skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good questions, and I don’t have great answers.

7mg was the weakest patch I could get at a pharmacy (in the UK), and as I understand it that’s the release over 24 hours; I wore them only during the day so it’s a lower dose. If it’s proportional it’s ~5mg, which is 2-3 cigarettes, but cigarettes deliver it much faster, I believe. I have since spoken to a doctor who suggested that if I relapse I should cut them in half to lower the dose. Did you do something like that?

The main reasons I think it had more than just a concentration-enhancing effect are a) the effect after 2 weeks of patches seems to be long-lasting (months, at least) and b) my post-exertional fatigue, which was fairly severe (going for a light jog would leave me partially bedridden for a couple of days) has also gone. But to be fair, if the fatigue is caused by nervous system dysregulation then perhaps that somehow accounts for it, and it’s equally possible both these effects will wear off in time.

I have not seen nattokinase mentioned before, thanks. Interesting that, aside from the effect on the spike protein, it’s also supposed to help prevent blood clots. A friend with long covid was enrolled in a study which treated micro blood clots and she saw significant improvement from that. But I was tested a couple of times for micro blood clots and it came back negative, so again I think the long covid mechanism is not consistent.
I only buy SSDs from Amazon honestly. Much rather get my hard drive in person, which sucks, most retailers don't have extensive options.
gotta have some examples on the landing before the fold, otherwise i have no reason to explore
I do not foresee the status quo improving on this front. If anything, it will continue to get worse until we are forced to deal with a massive problem that will make the security crises we’ve dealt with up til now look like a walk in the park.
From a Reddit comment [1]: “the repo contains two novel and different ways to run any process as the SYSTEM user. It also disables every antivirus through a novel process privilege deescalation exploit”

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1icgfua...
We have cellular issues in upstate NY that has plenty of infrastructure. Dark fiber is also practically everywhere
It's crazy that they were informed about this months ago and still have not fixed it yet. They're going to have to now that it's public but why would that pressure even be needed. I naively assumed if Apple still gets one thing right it's security updates. This is disappointing and concerning.
"AFAIK, consumer protections are much worse in the US, so if anything it would be the opposite."

Claiming you're selling a new product and then selling a used product is straight-up fraud. This isn't even a warrantee issue, and no, the US legal system wouldn't just shrug and go "Oh well". This is the sort of thing that penetrates any amount of verbiage in a EULA the company may throw at you, including any sort of demand to go through arbitration, and depending on how widespread this is could easily become class-action, which is the corporate nightmare the forced-arbitration clauses are trying to avoid. You can't write yourself an open-ended right to commit basic fraud into any contract, no, not even in the US.
I agree it's not an easy call between the two! I guess the conclusion of this episode could tip the scales, if we ever get an explanation.

My best guesses right now are some mix of organized crime disrupting their German distribution and/or less publically acknowledged graymarket/OEM channels gone wrong.

If it really comes from inside Seagate I don't think a sane person would buy from them again.

It gets more nuanced when talking about their responsibility to keep oversight over their supply chains and distribution.
Opportunity cost is a good term for the problem with addictive tech. Any one of the little distractions it offers up seems harmless, but in aggregate they represent a massive time opportunity cost, and indulging a few without succumbing to the aggregate has proven incredibly difficult for many.
As an introvert, I can’t imagine how awful it would be if I were still receiving focus-breaking phone calls all day like in the ’90s.
You're undercalling it, that would actually be completely normal. About 1 million US citizens die every 4 months (technically the number of American deaths would be quite a bit higher). The anomaly was that there were about 0.7 million surprise deaths over 12 months (some minority of which would have been caused by the COVID response itself, mind)

You can look it up here - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-per-year... - the COVID death rate is going to be a pretty good year in the 2030s. It is a statistically significant blip but ultimately the vast majority of deaths were already locked in. It was always going to be about 3 million people each year.
Is that really true? I think life has become infinitely more convenient over the last few decades.

One can now order everything over the internet and not even leave the house. SO many errands that cost tons of time involved leaving the house and getting this or that. This is now all reduced to minutes on the phone or computer and the items will magically appear in front of your door.

Same with information search. Having the internet, google maps, etc. has made everything so much easier than it used to be in the 80s or 90s.
Is that really the analogy you want to use?

« In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery »

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robber-baron-gamble-r...
> no you may not ready my proprietary document, nor do I suspect most people using this particular software - I only have it for digital signatures - have permission to share IP with a third party.

This is a massive liability that almost everybody seems to be ignoring. My employer has a ban on using AI on IP until this is properly resolved, because we actually care about it leaking.

Maybe an Information Commissioner will get round to issuing a directive some time in the mid-2030s about how none of this complies with GDPR.
It's not clear to me that this is Seagate's fault. Sounds like retailers are selling used drives as new. Or is wiping the SMART data only something Seagate corporate can do?
Okay, almost always Seagate. Their drives fail at over an order of magnitude higher rates, too.
model for the infrared light ?
It’s a question of depreciation of the GPU vs time to deploy AI.

If RL and synthetic data creation are all we need for self-improving AI, the large labs have an internal use case to utilize all available compute, regardless of efficiency gains.

If they have to go external and deploy in the broader market, time to deploy would make the GPUs worthless before they are fully utilized.
Haha yeah well they gave it shell access on purpose. Nobody would do this in the wild… oh wait.
Why is it insane? Along with a terminal, I also use a database editor inside my code editor.

That’s the point behind an IDE - integrated developer environment.
Maybe because of security, and the entire thing needs to be airgapped.
> like it is the case for fission plants

Fission plants are operated remotely. IE, that's what the stereotypical "control room" of a fission plant is.
Obviously the AI version is bland and terrible, but arguably more importantly it has also completely changed the meaning of the message. The AI version:

- apologizes

- implies the recipient was "promised" this email as a "response" to something

- blames a hectic schedule

- invites questions

None of this was in or was even implied in the original. This is not a "polished" version, it's just a straight-up different email. I thought that style transfer while maintaining meaning was one of the few things LLMs can be good at, but this example fails even that low bar.
Yes, but the r1 model is shiny and new. I've been using it locally for a day and I'm already finding odd spots. One thing that I've seen it do a number of times is get the correct answer in the thinking tokens, then ignore it, generate thousands more tokens until it reaches it context length then give a wrong answer.

There are things, like doc strings for functions, that llama models give better results for.
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A quick glance suggests that, because the site is pretty far afield of usual HN fare, folks here don't realize that Lawson is the author of several books.

I personally do not want you -- for any value of "you" -- to use an AI to "polish" any writing sent to ME. I want the author's actual thoughts, not their thoughts massaged by an LLM.
> they are very hard to identify as being spam

For every account I create on the internet I create a new mail inbox, this way I can just compare the email title with the inbox it was sent to. So, when I receive a notice from my bank on my github email I know what happened. This genuinely saved me a few times already.
This is super cool, definitely impractical, but a cool marketing stunt none-the-less. The Teslas definitely have a bit of an advantage on this largely closed course and relatively short drive to the docks, but still very cool to see!
Announced launch prices here are about what the 4080 SUPER has been, so in that regard it's not great but not terrible like the 5090.
Why read something someone couldn't be bothered to write.
The article to me feels like it pussyfoots around the real issue and perpetuates the “blame {some new tech} on downfall of society” fallacy.

Yes, personally I agree that doom scrolling is not ideal but this is a symptom of a much larger issue — no time available for a majority of people to invest in real relationships. Real issue here is a significant number of people left behind in this economy and this largely due to shitty economic policy based on neoliberalism
In theory, yes, in practice it sounds like it could be a very expensive content filter. Then again, a simplified and cheap / optimized single purpose model would work. Given how creative people can get and how many different languages etc there are, it'd be interesting to see. But it would need to be a model that not only knows all the bad words and intents, but also learns the workarounds, like how Roblox users have invented creative phrases like "go commit die", "yeetus yeetus commit self deletus", or "go commit cease vital functions necessary for the prolonging of one's physical being".
There are plenty of deranged gamers spending 5-10k every few years don't worry
In most of Europe if you are in any kind of town or a village of more than a few hundred people there will at least be a small supermarket within easy walking distance, say one kilometre. And if you are in any reasonable sized town, say a few tens of thousands or more then there will be multiple supermarkets within that range.

Belgium is one of the most densely populated countries in the world so you won't find many places that are too far from a supermarket to walk to.
Try finger,

but hole
You somehow assume that being a native english speaker is correlated to being able to write well in english.

It's how well you know english that's correlated to being able to write well in english instead.
I built my block foundation in 4 weekends. I would use a truck for footings and grout next time as mixing and wheel barrowing 300 60# bags of quikrete was brutal. Total cost was <4000, but that includes excavator rental and site prep. If you hire a truck i think it is difficult to handle that much without help and you are fucked if it sets too soon.

A concrete truck would not even make it down my road though... and many of the blocks were carried in small bundles by 4x4 truck. Building a road for heavy trucks would probably cost as much as the house.
Indeed. Seems that Amazon is doing this more and more. Here in the US, I've just received a used (and damaged) Rode microphone, sold and shipped by Amazon 'as new'. And as you said, I returned it and decided not to order anything valuable from them, ever again.

Still, I wonder if these (arguably illegal) practices are still worth it for merchants and companies, considering that there's no enforcement and the majority of consumers don't drastically change their shopping habits when being abused.
It does have satellite<->satellite communication, but the latency is way worse if your traffic has to flow like that, so ideally they're building as many ground stations as they can all over the globe. But laser service is always how cruise ships in the middle of the pacific will get full starlink internet.
You described Linkedin?
Python remembers order, and exposes it in its iterations, but doesn't use it in its equivalence over dictionaries (== semantics).

(ETA: What are you quoting there? I don't think that text appears on the Preserves site) (ETA2: Ah, it's the tutorial. Cool)
I simply do not understand the end game of these sorts of features.

Presumably, the idea is to make the other person think you've written the email yourself, and you're a "better"/more corporate/more professional writer than you actually are.

But once everyone starts using this kind of transformer, so nobody assumes that anyone else is actually writing the content they're sending out -- what's the point?! Who benefits?
AI translation is definitely a great enabler, both for written material and things like live subtitles, but people are already aware that translations are imperfect and can be disputed. Something that anime fans can get very heated about.
When looking at a system, it is appropriate to identify the causes (plural) and the intervention points (plural).

I believe it is at once possible to both blame or seek to change an extrinsic factor and do what one can with their own initiative. I do not think it is appropriate to dismiss extrinsic factors in order to emphasize personal initiative.
Okay, sure. Here is an explicit code example:

func foo(bar func() error) bool {
err := bar()
if err != nil {
return true
}
return false
}

func TestFooReturnsTrueWhenBarReturnsError(t *testing.T) {
if foo(func() error { return nil }) {
t.Error("expected foo to return false")
}
if !foo(func() error { return errors.New("error") }) {
t.Error("expected foo to return true")
}
}

Now it is your turn. Modify the body of function foo to remove the error check as you imagine it would be if it were forgotten.

This https://go.dev/play/p/k8zDQj5knaj is what I envision you are talking about, but clearly that cannot be it. As you can see it loudly proclaims that I "forgot", making this forgetfulness idea you have come up with impossible. So, what it is that you actually have in mind?
Thanks! I just checked an 10TB Ironwolf bought to a German seller through Amazon.fr less than two months ago: Its warranty expires in a few days... :(
Any chance for native apps to put it inline with things like roon, and support for DSD playback?
> The ACA is one example. The IRA is another. There are many. While in power they diligently seek to pass legislation addressing priorities they ran for office on.

The IRA?

The ACA was more or less Romneycare, a Republican idea, but ironically passed with zero Republican votes. The ACA was a permanent government subsidy to the very health insurance companies that people hated and continue to hate, as evidenced by the recent celebration over the murder of a health insurance CEO. The ACA has not resulted in universal health care. It has not ended medical debt and bankruptcy. It has not ended the practice of claim denial. It has not controlled health insurance premium costs, which have surpassed the inflation rate despite bad inflation in recent years.

In any case, the question of the extent to which candidates keep their promises is not particularly interesting, because even their policy proposals are contolled by their campaign donors. Fundamental changes in the system are rarely on the table. The disparity of wealth in the US has continued to grow unabated over the past 50 years, through Democratic and Republican presidencies.

> they realize in the event that repealing the enormously popular policy they ran against would have enormous blowback for them. Repealing Roe is one example.

Um, they succeeded at that. Roe was overturned by Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents.
Sure...Nothing to see here, just a 84 years old lady innocently playing Bingo... :

"Nancy Pelosi Outperformed Nearly Every Hedge Fund In 2024" - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-outperformed-nea...
AI takes the personality out of written communication, and swaps it with a bland corporate persona. I want to know that I am working with actual human beings. It reassures me to know that if something goes wrong, I can appeal to those human beings, and not to soulless corporate automatons working off of a flowchart.
8 hour work days could probably be 6 or less with the same pay for plenty of jobs (or 5 day weeks could be 4 days). Some of these jobs could be remote. If your job is draining, it's not taking the same energy as a job you like and fulfills you; it's probably taking multiples more energy and willpower away from you.

Let's not even throw childcare into consideration here. Childcare blows your energy and time out of the water all by itself, yet we still ask 8 hours a day from parents.

People miscount calories like you're saying with time, so I'd say that's accurate, but no one is really forcing you to eat the overportioned, oversalted and oversugar'd foods from restaurants these days (USA perspective). Work is definitely forcing you to spend the time you do otherwise you quickly go homeless.
But the ms went unpublished until 2006, according to wikipedia. Supposedly the book was excerpted in a Sunday supplement magazine, but only in US newspapers. Mysterious!
2032 Mayan prophecy + 2024 YR4 = prime fuel for internet-born doomsday cults.

"The final katun in the sequence that must happen before the new cycle of the katuns begins again is 13 Ahau. This starts in 2032 and ends in 2052. It is the time from 2032 to 2052, that great earth changes may take place.

The translation from the codices about 13 Ahau that starts in 2032 is ‘Famine, plagues of locusts, and loss of rulers. The judgment of God’ Mr. Scofield goes on to elaborate on this katun.

‘This is a time of total collapse where everything is lost. It is the time of the judgment of God. There will be epidemics and plagues and then famine. Governments will be lost to foreigners and wise men and prophets will be lost.‘

It is my perception that the great crisis that many fear in 2012 may well start after 2032. An interesting note to this time period is that it did bring great revolution and change during the time period from 1776 to 1796."

https://www.tokenrock.com/mayan-astrology/2012-mayan-prophec...
Maybe an exposed compatibility API for supporting third party players
Benedict Evans caught on early - https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/7/2/working-wit...
Its an MoE model so only 37B parameters are activated per token.
"NYT bestselling author" too. Whatever value that holds.

But I think it's a safe assumption that she can write well when she wants to.
Ya definitly should add gapless, wish we also had more integrations from back in the day when they'd do beat matching and mixing between songs
This reminds me that I haven't seen a drive report from Backblaze in a while posted here.
Post-viral fatigue definitely happens in Africa, but only very privileged people with the means to lay around doing nothing will allow it to knock them down so hard they literally don't stand up once in two years. Post-viral fatigue to this degree is a phenomenon of the idle upper class. It doesn't paralyze you, it just makes you tired and miserable. Normal people push through and carry on, because they must.
Empiric evidence suggests that macOs does not have any interesting software. People go to great lengths to run Windows programs (through Wine, Steam Proton, VM integrations), and Linux stuff (Docker desktop, WSL/WSLG, X servers). macOs stuff seems to be too useless for that kind of effort.
Why buy any drives from Amazon? I always buy from a specialty dealer. Where I am that's usually B&H.
Rules For Thee but Not for Me
Depends where Boom's ticket prices fall.

If they go for the low-rich market, their target customer moves schedules around themselves. If a CEO can't be in Europe until Wednesday, then the meeting happens Wednesday.

And the key thing Boom will be selling is literally unique: fewer hours on a plane.

To some, that's a nice to have. To people who hate being on a plane, it's worth a lot.

And even lie-flat first class sucks... it's nice, but you're still crammed into a dehydrating box.
The emphasis on embodiment was particularly interesting I think - at least with 90s tech you generally had to push physical buttons to get a response. There was something kinetic about tech use, it felt more like using LEGOs.

Now user interfaces are an exhausting search exercise- I have to watch the screen to see where the buttons will appear with every interaction. It sucks.

It makes me wonder what a physical-first API would look like. Perhaps that's just what CLIs evolved for: reliable, repeatable key-based interactions.
Did you already exercise regularly?
Ah yes, the "why build Dropbox when we you can just use FTP, curlftpfs, and SVN" line of thinking ;-)

OG source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Reddit explains the difference thus:

"Induced demand": The highway is expanded such that it only takes me 15 minutes to get downtown instead of 45, so I go downtown more.

Jevson paradox: The highway is expanded such that it only takes 15 minutes to get from the suburbs to my office instead of 45, so I move to the suburbs.

So one is movement along the demand curve, while the other is a movement of the demand curve.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/oo2s48/that_o...
Long live Sublime Text!

also pretty please give us a native FreeBSD port...
If you don’t care at all about battery life and, as you say, have an iPhone (the majority of smartphone users globally doesn’t, I believe).
Please stop to gtvn me ai - hilarious.
Did they not already have an incentive to use all available compute?

Let’s assume you were buying the GPUs, how would you plan on paying for it? What’s the business case?
Well that's just corporatism taken to the extreme which everything is.
Somehow, nobody expects the Jevons' Paradox. Even when those same people talk about it every other day.
>Resistance to any concept of self accountability is stronger than ever on the internet. Social media delivers convenient excuses, which can be seen throughout this thread.

I think that while the broad culture has moved in that direction it's still very filter bubble dependent. Spaces centered around men's hobbies with higher than zero barriers to entry are usually pretty hard the other way.