skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think addicts should receive treatment? Do you think that people who make bad decisions deserve to live? Do you extract the exact amount of value from society relative to the amount you put in, or do you take more than you give? Are you sure? Please explain.

Your perspective is frankly disgusting. I hope you don't have any vices. The point of a society is to pool resources together to improve the collective. Different people in different positions of power and ability have different needs. Hopefully you don't personally have any power to exclude people from that group. I hope that the powers that be don't decide that you deserve less for some reason.
Without concatenation it’s likely exponential since we are comparing n to log n.
> Sure a mistake can spark inspiration sometimes, but creativity is much more than mistakes.

It looks like creativity has many steps but being able to come with novel, unprompted stuff is important, as long as you are able to discard the bullshit earlier.

"Hallucination" is only a problem if later layers (or additional networks) can't detect and remove it
Plastic surgeons and cosmetic companies are rushing to convince people that the same effects you see from any weight loss are worse with GLP-1 agonists, to court a market with demonstrated willingness to spend money on (among other things) their looks.

Plastic surgeons, I expect, are especially concerned about a large reduction in volume of lipo & related procedures, and are eager to get the message out that “no, you still need to come pay us to cut on you!”
Oh! It's been a good while since I've worked in noise cancelling. I didn't know current tech was at the point where we could do direct reproduction of the outside noise, instead of just using mic arrays! That's very cool, it used to be considered totally sci fi to do it fast enough in a small headset.
Apple Says Final iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle Models Are Now Obsolete
I think when they bring up differential amplifiers they're referring more to the DSP technique of how headphone noise cancelling works but the actual electrical properties of how a differential amplifier does that muddies the message a bit.

It sort of feels closer to heterodyning and "demodulating" the signal encoded in the softmax. Those tiny little errors we're trying to denoise with this technique are almost closer to carrier waves (when encoded to softmax) than noise imo. This wouldn't get rid of noise in the training data or noise in the dimensionality of the key / value space. It's really only removing noise introduced by the process itself.
I think of it differently. Capitalism has altered/hijacked peoples reward centers with hyper refined foods and it's a huge struggle for a lot of people to get out of that. We had drug pushers and very little help to get out of the addiction loop.

I used to think people just needed to "eat less", CICO and etc. Just like i thought people needed to just get off drugs. I think that's wrong, now.

These days it seems more apparent that some people are just more prone to addiction. The fact that i don't struggle with drinking or drugs is not due to my own will. Neither do i struggle with food, i'm frankly indifferent to food. So just as much as i seem gifted by nature to not be addicted to these things, others are innately pulled towards addictive substances.
I don't disagree with some of the aims of Lina Khan, mostly just the strategy. Scaring away potential mergers is much, much less valuable than establishing case law or getting legislation passed. It is kinda parallel to overreliance on executive orders over legislative wins.
are you equating all sex with porn here?
I'd argue that my biggest criticism of journalism as it is practiced is that many practitioners aren't even trying to be scientific. The pressure of deadline for regular publication creates huge incentive to publish not discovered truth, but a pre-ordained thesis that then lends itself to cherry-picked fact-hunting to bolster that thesis (and discarding of counter-evidence that would cast doubt upon the thesis).

I've been close enough on-the-ground to multiple reported stories to bear witness to this happening: quotes that I was present when they were given taken madly out of context because they one-fifth supported the reporter's idea and four-fifths refuted it. It's not a great way to find truth (not bad for concocting digestible stories though).
even then the table will stit stably on the slope. The tabletop will not be level with regards to the horizon/gravity but that is not what the theorem requires. It only requires stability (i.e. no "wobbling")

Yes this might not be entirely practical if you try it on one of the famous sloped roads in San Francisco but for most other parts of the world (restaurants, cobblestone sidewalks, etc.) it will be good enough from a practical standpoint :)
I don't know about kids, but my sample size one is that as short-form dopamine-hit content has exploded in the last 10-15 years, and especially the last 5, my ability to read books has collapsed.
Sovereignty: A pretext for Latin America's autocrats to attack NGOs
The story is that it is because Alfred Nobel was cheated on by a mathematician (hilarious, but unconfirmed)

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/why_no_math.html#story
Why, because there’s not as much work to do debugging installers and malware as there is with Windows?
does this not mean we should explore usage of talking heads (Shazeer et al) a bit more? https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02436
I've read all 20+ of the Jack Reacher books,

Same! I think they're great. But that's "great" when you appreciate them for what they are. I wouldn't compare, say, The Killing Floor to Nineteen Eighty Four or anything. But I'd say they're both great - in their respective ways.
Post-modernity caused a fracture of identity into ever smaller fragments and communities. (Century of the Self, even though that was about the previous century)

EDIT: The Culture of Narcissism is also relevant. Although I still don’t understand what narcissism is. And don’t read it if you are running a presidential campaign.
> It never occurred to me that any book would be about someone like me

I don't know quite how you feel about it but you could easily consider this a personal tragedy and rejoice that a new generation doesn't have to experience it. Never reading a book about people like you doesn't make you strong or wise, and no one is weak for wanting to see themselves in one either.
> More concurrency is not always ideal

Is this due to increased memory usage? Does the same apply to Sidekiq if it was powered by Fibers?
No; The Nobel Committee has done a complete error in judgement with this.

These are Mathematics/CS techniques and nothing whatever to do with core Theoretical/Experimental Physics notwithstanding that they may have been inspired from Physics. There are plenty of Physics Researchers toiling away at real hard problems of the Physical World and instead of recognizing them the Committee has gone with "market fads" which themselves were only realizable due to Hardware advances at scale over the past decade. With this award they have disheartened and demotivated all true Physics Researchers which is a huge disservice to the Hard Science Community.

This is not to say that AI/ML researchers/community are not worthy of recognition. But they should not be folded under Physics rather a new category should have been created and they then awarded under it.
> they only want the ability to profit without having to invest in building a hardware platform

Well yeah; they're a software company. I also write software. Should I build my own hardware platform to release my apps?
It's almost as if there are beautiful, deep lessons being passed down by people who lived before us.

I find the authors argument unpersuasive. I was one of those rebellious teenagers growing up and it was exactly in Dostoyevsky and Arthur Koestler and Umberto Eco that I found refuge and companionship. Maybe because they were so different than me and my peers, they offered me a glimpse into different ways of thinking and seeing.
> We do know that the benefits stop as soon as you stop taking it. You'll start gaining back weight.

It's more accurate to say that if you're depending on the appetite suppression to eat a sustainable amount of calories, you will begin to gain weight again after stopping the drug.

It's possible to use a GLP-1 agonist to lose weight and then keep it off with a proper diet. I took tirzepatide (Mounjaro) for 6 months, lost ~45 lbs., and have not gained any back after stopping the drug in July.
> Where's your citation that most are pornographic?

I used an imprecise term for the high percentage that have sexual content. If you prefer, I'll rename it to "books grossly inappropriate for minors."

As for PEN.org, I do not trust their honesty, point blank. They have every incentive to be dishonest or to define the issue as narrowly as possible. I might as well quote Exxon about the harms of CO2.
that's not the case The Atlantic was making though, they were specifically pointing to technology's impact on attention span rather than language
The proper solution is to put a sticker with the new "use by" date on top of the old one when it expires, like they do in my country. Keeps food waste and prices to a minimum. Of course, you will end up in a hospital now and again, but the last time that happened to me was ten years ago, which is a worthwhile tradeoff to keep grocery store owners happy and the government service (which is supposed to supervise all this) well greased.
> The additional layer of linguistic distance between them and Shakespeare is comparable to my own struggles through Chaucer in the original Middle English

I guess I don't talk to enough high school kids but is this really actually true? There has been ~200 years of linguistic evolution between when this teacher went to school and now? English has changed as significantly as it did between

"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote"

and

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Wasn't the theory that recorded media would decrease the rate of core linguistic evolution? There has always been slang, but I would call this a total false equivalence.
Don’t think so. Push notification flows like this fall into the “something you have” category (which you still do when using mirroring) and additionally when done properly, they require biometrics verification to respond to the “tap yes”.
> cow to

An apparent conflation of "cow", v.t.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cow

with "kowtow":

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kowtow

The author herself exemplifies modern academia's reduced standard of literacy.
We took out tons of infrastructure in Iraq during shock and awe. Utilities were on the target list. We were about to occupy it. That was incredibly stupid. The infrastructure itself was not collateral damage, it was targeted. We have no occupation plan, it was that stupid. The destruction resulted in millions of extra deaths due to the impoverishment and destruction of Iraqi society. Yes, we bear responsibility for all those deaths. You break it, you own it. That's war.
But pay attention to recalls.
I think this is the big point that we, as a society, are missing.

Take a look at Walmart greeters. Why does that job exist? It's pretty much worthless. Now look at who works the job: elderly people past retirement age, physically disabled people, mentally disabled people.

Physical laborers often work a physical labor job for a reason. There's a reason they didn't go to college and sit at a comfy desk writing shitty websites.

It's not as simple as "oh those people can just work another job!" Extrapolate this out. Say we eliminate all physical jobs; how many millions of people will be left behind? What happens to them? Do they die?
Cannabidiol-associated hepatotoxicity: A systematic review and meta-analysis
> No amount of better regulations or technology can prevent fucking morons going on power trips screwing everything up and then get away with it.

I mean. If the story is true (which I have my doubts about). Then the simple change required would have been to make it clear that TEPCO has the sole authority to decide to scuttle the reactors. The politicians could have been morons going on a power trip all they wanted, and the reactors would have been safely scuttled.

If you are a firefighter you wouldn't ask the government if you should pump gasoline or water on a fire. Why did the people managing the nuclear reactors gave the government an opportunity to choose wrong? (Or rather, why was the system set up such that it was not already clearly defined under which technical circumstances the reactor must be be scuttled.)
So, no citation.

Got it.
I guess if it's not metaphysics then it's physics.
Nowhere in the Atlantic article does it mention students being asked to read all of Les Miserables, either in high school or college. I think the OP brought it up as a strawman because it is notoriously digressive, and has few fans these days. The books actually mentioned in the Atlantic article include My Antonia, Great Expectations, The Illiad, the Odyssey, Moby-Dick, Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice.
Yeah, when we make generalizations like that we have to assume rational actors in the same earning bracket. I was also describing people outside the US where people are a bit less willing to buy the new thing every year if they can't afford it. Ukraine before the war, for example, had a massive economic crash and no one could afford to repair their computers anymore which put most repair shops out of business.
They also included WiFi in every model and iOS had transparent prioritization of WiFi over cellular. Apple's deal with Cingular (AT&T) also gave the iPhone plan unlimited data.

That meant the iPhone had a full fledged browser that you could actually use. The browsers on PalmOS and Windows Mobile were jokes compared to Safari and most devices didn't have WiFi so we're always stuck on relatively slow cellular. A lot of smartphone plans also didn't include unlimited data. The BlackBerry plans were equally terrible, tied to BBM accounts, and the browsers were even worse.

The iPhone also had a real e-Mail client that could connect directly to a POP/IMAP server. A lot of competing smartphones only supported e-Mail through gateways run by the carriers or an enterprise connection. Even lacking features early on like BCC early iOS Mail was a lot better than the competition for normal users.

I think these all come down to Apple approaching the iPhone from asking what normal people might want to do with their phones instead of what "corporate" wanted people to do with their smartphones. This was 180° from the design approach of RIM, Microsoft, Palm, and even Nokia.
Sure, but who defines "remote"? We've explored a small percentage of the ocean [1] and most of the places we have explored we've been surprised to find life. In fact NOAA estimates that 91% of species in the ocean have yet to be classified [2]. We'd be dumping what is basically a forever chemical into places that we don't understand.

If we can't responsibly keep track of the waste we're producing then we shouldn't produce it. I'm pro-nuclear, and I think we can do it, but we need to be the kind of civilization that can plan beyond the next quarter first.

[1] https://oceanliteracy.unesco.org/ocean-exploration/, https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html

[2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-species.html
This is true for me. I have a personal desktop, but for mobility (laptop) my work issued MacBook M1 Pro is the only thing I have. There's no reason at all to purchase a personal laptop since my company is fully remote and they purchased the laptop from apple and had it directly sent to me, and have never required me to install any kind of monitoring software or control software on it at all.
> So when I ask them to code switch further into the recesses of linguistic history to read Shakespeare, the struggle is real.

Reading difficult texts is how you get better at reading?? If students are not struggling at all they are not learning. But the author seems more interested in validating students identities or whatever than actually helping them learn.
The physics prize has historically taken the role of both "innovation/engineering" topics and "mathematics". It's more broad than simply physics.

The most important factor tends to be the positive impact on society, as that's one of the price's core tenets.
https://archive.ph/oushl
> I offer up their penchant for policing soon to be published YA fiction and whether it adheres to the prevailing orthodoxy.

Sorry what does this mean?
I'm not sure the author actually disagrees with the point of the Atlantic article. She just takes it for granted that her students struggle to read things outside their native vernacular, can't do a close reading of anything longer than a short story, and refuse to read things that they don't find relevant to their personal lives. I'm glad that she's found a way to get her students reading the Odyssey anyway, but that's a bad set of constraints to be working with and it's unsurprising if other teachers have been less successful.
The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble
Somehow I think the magazine wants to make this more about Musk than the holes themselves. That's why the magazine puts his name first in the headline.
> The argument is that once you stop doing that, it’s over.

My issue is that this statement is wrong, though. All the greenhouse gas from coal that was burned in the past, and all the coal we're still burning, will still be around and is still going to slowly bake the planet we live on for the next millenia [1].

Effectively, coal emissions are only considered this way because, after we stop producing, we stop seeing the smokestacks and we forget that the byproducts are still there. This is also true for most other pollution sources: industrial sites with heavy metal pollution don't magically clean themselves when the factory closes. WW1 battle areas are still deeply polluted and some are still unfit for agriculture. "Eternal" chemicals are never going back to the oil well. And, for us technologists, ewaste does not magically disappear [2].

It's really maddening that some people develop an acute perception that radioactive waste is "forever", but somehow fail to understand that the same is true for a very large part of the waste we create now, for which nature hasn't (over millions of years) evolved organisms able to eat them.

[1]: https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765334
It's a chapter from here: Rumelhart, D. E., McClelland, J. L., & the PDP research group. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition. Volume I. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
You can never win a war against an ideology.
Your defense has no merit to their actions -=-> "Well yeah; they're a software company."

You are giving them a free pass.
> There will always be slang, but without a “lingua Franca,” you’re not going to make the connection between 1776 and 2024.

It’s this very connection that is at question, however. There is an explicit ideological agenda explicitly focused on severing this connection. The types of people who complain that classic literature was written by “old white men” have never been coy about it.
Some days I feel the biggest failure of the web is how (script lang="whatever") does not work.

Yes I know the obvious problem with that, it would probably require changing our fundamental understanding of how a web browser works, I suspect the webbrowser would need to be at it's core an application specific vm designed around untrusted input. that is strict limits on cpu time, gated device access, etc. then the dom generator, languages and rendering engine would be implemented in this asvm.

The secondary problem, is this would probably destroy one of the webs greatest assets, everything is in plain text. yes, I know, there are all sorts of hoops you can jump through to obsfucate the text, but that is the thing, the default is shipping the source around. to do otherwise takes effort. A asvm based system would default to shipping compiled binaries around, which would suck.

But fundamentally changing the web is a boil the ocean type problem, never going to happen, we are stuck with our current web, much of it good, and much of it bad.
> Horowitch takes aim at smartphones and social media, a constant classroom annoyance to be sure, but old news, at least among high school educators, who have already read The Anxious Generation, adapted our routines, and moved on.

This is an absurd dismissal.
People got really angry at IT not allowing them personal Apple ID logins in several large companies I've been at :/
Port workers are physical laborers and therefore in our popular culture are perceived as stupid. Humans of lesser value.

This inherent bias exists in all of us, whether we admit it or not. That's why we view knowledge workers getting paid more than they deserve in a MUCH different light than physical laborers getting paid more than they deserve.
There is theory, and then there is practice. A 300lb person will have trouble just "eating less" and "working out", because both of those things put incredible stress on a person's mind and body. Immediately working those lifestyle changes into an obese person's life is not like flicking a light switch, even for the overweight person who looks at themselves in the mirror and cries about how they look, "just eat less" and "just move more" are ideas that are psychologically difficult to put into action.

With GLP-1 medications, it is considerably easier to do the first part of "eating less". An obese person can lose over 20% of their body fat in a year, which will reduce the probability of injury when they begin working out. There is hardly any downside to developing medication to help people manage their weight to below obesity, and incredible upside.

Maybe another example would be: why do you use VSCode to do your programming? Hell, why do you use a computer at all? You should probably do it the hard way, on a sheet of paper... there is no reason to use a keyboard when you could just use your hands, right?

GLP-1 agonists are just tools like anything else. They make difficult tasks easier.
It's a pat saying, but I don't think history bears it out.

The German people after World War I were suffering. Significant reparation burdens had been placed upon them. They were starving and angry. These should have been the "hard times that create strong men," yes?

It created the Nazis and they were defeated militarily. Seems something went off in step 2 there; nobody considers Germany during World War II "Good times."
Shame really. If nothing else these devices weren't tracking location, etc. They also didn't ping you (read: no distractions).

Privacy and focus / attention are now obsolete as well?
This kind of low effort cynicism drives me crazy.

When two cases have different defendants making different arguments, the same plaintiffs making different arguments, and obviously different sets of facts and evidence, yes, those cases can have different outcomes.

Though obviously its quicker to lookup the market cap of the defendants, if you actually want to understand why the outcomes are different, it requires engaging with the evidence and arguments.