skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the line is drawn, brightly, in one place: does the "disabled" person genuinely try to work with others, or do they expect to be given a free pass because they played the disability card?

I have worked with some severely disabled people. (Probably more than you have, given one of my past jobs.) Most of them worked their ass off to make things work out and for that they have my eternal respect, my cooperation, and the benefit of the doubt.

I have also worked with some people who just throw their hands up and say "but I'm disabled" whenever they are asked to do anything they don't want to do. I do not respect those people.
Around the beginning of the micro-dosing trend, I went to Colorado for a String Cheese Incident concert, and met a group of people that follow the band on your and attend multiple shows. Some of these people had been frying acid for 4 days in a row, and doing nothing of consequence.

Using psychedelics to improve anything (except maybe some forms of art) seems to me like when writers would drink to help them write. There's never going to be any rigorous evidence for any benefit.
No, I think you're reading too far into this and trying to present a nonsense scare-story to make this seem like a net-zero accomplishment.

Here's a question for you economics geniuses out there; if McDonalds wasn't interested in serving ice cream to customers then why did they buy machines for thousands of franchises to do that exact thing?

And even if you're correct - the secondhand customers of the machines McDonalds would sell would directly benefit from having parts made available. Selling their machines after the repair process is made cheap is an incoherent line of logic that only tracks if you want people to fear over-regulation.
The actual title of the page is "My journey into FM-RDS" which definitely gives a better summary than what the current HN title says.
I found an extra one not mentioned in the article when I tried abstaining from caffeine last week. Energy slumps mid day, a few headaches, and overall a major reduction in productivity and fun! Maybe unsurprising to most.
Intel's new Fabs in AZ started construction in 2021, before the CHIPS act has passed. It has had a gross profit in the tens of billions yearly and right now has ~$30Bn cash on hand. Not a single penny has yet been given from the CHIPS act to Intel [1]. So no.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-ceo-is-frus...
I can certainly say I'm an example of someone who hasn't bought it because it hasn't been on sale, but 50 dollars for a good game is entirely reasonable anyway and I admit I will probably still buy it one day.
Might be an Australian but at least not an F*ing Australian

~ This Is Serious Mum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/www.tism.wanker.com)
Or the nanoplastics that commercial RO filters appear to create [0]?

[0]https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300582121
Miles driven with assumed legal liability: Waymo 20m, Tesla 0

I don't think Tesla will ever operate a self-driving car with no driver where they are legally liable for crashes.
local politicians still promoting an airport upgrade...something will have to give
I love the CCC website and the fact they host their own videos for a lot of reasons, but for some folks here is the YouTube video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnbFWTNxZI
It's not a matter of truth vs falsity, it's just the fundamental inability of LLMs to separate context from instructions.

The actual case in the post, for example, would require nothing "superhuman" for any other kind of automated tooling to not follow instructions from the web page it just opened.
> Not that I am a politics junkie but I don't recall any incident where a cabinet level officer has made a public presentation urging the public to vote one way or the other. I suspect they are very coached on the hatch act and made to understand that for them the consequences are likely to be severe.

There were some blatant, widely reported violations of the Hatch Act during the Trump administration. Unprosecuted, unless I missed something. I didn't follow this topic too closely either - that administration had ahem an awful lot going on - but people found by the OSC to have violated the Hatch Act included a few cabinet members. (I think how many depends on whether you want to count "acting" cabinet members unconfirmed by congress)

Bigger picture, I'm not sure I agree that they got the memo about violations of the Hatch Act having severe consequences. I remember media stories along the lines of "this upcoming scheduled campaign event at the White House would appear to possibly violate the Hatch Act" and the emergence of those stories did not result in a change of behavior. But they were protected in ways a VA Joe Schmoe would not be, and knew it.

https://osc.gov/Documents/Hatch%20Act/Reports/Investigation%...
https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/LC...
https://osc.gov/News/Pages/21-02-Hatch-Act-Report-RNC.aspx
Most of the things you mention are issues with individual units (lemons).
It's a digital model train set.

At least it doesn't take up the whole basement like the sets previous generations played with.
Tesla's system is so fragile it needs a human ready to take over at any second to prevent a crash. Compared to Waymo Tesla FSD is like a kid using training wheels.
Disappointing, but inevitable I suppose. Thank you for the ground truth. I’ll try to make Japan an intentional segment during my next international trip to confirm and report back.
Starting with op-amps sounds like a horrible way of teaching EE.

We started with transistors (BJT and FET) analyzed many types of designs, and only then moved on to op-amps.
I will never understand how Tesla can get away with releasing such a broken product on the market and charging for it.
Are these comments machine generated?
The wise man would examine both poster's history, and other articles from that site before deciding.
Fair. That's a pretty reasonable reason to name it that. I still think it's slightly confusing, but I suppose that the majority of the market for this is probably people who are going to have enough background to know.
I think that's only a challenge at all because of how mass and power limited such a craft would be. The obvious solution is to use lasers.

It might even be possible to use a modulated retroreflector on the craft-- e.g. we fire a high power low divergence beam at the craft and it reflect it back. By modulating the reflection in can send back data with practically no power usage.

The angles accepted by the reflector could be fairly hard and so the difficult pointing problem would only exist on our end.
My personal experience with LSD as a youth was positive, therapeutic, mind opening. However, I saw others abuse it or react negatively, including a close acquaintance jumping out of a moving car while tripping, resulting in his death. Your mileage will vary greatly.
Almost crashing the car IS a gotcha for any vehicle purporting to be autonomous. Especially when Musk seems to be betting Tesla on it working vastly better than it currently is.
When will the pinephone get new hardware?
> The fatigue over American politics is real and this election cycle isn't offering unique or novel viewpoints from fresh candidates.

The fatigue is real and it feels like campaigns begin as soon as the previous ones end. Like one continuous war. It also feels like the rest of life is somehow minimized by this. Energy goes to the political stuff and it becomes a part of people’s identity, instead of being something on the side. Not sure how to describe it accurately or how we escape that. Is it just an addiction?
She was aware but the talk is a walk through how easy hacking is. Not giving up and being interested enough to find out more. Really recommend the talk and her blog.
How much does scattering from dust between the planets hurt the contrast by making it hard to reject the sun's light?
I can see no path of how Tesla's current L2 system can become a L4 system as capable as Waymo.
Taking actions which kill it faster isn't a good plan.
I think their opinion is along the lines of “no one is ‘inflicted’ by ADHD, and there is also no permanent cure for it, because the disorder can simply be redefined as being those who are in the lowest quartile or even the lowest 10% of X, Y, Z cognitive metrics.”

Imagine there were a pill that could boost your IQ score by 25% but in order to receive a prescription you need to have an IQ in the lowest quartile. Such a pill could also help already smart people simply become smarter.

Thats the main contention: there are two groups: (a) people who actually experience debilitating symptoms that significantly impact their life requiring medication, and (b) people who are simply looking for an edge by using medication, perhaps even convinced to do so by ads on TikTok or Instagram under the guise if ADHD.

Edit: The IQ score medication analogy is only meant to be illustrative. I don’t mean to imply that IQ and ADHD are somehow connected.
Thanks to another prevalent symptom of ADHD - emotional disregulation - I very well could have overreacted. In my defense, the "It's not a real thing" and "you're just lazy" really get old after the 100th time hearing them this week.

Control over concentration is only one symptom of ADHD, and there are discernible differences that make ADHD brains look different in CT and MRI scans. So it's a bit closer to binary than "everyone in the world is somewhere on the ADHD spectrum".

Plus, the final word in the ADHD acronym is "Disorder" - so if it's not impairing your ability to live and participate in society, by definition you don't have ADHD.
If we go full CONAPIRACY: With your browsing history and enough data one can find people who are so much like you that they might do things regularly that you dont even know you are capable of. Your friends relatives and coworkers are also profiled by your data.

More realistic: you wont know by what creapy process they chose to show you an advertisement. We cant imagine it.
> In fact during my flight training my experience with simulators imparted a few low-level bad habits I had to work through when it came to operating the controls.

When I first started flying my instructor specifically recommended against flight sims for that very reason.

Now that I have my PPL I only use them to practice approaches for new airports that I’ve never visited before and to familiarize myself with the cockpit layout for planes I haven’t flown before. It helps build some minor muscle memory so I can focus on the harder parts of flying.
This is nowhere near a Hatch act violation. First off the Hatch Act doesn't apply to uniformed personnel. What does apply is https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/do... and I just don't see a lecture by a historian, even if it seems to touch on relevant material to the election as falling within it. And that's the case even if someone asks a question and later the conversation becomes more partisan. The traditions of academic freedom would say that speakers aren't identified with the Constitution.

Should we prohibit the Latinists at West Point from talking about Cataline? It just isn't the case that every possible statement is prohibited even if it weighs in on matters that some candidates have spoken about.
Not even Microsoft related?
"Nuclear power is a very emotional topic in Germany"

That is very unfortunate because it is the only real long-term solution to prevent climate change and maintain our current standard of living.
Vultures are circling and with Intel trading at below the value of it's assets there's been an onslaught of articles suggesting that it would be best to cut up the company.

This would doom American leading edge fabrication and Intel as a whole.

Intel split apart will not survive. The fabs do not have customers with volume required to survive. They need Intel Design to be using them. With the Arrow Lake launch we're seeing that Intel Design, even with the latest TSMC node is behind AMD in performance. Raptor Lake, for all it's unfortunate voltage spike woes, was able to be very close to AMD when it came to performance in spite of being several nodes behind. This spoke to how well optimized Intel's designs were as an IDM for their own fabs. It's also why in spite of 18A being a very promising node has failed to pull many clients away from the TSMC ecosystem. Small advantages were built up over years which turned into larger ones.
In the future, everything will block you unless you're on a residential IP address in a Western country, running Chrome on the latest version of Windows or iOS, you have remote attestation, and your ISP's ASN isn't haunted because someone in your neighborhood had downloaded malware a few years ago
> relatively minor disability

“Research shows that adults with ADHD are 5 times more likely to attempt suicide. 1 in 4 women with ADHD have made attempts on their life, while men are more likely to end their life. Accidental death is also common.”

http://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/media/109514702/suicid...
If you like Factorio give Shapez 2 a try. I lost a week to it recently. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2162800/shapez_2/
I don't think "percent of EV sales" is a meaningful metric. We should want more EV brands! Tesla allows others to use their patents and chargers specifically because they want more EV brands to exist as well!

Percent of total auto sales is a far better metric.
The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity
I don't officially "have ADHD" but I have related things that often come with "ADHD-like symptoms" which as I've gotten older seem to either get worse or just come to the forefront more. So I open this article looking for something and... man, it is really shocking and bizarre to see basically my entire life-success strategy independently written down by someone else.

Some are worthy of specific comment:

> These suggestions assume that the primary challenge is knowing what to do rather than the neurological capacity to consistently execute such systems.

YES YES YES YES YES. I am utterly sick of being told to make a to-do list (thanks, therapist, last Monday). I have a list. I have a half-dozen discarded lists. Lists are not the problem. Someday I will find the solution?

> Be exceptionally helpful when you can, so people are more forgiving when you drop administrative balls

It's kind of hilarious to see this written down, because usually when people seek me out for help (or I go to them to help)... it's something novel or at least a change of pace for me... so it automatically activates the novelty circuits in my brain and I get really into helping out anyway. Brains are weird.

> Being explicitly upfront about your administrative weaknesses early in relationships

This one caught some flak upthread but for me it is as simple as saying "hey, I'm not always great about responding to pings, if it's important just ping me twice and that usually works" (which, for me, it does). Saying that kind of little thing explicitly can go a long way.

> it's like trying to teach advanced machine learning to someone with an IQ of 100.

Everyone already agrees this is ridiculous, but I have to say it too: this is ridiculous.
Ah gotcha, that makes sense, thank you. Pretty wild that just a few parameters can uniquely identify individuals. That’s crazy.
What kind of disabilities? Visible (missing or non-functional limbs) or invisible (chronic pain, adhd, depression) ones?

More specifically, how do you know whether they could or couldn't do the things you were asking them to do, especially if it was an invisible disability?

Doing it before isn't a good indicator.

Other people with the same disability doing it isn't a good indicator.

Not visibly trying isn't a good indicator.

Having a blowout (or not) isn't a good indicator.

Being too tired (or too wired) isn't a good indicator.
My keychain has one key. On a driving day I clip on a car key. Simplicity always wins.
From the guidelines: "don't be snarky".

I disagree strongly with the grandparent comment, but this is about as useful as commenting
"Congratulations on getting your Doctorate of Sacred Theology. Glad you've single handedly debunked a millenium of study with your belief" would be when I comment that I'm an atheist.
It is NOT censorship when the owner of a company decides what his company will and will not say. It IS censorship when the government squashes a protest again a possibly falsified election and sentences the protestors to decades in prison on trumped up charges.
You can't just rely on LLMs alone. You can combine them with tooling that will supplement the verification of their actions.
I'd also like to draw attention that a lot of this work was sponsored by IMC the market maker, Mihai's employer.
Searched for author, she is with the Heartland Institute.

Second link returned on search for Heartland Institute:

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08082018/heartland-instit...

It appears this article is just some petroleum/plastics industry funded propaganda. The article pretty much screamed total B.S., but always nice to confirm suspicions.

I'll keep my eye out for a future Heartland Institute article on phthalate exposure from plastics and the DNA damage / cancers caused being a good thing! Maybe they will go with a eugenics angle. I wonder how these corporate hacks can sleep at night.
Most people are brainwashed by the rat race. They don't realize that all the productivity is worthless.
Building a $14 Macintosh [video]
Not sure if this is the same idea as the one above, but the ones I’ve heard send the nukes up separately, so that the final launch craft is not impacted by the mass of the nukes. Instead as the craft passes by each nuke, they are detonated, and so it accelerates.
> I have a half-dozen discarded lists. Lists are not the problem. Someday I will find the solution?

I haven't, but I can say that it's not journals. Though they do make pretty stacks when you collect them.
> My Factorio play time is up to 6,573.2 hours at this point.

I habitually translate "X thousands of hours" into "full time employment years".

You've been playing Factorio as the equivalent of a full time job, for 3 years and 3 months.

[Edit: Many of those hours were probably background farming, so not a direct comparison.]
If this had a citation or tldr link, I'd say it should be required reading before posting in this thread.
Yeah, it's one thing to say "the evidence for psychedelics is weak", but if you look at the data for, say, SSRIs, the effect size is generally extremely modest, yet those are multi-billion dollar blockbuster drugs.
All locks ought to work that way.

Some don't, and it pisses me off every time.
You’re right in that the only reason to offline decode the lock is to either create a legitimate key (or DoS your opponent’s wallet by forcing them to re-key the remaining N-1 locks.)

It is left as an exercise to the imagination as to when it an attacker might find advantage in:

t_steal_mailbox +
t_decode_lock +
t_keyed_front_door_entry

being less than:

t_pick_front_door

as well as solving a similar inequality for the probability of being caught in both scenarios.
This is all true. And of course let us remember cholesterol is essential. Many hormones are made from it (cortisol, vitaminD, testosterone, estrogen). Being essential (not intending the meaning of "essential vitamin" which means the body cannot synthsize - as a vitamin it would be non-essential) - but being essential for physiology rather than diet, the body can synthesize cholesterol. So there is this axis of people who have low cholesterol super healthy diets.. and their body just makes lots of cholesterol anyway, so now they have high cholesterol and are taking statin drugs for it, because biology and population variation.

The other thing cholesterol is used to make, also quite nice to have, is bile. Used for fat digestion and such. A lot of bile. From a lot of cholesterol. Seems like a waste though, to excrete all that finely synthesized bodily chemical. BUt aha, the body realizes this and so resorbs it. THus there is a cycle and recycle of cholesterol and bile. Aha! What if we can trick the body to not resorb it and just release it. Such a drug has been developed. Well, hard to call it a drug. There is no fanciness, no elegant molecular binding to an esoteric receptor, no, nothing of the sort. It's called metamucil, and as the name tells us, it mostly works by being a big chonky mucinous blob of very impressively thick goop. The "magic" of how it works is literally the bile gets trapped in the thick goop and excreted. And thus we've bled off some bile from the cholesterol recycling loop, and thus, cholesterol. And that's why this weird blobby old person fiber supplement is cholesterol magic.
The theory ties in with "Morphic resonance", the cool-sounding name of an attempt to rationalise imprints and collective memories among other things.

I don't see the harm in pondering such theories. After all, the fact we're here and living in the universe at all, means there's a whole bunch of things happening behind the scenes we have no idea about. Perhaps one day, "ghost imprints" will be something science can measure. Or other pseudo-science like telepathy or premonitions, may move into actual science with as yet unknown discoveries. I'm not saying will, but they may.
Thanks for sharing your journey, it's very inspiring. I'm curious, how did you find your first enterprise clients, and what strategies helped you secure long-term projects? Any advice for building that initial trust as a solo consultant?
>> If you knew this ahead of time then what value did it provide you?

I think I should have clarified that the responses were accurate when we bench-marked them against RAG applications built on other LLMs. If the results had been poor or below a set threshold, the RAG application built on Gemini Pro would have been shelved.

>> Put another way, once the counter party realizes that you've pushed this responsibility onto an LLM, aren't you worried that they could take advantage of this fact to produce intentionally misleading query results?

This is an excellent point but inapplicable in our use case as this was only meant for internal users, who otherwise would be opening word and PDF documents and searching through them or relying on their own memory.
I feel the same way when twist-ties on bread from the store are twisted the “wrong” way (for the 90% of people who are right-handed)
The only good thing about the CyberTruck is the steer-by-wire system. It makes steering suck in all other cars. But every other aspect of the thing is a complete failure. Selling a car with such terrible terrible visibility should not be legal.
World of Warcrafts $90 Mount Is So Popular the Auction House Sells Out of Tokens
If AI agents take off, we might see a new rise of scam ads. Instead of being made to trick humans and thus easily reportable, they'll be made to trick specific AI agents with gibberish adversarial language that was discovered through trial and effort to get the AI to click and follow instructions. And ad networks will refuse to take them down because, for a human moderator, there's nothing obviously malicious going on. Or at least they'll refuse until the parent company launches their own AI agent service and these ads become an issue for them as well
Can someone with a IQ of 100 (whatever that means) understand and implement stochastic gradient descent?

Maybe - but very possibly not.
Fun cheese fact: the Fibroscan tool that checks for liver cirrhosis/fibrosis non invasively came out of a tool designed to assess elasticity of cheese wheels like the ones in the article!

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/rethinking-how-we-detect...