skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actual flu always lasted weeks, just lots of people call bad colds "the flu" until they experience the flu for the first time.

People don’t take the flu seriously enough. It’s a major illness and kills plenty of people each year. However, the duration can vary quite a bit.

Other than lingering coughs, neither of my two cases of the flu lasted significantly over a week. Both were confirmed as the flu by tests since both were severe enough to require PCP or hospital visits.

One was when I was in elementary school. I think I was pulled out of school for a little over a week, and knowing my parents I assume that was about how long symptoms lasted. I had terrible sinus/throat symptoms and a fever. The fever reached 104 °F. I remember lying on my mother’s lap, moaning, and at one point asked her if I was dying.

The other was during the 2009-2010 swine flu outbreak. This one was notable because it lasted almost exactly three days. I felt basically back to normal on the fourth, but prior to that I spent three days in absolute misery. My joints felt like they were creaking and were extremely painful. I remember thinking “this must be how Pak Protectors feel”. I spent 24 hours doing nothing but sleeping for an hour, waking up to use the bathroom and drink some fluids, then went back to sleep for another hour. On the fourth day I suddenly felt almost completely fine. From what I recall a very short duration of intense symptoms with a sharp boundary was fairly normal for that outbreak.
There's at least one group who doesn't find the ads annoying, and that's whoever is purchasing the ad space. That could be a business, a nonprofit, some government agency or even a charity. Advertising is a vital part of the sales funnel for them, and it is what allows them to feed their children and pay the mortgage.
Driver didn't take delivery from Tesla by themselves and used a third party. In situations like these chances of parts replacement by older/faulty parts is high
There's a lot of stuff in there that sounds like pseudoscience. Insulin-resistant brain? Are you sure?
Well, yes. "No limits" or "more is better" of anything is horrible for society.

In a strong, cohesive society - that is understood, and all sort of limits are enforced. (Socially more than legally, typically.)

In an incoherent and divided society, a wide variety of malignancies flourish. At least for a while. Such societies tend to be short-lived, and jumping to a suitable new host can be difficult.
Every form of manipulation of people through information is a "cancer": advertising, political ideologies, religion, escapist entertainment, etc.

The problem is that truth is very hard to establish for those that don't want and don't understand logic. They're "cancers" that people want because they're comfortable with it.

Also, if we try to control these cancers by restricting what information is allowed we will create an authoritarian society.
I imagine we'll invent new jobs that we want humans to do. Why do people pay thousands for mechanical watches when quartz ones are objectively better?
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977457
Apple used to seem particularly egregious because their marketing used Spin and exploited status insecurities.

They would put the word "Security" or "Privacy" on the screen. They never claimed they were good at security. They just said "Security". It was implied. Factually, they had little to stand on.

They also did the thing car markers do, where they exploit status insecurities. They were wholly successful, a lower-class person cannot own an Android phone without getting flack. Meanwhile, an upper-middle class person doesnt have this burden. I can drive a crappy car and I'm seen as prudent. A lower class person drives a crappy car and is seen as poor. All of this comes from marketing the status position of a company.
This is an astonishing allegation. Can you substantiate any part of it?
This analogy seems weak. In general, this post argues one way while ignoring all the good advertising does. Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?
Subscribed.

I like your 'fortune cookie' that provides a username for frictionless onboarding!
How to tell advertising from sharing experiences?
The provisions here don't seem like an unreasonable ask, really:

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm
How about none of these?

Why do I always need to choose the lesser evil and never good?
And when that macro controller computer eventually (inevitably?) dies, it will hurt the wallet immensely.
Detector seems a bit off when it also includes the item-id where it's posting.
> You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away.

Advertising is a core activity of capitalism, which our western governments protect and further at all costs. Until we leave capitalism as a system behind, advertising will keep growing.
AlphaGo seems more like an automated process to me because you can start from nothing except the algorithm and the rules. Since a Go game only has 2 outcomes most of the time, and the model can play with itself, it is guaranteed to learn something during self-play.

In the LLM case you have to have an already capable model to do RL. Also I feel like the problem selection part is important to make sure it's not too hard. So there's still much labor involved.
> My first attempt when solving this puzzle was to encode the constraints as an SMT optimization problem, and using Z3 to find the solution.

This is why choosing the right tool for the job matters. Z3 is hilariously overkill for such a problem (not to undermine how interesting and useful Z3 is, and not to accuse the author of doing anything wrong).

Z3 is only one class of solver; a finite domain constraint solver is much more suited to these sorts of tasks.

https://gist.github.com/Qix-/3580f268e2725848971703e74f6b26b...

$ time node sudoku.js

1 2 7 6 8 5 4 3 9
5 9 4 1 3 7 8 2 6
8 3 6 4 2 9 5 7 1

3 6 1 8 5 4 2 9 7
7 4 5 2 9 1 3 6 8
2 8 9 3 7 6 1 5 4

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> scorn from progressives of the more modern variety.

Assume you’re talking about 99% invisible?

https://99percentinvisible.org/club/
Would seeing this on HN count as advertisement?

I also see HN Jobs that I did not ask for, would this also count as advertisements / marketing?

How would say, Daring Fireball [1] earn income from this cancerous mode of operation? Should this publication stop charging $11K a week to stop shilling products we don't need in your RSS feed?

So then it follows that all of these are 'cancer' by the author's definition.

How do we solve this once and for all to satisfy the author?

The only way to stop this would probably be to "close your eyes?" or perhaps maybe adblock, although we cannot adblock billboards, or this isn't really a big enough problem in the first place.

Solutions to this would be much welcome.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/
Polymarket poll that 'recombobulate' enters Nigerian conversational register before Jan 2027.
I'm not a heavy blogger though I have a bunch of StackOverflow answers, gists etc.

It happened to me a few times that I forgot I wrote something down, only to find it via google search.
"all the good things advertising does" is doing a lot of the leg work without much being specified.
I might accidentally be using a dated term for it, Wikipedia redirects to "Ethnic Religion".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_religion
The "future you" aspect mentioned is exactly my rationale for blogging. I've been doing it since 2012 and one of the main reasons was because I kept forgetting things I'd done and thought I should start to note them down. I regularly google things and find my own posts with little to no memory of writing them. https://johnnyreilly.com/
Maybe an irony of this blog post is that nobody commenting here seems to have read it, either. They seem to be responding to the title (which more accurately "belongs" to HN, in the sense it doesn't require reading TFA) rather than the content.

The author very clearly states that the reason is the Buddhist "carry water, chop wood": you do it because it needs doing. You do it because you saw something. You do it for yourself.

Yet a lot of the comments here are more of a utilitarian bent, e.g. "one day someone will see it", "it's for networking", "it's proof you know your stuff", etc. Completely unrelated and maybe even contrary to the meaning of this article/blog post!
Is there anything you can’t fix with JB weld? The stuff is amazing.
>while ignoring all the good advertising does.

What good?
Unfortunately I couldn't read past the first two paragraphs as it was a member only story.
Awesome. It’s great what is becoming possible in healthcare when you can keep asking questions until you’re no longer confused, and keep feeding data in, more than any overworked doctor could handle.

It won’t always be correct, and needs all the right disclaimers.

A friend of mine whose father is sadly very ill, made use of ChatGPT to interpret the oncology reports written about his dad. It helped him have deep technical conversations with multiple specialists and advocate for his dad, culminating in his advocacy for a treatment - that none of the specialists had thought of - which proved critical in extending his dad’s life. Now my buddy can chat to specialists in their own language and hands the info to ChatGPT to turn into layman’s terms for his dad - all of which my friend can check over for accuracy so he knows his dad is getting correct non-technical explanations.

That is massive empowerment.
I fully agree with the sentiment, and yet marvel at the apparent lack of alternatives for so many business models. I'm mildly surprised, for example, that micro-payments for web content are still not a (widespread) thing.

Consumers hate ads, but they hate paying for things even more apparently.
Then you (and others interested in running Linux on fruit company hardware) can sponsor someone to rewrite those drivers in a way that fits the Linux project.
All the good advertising does? What are you referring to?
It has served us relatively fine for thousands of years.

LLMs? I'm waiting for one that knows how not to say something that is clearly wrong with extreme confidence, reasoning or not.
Sure, I just wanted to share some info on far-right/neo-nazi related people and orgs that Musk is linked to, as parent didn't seem to be aware.
Correct they are a non-profit corporation. They recieve money from many sources, but they do employ people full time.
Their stated purpose is "to reduce wasteful and fraudulent federal spending". Organizations that have waste and fraudulent spending will not "give" access and will throw every obstruction in the way.
Its a shame his LLC in C was just a launch board for his course.
Ask HN: Kindle Browser Specs?
I'm building something that I want to be accessible via the Kindle browser. Any information on Kindle browser and what all it supports? Looking for documentation, limitations, and capabilities.
I think both you and the poster you’re responding too are oversimplifying things.

Some parts of some religions encourage followers to be kind to some others. Some parts encourage them to discriminate, assimilate, or even kill (also some) others.

While I’m an atheist, I don’t buy the narrative that religion is the root of all evil, and I recognize that there are several good outcomes of some religions (e.g., help people come out of addiction), but if you think religions are all about kindness, I think you may just not have been looking around enough.
(2019)

> Advertising as currently practiced [... is] a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them. Limited to honestly informing people about what's available on the market, it can serve a crucial function in enabling trade. In the real world however, it's moved way past that role.

> Real world advertising is not about informing, it's about convincing. Over time, it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest. It also became more effective. In the process, it grew to consume a significant amount of resources of every company on the planet. It infected every communication medium in existence, both digital and analog. It shapes every product and service you touch, and it affects your interactions with everyone who isn't your close friend or family member. Through all that, it actively destroys trust in people and institutions alike, and corrupts the decision-making process in any market transaction. It became a legitimized form of industrial-scale psychological abuse [...]

And then it supports and complements this with a long list of findings.

I wonder if there are some approaches to hedge advertisement back into it's useful and valuable purpose and limit the highly, as the article puts it, "cancerous" impacts?
Forcing the user to watch video ads is a blight. Half of the time, the video ad is just being dumped onto game players because there's no relevant audience for it. Applause to Steam for stopping this.
> “the AI has no ground truth”

Yeah? It has? Where the irrefutable proof of that?
Is Ozempic popular in SV / among the tech crowd? I was under the impression that it is a weight loss drug.
My understanding is the opposite: man pages are much more difficult to produce than plain help text, so it's unreasonable to expect they'll always be available, while help is easy enough to (almost) always be there. If you use any CLI library at all, it will automatically be generated. If you don't, the equivalent of `argv[1] == "--help"` is good enough.

These days, I'm positively surprised when I find man pages for a program, whereas I'm annoyed when one doesn't support --help.
On 53 minutes from the original video, he shows how exact is the quotation of an LLM based on the text it was learning from. I wonder how did the bigtech convince the courts that this is not copyright violation (especially when ChatGPT was quoting some GPL code). I can imagine that the same thing would happen opposite, if I trained a model to draw a disney character, and my ass would be sued in a fraction of a second.
In Rust, use UnsafeCell.

In C++, multiple references to the same variable may cause «use after free» bug in it destructor.
> The only way to stop this would probably be to "close your eyes?" or perhaps this isn't really a big enough problem in the first place.

The idea of banning advertisements never struck you? That seems like the obvious way forward.
It is a form of violence and needs to be treated as such.
Meta to layoff 5% of workforce today
Absolutely spineless. Thank you for showing this.
Ask HN: Could LMs practically take text and directly generate IL/CPU opcodes?
For any communication I think we need to take as a premise that static HTML and static web sites are not the same category of thing. Any particular page on the web can be totally static or totally dynamic or a mix. There are static HTML pages on static web sites. There are dynamic HTML pages on static web sites. There are static HTML pages on dynamic web sites. And there are dynamic HTML pages on dynamic web sites.

The meaning of static HTML is the least contentious. A static HTML page is just an .html (or .htm, or anything else if the mimetype is set right) hypertext markup langage document that is stored on a file system as a file and sent to the end user when they request the URL that maps to that file. The HTML encodes what the web site user will see and does not change.

When the static .html file includes "static" (not really since it is executed code) javascript (or other executing language embeds) that changes the page to something other than displayed by the html in the file on disk. So it becomes a dynamic HTML page (for ~5 years called "DHTML").

The only place where static HTML becomes unclear is in the case where some webserver linked program generates the static HTML on demand with no storage of the HTML as a file on the filesystem before being sent to the site user. In this case even though the user sees only static HTML there's crucially no file ever created on the webserver so it's dynamic HTML.

The meaning of static website is increasingly more unclear compounding on the fuzziness of what a static HTML page is. Generally there are the same two points of view as above but with a tweak.

There's the website users point of view where a static web site is static if the pages are just HTML and do not require executing any code to view. If you (or your browser) look at the source you can read the text and see the image URLs. It does not have to be generated by the browser's execution of some client side code.

Then there's the developer point of view where a static web site if the code required to generate the website is stored in a static file on the webserver. In this framing you can deploy a self contained .html file which includes the javascript code for a client side dynamic web application. This web application can completely change the text shown and even draw in outside information not in the file. But since it can be put on a CDN as a static asset it is a static web site.

You advocate the developer-view of what static website means. But this perception is a modern overloading of the phrase. For literal decades static meant what the user-view of static website. Neither is wrong but unless you state it explicitly there will be misinterpretation like above.
Turns out there's a meetup near me in just a couple days, I might go! Also I love that they call their meetups "mappy hours"
my local food bank has lines every week
> Random tangent - here is a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger fixing a pothole (properly/improperly) in his neighbourhood

Coming from a bit of construction history, it isn't bad work per se (they did use sand on top and a straightening tool), but it isn't up to (German) code either - no compactor in sight and no seam adhesive either. The pothole will re-open rather sooner than later.
Good things... lol
Why would the UK Government care about that? They’re not bound by the EU’s laws. They’re trying to force Apple to secretly break the EU and other countries’ laws, and don’t care as long as they get what they want…
>Every form of manipulation of people through information is a "cancer"

Not really. Everything that can change minds (including discussion, the news, and art) is a form of manipulation of people through information. Who draws the line what's good manipulation and what's bad manipulation (or, which is the same, what is legit mind changing and what's not)?

Nah, advetising is a cancer all of its own
Show me a large scale society that hasn’t have both. This over commercialization may be needed as a buffer against hyper scarcity
Show HN: I added WebGL to my open-source video editing software
Hello

I recently added WebGL to my video editing software to implement a chroma key feature. While I was at it, I also added a few more effects. And the quality turned out better than I expected.

It generally uses more than 80% of the CPU. But considering 60fps editing, that's a stable figure. Since complex calculations need to be performed every 16ms, the performance is actually quite good.

GitHub : https://github.com/cartesiancs/nugget-app

Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4-RzTCLTA
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5071717
In a world of finite attention, some form of advertising will inevitable appear. Unless your critique of advertising includes a solution to the attention problem, it's not useful.

Then you might say, well there should be some regulations that prevent advertisers from doing X bad thing or saying Y exaggerated statement. Most of these exist already, and if they don't, the legislation required to ban such practices would be easier to implement than legislation "banning advertising" writ large, whatever that actually means in practice.
Pi-thon.
> Solutions to this would be much welcome.

Most forums such as this have a 'mute' button so you can choose not to see certain topics and posts by certain people. Not sure why HN doesnt have this, but it solves your 'problem' of forum posts being 'advertising' whilst at the same time explaining the difference between the two, choice.

EDIT: Oh I see youve edited your post. I wont be changing mine to address your new points. Try to keep a conversation going, stop editing to add points after people have replied.
Since this is a throwaway story/ad I will put an entertaining anecdote.

Last year I was working as a janitor at McDonald's to comply with my release from federal prison after my computer hacking case.

During this time I started dieting a simple set of changes. I basically just ate twice a day, once was tuna with something and another was salad. No exceptions.

I dropped the weight slowly but very surely. From 280 to 220 very easily.

At this restaurant we're two women who were overweight. Both of them went and took a trip to Mexico to have an invasive stomach surgery. One of them lost over 100lbs if you include the weight they made her lose before she could do the surgery.

However, one of the surgeries was botched somehow and the woman went into a coma for a month. They were attempting to pull the plug on her, get donated organs, and talking with her family about the needless suffering she would endure if they sent her to a long term care facility.

She woke up out of that coma a month later and has been making a recovery since.

It sparked a conversation with my wife and we both independently came up with the same ideas. We want to be given a chance to recover, but we would want each other to move on and not become an excessive burden beyond a year. Plus we have no idea what kind of existence we would be subjecting someone to.
Same, unfortunately Medium have to pump their user growth figures to justify their existence.

I use Freedium to get around it - https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/...
Google Maps Origin Story – 20-Year Anniversary
Maybe you don’t need an architect when quality doesn’t matter and everyone is shipping mvps
Freedium bypass paywall link - https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/...
commercial (private sector) surveillance is driven by advertising.

state surveillance is driven by control.

but even state surveillance often piggybacks on commercial surveillance
Very rare to see Vintage Story mentioned in the wild. It's tied with Project Zomboid for my favorite survival game. I wish more people knew about it.
> Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?

Cancers are tissues gone rogue. The original tissue does in fact tend to do “good things”.

There are a few transmissible cancers, but the vast majority of them are your own tissues twisted to only consider their own personal survival and short-term gains at the expense of the rest of the organism.
Just like bounds checking in Rust.

Some type safety conditions can naturally only be checked at run-time.

And actually, checks are done at compile time if the compiler is able to see what is being used on the spot.
We are getting one step closer to: A "medbed" is a fictional device that has gained popularity in pop culture. It is often described as a medical bed that can instantly cure any disease or injury! If I ask claude to do a thought experiment on what year this fiction would be real he says "2045-2055"
Many adult endurance athletes get it, so I doubt it.
What about advertising for cancer screening? That type of advertising is shown to be cost effective and saves lives [1].

So advertising can be a good thing and a literal cancer-preventer to society.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4018507/
This is still being litigated I believe.