that bugs are inevitable, and that accidentally passing a null pointer to a function is a possible bug, then we also conclude that your code really should include non-null assertions that intentionally abort() the program. (Which run in debug/staging mode but can be disabled in release/production mode.)
> And my adhd was measured. Low dopamine.

What does this even mean?
I wonder if the value brands could be just as profitable due to less marketing and support.
ROCm support for a lot of AI processes fixed that
Once mine learned the sign for “cookie” it became the only word in her vocabulary for a month
I believe you are talking about the WD EX2 boxes. NAS in a box.
Government isn’t the only entity capable of public service. Non-profit organizations are a thing. And that is precisely why the comment I replied to has problematic notions of “public” and “private”. NPOs are private entities, but do not behave the same way as corporations.
That's Congress's job.
You also deal with payments and support through the MVNO though. Sometimes (like with Google Fi) they can be a LOT better than the actual carrier's outsourced support.

Many MVNOs can roam between multiple carriers too, which may or may not improve reception.

Some MVNOs also have international partnerships. In the US that's unusual for the big carriers themselves except for T-mobile (which is German, I think?). Fi's international services are dramatically more affordable than AT&T or Verizon's.

I think it's similar to the multi cloud discussion, just applied to telecoms.
That's for databases.

https://news.microsoft.com/2023/09/14/microsoft-and-oracle-e...
I honestly don't know where this is supposed to be happening. I have observed the opposite for decades. When Gary Kasparov was beaten by Stockfish, people proclaimed the end of chess and went on AI hyperboles. Same with Watson winning Jeopardy, Alexa, etc.

Every time computers outperform humans in some domain this is conflated with deep general progress, panicked projections of replacement and job losses, the end times and so on. People are way faster to engage in reductionism of human capacity and Terminator-esque fantasies than the opposite. Despite the fact that it never happens.

It's even reflected in our popular culture. I can barely recall a single work of science fiction in the last 30 years that would qualify as portraying human exceptionalism. AI doomerism, overestimation and fear of machines is the norm.
The full version is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY