skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very interesting data. I believe that it is generally considered common knowledge that it's very difficult to increase youth turnout so most campaigns don't even really try. But given how entrenched polarization is, increasing youth turnout in a few key states could be enough to sway the election. Of course decreasing retiree turnout is another (not mutually exclusive) approach. The nice thing about trying to increase turnout though is that it is a positive and inclusive approach rather than a negative and exclusive approach (though the implementation could still be negative: come out and vote for our guy to get rid of that other guy we don't like).
Many companies have 100k+ of lines of Spark code. It's not trivial to rewrite all of that in another query framework.
A cool use of this is to visually identify clusters of tall buildings, usually business districts and the distance and relationship to the other clusters and the areas in between. Set it around 7AM and an appropiate zoom and start thinking of business ideas.
So your solution is to power these datacenters for another 1-2 decades with coal power while you wait for new nuclear plants? Because that's the realistic timeframe for any new nuclear. Vogtle 3 took 14 years to build.

Of course, any "advanced nuclear" that doesn't even have a prototype yet will take longer than that. If it will ever happen.
The golden times were 8-10 years ago, where you could change the order of keywords in google search and get more precise matches. Could find pretty much any obscure thing on the internet.

Then could find that article that you remember read 6 months ago by adjusting the keywords until it is on the first page.

Now it does not matter at all what you enter in the search box. No matter the inputs you get one set of results and will never find something specific.
Since the Nature.com link just basically says "myopia exercises don't work"...

NPR just had a piece talking about a 2-yr study in Sydney that found that spending time outdoors reduces myopia in children and a 15-year-old program in Taiwan to ensure primary school children are sent outdoors more, which has reduced their % of myopia.

Theory is that we change our focus distance regularly when we're outside. ("hey look, a bird!" "i think i'll stare blankly at that tree while I ponder that document" etc)

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/13/1250555...

Notably -- I guess -- the study was about children. Maybe adults are screwed. It certainly is easier to get kids outside more if the govt is backing the changes.
I do wonder if part of this is because lower-income people don't have the legal resources to fight this though. If a billionaire hides their wealth in an illegal way and they're caught, they'll hire a bunch of lawyers and fight against, potentially dragging a court case out for years, and costing the taxpayers millions of dollars.
> The reason music performances aren't as high status as centuries ago is that it's been democratized

I'm talking about the median musicians status, not the higher end, that crashed when automatic music playing started to get good. Before then every little village needed to have musicians around for their celebrations and parties, knowing how to play music was respected as a proper profession then unlike now.

That goes for all the ornamental pieces that used to be done by craftsmen as well in villages, things like making nice signs or making celebratory furniture or festival clothing etc, all that artistry that common people used to do is now mass produced by machines that just copies a single design over and over.

So overall I'd say machines so far massively reduced human artistry and cultural creation. The artisans of old didn't just copy either, humans aren't machines that can perfectly copy so they all put in a bit of themselves in all of their work, that wasn't soulless, and it is now mostly lost.
This reminds me of an OCR application I used for converting PGS subs to SRT. It would show you words/letters grouped together and you had to approve / correct its translation.
For sure, I agree with you 100%. This is basically "Legal Analysis for Dummies" if you choose to rely on a machine to give you help here. Medical is also a bad domain.

What do you call a person who just barely passed the bar exam?
> Again this is a matter of where you draw your boundaries.

Just as with the boundaries of what shape the earth is. If you want to consider it flat, good on you. But if you want to talk about the law of universal gravitation, you'd better be prepared to accept that the earth is approximately a sphere (at very least, toroidal). Otherwise you are contradicting yourself.

> Latent demand is still demand which exists just demand withheld from the market (ie priced out).

It exists in the world where the price is lower. It does not exist in the world where the price is higher. That divide is what supply and demand observes.

The law of supply and demand says: When the price of a good or service falls, there tends be less willingness to sell said thing (decrease in supply) and when the price of a good or service rises, there tends to be less willingness to buy said thing (decrease in demand). Likewise, when the price of a good or service rises, there tends to be more willingness to sell said thing (increase in supply) and when the price of a good or service falls, there tends to be more willingness to buy said thing (increase in demand).

That's it. Not exactly groundbreaking. If you've ever stepped outside, even if only in Soviet-era Russia, you probably already reached the same independent observation. Why you think you need a "competitive free market" for that to stand is a head scratcher.

> But it is still supply which exists, just supply which is withheld from the market

It is something that still exists, but it is not supply as the law of supply and demand considers it. If "supply" was all things out there in the world, and equally "demand" every last wish someone has for something, we couldn't talk about supply and demand. It fundamentally could not be a concept. So what is it that you do think we are talking about?
Thanks for the reply.

You have a 1 hour commmute because the good house you can afford is about 1 hour away. I would propose that if we (all taxpayers) added 6 more lanes to the road you drive to work, your commute would dip for a short while, more people just like you would move to the new suburbs beyond yours, that are now an (improved for them) 1 hour commute, eventually re-saturating the new wider road. Now your commute is, best case, the same, maybe a little worse, because if it gets better, more people will squeeze into your suburb. You also have the option to move even farther out, but your commute will on average always be roughly as bad as it is today because people in your situation tolerate about that level of 'misery.' (Again that's how i conceptualize the variable, not saying you're literally miserable).

Yes, I suppose stimulating another splash of suburbs out in the countryside does provide Y more people an opportunity to become long-distance commuters, but I'd say:

Surely there's some limit, right? You wouldn't say that California should bulldoze neighborhoods in all the closer suburbs in order to make I-80 30 lanes wide as it gets closer to the Bay, so that people can commute from new suburbs built 150 miles away... right? And if there's some limit to reasonable highway size, why not the current size. And if we want to further increase capacity to bring in humans to a city, build a bullet train and bring them in in a way that's more efficient than individual 6,000 pound SUVs for each commuter. That's where I'd direct incremental transportation dollars. That, or subsidize commercial development nearer population centers so that people who live 2 hours from the city have other options.
Seems far easier to figure out the hard drive connector and find software that can read the filesystem.
I personally used TurboTax the first few years I had RSU and ESPP income to report (and ran the end result by an accountant) but eventually switched to filling out the forms manually because I found it easier than entering the same information into TurboTax. Tax prep software is great for when your taxable circumstances change and you don't even know which forms you need to fill out, but I didn't find that it let me skip understanding the relevant parts of the tax code and I got to the point where I was having to generate preview pdfs look over exactly what it was generating to make sure I'd entered numbers into the correct spot in the software.
> Doesn't that make you curious what cases those might be?

I've been programming for nigh on 40 years; I'm not terribly curious because I've seen successes and failures of pretty much every development paradigm firsthand. But since you ask, my comment above was a self-referential whimsicalism.

I DRY my code in phases. A rule of 3 is decent (e.g., if you've copied a chunk of code three times, give it a think; if you've copied it 9 times, give it a good hard stare).
New models every year are fine if they're honestly labeled and have technologically reasonable compatibility.

Cars and phones meet those criteria a lot better than Intel CPUs. The problem isn't releasing things, it's the way they pretend every release is a big advance and the way they make the motherboards almost never able to upgrade.
An actual directory is a node in a tree. It may be the child of a parent and it may have siblings - its children may in turn be parents with children of their own.
Microplastics Are Everywhere - Here’s How to Avoid Eating Them
This is kind of sad. It was /is a functioning profitable public company with employees. A PE firm decides to take a huge loan to buy it, and now the company is gone. All those people lost their jobs. A huge net negative on the world and society because of greedy PE.
That's why we weed smokers don't try to be president
The terminology is wrong but your point is valid. There is no internal criteria or mechanism for statement verification. As the mind likely is also in part a high dimensional construct and LLMs to an extent represent our collective jumble of 'notions' it is natural that their emits resonate with human users.

Q1: A ""correct" symbolic representation" of x. What is x? Your "Is there an intent to communicate, or" choice construct is problematic. Why would one require a "symbolic representation" of x, x likely being a 'meaningful thought'. So this is a hot debate whether semantics is primary or merely application. I believe it is primary in which case "symbolic representation" is 'an aid' to gaining a concrete sense of what is 'somehow' 'understood'. You observe a phenomena, and understand its dynamics. You may even anticipate it while observing. To formalize that understanding is the beginning of 'expression'.

Q2: because while there is a function LLM(encodings, q) that emits 'plausible' responses, an equivalent function for Pi does not exist outside of 'pure inexpressible realm of understanding' :)
> When I was searching for apartments every complex had the same AI program for scheduling. It was horrible.

Was it RealPage? I hear they're illegally colluding to raise prices.
> can be put trying to convince prospective partners

This is so true. Early on, I tried to sell our product through a system integrator channel. I hoped they would "do the sales for us." The systems integrator was super focused on sales, they talked to our target customer all the time, and they seemed super excited to sell our product.

But, it was a total flop. They didn't really seem to understand our product, and they would say anything to close a deal. Sometimes we did a lot of work, then got cut from the deal late in the game. More often, we ended up in the deal, but then had to deal with promises to the customer that didn't make any sense. It was like "the integrator said it would do what?"

I agree that you have to be really careful about selling through partners. Interestingly, the integrator channel was primarily for another, much larger software company. I told the CEO how excited we were to partner with the integrators. He looked at me and said "oh, we wish we could get rid of the integrators, but its too late because they control access to the customers." Luckily, we were small enough that walking away from the integrators worked for us.

If I were you, I would focus on identifying a few verticals where your product works well (say, car dealerships), then try to figure out how to sell to them. What are their concerns? What drives their decisions? How can you contact the right person to pitch your product? etc. If you can build a system around a vertical, you will feel so much better about sales. And once you build a system around one vertical, you can start looking for additional verticals to target.
Yes they can, though not on 40 hr/ week and 50 week/year basis. And I know some software contractors who also do roughly same. But usually I see software folks have expectation of ~2000 hour of paid work per year
That is a huge inventory. How do stolen tools get fenced? Sent abroad? Craigslist and FB marketplace? I've bought some used tools from online classifieds, but it always seems to be a homeowner or business owner selling one or two things.
Not sure who "you people" is referring to but if you're speaking to me then my response would be something along the lines of "I admire your optimistic outlook but even a cursory study of society would show that social consensus is incredibly fragile and to regard it as anything else smacks of naivety".

So - as a society we've tried multiple different strategies to make it easy for people to live in close proximity and they all have different success rates and different trade-offs. Pick your poison.
Hahaha "if it doesn't cause seizures, it's not really Asqi" - well we have a brand, that's for sure :) (seriously I have got to fix this soon my god)

TTE is so freaking cool, I will hate myself if this doesn't make it in somehow. And I didn't even know it existed until now, so thank you!
Exactly.

Please can we stop gatekeeping somebody enjoying a book that's known to be highly inaccessible. However one chooses to engage with Ulysses is perfectly fine.
Maybe not every formulaic song becomes a hit song, but every hit song is formulaic?
There's absolutely a tail risk of this stuff making the vast majority of "knowledge workers" jobless.
Yet no Democrats said it when it was a real possibility, and would have mattered. Despite your erroneous thoughts, many Democrats complained.
Any reason to assume that common folks in the Roman province of Judea were preached to in Greek?

As to the actual gospel you may be interested in this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Jesus
Clearly by "collaborate and compromise" you actually mean "so long as my side gets their way". This is the negative result of buying into entirely one-sided propaganda - it limits your perspective to, frankly, bullshit.

I do not see a point in continuing since you seem unwilling to actually contemplate the entire environment. Not only do you have absolutely no response to obvious intellecual hypocrisy, but you are indeed one of "those" people who links to propaganda to support their deliberately narrow and naïve perspective of the world - and demands others participate in this alternative reality.

It's not fun, nor intellectually stimulating to engage in this type of debate.
Fair point- that does seem like a likely explanation, I am just horrified that it would lead to putting broken systems on a mass produced production automobile.
Ask HN: Most reliable WiFi configuration at home?
I sucked in into getting one of the WiFi Mesh 7 (Deco BE95). Does it live to my expectations? Not really.

I have a Mac connected via 10Gbps network to Synology, where I can get 700-1000MB/s speeds. I have another PC connected via 10Gbps cable to one of the Wi-Fi Mesh nodes - I am getting a max of 200-300MB/s. Still good, but not even close to the advertised 33Gbps.

Another issues on the network:

- HP Printer always keeps loosing connection to Wi-Fi after sleeping. I tried Wi-Fi dongle - seems like the issue persists, so not sure if that is issue with DHCP or something else.

- Weirdly, anything that tries to play PS5 Remote Play on local network via Wi-Fi (Steam Deck, iPad, iPhone) - has weird lags once in a while. But playing over Cellular/Internet - everything works smoothly.

Questions are:

- What is the best Wi-Fi router right now, which one would you recommend for reliability and speed?

- What is the best Home Router for managing DHCP/DNS/etc on your home network would you recommend? I use Synology RT6600ax, just because I configured everything (including Wi-Fi) on it, and just wanted to upgrade my Wi-Fi network to WiFi7, so connected Deco BE95 just as an access point.
For typefaces you check for the distribution of similarities in each group. If it has large clusters then group by 3, 3', etc then run your outlier check on each of those groups

Still would risk some weirdness, but would help a bit I'd hope.

I wonder if it would be worth running some kind of language analysis or spelling/Grammer check to verify the scan too. At least for text, you'd need another solution for number tables.
When I built the thing I mentioned, and even if i did so now, I'd just not make an AAAA record for it, because it's still safe to assume ipv4 connectivity exists (and not just via some remote proxy or something), and I think at least the database I had access to was for ipv4.

I don't think they need any hackery to get your IPv4, they just need a separate hostname configured that they can fetch from, which only has an ipv4 (A) record.
Yes. Some of it is handled by our email verification provider while others are done in-house based on real-world experience. We handle a bunch of the major domains that our users use.
How did you get the mouth culture done? And what is chlorine treatment? What substance, formulation strength, and routine?
I agree with your take on the literature. My point wasn’t in response to Ulysses or criticism of it, but of your statement regarding over-obsession with the English language.
I’d love to hear any other details you or anyone else would care to share. I’m making an audio drama as a hobby and have never directed before, and most of my actors will be untrained volunteers. Posts like yours are so interesting
Even if that were true (I don't think it is): The more important distinction between humans and LLMs is accountability.

If a customer support agent gives you incorrect information, you can often hold the company liable for it (assuming you can prove it; I suppose there's a reason for why companies prefer certain support channels over others).

If an AI "lies" to you, you're largely on your own right now.
The idea that Google gets value from gmail user data is simply false. The pushback from when Google first tried to do ads on gmail was enough to kill the idea permanently.

Gmail is a legacy of Old Google, like Maps -- it serves no profit motive, just engineers building something cool for everyone with some sort of flimsy pretext of "it keeps users in our ecosystem" tacked on to it. Google now does have a premium-ish offering, "Google One", in an attempt to get some money out of gmail, but really it's just an artifact.

Companies giving things away for free or steeply discounted from the cost of goods sold is a perennial issue when it comes to centralized capital; Google has a pool of infinite money (search ads) and it uses that to buy its way into a bunch of markets where it is incredibly difficult to compete. Maybe early on you could have stopped Youtube or Maps based on standing antitrust law, but personal email has always been given away for free long before Google got into the business, so a product would have to offer something phenomenal to break into that space.

Doesn't utterly stop it; for example Google has had various versions of chat over the years but they have been roundly whooped by Slack.
Following that logic, we should have stuck with C/C++ for everything. /s
“Lorlatinib and crizotinib are both ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). ALK TKIs are targeted treatments that bind to the ALK protein found in ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer and stop the growth of tumour cells.”

Great, so this is a targeted approach that works 60% of the time (in the case of Lorlatinib) in one highly specific area of the highly diverse space of possible cancers, many of which have never been observed before and for which you could never enroll enough patients to have a robust clinical trial.

How can this approach be generalized and scaled, meaning that for a given patient with a given cancer, you can run an algorithm and synthesize molecules that will work?

In CS the paradigm involves knowing how to solve an unseen problem instance, not just remembering solutions to specific, well-studied problem instances.
The problem is you're exposing yourself as someone extremely self-centered, and someone that assumes their lived experience is equivalent of everyone else's, and adjudicating the utility of this particular thing as if you are reflective of the larger population.

Saying the majority of engineers in California make at least $200k makes you even more out of touch. According to Glassdoor, over $200k for a SE in CA is 90th percentile. The average SE in CA makes $132,000

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Software-Engineer-Sala...
Google Cloud – Automatically disabling leaked service account keys
"Today, we are enhancing our detection service that regularly scans public repositories for leaked keys and notifies customers if they are found. Starting June 16, 2024"
I'll take a stab at it, since I'm one of those privacy advocates (and also prone to making sweeping statements like this).

Let's say Alice and Bob are doing life and emailing each other about normal life stuff. Charlie runs their email server.

Charlie also runs an advertising business to fund his email server. He somehow reads (not necessarily manually, but the details don't matter) the emails coming through his server to learn what people are more likely to be interested in buying. Everyone benefits, right? Alice and Bob get free email, the advertisers get well-targeted ads, and Charlie gets paid by the advertisers.

Well, along comes the Police. They know that Charlie is able to access contents of emails going through his server, because it's how he funds his email server. The police would need a warrant to search Alice and Bob's communication for something that might incriminate them in an investigation, but Charlie doesn't need a warrant. The police strike a deal with Charlie of mutual benefit. Information for another revenue stream. But still, the police are upholders of justice and only use this "email tap" for good.

Time goes on and our glorious democracy erodes into an autocratic state (ask Germany - it happens!). Suddenly our justice-loving Police have become the Gestapo, but money talks and it's in Charlie's interest to stay on the Gestapo's good side, so the email tap remains in place and we have Alice and Bob, good people that they are, collaborating on how to resist the autocratic state, which gets funneled straight to the Gestapo. Bad guys win.

Essentially it boils down to this: the means for the public to resist tyranny is a necessary prerequisite for freedom. Conversely, the more power (and information is power, especially personal information) is centralized, the more impactful a potential hostile takeover becomes, and the easier to orchestrate (much easier to infiltrate/control one source of information than thousands).
It required the victim to take matters into his own hands and invest inyo buying multiple AirTags in order to sort out the burglary. I wonder how many of these burglary cases just sat there gathering dust and for how long.
You can still do art as a leisure activity. AI only affects how viable it is as a career.
23 of 25 studies were in children, and also it didn’t seem to have any effect in people who already have the problem :(