skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation you describe sounds familiar, but having dealt with these situations there are many potential root scenarios the facts can support.

Here are a few things that stick out. There is some motive force that animates your sister.

She travels to and from work regularly. Is able to go out and get surgery and cosmetics.

She has reduced interaction with immediate family - more precisely, she has reduced her interactions over several years.

You describe interactions as situations where “ ..doesn't share her actual thoughts and gets angry when asked about it”, / Emotional Upheaval.

There are many skills that are at play here. Decision making, planning, goal setting, even basic skills like getting out of the house. It will be tempting to “judge” and comment how those skills are being used - ignore that urge.

Secondly, you describe your efforts to provide assistance - suggesting Building sites, or expanding on her interests, which result in a “I dont know.” Of the methods attempted, loosely classified, they focus on action, doing things.

Assuming that you are helping in the manner you would expect to be helped - it may not be the manner in which she understands help or needs to be helped.

In the off chance that this extrapolation based on limited data is correct, then your sister may simply connect or need help in different ways.

From experience - some people dont need a plan or help, they need to understand themselves, this is sufficient information for them to make their own plans and act on their own. Others prefer concrete, actionable plans and dont really need this kind of help.

When two such individuals attempt to help each other, the usual outcome is either “You want me to do more, after I am already struggling?” Or “Why are you wasting my time when I need concrete solutions”.

If it helps - ‘thinking’ something through, is also a project. You are building yourself. Often people forget who they are, what their strengths are, become too tired, expect themselves to perform even though they are dead tired - they make errors in their projects.

In such cases some objective reassurance of their capabilities, a genuine analysis of their situation, helps. Often the best person to do this is a professional, because the emotional state interferes with the objective evaluation (“I will fail” vs “No shit - I cant be creative if I am this stressed”)

I dont have a solution, but I hope some of these thoughts aligned with the circumstances you find yourself within.

If it helps - I use something like this to work situations like this out.

Over engineered: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-KD6jm0l4c-thought-council

Base version: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Cdq3drl87-two-guides

Non ChatGPT + version: https://chat.openai.com/share/d37ce786-20a4-482e-b348-87cd03...
Depends on the graph and newspaper. The best case scenario is a desaturated version of old print newspapers. Their DPI was near this screen's DPI (200 vs 150) and it'll suffer from the same problem of losing low contrast details. You won't be reading rendering papers, but it'll probably help a basic line graph.
WeChat does a lot more. You basically can't function in China without it
> Psyops are also, fundamentally, lies

Psyops are, fundamentally, propaganda.

Some of the most devastating propaganda is rubbing the enemy's face in truths they would prefer not to face.

It is more accurate to say that propaganda, and therefore psyops, are indifferent to the truth. In many ways this makes it more dangerous than lies.
The author remarks that "The No. 1 factor in a student’s tutoring success is simply showing up consistently, research suggests," and this matches with my own personal experience. I've tried various tools for learning foreign languages (though most of them did not use AI), but an issue was that they weren't "sticky" or interesting enough for me personally to consistently use them day-to-day or week-to-week.

The approach that helped me break through the beginning stages of learning Spanish was taking the traditional advice to enrol in an introductory course in a university setting, which motivated me to complete homework and meet with live teachers in a classroom setting week-to-week. I previously tried online courses that had automatically-marked exercises, but I had trouble motivating myself to regularly practice with them. I'm now self-motivated to continue my language studies, so the selection of tool matters less for me now (though stickier methods that insisted on daily practice such as Pimsleur or using spaced repetition software like Anki helped me along the way). But it's a useful idea that consistency is one of the most important factors for learning, and beginners can most straightforwardly achieve this by regularly seeing a live teacher who they pay for.

That said, consistency is certainly not the only factor: it can be frustrating to consistently spend lots of time and energy with an ineffective learning approach. However, consistent studying should be one of the first steps, and study should not be put off out of fear of beginning with the wrong approach. I believe that while sayings like "practice doesn't make perfect, only perfect practice makes perfect" can be useful for higher levels of learning, they drive the wrong message for beginners or struggling learners.

A better message for most learners before the advanced stage would be that: "To get most of the way–if not all the way–to your learning goals, the most important factor is consistent study."
I sort of hit a wall with ffmpeg where no matter what settings I used, I'd get slightly better output with Handbrake so now I just handbrake everything.
>What's you're special experience that makes you so confident this is not the case? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim.

The comment I responded to was edited to include the component about regulations being the problem. Obviously, the parameters within which to construct a house includes regulations, so my experience that automating home construction is not cost efficient yet is the fact that the largest and most successful home builders do not use those techniques. Aka reality.

Whether or not regulations are appropriate or not is a separate discussion, but in my experience, most are good other than the ones that forbid the type of housing being built (such as higher density), or excessive setbacks that waste land.

Edit: never mind, the comment I replied to was not edited, I just didn’t read it thoroughly. My bad!
Is Ashby much better at the hiring workflow than Notion?
If municipal revenue doesn't remain flat, then you can't say taxes haven't gone up.
My experience with "smart" driers is maybe less positive than others. Seems they typically only have one sensor in a rotating drum, if they "read" a t-shirt they will stop because it's "dry". But your jeans and your towel are not. Or, the sensors become intermittent, so you stop using the "smart" features.
http is already registered as a protocol and you can indeed do that already. It's printed on every table page. eg on https://csvbase.com/calpaterson/opcodes-6502:

import pandas as pd; opcodes_6502 = pd.read_csv('https://csvbase.com/calpaterson/opcodes-6502', index_col=0)

But writing back is harder. It's not easy to make pandas do an HTTP PUT and then insert the HTTP basic auth and so on. Plus (not discussed in the article) there is a cache to avoid redownloading the data when it hasn't changed, which is my personal bete noire in "data science" such as it is.
...in a video game simulation.
I must have only ever encountered it in "bookkeeper mode". That abstraction is likely what threw me off!
Because otherwise it's communism. Or so those with power to change anything want us to believe.
A Nissan Versa starts at $16,390 [1] and has AC and power windows in the base model.

$19,680 with a CVT upgrade.

[1] https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html
Microsoft Pitched OpenAI's DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military
Historically cheap Chinese cars have done VERY poorly in crash tests. for 10K its probably a piece of plastic which folds killing the user in every crash over 35 mph.

It's hard to dig up exact figures. It looks like China has around 500M drivers averaging 10,000 vehicle miles each and annual traffic fatalities of 250,000.

This suggests the death rate per billion vehicle miles is about 13 in the US and about 50 in China.

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202212/08/cont...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... note death rate is herein per billion vehicle km which I have converted to miles

https://gitnux.org/average-annual-mileage/
I have a different take. People are suprisingly capable of doublethink. Much fun is made of the prevalence of furries among IT administrators, but consider that many of these people also work at the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, the Pentagon, and the NSA. People convince themselves of whatever they feel they need to believe.
Inflation and investors chasing returns. Whatever tools they use don't really matter, and is a distraction. Build (a lot) more market rate housing or even free gov't housing. Deal with inflation aggressively (even deflation) or raise all salaries and benefits to match.
Well, life drawing is a great way to get work on storing things in your brain you can draw on (!) when you want to construct things from your imagination esp. if anatomical likeness is your goal. However: What I was talking about in my comment was not to recommend any one path to get to drawing from from imagination, it was a lament that the book just does not talk at all about what I am personally getting the most excitement from in drawing: the thrill of the skill of getting things from your head to the page. And you definitely don't need to do classical life drawing to get there. If you look at the Lynda Barry/Ivan Brunetti style of having fun and drawing things from your head where anatomical likeness is not the ultimate goal you clearly can do that without doing a whole lot of life drawing.
Yea, that's what I end up doing but it wastes more time. Before, I could just look at the like-dislike ratio and get an instant signal that a tutorial was crap.
> It's her life so I leave her alone, not my place to tell her what to do, and the emotional upheaval from her isn't worth it eithe
For someone not from US, this comes across as weird. She is your sister, so why is the emotional upheaval not worth it? Who is it worth for? Why is not your place to tell her she is going down? If not for family, who will you do it for?
It could definitely be me
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My partner had a concussion many years ago, it was an eye-opening experience.

After months of mostly-useless conversations with doctors, neurologists, etc, we visited a sports medicine specialist who worked with snowboarders, skiers, etc, people who get concussions frequently.

The way the specialist described common concussion symptoms was really interesting: Effectively, your brain finds balance by using a combination of sight, touch (feet), and your inner ear. A concussion can impact the inner ear part of that equation, so your brain is overly reliant on sight and touch to compensate. This can cause all kinds of common concussion symptoms: Dizziness, sensitivity to screen time, etc.

Anyways, after giving us the rundown my partner was prompted to do a few simple exercises to test concussion symptoms. One of them was to stand on one leg and track a moving pen with her eyes. She'd done OK on some of the previous exercises but this one took her out, she lasted maybe 5 seconds and was completely exhausted and dizzy for the rest of the day because of it.

We ended up with a physical-therapy-like balance exercise plan that she stuck to regularly for a few months, and it ended up getting her to complete recovery.
I think about this all the time every time I see an lcd screen in my local train stations. If people who designed them actually used transit, maybe they'd have the signs you can only see as you walk out of the station say something about the bus lines you'd transfer to, instead of when the train behind you that just departed from is set to arrive. At some stations the screens they installed don't display anything useful at all, not when the next train will come, just the date and time as if everyone doesn't have that in their pocket, and this needs to be displayed every 25 feet on the platform.

A lot of transit could be fixed by just taking a regular routine user, empowering them to become a dictator for a week and point out all the friction points they hit actually using the system. But then that would make the entire bureaucratic system that is the transit agency look like idiots who don't understand their own jobs, so it will unfortunately never be done.
Yeah, that's why 996 kills people slowly. 996 is taking away your own time for the company, and most likely in a not so productive way.

So you don't get the refresh, the first 1-2 companies which employs you get the most benefit because you are not drained yet, but companies later in the line got a used battery almost completely drained -- and that's why China also has the 35 yrs old rule.
The Big Work Lie: Being Indispensable Will Save Your Job
> There's little reason that constructing new housing cannot be automated to the degree that car construction is automated

I strongly disagree with this. I watch several general contractors on Youtube. They come across as smart, educated individuals. They frequently talk about the things they do to save time or optimize. Yet, it's obvious that huge portions of their job still involve on the fly decision making.

You might be able to automate this, but it'd come with incredible upfront costs to de-risk and plan every detail. Factory based manufacturing largely doesn't have to deal with this since the environment is so highly controlled. Further, automated manufacturing puts significant time ahead of production building draft parts.
> Yeah, it may fit their current workload perfectly, but it doesn't seem very future proof

It’s custom silicon designed for a specific, known workload. It’s not designed to be a general purpose part or to be future proofed for unknown future applications.

When a new application comes along with new requirements, the teams will use their experience to create a new chip targeting that new application.

That’s the great part about custom silicon: You’re not hitting general specs for general applications that you may not even know about yet. You’re building one very specific thing to do a very specific job and do it very well.
Do you remember being born? I do
The Motion Picture Assoc. Doesn't Get to Decide Who the First Amendment Protects
Deferring taxes until death or home sale seems like it would work better. Now, you just have a system where the newest members of a neighborhood pay way more for services than extant members of the neighborhood.
Is it maybe legal to jam wifi signals if either a) your jamming is restricted to inside your private building, with absolutely no leakage outside, or b) the same except regarding property lines rather than physical walls (e.g. if you had a weak jammer in the middle of your private field, whose jamming signals were undetectable at each edge of the field)?

My guess would be that A is legal and B might not be, but I've never had reason to look up the relevant laws and I don't know if it would be the same in different countries either.

But yeah, I doubt most purchases of portable jammers are for legal use.
I’m like this too except a man. It’s because I need to work on myself before I date or make new friends. I think it used to be easier to be happy as a loser before phones made us too self aware. It’s hard to be confident when I’m so aware of how much better things could be, and there’s really no excuse for failure when I can get a step by step guide on anything I want.
What's wrong with restrictions on trade? Alexander Hamilton's 1791 Report on Manufactures spells out why they are so damn important, and this line of thinking ruled American policy for the next 150 years. America industrialized itself using protectionism. It's trade liberalization that is the recent anomaly, although it has now run for enough decades that its promise of "better for everyone, honest!" can be evaluated against reality. The results are in: the benefits accrued to capital, who saw a many-fold return on their assets, and the costs accrued to labor, who saw stagnant wages for decades.

If you want the macroeconomics assessed in detail and the usual apologetics evaluated against evidence, I refer you to "Trade Wars are Class Wars" by Klein and Pettis.
We got a great deal on our current apartment due to a combination of 1. user error & 2. one of these algorithms.

Our place was originally listed at $7,550 [1], but the leasing co used pictures from a shittier unit within the same building!

Naturally nobody was interested, so the pricing system automatically ratcheted the price down to $6,050, at which point we checked out the apartment & noticed the discrepancy between pictures and reality.

As people figure out the balance between "AI" and "common sense," I bet there's going to be tons of mispriced crap out there in market.

[1] (Numbers changed by ~5% so as to not doxx our apt #)
In my experience, most people are adequate at making setting-specific friendships, like "gym friends", "work friends", etc. What they struggle at is progressing those relationships to not being setting specific. Which involves inviting people places, and eventually progresses to full-blown planning, both of which are skills only learned with practice.
Economics scenarios for the transition to AGI [pdf]
This won't matter if copyrighted material's copying for the purposes of training is found to be fair use anyway. Once that's done you can't legislate your way out of it because fair use is constitutionally required to exist as it does today. Even if Congress deleted the entire section from the law, courts would continue applying it out of precedent alone.
It's an import - the car companies will get the government to stack enough tariffs and fees to push the price up higher, because they know they can't compete without that.
The client was specifically designed for browsing web pages. It has all kinds of features for it. A chat client would be quite different. The file menu would load and save chats. The context menu would have chatty things in it. You have to close the application to lose any application state. We've kinda forgot how nice it is to have a desktop application. 30-35 years ago function keys where cool. I cant remember the last time I've used one. I also cant remember the last time I've used the top menu with alt keys. The browser also has to limit functionality for safety reasons.
The seller, since them accounting for the algorithm allows them to undercut the competition and make a profit.

The algo is a red herring, supply and demand conquers all.
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2.6 million subs can't make a 5600 satellite constellation with a 5 year per satellite lifespan profitable. It don't math.

As for the accounting being an "art," I would take a closer look at the HLS contract and the Saudi investment. Is HLS money all going to HLS, or are there overhead shenanigans? The Saudi investment gets them a tiny slice of the cap table at a fabulous valuation. Consenting adults and all that, but there was a reason. ULA is "only" worth 5 billion.
I'm not sure why you think this just because they don't support Linux yet. They have a few core key products such as Mail, Calendar, Drive, VPN and Pass. All of these are great for a Google Workspace convert. Adding Notes to that makes perfect sense as I want my Notes secured end to end and as a Voyager subscriber I'm really happy they are going down this path and it seems right in their wheelhouse.

To address your Proton Drive comment directly, they are a small team and they are rolling out Web, iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. The most common platforms today which is what they should focus on. Android already has photo backup, iOS it's in beta. They are continually having new releases for all of these products and you can see that on /r/ProtonDrive. Saying they have abandoned these products or don't care about them is hyperbole. Is it taking longer than I would like, sure, do I want them to release a Public API for Drive (for rclone) and a Linux client, absolutely but lets give teams the benefit of the doubt.
Prices fluctuate more when there are fewer buyers and sellers. This reduces the chance that there is both a buyer and a seller who happen to agree on a transaction price that is near the previous transaction price. As the number of buyers and sellers decreases, transaction volume decreases and volatility increases as price discovery gets more difficult. When transaction volume decreases to zero, there is no price discovery at all and the market price becomes effectively undefined. This could indicate a coming price crash or spike.
I'd read about small retro reflectors they bolt on when not in combat so the stealth fighters will show on domestic radars
They wouldn't "have been the ones to flag something like this down". It should've been caught long prior; the code shouldn't have been written, it shouldn't have survived code review, and it should've failed automated tests.

It's a trust and safety incident now, but it never should have been.
Computer and AI algorithms are used to select the best prices for stocks, too.

> Rent prices changing daily really doesn't make a ton of sense

Sure it does, just as stock prices change by the millisecond. The economy is not remotely static. The only reason prices changed slowly before was the lack of information and an illiquid market.

> That wouldn't really be a daily thing normally.

Markets change moment by moment. Just like the price of an airplane seat on a particular flight.
jajajaj I thought the same! I thought maybe someone with hardware experience can make a sense of this?
Looks good, just a quick UI note: I can’t click “add node” as the bottom menu with “nodes” “apps” etc was blocking it.
It's not the way I grew up, but there are group friendship patterns where friends give each other gifts just because it's what the group of friends do.

It surprised me when I saw it in action. But that's because I had the same reaction as you...it costs money and I was not raised to value friendships more than money. But some people are and the world is not worse for it.

It creates reciprocal obligations...debts. Here is an interesting talk on debt by the late David Graeber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs
this is probably not true, but I heard that this stuff predates the idea of negative numbers so you have db and cr accounts that offset each other without negatives.
I didn't say it was uncommon, just that it's a bad idea.

There's no need whatsoever for a separate client API. There could be a convention like:

from csvbase import loader as csvloader
df = pd.read_csv(csvloader("calpaterson/onion-vox-pops"))

The user wouldn't have to know anything but what to import to fetch a certain thing, and it's explicit about what's coming from there. There's also less risk of mistyping the URL string ("oops, I just typed cvsbase and accidentally loaded a list of CVS drugstores"), and code completion can tell you that csvloader() fetches things through the csvbase module.

Cons:

- It takes 5 seconds longer to type, one time.

Pros:

- You can tell what the code does at a glance.
Sure, many major sites use it, such as Zoom, Google Sheets, and Photoshop. As the article mentions, you wouldn't know they are using Wasm under the hood unless you open the devtools and inspect the details.

Many more examples, such as those mentioned in this talk about Wasm usage in Google:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En8cj6xlv4

They mention Google Photos, Google Meet, Google Earth, TensorFlow.js, Ink, CanvasKit, Flutter, etc. And that is just inside Google - many other companies are using it, big and small, such as Figma, Unity, Adobe, etc.