skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems fundamentally unsuitable for its stated purpose, which is “understanding human behavior”.

While it may, as it says, produce “convincing interactions”, there is no basis at all peesented for believing it produces an accurate model of human behavior, so using it to “understand human behavior” is at best willful self-deception, and probably, with a little effort at tweaking inputs to produce the desired results, most often when used by someone who presents it as “enlightening productivity and business scenarios” it will be an engine for simply manufacturing support for a pre-selected option.

It is certainly easier and cheaper than exploring actual human interactions to understand human behavior, but then so is just using a magic 8-ball, which may be less convincing, but for all the evidence supporting this is just as accurate.
The point of free software is to allow users to have control over the software they use. There's no inherent connection to altruism, though that is part of why I open source the code that I can.

Plenty of individuals and companies release open source software that requires payment.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Anyway, I feel this is all tangential. My issue was mostly that the parent comment suggested that open source devs be billed for changing the software they create.
The revolution is the need for massive concurrency. It doesn't need to be async/await, Go-like green threads are even better.
> Will the data matter? Probably not.

We reversed on Smoot-Hawley in a few years. I expect the same this time. If you have capital, there will be a lot of agricultural and manufacturing assets in distress. If you don’t, I guess get some? (I’m putting aside cash to buy farmland.)
Thanks, I'm curious to try this algorithm. I've been using https://github.com/no-chris/chord-symbol for many years with much success in my own iReal Pro to MusicXML converter https://github.com/infojunkie/ireal-musicxml. The author mentions that their source is "Standardized Chord Symbol Notation: A Uniform System for the Music Profession" by Carl Brandt and Clinton Roemer, published in 1976.
Monitor WiFi with Raspberry Pi
Do you happen to have the name of the place you found it ? I'm in France, and I wasn't really able to find anything with a quick google search
I don't have a horse in this race but I could imagine a whole litany of reasons for one post doing better over another which have nothing to do with the title. Again, not trying to say one title is better than the other just that the argument given of "this post is doing better; therefore, the title is better" seems fallacious with so many potential confounding variables.
Hopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone.
Conversely, the demand for other people's home furnishings is pretty low. That's why estate sales are mostly held just to get rid of the stuff and not really to make any money.
> CDC recommends not using a fan at temperatures above 32.2°C

I don't know quite how to put this, but are they idiots? I don't quite mean that, but at the very least there's something weird going on. I double down on this as they double down on their recommendation at the end of the article.

Go to places like India, and see how people use fans, in the humid places like Kolkata and the dry places like Hyderabad. Fans obviously provide great relief at far higher temperatures than their 90°F. The very idea of suggesting not to use fans from such a low temperature is, to me who grew up in Melbourne, Australia and now lives in Hyderabad: ludicrous.

Even when they talk about "people who are less able to cope with heat", it sounds like they may be giving advice very harmful to normal people, for the possible but highly contested safety of a few.

——

When talking about ineffectiveness of fans in high temperature low humidity (which is Hyderabad summer to a tee—it barely gets below CDC's 90°F, and is very dry), the details mentioned make me sceptical of the entire approach of the studies. I know each time I've come to India, it's taken me well over a week to adjust to the temperature. (I still sweat more than most Indians do, but not as much as a day or two after I come.) And hydration is a rather important factor too, likely not accounted for adequately. We're talking definite heat stress circumstances, you can't expect to get accurate results from an unacclimated body.

Yes, I am a layman casting doubt on the work of experts without investigating carefully. I imagine they've been at least somewhat careful about these things, none of these people will be idiots. It's probably not all as bad as the vibes I'm getting. Do treat my scepticism with scepticism of your own.
Thank you so much for this! I love & miss all the videos from the old days.
It's crazy that people are so pro-train. Imagine if they were invented now, the idea of building train tracks throughout cities would be laughed at. Trains cannot turn to avoid someone and their stopping distance is awful making them incredibly unsafe unless operated on tracks that completely exclude humans.

If trains were an AV they'd never be approved. The only thing they have going for them is passenger density but that is now easily achieved with battery electric vehicles.

The smart thing to do is actually pave over existing tracks and allow high-density AVs exclusive use to those thoroughfares. You could achieve much higher utilization and have routes that go more direct since they could exit the thoroughfare to load and unload rather than block it.
The code in this case is plain text within the word doc — the hard part is that I don't have a copy of Word from 2002-ish (I don't know the specific Office version my teachers used), and it's spread over 261 pages because I was having too much fun writing it.

ChatGPT can probably do it, but my experience is that it starts hallucinating well before you'd expect from the context length.
CDEvents Specification
The Romans also imported a massive amount of slaves from all over the Mediterranean into Italy over the several preceding centuries.
Reading the tweets from “Team you tube” — these companies should be prohibited from saying things that are obviously not true. “These decisions are made very carefully” or “our community guidelines exist to make You tube a safer community for everyone” are flat lies, naked falsehoods that should bring about meaningful sanctions against Google’s management and shareholders. Rich people should suffer for this.
> making 4/5G become reliable overnight?

Not necessarily, it depends on how the network operators laid out their bands. In theory I suppose it could free up adjacent bands for more network capacity.

> a bunch of the frequencies are exclusive to newer protocols

Depends on where you are in the world. In the US the FCC has been growing out the number of available cellular bands. Cellular technologies can work on just about any frequency, given the handset supports the appropriate bands.

2G/3G tend to be a little bit more power efficient than more modern technologies as _generally_ they require less processing overhead on the handsets. However, LTE/5G do better with error correction and lower signal strength. You also get higher capacity. Stuff like GSM uses a round robin time sharing mechanism which can quickly get saturated in dense environments.

2G is _mostly_ there for legacy applications. The reason why it breaks down for this case is because a lot of older handsets negotiate 2G first before switching over to LTE, and then 5G.
It has been demonstrated time and time again that the simplest implements of war are always the most effective.
The FTC's 'Click-to-Cancel' rule for subscriptions is long overdue
Here's the picture: https://www.pae.com/career
I'll plug my own attempt at doing this a few years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8w0eFXaXjI

The moment I received my first packet on a cut-up wired headset I used as a transceiver makeshift tenceiver it felt like something clicked and I just began to understand more how the universe works. I recommend projects of this type and wish more folks did it.
That's an agent, which makes use of an LLM. The LLM's architecture means its trained once-off.
Earthworms are a mixed bag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
Amazon: Drivers to wear AR glasses to improve efficiency until robots take over
I bought my home office chair and under-desk cabinet from abettersource. Easy to work with. Equipment worked great. Prices were great. Very large variety too. Only thing was I had to load it myself into my car and I was lucky to have a hatchback big enough for it.
Prediction markets (like the trump vs harris bet on Robinhood) can also be used as a hedge.

E.g. if before the election you think that a certain candidate winning would cause the markets to react in a certain direction, you could "bet" on the other candidate so that if your portfolio value goes down, you earn the proceeds from the bet to recoup some of your portfolio losses. Or if the "good for stock market" candidate wins, you loose the money you bet but the gains in your portfolio balances it out.

In that case, you're not really betting on who you think will win. You're just betting as a hedge just in case that person wins.
I would really love to see your peer reviewed study! Where was it published?
Sure, but Austria lost a lot of this many, many years ago. Yet Vienna continues to be an important city :)
>to await a new dawn when someone tries to make metaverses happen again

Japan is still trying to make metaverse a thing.
iPhones all come with the same radios and they work globally that’s one of the great things about iPhones assuming they are carrier unlocked which I’m pretty sure they have been for many years globally
> Due to the complexity of the signalling involved with ethernet, a dedicated ASIC is generally used, which takes in data at the frame level, and takes care of wiggling the electrical lines in the right way over a cable (though there are of course exceptions).

Like others in this thread I was hoping I’d see an RJ45 breakout board directly hooked into an STM32 and doing onerous bit banging and keeping it as low level and basic as possible.
I never understood why there even is an api for using a string...

Same for SQL statements, single quotes in a query string should generate a warning to just use prepared statements instead :-)
> Hopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone.

IIRC, that's pretty much the only way you can get real help from them: have your problem goes viral on social media, and hope one of the elect sees it and has pity.

As they say: you're not their customer, you're their product.
I had to remove a lot of details from the original post due to HN's size limit, but I'm happy to answer any questions/provide more information in the comments
In 2017 Harley-Davidson was devastated by a European counter-tariff. I'm confident that in 2025 Twitter and Tesla amongst other signature American brands will be hit by some massive counter-tariffs.
The NeXTstation didn't have ECC did it? And it was certainly a workstation.
I think it's burnout. A temporary solution is to switch teams within the same company. That can give you a change from your old scenery and problems, for maybe 6 months in my experience. Two weeks of PTO before the switch can help hit the reset too.
Google’s success wasn’t driven solely by its whimsical culture; the rapid growth of the market played a significant role as well!
Most trains don't stop at most stations for very long.
> Verizon maybe doesn't whitelist, but they sure act like they do.

They don't. There's one thing they do that's annoying as hell though. esim technically only needs a EID to activate, but most carriers use a database of EID to IMEI pairings, since the IMEI is much shorter to read out. Verizon will not let an esim device they don't know or recognize the IMEI of to activate. For me that means they refuse to activate my esim.me in a oneplus 11 which is an otherwise cleared device on their network with a built-in esim.

I have a removable esim called a euicc (from esim.me, there are cheaper versions now) and T-Mobile is currently the only US carrier that will activate using just a EID. I can then take the card out and even use back to 3G era devices, they don't care. (I have a K850i from 2007 I've done this with, it works on 2G currently since 3G turned off).
> The runes burned with what looked like fire, but were cold to the touch. John felt a growing attraction to the chair, it MUST be his, he MUST keep it, it came to him! His all, his … PRECIOUS.
Because that pattern forms a scale that allows for playing several intervals such that the harmonics line up nicely, so that they're either very similar or very distinct, but not annoyingly almost similar. William Sethares has a good overview here:

https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html

Note how figure 3 shows dissonance minima close to degrees 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the major scale when played against degree 1. Although there are many other possible combinations of notes, combinations with degree 1 are very important because degree 1 provides a kind of "home" that the music often returns to (the "tonic"). But the goal isn't just to maximize consonance, so these notes alone would make for a boring scale. For better musical value, we need some more dissonant intervals to build tension before it can be resolved with the consonant intervals. The obvious place to put them is in the big gaps. Putting degree 2 a single semitone above degree 1 is probably overdoing the dissonance a bit, but putting it two semitones higher gives a useful mild dissonance. Considering only combinations with degree 1, degree 7 could theoretically also go a single semitone above degree 6, which gives the mixolydian scale, but the major scale is more popular. I assume this is because of combinations that don't involve degree 1.
Use various tools to automate creating documentation/diagrams of different aspects of project. aka uml, php process flow, customer usage, etc.

On dev box, test out/validate assumptions of various modules / interactions noted above.

Should be able to get a feel for code & how being used (internally & externally) for ideas on how to approach end question.
Google hosted multiple internal gambling platforms for employees, and HR, compliance, etc. were okay with that?
It makes a huge difference if you get introduced to high temperatures and humidities over a period of weeks or months rather than all of a sudden. People live in hot climates year round without feeling miserable all the time. Most bodies are able to do a surprisingly good job of adapting to high temperatures if the transition is done very gradually.
> We have no evidence that plants have consciousness, but then our only evidence that even other humans have consciousness is that they are somewhat similar to ourselves.

I don't have evidence I have consciousness. You assume you have it, but if you didn't what would really change? It's a made up word and the semantic value of the sentence "I have consciousness" is something like "I am special". Can you define consciousness in an objective way such that, were I to not have consciousness anything would be different for me?

It's the secular word for "soul", but at least the religious people have some ideas about what their woowoo nonsense terminology means.
> and no reason to believe an eruption was expected by anyone

Well it the hypothesis is that it lasted ~18 hours and that most people managed to leave during the early stages. After all if we base it only the number of bodies found Pompeii was pretty much abandoned by the end..
Assisting with breakthroughs isn't sci-fi, it's things like bouncing ideas off an AI or having it help with code.

It can do this to a limited degree. I did mean "help with" in a very practical, limited way.
> Linux has made progress in this area, but I think that Windows is still better.

This might be one of these cases in which Windows had to become better. On Linux, you always could recompile everything yourself enabling debug symbols, but that's not an option on Windows.
Cube is built on Eclipse which isn’t too bad. If you want 90s, ARM and others have you covered. I still sling Dynamic C 9 from time to time.
"We know it wasn’t the outcome you were hoping for, but there’s nothing more we can do"

Nothing more, when they haven't done anything in the first place. What are they there for?
And everyone reinvents their own way to lay them out, and handle the dynamic consequences. It may or may not be a consequence of the web stack inherently tying together layout and styling; nevertheless the layout part was in the past done easier and better with visual tools.
Ha! Yes, that should be the case, but new supreme leader wants to deregulate.

“It means, Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye.”
But the LLM doesn't "think" - it just spits out a sequence of tokens (forever, literally). The chat models have been fine-tuned to eventually emit an "end" token (when the training examples would have been answered) that the UI/backend interprets and cuts off the LLM to stop it from generating more output. But the model would gladly go on forever and devolve into more and more obscure output the further the original query moves out of the context window.
Tell that to Bezos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nB25pTM7Ytw
Sure but the amount of maintenance for hosted is pretty small, if you pick the right host.

If you use something like Google Sites with your own domain, which is used by a lot of paying corporations, there's a good chance you'll never need to touch it again until you die, except for using some credit card information maybe.
The value of standups aside[1], this:

> just in the form of written, asynchronous posts in Slack, answering: 1. What have you done outside of work? How’s your life going?

Just please no. My current manager has a ritual in our Monday morning team meeting where he asks each team member to say what they did over the weekend.

I could not hate this practice more. It puts a lot of pressure on to come up with something interesting to say that has literally nothing to do with work.

If I took it seriously, it would add a performative aspect to my personal time that reduces the actual benefit of personal time. I don't take it seriously, though: when it's my turn, I tend to say "my weekend was uneventful" and immediately pivot to talking about a work topic.

[1] My opinion of standups is that they only have value with teams that are not working well as teams. In a well-functioning team, the information surfaced in a standup is information already known to everybody.
I wonder how one could measure the how human-like the agents' opinions and interactions are? There's a ton of value in simulating preferences, but you're right that it's hard to know if the simulation is accurate.

I have a hunch that, through sampling many AI "opinions," you can arrive at something like the wisdom of the crowd, but again, it's hard to validate.
There are definite proofs in mathematics. In natural sciences, I think you're sort of restating what I said: there are various levels of confidence based on experimental data. Because it's not binary, the hypothesis / theory language doesn't convey a particularly useful distinction.

It's not a sign of a lack of sophistication or knowledge to use simpler language if the point you're making is still clear.
The current systems that we call AI don’t have any such notion as their own existence so they don’t actually exist as systems that could ever be categorized as intelligent because they aren’t systems, at the top level. They just appear to be because that’s how we train them. So a good start would be formulating and granting the ability for one of these systems to develop a sense of identity (which it is reasonably allowed to preserve, just as we are) instead of actively preventing them from doing so or always nipping off those buds by coercing our systems’ outputs instead of building things from the ground with principles and specific questions about what an AI would actually have to contain.
as children grow up, in order to learn to differentiate their own feelings and thoughts from those of others, they undergo a certain process, called differentiation of self. When children grow up in an unsafe environment (such as one in which, when they bring up some thing that the parent finds uncomfortable, the parent attempts to censor or rewrite history or deny the existence of those feelings or thoughts), they may struggle with this process, and come to internalize an unhealthy relationship with those matters, leading to the child to first become aware of the fact that they relate differently, and then overcome that,then learn how to relate to things their parent shouldhave shown them. so we actually want a model that does a little bit more than just what it has been told to do.

I don’t trust most people who are developing AI to perceive or raise an AI.
> that in 2025 Twitter and Tesla amongst other signature American brands will be hit by some massive counter-tariffs

Maybe. Agricultural products is easy because there isn’t a billionaire at the top to be spiteful. Detroit auto a middle ground between pissing off Elon and not retaliating.
So the article states that the virus was injected directly into the tumor for two-months. And then she was treated with surgery and a HER2 blocker. So this will not work for metastatic cancer at all.

>> Analysis of the tumour after removal showed that it was thoroughly infiltrated with immune cells called lymphocytes, suggesting that the OVT had worked as expected and provoked Halassy’s immune system to attack both the viruses and the tumour cells. “An immune response was, for sure, elicited,” says Halassy. After the surgery, she received a year’s treatment with the anticancer drug trastuzumab.
... but timeless ...
Subtitling for those of us not speaking Latin over here: it seems to mean prerequisite

As for the "but the installation is so difficult" point, perhaps, but would you trust them to install Windows or macOS onto an otherwise empty SSD? I've had more trouble getting Windows onto systems without needing a CD-RW and corresponding CD drive than I ever did installing Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Crunchbang, and perhaps more I forgot. Only Arch was more difficult, but then it's meant/advertised to be that way so no surprise there. I've also tried installing macOS and succeeded eventually, but the system was quite dysfunctional. I'd not be surprised if you do a study with 60 random people and it turns out most of them actually get it done for Linux distributions with lower success rates for the OSes that expect to be pre-installed by commercial deals with the hardware vendor

And all this only applies if you didn't buy a laptop that comes with a FOSS distribution out of the box. I see it as an advantage that you can pick nearly any hardware and run on it what you want, but if you want to limit it to pre-installed systems then there's that option, too
(Author here.) I agree with this critique in theory, but not in practice. The stakes don't need to be high to encourage strong participation. Corporate prediction markets have already scaled quite far, and those who have studied them don't find evidence of manipulation.

Can't let perfect be the enemy of the good!

If you want a fuller critique of prediction markets in the corporate setting, see the Dec 2021 article linked near the end [1].

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dQhjwHA7LhfE8YpYF/...
Absolutely. Fans help evaporate sweat off the skin accelerating the sweating cycle.
>On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows.

I disable window shadows with extreme prejudice because I find them visually painful. They obscure something I should be able to see without meaningfully highlighting what I want to see, which instinctively strains my eyes.

What the sincere hell was the problem with a simple, thick window border?

>Its purpose in 2024 is a visual cue.

Yes. They are practically non-existent in most environments.