skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Neither of those accomplishes the goal of being able to purchase the product or service without being ripped off.

I'd argue that its impossible to totally do that since humanity has never figured out how to remove scammers from the population. It is the way to fight back against it so I think that is really splitting hairs on complex sociology-econmic explanations.

Do you really want to continue do business with a company ripping you off?
There's a 70% chance that their ability to predict the future is flawed.
The sauna I was in last night was over 90C so I'm not sure "dead" would apply. I've seen thermostats set to F move by 2F each increment which felt "a bit silly" to me
This is great news, and while the limited nature of the program makes it look like a baby step, I can imagine the political headwinds (Intuit and Block) made this "going from zero to one" moment a huge challenge. Looking forward to seeing them expand to support more tax scenarios, more forms, and remove the income cap for eligibility. Would also be great if they expanded to support state tax filing.
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words. I'm very agreeable; mostly. And quite likeable!

Also keen to see JMAP more widely out there of course, we're plugging away at getting Calendar and Contacts into JMAP over at IETF now. Slowly becoming the full service protocol we've always dreamed of being.
Why would you alphabetically order initializations?

Every complex system I've ever worked on that had a large number of initializations was sensitive to orders.

Languages with module support like Wirth's Modula-2 ensure that if module A uses B, B's initialization will execute before A's. If there is no circular dependency, that order will never be wrong.

The reverse order could work too, but it's a crapshoot then. Module dependency doesn't logically entail initialization order dependency: A's initializations might not require B's initializations to have completed.

If you're initializing by explicit calls in a language that doesn't automate the dependencies, the baseline safest thing to do is to call things in a fixed order that is recorded somewhere in the code: array of function addresses, or just an init procedure that calls others directly.

If you sort the init calls, it has to be on some property linked to dependency order, otherwise don't do it. Unless you've encoded something related to dependencies into the module names, lexicographic order is not right.

In the firmware application I work on now, all modules have a statically allocated signature word that is initially zero and set to a pattern when the module is initialized. The external API functions all assert that the pattern has the correct value, which is strong evidence that the module had been initialized before use.

One one occasion I debugged a static array overrun which trashed these signatures, causing the affected modules to assert.
US Company tests surveillance robots from Singapore at homelessness shelter
Uh ... do you have a link for this? Just (mostly) joking...
Welcome to the real world everywhere buddy.

Where do you live that you think your employer won't try to replace you the second you dropped dead?
The biggest problem is that they rolled up the asperger syndrome up with autistic spectrum. So any psychologist is forced classify functional and non-functional together.

Its a disservice to both worlds and I am not sure why was it done.

People with asperger syndrome need guidance to navigate the world, while traditionally autistic people need to be taken care of, why lump both together with a single term
I used to keep track of what version of Linux we'd be on if we'd stopped arbitrarily revving major versions. Just making this up now, but like 2.102 or some such.
The threshold is “destroy or catastrophically harm humanity,” a threshold which one could argue the burning of coal, existence of nuclear weapons, social media for children and a good fraction of living world leaders have already reached [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/technology/openai-culture...
I don't know much about how companies really implement a ZBB, if anyone even does, but I'd argue that if organizational changes are om the table every year that's an unnecessary recipe for disaster.

Budgeting doesn't have to mean asking the question of whether you need all the people you have, it's just asking what the priorities are and how to allocate capital. Priority number one should always be maintaining the best team possible, any other priority is going to fail anyway if there's no trust and everyone at the company is worried about getting fired just for budget.

If that's the main issue with ZBB for a company, budgeting really is the least of their problems in my opinion. Employees need to trust leadership and leaderhsip needs to both earn that trust and trust their employees as well.

This is actually really similar to a problem I have with how OKRs are done. They should be done from the bottom up not the top down. The idea of OKRs, and agile, sound great but they're just used as a mechanism for top down control because the company is fundamentally lacking trust.
DMV.org's hq ~~is~~ used to be in Encinitas, CA. I used to walk by it when I lived there.

Well, looks like it was taken over by Sunbum, maybe around 2018? Here's a Google Maps street view image for proof:

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.0473569,-117.2949843,3a,75y,...
About time. I'm tired of all the tax filing sites that lure you in with claims of "Free!" but then tell you 90% of the way through that "oh, you are a special case, so you need to pony up $100 or so to continue".

I've used the Free Fillable Forms option before, but that places a large burden on you to get everything right. Direct File will solve a lot of issues.
> It's a test similar to if you're in a train in motion, and you drop a ball in the aisle, does it fall towards the front or the back of the train?

Once people are done with that they might be amused by try this one:

• You are on a stationary bus, holding a helium balloon on a string. The balloon is floating directly above you. The bus starts accelerating forward. Does the balloon:

1. Move toward the front of the bus relative to you,

2. Continue to float directly above you, or

3. Move toward the back of the bus relative to you.
Agreed. In addition to sounding like spitballing, even the linked articles (from what I saw) don't show a clear way in which the former employee came to 70%. Overall this article comes across as fear-mongering but one of the linked sources was an interesting blog post (IMO) about why people should _stop_ providing specific estimations of p(doom).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EwyviSHWrQcvicsry/stop-talki...
Silly string and aglets seem safe for now.
You can ask hammers, cars, and saws questions, and they can respond with complete confidence with information that may or may not be correct, which they have no way of knowing whether it's correct, and presented as if they are human?

The analogy makes no sense.
Most open-source programs recommended as alternatives don't offer any customer support either. For non tech people the chance that they mess something up is pretty high, which a lot of people seem to forget. For them something like iCloud would be a way better alternative than "Immich".
Sprint was not going to survive. They were circling the drain and needed to be acquired to be rescued. I was a customer of theirs and they could literally only compete on price. T-mobile wasn’t in much better shape. Post merger the improvement in network quality and customer service has been night and day. Sprint owned tons of spectrum but was terrible at using it. T-mobile was spectrum starved and would not have the network they have today without purchasing Sprint.

Sprint literally bet on the wrong technology every single generation. They also had trouble getting many popular phones because they used such oddball network technology.
There are many types of neurodiversity. I am arguing that being very introverted is itself fairly rare, and a type of neurodiversity- however not at all rare among the HN crowd. I would think it goes without saying that the HN crowd is a lot more neurodivergent than the general population.

I'm not sure why people are so upset about this suggestion... I'm not sure if they just disagree, or if they don't like being labeled neurodivergent.

Different types of neurodivergence are highly correlated- a quick google search suggests introversion, left handedness, autism, dyslexia, and ADHD are all highly correlated. Left handedness is also a type of neurodivergence that goes a lot deeper than which hand you write with.
Oh I know, sadly.

We've never been able to track him down, or their sister down (she was still at the orphanage, too young to ship off when they were broken up).

My grandfather was lucky in Canada. He worked dawn to dusk, but was fed well, sheltered from the elements, and learned how to manage a farm. He came out of it reasonably well.

People often say there is a history of treating Natives poorly in Canada, colonies. Yet we did it to ourselves, too.

Especially the churches.
A quick glance at the title made me hope HN would finally allow screen-responsive auto-wrap of text lines. Its 2024 now and we know a thing or two about good vs bad UX.
TLDR: Daniel Kokotajlo (ex-OpenAI employee) puts chances of AI doom at 70%.

Source is actually here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xDkdR6JcQsCdnFpaQ/adumbratio...
This is always the dividing line in the debate and the place where folks talk past each other. Under normal circumstances people expect “human level” intelligence to be coupled with human level autonomy; but task focused AI often produces super human performance on that specific task with very little autonomy.

Moreover, ML has historically been very brittle compared to the generalization humans provide. A machine that reads addresses might be 10x better than a person, but it may not be worth it if you can’t do things like say “we don’t even sort the blue envelopes—there’s a specific rule for those” like you could with a human. (The specific case here is irrelevant—humans can handle arbitrary variation on the rules infinitely better than a bare CNN.)

It’s this ability to cope with human-level ambiguity that has so much potential in LLMs. But even they don’t work like people—giving it a new rule could make it worse at all other tasks with no explanation as to why.
I'd say if you're under age 40 it should be possible unless you're in really poor shape but then again that shouldn't be a problem to get in shape.

As you get older recovery time is an issue it takes a long time to get over hard workout unless you've always done it but even so it's still not like when younger.
To add a personal anecdote, I once walked 25 miles in about 8-9 hours* with a heavy bag, and then showered & walked to work afterwards. I was kind of out of it, but definitely not falling-down-tired or anything like that.

*I severely misjudged the length of the trip before setting out, thought it was about 5-6 miles.
A LLM is not just a file, it also has context (the attention window in transformers).

A LLM can have curiosity in the sense that it will ask questions. It can be a useful trait as a problem often seen in current "chat"-type LLMs is that they tend to talk a bit too authoritatively about things they don't know about (aka. hallucinations). Encouraging users to give a bit more context for better quality answers can counteract this. The point could be to make chatbots not like search engines, search engines will answer garbage with garbage, a chatbot can ask for precision when it can't give a satisfactory answer.

For example:

- How much is a pint in mL?

- A US pint is 473 mL

vs

- Is it for a drink in the US? If so, a US pint in 473 mL, but in other contexts and locations, the answer can vary.

The second answer is "curious", and by requesting extra context, it tells that the question is incomplete and with that extra context, it can give a better answer. For example, a pint of beer in France is likely to be 500mL, even though it is not really a pint, it is how it is understood.
I mean you could click the link and see what it is lol, it's an OpenAI API layer replacement, that allows you to aim it at any llamacpp instance and gguf model
Did you miss the part about a Windows VM? :)
It helps but it doesn't completely solve it.
Why fine-tuning is (probably) not for you
For sure there is a significant difference between what is referred to as "high functioning autism" and traditional ("low functioning" autism). But I feel that if those folks want to differentiate then it would be much smarter to come up with a different term and romanticize that.

The only reason to appropriate the term "autism" and associate with that condition is to medicalize one's psychology and obtain funding and services that previously were reserved to "low functioning" autistics (before that term was even necessary).

(edited to clarify)
Flouroquinolones are a pretty high risk drug. Over the years the warnings have been increased. If my memory serves me right, half of all flouroquinolone drugs have been taken off the market due to adverse reactions.

Generally, this family of drugs should no longer be used as first line treatment. Doctors still often use it as first line for UTI though. It carries a very high risk of damage to tendons and neurological system.

It is also the only antibiotic which is topoisomerase inhibitor, other drugs which are topoisomerase inhibitors are chemo drugs. It means that it blocks the enzymes needed to divide and regrow cells.
> Asynchronous does not mean slow, but it is different and requires structuring your work differently. Remote works much better asynchronously, but at an organization that has too few remote employees will never learn to do that.

> It's not that you're doing something wrong or that they are, it's that your organization is designed to be incompatible with remote workers. If you're not willing to adapt, then you're absolutely on the right track by phasing out remote, but don't take your anecdotes from working in an organization that refused to change as evidence that remote doesn't work.

This is wishful thinking. Not all work can be done asynchronously, and often the most important work is important because it's a blocker for other things. In practice this kind of mindset simply increases the critical path of the project, which is the most important part, and in many cases senior engineers are on the critical path. But hey, if you're able to be productive at scale with remote work, guess you'll have a large pool of talent to draw from, so I'm hoping to see many successful companies replace FAANG.

> Slight tangent, but this is exactly why a lot of people like myself will never go back into an office. I don't want to be paid to be at someone's beck and call whenever they want to interrupt me, I want to be given a large chunk of work that I can work on independently without interruption unless I'm specifically designated to be on call as part of a regular rotation (at which point you can interrupt me just as well on slack as you could in the office).

Yes, this is what YOU want. It's not for the benefit of the company, no matter how remote people try to frame it. But hey, if that's my only choice, then we should hire top talent in Bangalore or Warsaw instead of remote mid talent from high cost areas.
> Whatever this is, it’s small potatoes.

If there's anything you learn from reading about corruption, it's that politicians are cheap. They generally sell themselves to many interests cheaply, rather than to a single interest in a big way.
They are just spitballing. Nobody has any actual idea yet whether AGI is even possible. Nobody has a statistically valid sample of what AGIs have done to civilizations. Nobody actually knows anything. They're just spitballing.
The entire anime industry is built on labor that is not compensated well, from many sources:

This whole substack, but in particular: https://news.animenomics.com/p/nafca-anime-worker-survey-lon...

NHK video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5AR2X6R4TM

From what I can tell, the production does a lot of Hollywood-style accounting where the production companies take most of the profits and most of the actual work is contracted out.
I bet those stocks are going to go even crazier when Apple announces their OpenAI partnership later today.
Not sure what your point is. It sounds like the instant clinic was functionally no different than doing nothing at all.
Could you explain what makes Arc Browser a game changer in terms of productivity?

I use Firefox with a vertical tabs extension and based on the screenshots it looks very similar (also, using Firefox Containers solves the same problem as GoLogin afaict)
Those aren't really ROS alternatives though, as they seem to offer just the message passing layer, which is one of the best features of ROS, but it's not really enough in isolation from the other good features.
If the guardian really wanted to help Africa, they would focus on raising their earnings, which isn't mentioned anywhere in this hit piece
> Here are several examples that disagree.

Disagree with what? I fail to see the difference from definition two.

It does not match definition one, of course, but that had to exist in an effort to be fair to the original commenter. It is not like you are going to go in like a horribly confused idiot and randomly redefine tillage or something. If the OP is using savings in the sense of the positive net value of a home, rationally one will be accommodating to that.

But it doesn't really matter what definition you choose. The math doesn't add up to what was presented under any definition.
Used to live London. Didn’t know that it’s actually “Kensington High Street”, since the underground/subway station there is called “High Street Kensington” - why the discrepancy here?
You’re just ignoring my argument and pointing to a “Malthusian trap” when my paper specifically addresses this as the core fallacy
Iol makes more sense than lol.

Thanks for clarifying!
Better than needing to pay a third party for the pleasure. Taxes are a fact of life. Anything that reduces the number of rent seekers between me and the government is a win in my book.
Considering LLM work is done at a computer the only thing to make this exploitive would be a lack of AC/Heating in the office.

I still remember working retail, I'd love LLM work over having to stand up for 8 hours.
No? Why shouldn’t apps be accessible?
In Ireland, elections (including European parliament) use proportional representation with single transferable vote¹. This system was adopted after we gained independence so that minorities (such as Unionists) would still have political representation. I think it’s a very fair system – particularly compared to the first-past-the-post that our old colonial masters continue to use and it allows small political parties to have the opportunity to grow.

In the recent EU parliament election, I gave my first preference vote to a new independent candidate whose politics I agree with but I figured would be very unlikely to be elected. When they are eliminated (at one of the counts where it turns out they are the remaining candidate with the lowest number of votes), my second and successive preference then count.

It’s probably easier to see how it works in practice: if you check the election results for my constituency, Dublin² and select Count 1, you can see that 1,065 people voted for the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes. At Count 2, you can see how 937 of second preference votes were distributed to the remaining candidates (128 of his voters didn’t care to specify a second preference). This pattern of eliminating candidates with the lowest amount of votes repeats until one of the candidates exceeds the quota and is deemed elected – and that candidate’s surplus (number of votes exceeding the quota) votes will be proportionally transferred to the remaining candidates.

Theoretically all of my preferences could count so before voting I made a list of all 23 candidates in order of preference: starting with those I wanted to win, followed by those I could live with in the middle, and down at the very end, those I really didn’t want to win.

According to the relevant EU legislation³, something called a “list system” can also be used for electing MEPs but I’m not familiar with how that works.

¹ https://assets.gov.ie/111110/03f591cc-6312-4b21-8193-d415016...

² https://www.rte.ie/news/elections-2024/results/#/european/du...

³ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Diet is probably number one, sugar cravings caused by dopamine dysregulation and can also induce dopamine dysregulation causing a rather vicious cycle. Those most addicted to sugar are the most harmed by it.

Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is probably the most used and widely accepted med within the patient communities and due to having a rather mild side effect profile is a great place to start. Such side effects include really crazy dreams, insomnia, and nausea. The stronger the side effects the more likely it'll work and the negative side effects will go away in time.

I predominately use amitriptyline and modafinil but I don't have the gut comorbidities that would preclude the use of modafinil. I'm not familiar with alternatives to modafinil but a friend who previously had success with modafinil, until the gut issues became too much for him, switched to levosulpiride and he says that worked great. This appears to be counterintuitive for me but psychopharmacological meds are a tough one because they almost always have more than one receptor binding affinity and there is the interplay between ligands of different types and strengths as well as how the brain and body reacts with it. In general I prefer the weaker ligands than the stronger ones and don't try to over-optimize such that every day is good, I target 80% of them.

I basically looked up what books are used in that field and read a bunch of those; Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology being one of the better ones. There are also books on dysautonomia but I don't know if there is a particular one I would recommend - the whole dysautonomia space is rather nebulous. My big takeaway from that is that is dysautonomia is super complex and hardly anyone understands it.
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How many plants (later, algae) do you need to breathe? [video]
A practical basement experiment from its earliest stage. He has already progressed to algae bioreactors and his target is equilibrium of O2 and CO2.
The Gainax of the 1990s was not the Gainax of the last decade. Gainax died in the Great Recession and became a hollowed out shell of a studio that only existed to collect royalties on their past work. So this is not a major loss.
Is this a time bound prediction, or is it 70% chance AI will tragically harm humanity between now and the death of our species?

The sun begins to die 5 billion years from now, so is this an estimate there's a 70% chance someone will "tragically harm humanity" with AI in the next 5 billion years?

Or are they positing humans will survive the death of our sun, and concluding between now and infinity, someone somewhere will tragically harm someone with AI?

If this is true someone at some point between now and infinity should really get on this, perhaps we might estimate that around 2.5 billion years from now, we'll need to write some regulations.