skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're successful then you can benefit from advice of other successful people because you live on an easier monetary playing field where just about any piece of advice you are given becomes self-fulfilling because of the amounts of capital involved.

Also, if some rich person gives you advice and you follow it, they (and their friends) will be more likely to invest in your company because they agree and believe in their own advice and they don't want to see your startup fail because of them. There is ego at play.

If you're not successful (which is almost everyone) then you should not listen to advice from successful people because it doesn't actually work in your situation. Instead, you should listen to people who failed and understand why they failed. They'll tell you useful things like "find a niche where you can sell your product 100% word of mouth" because they understand how search engines and social media works against you when you don't have capital or influential social connections. And these failed entrepreneurs probably know one person who was able to launch a small lifestyle business like that. This is realistic and achievable and minimizes the role of luck.
I've been accused of self medicating with coffee before by a guy who was diagnosed with ADHD in his 40s.

It was funny at first, but then he started pointing things out. Want to ride bikes? We can get coffee on our travels.

I jest, kind of.
> lethal extremists

> wipe these types off the map

yeah... I agree with some of the sentiment but some self -awareness is also good. perhaps we should learn to love the lethal extremist inside us.
I can’t even drink a single cup of coffee without shaking and getting intense anxiety.
It's admin/admin, same as my live one
> Just last week this site hosted a story that researched how they're now using AI to generate fake music to avoid paying artists even further.

Could you source this, please? I've missed it.

> There's mountains of evidence that shows how they regularly fleece artists.

70+% of revenue goes to pay licences, a lot of artists have bad deals with their labels and get shafted from that revenue, deals like labels taking 50-70% of the licencing deals, historically it has been extremely common for labels to shafts artists, way before the internet age.
6 cups are scrub numbers, if you haven't done that by 10am you're behind the curve :P
They sold about $30B in Macs last year. If you're going to claim they aren't general purpose computing devices, you're operating under a different definition than just about anybody else.
The thing is that people run Windows because they want to run Windows apps. That is, Windows is an important OS not because it is such a great OS in itself but because it has a great selection of software. Same is true for Linux or any other mainstream OS.
I don't know, I just know "is it dutch or is it german?" is a common question and that's the answer. I think high/low is a geographic indicator of where it's spoken in germany.
Why you would buy a toothbrush that needs a app and wifi is beyond me.
Before. Otherwise, you're washing down all the fluoride instead of giving it time to bind to your enamel via chemical API calls.
yes

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No. I've purchased homes in both countries and from what I've seen, US banks are far less strict. Policies, procedures, and operations are very undisciplined at many US banks (compared to Canadian banks). I have noticed some are starting to become more strict in the past 5 years though.
Calling China Russia's security guarantor is a stretch at best. The military difference between the two, while growing, is no where near the difference between the USA and Canada.

I would argue Russia's nuclear arsenal is a far more reliable guarantor of their security then China would ever be.
I did have several issues with adguard home, after some time (or packets?) the dns wouldn’t resolve and basically you can’t open any website, you can ping with no issues but not opening the site, only resolved by either restarting the server or waiting few minutes, didn’t bother to troubleshoot it but I tried it on several hardware and got the same issues with different interruptions time.
I can't find them anymore, but I've read interesting articles on attitudes of slaves and minorities. One of these wrote of certain slaves valuing themselves less than their owners. Then there's the research on black children preferring white dolls to black dolls.

Huge numbers of people have a status quo bias. Anytime the leadership changes you're dealing with fear impulses.
You don’t care about incompetent but good people such as Earhart being essentially murdered by a society pushing them to take on a task they’re not properly equipped to do because of PR wins and advertising.

Didn’t the US Navy kill a woman who wasn’t ready to solo jet flying back in the 80s by pushing her to take on the task before she had passed the simulations so they could beat the US Air Force to have the first solo woman jet pilot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen#:~:text=Death...

Look at a picture of her face and think of her family she was killed by people like you who don’t think logically and only care for how things make them feel
Yes, I use it because I cook for my family and one of my family members needs to eat a low sodium diet. It is easier to use the same thing for everybody and unless you have a specific medical condition there's nothing wrong with eating some KCl.
You're lacking in imagination, and maybe the conceptual idea of "sensor fusion". Multiple seemingly innocuous data streams in isolation can be combined to create sensors you wouldn't have imagined
This article is strange & many details are lacking. All the big smart toothbrushes use BLE and are not WiFi-connected. Tried to fact-check the article, but nothing.

A bunch of BLE chips are also WiFi capable, so not ruling out that someone compromised the firmware to enable WiFi functionality, but I wonder how they were able to connect to WiFi to trigger a botnet in the first place.

Quite skeptical of this article, while the premise of the danger of IoT devices still remains, nonetheless.
UFO sighting in Northern Canada – W5 speaks to eyewitnesses (1972) [video]
Perhaps someday we'll discover a coffee tolerance gene.
We're not taking about experimentation, though. We're talking about a fully hashed-out business model with its own casual acronym (SaaS).

The "why" is obvious: there is a market for any aggregate data on human behavior.
> I wish the Quest 3 was as good as the vision pro. It isn't. It's not even close

That in itself is a false question, no? Nobody says they are as good. I haven't seen even the most ardent Meta fan suggest such a thing.

It's not a question of whether they are as good but whether the difference matters enough. There is a curve with very sharply diminishing returns and a lot of threshold effects (once you get close to screen door effect going away, nobody cares that you made it 1% less noticeable any more etc).
What does the sentence after the one you quoted say? I forgot.

A line graph showing a precipitous drop in the most recent time bucket available is a red flag that you shouldn’t trust that data point.
My point is hubris applies to all human efforts. But even when feeling hubris you don’t know what the future holds. No one can know the importance of any of their actions in the present, and even when you embark on something you expect could change everything, no one is assured of success. In fact practical experience tells us it almost never actually happens. When someone does actually succeed it’s easy to see omniscience in their insights, and it’s arguably insightful, but only the insane believe that themselves when they set out.
I'm looking for remote dev job, which is much harder, since I am in Sacramento.
I mean, sure, if the attorney is operating below the usual standards of care -- it's exceptionally uncommon in the corporate world, but not unheard of. In the case of AI assistance, you run into situations where a company offering AI legal advice direct to end-users is either operating as an attorney without licensing, or, if an attorney is on the nameplate, they're violating basic legal professional responsibilities by not reviewing the output of the AI (if you do legal process outsourcing -- LPO -- there's a US-based attorney somewhere in the loop who's taking responsibility for the output).

About the only case where this works in practice is someone going pro se and using their own toolset to gin up a legal AI model. There's arguably a case for acting as an accelerator for attorneys, but the problem is that if you've got an AI doing, say, doc review, you still need lawyers to review not just the output for correctness, but also go through the source docs to make sure nothing was missed, so you're not saving much in the way of bodies or time.
It's not (directly) related to Dutch at all, the "Dutch" thing is just an English spelling of "Dietsch", same word as Deutsch.

The article also seems to mix Mennonite German speakers up with Pennsylvania Dutch speakers, which isn't correct AFAIK.

I think on the whole? Mennonite German ("Plautdietsch") is not the same as Amish (I can't be certain, we don't have Amish here in Canada)... and their language I believe is more closely related to Low Saxon than to Low Frankish (Dutch). So closer to Plattdeutsch in northern Germany. But I also think it has many High German words and pronounciations borrowed-in as well (along with English, and other languages).
the improvement isn't even.

It seems obvious, but even that little bit of nuance escapes far too many people, most especially those whose livelihood is to talk about it.
I agree there's a very high chance they and the majority of other VPNs are - or if not the US some other intel org.

The US government has form (what was that early crypto machine they sold to allies and it was backdoored?), and they'd be foolish to miss such a strategically obvious play.
It is “Pfaelzisch”, South West German dialect. It’s not related to the Alemannic dialects such as Swiss German. They start geographically further South. See a map here:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fo...
Is there any config update to the wire guard profile needed to ensure that DNS request traffic is routed through pi-hole?
Not far fetched at all, seems there's been studies showing a correlation between ADHD and Dementia between genrations. A big question for me is if the ADHD was always even in the older generations there but was non-diagnosed?

https://news.ki.se/link-between-adhd-and-dementia-across-gen...
I am surprised at the lack of reading comprehension in these replies.

I am certain 911/emergency services work on a locked phone. My point is teaching a toddler

From my locked phone it is ~8 steps. Power on, swipe phone, press emergency button, type in 911, send.

Power button x >5 seems to trigger it as well. This may be the better option.
Fred Wilson – From Kik to Kin to Code
> Work as a form of rehabilitation makes sense when utilized correctly.

It can't ever work correctly as rehabilitation. In the early 20th century, maybe those reformers had an excuse to believe that criminals just didn't have any honest options. But we know better today. Too many counter-examples of those who do have honest options, but commit crimes anyway. Why? They get a thrill out of it. Criminality becomes its own culture, one in which they can achieve a high status. It's simply a better career path to participate in that culture than to try to become adopted by another that you'd be a "foreigner" in for decades before you could ever find a path in that new one?

And in the meantime, it must be so thrilling. Lots of adrenaline. Lots of cash. Being chased, but feeling like you're too clever to be found or too strong to being taken down.

There's no rehabilitating that, not with work programs or anything else.

> Create a local community that doesn't offer affordable rehab facilities and now the only option is going to prison.

Haha. I know there's alot of shit being posted on reddit and other places like it about the poor guy who got caught with a joint and is sent to prison for 20 years, but do you really believe that? The junkie doesn't want rehab, and if he does (it must happen once in awhile, I suppose), rehab's not the difference between him quitting and falling down further into the spiral.

Most of the people there are guilty of violent crimes, the rest are guilty of selling large quantities of heroin and making things worse for that poor junkie you're so concerned about. The numbers bear this out, if you care to check.

There are a few borderline instances here and there, but prison labor isn't incentivizing any sort of corruption of the sort you're claiming to any degree we should be worried about. At least in this country. Who knows about China.
Apple didn't wipe anything out. Hackintoshes exist.

It is probably only a matter of time until macOS eventually drops Intel support, but we are far from there.
The lack of a result for stroke tells me that this is just a fishing expedition.
I tick a number of these boxes! I did a graduate degree in computer science and then went into the game industry for over a decade. Along the way, I met a few people with eclectic backgrounds and interests who have many of the skills listed. I can't speak for larger studios, but small-to-mid sized studios can provide grounds to build some of these skills.
> For emergency services from hospitals that provide emergency services, that's true. But for virtually anything else I don't think it is.

You're thinking of a separate law, which requires emergency rooms to provide emergency medical services to all patients if they accept Medicare or are attached to a hospital which accepts Medicare. (This is one of the reasons that there's been a proliferation of standalone for-profit emergency rooms in the last several years - it's a way to bypass this requirement and serve only the most profitable patients).

That's separate from what we're talking about here.
Thanks for the advice. So basically, just get immersed into the world of the field as much as possible?
After about a decade of supporting 3rd party software on Apple platforms (now, against my will and advice most of the time) I think other people need to come to the realization that Apple doesn't give a shit about 3rd party developers and their ultimate goal is to block you from making anything more useful than what Apple provides as first party software.

All APIs are provided begrudgingly and with a deep distrust of anyone using them and as much friction placed between developers and users.
It's a logical reaction, at least superficially, to the touted capabilities of Gen AI and LLMs. But once you start trying to use the tech for actual legal applications, it doesn't do anything useful. It would be great if some mundane legal tasks could be automated away--for example negotiation of confidentiality agreements. One would think that if LLMs are capable of replacing lawyers, they could do something along those lines. But I have not seen any evidence that they can do so effectively, and I have been actively looking into it.

One of the top comments on this thread says that LLMs are going to better at summarizing contracts than generating them. I've heard this in legal tech product demos as well. I can see some utility to that--for example, automatically generating abstracts of key terms (like term, expiration, etc.) for high-level visibility. That said, I've been told by legal tech providers that LLMs don't do a great job with some basic things like total contract value.

I question how the document summarizing capabilities of LLMs will impact the way lawyers serve business organizations. Smart businesspeople already know how to read contracts. They don't need lawyers to identify / highlight basic terms. They come to lawyers for advice on close calls--situations where the contract is unclear or contradictory, or where there is a need for guidance on applying the contract in a real-world scenario and assessing risk.

Overall I'm less enthusiastic about the potential for LLMs in the legal space than I was six months ago. But I continue to keep an eye on developments and experiment with new tools. I'd love to get some feedback from others on this board who are knowledgeable.

As a side note, I'm curious if anyone knows about the impact of context window on contract interpretation a lot of contracts are quite long and have sections that are separated by a lot of text that nonetheless interact with each other for purposes of a correct interpretation.
The comment is complete hyperbole and isn't even correct. Real estate is bigger in the US than Canada.

Every developed country is running into immigration and housing issues. Canada isn't alone and isn't even the worst case.
Processed food vendors come to mind, but I get your point.
I wonder what Feynman and Robert Trivers (not a hard science person at all) would make of each other.
It wasn't new and never left.

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/391922/employee-engagement-...

Since the 2000s, employee engagement is roughly about 30%. Active disengagement is around 18%. It has fluctuated a bit, but the not engaged but not saboteours have long been the majority.
Or better yet, invest in being able to tend bar yourself.
Even safer: your program does never perform any actual deed. It just prints commands that you can run afterwards, using an external program, ideally a shell. This has the advantage of allowing the user to edit all the actions one by one.

Instead of

myprog # see what would happen
myprog --commit # alright, do it

You do

myprog # see what would happen
myprog | sh # alright, do it

But if you want to change something:

myprog > x
vi x
cat x | sh

And if you just want to run everything in parallel:

myprog | parallel -j 16
Read the full thing. Took a while.

The thing I’m most curious about is the teen’s attraction to extravagance & wealth. What upbringing would cause a child to desire riding in a limousine / pretend to come from old money?

At least from my perspective, he already comes from a pretty well off family. What more is there to desire?

(My perspective is pretty limited as someone who barely spends £10 a day and considers that a bit much)
EU is supposed to get a unified digital identity wallet. There’s already a qualified digital signature. My country’s ID has a chip with public key cryptography. Just let me permanently tie my Google account to my national identity and then the problem will solved (at least for EU residents). I’ll be able to just use one just YubiKey without stress of losing it and I’ll be able to get my account back if someone steals it.
Ah, that makes sense. So, they probably just have a blanket policy not to allow it because the regulations/laws basically make it impossible anyway.
It is meant to be better for a family member who has hypertension. It is probably also good for most people in the western world because our diets tend to be high in sodium and low in potassium.

I absolutely don't trick anyone. I tell people I'm using KCl and I check with them to make sure it's safe for them. I've also asked them if they can taste a difference vs. NaCl and everyone has said no.
Thanks for your reply & perspective!
I really don’t see how this counters my point at all…
Why? It's not a real time measurement, they're just adding up the crimes from the 2023 data. Do you expect the 2023 numbers to be revised? Was that true for earlier years? Seems unlikely.
Traditional AI approaches to games involves reinforcement learning (RL). This type of
learning is also used post-LLM as reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to
improve the LLM.

At the moment my effort involves a focus on mathematical proofs using this technology.

RL requires a few things. It requires a notion of 'states'. It requires 'actions'
that can be applied within states. It requires a success/fail measure, either when
moving from state to state or only at the end of an effort.

Now consider mathematical proofs.

The LEAN project[0] has developed an IDE[1] that guides proofs, It guides the user
"from state to state" keeping track of the current state.

There is a database of axioms and theorems[2]. Each of these are strongly typed so
they can only be applied in specific states.

There are "tactics" which are actions from state to state.

Success can be found when the proof is successful. Intermediate success can be
measured by recording what tactics / axioms / theorems were applied.

The use of strong types means that there are only a few actions that apply in
each state. Traditional arguments about exponential growth limiting brute force
no longer apply.

SO ... we now have all of the elements of a game. Which means that we can apply
reinforcement learning to LEAN proofs. I suspect that "proving theorems" will be
one of the next areas overtaken by AI.

[0] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~avigad/Papers/lean_system...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_(proof_assistant)

[2] https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/Talks/mathematical_co...
Canada currently has an issue with handing out way too many student visas to students going to strip mall diploma mills. I believe the federal government has just enforced a cap for the next 2 years.
I wish my lone internet-of-shit device worked well enough to participate in a botnet. My house came with an internet connected sprinkler system--if the power blips, the sprinkler system boots up before the WIFI router, can't connect and then refuses to work until rebooted. I realized this when my lawn started dying.
Also, a proven intentional security vulnerability in Fortinet products would be bigger news, for multiple reasons, and make a lot of urgent work and disruption for a lot of people.

Occasionally, a proven intentional vulnerability will happen, so we want to be careful not to cry wolf other times.
The scientific definition of a 'cup' of coffee is important. Usually this is defined as 4 ounces of brewed coffee, which means a normal mug of coffee (which can fit something like 10 oz) would be 2.5 cups!

So, for most people's definition of a 'cup' of coffee, they really only mean 2.5 'mugs' of coffee.
One of my favorite books. Changed my whole worldview (and I already had a positive world view before reading).

I've recommended this book to people probably 1,000 times.
Instant free SEPA transfers are becoming more common in the EU, but as an easy payment method it’s still annoying from a UX perspective.
the vast majority of people's medical needs are typical office visits. emergencies or more serious things do occur, and they mentioned something about those situations but I was not part of that interview so I didn't get that part of the details.
Yes. A bunch. Service accounts that need to be shared between a limited group of people.

TOTP + something like 1P moves this from
happy-monday-an-infra-engineer-left-time-to-rotate-100-accounts to something you can just do periodically as you like.
There is probably an unlimited number of people in China would would like to own Canada real estate. As long as you don't block those sales it can continue forever.
You'll have an eternity of nothingness regardless of how many years of life you get. Perhaps you don't want only an eternity of nothingness.

As for the pathos, I've a hard time believing it compensates for even a billionth of say, the suffering of an abused child. There's no doubt that it would have better (impersonally, as Derek Parfit used that word) if the world didn't exist. But now that you're here, might as well enjoy it, but perpetuating it doesn't seem wise.