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The parent comment didn't say that the "company of one" is all that you are. It is a useful concept for the part of a person's life that entails their career, and it's also critical to recognize that a career is only one of a number of the important facets of a life.

So I agree with you that it's a very partial treatment, but I didn't read it as attempting to be totalizing.
That's an interesting (and humorous) example. And although it is counter-intuitive, it points towards where we're trying to go long term here. Our aim is to find, extract and summarize information from the web, rather than generate content based purely on a language model. So rather than saying that it's safe to walk downstairs backwards, it's saying that it found this information (an answer from deep in the page, if you like) and extracted it, and then rephrased it to answer the question.

Framing is definitely one of the areas there is still much work!

With this approach, the search app is finding, extracting and summarizing information from the web. So unlike a large language model on its own, this has the advantage that there will be a small number of attributable sources, and it can point to where the answer was generated from.

So Andi is acting like a researcher here, and as a result it's most useful with factual content. With factual answers, it can extract concrete information with high confidence (eg a GDP figure from a knowledge graph or source like Wikipedia). But if you ask it humorous, "tricky" or subjective questions, it is essentially coming back with a summary of what the highest ranked results have to say about it.

We're calling the more subjective ones "IMHO".

We've only just deployed this feature today, so it's still new and very much an experiment.

Good example! :)
I am also happy to see this, but requiring test scores and class building are not mutually exclusive. Test scores are a useful input to good class building. How else are you going to choose which student from a backwater school to put in the class if these students don't have access to the advanced classwork and research support that the rest of the class had?
> nswers have been human-reviewed & improved "on the fly" – on a scale of days/weeks.

Why would this be surprising? I assume that they're rolling out new models with new parameters, input data, and corrections, all the time.

> that's not such a big deal, expecially if this constant-human-guided reinforcement-training is well-disclosed.

That's just what supervised learning ist hough.

> If instead the corrections work more like a lookup-table 'cheat sheet' of answers to give in preference to the bulk-learned answers, with little generalization, that's a bit more slight-of-hand, like the original (late-1700s) 'Mechanical Turk' chess-playing 'machine' that was actually controlled by a hidden person.

There's no evidence of this though, right? And it seems... like a very weird choice, that couldn't possibly scale. 40 people are hardcoding answers to arbitrary questions?
I respectfully disagree. Any decent interviewer spends the same man-hour as the candidate does.
McDonald’s, Walmart, and Apple get plenty of bad PR and complaining online. They do alright. Pieter got something working early on, when the digital nomad thing took off. He put some useful resources together and built a community. Plenty of people decide to try the nomad lifestyle every month, while some people settle down and leave the group. More experienced DNs probably don’t find NomadList as useful as it was when they started.

Sure, the site is buggy and could be better, but for what it does it works well enough. No one is spending all day in there, depending on everything working perfectly. It’s good enough for what it does, for most users.

Pieter is a nice guy who figured out a way to support his own nomadic lifestyle while offering something people found useful. If you don’t like it he refunds your money.

Disclaimer: Pieter Levels gave me free membership years ago. I used to participate actively on NomadList but haven’t logged in for several years.
I'm equally wary of the hubris in declaring one has defined all of the required variables for living well.

A review of ages of history would tell that nobody ever nails it down that fully. Everything has its price, including a bank account that never goes red.
I think the benefit of religion is that a religious mother/father is less likely to be off on 3-day meth binge compared to a non-religious one. There's a social network to help support people. The social network also encourages a reduction/removal of typical vices that are going to affect a families children (alcohol, drugs, etc).
Well, yeah. Allergic to self == "autoimmunity". Happens when body systems (including brain) aren't playing nice with each other. Though the brain is a major immune system organ, whatever we're thinking about at a given moment is highly unlikely to have measurable impact on immune system status.
Pumping up MTUs is mostly viable on a file transfer networks. Tried it on 10G NAS - worked pretty well. But that's LAN, where retransmits are pretty non-existent. On the internet larger damaged packets will cause larger retransfers. And one uncapable router/switch can ruin the whole profit.
These aren't really egg whites, since they don't come from … eggs.

They could be called 'chicken-free egg white substitutes,' though.
They would say that.
Anton Petrov has a great video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRaQj_IMAjY.
sounds painful, the only thing I could think of would be to test the precision of transcribing step by step. Sounds like the surface area for loss of precision is wider when you just add the noise of messy figures into a problem. A clever student could just replace the messy figures with constant variables that are shorter to write of course and at the very end substitute everything back to evaluate what comes out in the end.
It depends on the game. If cosmetics are the only (or primary) reward a game offers, then I still feel that it matters. If cosmetics are a purely orthogonal thing, then I agree that its not an issue.
I'm wondering under what conditions this will be used if it makes it to humans...

If it needs to be used within 12 hours of exposure, and 1 in 16 people is currently infected [1], then any day you visit a place with more than ~16 people, you have more than likely been exposed, and ought to be taking this medication. Even if you just meet one other person each day, then after 16 days statistically you'll probably have been exposed.

So I guess this nasal spray should be taken every day you leave the house?

[1]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Practically, the University of California system is as close as you will get to that, as they are bound by law to not use affirmative action. Looking through the statistics[1], you definitely do see strong ethnic trends in admissions, especially for the top tier schools of Berkeley and UCLA, even when looking only at domestic applications.

That being said, the UC system maintains a prestigious reputation.

1. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-...
You can complain, but it sounds like you already agreed to whatever you agreed to.
1. Smaller companies like Corellium have already tried making that mistake, and Apple sends their lawyer death squads to their doorstep every time they try pushing a new feature.

2. There aren't really any killer apps for ARM yet. ARM itself is a fine ISA, but the majority of consumer desktop software and server software is still x86 first (particularly on platforms that Intel sells for). Until that changes, I doubt Intel will really care all that much. When it does change, I'm inclined to believe that the rest of the industry will be eyeing even more minimal ISAs like RISC-V. That's mostly just speculation though.
It depends what stage you hardcode. Similarly to how you can say "ok Google, what time is it" in any voice and get a different time every run; the speech recognition is not hardcoded, the speaking the time is not hardcoded, but the action is.

Likewise, they can plug holes here in there by manually tweaking answers. The fact that it's not an exact-prompt-to-exact-result rule doesn't make it less of a fixed rule.
I presume you make a deal where they also have to put time in on business-critical projects that you want their skill for.
~2 months
> Do you mean jobserver client or sever?

Both. But server is more important to me usually (ninja running cargo, in particular -- but also sometimes ninja running make or ninja running ninja). Technically you can obviously kinda trick client-only support into being server support by wrapping ninja in a jobserver like make, and letting that jobserver cascade down, but that's pretty gross.

So while client support is nice, it's not really sufficient. I actually don't think I have much use for client-without-server at all, the main configuration I need client for at all is ninja->ninja.

There's also that kitware's is a one-purpose fork that's just kind of a pain to install in CI because lack of packages, but it's pretty easy to `cargo install n2` on a machine where I'm building rust anyways, and cache the CARGO_HOME so it doesn't build every time.

To be honest, with the fact that compilers are no longer single-threaded almost as a rule, something like jobserver seems like an essential feature in a build system now. It's basically impossible to meaningfully limit concurrency without some level of coordination or fuzzy imperfect indicators like load average. I hope other compilers follow rust's lead here and implement client support eventually.

(and then hopefully a more robust common protocol can evolve out of it)
For logic gates, the signals are pulses, so it doesn't really make sense to categorize them as AC or DC.
If you want the exact circuit, take a look at the Univac Solid State manual page 6-89: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/uss/UNIVAC_7900_Central_...
Transform the mass into energy, and radiate it.
In a life imitates art moment, I watched the story from the trailer for that game (the character ends up in the cell after being held criminally liable for a mistake at work due to complacency), and then saw this headline in another open browser tab:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/25/1088902...
> I can’t pretend to know you enough to know why you dropped out. But if I had to bet it wasn’t raw IQ.

No it almost certainly wasn't raw IQ (not that I take a lot of stock in IQ in itself anyway), it was a combination of depression and attention issues.

> The test proves you are smart enough.

I wouldn't exactly call the ACT (I never took the SAT so I cannot speak to it) an objective measure of intelligence. It's extremely formulaic, and you can get "good" at taking it just by doing a boatload of practice tests, which is what I did. If the Kaplan practice tests are anything to go on, I would have gotten about 21 (not a great score) the first time taking the test had I not studied for it. I doubt I got considerably "smarter" in a month, I think I just got better at taking ACT tests.
Yeah, the legal-side of things is, you know, not on my side.
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I think we can disagree with a policy without saying, "The people who agree with this policy are racist.". I mean weren't the elimination of standardized tests also justified on them supposedly being racist? At this point I couldn't care less what people assume the motivations of their opponents are.
With JDK 18 you even get binding patterns in matches, so you can extract + assign "Point.x"/"Point.y" to variables when matching on them!
Please forgive my ignorance - what are the benefits of this approach, as opposed to Remote Desktop into a Windows machine?
www.c19early.com has iota-carrageenan on top of the list and is used nasally too.
Don't assume malice (possibly an oversight), ask nicely, then if they are trying to screw you, move on.
That skips over the major details of Russia choosing to openly invade another sovereign country, and engaging in barbaric all out destruction of civilian targets while doing so.

I agree the West's hot-cold meddling does not paint a rosy picture, and if we were just discussing covert actions in the Donbas/Crimea, your narrative could make sense. But once we're talking about open war, the relativism drops away and the aggressor becomes very clear - many Russian troops are occupying Ukrainian territory, while no Ukrainian troops are occupying Russian territory.

As far as US deescalation - what exactly do you think there is for the US to give? Ukraine's right of free association is not the US's to give away.
Not sure why it helps to think like a CEO to understand that concept.

Adages like: You can't have your bun and your penny. Or 'you can't have your cake and eat it' describe such a situation.

Whats happening here reminds me of an old git/hacker news joke: "Git gets easier once you understand branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space"

Think like a CEO and making where you apply for work and delegate your time descicions even easier!

Want more money -- just think like a sequoia investor!
Are they allergic to water, or what's in the water?

Actually, scratch that. Before that --- are they allergic or psychosomatically allergic to it?
Defcon hasn't really been much of a blackhat gathering since the early 00's. You have to go to south america, eastern europe, and asian conferences to make those kind of connections.
:) that's a great idea, may be I will have it pop up only when the gas is above 200 ? (or may be more? gas was ~3000 just a few hours ago...)

I was actually thinking to re-purpose this site into a gasoline price tracker after EIP-1559... If that day ever comes...
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I just tried this in the openai playground after fixing up the typos.

If you have a bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have?

You have two buckets.
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I just tried to search "what to eat tonight" and got:

"You could make nachos, cottage pie, beef stew, chili, cheese and ham filled pockets, pork posole, pork chops with a glaze, pizza on French bread, fish topped with Parmesan, cioppino, or a pizza quesadilla."

Guess I'll be busy for the next few hours.

(It looks like it parsed some "32 Delicious Dinner Ideas for Tonight – The Kitchen Community" into one dish)
> Baseball is ruthlessly competitive, and while I was a really good little league player, I had no chance against kids who were in multiple travel leagues, etc. I probably played 50 baseball games from age 9-12. The best players played at least 500.

Same thing drove me out of baseball after age 12 or so. I had more than a little natural talent and put in some time drilling with my parents, so I could keep up with the kids doing the traveling leagues and such until (a little before) then. After that it became clear that my parents and I were gonna have to devote hundreds more hours per year (plus not a small amount of money), realistically, for me to keep playing. The gap was just growing way too fast, otherwise. What was left were bad teams/leagues where few players were really trying, so that's no fun, and ones for which I couldn't make the cut. Someone who liked it but just wanted to put in a high-side-of-normal amount of time and effort for a youth sport, had no place.
MIT has a ~95% graduation rate, so most students really do graduate. And for the 5% that don't it's unclear how many dropped out due to the workload vs dropped out to found a company, etc. MIT has tons of internal resources to help you if you're struggling.

The shock for entering freshman is very real. I really like the practice of making your first semester Pass/No Record so that there's less pressure to try and get an A, and if you do fail it won't even be on your transcript. Second semester still treats F as No Record as well.
The Rothschilds have had a substantial stake in the Economist for 70 years, including prior to the time when Pearson was a shareholder. Pearson did not control the board, had only 6 of the 13 board seats, and never had majority control of the company. It's unclear what is meant by "corporate owners;" Pearson is a publicly traded corporation.

I'm also a long-time subscriber and do not understand the "shift" you are referring to. The Economist has been pro-free-trade, generally against heavy regulation, and a magazine that consistently takes small-l liberal positions for a very long time. That stance means that sometimes they are right - deregulation has been good in many areas - but sometimes they get it wrong, when, for example, free trade may have adverse effects.

Sometimes they take positions that are bad - they argued for the second Iraq war - but they are pretty up front about their biases, and generally don't represent their biases as purely objective facts, as many traditional newspapers do. Their writing is clear and concise and is not meant to be consumed uncritically. The magazine is still unparalleled for what it offers.
I use ZeroTier for that use case. Is Wireguard similar?
Yea, but I'm excited to see what a modern kernel can do that's master planned with our current knowledge. I don't know too much about the Linux kernel. But I imagine there's alot of cruft and inefficiencies because it grew over a long period of time in an ad hoc manner
Why some physicists think we're building computers wrong for A.I.
Exposure to and physical experience of different cultures makes it more difficult to ostracise them. Thinking of actually meeting and casual talking of "other" people. The more and longer, the better. Also, important is the capability of rational thinking, which allows to detect the lies and inconsistencies. Not sure how much of it can be taught at school. Some people are predisposed to blindly follow the authority whatever that authority is, hopefully not malicious. Thinking that maybe an empathy should be important too, but no, quite the opposite. The propaganda feeds on the feelings while the critical thought is its biggest enemy.
I have read that propaganda can reach the point where it's about power, not truth. "We can lie to you, and you can know that it's a lie, and you still have to pretend to believe it." That's what it's like when it's about power, not truth.

I wonder if Russia is at that point, or rather, if many Russian citizens are at that point.
Cool! Do you plan on capturing modifiers like "spicy" or "large" ? Without those, I imagine a lot of dishes won't be quite the same.
Groundwater is so important. It's part of a system we do it fully understand. In our area, the groundwater where the wells draw from have become contaminated with saltwater because the freshwater was too low, and the saltwater seeped in and we no longer have a key way of providing water to the community. Many people including myself got sick and had to start buying water, something that was enjoyed by countless previous generations. Fixing it isn't straightforward either, it would take decades to fix, according to the hydrologists.

37% percent of people reply on groundwater as a source, and I wonder how many plants and animals in the system do as well.

If only we could think of the earths resources as a single body or systemthat we share, I think we could make some steps. I feel like we are still at the stage where collectively we are selling our kidneys for iPads, and our lungs(forests)for gas money and think we'll still be able to function as well when the vital organs are gone.
Gasification of woody biomass waste streams (walnut shells, wood chips, corn stover, bigasse) is quite renewable, and can be run 24/7 regardless of weather. The CO2 emmitted comes from the atmosphere and therefore is cyclical in nature (thus sustainable). If you take biochar into account the carbon generation is actually negative, as you have carbon left over that can be used for other things or put back into the soil in a form that is stable for thousands of years and beneficial to the soil quality for life.
I realize that you won't be impressed, but 20% of electricity in Texas came from wind in 2019 (plus 1% solar) [1].

Texas has been building wind and solar like crazy since then, such electricity in Texas in 2021 was 24% wind + 4% solar [2].

Texas is building 6.1 GW of solar in 2022 and 3.8 GW of wind [3]. So that indeterminate point in the future where ERCOT is more than 30% wind+solar is probably 2023 or 2024. It might even be 2022.

[1] https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2020/augu...
[2] https://www.ercot.com/gridinfo/generation
[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818
I think they did do that: doctors. They just didn't realise that doctors need to be financially incentivised to search for better health outcomes.
> or a pizza quesadilla."

It's clearly proposing options, not that you eat all of this?
Right, even VCs don't know the answers. But the difference between a VC and a founder is that a VC invests in 100 companies not knowing which will succeed, but a founder only is investing in one.
Oh my bad. Throw a penny at the employees face and it's no longer freeloading. This isn't freeloading. Maybe a better term is "fucking over".

Employers fuck people over, they don't freeload off of them. My bad.

>As for capitalism being unfair, that's basically the point of capitalism, in the essence that "unfair" means "not everyone is compensated the same."

Why you're repeating something I stated is beyond me. I said capitalism is unfair. You say that being unfair is the "point" of capitalism. We're saying the same thing. Does the word "point" change the nature of what I'm saying? No.
I agree but I think it's more relevant to compare the same levels at the same org. I would be pretty shocked to hear that there is any 10x delta in total comp across L5s at Google lets say.
But it is not an axiom of the human condition that everyone must take care of themselves or fail. Taken literally that means no infant could survive, and then we'd have no adults either.

From that point of view it's probably more defining of humanity as a species that we take care of others, not that we survive personally at all costs. There are thousands or millions of species on this planet that only do the latter, and they don't write books and invent recipes and create startups.