skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's possible to summarize it with one source. Some are my own experiments.

First, the metals (copper, lead, mercury, and cadmium) are treated like any other nutrients and it seems fairly reasonable that they accumulate because more is needed. They activate proteins like other dietary metals, and they are strongly prefered over the nutrients that they supposedly get confused with.

Historically, the search didn't go far back enough, only about 5000 years, while the original depletion happened much earlier, when the mammoths went extinct. An extensive study claims that it was actually the cause. (DOI: 10.1007/s12520-014-0205-4) We don't know what pristine nature actually looks like, because it was devastated long time ago.

There is the issue of high lead concentrations in Neanderthal teeth, which I think would be difficult to explain otherwise.

Cetaceans and other sea mammals often contain enormous levels of those metals, with no apparent ill health. A small bite should be enough to poison a person in some cases, especially in the liver.

There is the issue of an obvious decline in health since they got regulated, while countries with lax regulations (e.g. Japan) seem to be spared. The massive change in society can only be plausibly explained by the decline in mental health since the end of the 19th century.

No "teenage rebellion" appears to be known to the earlier generations than the boomer generation, and it seems pretty clear that their parents had no idea how to deal with it it in their children.

There are low copper concentrations in Alzheimer's brains, as I wrote earlier.

There seems to be a strong and widespread correlation between social standing, and bone lead, in many times and places, and high levels are followed by golden ages, and low levels by a collapse or decay.
Here's the thing, though: we, the general public, did this.

Up until the mid-2010s, the prevailing dogma within Google and at most other Big Tech companies was this spirit of "information libertarianism". We make all information accessible and useful, and the world gets better.

Around that time, a lot of pressure started to mount on tech companies for their complicity in bad things; the election of Donald Trump was a pretty major catalyst. So, all the companies responded to public pressure by building algorithmic fairness organizations. But because tech companies hire from specific backgrounds and in specific locations, and aren't particularly ideologically diverse, they converged on enforcing a worldview that aligns with their morality and their concerns.

Gemini is incredibly touchy about hot-button issues that animate progressive folks in the SF Bay Area and almost nowhere else. But then, we literally demanded Google and Facebook to become arbiters of morality - so what outcome were we hoping for?
You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you haven't accounted for the cash you've saved on rent. Owning a house is also a decent way to protect your equity from inflation. Given the likely high immigration rates in the future, housing values will continue to rise as demand increases. ymmv.
If you assume it is a secret, you might start to use it as an access key, or similar things. That's where the error is. You should assume it is public (but avoid publishing it yourself of course, that's defense in depth)
> Suppose you were new to the contest and were allowed to put money down on the choice at the point that there were two doors left.

That would be a completely different game. The goat doesn't get reshuffled. The doors that remain are not random and most importantly, you know which door you picked in the first round. It doesn't become a 50:50 chance just because there are two doors, as the goat isn't distributed over those two doors, but across all three.

Imagine 1000 doors. You pick one. In round two you are asked if you want to stay with that one door or pick all the other 999 doors at once. What do you do?
> I presume most young Francophones who are likely to actually use Mistral will pronounce it in Franglais as "le tchatte"

Anything's better than hearing how french pronounce ChatGPT: "tchat j'ai pété" (literally means "cat, I farted" in french).
Airlines don’t pay their externalities
You mean, like lyinching and segregating Black people and not having the same rights until the damn US landed into the Moon? FFS, nazi-like laws were expected in the Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain or Mussolini's Italy, not under a self-called democracy right into the Beatles era.
Your estimates are fine, but you're only talking about the basic salary which in the US is only part of the equation. You've got to include benefits including health insurance which is easily $10-20k/year in the US for a family. Add in pension costs and it's a good rule of thumb to double the quoted basic salary. If you do this, the $350k of your estimate becomes $700k. Add in more for two to three layers of management, and you're easily over $1m.
This may be a case of "reality has a liberal bias", i.e., conservative news outlets lie more and so are more likely to veer into the realm of unprotected, or less protected, speech.
I read it as a typo/mistranscription for “alive”—to be alive to the risk means they are aware of it.
I work on a programming language with a friend. We try to remove as much of the pain points of day to day programming as possible, and it's very motivating to find solutions to various problems we've had for a long time.
Wouldn't such an adversary always choose the option that causes us more damage?
I think this exists outside of tech and AI as well.

I was in a mall bookstore recently looking for a gift and I passed by a section of "Philosophy". I was curious and took a look and in that small section, a little over half a bookshelf, there was not a single title I recognized as philosophy. The closest was an abridged Art of War. The rest was entirely contemporary cultural critique stuff.

I stay away from the anti-woke stuff online for the most part since I find it tedious. But I have to admit in that moment in the bookstore I realized how easy it is to erase history. No ancient Greek philosophy like Plato or Aristotle. No enlightenment philosophy. Not even existentialism.

I mean, I get it that the kind of philosophy I think of is dominated by old white men. And I recognize the need to balance that out with other viewpoints. And I doubt a mall bookstore is selling a lot of copies of Spinoza or Hegel. But this was a complete erasure. This felt like the pendulum swinging so far to the other side that it has escaped reality.
Yes. I work in 2nd one in my life currently, around 30 people, 15 technical/15 non-technical, remote. Not a single manager. I think we can scale it to 50. At some size I guess it would become harder, but I'd like to think it the spirit of it can be kept (lean and very low managers head count, just for coordination, HR and severe conflict resoultions stuff; let the people do their job and take accountability, pay them well and don't make them play carrier ladder games and internal competition trying to get promoted and destroying the cooperative culture).
> We have no idea what affect they would have on earth biology.

We know that lunar regolith is pretty damn bad, and that Apollo astronauts did not enjoy even their very short, small exposures much

It's thought to be quite toxic both because it's abrasive and filled with perchlorates and chlorates (and tests with simulants based on samples returned have provided additional evidence for this). Mars soils would have largely the same problems.
Looking forward to following your progress. I've been wanting to see how we might replace polygons for gaming long term, this seems like a step in the right direction.
Use it for what? The only time I've been required to use it in the past 25 years of living and working in the US was taking the GRE in 2002 or so. The test itself was all via computer but you had to write a paragraph (specifically in cursive) promising not to cheat.
I assume that airbus and Northrop Grumman teamed for those reasons. Airbus also has a major presence in Alabama if I'm not mistaken. BAE is based in London but has a lot of US defense contracts as well.

The ship of shareholder value has sailed a long time ago and won't be coming back any time soon.
We are seeing the values of institutions distilled into something like minds.

This will only get more interesting.
That's a scary proposition as it means the most vocal side wins the AI battle even if their position is bad or even if it is morally evil.

If one side is constantly vocalizing their position while the other side remains silent, then the vocal side wins.
You're going to have to clarify what you mean on that. I'm not aware of any school of thought that thinks amendments to the constitution are somehow distinct or less valid. The original document provided processes for amending (i.e. modifying) it, and amendments were made under those rules. An "amendment" is literally a modification to a document; that's what the word means.

In fact, to the extent that there's a distinction, it's that amendments take priority over the previous version of the document. Obviously they'd have to; otherwise that would just mean you can't amend the original document.

According to the current version of the US constitution, which is the only one that matters, slavery is legal in exactly that one circumstance.
Gnome/freedesktop is essentially a single entity, and their choices affect the FOSS as a whole. If you're going to say well there are individual contributors, well there are individual employees and teams at microsoft too. I also addressed your point, I can always make my own script to play with bluetooth just like OP can run control panel with some hexstring incantation. Can is can I suppose.
But it's not a question about the legality of the ban, it's about the morality of it.
Codeium now supports multi-repo context
Thank you. I have just deleted a long comment because I don't want to get into this discussion for my own well-being.

I was once told that ADs were as well-understood as insulin for diabetes. In retrospect I feel hard-pressed to find any other word for that than "blatant lie". I was 21 when I was put on Effexor.
Yeah I agree. "Unbiased views" doesn't exist and even choosing not to answer certain questions is a view unto itself. Their answers could use improvement but having everyone happy with the answers is literally an impossible task. Not that this is a particularly stellar job but I don't think it's worth people waxing super philosophical about.

I mean I hate Google more than the next guy but there was no world where the answers weren't gonna be some flavor of slightly fucked.
I thought I had 5 months to figure out a migration; turns out I have two weeks?? annoying especially because Authy does not offer any export service, the "migration" involves going to every service and switching out my 2FA provider (most of them don't support more than one at a time).

I hadn't heard of 2FAS. It does multiple device sync for you? And is free? But I guess also not available on desktop, only phone, so no benefit to me over Authy except perhaps I don't think they are about to disappear entirely.
More generally, this opens up all sorts of threat models for espionage and alternative data. A private bucket called project-foobar-logs-staging might have its existence known in an index but never have been known to be associated with Baz Corp's publicly-known image buckets - but with this disclosure, a database will become available making that association possible. And it will be possible to monitor if and when project-foobar-logs-prod gets provisioned. Not to mention that state-level actors would love to see an enumerable list of projects their rivals are working on, and if any of them happen to have been secured only by obscurity in the past.

Edge cases, to be sure, but certainly nontrivial.
Why always? If I ask if a person should get arrested, presumably the answer is different before and after they commit a crime.

Edit: Probably never mind. I guess it's a US question where newspapers specifically have special constitutional protection. The answer still might change if the Constitution ever changes.
Every time someone says "Please think of the children", fertility sinks
Oh, there are other things... like a compromised chrome extension that only looks for your accountID being used and sends back credentials.

Knowing an accountId tells you where to focus your efforts. You got through one hoop (of many).
Not really. I just go to work. Come home. Walk the dog. Cook, eat, sleep, and repeat.

This became super evident when I was filling out my benefits insurance form and found that aside from my mom, who is much older than me I have no beneficiaries.

I guess I have only my dog and my mom to live for.

Congrats on giving up the drinking OP. That's awesome bro! I suppose you could find purpose in sharing with others your journey on how to give up booze.
This is what I got.

https://imgur.com/a/qeKr3VJ
quote attributed to Chuck Yeager.
Marilyn vos Savant
Median wages in the US are considerably higher than in Europe. Amazon wanted to buy iRobot but was blocked by regulators.

https://www.ft.com/content/db7c6cfc-8ab2-4ee8-a41d-ba20b28d4...
Help others. Any skills you have, there's people earlier on the path. Find people like that who are stuck on something, help and mentor.
You cannot assume that your context would apply from all starting conditions!

That’s why this problem is kind of bad. It does not describe the behavior of the host. It describes the perspective of a contestant halfway through the game.

Dumb example. Host flips a coin 9 times in a row and lands heads each time. If you believe this to have happened by chance then it’s probably rigged because that’s insane and it’ll likely be heads again.

If it’s ALWAYS heads then you haven’t learned anything.
People should be including the share urls along with the screenshots. I'm not even bothering with Gemini until they get things together but I would imagine sharing the url does not dox the person who created it.
It's a great reason to leave these platforms for more intentional ones with moderation teams you trust.

Community run Mastodon and Bluesky servers are a dime a dozen. Forums are seeing a bit of a resurgence.

If this makes the big corpo social networks less fun and cool to be on, then bring it on!
> Make them start over from a clean room with no copyrighted data.

And when such models become popular[0], all the artists now have no job and no way to get compensation for being unable to work through no fault of their own.

I don't think that's really a winning condition. It might make you feel better about the world, but the end result is still all the artists being out of work.

[0] some models are already trained that way, although I assume you're using the word "copyrighted" in the conventional sense of "neither public domain nor an open license", as e.g. all my MIT licensed stuff is still copyrighted but it's fine to use.
You've restated the problem (incorrectly) -- changed it.

There's still a goat you could show me. And it is a fact that you show me a goat. Nowhere in the problem does it suggest there is a chance you show me a goat.

I do honestly admire your dogged commitment, and I think the way you are committed shows up an important point about the article and the history of the problem.

Which is that one can quite clearly fairly argue the point, as you are doing, without resorting to misogynistic or patronising rudeness as so many did at the time!

But you're still wrong. :-)

And I'm going to leave it here.
Kids, inadvertently

Obviously don't "have them" to get your life in order.
They’re not a secret, in fact it’s what you use to share the identity of one account with another, possibly third party’s account. It’s a secret in the way your personal email address is. You may not advertise it on 4chan, but you definitely share it to limited audiences. Once you’ve shared it it’s no longer an actual secret. Indeed, as has been noted, aws itself doesn’t treat your account id as a secret and freely shares it within aws, logs it in plain text, uses it for operations with human operators, internal reporting, etc. It’s an identifier, it’s discoverable, shareable, and leaks all over the place.

This is not the stuff secrets are made of.

Trying to eek some sort of security story out of hiding account ids plays right into security through obscurity. As it’s not treated as a secret the most you’re doing is obscuring the attack surface of your infrastructure. IAM doesn’t allow anyone to use the knowledge of your account ID to grant any privilege not specifically granted within the account itself via two way grants. Holes in your IAM policies aren’t protected by hiding the account ID, they’re protected by closing the holes.
Related:

Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750097 - Feb 2017 (80 comments)
Usually that's true but that's not obvious to a junior dev who thinks it's their job to wrap everything in more code and scripts and patterns.
And,

this success is measureable. Outcomes in terms of overall recidivism, and in total societal cost, just as in the case of universal health care, so great as to make the American disposition appear not just irrational but willfully counterproductive.

This country in its current formulation appears incapable of ever escaping the gravity of feverish Christian moralizing and the correlated vicious contempt for objective truth and measurable outcome.
I find that ingesting and chunking PDF textbooks automatically creates more of a fuzzy keyword index than a high level conceptual knowledge base. Manually curating the text into chunks and annotating high level context is an improvement, but it seems like chunks should be stored as a dependency tree so that, regardless of delineation, on retrieval the full context is recovered.
Your telegraph lines start catching on fire, eh?
Access to tablets and messaging is a key resource to decrease recidivism.

Studies have shown that continued contact with family and friends while incarcerated increases the chances of having a support network upon release.

I regularly message about a dozen people in prison on a daily basis and 95% of my communications is help with finding housing, finding jobs, education, and legal information to help fix issues with their criminal case.

I was in for 10 years myself, and I can tell you the last month where I finally had a tablet was the most productive of my time inside. The number of connections I made that helped me when I got out was life-changing.

p.s. these tablets are generally super-cheap Ali Express style junk with literally the worst software you've ever seen. Imagine going on UpWork and saying "I need some messaging software for Android. No bug fixes or support required. Just has to take $$ and occasionally work. Willing to pay US$40 for the app." -- that's probably how the thing got made. Some first time coder followed a YouTube tutorial and then deployed it to a million devices.
Biological purpose is the foundation of everything else.
Let's remember that there are four (arguably more) pillars of a
criminal justice system.

The two we are missing here are deterrence and incapacitation [0].

One of the reasons for putting people in jail is so that they won't be
able to continue offending, in other words to "protect the public".

Another is to stop people offending in the first place.

A couple of modern problems come to mind. A society that lives in fear
of crime and is low on forgiveness wants to lock 'em up forever and
throw away the key. There is no concept of time having been served.
This also goes against the grain of a "for profit" prison system by
disincentivising rehabilitation.

In a society with rampant poverty and poor healthcare the deterrence
part breaks down. People would rather get into prison than die of cold
and hunger on the streets. In response, prisons must become ever more
brutal to stop that.

Therefore a high trust, low poverty society has less incarcerated
persons independent of "objective criminality".

[0] https://www.bsslawllc.com/blog/2021/12/the-four-pillars-of-s...
I recently re-did my personal blog. My goal is to write about topics that are of interest to me mostly for my own learning and knowledge. Hopefully it also helps others but my goal is write and share. I don't care about comments or social media. I do have a newsletter that is coming soon if reads want to be notified. No analytics etc btw as well.
>Given how much of the mainstream is organized around overwrought advertising, influencering, guruing, and being terminally online... it seems like the modern punks would be the counter-culture that prioritizes being offline, being private, and being whatever the opposite of "fake it 'til you make it" would be called. Genuine and modest?

The genuine ones - outside all media attention yes.

Because otherwise even that has been packaged and sold by "minimalist" and "slow living" influencers.
I've ridden Waymo in Phoenix a bunch and it's amazing.

The most exciting immediate part of self-driving cars might be the elimination of parking minimums: https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9780367092801
All apps should be allowed to use third party app stores if they want. Apples policy makes it impossible for free apps too as theyd have to pay the per user fee.
I could see that. Both that it could be the intention of the problem statement and what you say it achieves. It had that effect on me.
Nice, thanks for the reply. Glad to hear you are looking into these challenges and plan to tackle some of them. Will keep my eye on the repo for some of these improvements in the future.

And totally agree, the scaling out of ingesting large quantities of data is a hard challenge as well and it does make sense to work on that problem space too. Sounds like that is a higher priority at the moment which is totally fine.
Well, that assumes that the ID is cryptographically random. Perhaps that is a bad assumption.
I'm surprised you're being downvoted when almost all the lack of infrastructure for the future of Canadian youth doesn't just hint at what you're expressing, but instead screams it. Almost all politicians in Canada are landlords, multiple property holders, and have decided that what's best for Canada is increasing immigration, where young-born Canadians are having their wages suppressed because of it. Additionally, they are locked into living with their parents because rent has skyrocketed to absurd levels for just a small studio apartment. All for the benefit of the existing established boomer generation.
Why must there be a purpose? The attachment to the desire that there is purpose is flawed. Imagine living in the 3rd century BC, and some one comes up to you and says "They just discovered the world is round!" Although a monumental discovery, palatable in your day to day. Start doing things, and at some point you'll find new things you like to do.
Microsoft pays white employees less than non-white employees same job
I think they meant you lose immediately.
Are there still instances where you would want an Extended Validation (EV) certificate? If so, that’s one case where certificate monitoring could be relevant.

Browsers today no longer provide visual indicators for EV certificates [1] so I don’t know if they’re still in common use.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificat... "Removal of special UI indicators"
Life doesn't have a purpose, machines have purpose. -Osho Rajnish
> but there is no success; a functioning billing system is just what is expected. It's all downside and no upside for you personally.

I just wanted to say thank you for giving a robust voice to the frustrations I've felt after building multiple billing systems. This and your linked comment were a pleasure to read, and simply spot on.

Coincidentally, I am also pursuing a career transition toward data analysis. If I understand correctly, you are lamenting "data engineering" in contrast to "ad hoc data analysis deliverables"?