skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why you're getting downvoted... seems very well said. There's this disturbing attitude in right wing media that almost celebrates people deciding to turn away from higher ed. It's like they actually want people poor and stupid

The one thing you don't mention though are the effects of free trade policies and immigration on their economic conditions

I think the general pattern here is a sort of self-reenforcing attitude associated with poverty. It's hard for me to look at more extreme progressives trying to eliminate high ability classes and not see some of the same thing
Dumbest shit I ever did was cash out my IBEW 401(k), back in 2016.

"Put it all on black [bitcoin]..." dumbest shit I ever did.
. . . and now you're engaging.

Church of the Long Now wins again.
no, are you 238? :3
Oh it's Matthew Killingsworth, who was the first author of the one paper [1] about happiness I actually read!

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
I don’t remember all details but it had to do with launching polar orbits. To land safely from there the wings had to be much bigger which then caused a ton of other problems.
While technically correct, i think everyone understands that when people ask "why evolution decided to do x" they don't mean it literally but instead are asking "why was X a sucessful evolutionary strategy such that the trait was conserved or even optimized through the generations into what we see today"
Being autistic enough to not give a damn is kind of a superpower here.
> What law exactly says you have a right for appeal

This is Roman Law foundation. I mean all fair legal systems have been founded on Roman Law, others are simply totalitarian
I guess they have a continuous feeling of relief to have „jumped the gun“ of getting that dangerous vaccine. So feeling wise, they might even be better off than you.
Hah, could've been a win-win situation.

Until you get the message on your dash "AdBlue tank low. Please urinate to start engine."
Emergency services should as is be required to use GPS or similar, especially in the U.S. given the existence of the United States National Grid (https://geodesy.noaa.gov/NCAT/), as house numbers may be not be available for a variety of reasons. Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20970664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829267

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27015046
Back to Our Roots
Opening up Victoria's open data platform
Based on the results from an earlier paper of the author [1] the spread within the groups is very high. So there is no shortage of miserable people in the high income bracket.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
Are We Losing Our Minds to Artificial Intelligence?
please take this kind of 'engagement' back to twitter where it belongs
> this was becoming fairly common and I have no idea why.

Too many chiefs, not enough braves. The length of the interview process has grown with the proliferation of scrum masters, project managers, project leads, business analysts and seemingly endless other roles.

I miss the simple days of direct lines of management and shorter, simpler interviews.
The Lancet

Drugs dont work, more evidence

This study found that more than 40% of the older adults with hypertension who did not receive antihypertensive drugs could achieve remission to normal blood pressure level during a median follow-up of six years and the remission was associated with a one-third lower cardiovascular disease risk, which challenge the commonly held view that hypertension is a lifelong condition that requires continuous drug treatment.
The About page doesn’t say anything about whether it was peer-reviewed or not (nor supplies any evidence that the author is “distinguished”). Maybe it was peer-reviewed and rejected, hence why a “distinguished” researcher would resort to self publishing? It seems to contradict other much larger-scale studies like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0277-0
Forecasting Accuracy (2023)
Yeah. I BS’d the example. I don’t have the materials for the question on hand.
plumbum is nice, although the optional parens of Ruby makes things more shellish.

Also Ruby's Shell was part of the stdlib, so if a system had Ruby you could use it without having to go through system ruby `gem install` conundrums. I think they made a mistake unbundling that one.
You've replied to the wrong person I suspect.
As the other reply has said, the article points to limitations of LLMs, but that doesn't preclude synthesizing a system of multiple components that uses LLMs. To the extent that I'm bearish on AI capabilities, I'll note that program synthesis / compression / general inductive reasoning which we expect intelligent agents to do is a computationally very hard problem.
So it’s no vaccine, by your standards, but isn’t it still useful when it reduces probabilities of infections and long term adverse effects? However the label you attach to it?
Source documentary by the artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clgl63CWOkM
I am US-based and run one of ~8,000 global bitcoin verification nodes (i.e. not a miner). No majority of these nodes are based in any specific country †.

You should probably better educate on bitcoin protocols/mining before you go spouting off unfamiliar stats.

†: #1)USA #2)Germany #4)France #5)Netherlands #21)China (via bitnodes.io)
Sophie’s choice between scrolly crap and a video. No surprise I suppose, given the article focuses on films and ignores the much larger body of sci-fi novels which had no shortage of pessimism in the past and have no shortage of optimism today.
https://indie-autoren-buecher.de/selfpublishing-blog/buch-ve...

here’s a German article discussing KDP alternative, maybe that’s of help to you.
Another factor: When you're wealthy, everything is low stakes. Elections don't matter, rent increases and food inflation don't matter, global warming doesn't matter, the future of your family doesn't matter (in the sense that it's all sorted thanks to the money). Even wars don't matter, because you have your bunker on private land in New Zealand. The problems that cause stress for even mid-high income people don't exist. Money becomes an escape hatch.
This is obviously true in a trivial sense. You don't want people stealing from your house, so you lock the door and have to carry keys, and get locked out if you forget them.

The need for security creates a set of additional requirements that have to be fulfilled. If you didn't have to fulfil them, things would indeed be more convenient.

This is also true of requirements in general, not specific to security. If you don't need them, things can be simpler and more convenient.
Agreed, at this point a lot of websites have become laggy human-powered movies.
Since when is the firee’s future employment prospects any business of the company doing the firing?
trying to rejoin the tech industry only made me appreciate how easy we have it compared to the rest.

but when getting on the train becomes tough, it only makes getting off harder. i feel that the employers would (and does) weaponize it against our interests.

it is mental labour at the end of the day for most of us, and not sure much of that would change at a macro level. the current situation does not help either, but i am content with how we are doing relative to the rest of the market.
> your Arduino would just keep printing bytes until it lucked upon a zero, or overran its buffer so badly that it started trying to read different segments of memory and eventually segfaulted.

I don't think I've ever used an arduino core for something that had an MMU. It should happily keep printing all the way until the end of memory, and either stop there because it's zeros after, or wrap back to the start depending on the board. I have written code to dump out every byte in memory over serial before, just for kicks.
Or maybe hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary pressure to build unbelievably efficient function approximation.
You don't have to change tech stacks every other year for app development.
Your last comment is incorrect. They are absolutely regulated. Enforcement lacked for years but had caught up quickly in the past 2 years. Fines are huge if you get caught doing it.
My partner knows french but never speaks french on a regular basis because we met and started dating in another spanish, so spanish tends to be our default language. Whenever for some reason we speak french for a significant amount of time she starts seeing ads in french about french brands on the web and social media apps while all her devices are in spanish and we are living in Spain.

Same when we talk a lot about a particular subject. We found out she starts seeing ads quickly on related stuff.

I am not sure if it comes from android directly, her social media apps or both but something is definitely listening and analysing audio.

Which leads me to think that all FAANG and social medias companies should be sued to death because they actually ask permission to the owner of the device to get and treat personal data, but never to the people who meet them. Especially in the case of amazon echos and google home devices. A number of times when people invited me at home I raised the subject that they never warned me they had a privacy aspiring device set up at home before letting me in and I was met with puzzled looks.
Majority of verification nodes are not in China.

No single jurisdiction approaches anywhere close to majority, with #1)USA@21% †

†: https://bitnodes.io/
Me too. Now I have a laptop with discrete nvidia and an eGPU with 3090 in it, a desktop with 4090, another laptop with another discrete nvidia.. all switching combinations work, acceleration works, game performance is on par with windows (even with proton to within a small percentage or even sometimes better). All out of the box with stock Ubuntu and installing driver from Nvidia site.

The only "trick" is I'm still on X11 and probably will stay. Note that I did try wayland on few occasions but I steered away (mostly due to other issues with it at the time).
The questions used are only biased towards money, in so far as you believe that the ideal life requires materialistic goods, that excellent conditions require money, etc.

Aristotle by the way, did not believe that people with insufficient means could ever be as happy/good as (read; experience levels of eudoimonia commensurate with) freeborn males with plentiful means; and he was big on "natural slavery", which the Stoics disagreed with.
One thing to think about is the question what capitalisms end game is. Suppose everyone is buying stuff and you're CEO of a nearly 100% efficient corporation, whatever that means. Your job is to somehow make gains every year.

The problem is that this was easy in a inefficient corporation within a market where everybody was inefficient. But the things you have to do to keep these gains are getting more and more ridiculous, more and more amoral.

This is our problem. The times where easy gains with honest products was possible is long past, now everything has to be a scam, a meta game, some sort of hidden monopoly or so cutting edge that it isn't even profitable.
K8S done right is literally designed for multi tenancy. A separate cluster per customer would be insanely costly and terrible for the planet. Maybe in premium products where security is paramount, but a separate cluster per customer is basically setting your money on fire.
I wonder if cross-posting my own comment is forbidden here, but I hope not:

We're living in times where big companies create (unlawful) unclear law systems (theoretically based on law _somewhere_) and force others to obey (you must agree to our terms), without giving a possibility to appeal nor have their rights proven under the real court (because it would be for example too expensive, or because that "you have accepted our terms").

This was funny unless people's jobs and lives started to rely on those big companies, and their _de facto_ monopoly
> it should cost 50 bucks and run on chips from 2010.

If we're really honest it should run on Tamagotchi-era hardware.
apologies, yes
Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
I remember my colleague from work who said that happiness is linear to amount of money. The more money the more you have vacations, houses, cars. Such view-point is very narrow and materialistic, but some people do think that way.

I remember comparing this to having toilets in work. You will be happy with having at least one in your office. It will be good to have two toilets and it will bring more happiness, but what about having 10 toilets? It will not linearly provide more happiness to the office.

It is good to have enough money to be able to live a convenient life. The rest is up to you. To your goals. To your motivations. Some people will never be satisfied just by having a big pile of cash only.

If you play a game with infinite ammo, infinite health it becomes boring quite easily.
Slavic, not a computer scientist, more of a lumberjack, otherwise very funny comment :)

Weird syntax might be just awesome syntax you don't yet know :)
There are still quite a few of those in circulation in Italy.
I have the feeling that self-awareness is inherent in every system.

When a flower gets more sunlight from one side than from the other, it starts to turn to that side. Is that different from a person who walks somewhere because they like to? Most people I ask say "Well, the human can say 'I'". But a computer can also say "I". Where is the threshold to call it "self-awareness"?
Bayraktar is a son in law of Erdoğan.
Show HN: Sparkhub – Pay APIs per-request, no subscriptions
We are a small startup building API monetizations tools. We think no one really likes subscriptions and that usage-based payments is where the internet is going.

We built this API marketplace where every API is paid per-request and devs have a prepaid credit wallet that can be used for every API on the platform. Would love some feedback! Thanks
The issue is that they need to enter their destination somehow. Or do you expect people calling 911 to read off GPS coordinates?
mind the wording they've used here - "fully towards open-source" and not "towards fully open-source".

big difference. almost nobody is going to give you the sauce hidden behind blobs. but i hope the dumb issues of the past (imagine using it on laptops with switchable graphics) go away slowly with this and it is not only for pleasing the enterprise crowd.
Thank you, never heard of this. It sounds terrifying.

> Sneaker waves appear suddenly on a coastline and without warning; generally, it is not obvious that they are larger than other waves until they break and suddenly surge up a beach. A sneaker wave can occur following a period of 10 to 20 minutes of gentle, lapping waves. Upon arriving, a sneaker wave can surge more than 150 feet (50 m) beyond the foam line, rushing up a beach with great force.

> The force of a sneaker wave's surge and the large volume of water rushing far up a beach is enough to suddenly submerge people thigh- or waist-deep, knock them off their feet, and drag them into the ocean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_wave
Honestly I don't understand how they got customers in the first place, the idea is so bad for a start that it really shows people are knowlingly buying stuff with the sole purpose of producing e-waste.

I don't understand the pleasure they get from this.
No drama, footguns are easy mistakes to make.

I'm happy to expand for others; regardless of my feelings on the matter the Long Now use of a leading zero creates questions and engagement, thus spreading their message under the mantra of "there's no such thing as bad press" | "get the public talking".

It's an Advertising 101 strategy and not at all idiotic save perhaps at the surface of first exposure.
How well isolated is this secondary computer? Do we have reason to fear the proprietary software running on it?
Normally vesting is over a much longer period, e.g. four years, so he is insanely trusting of you. For example, what if you worked for six months got the equity then just left? Then he might find it difficult to raise funding.

At such an early stage, 25% and no salary would usually be considered a co-founder. Of course, there's no legal definition so in actuality it's whatever you agree to. This situation is very common, where a founder didn't really derisk the company as much as he perceived.

For being a co-founder, the question becomes to what degree can you accelerate the business. Is funding holding him back and your background/involvement will encourage investment? Is the product what's holding him back, and you will 10x its dev speed? You'd make a logical pitch that with you as co-founder, the company will grow way faster than without. Additionally, I'd do some online equity calculators and present a logical case for a given percentage.

I'm also not sure what the strategy is with the seed range. You want to have enough to survive hopefully 2+ years AND propel the business forward. The low end implies maybe you'll pay yourselves minimally. However, you may need another raise very soon since it doesn't help blow up the company -- you'll have to hire/rent office space/marketing/etc.
The problem is that every time you ask the LLM to evaluate what to do next it will return a wrong answer X% of the time. Multiple that X across the number of steps and you have a system that is effectively useless. X today is ~5%.

I do think LLMs could be used to assist in building a world model that could be a foundation for an AGI/agent system. But it won't be the major part.
> It is good to have enough money to be able to live a convenient life. The rest is up to you. To your goals. To your motivations. Some people will never be satisfied just by having a big pile of cash only.

It's about cultivation. If you spend much time developing interest and taste in a domain, you will enjoy happiness. You are building your capacity for happiness. Money is only part of the equation, it's like potential energy. As long as money is not a hinderance you can almost forget about it. Experience is the other part, how you invest your time.
I already thought it was because they were selfish assholes, but good to have it confirmed by someone who thinks that being a selfish asshole is totally fine and subdivides their selfish assholery into bullet points for easier comprehension.

I mean they're not idealogues that wouldn't support someone just because he's "cultural heroin" and like Hitler (their words, not mine). Not if the alternative is paying taxes.

But hey, if the rich guy who's given up on democracy supports a candidate that doesn't believe in democracy when he loses, how bad can it get?

For Billionaire men with passports to other countries probably not that bad at all.
Interesting glimpse into what was going on in Alexandra Palace in the early days:

https://www.wondersofworldengineering.com/television.html

Unlike most such efforts, some tech details are included.

And this site has more than enough: https://www.earlytelevision.org/ap_black_book.html
Now the real question is, how could people be happy before the invention of the monetary system?
There were some differences even in the mid 90s between AT&T-style awk which was then considered the original/definitive/most-backward-compatible and gawk which was new/shiny (although not /that/ new).

I believe both were available in Linux back then. I believe in the above anecdote both were consulted with the emphasis on AT&T-style awk for obvious reasons.
While interesting (and a somewhat expected trend), what would be more helpful is the dual analysis and factcheck of "Who Saved the World". I.e., if the world avoided the worst, how did it happen? Was it magical thinking or something real that we can actually embrace and build on?

The increasing gloominess around our predicament is to a large degree due to the persistent failure of positive forces and behaviors to mitigate destructive trends. There is no point imagining a unreachable utopia if we can't indicate a real path towards it.

Its not that there is strictly zero evidence on our ability to avoid a major civilizational setback in the visible future. There is at least the open source movement. This is a remarkable, highly non-trivial behavior and it has already affected our reality. It is still little-known outside tech circles. Maybe there are other such positive stories in other circles. Somebody should base a sci-fi scenario on them :-)
Is https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/ down for anyone else or is it just me?
What boggles my mind is the notion of running an RP2040 at 300mhz.
Did you run this through a LLM? I'm not sure what the point is of arguing with yourself and bringing up points that seem tangential to what you started off talking about (…security of GPUs?)
I wonder if companies are now more likely to keep those postings open despite not actually hiring. I’m personally (and of course anecdotally) aware of a number of such cases.
Modern cars with HEPA eliminate all smell
Took exhaust a bit too literal
But-but freedom means small state or no state at all! That way we can finally live under the law of corporations, without any decisional power or voting rights. What a dream.
Oh that is a blast ( happy coincidence ) from the past. I remember the first time I saw autodetect. What a time saver that was. And don't get me started on getting the memory in batch set up just right for moonstone.

Things are a lot easier now, but it getting easier made us forget how complicated it is underneath it all.
A friend is recruitment in the UK branch of a company I know.

She says she is beginning to see AI generated covering letters - they don't properly match up to the CV.
Each thread adds overhead.

Some usage types don’t care, some do.

From what I gather virtual threads are an alternative to “callback-hell” (js) or async coloring (python).
I don't think so because even all the recent solved problems are rather dull.
Yes, you are right that playing a game with infinite ammo and health is boring.

However, this never happens in the real world: You buy a nice car, then a nice house, then go to nice vacations, eat better, healthier food.

Then you realize that there are layers of nicer everything above what you consider "nice". Build a more ambitious company, and end up building rockets to explore the solar system and make humanity multi-planetary, cure illnesses, extend knowledge or education or peace.
It's not the logic of FSRS. In fact, FSRS knows the probability of recalling any cards in your collection, which may means how urgently you need to see them. So it can be implemented via an add-on.
On top of that, you can go into financial risks that us mere mortals simply can't afford to do or have to include massive additional stressor in our lives, to improve your situation further.
Premature Abstraction
Continually fine-tune large language models without catastrophic forgetting
In my experience, "deprecated" is often taken as "we can still use that, it is not removed yet", which I find somewhat disheartening sometimes.
>I just can't get it to behave like a therapist would

import time
import random

SESSION_DURATION = 50 * 60
start_time = time.time()

while True:
current_time = time.time()
elapsed_time = current_time - start_time

if elapsed_time >= SESSION_DURATION:
print("Our time is up. That will be $150. See you next week!")
break

_ = input("")
print(random.choice(["Mmm hmm", "Tell me more", "How does that make you feel?"]))

time.sleep(1)

Thank me later!
Toilet fulfills a need while money can be used to fulfill wants/desires. The upper limit of want has to be lot higher than the need. I don't think number of toilets is a good analogy
Not the slaughterbots bullshit again. If someone wanted to replicate the slaughterbots video, they would use the small drones only for face recognition to find the target and then eliminate the target with a small mortar from a bigger drone above. You know, the boring stuff that terrorists have already done in the past.