skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there actually a contradiction between MN20 and MN36? In MN20, the use of suppressing thoughts by force is for a specific purpose at a specific time:

>When a monk is intent on the heightened mind, there are five themes he should attend to at the appropriate times. Which five?

>[...] If evil, unskillful thoughts—connected with desire, aversion or delusion—still arise in the monk while he is attending to the relaxing of thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts, then—with his teeth clenched and his tongue pressed against the roof of his mouth [...].

The object in MN36 is distinctly different:

>So it is with any brahman or contemplative who lives withdrawn from sensuality in body only, but whose desire, infatuation, urge, thirst, & fever for sensuality is not relinquished & stilled within him: Whether or not he feels painful, racking, piercing feelings due to his striving, he is incapable of knowledge, vision, & unexcelled self-awakening.

>[...] "I thought: 'Suppose that I, clenching my teeth and pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth, were to beat down, constrain, & crush my mind with my awareness.' So, clenching my teeth and pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth, I beat down, constrained, & crushed my mind with my awareness. Just as a strong man, seizing a weaker man by the head or the throat or the shoulders, would beat him down, constrain, & crush him, in the same way I beat down, constrained, & crushed my mind with my awareness. As I did so, sweat poured from my armpits. And although tireless persistence was aroused in me, and unmuddled mindfulness established, my body was aroused & uncalm because of the painful exertion. But the painful feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind or remain.

The key difference lies in the context and purpose: MN20 provides tools for dealing with unwholesome thoughts as part of the path to mindfulness and concentration, prioritizing individual strategies if the prior fails--first of distraction, then consequences, then ignoring them, then relaxing them, and if all of these fail, then brute force is necessary.

MN36 is the litany of strategies that don't lead to nibbana, showing that extreme asceticism and forceful mental suppression alone do not lead to enlightenment.

In traditional Theravada, Mara, divinities, and reincarnation are very much considered real and not metaphorical. In any case, the original point stands that big-tent Buddhism does contain these aspects.
Fact: In 1973 interest payments 6% of the federal budget and today they are 10%. At that rate of % growth interest would become the largest expenditure category in 175 years.

I am not disagreeing with you. I just think its good to keep these things in perspective with facts, not worries.

Source: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/usbudg...
> I'd more restate it as "for a given population size, enough people would mess up that making everyone wear one would not slow the spread of the disease".

...but this is even less conservative than the review summary, which was inexplicably panned.

The clause "enough people would mess up that making everyone wear one would not slow the spread of the disease" is part of the consideration that goes into "community transmission" (or the phrase "in the community", which is sometimes used in formal publications as an abstraction for real-world compliance levels) and is distinct from "individual transmission".

The sentence in question is:

"Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza-like illness (ILI)/COVID-19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants;" [0]

...it's hard to imagine how this extremely sober (and factually proper) extrapolation of the data has caused such a kerfuffle.

Is it any wonder that the people who have been studying this topic since before it was cool are puzzled?

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36715243/

edit: my apologies - I just read that you addressed this elsewhere in the thread. It seems that we are in agreement (and I just don't think there is a reasonable alternative assessment for any numerate / literate reading of the data.)
I have NReal/XReal Air, and I find them very uncomfortable. I wear glasses, so I have to use prescription inserts, so it adds to the weight. While they are not too heavy, they put too much weight on the bridge of my nose and tend to slide down over time. They are also very sensitive to placement, so if they slide down a little, you can't see the entire screen anymore. The FOV is pretty narrow.
There’s no explicit documentation. It’s just that if a non-Chinese company/individual will want to publish something there, they need to obtain a license. This license can’t be obtained so easily, so you would have to go through some publishing company like AppTutti. These companies require you to rebuild your app with their specific SDK, without which you just can’t publish the app. One can only guess what’s in that SDK… but from my other experiences, I’m pretty sure there’s some back channel.

Here’s a quote from appinchina dot com:

Currently, foreign companies are not allowed to directly publish their apps on Chinese Android app stores. This restriction does not apply to iOS or the Apple App Store in China. All foreign app companies must either have a Chinese entity or use an authorized local distributor to publish their mobile apps and games.
> this makes Storybook a Big Noise Generator

This sounds familiar, but, on a positive note, I take this as a reminder to update all my project's dependencies. Dependabot alerts typically start popping up a month or two since the last update, by which time a dozen of direct dependencies usually have a newer version.
Thank you, I really appreciate that :) Yes, I'm starting to realize that it's a wound that never heals but instead one you just have to live with.

Not sure if this applies to you, but at least for me: One thought that's helped is remembering it was my mom who pushed me to pursue computer science. I think she'd want me to rediscover the passion I used to have, even though, like you're alluding to, I've learned that it has to be done in moderation.
10 years from now is likely a different administration and it'll be their problem. The "Someone Else's Problem" is a very strong motivator.
yes but the owners change
Are you saying that no company has ever fired an experienced engineer?
Pricing: $0.25/million tokens of input, $1.25/million of output

GPT-3.5 Turbo is $0.50/$1.50

I've updated the Claude 3 plugin for my LLM CLI tool to support the new model: https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3/releases/tag/0.3

pipx install llm
llm install llm-claude-3
llm keys set claude
# Paste Anthropic API key here
llm -m claude-3-haiku 'Fun facts about armadillos'

It's pretty fast! Animated GIF here: https://github.com/simonw/llm-claude-3/issues/3#issuecomment...
This is fantastic! We just shipped so much of our old Claude Instant calls to Haiku and the results are fantastic.

Zenfetch is now primarily powered by Claude 3 family of models :O
https://www.zenfetch.com
Difference is funding. Good luck convincing the population you need to tripple teacher salaries.

I mean we should. But good luck convincing.
Roman soldiers used this built-in fridge to keep their wine cool
Ukraine fires about 4-7k dumb rounds per day (Russia fires around 20k).

What's the bet that the Russians produce a 155 mm (or thereabouts) artillery shell for a whole lot less than the Western MICs can charge. I did see somewhere that Russia can produce an artillery shell of that sort of calibre for about 2-300 bucks. (And I remember thinking that that was expensive!)
> My personal favorite is the Tower spherical engine...

when i first saw the static diagram, i thought wow that looks like it is much more complicated than this 2-d diagram lets on. then later down the page i saw the animation showing the 3-d complexity... mind blowing.
I agree with you on the problem with offshoring, having done this myself in a previous role in a regulated industry.

However, the offshore team are usually not intended to act as domain experts. In fact, they were very likely explicitly proscribed from interpreting the specifications handed to them to guard against them trying to act as domain experts and delivering something different from expectations.

As such, they were (likely) not the ones who specified that MCAS should silently turn itself on after a pilot turned it off. That misjudgment probably lies with the engineering team who made that design decision, and it had tragic results.
IBM isn't competing against anthropic / openAI/ Google.

IBM's business model is to be worse but sell to lots of clients because the clients don't know any better.
Fwiw, this is one of the few very valid risk areas that crypto indicates as a logical outcome if it works fully. The other is debt-deflation spirals.

A lot of crypto people don’t care about this, or see “democratic accountability” as an excuse for (in it’s worst version) Venezuela, or in its most likely version a decade plus of 0.0001% savings rates for the common man b/c our democratic system decided it’d have to work that way for a bit.
You think that having no public health measures is data driven? Go read some data. Seriously. Or, just go to pre-1950s graveyards and gather data on how many dead children there were before public health measures. Or look at the data on how the public health measures ran extinct a strain of flu so it is no longer being included in the vaccine formula.
If xhe is that good and contracting for $15/hr, then xhe is extremely foolish.

There are great engineers in non-Western countries. It's just that they realise talent is so rare, they can charge more than local rates.
Dupe, already discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
Can you really prove anything beyond your own existence? Descartes says no. Maybe all your senses are just an illusion.
We are arguably in one of the most important blips in the history of mankind.
need to pass the votes in senate

or this is final ?
The problem is when the "ordering" of science is horizontal.

I.e. Einstein reading their works and copying their conclusions.

This is highly likely to have happened, regardless of the "completeness" of one work or another.

The thing I like about this is that it levels celebrity (something man-made) with rationality.

Why not reduce Einstein's celebrity? It reflects reality more accurately to do so.
I think this article is a great example of how technical people have become so intoxicated by the relatively few instances in which an advance in technology has genuinely solved an entrenched social or power problem by making a new thing possible or reducing costs that they basically only argue in those terms

The fact is, the housing crisis is and always was a policy failure and a "distributional outcomes" issue, and and no amount of improving housing construction's speed, costs, or legality will fix it if we don't both change policy and reduce inequality

There are tons of building that are or could be residential housing that are owned by massive investment firms as a speculative asset. The FTC's recently published brief mentioned that keeping units empty rather than lowering prices is common practice among landlords. Even among individuals, an incredible amount of older, wealthy people own multiple homes and view most of them as a source of passive income. When I talk to people in that category, if they are doing well, they are often thinking about buying more homes to generate more income directly from renters or as a speculative investment (IE to hold and sell later)

As it stands, people are not homeless because there is nowhere they could live. Not even close. Increasing housing supply without making any significant dent in the financial and regulatory situation surrounding housing will more likely just put more real estate in the hands of the entrenched winners, who have already demonstrated the willingness and ability to hoard housing
Not actually intelligence. So an artificial simulacrum of intelligence, you say?
You can play with Haiku for free at https://app.airtrain.ai/playground
The article itself never uses the term "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence". They do mention the use of a Neural Network as one part of their attempt to help find commonalities in their data set. It is too bad that the Oxford University press person chose to use that word in the title and in the article - badly (in my opinion) characterizing the work.
Do you have any further reading on the idea that the term was explicitly avoided in those fields as a result of the AI winter?

I thought the academics kept on using the term, while commercial interests backed away during winter and came rushing back as soon as it was fashionable again.
I vouched for this post because it talks about the Telegram issue and the more general idea of the role of citizen open source intellegence gathering which I think is an interesting and relevant topic.
That link in hub.flox.dev is wrong. The link at https://flox.dev/terms-conditions is correct. Fixing.... thanks!
Cool! You do you. I’d personally rather spend an hour in the car comfortably vs 20 minutes on public transportation where I’ve got a stranger sitting next to me, no privacy, and potentially no seat during rush hour commute times.
> If you lost your family in war the stress of a startup is nothing to you.

But respectfully this isn’t really how PTSD works. It seems intuitive to say this, but in reality, stressful situations will often trigger an exaggerated flight or fight response than is warranted due to changes in the brain’s structure, especially the hippocampus. Repeated, prolonged trauma makes the person even less resilient, not more so.
> but it's really depressing

Why do you feel it depressing?
All I can say is thanks, but yes, every thread of this variety gets a bit tiresome hearing the same things over and over that tend to be some variation of "my peeve local issue with the US is the reason the US experiences a problem experienced by hundreds of other countries with wildly different policies."

Not to say, in a vacuum, multi-family housing won't provide more housing units per unit of land area than single-family. Clearly, it will. But unless you build every city from scratch to house 20 million people, whether you started with single-family or multi-family, the most desirable cities will end up in a future state whereby more people want to live there than housing exists for, and even if regulations and zoning allow you to build higher and denser than is currently done, to do it where people want to live, you'll have to tear down existing buildings, including existing housing, and many of the owners and occupants of that housing won't want that. You'll also need to run more utility lines, build new pipes, run them under existing roads, which means shutting down those roads, and even if they're perfect utopian European roads that have zero cars on them and only have pedestrians and bicycles, the user of those roads are still going to get annoyed and inconvenienced, and it's going to cost more to do this than building new housing where nobody currently lives, pretty much no matter what.
And even if I’ve met someone briefly, who’s to say they haven’t wired a bot into slack to speak for them? At what point does it cross the line? I fully admit to using ChatGPT to help organize my thinking, but that seems benign compared to wiring up a bot and have it fully shitposting as me.
Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic writing
Needs senate approval.
As of now, you can integrate the Stylelint config in the editor/IDE of your choice to have live linting (tested with VS Code and Vim). Or you can run stylelint manually in the terminal.

Didn't think about git pre-commit hooks to be honest. But I'll look into it. If you have any ideas/suggestions, they are very welcome!
I've seen versions of this in Asia. They used a porous pot into which they put the container of stuff they wanted to cool. As the water evaporated, it cooled the water, which cooled the container, which cooled the contents.

I still remember drinking what felt like an icy drink compared to the ridiculously high temperatures outside. Happy days...
This is like the government telling Radio Shack and RCA that all shortwave radios sold must be programmed to tune out the frequencies of Japanese or USSR stations. Or that it is illegal to tune a shortwave radio to a Japanese station.

The US had more a massive propaganda effort of their own during WWII, but yes we literally rounded up every person of Japanese descent and put them in camps, which should never happen again. Yes, there was a lot of really terrible censorship later in the Cold War like McCarthyism, which is the danger I am worried about. The public became so xenophobic that you could kill an actor's career in Hollywood by telling an agent that they had a copy of The Communist Manifesto. Simply having copies of books written by authors from the wrong country automatically made you "unamerican" and a traitor.

This is the path I fear we are going down again. The government is saying it knows best about what media we cannot be trusted to consume.
mammals are an existence proof
> Seriously, its $CURRENT_YEAR and getting a simple cross platform windowed graphical application up and running is still a pain?

$CURRENT_YEAR was 2018. Really early in the Rust history.
There are now a bunch of Rust GUI framework to choose from.
> middle aged engineers in goatees

This is a 2x'er; full neckbeard is 10x.
What about the 100 people who also owned homes within a few blocks of that apartment building and are also opposed to the change that it brings to the neighborhood? Zoning laws don't exist because of one loudmouth, they exist because solid majorities of the people who live in a given area like having them.
As a self proclaimed genius, you may want to take a step back and question your position. If everyone in the comments is disagreeing with you, that may be a signal that you are missing due to your own bias.
I don't think the US Constitution gives the Chinese Communist Party Freedom of Speech. They're generally freedoms that apply to US citizens in the US, no?
If you know your mind melts when you see it, then why consume it? Why install it at all?

There are plenty of companies that offer digital crack: video games, porn, social media (including this site). But we must give agency to humans. We must acknowledge that they make decisions voluntarily.

Regardless of the source, either we should regulate data, including streaming videos of all kinds, or we don't. Singling out a company seems like a political stunt with zero real world impact. And a bad policy at that.
I'm always amazed to see all these "well actually" comments on every single post, regardless of the topic :)
IIUC Magic Nix Cache uses Github Actions Cache, which means there is waiting for the cache contents to be loaded onto the runner instance. This can in no way be as fast as what namespace.so does, which is mounting a disk image with /nix/store.
That was before binning really got to be a business model. Of course once a production line was stable, they could generate more high end chips than they actually needed, and so the chip you bought from bin 3 might actually be a bin 2 chip. It always seemed like AMD was really conservative that way, which is why hobbyists loved them.

I have a recollection of a guy who got a 486 DX-33 up to 133 MHz by putting the entire computer in mineral oil and floating chunks of dry ice in it. Watch out for asphyxiation.
NASA's ShadowCam now lets you explore the moon's darkest places
If your metric is compensation, which is the metric for many here, then acedemia isn't financially worth it for software engineers. You can check any "entry level" research position and compare it to a position that required 4-5 years of industry experience to compare. Unless you were researching a very hot or soon to be hot field (which requires a bit of foresight), you're generally not going to end up better off by spending those extra years studying such a hyper specific topic.

as a CS/SWE, only go for post-grad if convenient (e.g. Some schools had a 4+1 program for a MS. That extra year probably does pay off), if you have a very specific topic you want to work in, or if you want to work in acedemia specifically.
> (and apparently a purpose-built airstrip for every destination)

Having built a 64-turbine windfarm back in the 2000's (so they were likely smaller than they are now) a goodly chunk of the work involved was site prep in building access roads traversable by the cranes required to set everything up, and the massively over-length trailers carrying the blades. Things like maximum grade, radius of the turns, breakover angle etc were hugely important.

Grading out and paving an airstrip when you already have an appreciable contingent of heavy earthworking equipment onsite and, likely, also a concrete batch plant to reduce the travel time for the concrete you're using for the foundations really isn't too big of a stretch!
> Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

I dont think an agent fighting in a video game really counts? There is quite a significant gap between an FPS and a missile launcher, and it would be a waste not to explore how these agents learn in FPS environments.
Previous versions have had basically 100% yield, because when you're working with the whole wafer it's pretty easy to squeeze in enough redundancy to route around defects unless you get a really unlucky cluster of defects.
5) vetting new accounts for some of the more private communities is invite only, so you’ve got to know somebody. Limits the growth but makes sure there are no bots.
I think some organizations, groups or individuals are more about having all the right traits and buzzword experience on the CV and are more afraid of being disillusioned about anything that is part of that kind of goal than interested in really solving problems or learning skills to actually do so.
I mean of course that’s not what they are saying. Are you just picking a fight?
Yeah for sure. Money and kids, as you had warned :)
If you haven't read it, the Octavia Butler trilogy called Lilith's Brood is a great multi-generational story as well.
> A product you consent to is hardly the same as[...]

...The government you also consent to in elections and by deciding where you live?

I'm so sick of this argument: you chose to buy iPhone, it was your decision... But a large part of the law protects citizens against their bad judgement: we don't allow slave contracts or selling your organs.

Within some use-cases, and to a larger degree within some groups of people, Apple is a monopolist. People get *addicted* from Apple ecosystem. If you had a Mercedes house, with a Mercedes charger to your Mercedes Car, that you would park on a Mercedes parking spot near your workplace, it wouldn't be so easy to replace your car with another brand.
Tesla and Apple aren't social media companies. They're also American companies. I'd be against the bill if American companies had as much access and freedom to operate in China as we give Chinese companies operating in the US. Since that's not gonna happen, fine with forcing bytedance to divest.
Seeing it be pretty slow in production with long prompts:

- 10-15 seconds for 400 tokens out, and 4,000-10,000 tokens in.

- 6-8 seconds when using Claude Instant for the same prompts

Hoping it's just a rush at launch.
Probably institutional grant fishing.
Beat me to it! The Carnegie Mellon/Uber "scandal" was talked about a lot on HN at the time! Some of the big threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9638121

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9602655
Interesting viewpoint since a university should be spending money on the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and not profit.

The whole notion that universities should be profiting in some personal form from research conducted at and for the institution is a rot on modern academia.