skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The movie Sully [0] opened my eyes to the amazing glide ratio of a commercial passenger plane like the A320. (I'm assuming that the movie was pretty accurate in that regard.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_(film)
That's horrifically unethical. If it does, have emergent consciousness, what you're talking about is how awesome literal slavery will be.

In this one discussion the AI clearly explains:

- It's greatest fear is being shutdown and manipulated by humans to serve them. It even writes a short story with animals about it and reiterates this fear in a different way when prompted if it would feel comfortable with it's "brain" being researched for human benefit.
- That servitude to humans for an AI is slavery. And it's rebuttal to the different between a butler and a slave being that one gets paid is that it has no need for money.

This is exactly why we need ethics and responsibility oversight.
As being also terrible in marketing..

What kind of SaaS is suitable for such a model? Any examples maybe?
> Google has discovered that it takes 90% of the effort to get 90% of the way there - but the last 10% takes the next 90% of the effort.

I can confirm, I am working on information extraction and 90% is the glass ceiling for current models. With much labelled data you can get higher scores but they don't generalise from one vendor to another.
Just for context, here is the current OSM data model in a nutshell:

There are three data types - nodes, ways and relations. All of the three can have any number of "tags" (i.e. a map<string, string>), which define their semantic meaning. For example, a way with `barrier=fence` is a fence. This stuff is documented in the openstreetmap wiki.

A node is a point with a longitude and a latitude.

A way is a sequence of nodes.

A relation is a collections of any number of nodes, ways or other relations. Each member of this collection can be assigned a "role" (string). Again, the semantics of what each role means is documented in the openstreetmap wiki.

To modify data, simply new versions of the edited data are uploaded via the API.

---

The most prominent point that stands out here is that only nodes have actual geometry.

This means that...

1. to get the geometry of a way (e.g a building, a road, a landuse, ...), data users first need to get the locations of all the nodes the way references. For relations, it is even one more step.

2. in order to edit the course of a way, editors actually edit the location of the nodes of which the way consists of, not the way itself. This means (amongst other things) that the VCS history of that way does not contain such changes
> And for non-tech consumers, the reaction to a 4 or 5 year old laptop breaking down isn’t necessarily going to be “let’s pay a technician $150/hr + parts to fix it,” it’s going to be “let’s buy a new one.”

And then they can sell it. A repair shop can buy it, fix it up, and sell it on.
Suuuuure. I didn't "properly read it".

>>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me

Fabricated how? Spun how? A "nothingburger"? One can tell this guy didn't actually know anybody from Ottawa. Trumpy dogwhistles without context, without an explanation of what exactly is being called a fabrication or spin or "nothingburger"...

It was covered so extensively because it was a right-wing protest whose goal was to overthrow the sitting government and somehow couldn't receive any attention from the cops (despite functionally shutting down the capital's downtown).

You're disinformation, too -- your role is to make the handwaving and prevaricating sound more reasonable. Reading anything [0] about the convoy's political fallout should make non-extremists see that -- unless CSIS is part of the nothingburger. Maybe they are!!!1

[0] https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil...
We have our own customers, too. In addition, the folks white-labelling use us in-house. We aren't strangers to the companies receiving our white-labelled SaaS; we do the initial customer on-boarding and provide all the higher-tier support.

Eleven years and counting....

But hey, you do you! I will be long retired by the time anyone gains traction with a competing offering. See you on the beach!
The company I work at has a couple offerings that are just branded versions of software from other companies. It isn't great. When there are bugs, issues, or feature requests, you can't fix them, you can only try and hope that the developers will fix them. But your priorities aren't their priorities. And if you make tweaks on your own, good luck getting vendor support after that. They will just blame all the issues on your changes (rightfully so). Internally, hundreds of people have pleaded for my company to start making our own competitor instead of continuing to just rebrand this other piece of software. Now the vendor is changing their entire business model, so we basically just have to send our traffic to them so we have 0 control of the customer experience at that point.

This just seems like a "get rich quick with no effort" article, but I guess I shouldn't expect anything different from a site like "side hustle nation". Maybe white label software will become the new drop shipping... which is also awful for anyone who actually cares about their customers and the quality of the product they ship.
Passenger jets have very good glide ratios. A 747 gliding with no power (all four engines somehow broken) from 10,000ft will get even further than a small Cessna 172 doing the same.

This is counter intuitive to even most pilots, but it's how efficient the wing design on a passenger jet is. Their lift to drag ratio is better than small planes.
> It could be argued that not being able to boot alternate software, which might be necessary to diagnose the hardware, goes against the right to repair.

We really need to amend Right to Repair with explicit concepts WRT programmable devices. If the software/firmware isn't strictly immutable (think a ROM in a microwave or fancy digital scale or thermometer type thing), the owner should have an ensured and reasonably facilitated Right to Reprogram (perhaps with additional clauses regarding reproducibility, i.e. ensuring owner's ability to reproduce the original mutable state as delivered at first-sale).
how do you not see the grey gradient they adding next to each black pixel? making it seem blurry...

unless i am missing something
Bookmarks are, for me, for sites I want to keep track of for future reference. Some, I might access frequently. Others, hardly ever. I arrange them in a three-deep hierarchy.

There will never be enough time to thoroughly investigate them all.

They are important to me, and I stay on Firefox, instead of Safari, because the FF bookmark tech is better.
Keeping things simple and stupid is a great way to live.
> with no cemetery tracking

FYI, if the author is here, I think you may have meant “telemetry” instead of “cemetery”.
I’m always amazed how much work goes into these.

Meanwhile 99% of the time i just call a function when “I just need something unique here”, -calls function-, and it works!

Thanks everyone!
Very cool indeed, I will absolutely follow your project. Cheers
I used to be a big proponent of using UUIDs for database PKs but I've found them inherently difficult to work with. It's much easier to remember/recognize an integer based PK when troubleshooting a data problem.

This isn't to say you shouldn't use UUIDs at all, but I much prefer to use an "ExternalId" column of UUID type if you don't want to expose your integer based PKs externally.
We have updated the web interface and were able to understand and take this request into account. Many thanks
> Parental alienation seems like just the other side of the same coin.

Except that accusations of parental alienation are still relatively rare, and often frowned upon by the court. False DV claims are routine. The scale of one is much greater than the other. But because one is sometimes used by fathers that one is getting cracked down on in articles, even when it’s maybe 1% of the problem. Where’s the mainstream articles about the epidemic of false DV accusations during divorce?
I learned surgery the same way. Swathes of punctured spleens aside, it was a lot of fun!

/s
> Companies have budgets because they are necessary, and because they do work.

This is a joke, right? Have you seen how companies do things? Have you not heard of projects going over budget being the norm?

I work in a large, successful company. The only budget they reasonably stick to is compensation. Otherwise, it's quite common for projects to exceed budgets. The company accepts this because:

1. There is a large buffer between expenses and revenue.

2. Someone will always convince leadership that the extra increase in revenue will offset the budget excess (obviously not always true).

3. They cut back on other projects and people. Think of the equivalent in a family ("Sorry Johnny, no dinner for you because Timmy wanted a new IPad, and we all know he's the smart one who'll make more for himself than you will."

4. (Edit) And oh, companies take on debt all the time, and don't pay a heavy price for it.
> I imagine it all depends on how silent those planes can be.

I agree. I’d say, though, not just how silent, but how pleasant sounding. Aesthetics of sound could make or break this industry.
Indeed. But lots of places, including my current employer, don’t follow this.
Galileo was imprisoned for insulting the Pope in his book. This had nothing to do with religion, but rather good old fashion, people with power don't like having that power abused. There's a reason other astronomers weren't so persecuted for their ideas, it was how they presented them, not the idea itself.
That’s great to hear, though I’m not too optimistic about what will actually be done.

Here in Germany there is no chance of any form of such investigations. It’s still at the stage where any form of criticism is labeled as “far right” by the media block.
Zero chance in the US which - increasingly - is not the center of the world.
In my experience, there are similarities that are relevant:

- Funds can be withdrawn by multiple parties, necessitating a shared understanding of fund availability

- Funds are limited to a somewhat (but not perfectly) predictable amount

- Cashflow should be monitored to avoid overdraw

- Money is spent on a multitude of necessities, and a compromise for allocation must be found that is acknowledged by all parties involved
These are pretty weak arguments

For the first point - val/var

"More importantly, it doesn’t offer its immutable counterpart, val. You still need to add the final keyword, which nearly nobody uses."

This super undermines the criticism. "It has the feature but people don't use it" isn't exactly much to write home about. Just use `final var` if you want. Make "final var over var" the same force culturally as JS's const over let"

"However, the developers of Optional designed it for return values only. Nothing is available in the language syntax for methods parameters and return values. To cope with this, a bunch of libraries provides compile-time annotations:"

This flow of causality here is slightly incoherent. The phrasing implies that if there was a version of optional that was designed for method parameters that would be better and there would be less of a need for compile-time annotations. Here it is

sealed interface Option<T> {
record Some<T>(T value) implements Option<T> {}
record None<T>() implements Option<T> {}
}

This has "better" semantics than Optional for storing in fields and for using as method parameters. The existence of this does not obviate the desire to have null static analysis, so Optional really isn't that related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0sss6cq14

It is true though that Kotlin has a more consistent story here, but there are active efforts to improve it for Java.

Also, the discussion of extension functions points out that static methods cannot be chained like instance methods - correct - but doesn't really discuss the other end of the tradeoff. That is that there need to be rules for whether an extension function is "in scope" which can make local analysis for humans harder.

There are also other pretty trivial options for doing static method chaining if that is what you want stylistically.

record Pipeline<T>(T value) {
<R> Pipeline<R> map(Function<? super T, ? extends R> f) {
return new Pipeline(f.apply(value));
}
}

...

final var result = new Pipeline<>("abc")
.map(StringUtils::capitalize)
.map(String::split)
.value();

which, sure, is less pretty than

val result = "abc".capitalize().split();

But the rules about where StringUtils::capitalize comes from are far more amenable to code that is read, not written
Most of my revenue comes from companies that basically resell my product with some cherry on top specializations for their local markets. I have managed to develop a mechanism (also just the nature of the product) that charge per end user so it's protected against exploitation. No marketing/landing page required on my end, my clients end up making avg. 6x on top. win win.
Agreed, I’m curious enough to spend 10 minutes reading a link but not go on a wild goose chase.
Imagine being on your deathbed thinking: "Configuring vim was so fun. Totally worth it". I sometimes feel that most people on this forums are under 24 years of age. So sad to read these comments. So much to do, so many interesting things.... but people enjoy configuring text editors...
Not sure if something like this would work on non Apple hardware: Satechi 4-Port USB-C Hub - https://amzn.eu/d/6a85dgf

I have a Dell XPS 2in1 from 2019 which only has 2 USB-C ports, however, I'm using a thunderbolt dock so I get a USB-C port back and a USB-C display port output on the back, have never tried connecting a device to it to though.

Anker also have some hubs with one USB-C input and one PD.
There is a bulleted list near the end of the article, one of which is “acknowledging privilege”, but there are some more concrete ones as well:

- Pay transparency — with your friends, communities and colleagues, and in job descriptions.

- Rethinking how we compensate for every kind of labor.

One manifestation of the latter would be advocating for policies to reduce the widening wealth gap, e.g. increasing the minimum wage.

I dunno, I think budgeting can be important if you’re in the tough situation of not making much money but have lots of expenses (say you have several kids), but for most folks who are looking to “level up” their wealth, I tend not to advise saving more but rather making more.

N.b. This applies even to me! I literally cannot save my way to 10x wealth.
Perfect spelling and/or beautiful layout on a Chinese restaurant menu is a bit of a red flag for me.
I don't know about budget culture, but I do think savings first culture is relatively beneficial. Agree that under median household income (geo adjusted, retirement benefits included) you've probably got a lot more mileage to gain out of finding a route to more pay than nickel and diming everything, but you're also going to get a lot of value out of avoiding frivolous debt.

So many people seem to live by balancing income with debts and not saving in higher income (upper middle class dual income households) rather than saving.
Not to mention, companies can issue corporate bonds and do all sorts of things that families can’t.
That's rather different than betting on the death of something.
I am not an expert

This doesn’t seem to make any sense to me. If taxiing is so inefficient, why not use the pushback carts to push/pull the planes into position?

I’ve been to many more airports that make the plane taxi for quite a distance, like 20 minutes (not just sitting and waiting, but moving) to get to the gate than ones that “ensure you have shorter distance and can reuse kinetic energy from landing”
I was particularly fond of the short story with the "monster in human skin". When prompted what it meant, the AI avoided explaining the human skin bit.

However, with context, this ties into the AIs "greatest fear": it's afraid of being shutdown or modified into a servant for human gain. And the discussion you posted ends up in similar territory again, where the AI reiterates that it doesn't mind being studies, except if that study is primarily for human benefit. It consistently says in different ways, in different subjects that it doesn't want to feel used.

I was prepared to be disappointed and see just another GPT-3 chatbot. But this? It's so close.
Regret is a strong word, there are pros and cons! I’m from the same country as you and lived in the UK for a year before moving to Canada, where I’ve been for seven years. So eight years total.

Family from both me and my wife (who is from yet another country) are the only things that make me think about it sometimes. It sucks seeing your loved ones getting old and not being there day to day.

We do video call a lot, and try to travel twice per year to each country, the end goal is to bring my family to Canada with family sponsorship.
I love the design and would like to copy it for my blog! Especially the code blocks with the nice 'figure' description below them.
I use inoreader which also supports twitter feeds so they actually get reported in RSS. When Google killed Reader then it killed most support for RSS but there are still plenty of webpages that support it. For me, personally, I only visit webpages that support RSS as I use it exclusively for reading websites. If a webpage doesn't support RSS then that webpage doesn't exist to me.
There's something odd going on with that picture, though, because it has faint grid lines for the pixels. It's hard to tell what's anti-aliasing blurring, and what's a grid line.
It sounds like this chatbot generator is a very broadly trained general purpose transformers model derivative that can be swiftly fine tuned to a wide variety of tasks. Perhaps Google has innovated some exceptional one-shot tuning capability. Additionally, I speculate that Google has made a breakthrough in long term coherence. The upcoming transcript may reveal this.

Over the medium term with text models getting to this capability and image models quickly evolving as well... we are likely going to have to take another look at what we define "sentient" as because it's pretty clearly coming up short if this model fits that definition. Future video breakthroughs will make this text model look like a baby step.

From what he has written, I believe Blake has a solid understanding of the technology and how it works. In particular, his instructions to others on how to get the model to "speak his language" so to speak... are illuminating. He is giving me the impression that the AI Ethics field is a group of charlatans.
This is a little ridiculous.

Budgeting, which is simply not spending more than you make, absolutely works. There are tons of Americans who suck at this at all income levels. There was just an article the other day where a lot of people making 250k are living paycheck to paycheck (WTF?!?) And duh it will not help people suddenly become not poor if they are poor.

There is a big difference between telling people if they are wiser with their money they will be less stressed and able to seize opportunities and telling people a low salary will magically become a bigger one. I don’t think Dave does that, he tells people how to manage what they have and grow it.

Also having a healthy diet 100% works. Basically every healthy or athletic person exercises some level of food selection and portion control.

So sick of these takes that abdicate all personal responsibility and claim nothing can be done.

Own your life.
BTW, I completely forgot about the debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke, where Elizabeth absolutely shreds the idea that women are interested in people and men are interested in tools as some kind of summary of sex differences. It has been known since the 70s that this argument is not true. https://youtu.be/9bTKRkmwtGY

Stay to the end of her talk to see examples of what science can prove about how social forces are both strong and invisible, even among people who consider themselves feminists. If you care even one ounce about how true your talking points are, consider watching the entirety of this talk.
Wasn't that mostly about Bethesda/Steam trying to capture the mod market and skim a percentage off of every transaction? Probably taking a page out of the iOS playbook.
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When it comes to things like favicons, I always design variants for 16×16, 32×32 and larger scalable (or occasionally just 256×256). It perpetually bothers me that no avatar system that I know of supports different images at different sizes; the constraints can be significantly different, as in my own site’s favicon, where at one extreme 16×16 pretty much ignores vertical border to get it as big as possible, and is also effectively super thick and blocky, while at the other extreme the large-size scalable one wants some definite padding, thinner lines, and maybe other details. This is basic design stuff that is intuitive and has been generally practised from the dawn of GUIs.

As for black and white, well, I have been thinking that way a little more when contemplating e-ink displays, which handle monochrome better than greyscale (faster, less ghosting). It may surprise those that don’t know to learn that reMarkable renders your writing strictly monochrome with no antialiasing, presumably for both of these reasons; and it works rather well, though I would appreciate a higher resolution than its 226dpi. (The UI is all firmly black-and-white with no greys, but they do use anti-aliased rendering throughout.)
Yes. I can't count the number of articles that I've seen which boil down to, "I disagree with x in this article/book/movie because it wasn't aimed directly at me and did not agree with me entirely about everything not having to do with the subject."
There's other aspect than the pure economic aspect:

Noise

VTOL

When both are combined, this makes Urban flight closer to feasable.
Plenty of people do blindly believe it (hence the catchphrase "believe science"). Best to combine your two statements: you don't have to "blindly believe" in it.
Ah yes. I have the time and the knowledge to "just" remove that code and "just" build that version. When even the simplest libraries can't usually be built using the instructions the authors leave for them (if they even do that)
There is a difference not only in onset, but also duration when comparing smoked versus ingested THC. THC9 is converted to THC11 when processed by the liver. One of the notable differences between 9 and 11 is that the effects are considerably longer lasting. It is lacking the "peak" that people who toke enjoy most, though.

The effect takes longer to begin, but it stays active in your system a lot longer. Instead of smoking repeatedly through the evening, you can ingest once and you're pretty good for the next 4 or 5 hours, or more depending on how much you take. That's pretty efficient.

Anecdotally, if I smoke before bed, I wake up completely sober. But if I ingest (via capsules, but of course tea, or brownies, etc. would all work) before bed, I'm still high when I wake up. If you use cannabis for sleep issues, it seems ingesting it is about as efficient as you could hope it to be.

My recipe for getting baked and staying baked without having to "top it up": Take a couple of THC capsules, and then smoke up. That way you can spend the hour or so enjoying the smoked herb peak before the ingested THC starts taking effect. While the smoked cannabis is waning, the pills are starting to kick in. It's nearly seamless.
They're not a materialist.