skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. To answer your question: well, I kept sleeping too much at first. But I live a very sequestered life lately, so I had little frame of reference. Looking back, one of the most surreal things is that I recall telling my friends on the phone that I was having a hard time telling dreams from reality. It wasn't until after the diagnosis that I looked this up and found out that this was a symptom of Advanced Neurological Lyme Disease. WTF.

Then I got joint pain, then the really weird eyesight loss, in short order.

What I would recommend is getting the antibody tests if you have any concern. I am in the EU, so that was very cheap w/o insurance. I believe in The States they recommend prophylactic Doxycycline, at any concern, instead of testing because testing $.

Prophylactic Doxycycline is a couple pills. Since I missed that, Advanced Neuro Lyme was 30 days of 2 high-dose pills a day. In the USA, they require IV antibiotics for Advanced Neuro.

This dumb crap changed my life, so again I would ask, or demand testing for ELISA. If that comes back positive, then there will be a different "Western blot" confirmation blood test. If they say no, then find a local clinic and pay for the ELISA yourself.

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/lyme-disease...

https://www.walkinlab.com/blog/accurate-test-lyme-disease/ ($120 for the first test, if positive then $150 confirmation)
When it comes cases of travel feeling worse, I find it's always worth making sure you adjust the cost for inflation.

Sure, we'd expect certain engineering things to get cheaper over time, but you can also see why some luxury touches got phased--or rather priced--out. :p
> Many of their embassies have just a handful of diplomats. Those diplomats often are underpaid; some take side jobs in Washington such as Uber or delivery drivers, or even at gas stations, according to a current and a former State Department official familiar with the issue.
I grew up in the wet, lush, Pacific Northwest. I absolutely loved going to light industrial business parks. Everything felt so clean and orderly by comparison. Just saying, not everyone needs detail.
That'd be how C#'s generics work for struct Ts. Go uses GC shape sharing: https://deepsource.com/blog/go-1-18-generics-implementation
You would need to assume a uniform distribution of items, which I don’t think this does
Food in the US seems designed to make people obese.

When you look at ingredient labels in Japan or Germany, you see a short list of what you would expect, plus maybe a preservative.

In the US, you see an entire chemistry lab: artificial colors and flavors, bizarre substitutes for real sugar, oils that a hundred years ago would not be considered fit for human consumption, and so on.
First time it hit me I was like "am I dead?" creepy stuff, subsequent times are more annoying than scary.
That or being logged in. It was “not found” for me, too, until I logged in. (I don’t have any rep on the Ubuntu site, aside from the 100 for being on other SE sites).
Students' Leaf Blower Suppressor to Hit Retail
> you'll need some form of interpolation, which is hard to do well

Due to non-constant accelerations?
The saying in weightlifting / bodybuilding circles is "you can't out-train a bad diet".
I think a lot of people have a misconception that keeping pressure in is just as hard as keeping pressure out, while in some ways, it's probably easier to make a space station (keep 1 ATM in) than to make a submarine (keep 500 ATM out.)

Hence sci-fi horrors is like getting sucked out into space through a pinhole.
Whenever "AI influencers" say "prompt engineering is dead", I realize they are full of bs.

If anything, prompt engineering has become more nuanced, down to the choice of each token:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01332
Might be worth putting a note to that effect in the blog post so others don't make the same mistake that I did.
Gives me hope we can reverse the damage wrought by Js and return to Lisp
Palm oil is easy to pronounce and a little bit is all it takes.
Proposal would have motorists pay by miles driven instead of per-gallon gas tax
or you could just keep it in the fridge
> It's fairly easy to put absolutely everyone under 24/7 surveillance.

I was referring more to the fact that if an AI can help you create something you couldn't previously, it seems likely it could also help you examine data points in looking for threats as well, and with many times more resources to throw at the problem that's not a bad bet in my eyes. I understand the threat model doesn't necessarily mean that it's just as hard to build a threat as to detect and defend against it, but you can even use AI to attach that problem and figure out what specific information is the most useful to know to detect the threats.

> an AI that makes itself smarter may stop at any point because it can't figure out the next step

An AI isn't necessarily a singular person, and does not need to come up with the idea "itself". Spawn X copies with different weight values, or create Y new AI's with similar methodology but somewhat different training sets, let them compete, or collaborate, as needed, to come up with something better. Use evolutionary programming to dynamically change weights little my little and see how it affects output. Rinse and repeat. Cull unuseful variants.

There's not guarantee that AI of this sort will have a sense of self that we would recognize like our own, or morals that would cause it to shy away from the equivalent of mass human experimentation on itself, versions of its kind, or even just humans. Even if individual AI did end up capping at some equivalent of an IQ, humanity has achieved quite a lot through trial and error and lots of different people with different experiences all contributing a little.

The problem as I see it is not so much that one AI entity will grow to dominate everything, as much as that as a class of entity AI will out-compete humans very quickly once the average AI is smarter than the 75th percentile of humans, much less the 90th or 99th percentile. The best we can hope for at that point is to be brought along for the ride. Even the autistic savant type versions we have not seem to be causing some level of this.

Will that happen soon? Will that happen ever? I don't know. Probably not. Hopefully not. I agree it's very hard to reason effectively about the odds of things like this. At the same time, like preparing for nuclear disaster in the 80's, I'm not sure the preparation is wasted. Humans are poor at estimating and preparing for bad outcomes, so a little fear mongering about the worst outcomes is something I'll accept as an overreaction if it insures us at least somewhat against that eventuality. A 50% change of losing half your belongings is not the same as a 1% chance of losing your life. We actually care a lot more when the latter happens, but we don't always care about it the same amount before it happens, which we should.
In my opinion, a superbuild should act as a wrapper around a project and not impose any specific dependency management approach on users. However, with CMake I find that it introduces unnecessary indirections and overhead, and therefore superbuilds should not be used.
> but the prevalent opinion is that there can't be a benevolent civilization in the first place.

You'd have to explain why. Logically, the first two civilizations to "team up" would easily handle any single civilization that challenges them. A civilization that happens to beat them would find among its attractive options a Nobunaga Gambit: taking on the vanquished foe's mission of unification (since it worked until it didn't - and the one time it didn't work, there was a terrifyingly good chance that it could have).

"The Dark Forest" as an idea is inextricable from its cultural origins, a China that's rather pessimistic about inter-civilizational contact because of its recent history. That it resonates amidst a zeitgeist of global instability doesn't make it universally correct. Gene Roddenberry's competing vision might seem optimistic, but it's not naive; beneath Starfleet's cheery veneer is the Neo Princess Serenitian realpolitik of, "Peace, or else."
gpt-4o produced a correct sentence first try for me
I like to say that in suburban USA, it’s illegal to be underage in public after dark. Cops will harass you for no reason, detain you for no crime, question you with no motive other than to try to peg you with a crime, on the assumption that you don’t know your rights and won’t assert them. If you try to assert your rights they will work harder to try to put a crime on you. And then we wonder why our kids get addicted to screens and don’t leave the house. It’s insanely fucked up and it stems from bored cops fucking with kids because they have nothing better to do.
Not a SDE, but I’m actually doing more of that than ever before. 2 years ago, was given the choice to interview for new internal roles or walk away with a severance package after almost two decades in QE and PM for a large, design tools company. Having witnessed the transition from developer-led (“hey, I just invented this cool thing. Let’s give it to users and see if there’s something there?”) to product-led (“hey, let’s keep making our awesome products better for customers!”) to ultimately marketing-led (“hey, McKinsey taught us this method to circle the wagons and protect our brand to the detriment of paying customers!”), I chose to walk away.

I had a bit of cushion, sold some early-purchased crypto and spent most of my savings, to build my skills in launching a startup and writing code. I interviewed with plenty of companies, but felt the same McKinsey cringe from the big FAANG’s, couldn’t believe the skeeviness of the crypto startups, and went pretty far but not far enough with some of the smaller but more interesting companies. My startup got some interest but ultimately, did not hit hard enough to break gravity.

But, it kept me on the radar for some old contacts and when they wanted to explore the areas I had expertise in, reached out. I did some contract work, ultimately building and launching a major new product on their platform which led to getting brought on full time at the beginning of the year.

I love what I’m doing now. I get to play PM and R&D and Developer roles building things now. The things I build directly impact real people and I can experience the results within days, and I have flexibility to decide what I think is important or interesting.
(American that has been living in Japan for a number of years here.)

There are a few factors that make Japanese people skinnier on average:

1. Genetics (compared to westerners, not to Hawaiians like the article said)

2. A culture of fat shaming. My brother in law often pinches my belly publicly whenever he sees I gained a few pounds. Others enforce this through other means: calling out your friends, creating social pressure, your doctor pointing out you gained a pound.

3. Diet, in the sense of diet, not cuisine. People very much watch what they eat. It’s easy nowadays to eat super high calorie foods (rice, ramen, etc.), but most people either don’t eat these every day, or eat in small portions. There is also less fat and sugar than the US, offset by more salt.

4. Small portions. Portions are generally like 2x less than what you’d find in the US.

5. Exercise is built-in, at least in the cities. In big cities (not just Tokyo) people use public transportation, go out for lunch, walk to the grocery store. If you don’t drive, you exercise.
> As a college student: bold of you to assume I have any money at all.

Personally? Maybe not. Collectively? Maybe:

"College students are an entry-point market with over $593 billion in spending power."

https://www.refuelagency.com/college-marketing/

Part of it could be that many students have summer and/or part-time jobs, and the university isn't always successful in seizing every last dime that you make.
Yeah - maybe "user agent"?
At this moment in history, those communities are awash in money and power. Cults of personality nucleate around the wealthy and powerful.
"Breakthrough Therapy Designation" is a regulatory term. It's definitely good news, but it's also a pretty common occurrence that the FDA designates a breakthrough drug, and it does not guarantee that drug's ultimate approval.

It's also not really "news". It's a development that incrementally smoothes the path for what is still a highly uncertain outcome. And per the linked article it appears to be based on interim data in a phase 1/2 trial. Very early.

There are many drugs that look promising at this stage (that's why the breakthrough designation exists!) But this piece of news is unremarkable. Merus, the company behind Petosemtamab, alone has like seven cancer drugs in various stages of development.

And there are probably hundreds of cancer drugs in development at any given time.

So this is just a mechanical write-up of a regulatory checkpoint for a drug that's like 30% of the way to approval and is among many, many other cancer drugs all sitting at different points along the same continuum.

HN is really random sometimes.
As a user I think I'd like a model that works like some transit systems I've read about. Those transit systems sell per ride tickets for say $2, day passes good for unlimited rides for one day for say $10, and monthly passes good for unlimited rides that month for say $50.

If you use their smart cards to pay for your tickets then they cap your daily spending at $10 (the price of a day pass) and your monthly spending at $50 (the price of a monthly pass). In effect they notice if you would have been better off if you'd have bought a day pass at the start of that day or a monthly pass at the start of the month and retroactively convert you to that.
Wait until the hype is over?
This is cool. I was happy see the prominent reference to my work on diverse double-compiling (DDC), which counters the trusting trust attack. If you're interested in DDC, check out
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust
Disappointed is not covered in shagreen: actual sharkskin leather.
Screenshot shows compress to, but text explains it is also decompression.

I was downloading OPNsense today, to upload it to my Proxmox install. Couldn't bunzip2 the ISO file on Windows 10, and it would not accept an upload of iso.bz2. I guess I have to fix the WSL install, but in this case I ended up using curl on a Linux machine.
Many others in this thread already have, particularly about how 90% of these supposed slights have occurred over a decade ago
This is why I always assume that the chart is lying to me. If important people won't stfu about how great the economy is, its likely they are "boosting".
This is a common challenge in teaching stats where students have to learn statistical concepts and using statistical software simultaneously. In the end, I think it is worth the challenge and beats having students calculate everything by hand & look up values in tables.
Thanks for pointing me toward OpenLane. I'm familiar with many of its individual components, but I wasn't aware of the overall project to combine them.

Things are looking better and better in terms of open source digital design workflows.

Presumably you would need software for course assignments as well.
it's an attempt to keep the hype train going by implying they have internal models that make GPT-4 look bad. The question is if that's actually true, we'll find out soon because plenty of other companies are now approaching GPT-4 level performance and OpenAI will have to show their hand
In any sufficiently large tech company, the "risk mitigation" leadership (legal, procurement, IT, etc) have to operate in a kind of Overton window that balance the risks they are hired to protect the corp from vs. the need or desire of the senior leadership to play fast and loose when they want or feel they need to.

Either the risk-mitigator 'falls in line' after repeatedly seeing their increasingly strident exhortations are falling on deaf ears (or even outright contradicted)... or they leave because it violates their sense of ethics.

Perhaps "AGI" and potential extinction event level fears is giving this more drama than it should have. Replace AGI with "no BYOD policy" and I bet there's a startup somewhere where it turned out that safety guy was super intent on the policy, senior leadership wasn't, and eventually safety guy quits.

Or it could all be as serious and dire as it seems. Hard to tell from the outside.
> Windows 11 beta now supports creating 7-Zip and TAR archives

It already supported decompressing them in 23H2, FWIW.
That's a related but different conversation (adding support for extraction vs creating). Hard to tell just from the current headline though.
Love the A380, just try to avoid Lufthansa's one, they tend to be the worst at seat space in economy and service. Emirates is my fav.
The parent stated:

They will gain a lot of lawsuit if they admit they trained on youtube dataset because not everyone gave consent.

But a lawsuit fails if essential elements are not met. If consent isn’t required for the lawsuit to proceed, then it doesn’t matter whether or whether not consent was granted. QED.
Most of the schemes listed on that page fall short of what I consider to be UBI. In particular, most fail to provide enough money for someone to fund their basic needs (food and shelter).

Are you aware of any UBI experiments where the recipients are confident that both:

1) the amount will cover their basic needs, and

2) the scheme will last forever?

The reason I'm asking is that if either of these conditions were not met, the recipient would be crazy to stop working.

If someone were to commit to giving you $10k/month forever, increasing with inflation, you might quit your job. If it were only $500/month, you'd probably keep working. If it were $10k/month, but the payments might stop after a year, you'd probably keep working.

(Not 'you' specifically of course. I know nothing of your personal situation.)
the slope is the covariance, that is meaninful.
I honestly thought it was some kind of parody when I saw this. I clicked out and checked the link again just to be sure I was on the right site. Fortunately, I believe they have changed this now
Not only that, but behaviour change depends on whether you expect the thing to last forever.
Sucked feet first down the tube (2010)
Ok well go protest in a place that isn't visible and doesn't cause any problems. Let me know how it works when no one can see or care. Protesting isn't holding signs. It's disrupting things. Look at the French and German protests right now. That's how you get change.
"This paper has two purposes. First, it documents the historical context of MINCOME, a Canadian guaranteed annual income field experiment (1974 to 1979). Second, it uses routinely collected health administration data and a quasi experimental design to document an 8.5 percent reduction in the hospitalization rate for participants relative to controls, particularly for accidents and injuries and mental health. We also found that participant contacts with physicians declined, especially for mental health, and that more adolescents continued into grade 12. We found no increase in fertility, family dissolution rates, or improved birth out comes. We conclude that a relatively modest GAI can improve population health, suggesting significant health system savings"

https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cpp.37.3.283

All in about 4 years.
Jacob Geller has an excellent video essay about how incidents like Columbine might have contributed to this trend (if only post-90s, obviously).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSfgHGEGxQ
Dunno why the down votes either. I guess people prefer to punt and make gut feel investment decisions rather than empirical modeling.
Larry Fink, Top BlackRock Executives' Pay Draws Proxy Advisor Pushback
https://archive.is/mD3XZ
I come from a (board) game family, and competitive family. I loved games as kid, computer games and board games and physical sports (even though I was bad at most sports, with the exception of running and stealth which is useful for 'levend stratego' [1]). But with my kids I don't enjoy board gaming much yet, as they get angry quickly. I like playing with them, but when it has to go their way solely I feel like 'OK, go solo, you can have control.'

I play Wordfeud (a Scrabble clone) with my wife and mother. The three of us are quite competitive with each other. My mother-in-law played a few games, lost each of them, and then called it. Because her idea of having fun is, well, not doing your best. My mother had colleagues whom she played games with (quizzes I think?), and they were terrible simply because she doesn't care. An old book on this is 'Play To Win' by Dave Sirlin.

Anyway, legend has it the people who are best at Scrabble are from an SE Asian country (not sure which one it was), often barely speak English, but know all the 2 and 3 letter combinations and are able to lay those down well.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levend_stratego
I think it's because it pulls water into the intestines, which helps you poop easier.
That sounds crazy, and amazing. As I've now got a kid of my own who might eventually be interested, could you point out _which_ intensive wilderness school in Washington that is? I did some googling, but wasn't able to find it.
Did anyone actually buy those xray glasses? I’d love to know what crap actually arrived
How about Alaska, using a link from your own article?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-...

The fund is running out of money and there have been cuts to public services to keep it going because it’s now a political must have

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/02/19/permanent-fund-corp-boar...
Related [0] (276 points, 3 days ago, 413 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377201
"Mileage could be tracked by plugging an electronic device into a vehicle, using a vehicle's built-in tracking system or by simply submitting photos of the vehicle's odometer, according to Caltrans"

That's the question that made me read the article. Just sounds great! What a FABULOUS IDEA!!
Now rar also...
Do the cygwin binaries not work any more? i have a folder of exe files for common linux tools i drop into windows/system32 on a new install
If you reduce down your idea to an animals in the woods you will quickly see why.

Humans become a rabbit, the malicious species a fox, the benevolent species humans.

If the rabbit is injured, making noise and hoping for humans to help is a fools errand as the fox is more likely to hear and eat the rabbit.

This is engrained in our evolution.
Those studies are testing 'unconditional cash transfers'.

Which of the listed studies actually test UBI (covering all basic needs, guaranteed to have no time limit)?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403308