skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno that I'd agree with that either (for this specific type of example at least).

An adult wanting to find "how many hours are in 3.228 years?" when some task is looking for the answer aligns a bit with what you're saying. In this kind of scenario it has nothing with the adult not understanding how to do the conversion and everything to do with what the most accurate way to quickly complete the conversion itself is. I.e. the task is "produce an answer so we can use it". Whether that be done via calculator, spreadsheet, timespan conversion tool, or LLM (though the latter can be a bit of a poor choice for this type of task to be honest) the use of the tool is about best achieving the original goal accurately and quickly, not about sidestepping it.

A student wanting to find "how many hours are there in 1 day and 7 hours" on their homework aligns very differently in my opinion. In this kind of scenario the goal was that the student become more educated on time conversions by practicing them. The actual answer provided is just a way to be able to provide feedback on how accurately that learning process went. Learning these kinds of basic things through experience allows them to tackle learning ever more complex things as they advance through their education. Faking gaining that education by using a tool to get an answer to write down isn't just the lazier way to do the conversion, it does leave them without the education the task was actually about.

Not only that, learning to do such basic timespan conversions is going to be the lazy way for such tasks over anything but the briefest timespan anyways!

If LLMs were being used as part of the learning process instead of a replacement of the learning process I'd hold different opinions of the post. I think tools (be it calculators or LLMs) can be extremely powerful learning aids... but extremely weak ones when used as learning replacements.
Did you read this section of the paper?

> Our study has several limitations. First, its retrospective design meant we were unable to measure patient satisfaction and quality-of-life outcomes. Complications and any mention of regret were obtained from provider notes, which may be variable, and thus both may be under-reported. In addition, although an integrated health care system allows for continuity of care, some members may have transferred care or changed their insurance status and thus, subsequent complications, or reversal operations, would not have been captured. Next, our study was conducted at KPNC in an insured cohort of individuals with access to gender-affirming medical and surgical care. Therefore, our outcomes may not be representative of the general population, many of whom lack similar access to care. Finally, the time to develop postoperative regret and/or dissatisfaction remains unknown and may be difficult to discern.

You state that "the followups are into post-teenage years and most are very satisfied", but the authors were very explicit about not being able to determine this due to the study design.

The authors also report that:

> The median age at the time of referral was 16 years (IQR=2) and ranged from 12-17 years. Patients had a median post-operative follow-up length of 2.1 years (IQR 1.69).

Which implies that for many patients, the follow-up would have been within their teenage years.
There's still a per-ride citywide congestion fee baked into each Uber fare. So overall there are still more overall congestion taxes paid by the taxi/uber in your scenario.
>America is a rich country, but the majority of middle-class Americans are poorer than people in the Southeast Asian backwater I’m from.

I think this is a real case of [citation needed]. Many people will, rightly, point at a myriad of statistics to demonstrate how this can't be true, and that's fine. But, I think we can just use some common sense; what are we talking about? There is no way this is true. Why would even need an immigration policy if this was true? This is just some kind anti-Americanism or anti-capitalism nonsense; that is really the only explanation for such an assertion that I can surmise. I'm also not really sure why working in tech you would be "constant fear of needing healthcare". If that is true then if nothing else the placebo of effect of moving to Europe may have been the best treatment psychologically, certainly cheaper than seeing a therapist.
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Know how many 9 year olds I’ve seen hit in the head with a baseball, while at bat? (Many. One kid on my sons team was hit in the head for four consecutive tournaments last fall.)

Always wear a helmet when you’ve got a bat in your hand.
> America is a rich country, but the majority of middle-class Americans are poorer than people in the Southeast Asian backwater I’m from.

This is such a wonderfully HN statement to make because it's so preposterously wrong, yet the author is so confident it's right.
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Oh, I saw that blog too. It helped me a lot to be inspired.
What I mean by "performance" is that I want to minimize preprocessing, and I want to minimize the amount of computation I can do even when I'm navigating in real time. I'll definitely watch the video you gave me. Thank you!
> The problem with what you said is that it's a statistic lumping all households together. As such it's largely meaningless because it lumps Elon's household with some person living in a trailer park in Montana.

No, because it's a median value, thus outliers are irrelevant.
All the initial assets yes, although once it started pulling in tiles, those seemed to be parallel from then on.

It took over 43 seconds to load for me according to Firefox's dev tools Network tab, each image was effectively > 300 ms, but I'm in New Zealand, and the server seems to be in the Netherlands, so that's almost worst-case...
Even granting all that you say is true, it would be trivial for there to be bias in such an apparently rigorous process. All that is required is selective application of the rules.
Absolutely agree with Farley’s take. Legacy automakers are drowning in a sea of fragmented software, making it nearly impossible to innovate quickly. Tesla’s vertically integrated model clearly shows the benefits of having all systems under one roof—faster updates, better integration, and more control. Ford stepping up to insource their electric architecture is a bold move, but it’s exactly what’s needed to stay competitive. It’s a tough transition, but if they pull it off, it could set a new standard in the industry. Here’s to hoping other traditional car companies follow suit and prioritize software like Tesla has!
Why does it seem like everyone on the internet is an extreme safety ranger nowadays?

Everything you do must follow the exact best practices and maximum safety protocols

Someone in this very thread is saying OP could die from wearing jeans hiking

Its honestly ridiculous the exaggeration that goes on in internet hobby forums

And the risk acceptance is arbitrary anyway

You can argue that wearing jeans hiking is taking a risk

Then I can 1-up and ask why don't you wear a full 1-piece high-vis yellow suit and wear a helmet at all times whenever you leave your house?

You could get hit by a car?

Why would you take that risk?
> But safety should always come first.

No it shouldn’t.

Safety is almost always a trade off of real (or perceived) risk and reward.

If safety came first, you’d never swim, hike, or drive a car.
doing the same thing right now - learning to skate.

I got a cheap pair of skates from goodwill, well on my way into week 2 now.

Once I know I got the chops down, I'm gonna go buy a nicer pair - but until then, can't beat a pair of $10 skates!
You don't think Google is able to stop a Waymo vehicle? They can literally control it remotely. The issue is that the person behind the phone did not have the authorization or access.
In my university days I climbed Mt Fuji at night for the sunrise in jeans, running shoes and a little tiny pen light. At the top there were people with small oxygen tanks (understandable, there are legitimate medical concerns for some). I'd do it differently today. :)

I'm ignoring the point of the article, but I'm currently in a country with a strong hiking culture. Everyone is decked out with every piece of hiking gear imaginable for a short trek up a hill (2 hour round trip?). It's a bit of a status thing. Well... maybe there is a connection to the article. Do we sometimes avoid simple tools in startups because of ego/status concerns?
I bike in jeans all the time...

But certain specialized tools (and knowledge of how to use them) like say AI, will make your job much easier.

Another example. We just remodeled our house. Workers with specialized tools and know how were able to get the job done much faster and with a better final product.
I would hate to hike in jeans. I'd be way too hot. Ick.
I'm not surprised, these companies are so focused on selling people's data that they don't care about their security at all.
Microsoft is planning job cuts and focusing more on underperforming employees
Cotton is generally a great fabric if you sweat, because it wicks moisture and breathes. Denim started its life as workwear. However, if you're building up moisture too fast or you just get a bit wet from weather, and you have a lot of friction from walking, your thighs can get chafed to hell. I think it's odd that chafing wasn't mentioned once in the post.

I have had it happen before on a day trip in a very humid climate and it was awful. That doesn't mean I don't ever wear jeans.
It isnt about trusting him necessarily. Do you have a reason to not believe his mom or brothers? Does your distrust extend to them but not her? If so, why?

We were not there so we dont know what happened. It is possible to look for motives behind the need to lie. Money motivates a lot of people. I saw pictures of them all. Taken recently. They do not portray the kind of response from someone who experienced all of this. I also do not believe anyone who years later, when motives change, suddenly remember things that they can use the way it is being used. While repressed memories are real, I do not believe they work the way it is being portrayed here. This is just my, probably unpopular, opinion.
Zuck still dreams of his despotic dictatorial empire where he can enslave millions and make them all trans via Police enforcement. This move is just to stop bleeding users to X.
Depends on your build. I'm 6'5" but my 'normal' weight when I was 19 with zero fat was 225 lbs. 30 years later at 250lbs, I'm continually annoyed that my BMI shows me as obese.
> The math says it can't work. The way people are debating about this is under an assumption that it can.

Yet here we are…the math seemed to work overall just fine minimizing the anti-vax movement until someone started externally futzing with the numbers to try and force a specific result to that math. When you do that apparently more of your components run off to form other equations and no longer participate in your equation then before you tried to manipulate the messaging.

You are not going to get everyone to agree with you…ever. But suppressing and censoring debate in the real world example of vaccine acceptance to try and achieve that result backfired spectacularly by galvanizing and growing that movement far far beyond what it was…or should have ever been.
It is hard to compare one country to another because they are different in so many ways. Each has positives and negatives.

Clearly the USA and Bangladesh are different. Comparing their GDP is simplistic and doesn't really speak to quality of life in either place. Much less does it take into account that two people in each country may in turn have vastly different quality of lives.

In short, using national statistics tells us very little about your life, or my life, or any specific persons life.
"how quickly a trained worker can move around on a TUI from the 80s". I worked at Ticketek many, many years ago and witnessed the move from dumb terminals running a TUI, to a new browser based system. The old timers were seriously pissed and I could totally understand why. You could navigate the old TUI entirely via a keyboard and they had memorised all of the shortcuts: want to buy a ticket to the latest show? That's 6 key presses. These people could smash out the sales at a phenomenal rate.

The new app was browser-based, looked really pretty and basically forced you to use the mouse. I think we lost most of the TUI-guns, but the replacement staff were cheap and the training was simple. Not sure if it was an economic success, but that's progress.
What makes you think it's limited to the internet?
In the last few months the quality of all Claude models has gone down a lot, I hope that in the future they plan to improve it.
Removing the politics from this is rather impossible because it was so deliberately timed and explicitly positioned as political. But as a PM addressing the pure product question, I’d say it’s an unnecessarily risky product move. You’ve basically forgone the option to use humans professionally incentivized to follow guidelines, and decided to 100% crowdsource your moderation to volunteers (for amplification control, not just labeling btw). Every platform is different, but the record of such efforts in other very high volume contexts is mixed at best, particularly in responding to well financed amplification attacks driven by state actors. Ultimately this is not a decision most any experienced PM would make, exactly because the risk is huge and upside low. X’s experience with crapification would get any normal PM swift and permanent retirement (user base down roughly 60%, valuation down $30B - how’s the look on your resume?... So I go back to the beginning - this is plutocrats at play and not even remotely in the domain of a carefully considered product decision.
> Alcoholism isn’t really the same as skiing.

Statistical methods can be used to assess the risk of each.

> I believe it’s pretty widely accepted that some component of addiction and substance abuse is genetic / hereditary. The same is true of depression.

High risk people should:

a) have most costly insurance against those things

b) be given help to avoid those things, which

c) could be used to reduce the cost of their premiums

Men are more prone to violence and also more likely to be victims of violence, and this is largely biological (hence the huge disparity between the sexes) - would that be some sort of excuse? Should men and women pay the same for the same relevant insurance even though they present wildly different risks of both perpetrating and befalling violence? That would be unfair.

I'm firmly in the "you are responsible for your life as an adult" camp. From a family of smokers thus making you more likely to be a smoker? Don't smoke. History of alcoholism in your family? Don't drink… need I go on?
That article is based on 1) disposable income, which is the wrong metric to use (because it doesn't account for the fact that the US has much higher expenses in health care and education than places like the EU, Japan, etc.), 2) housing size as a metric -- which is due to population density (Western Europe has nearly 5 times the population density of the USA) and the fact that US cities are built around cars, and 3) vehicle ownership, which is both a cultural hallmark of the US and due to the fact that you can't really live without a car (2 if you're married) in the US due to the way its cities are built.

In short, laziest article ever.
good to know, I have a 980gtx, I had to rma it after a summer of overheating. good to know they've gotten better on their own cards.
> People overestimate their risk of an extreme situation occurring while hiking and underestimate their risk of being in an extreme situation in everyday life. They are roughly equal.

They are roughly equal in absolute terms, say 0.000001% and 0.00001%, but not in relative terms (10x). These are made-up numbers, but I think they convey the idea behind the numbers accurately.

The reason for the wide disparity is not really about the situation. Our ancestors spent every day of their lives walking miles on rough unpaved trails in the wilderness. It's about experience. Most people, even fairly avid hikers, simply don't spent anywhere near as much time hiking as they spend doing other things.

Inexperience radically increases risk. Clear evidence for this is that every single high stakes profession places an extreme emphasis on training and practice.

If you're doing an activity that you aren't an expert at, it behooves you to increase your level of caution to compensate. If that activity happens to take place in a setting where consequences are more dire (in the wilderness, far from access to healthcare), then increase your level of caution to compensate for that too.

> So if you were really that concerned, you’d be wearing hiking pants everywhere, even when not hiking.

I mean, they do appear to be a Seattleite, so that wouldn't exactly be unusual around here...
That press release and the list of partner companies are amazing. Marc Benioff was the listed press contact for Oracle!
Their status page said they were doing updates from 9-11PM US EST, but around 10:40 I first noticed problems. They updated it around 10:55 to say they had reports of problems and were investigating. I just tried again at 11:40 and it's working for me.

https://status.bitwarden.com/?locale=en
I can't tell if you're being obtuse or obstinant.
> just remember car companies have never written software like this, ever, so we're literally writing how the vehicle operates the software to operate the vehicle for the first time ever.

Note to self: avoid Ford for the next decade.
The incremental chances of dying from hiking in jeans are probably small, but those of having a bad time are non-negligible (and I say that as somebody who’s hiked quite a bit in jeans due to not knowing better). And why would you want to have a bad time?

It doesn’t need to be high tech activewear: Running shorts (weather permitting) can do just fine.
Obviously your idea of safety coming first is based on your exact specifications, which are unclear and known only by yourself, which isn’t actually very useful
> hard, absolute facts which definitely exist and representations thereof in human language

It's the distinction that you're drawing between those things that I'm skeptical of.
Strange list, some of this is flat out crime, not "profiteering". Fly by night companies submitting 2 billion in false Medicare invoices isn't capitalism. It is simple fraud taking advantage of Medicare incompetence. Same for doctors giving giving people chemo for years despite them never actually having cancer.
A pair of trail pants that lasts you 20 years compared to a pair of jeans that lasts 4 and has to be replaced 5 times is probably a net win for microplastics when you factor in the amount of plastic used when manufacturing and shipping both items.
I feel like a winner. Is there a leaderboard?
Lots of opposition to jeans here. I have plenty of synthetics and I've done some of the hardest trails. But honestly jeans are great in the fall in many places. Sure you don't want to be wet and lost in them. But that all depends on the hike, and that's the point of this article. When you're taking on hikes where you might find yourself wet and lost, start thinking about another solution. But you don't necessarily need another solution for baby steps.
Can the smartest person you know do everything all at once?

If not, how much smarter do you think someone would need to be to do so?

ASI ridiculousness starts from defining it as a do-anything machine. Everything has limits.
There's plenty of blame to go around, really. My current project has a workaround for a user-mode graphics driver that sets the thread name without checking if D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_SINGLETHREADED is set -- so there's code to detect this and call SetThreadDescription() to change it back so the main thread can be found in the debugger again.

There also used to be a problem with a release DLL in Windows 10 that would output to OutputDebugString() with an encoding mismatch, thus spamming the debug output window with random kanji.

I've heard that the Office team has resorted to detouring SetUnhandledExceptionFilter() since even they had problems with third party DLLs unhooking their in-process crash handler.
I mean… yeah? Why wouldn't you do it all in Excel first?
I bet it’s a bug but their metrics suffered when they fixed it so they rolled it back.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592373.
Search SRE were huge dicks about it. I felt bad for the Orkut SREs.
This is true, but it's worth noting that 3x was 5ms additional latency beyond original FG and 7ms for 4x, so the difference in latency between DLSS 3 FG and DLSS 4 MFG is probably imperceptible for most people.
Used to raid 25 man World of Warcraft dungeons with a Death Knight tank. His slogan was: "Safety first, then teamwork." That really stuck with me.
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I like the spirit behind this metaphor a lot: Make do with what you have until you know you need something better. Aggressively reduce activation energy.

At the same time, I shy away from the specific metaphor they chose. Hiking pants are a safety feature. Cotton will get wet and cold and increase the risk of hypothermia if you get lost or stuck. They will waterlog and make it hard to swim if you fall in water.

When it comes to safety items, I err on the side of prepared-ness because you may not get a chance to do it better next time.
I've taken a similar approach to the literal problem. Look I've backpacked in Peru and Iceland and spent enough time mountain biking and hiking and stuff. I'm an adequate hiker.

There's probably not one sport where I haven't been shown up by someone in jeans or payless shoes.

Peru is a great example because when you are hiking the Inca trail to dead womans pass in all your fancy gear there are quite literally locals in jeans and payless shoes with a mattress on their back jogging past you.

I'm all for safety but the truth is there's a lot of "safety theater" with the pattagucci crowd. Signed: someone who doesn't wear jeans, just gets schooled frequently by those who do.
Then why didn't they do it 4-8 years ago?
panic/recover is good and necessary to have, Rust also has this. Swift’s fatalError is not recoverable which is very frustrating.

I don’t like go much - languages that can have nil pointer errors can take a hike, but what I like even less than a nil pointer error while handling a request, is for my whole process to die unrecoverably because someone forgot to check a nil in an infrequently called API. Or when comparing something that’s not allowed to be compared. Like the language would be better if these mistakes were impossible to make, but as long as we have a language with a plethora of garden variety syntax can panic like `a.b` or `a == b` we should be able to mitigate that risk at runtime.
>Having one buyer or seller of a product or service is neither called "price gouging" or "price fixing".

If you want to be technical, yes. But the two go hand in hand. We have laws to promote competition and the law requiring manufacturers to not sell directly to consumers is one of them. Even if this is technically rent-seeking, it isn't very bad.

>What a strange idea.

It may sound strange but manufacturers have a tendency toward planned obsolescence. They make things to wear out in obnoxious and expensive ways, and restrict access to parts, so far as the law will allow. Nevertheless resale value is important for cars, independent dealers improve market efficiency and the liquidity of cars, etc. I believe manufacturers would abuse their position as exclusive dealers of their products. Tesla sure has.
Or just watch a manhattan project youtube
Arent there 30,000 Mounties capable of enforcing the law?