skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The key roadblock to achieving human-level language understanding in AI systems is the lack of a comprehensive model of human language and cognition. While large amounts of data and powerful algorithms can help improve the performance of language models, ultimately a better understanding of how human language works and how it is processed by the brain is necessary to build truly intelligent language systems. In addition, the ability to integrate multiple modalities such as vision, speech, and gesture, and to handle the complexity and variability of real-world language use are also important challenges to be addressed." -- you know who
I've asked it to clean up my code including Makefiles and stuff. A lot of it is way cleaner and higher quality. Maybe that says more about me than ChatGPT.

This is scaring the shit out of me.
Yes, it's called reality. It's only a paradox for obsessive right brains, pushing their glasses up their noses, pointing their fingers in the skys, grunting smacking noises, semantics!

Multiple things can be true at once. MHL hurt cyclists, and having a helmet on makes your head hurt less when you fall.

Cyclist safety is _not_ an individual responsibility. It's a collective one. Mandatory helmets promote a state of affairs where cycling is considered a leisure opt-in activity, a fig leaf for shameless victim blaming when drivers do run into a cyclist (should have worn a helmet har har). The collective psychology of drivers,
- reckless, inconsiderate, entitled - combined with a street design that actively encourages speeding and reptile-brain fueled jostling for position is what is hurting cyclists. This is why mandatory helmet laws are harmful, they are actively nurture a deadly collective mindset.

Plus, we are not making drivers where helmets. In a crash, having their head packaged inside a helmet will benefit drivers too. So maybe let's start there.
They will probably manage. People manage to become programmers without having to learn how basic electronics, cpus, operating systems, etc work. You just skip over those solved problems.
Sure a full fledged programming stack will obviously have a more mature tdd facilities. this if you choose to write sql .

sql vs spark is probably a discussion for another time :0

> This just looks like a messier, more unclear way to test some SQL.

As a software engineer I've written my own share of unit tests. They are supposed to be documentation of how a unit might work but it rarely ever works in that way.

I found that to be more true for CSV tests for sql

https://github.com/EqualExperts/dbt-unit-testing#different-w...

because they are always in the same format , input csv -> output csv

I am more motivated to look at the tests to see what sql is doing. Its pretty straight forward.
Just FYI, anyone who wants to play any of the Marathon games, be advised that they have been available open source for a long while now:

https://alephone.lhowon.org/
>In the UK....

we've just pissed away 700 billion on measures that most of the population banged pans on Thursday for.

my sympathy is running out.
If your children are infertile, you are from an evolutionary perspective a dead end.
In an interesting side note, even Warren Buffet (the manager of Berkshire Hathaway) is a proponent of index funds. He made a $1 million bet in 2008 that and index fund tracking the S&P 500 could beat a hedge fund portfolio over the next 10 years, which he ended up winning in 2017.

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
There's already caselaw about a lot of that.

Also, SCOTUS and other federal courts frequently do rule in favor of religious rights regardless of whether the person asserting them is Christian.

Not always, but it's not like they conspicuously don't.
I had no idea this was a new feature but used this today. It was extremely convenient!
Works fine here, Edge 107
I'm sure you know this, but just to point out, we're no more "overdue" for a supervolcano because it's been longer than average since an eruption than a gambler is "due" to win because they've pulled the arm on their slot machine enough times. (Though iirc some volcanoes are periodic. But unless I'm quite mistaken, supervolcanoes aren't periodic globally.)
But that sort of problem solving often has nothing to do with computer science.
I honestly can't think of another table that's close to as fun as MM, it's got the perfect vibe and so many neat little table features. MM was also the first table where I started to learn the objectives (I can get the multiball with pretty decent consistency now). And again, it's probably the fairest table I'm aware of, I very seldom say "that was bullshit!" when playing MM.

Most of my prior pinball experience was just "bang in a few quarters and watch the lights flash until you lose." Imagine my surprise to find that those little cards on the tables actually tell you how to play :)

My 50M play was a magical one, I lucked out in all kinds of ways. My average is around the 25-30M range (on good runs, I'm still not good enough that I don't occasionally flame out near 1M haha)
> AI training data is invisible. It doesn't know how it knows something

You should be accustomed to being surprised by AI. There is of course a new kind of transformer that takes input a query and outputs document IDs. Like a search engine retriever and ranker all packed into a neural net, very fast and efficient. So you can take any paragraph generated by the model and attribute it to the training set. This could be used to implement verification or retrieval augmented generation.

A Neural Corpus Indexer for Document Retrieval

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02743
That's inside a single muscle. This is a whole bird where the inside has been messed with extensively.
So either the google search is very good or the AI is not adding any value compared to a „dumb search“?

Which one is it?
This is basically propaganda. Have several friends from Russia, and much to the dismay of some of them, Putin's popularity is widespread, the economy, while not stellar, is in good shape, and the general population has rallied around the government as a result of the sanctions.

People tend to forget that not all of Putin's claims are propaganda and that Russia had some legitimate security concerns. The situation of ethnic Russians in the Donbas was a legitimate pain point for the Russians.

Of course, I will be downvoted and flagged like there is no tomorrow. But maybe some of you will start asking questions that the western governments would prefer you don't ask, just like with WMDs in Iraq.
No less than an hour ago I found myself googling "endoscopy wifi password" and laughing.

The bluetooth endoscopy / ear camera I have has its own little wifi router inside. The thing looks like a pen flashlight. You stick it in your ear, use your "smartphone" to connect to the wifi and using an app shows the video inside my ear. And I'm wondering what happens if I can't recover the password. Vaguely wondering if there is somebody in China who can see inside my ear now (er... no)
If your grandfather had the right to vote without complicated ID requirements, then you do too.
The article speaks of success in terms of talent plus hard work.

I posit that perhaps Social factors are the third key contributor to outcomes.

e.g. in simple terms: imagine genius twins, separated at birth, one raised well in a functional family and taught a work ethic and counselled on his life's path, becoming popular and charismatic among his peers, and the other in a broken family with little guidance or resources, socially shunned, with life an endless lesson about lack ... and it's arguable that such factors play as much, if not more, part in outcomes than anything the individual can personally do or decide, /within the limitations of their own experience/.

At least, until later in life, when hindsight and context allow more objective evaluations.
If it leads to total chaos (which I think it's going to) I could easily see governments trying to enact the following:

- A public blockchain or database for ID purposes, with every ID traceable back to a real human. Legislation created that mandates all websites implementing user profiles for any social purpose to require an official ID on signup and every user must be identifiable on the platform by their real name.

- Access to AI only under strict restrictions. Official apps you're allowed to use with the government banning all others. Big Tech will happily comply with the censoring because they are the designated official AI app providers.

- Photorealistic AI and Video banned entirely because the potential to incite violence through fake videos is too high. Imagine Pizzagate or Jan 6th but someone made a Blair Witch style video showing Biden and Pelosi killing a baby as members of a secret cult. Or someone made a video of one of their enemies committing animal abuse and sending it to everyone in the town.

- Exams will make up the entirety of your grade in most educational environments apart from those where AI cannot be used for creating the coursework.

- Anyone caught using non-official AI or abusing AI will be subject to harsh prison time akin to hacking state secrets.

Of course, the government and its agencies will have access to all of this technology for their own purposes so they will be able to create whatever they want to control you, your thoughts and society's perception to be whatever they want it to be. As this isn't really preferable to the complete chaos it's trying to control, more and more people will try to disconnect from the internet as much as possible. The IRL economy will grow and there will be a resurgence in analogue forms of media for counter culture types. There may even be a resurgence of interest in blue collar trade jobs if white collar jobs are decimated and wages plummet.

We are on the precipice of 1984.
What is historically the highest % of US households with TV?

(Paywall. And that is the most aggressive form I've ever battled.)
no need to need luck - we'll extinct ourselves with co2 quite soon, gg
> I would love to own a table but they're shockingly expensive, maybe someday!

MM has always been on the higher end (or at least for the last long while). And pricing went crazy during covid. But it's a great table, so there's that. Probably fiddly to keep working with all the dodadds though. Personally, I like the very end of the alphanumeric era, right before DMDs came and started stopping the game to show you animations, but collectors seem to prefer DMD games.

Most games you can do a good job of advancing the plot by just shooting for the flashing shots, but maybe avoid center shots, unless you have a good setup, because a missed shot may be hard to recover, although the trolls can be hard to recover from a hit too. Advancing the plot usually results in good scores.

In terms of video pinball that's not virtual physical tables, Demon's Tilt is fairly new, and pretty fun. I was deeply amused when I got a ball stuck and had to use the 'call attendant feature' and got some sort of bonus. But like a lot of video pinball, at some point it is too much a game of skill, and you can have epic ball times and then it's kind of boring.

Yoku's Island Express is also interesting, it's several years old now, and widely ported. It's an adventure game with pinball segments. Boss battles are pretty fun, imho
> We have a national ID issue which needs to be fixed.

What is that issue? It is not apparent to me that REAL ID solves a real problem.
Isn’t that our current goal? (Our meaning NATO/Ukraine.)

Sounds like we’re getting the closer to our mission accomplished moment.
> How many people need to understand how a compiler works to sling some code for a paycheck

Only the ones who want a good job.

One of the consequences of automation has been a widening gap between top jobs and ordinary jobs. It's plausible that AI will continue the same process. Many jobs that pay well and are intellectually and socially rewarding today may become similar to airport security checks in the future. You observe what a machine does, double-checking its conclusions and looking for anything out of ordinary. And you often fail at that, because the human brain is poorly suited for such tasks.

When the future is uncertain, its good to have a deeper and wider understanding of things than what your current job requires.
I'm not against using O&G tax revenue for early education and the like, but I struggle to see why this needs to be in the constitution of the state. A law would have sufficed. Basic legal documents like constitutions should be confined to negative rights (freedom from the government doing something to you) instead of getting creative with positive rights (freedom to have something that the government needs to provide you with, on the backs of taxpayers). See Chile[0] for an example of a place that tried to achieve utopia by writing it into a constitution.

Plus, the exact details of the thing seem ill-advised: according to TFA, it would make child care free for families that don't appear to need it, like a family of four making $111k a year (in a state with low cost of living), twice the state's median income.

[0]: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/09/08/chile-s-rejection-o...
I don’t think anyone knows. I gave it the famous syllogism:

> All men are mortal
> Socrates is a man
> Is socrates mortal

To which it gave a very detailed and correct reply. I then tried:

> All cats are white
> Sam is a cat
> Is sam white?

To which it gave an almost identically worded response that was nonsensical.

I personally do not think it is the size of the model in question, it is that the things it does that appear to reflect the output of human cognition are just an echo or reflection. It is not a generalizable solution: there will always be some novel question it is not trained against and for which it will fall down. If you make those vanishingly small, I don’t know, maybe you will have effectively compressed all human knowledge into the model and have a good-enough solution. That’s one way of looking at an NN. But the problem is fundamentally different than chess.

I think this composed with more specialized models for things like identifying and solving math and logic problems could make something that truly represents what I think people are seeing the potential in this. Something that encodes the structure behind these concepts, is extensible, and has a powerful generative function would be really neat.
Interestingly, I had Enterprise squarely in my head as the budget option compared to Hertz, who I always had down as the "pricey but better service" option (at least if you exercised the Gold program, etc.)

Not sure if I'm strictly a victim of effective marketing, or if they flipped places in the last however many years, or what, but it's interesting to see your post and the replies that imply I've got it backwards.
Well, we’re kind of getting into word-games that I’m not sure are that meaningful, but I was thinking of the statement “the best flavor of ice cream is chocolate” where “best” means something like “the one that brings the most joy/utility/hedonic units/whatever.” I say it’s a truth rather than an opinion because it might well be testable in some way, such as by monitoring pleasure centers in my brain—but I say it’s subjective because that truth only has me-scope, not global scope. We’ve all met that person who stubbornly insists that the best flavor of ice cream (or whatever) for them must be the best for everyone, and somehow doesn’t grasp that others’ subjective experiences are different. That’s what I mean by subjective vs. objective truth.
Some do, sure. But thankfully at least where I live governments (both state and local-level) have seen the benefits of improving cycling infrastructure and are continuing to do so. A good many car drivers are quite happy to not have to share roads with bikes too! Well-built cycling infrastructure makes roads better for all users, esp. if it can reduce the number of unnecessary car trips.
EFT is also very different in that they rely on a large grey market to drive sales. Real Money Trading is a huge problem, people will buy a cheat, use them to obtain lots of in game money, and then sell this in-game money to people for FIAT.

If EFT bans a cheater, they're effectively getting another sale, because the cheater will come back and make money off the grey market once more. The result is that you have tons of cheaters, and EFT only needs to make broad strokes efforts at curbing them to keep existing players happy.
oops private video now lol
I think I got a similar laundry list from ChatGPT when asking a similar question, hmmm...
ChatGPT is quite constrained now.

Yesterday it wrote me a PSG chip emulator in Python and driver code to play The Good The Bad & The Ugly theme song.
The song was initially quite off, but I managed to iteratively get it pretty close.
Impossible to have it output even a fraction of that now.

How are you Hackers currently faring?
lol, I'm sure you could shaggy-dog any joke this way.

I remember the Leisure Suit Larry punchlines, and wonder if you could reverse engineer jokes from the punchline, or make up punchlines and see if there's a joke to be made.

"...and there stood the pig and the cow!"
Looks like your article refers to aerial strikes. How on earth did you read "gunfire" and think "Predator drone"?

Not that the American military doesn't indiscriminately kill people, but you're free to look up RoE for ground troops and discussions thereof yourself.
One can kinda do this with Discord.
To me, the way you've signed off with "Don't go to medical school" reads vaguely like "Carthago delenda est" - I have no idea if you actually say this all the time, but I wonder if you do.
What was your prompt for this comment?
macintosh.js (https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/) is an Electron packaged version of an earlier iteration of the BasiliskII Emscripten port.
<click click click> this is fun, I should show it to the kids
<scroll, scroll> hmm
<scroll, scroll> ...
<deletes from browsing history>

The kids have enough lingering anxiety from the pandemic I think
> Putin's popularity is widespread

Most sources agree on this. Even the war per se remains popular.

> the economy, while not stellar, is in good shape

The data do not show this, but sure. The harm is in long-term capital and workforce degradation, not anything acute.

> situation of ethnic Russians in the Donbas was a legitimate pain point for the Russians

Ethnic Russians are well treated by Moscow. Nobody predicts they'll create problems for the Kremlin. This article name drops the Caucusus. But there are various Turkic, Chechen and Siberian populations who would be the first to be expected to break from the Kremlin, albeit not imminently.

None of what you've said contradicts the article's thesis. The Russian state is weakening, and, if it continues on this trajectory, will lose control of its peripheries.
Mercado Libre Files Antitrust Suit Against Apple in Mexico and Brazil
Delegating ID to states (ID & driver's license) and states delegating to local jurisdictions (birth certificate) for identity actually makes sense. At the Federal level, they confirm and issue IDs for employees, people who work at Federal locations, and people who want to travel outside the US.
There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings by Kenn Amdahl
There are plenty of examples where the young renegades veered off and produced their own products in an AOC or DOC region. It just means the onus of marketing is upon themselves.

It just makes more sense to create a brand that binds hundreds of producers together by standards. Everyone on average is better off.
I suspect a lot of it's inertia from before the choice mattered or was actually reflected on (though I guess there are still plenty of projects changing).

It's easy, most projects can satisfice with it, and people on the projects that can't satisfice with it may not think about markup enough to realize they're painting themselves into a corner until they have a big ballast of existing documentation to cope with?

I've been fumbling around for how to convey signs that a project may need better tools (https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_color_is_your_markup/) but it's been slow-going and I'm bearish on how well ~better-practices will spread.
Both of the ex-McKinsey people I've worked with have been decent.
I'm wondering and pondering, when they'll get up to speed, investigating smoking first-class weed? Not the street shit from town, but lovingly grown from best seeds, satisfying all needs.
There are definitely funds that beat the market over long stretches of time.

SCHD beats SPY total returns over the past few years, for example. Its an ETF, but could just as well be a passive mutual fund. Many CEFs do as well.

Not sure the conclusion drawn here is accurate
Did you recently buy a refurbished piece of hardware like an SSD or something? Activision has hardware based bans, I was reading some reports of people buying a used SSD or even mixed-new-used stock SSD's that people had cheated on and then returned.
> I fall off my bike and hit my helmet on pavement once every couple of years or so.

That seems extremely unusual. Are you MTBing / using skateparks / etc?
Ah! Very good point!! Thank you.
why did the artist paint the photobucket logo on all of their illustrations?
So why don't you just read/watch the same stuff together?
We were pretty liberal with posting to our status. page for years and thought it was The Right Thing to do. I still do, to a point.

But, what ended up happening was a competitor who didn't have a status page at all would use our status page against us in the sales process. They just never mentioned their lack of a status page to compare to.

This was the same competitor who went 100% down for ~4 days during the busiest month of the year and only posted updates to a private Facebook group. There was data loss that was never publicly admitted to.

So, yeah, we implemented reasonable boundaries on what constitutes a post to the status page. We also adopted a new status page provider that let us get more granular with categorizing posts, and allowing users to subscribe to only "urgent" channels that pertain to them.
I wonder if people with higher vitamin D levels are more likely to touch grass. It's good for your immune system to go outside.
I think it's a funny example of great UI discoverability still having failures. I say great because having the tilt keys adjacent to the paddle keys seems like a setup for accidentally hitting tilt in a moment of heat, thereby leading to discovery of the tilt keys. Though perhaps 'moment of heat' is exactly when the player is least likely to realize they hit the wrong key.
If demand spikes then more efficient ways of harvesting heavy water will be invented. It's just not a big commodity.
Having a national ID and carrying it are two separate things. Many Americans already have a national ID (passport) and do not carry it.

Conversely, the most common state ID (driver's license) is effectively mandatory to carry at all times for most Americans because it is required to drive a motor vehicle and driving a motor vehicle is required to move around outside of major urban areas.
There’s only one significant mail provider that supports JMAP.
It's been much better here in Ballard. I can actually use the bike lanes on 8th Ave. again.