skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=endmyopia&sort=byPopularity&ty...

https://losetheglasses.org/

> Jake has a vast wealth of valuable writing about the subject and his blog posts go into a lot of useful detail. Unfortunately, Jake has some issues ... I thought I'd take a crack at summarizing the most important findings across all these thinkers on one page, including stuff from community members and my own experiences ... it's time to stop treating this like property and start treating it like a common resource.
I used to use Uber a lot more than I do now, and so many drivers I met were contract drivers for various transport and delivery app as their entire source of income.

More recently the ride share drivers I’ve gotten have been older folks who report that they’re just supplementing income. A lot of the delivery drivers (Uber, DoorDash, Postmates, Amazon Flex, Instacart, etc) I see are younger and seem to be doing it full time.
The problem is everyone and their dog wants urbanization, and dense urbanization at that. Be it for environmental reasons (land use, reduction of individual car traffic), for financial reasons (easier to supply dense areas with infrastructure like water/electricity/public transit, at least up until a certain point) or for the benefit of employers (a large, concentrated talent pool).

The downsides however? We're completely ignoring them for whatever reason, and increasing myopia and rising child obesity rates are just one point on the giant list.
"probably the single most important development in human history" is the kind of hyperbole you'd only find here. Better than medicine, agriculture, electrification, or music? That point of view simply does not jive with what I see so far from AI. It has had little impact beyond filling the internet with low-effort content.

I feel like the crypto evangelists never got off the hype train. They just picked a new destination. I hope the NYT is compensated for the theft of their IP and hopefully more lawsuits follow.
> There is no magic in the brain.

The amount of hubris we have in our field is deeply embarrassing. Imagine a neuroscientists reading that. The thought makes me blush.
Has it been answered by science? Because some of the studies I've come across list "heavy traffic" as a cause of tailgating. I think you might be speaking with unwarranted confidence.
Yes, I actually built two CPUs in it (one a derivative of the other) for my PhD over a decade ago. That experience helped shape my view on new HDLs.

As a specific example Bluespec has this system of rules that define hardware behaviour. From a high level it's a very nice system describing the behaviour you want and the constraints and the compiler works out the details. In practice you have to think about the details and you've got to work out how the compiler will compose things. At least you do if you care about how many cycles something takes. I never did any frequency optimisations either which would also be harder as it'd be deeply coupled to the rule scheduling behaviour.

Ultimately like many new HDLs it's a nice language from an abstract perspective but very much feels like someone with little practical experience with building real world silicon just applying software language design to hardware. The non existent type system of SystemVerilog being viewed as a major problem rather than what it is in reality an annoyance that causes more medium than any real substantial issues.
The writers were obviously trained on the copyrighted material of Goonies and Steven King, and there has never been any reporting that Netflix has paid those copyright holders. This isn't surprising because copyright violation requires copying.

My understanding is that GPT is a word probability lookup table based on a review of the training material. A statistical analysis of NYT is not copying.

And this doesn't even to look at whether fair use might apply. Since tabulating word frequencies isn't copying, GPT isn't violating anyone's copyright.
The article covers that point near the end.
I think we're in a new paradigm and need to look at this differently. The end goal is to train models on all the output of humanity. Everyone will have contributed to it (artists, writers, coders on github... the people who taught the writers, the people who invented the English language, the people who created the daily events that were reported on, etc). We're better off letting ML companies free access to almost everything, while taxing the output. The bargain is "you took from everyone, so you give to everyone". This is probably a more win-win setup that respects the reality that it's really the public commons that is generating the value here.
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
Microsoft is training an AI to help get nuclear reactors approved
Can you imagine spending decades of your life, studying skin cancer, only to have some $20/month ChatGPT index your latest findings and spit out generically to some subpar researcher:

"Here's how I would cure melanoma!" followed by your detailed findings. Zero mention of you.

F-that. Attribution, as best they can, is the least OpenAI can do as a service to humanity. It's a nod to all content creators that they have built their business off of.

Claiming knowledge without even acknowledging potential sources is gross. Solve it OpenAI.
1) Sales. Co-founded a B2B startup, so this is now a pressing concern, and as a long-time developer it’s one of those things that gives me hives, where I barely even know how to start (got lots of research to do!). It’s going to be -the- challenge of 2024 for me.

2) How to build an OS (in Rust). I’ve seen a few different articles in HN over the years and kept them bookmarked because I think it’ll be a lot of fun to actually make something from scratch and get to have fun with figuring out how it all comes together. How does one even draw stuff on screen from scratch? I’ll get to find out.
It doesn't matter what is legal. It matters what is right. Society is about balancing the needs of the individual vs the collective. I have a hard time equating individual rights with the NYT and I know my general views on scraping public data and who I was rooting for in the LinkedIn case.
For the shade tree mechanic and/or handyman, YouTube is a tremendous boon. A few years ago I needed to replace the cooking elements in my double-oven and I found repair videos on Vimeo[1]. So I built a dolly and pulled my oven out[2]. It takes all the fear and uncertainty out of a repair you've never done before.

Videos have all the tips and tricks missing from conventional repair manuals and shop guides.

For academic material,
I prefer the written word. For repairs around my home? I'll go to YouTube.

[1] https://vimeopro.com/fisherpaykeltechnical/training-videos/v...

[2] https://i.ibb.co/fkL0r3Q/IMG-2416.jpg
Well I’m callin you a liar, and I’m open to being proven wrong.

Show me a prompt that can produce the first paragraph of chapter 3 of the first Harry Potter book. Because i don’t think you can. I don’t think you can prove it’s “in” there, or retrieve it. And if you can’t do either of those things then I think it’s irrelevant to your claims.
> ... and things like Cron jobs ... didn't exist

Funnily enough: i once maintained a site for a client whose hoster implemented cron jobs as client-defined URLs, which could point to your CGI or PHP scripts. The provider would hit the URL (which was presumably private) on a cron-style schedule, providing a castrated semblance of cron jobs.
Do they have a double blind randomized controled trial published in a seserious journal?

The double blind part is difficult, but they usualy give a silly task to the control group, so they don't know they are in the control group.
That’s not the same thing. Perplexity is using an already-trained LLM to read those sources and synthesise a new result from them. This allows them to cite the sources used for generation.

LLM training sees these documents without context; it doesn’t know where they came from, and any such attribution would become part of the thing it’s trying to mimic.

It’s still largely an unsolved problem.
Yes, that's a common belief in the West as well, and used to be generally accepted. But there's a very strong correlation between looking at close objects for prolonged periods and being inside so it's easy to understand why it was misunderstood for so long.
Perl 5 has been around since 1995.

I was already using it a year later, for our distributed computing labs, where doing a CGI in C and Perl was part of one exercise.
A lot of industrial robots are not built with "machine vision" to recognize people.

Maybe they should be and maybe they will be in the future but right now it is the human's responsibility to avoid getting in the way of a "live" robot in the same way you would avoid getting in the way of a moving car.
I'm waiting for pov perspectives for sporting events and I say that as someone who doesn't really watch sports.
I share your view (except for the part about nuclear reactors, which doesn't belong here).

But that's not what I mean. It's the sum of all the small parts (not just CSS functions that are offloaded to the client) that, taken individually, all consume only a very, very small amount of energy but are at the same time easily avoidable or without real benefit.

Software and IT are full of these, and the total amount of energy wasted is enormous. But every single developer thinks that in comparison, it's practically nothing.
> can never recall which

Do your glasses magnify or reduce things? The former is for aiding hyperopia and the latter for myopia.

Also, as far as I can recall, astigmatism is present at birth and not developed over time like some other eye conditions.
The ghost of a colonial road on the eastern side of the Chrysler Building
Syntax features like CSS Nesting can be translated into something older browsers can understand. But other features either can’t be translated, or can only be translated in some cases. For example, color-mix(in srgb, red, blue) can be computed as purple at compile time; color-mix(in oklch, var(--a), var(--b)) can be computed iff --a and --b are known to have single static values; and color-mix(in srgb, currentcolor, transparent 50%) fundamentally isn’t known until runtime (even with DOM knowledge, you can’t say “currentcolor is always purple, therefore, &c.”, because the user agent may force colours).

So yes, you absolutely still need to care about compatibility. This isn’t about fine-tuning compilation artefacts by hand, this is about browsers lacking features that you’re trying to use.
That's a different approach: they've implemented RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, where the tool runs additional searches as part of answering a question.

ChatGPT Browse and Bing and Google Bard implement the same pattern.

RAG does allow for some citation, but it doesn't help with the larger problem of not being able to cite for answers provided by the unassisted language model.
When I was a landlord - i found foggers that I bought at Home Depot very effective. Nuked roach populations between tenants multiple times. Had personal experience living in the same unit - after putting out traps, fogging, and subsequently keeping the place clean - no more roaches. But as soon as nasty people move in, they come back.
The sound of it all ending in tears.
> I hope the Apple defenders understand that the main problem with iMessage is specifically that it just looks like regular text messaging, to the point where everyone not tech literate just thinks it is SMS.

Wait, I thought the problem was that it did not look like SMS and that someone somewhere was unhappy about green bubbles? Could you people make up your mind?
Unfortunately not in stable yet, but I tested it in Nightly and it works without a hitch.
Me too. Every morning there's a pile of junk food wrappers in my kitchen.
Art of all kinds.

I started piano over Covid and have gotten pretty decent. Would like to continue improving on that.

Some kind of visual art. I have enjoyed making some pixel art and got a drawing kit for christmas.

I have written fragments of a dozen stories and used to write poetry regularly. Would like to finish something.
C is able to express efficient code for bit-banging. But it's still ugly and hard to use.

Ada handles it better than any language I've seen. Types are abstract but can be given concrete realizations. A number can be defined as, for example, the range of 0 to 31. And optionally the compiler could be told to store that in bits 20 to 25 of a 32-bit word. Or non-consecutively, or out of order, or across multiple words. Just about any kind of bit reordering and packing is supported. With overflow checking and so on, too.

Take away idea is you should never be using shift and and/or bitwise operations. The compiler should translate (and also check that it fits and doesn't overlap) into the low level binary representation behind the scenes for you.
Cloud computing (especially AWS). I've spent the last decade working on application software and am increasing worried how many jobs expect cloud experience these days as I have none.
Presenting stuff/ideas. I kind of have established my own powerpoint style over the years and seek to further improve my presentation skills. Happy for any good advice.
ps.: and i despise pp
How come that the disease wasn't widespread earlier?
Plus, future people don't have a say. If something you do could help 400 new people live a happy life if they moved there, but it angers the 40 people who already live there, you're never going to get the popular vote of the 40 people who are there because future people can't be counted.
Yeah, let’s not forget https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-12-06/swi...

I’m not under any illusion that there’s any “Swiss exceptionalism” when it comes to privacy.
Synergy works with multi-monitor (for me at least). I've been using it for close to two decades. Outside of the Linux kernel, it is probably the single piece of software I've used the longest.
In the EU, countries can (and do) impose levies on printers and scanners because they may be used to copy copyrighted material (https://www.insideglobaltech.com/2013/07/12/eu-member-states...). Similar levies exist for blank CDs, USB sticks, MP3 players etc. In the US, this applies to "blank CDs and personal audio devices, media centers, satellite radio devices, and car audio systems that have recording capabilities." (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy)
> The output is still there for anyone else to train on if they want.

Legal arguments aside, the goldrush era of data scraping is over. Major sources of content like Reddit and Twitter have killed APIs, added defenses and updated EULAs to avoid being pillaged again. More and more sites are moving content behind paywalls.

There's also the small issue of having 10s of millions of VC dollars to rent/buy hundreds of high end GPUs. OpenAI and friends are also trying their hardest to prevent others doing so via 'Skynet' hysteria driven regulatory capture.
Artificial pain sensors could help robots avoid damaging themselves
> Stolen from whom? The owner is a billionaire.

> ...owner...

> Does NYT pays money to the people/countries etc it uses to as subject to create content(NEWS)? Isn't that stealing then?

No, that's why in my reply to "facts like happenings in the world are not copyrightable" I emphasised do the work. Journalism is a job. Happenings do not just fall onto the page.

> Also their website TOS didn't prohibit LLMs from using their data.

This is just lazy. We have rule of law. Individuals don't need to write "don't break law X" to be protected by them. And nytimes does in fact have copyright symbols on its pages - not that it needs them.
As an anecdote of one, no one in the US has ever asked me if I had Facebook Messenger. I have never installed it anywhere. Many other apps but never that one.

My chat network is pretty global and iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp seem to cover all bases in practice.
Religion is an interesting one.

I don’t want to throw all religion out with the bathwater so to speak, there are definitely good religions that comfort people out there.

It does seem that, for example, there is a bit of a parasocial, or para…community(?) aspect to televangelism.
Quarto: An open-source scientific and technical publishing system
You can train your own model no problem, but you arguably can’t publish it. So yes, the model can’t be open-sourced, but the training procedure can.
What makes you think AI researchers (including the big labs like OpenAI and Anthropic) aren't trying to solve these problems?
I agree that it’s more important than the NYT, I disagree that it’s the most important development in human history.
NYT doesn't just publish "news" as in what happened yesterday; they also publish analysis, reviews of books and films, history, biography and so on. That's why people cite NYT articles from decades ago.
I'm not sure whether that would even be a net loss, TBH. So much commercial media is crap, maybe it would be better for the profit motive to be removed? On the fiction side, there's plenty of fan-fic and indie productions. On the nonfiction side, many indie creators produce better content these days than the big media outlets do. And there still might be room for premium investigative stories done either by a few consolidated wire outlets (Reuters/APNews) or niche publishers (The Information, 404 Media, etc.).

And then there's all the run-of-the-mill small-town journalism that AI would probably be even better at than human reporters: all the sports stories, the city council meetings, the environmental reviews...

If AI makes commercial content publishing unviable, that might actually cut down on all the SEO spam and make the internet smaller and more local again, which would be a good thing IMO.
Clojure for both (1) and (2), and playing the flageolet for (2) only.
Big corporations and corporate lawyers lose major lawsuits all the time.
Copyright holders already have control over who is legally allowed to view a work that has been made publicly available. It's the right to distribution. You don't waive that right when you make your content free to view on a trial basis to visitors to your site, with the intent of getting subscriptions - however easy your terms are to skirt. NYT has the right to remove any of their content at any time, and to bar others from hosting and profiting on the content.
The point I was raising was regarding the different species of cockroaches. In rural areas there are species that primarily live outside but can find their way inside. German cockroaches tends to be more urban and indoors, so if you see one you can't hand wave it away as having just having hitched a ride into your house.
Try LaTeX with Beamer and/or reveal.js. (Also, Beamer's manual is full of good advice on presentations irrespective of the tool you use.)
I had the exact same situation happen, except my optometrist was visibly concerned. I usually explain it as spot welding my retina in place there. That was the weirdest sensation/discomfort ever. Last month or so I got a scan done and was able to see a really high res image of it.
@tru3_power I would love to know more about how you addressed your allergy issues. I am living with someone who is having a very similar experience to what you described (acid reflux => asthma). Any info you can share could end up being a huge help.
Close-up work (crafts, reading, computers) causing myopia 'makes sense', I heard the same thing as a kid in the States.

It makes me wish we would have had more P.E. classes outside, rather than 'giving our eyes a break' by playing kickball indoors under fluorescence.
What happened to @apply for css mixins?

https://caniuse.com/?search=%40apply Article says it’s dead and replaced with something completely different that makes no sense.

Seems there is no champion anymore pushing it forward:
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/needed-new-champion-for-css-appl...
We know how myopia works now. Low dose atropine and glasses with fogged edges reliably slow or stop myopia progression. Myopia is not reversible by natural means. Sunlight is maybe related but it is more likely the proven mechanism of near work, specifically keeping peripheral vision in focus which tells the eye to grow longer (there is no brain involvement, the eye does this alone). Myopia discussions are terrible, they are filled with people offering advice and guesses on something they don’t know anything about, and people claiming it’s curable.
So why my employer implementation version of azure chatgpt on our document systems can successfully cite its sourced documents?
The Super-Recognizers of Scotland Yard (2016)
Yeah I mean I'm not even really a fan of how copyright law works, but I don't see how you can just insert an "AI exemption." So OpenAI can infringe because they host an AI tool, but we humans can't? That would be ridiculous. Or is "I used AI when I created this" a defense against infringement? Also seems ridiculous. Why would we legally privilege machine creation of creative works over human creation in the first place? So I don't see what the credible AI-related copyright law reform is going to be yet.

Which means that either OpenAI is allowed to be the only lawbreaker in the country (because rich and lawyers), or nobody is. I say prosecute 'em and tell them to make tools that follow the law.
I would recommend spending 5 seconds or more researching Type I diabetes.
> we end up handicapping probably the single most important development in human history just to protect some ancient newspaper

Single most important development in human history? Are you serious?
I was running with the dogs and fell forward and stress fractured both elbows (using hands to not land on face). That was a couple months ago, so I'm mostly healed, but I want to improve both flexibility and strength.

At 40, I didn't think this kind of injury from a fall was a thing quite yet.
Everyone learns from papers. That's the point of them, isn't it? Except we pay, what, $4 per Sunday paper or $10/mo for the digital edition? Why should a robot have to pay much more just because it's better at absorbing information?
Its... wildly accurate.

Neighbors decided they were tired of tenants and roach problems so they removed the kitchen from their rented apartment.

Roach problem went away for them and me.

I will randomly get a few waterbugs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_cockroach) which are alarming but it's usually when temps are dramatically changing.
Yep, I have astigmatism. I spent my childhood more outdoors than indoors but I already had it.

Only started to get dioptries at 30 ish but the astigmatism was with me all my life.
What evidence would you require to believe it, besides the presented?

Or is your objection from ideology, and untouchable?
good, that link disappeared fast
I know just my own life doesn't nullify the statement but all my friends were
the same I mean outside but I don't know of them who has glasses as adults.

This statement is confusing. And this is something I'm super keen to learn more about. So lets see if I understand this correctly.

You mean you _do not_ know of any friends who _do not_ wear eyeglasses as adults?

Let me rephrase that.

You played outside as a child. You now wear glasses.
All of your friends played outside as well. All your friends now wear glasses
as well.

Is that correct?
How to Listen When You Disagree
you seem to think the real cause is "being inside" and not using your eyes in a particular way? (looking at close objects...). What is the exact mechanism by which being inside affects your eyes then?