skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi!

Sorry to hear about your situation.

If you are in Alberta the Bannf Centre will give you board, cheap food and pay for work (cleaning rooms, preparing food, etc).

I know this is not ideal, but being safe and warm is greater than being in the elements in the winter.

So I will say that my information is about 15 years old here... But I hope it helps...
How do you make profit not doing something?

Right now I'm not doing billions of things, and don't see a cent is coming in!
Having experienced family court firsthand as a clerk, and as a member of the ethics committee, I can tell you that the bar absolutely does care if a lawyer lies in court.

It is a sanctionable offense. At the low end, it is a fine in the thousands. The usual sanction is a suspension of the lawyer's license to practice for several months. At the upper end, the penalty is revocation of one's license to practice law.
Not just US, seems to have happened fairly broadly across many countries. It's what I like to call "the financialisation of everything". "Everything" is perhaps a bit exaggerated, but it sounds nice.

On a lot of these issues I feel we're all stuck on some rollercoaster ride that almost no one really likes, but also no one really has the courage to stop. Stopping would mean large changes, and our political systems have become so risk-averse and voters have become so unforgiving that nothing ever gets done.
Researchers can reduce harmful chemicals produced in Fried potatoes
In 20 years, expect daily stand-up Programming Motherfucker meetings.
From a practical perspective, nobody cares unless it affects them.

Ethics? AI research today is plainly not ethical, yet its full steam ahead.

Whats a bad look is some idealized notion that everything can be perfect and ethical and there are no gray areas. That is plainly magical thinking.
It's actually more than twice as high haha

$57K, https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-...
What kind of red flags?
Commercial greenhouse growers have been using CO2 supplementation for nearly a century. If CO2 is the limiting factor (which is not always the case), the difference in yield can be phenomenal.
I remember reading this when it was first posted (probably to HN). It's been a long time but I think Zed still has a point. I've also had to revisit these issues with product managers or junior developers.
Lattices vs. Cranks
Most of the radioactive materials pose little threat, especially at the sizes that don't require a license and in the containers those samples are typically sold in. The only ones that really pose a danger to others is when you have people exceeding the size limit. Most of those people really aren't very knowledgeable, even if they are "deep in the weeds" (Hahn was learning as he went).
You definitely should. Especially if you're interviewing at a startup, they owe you at least a range.
Some things never change, one of them seems to be Zed Shaw.

I think he's too edgy even for me, but it's nice to have something stable I suppose...
I think this is a funny attitude too, like personally, I don't know why people aren't upset about losing winter, it's a beautiful time of the year. Economically valuable too. Taking a walk on a snowy morning or doing some cross country skiing is completely beautiful. I feel like as a human, we're supposed to just accept more and more outrageous things. Loss of winter? Oh well...at least it's sunny.

To me personally the loss of the seasons is one of the most tragic things I've witnessed.We've had 1/10th of the snow we usually have, it's almost all melted already and everything looks kind of depressing. But I know the lack of snow melt will have an impact on farming too, all this for for what? So resources companies were able to profit a bit more?

In Kyoto, Japan last year year, which is famous for the "red leaves" in Autumn which attracts huge swathes of tourists, had no red leaves. To me the loss of the beautiful spectacle is one thing, like, but also concerning as you said, we've tipped some type of scales but who knows how far...maybe it will be ok, maybe it won't.

I'm working out how to grow food hydroponically because I'm concerned food prices will just keep getting more expensive as this worsens and don't want to be left relying on "global trade" for my sustenance.
Static type systems are premature optimization, and come with all of its problems.

So a more fluid solution is a great thing, if done right. TypeScript comes to mind, although it has other problems, in particular mutable data structures by default.
You can use open ai to solve your LLM needs (if you legitimately have LLM needs) but an in house solution may be a whole lot more future proof, even if it’s more expensive up front
Wassup IE happy to see you around delving into some Amiga!
It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc.

This is probably good, too. I personally don't want my hand held, but recognize that others justifiably want someone else to filter out gore, or even opinions they find sufficiently off-putting.

I don't want to ram particular content down anyone else's throat, but I'm 100% opposed to anyone making that decision for me.
I meant to say: you could probably ask Aider to make Mermaid diagrams of code actually (which are great saved as Markdown files when you've got a decent Mermaid renderer sorted out), there are VS Code extensions that support Mermaid in Markdown.
Seems to me that Turing completeness is necessary, for the simple reason that I can mentally trace through Turing-complete code.
1979 was a terrible year. My parents moan about it every Christmas,

There was a widespread belief that things needed to change, and economic growth had to be a part of that.

In the US, Reagan pushed deregulation. in the UK, Thatcher went to war with state owned industries. The USSR began experimenting with open policies. China embraced capitalist style economics.

This was a world wide change.
If you want to get promoted, go where there is a low bar
NB: for examples of HTML tables with quite useful features, see Wikipedia / Wikimedia, desktop site.

Sticky headers and often a sortable fields functionality.

I've long wanted to see browsers offer modest spreadsheet-like features for tables. At the very least, the ability to sort, filter, summarise, and compute some simple statistical moments (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, possibly percentiles) of numeric ranges. Pivot tables might also be neat.

No reason this couldn't be a basic browser affordance.
It definitely was not a fully functional nuclear reactor. It was a functional neutron source.
Actual title:

How first contact with whale civilization could unfold

Gift link from the author:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/talking-...

(From https://twitter.com/andersen/status/1761389976799826154)
This feels extraordinarily 2011
> You are misinterpreting the text of the bill you keep quoting.

I don't think I am. You haven't provided any specifics and your claims above were easily disproven, so I'm not sure what you think I'm doing wrong.

> As well as equating the notion of Medicare For All as a policy with one attempt to pass it that failed.

See above: My parent comment was specifically talking about the Medicare for All bill. You are the one trying to substitute a different concept into the discussion.

> While sure, providers could choose to not accept Medicare

This is the exact opposite of what you claimed two comments up.

This discussion is a perfect example of what I'm talking about: When it comes to these discussions, people like to substitute their own facts and pretend like we can just ignore the reality of of what goes into bills. Once you start looking at actual legislation these things aren't as popular as people think because it doesn't match their imaginary ideal.

Hence my original point: Politicians have an incentive to keep these concepts as far from reality as possible, because it allows people to cling to their own idealized versions of what it would look like. The closer you get to reality, the more people realize that tradeoffs and compromise are necessary in the real world.
Yes, and I think I really see this with authoritarianism and authoritarian impulses, both in politics and in organizations. The people who oppose authoritarianism often end up recreating it in their own image & ideology.
The IT at the company I work for recently launched their own version of ChatGPT. Basically a chat interface that only covers the text generation. (Not image generation, OCR, etc.)
When they saw nobody was using their version, they straight out blocked the domain of OpenAI altogether and the page now show a message directing users of their solution.
It's a 80k + employee organization, so imagine the impact of such decision.
My pleasure!

This one is a little trickier for me, for some reason. Probably the first step is to identify the specific problem you need to solve. We need to find 'Q', or the relation between P and Q. Maybe you need to break the problem up into peices, and solve one at a time. How to build a website? How to build a UI? How to host?

Then identify and capture the facts as you know them. X -> Y, P, Q. This is a research phase where you want to understand all that you can, within reason. You don't need quantum mechanics for your average application design. So you need login for your site? Pictures? Forms? Charts?

Then conceive of a framework for analyzing. On a 2D plane, polar or Cartesian coordinates for instance, as well as picking the origin. Maybe you need logic, or something else. Richard Feyman invented his quantum Feyman diagrams to help him understand quantum mechanics. Calculus, derivatives, and integration were invented for calculating the areas of spaces between complex curves, and two people, Leibnitz and Newton, each came up with their own notation to represent the ideas of adding infinitely tiny slices. Sometimes you might need to create a tool. For webdev I think this is like, single page app or server side generation or whatever.

Once you have data, and a framework, you can analyze for a solution. I also think of something about graph searches might be applicable: breath first is best when the solution is close to the source, and depth first is better for farther answers/more exhaustive searches. Ok, server side generation has these options with these pros and cons, jsx, templating, whatever.

Also, one of the best strategies in programming (and life) is: "small steps, always," from the pragmatic programmer, which I highly recommend. Feymans book are also incredible, he teaches learning as much as physics.
Eh. It's cute.

But I learned to distinguish between "programming as a hobby" and "programming toward some productive purpose / as a job".

If I'm tinkering on a 1976 project car in my garage for 10 years, that's one thing. If I'm working for Mazda designing the next production model, that process is going to look and feel different! There'll be more structure and team work and coordination in one of those activities!

I can "program, motherfucker" for fun as much as I want to, all day long. Nobody is stopping me!

If somebody else is paying me to accomplish something on their money, schedule, and risk... There'll be some processes and procedures and accountability.

The two are not mutually exclusive. And they're not specific to programming - many activities have a "weekend hobby" and a "corporate drone" version - and everything in between. We don't have it particularly bad either - difference between me playing flight Sims or even flying a cessna at local club, and an airline pilot is far more stark, in terms of processes and control. And frankly, it's mostly the "I just want to program, motherfucker!" That screw it up for the rest of us, and half the stupid management methodologies and communication failures and misunderstandings are because of folks who are too cool for school and to coordinate with their team mates.

I just don't think it's that "cool" and "edgy" to think we are some particularly special snowflake type of rebel.

(I might just be getting old though, I'm sure the 15 year old me would be all over that :->)
I just emailed their public affairs office to get the details.
I feel comfortable saying you can own a .onion address, since it's controlled by a private key you control.
The safest way now to use LLMs is for simple entity extraction of signs, symptoms, investigation summaries, then translate them into the inputs for an understandable linear/logistic model, e.g. Wells criteria, Canadian CT head, or Centor score. I feel that a comprehensive but explainable model that supports multiple diagnoses will be developed in the future, but no such model currently exists.
It’s a giant hunk of iron. It’s not fragile.
Wasn't actually off-topic since you specifically mentioned them.

And a lot the incidents I can think of, of people being unreasonable there, came AFTER attempts at reasonable requests were ignored.

But sure go off.
> “do a good job and make relationships in the process”

Exactly! Do a generally good job; don't be an asshole; read the promotion rubric, but don't read it every day; it's far more important to understand what the strategy of your team/org/division is and work towards that.
My understanding is that relays will not filter anything except really illegal material (child porn). Moderation is based on labeling, not deleting.
> Fuck apple. Fuck your nonsense with the EU. I love you and will still buy your proucts cause I need a working laptop with a *nix terminal but I would like to part ways. (fix your shit linux desktop)

You just want a terminal? That's easy, no desktop needed. Or just run a terminal on top of X or Wayland, no need to deal with all the desktop manager options out there. Pretty straightforward, not hard. Slightly harder than whining on HN though.
Overcoming Coordination Failure in a Critical Mass Game
Not sure why this was downvoted, but it made me laugh :)
I would expect clients (App Views) to be able to use multiple relays in parallel if needed. That would be like having a local GitHub UI pulling data from several GitHub instances (“relays”) that may host different but potentially overlapping sets of repositories.

This would be like a Usenet client aggregating newsgroups from several NNTP servers.
It's more or less the same in NYC. DHS budget is about $2.2 billion to serve 90K people in shelters, and that doesn't count all of the service spending from agencies not directly responsible for housing and feeding them.
Agreed, moderation with a mix of both approaches is likely the best. This is an extreme reaction to another extreme and I the sweet-spot is probably somewhere in the middle.
Then take me back to 2011!
Slight correction, you have to pay a levy if you earn over ~90k/year and don’t have private hospital cover.
> We are tired of being told we're socialy awkward idiots

I would advise a different response to address this concern than the one provided by this website. I think Zed Shaw's obviously a very talented programmer, but this is the kind of thing that doesn't earn the respect of the people he's trying to convince, and does more to reinforce a stereotype that works against his goals. You want the people paying you money to think of you as a reliable solution rather than a potential problem. Wearing a t-shirt with a gun pointing at, presumably... your boss?... is not the right way.
I genuinely wonder what's the profile of those people who find the time to write games on the Amiga! but I suspect younger people aren't interested in such old computers, and people who grew up with them are busy with family and professional obligations. And if they're not, they are so many projects to work on which are equally fun, which you could use to keep up to date for instance.

In any case, it's very cool, so thanks for sharing.
Why would you, upon encountering the concept of a basilisk, decide it's perfectly fine to spread them?
> Unfortunately, very little evidence exists about the ability of LLMs to substantiate claims. In a new preprint study, we develop an approach to verify how well LLMs are able to cite medical references and whether these references actually support the claims generated by the models.

Is there a corresponding control group for how well an average doctor is able to cite medical references and whether these references actually support the claims generated by the doctors?
>AI is a con that Elizabeth Holmes would be proud of..

:joy
Ask HN: Platform Decay – How to Avoid?
Hey HN - observing the unfolding situation with a major platform heading towards an IPO has been eye-opening. The tensions between "what’s best" for the platform (users, developers, and moderators) versus investor value expectations (+ platform implications are uncomfortably clear.

Oh, and especially striking is the issue of moderators, crucial to the platform, remaining unpaid as a risk highlighted in an IPO filing.

This situation raises a fundamental question for founders: How do we secure the investment needed for growth without compromising the core values and community that define our projects?

Seeing a platform potentially jeopardize its user base and community support at the altar of investor returns is a cautionary tale and not new, but it seems tech is only accelerating it.

I’m facing this turmoil firsthand. The path from startup to scale involves navigating investor demands, but at what cost? How do we avoid making the same compromises at the cost of our users and partners? It feels impossible.

This tension is too real to me, and I think it shows up as an outright defensiveness when I talk to investors. Maybe I'm too emotional?

I’m reaching out for insights on maintaining this balance. Any advice or experiences shared would be invaluable.
That isn't addressing the most obvious causes.

* Since 1970 the US has been printing money and dumping it into asset markets. This makes it easier to make money in finance

* US industrial policy has been to squeeze manufacturing talent, especially with environmental policy, which means it moves to foreign industrial hubs.

Those 2 factors alone mean that manufacturing can't compete as a cash cow. It is rather obvious at this point that the big winners in the US are not going to be manufacturers. What is necessary to achieve success is to have a good-enough story for why the Fed should give you money, be that access to the bond market and the Fed's belief that pumping money into the bond market generates wealth or a good reason why the Fed should bail you out when you go bankrupt (Silicon Valley bank, the '08 crisis, etc). How is a manufacturer supposed to get in on that in the same way the banks do? This has surely been clear enough to the people involved since the mid 90s.

You're also looking at a period (1940-1980) when every other industrial power had just had their factories demolished in WWII, so the US was in an unusually advantaged position to make money from manufacturing.
> Nothing to do with solving the problem efficiently.

Unless you were solving world hunger or fast homomorphic encryption, this guy's promotable event sounds like it's way more impressive than whatever technical desiderata you were helping them to solve efficiently.

Seriously, the guy sounds like some kind of corporate Robinhood.
This is basically crystal is: a Ruby-like with inline type annotations like python3 and some of the "surprises" removed like Ruby's nil handling
I had no idea this guy was such a prolific author, but am glad I found out!
Profanity works fine as well.
yeah then my index finger is prior art for computer mouse. it doesn't work that way. if you can't see how the idea of putting a task bar where it is and making it usable in an operating system requires significant invention, don't know what to tell you. sure, today we are looking at all like it is the most obvious thing in the world, but back then it wasn't that obvious.
That was cathartic.

Understanding statistics is a curse, because as the author states, you often understand that you don't know something.

You can prove to somebody that their way of measuring something is complete horeshit, but if you can't come up with an alternative (because ypu know better), then you'll find people telling you "well we have to go with what ee have". Like dude. I literally showed you you don't have anything, you can't measure the thing you think you can, this measurement is lying to you.

Sometimes institutional pressures account for this, someone has to show their manager something even if it's bullshit, but you get the same reaction when that isn't the case. People really can't accept the idea of not knowing something, that's just not a concept they can grok.
I am doing OK, thank you. I have some useful exercises, like the piriformis stretch, that help me manage the pain level. Plus I am thankful to be able to walk my dog for 2 to 4 miles in one go, several times a week, so my physical fitness isn't completely in the toilet :)
Considering its corpus, to me it makes almost no sense for it to be more helpful when offered a tip. One must imagine the conversation like a forum thread, since that’s the type of internet content GPT has been trained on. Offering another forum user a tip isn’t going to yield a longer response. Probably just confusion. In fact, linguistically, tipping for information would be seen as colloquially dismissive, like “oh here’s a tip, good job lol”. Instead, though, I’ve observed that GPT responses improve when you insinuate that it is in a situation where dense or detailed information is required. Basically: asking it for the opposite of ELI5. Or telling it it’s a PhD computer scientist. Or telling it that the code it provides will be executed directly by you locally, so it can’t just skip stuff. Essentially we must build a kind of contextual story in each conversation which slightly orients GPT to a more helpful response. See how the SYSTEM prompts are constructed, and follow in suit. And keep in the back of your mind that it’s just a more powerful version than GPT2 and Davinci and all those old models… a “what comes next” machine built off all human prose. Always consider the material it has learned from.
I think both sides are true. On the one hand, dysfunction exists in all organizations. On the other hand, it takes effort to maintain a high functioning organization and most people don’t want to put in the real hard work. Not only are most people resistant to change, but the gratitude/reward probably won’t be there. It’s far easier to complain and wallow in a stuck situation than to sit through the discomfort of pushing for change. Schools, non-profits, government programs, corporations, they all experience it. While I can’t say I support this way of life, I can definitely understand why it exists.
Is it possible for a relay to filter individual posts, or do the Merkle trees prevent that? (They would if they need to be signed by the originating user.)
Or what if you only want to pay taxes for the part you are squatting on? You could imagine thousands of acres of a ranch and you only want to pay taxes on the back corner.
And vastly exceeded the carrying capacity of the planet, leading to ecological and likely societal collapse. Thanks, capitalism!
Why do you say that static type systems are a "premature optimization"? On its face, that seems like a (very spicy) opinion that's been stated as fact.
I hear you and I agree. It's the middle column in the chart that's the problem. Maybe the label on that one should be "enshittification" because that's where it becomes less about solving problems and more like busy-work (at best).
Some information here.

https://www.ntia.gov/federal-register-notice/2024/dual-use-f...
"Say bug again. SAY BUG again! And I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker! Say bug one more time."