skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doctors sound alarm as nine children die from brain-rotting condition
There is no Kompromat that could ruin Trump at this point

They are doing it because they want to.
It took me 15 minutes, thank God, because seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist would have taken 18 months and cost me much more for something I obviously have.
AI is not good enough yet for anything requiring deep reasoning, mission-critical work, error detection at a human-expert level, or handling unpredictable edge cases.

It just talks like it's very smart, and humans apparently have a bias for persuasive communication skills. It's also very fast, which humans also think indicates general intelligence. But it's not, and that's why most LLM tools are author-focused, so that a human expert can catch errors.

The way you know fully autonomous driving is nowhere near ready is by noticing we don't even trust robots to do fully autonomous cooking and cleaning. Similarly, let's see it understand and refactor a massive codebase first.
It's not clear what you're trying to say. The GP said they weren't sure how rents went down. As an at-the-time-I-referenced landlord we reduced rents. Or tenants may have been privileged people who didn't need it but it seemed like the right thing at the time. Mostly because the impartial rent statistics source we repeatedly used indicated rents had gone down for the market local to the unit we offered. Maybe this is why we got out, because we weren't practicing exuberant total maximization of what we could extract. We got in because my partner was sentimental about the unit and felt we could hold aside a small part of the market to be a little kinder and more human. What triggered us getting out, in fact, was hostile policy enacted by Seattle that frequently poisoned the relationships with our tenants. That is, with the same behaviors we began being treated very poorly. I'm off the opinion that Sawant was in the pocket of large corporate holders given what I understand of the effectiveness with which she had consolidated the Seattle rental markets into a smaller set of hands.
The goal is to make government as dysfunctional as possible (beside the part that enforces corruption [for your side]), so people want it to get smaller and smaller (except for the corrupt parts that benefit exclusively them), so that it costs less, so that they pay less taxes, so that they have even more money (that they don't need).

They definitely do not care if this "makes things worse". Often, it's intended.
Powerful LLMs are one thing, but it seems the current approach for full "agentic" AI like this is just another attempt at Expert Systems.

In time we will probably look at LLMs like we do ALUs; magical superhuman AI at inception, but eventually just another mundane component of human-engineered information systems.
I read somewhere that the convolution of tax returns system is intentional as the right thinks that the federal government should collect as little tax as possible. Making people suffer to file their taxes aims to reduce the federals from levying more taxes without popular opposition.

Providing a free, digital service to collect taxes would then be considered a real threat.
I've got one friend who was gifted a house when he graduated from college. He works a similar type of job and makes a similar salary to the other members of our friend group, but the gift of the house, given from his wealthy parents, makes his financial situation drastically different from the rest of us.

I'm glad for him. But it's incredible how different one's life can be from their peers just based on their parent's wealth.
What a backwards thing to say.

Surrender to an oppressor is never peace.
So much of psychiatry is like this, though. There are the extreme conditions where everybody agrees "yes, something is wrong with his brain," or "clearly his mind was broken by circumstances and now he needs help," or "that's the most severe case of autism I've ever seen," but there are also more nebulous conditions: anxiety, depression, AD(H)D, autism spectrum, personality disorders, etc.

This isn't to say that those conditions aren't precisely defined or that they aren't real, but they might be at least partially a product of our society.

Your skepticism about whether an issue "can be directly attributed to a singular condition" is just good medicine. As conditions are studied more, often it's discovered that it's actually a few different conditions that share some symptoms. Maybe all of these sometimes wishy-washy "we didn't have this when I was a kid" conditions are just medicine learning more about the mind.
> What's the plan here?

The plan is to sell off the Crown Jewels to fund Trump's sovereign wealth fund.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-quietly-plans...
I'm quite sure sufficient resources exist in Ukraine to rapidly build Thermonuclear weapons to stave off Russia. It wouldn't surprise me if someone else supplied a few covertly to hold off the Tyrant.
What peace deal? So far nothing has actually been proposed other than marketing spin on Ukraine surrendering.
Login.gov is the default idp for the Social Security Administration, supports 200+ federal agencies for identity, and IRS was in the works to onboard Login.gov (to replace ID.me). They handle over 10 million monthly active users and 40 million monthly sign-ins across nearly 50 agencies and states. I would be interested in knowing why it could not serve as the sole idp for VA.gov, as there must be a reason, regardless of validity of that reason.

Appreciate the ground truth, this is enough for someone to dig further in VA from a journalism perspective.
> My child has difficulty sitting still

This is like every 6 year old lol. I bet you I would have been diagnosed with ADHD if I was tested, but in truth I was just an active kid who didn’t like sitting in a classroom chair all day.
> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me, in some sense

There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future.

It does make me wonder how much of a person could be inferred by an LLM or future AI from that data. It would never be enough though, I think, to do it properly. There are too many experiences and knowledge you have that might influence what you write without being directly expressed.

Will all of our content end up in some database in the future, and someone decides to make agents based on what they can link to specific identities? Interesting thought.
Adult assessments take 4+ hours and cost $2500. It kinda sucks, but hopefully you have insurance.
Since at least Obama, the US has been trying to exit Europe and form a dentent with Russia so they can "pivot to Asia". Europe trying to undermine the US exit from ukraine will be just the excuse trump is looking for to withdraw (the 100,000+ troops, and massive military spending on NATO in the EU, etc.). This means no government in Europe will actually do anything about Ukraine -- the risk to the collapse of NATO is too great.

Ukraine has always been a bit of political theatre for the west, and all Trump is doing is forcing the show to end -- which is one of the real shocks to the system. What is most bitterly disliked by both the public and elite in europe is that they might actually have to do something on behalf of ukraine that risks their own security and, of course, they never will and never would. Europe humiliated as a paper tiger will give Trump no great headlines in european newspapers: this is the real psychological shock.

Trump actually means to end the war, and if that fails, withdraw US support. What a predicament for everyone who wants the war to continue -- they'd actually have to risk something. And hence, this will all be over very quickly.

It's well known the russian elite contain a large pro-western contingent, though the public in russia is not and much more pro-war than the elite. Putin is looking at a way of returning the economic situation to a pre-war state without angering the public -- without it "all being for nothing" and so on. So the deal Trump will offer will be accepted there, and if it isnt accepted in the EU he'll withdraw US support.

There has not been, to my knowledge, a single proposal by the pro-war axis to achieve any other outcome. And of course not, the pro-war sentiment in the west, is a paper-tiger charade to boost their own credibility and punish russia for informing them that the 2000s are over and the USA is not the lone superpower in the system. That Russia (, and china of course) intend to act like the US in their own spheres of influence, and use their militaries to achive political ends. This was only supposed to be a US privilige.

The world is now a game between US, Russia and China -- and the leaders of these nations are looking to rapidly normalize and stablizle relations -- because they are each their significant threats -- everything else is a distraction. Especially the EU, which will do nothing to change that -- indeed: why bother? Sit back and get rich whilst the bullies waste their money in fights.
The result of trickle down economics and neoliberalism to its core.

Elimination of these “non-critical” agencies are nothing but a drop in the bucket compared to military spending and amounts tax cuts for billionaire parasites.
Inequality is generally accepted as differences in material possessions acquired/consumed or access to services (eg health, travel, whatever). It's fair to aggregate it into "consumption".

Jeff Bezos is literally never cashing in the vast majority of the IOUs he has. The actual difference in his life isn't anything close to that suggested by the difference in net worth between he and I.

Net worth differences aren't a good proxy for actual lived differences. It's off by orders of magnitude. This isn't a groundbreaking idea, Piketty is aware. He discusses it briefly in his book, with handwavy, abstract notions about "power" and "influence", as if that's what most people care about. But, it doesn't sell the same way his nonsense does. So he pedals his nonsense.
How many countries make their own jet engines? US, UK, France ... anyone else?
> I am saying real estate can be a good investment even if it doesn’t go up more than inflation. Do you disagree?

Yes I think so. You need rents to escalate faster than maintenance costs (which are tied to inflation closely) for this to be a good trade. So again - for rent to become relatively less affordable over time.
Not parent, but yes I got medication. The work adjustments were me meeting deadlines, not procrastinating, being able to focus on one task at a time, etc. Absolute game changer. For some of us, it's completely obvious. Some, less so.
It's available in only 25 states because the other half decided not to participate. Just another maddening example in the long story of how the American system makes it very hard to Do Good Things for the average citizen.
> There is more than one narrative and you think only one of them is valid

Not true. I am saying the narratives on HN are mostly one sided, especially the posts that make the front page, some very biased with bad clickbait titles. Comments that counter the narrative properly are sometimes upvoted but a good chunk are downvoted or flagged.

Stories that counter the narrative very rarely reach the front page. You may not even realize such articles exist. From what sources do you get your news from?

Edit:

You haven't addressed why comments saying Daddy Trump aren't flagged or downvoted. Try saying something similar against "the other side".

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I guess you think those comments follow the HN etiquette, if so we are done here. You're just unable to see bias when it's right in your face, or you're being disingenuous, so there's no point trying to have a rational conversation.
Even if Ukraine starts winning, a nuclear strike by Putin would trigger a catastrophic response from NATO and the international community, causing mutual destruction.

Furthermore, with your logic there is nothing stopping Russia from keep chipping away at Europe because everyone is afraid that Russia will use nuclear weapons.

With that rational, you might as well annex the entirety of Europe and call it Russia because Europe wants peace.
This one nearly replaced Internet search already.
I actually think this one is pretty accurate for commercial real estate in particular. I’m in Metro Detroit and either a building is a totally dilapidated wreck in an area that has theft problems, or it’s going for $1~3 per square foot per month on triple net terms (leasee must do all upkeep, pay utilities, etc), which comes out to $100000/year in rent before utilities and such for an empty concrete shell. Worse than that, none of the places anyone lives are anywhere near anything available, so I can’t rent something for a nice big woodshop. At the same time, I can’t build a decent thing as a “garage” on my 2.1 acres due to zoning in my municipality from 25 years after my house was built. At the same time, there’s a bunch of buildings sitting empty with no rent paid. This means that landlord cost structure for light industrial is completely different than you seem to suppose or there would be competition and prices would come down…
$1k/hr? Was it on a private jet?
> The US is simply breaking from the ideology it's had since WW2 that it's in the US' best interest to get involved in every international conflict in the world.

The publicized ideology, is not always the reality. The US has always been involved with every international conflict. The CIA was the formalization of the interest.
I had a bedwetting problem too. It was awful and tormenting, when visiting friends I had to bring clothes and sleep on the floor. Male puberty solved it almost to the day. All of a sudden it was gone and what a relief that was. I think it was just training the lizard brain to hold things a little tighter during sleep, or until then the nerve pathways were not supple enough.
> What happens if Ukraine is given sufficient support to start winning and Putin decides to go nuclear?

That is a possibility. But there is a large cost associated with going nuclear. And that is why he hasn't done it, even after losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Also, if you give Putin what he wants, because he might go nuclear, then the race to develop nukes will really heat up by all non-nuclear nations.

US signed Budapest memorandum. We promised to help defend Ukraine, if it gave up its nukes. Now we are trying to shake them down like a mafia. And also asking them to give in to Putin's demands, without asking Putin to give up anything.

We have fallen very far.
The circle will complete when the co-op spaces install this new system so startup founders can watch their employees. And then the circle will make another loop and VCs can watch the startup founders.
Eh, an exception for a primary home is common throughout the tax codes and the like. Just saying you realize capital gains on an asset used to secure a loan (unless it's a primary residence) would cover that without being out of step with everything else.

Sure, a billionaire could then use their $143M estate as collateral on a loan to avoid realizing the capital gains, loophole, but since you can only have one primary home, it's a very limited loophole.
I said the rich should pay their _fair share_ of taxes, but you immediately took it all the way to “stealing from the rich to feed the poor”.

I think what just happened here is a good example of how far to the right (and towards blatant Aristocracy) we’ve come. The political spectrum is completely blown out to one side, to the point where mentioning paying taxes is considered off brand and bad, instead of patriotic.
Well, we're going to find out, soon, what it's like to have Germany with nukes, with Sweden with nukes, with Finalnd with nukes, with Poland with nukes.

If you're the PM of Estonia, the only thing keeping you safe is either an "agreement" that you'll be protected or nukes. [edit] And agreements, at least signed by the U.S.A. appear to be bankrupt.

So, on what earth do you live on that we're safer now?
there are so many competing language models and companies now that if any one of them fail there will be others
The stated mission is unavoidably at odds with the implementation.

The gains to be had are pointlessly minuscule in comparison to the federal budget and the actual cost to Americans is extreme.
He is not interested in efficient. He is interested in destroying anything that regulates or taxes him.
Yeah I got a prescription. IMO, these are pill farms. Everyone talks about how the medical industry is so driven by money, but somehow when it comes to mental health, people seem to shrug off the fact that everyone from the pharma companies down to the doctors office stands to make money by diagnosing and prescribing.
This has been the excuse for inaction since the invasion of Crimea. Clearly, Russia has no intention of stopping its westward expansion. Eventually we are going to have to bite the bullet.
Also they worked as a shared service taking fees from agencies that required their services and did not have any specific appropriation in the federal budget. This was pure spite and not cost saving at all.
There are folks that don't like anything from Gary Marcus, because he's been a nay-sayer from the beginning. This article happens to be spot on though.
conflicted - people who have admired Elon in the past, how are you feeling about him now?
> I'm 19…

Say no more
Got to make room for the trillion dollar tax cuts. Trickle down economics, right?

Can’t wait for the pitchforks to rise up against the billionaires that created this mess.
Is the threat of Russia using nuclear weapons enough to let it take all of Ukraine? Other countries?

Russia is not going to use nuclear weapons.
> drinking two pots of coffee a day

Adult diagnosis is weird. I’m assuming you were not a child drinking that much coffee. Adults have decades of coping mechanisms obscuring the signal, and yet just talking to an adult with ADHD for an hour will tell you whether the person has ADHD instead of being a stimulant junkie that read the DSM to present manufactured symptoms. It’s exhausting to talk to someone with ADHD for hours if you don’t have exactly the right disposition (like being a polymath or having it too).

They will still often want you to do a sleep study, because chronic lack of quality sleep or chronic stress looks a hell of a lot like ADHD. It’s also why you want the person with ADHD to write or at least copy edit your emergency procedures because they haven’t just adopted chaos, they were born in it, molded by it. They were adults before they ever saw order and to them it was just blinding. They will absolutely write a procedure that won’t skip steps or overly rely on the actors to be calm and present of mind to pull it off.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193268 (3 comments)
I have ADHD (diagnosed ~28 years ago, so well before "it was cool"), and honestly might kind of agree with you in that it could easily be a collection of neurodivergences that just get labelled ADHD. Add to that, lots of overlap with Autism spectrum[1], which probably has the same issue, and likely leads to misdiagnosis of one vs. the other, comorbid diagnosis, and the blunt categorization of neurological conditions which could very well be distinct, and at the very least sometimes have very different collections of symptoms into broader "ADHD" and/or "autism" categories.

[1]: https://neurodivergentinsights.com/misdiagnosis-monday/adhd-...
Reliability is a big part of it - but they are not really all that expensive for what you get IMO, especially in an enterprise context. A BrightSign is effectively a very sandboxed Linux box (you can SSH into them!) which has extremely reliable video and audio output, plus a huge amount of customizability, networking, scripting etc - plus various fleet provisioning/management software that goes with it. In terms of $/minute, the amount you pay ends up being vanishingly small IMO.

Your main “cheap” alternative to a BrightSign is a Raspberry Pi, which is definitely cheaper, but has its own host of issues to deal with.
AI plays Pokémon, but so does π. Tesla's "brand collapse
Failure in big companies is very common too. They lead to reorganisation, retries and new ways of working.
Why is it accepted in the private sector, but not in the public sector?
> I hear outright wrong arguments for why the USA has not moved to a modern filing system.

The argument I always hear from the right about this is that they worry that making taxes more efficient will allow them (and government action in general) to increase. The right is explicitly committed to reducing that, so it's not in their interest.

Same reason I've heard from people on the right about ending withholding. They think that if people had to cut an actual check to the government every year (or quarter) that people would realize how much it's costing them and be more amenable to reducing it.
I’m struggling to understand the logic of your thinking.

Suppose we left Ukraine empty-handed. What do you think will happen next? What do you think the best case and worst case scenarios are? What if the best-case scenario doesn’t come to pass? Would you regret it if Russia expanded its invasions further?
Got it. Thank you. I guess saying “they have been stable after 1955 would have made more sense time than “post-war” but maybe just being pedantic.
> but I couldn't concentrate and procrastinated day after day

Please make sure to take care of yourself and try going through with the diagnosis. What you described is very similar to what I was going through - severe procrastination which resulted in worse and worse performance at work, eventually I had to quit my job because of it. Later I’ve learned procrastination of this magnitude is basically your subconscious screaming at you that something is not right and you should be taking care of yourself instead of forcing yourself to work.

On a side note - ADHD is hereditary so if your children have it there’s a good chance you and/or your SO have it too.
I have heard of this argument many times but it doesn't make sense to me. Most often, the ways to lower taxes come from things like finding new deductions and credits that you didn't know apply to you. This is what the difficult part is. Otherwise, taxes are simple if you just have some W-2 and 1099-INT or 1099-DIV, and claim the standard deduction.

Indeed if taxes are too difficult or painful, a reasonable person would demand that the government simplify taxes, and that's not the same as reducing taxes. But then again maybe they are banking on the masses conflating simplifying taxes and reducing taxes.
Floppy Disk Storage
Would you be making the same argument if it was 3 years into Russia having invaded the US? Why shouldn't they want to continue fighting for their freedom? Why would they believe Putin will honor any peace deal, and not just use it to prepare for his next offensive?
>If you store files properly they won't corrupt.

Chemical degradation of CDs can occur over time even in a relatively stable environment. Flash memory is also known to be volatile and most people aren't storing data on flash memory in a redundant storage system.

>If you're that worried, use ZFS or something similar.

I'm not personally storing stuff on vinyl, nor am I "worried", although I have bought a few vinyl that are over 50 years old that play perfectly.
Manhattan project was good before "public buy-in". It was a massive hit on the day of its public release in fact.