skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems are

- how to store data

- how to interact between user and other agents

- how to render

- how to curate the requisite “fun” through rules and actions
That doesn't seem right? https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6650a1.htm sounds like the general trend is obesity declines with income and education, although more strongly for some demographics and negligibly for others
typing 'hidden test' before launching the ball still activates the same cheat as the original :)
Sure? I am sure of very little. My priors (i.e. my physical model) favor the theory that nicotine prevents infection by blocking ACE2 receptors. I have no posterior inferences to confirm or refute the hypothesis.
> I've explained multiple times already how it's not the scientists who believe this

Scientists might acknowlege isolated facts, but they're very bad at trying to reach the most parsimonious explanation by putting two and two together. The enduring conservatism mostly shows up wrt. what explanations are considered out-of-the-ordinary and not acceptable without overwhelming evidence, which by definition is hard to come by in the best of cases. For some reason, complex societies in the very far past are considered too outlandish even though they're a natural consequence of (1) human behavioral modernity, and (2) some places having enough resources to generate large surpluses and sustain activities other than bare survival.
There is no api.py, as OpenAI has not yet chosen to release an API, I'm not releasing a reverse engineered version. If anyone wants to use it, you have to unfortunately make it work yourself.

The OpenAI CEO has already sort of implied there may be an API before Christmas, and if so I'd be willing to clean things up, and make it as convenient as it should be.
I'm this person. I have a hard time focusing on one, never mind more than one - in a similar vein, notifications are also disabled / minimized.
Fascinating. Do you just feed it the contents of a file and ask it to clean it?
I guess that is why they called it ChatGPT and not AnswersGPT. It is concerning that some answers can be convincingly wrong, but I see it as a tool. If I have a hammer, I can still mess up hammering a nail into a wall. If I have ChatGPT, it's up to me to take the text response and use it appropriately.
The homepage lists the IPA

https://djot.net/

/dʒɑt/

/dʒ/ is like both the `j` and `dg` in english judge

/a/ is like the a in father in most American english dialects

/dʒɑt/ is also the complete IPA for the word "jot" (as in "to jot down") in American English

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jot
Yet it is strictly necessary in order to test the physical model.
Interestingly though in this case it’s an amateur programmer (since being a professor of philosophy is his day job).
Embrace the power of 'and'.
I use Firefox, except when I need to look at a web site that was developed by people who don't care about Firefox users.

When I see Firefox roll out features that don't really change anything, all the while steadily losing market share, I'm disappointed.

But I also can't think of anything Mozilla could do to fight the dominance of Chrome and Safari, so I guess it's not that disappointing.
That's a Zoom button not a Maximize button. Apps like Safari zoom based on the content, not the screen.
Helmets are required around construction sites for health and safety. That's not an argument to require helmets for pedestrians. Any particular activity can be particularly dangerous, and you can mandate safety gear for that activity, but that has absolutely no bearing on stuff outside of that activity.
That this guy is still talking about this stuff in public when any lawyer he has is surely telling him not to... he must think he's invincible? Or he really doens't realize he's done anything wrong? I could believe the second one, because I think it's probably true that this is how everyone does business, and most people get away with it?
I'm pretty sure the OCR thing is just enabling a recent-ish, built-in Mac and iOS platform feature (I bet it already worked on FF iOS, in fact, since that's Webkit under the hood).

Thought it is a pretty great feature, to be fair.
Who is going to write the content these AI are trained on?
Ha! I can definitely relate. Takes me 3-4 tries to get the password correct on mobile, and not so rarely I have to type it on the computer first.
How can this happen when Linux package managers don't auto-update (without help)? I mean if you don't want Firefox updated while you are using it you just just don't update it. If your distro has some sort of auto-update by default (do any do this?, I thought available update notifications was the standard) then disable it and get control of that back. Auto-updating packages is an anti-pattern (ie. bad).
Nothing for latam? :(
I should have titled it Wrong answers on purpose ... I know there's some wrong answers ... but it's not on purpose that I can tell. If everyone is using this blackbox as a data source it's really easy to abuse.
I guess as long as it's legal to remove assets with the credentials of the loved one who passed. In some countries you have to pay any inheritance taxes before you are legally able to take control of assets.

I 100% agree with listing accounts as part of a formal Will and Testament.
Hardly, we need a regime that can extract and sell us their resources.
> say, by clicking on the display itself, clicking "Menu -> Layout -> Options" selecting the layout we want, and seeing it displayed immediately

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying. Isn’t this the same as LibreOffice Writer and Microsoft Word? What is the existing problem that such an interface would solve?
> 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.

I was wondering exactly how low cost of living NM is.

Infant/Toddler daycare in my high COL city costs between 24k-33k a year.

Albuquerque is 1/3rd of that.

Damn.

Also

> But the national average cost of child care – $10,600 annually

Is a horrible statistic. What type of child care? Full day toddler? Elementary after school program? Did they all get averaged together?

Ugh.

Anyway, figure 111k a year, maybe 80k after taxes and savings, two kids, so that is still 20k a year, or 20% of the family's take home income.

The real reason for these programs is that quality (or even just "not terrible) child care shows dramatic improvements in lifelong cognitive abilities. That, ideally, results in higher earning potential and then more taxes going back to the government long term. Lots of secondary effects of course, lower crime, a workforce better able to meet the needs of an information economy (assuming we aren't replaced by ai), etc, etc.
Yes… that is the rule as we understand it. I don’t know what is actually happening behind the scenes. Do you have the details of how this is handled in a specific company? After all, the rules said that Enron can’t hide liabilities in special purpose vehicles just to make their profits look larger. And yet, they got away for a long time not following the rule, despite being audited by a big 5 firm.

This CVS thing suggests that companies may be doing something other than putting the money into a liability account and then handing that off as a donation “from their customers”. What else might be possible?
* are exploiting it

It's still going
Unfortunately even in France quite often a French baguette isn't so 'proper', but when it is mmmmh.

I think I'll never forget the croissant I ate around San Francisco, I had never seen such a big croissant! When you think about the amount of butter there is already in a normal croissant.. This one had probably enough calories for half a day.
As is your comment.

First, if it is biased, it should be trivially easy for you to refute the points made by the author.

Second, a biased publication does not make a biased article. I'm sure that when a far-right publication publishes a weather report, it's not optimized for "conservative views".
There's another way which doesn't involve knowing the relationship with Locke. Basically, in the response shown in the blog post, there's a bit of a contradiction. It says that Hobbes argued for a "strong, centralized government" and further it says "advocated for a separation of powers". When you see a nuance like this, a critical mind would like to explore this nuance deeper:

Q: Did Thomas Hobbes believe in a strong centralized government or in separation of powers?
A: Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher who is best known for his work on political philosophy. He is often associated with the concept of a "social contract," which is the idea that individuals give up some of their natural rights to a central authority in order to better ensure the safety and stability of society as a whole.

Q: Is this central authority meant to be balanced by other powers for Thomas Hobbes?
A: In Hobbes' view, the central authority, or the "Leviathan," as he called it, should have absolute power in order to effectively maintain social order and protect individuals from each other. He did not believe in the concept of separation of powers, or in limiting the power of the central authority in any way. Instead, he thought that the only way to ensure the safety and stability of society was for the central authority to have complete control.
It can also happen if you have two copies of 'stock' Firefox running (with different profiles) and one of them runs the update.
This is exactly the vitriol that GP is talking about. Yes, their market share is low, and yes, they're working on accessibility features anyway. Why does that bother you so much?
The way it explains code, the error, and then gives the solution to this particular error, i really don’t understand how someone could pretend we’re not witnessing at least a first hint of true intelligence.
It’s interesting: my recollection of that period was I rarely stored anything on the desktop. The file system was so much smaller and easier to handle that I stored things in folders and didn’t have trouble finding them again. Not until OS X did I pick up the desktop-as-staging-area habit because navigation was so painful.
He seems to want us to believe he's a fool (which makes him a conman then).
> Aren't you suggesting that the french have more lax worker protections than the US? I would be very skeptical of that claim. Now, maybe it was """hard""" (expensive) to properly protect your workers and so it didn't make business sense, and that for some reason is enough to kill most good things in the US

This sounds like a stereotype. What an individual country's regulations and negotiated union agreements are are not on a linear scale with France better than the US.
New AI chatbot is scary good [Axios on ChatGPT]
The internet is BBS with less steps.
Thanks for this incredibly detailed answer! All these points make a ton of sense.

Free disk space would imply elastic block storage or something similar so I’ll need to give that a think!

V1 is very likely to be always on so great that it’s the core use case for you!
Has been happening on state level in Germany for some time [0], even in highly industrial states.

Think of it of conserving via green means. Establish and support industries of the future, protect the environment, but remain fiscally responsible.

Especially in Germany conservatives are very linked to the Church which also has been traditionally very strong in environmentalism. Particularly in the East where much dissent against the socialist regime evolved in church groups, partially through concerns about the massive pollution by (amongst others) coal plants.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarz-gr%C3%BCne_Koalition?w...
"Then, in the "reaction" portion of the process, the researchers burn away the hydrogel portion of the structure in a furnace that reaches 700 to 1100 degrees Celsius, depending on the material. Because the melting point of all metals is higher than the combustion temperature of the hydrogel, the metal remains intact.

The heat not only removes the hydrogel, it also causes the overall structure to shrink as the hydrogel burns off, resulting in an even tinier metal structure. With this process, in addition to pure metals, the team can 3-D print metal alloys and multicomponent metallic systems, with feature sizes around 40 microns, or less than half the width of a human hair."

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How much does it shrink? Does the shape deform as it shrinks? I would imagine certain geometries wouldn't work because the outsides would shrink faster than the inside, which could break/bend some features.

Seems like awesome tech, but I suspect there are a number of limitations to this technique which the article does not discuss.
>Difference here of course is that subjects are being measured in a way which is almost definitely not fully anonymous.

There's no way to conclude that from the article. The devices are designed to measure if a seat is being used, not take blood samples or record PII.

If that data simply ends up being total # of seat hours in a given class, or seat-hours by time of day, then that's far more anonymous than a routine traffic cam tracking traffic flow, or tons of other things not requiring IRB review.

It sounds more like the usual outrage spin. Maybe they'll simply use common security cameras in each room, and count people by face recognition :)
My car had a flat battery once. The repair service came by and the guy asked me what I do while he was replacing it. I said I worked in cancer research/healthcare. Without hesitation he said to me: "What do you think about the idea that there is already a cure for cancer, but it is being kept secret because there is more money to be made in treating it?"

It occurred to me that it was much, much more likely that superior longlasting battery technology had been invented but was being kept secret because it was more profitable to keep selling batteries. But I didn't say that.

There is absolutely zero chance that a 'cure for cancer' is sitting in the locked bottom drawer of a filing cabinet somewhere.
Is json a hard requirement?

https://capnproto.org/otherlang.html allows for a serialization free solution.
I agree, I'd prefer longer battery life, and better performance in a slight weight and thickness tradeoff.

Sadly, I've tried PC laptops (Surface tablet, Surface laptops and Asus laptops) and the performance (speed, thermals and battery life) are still nowhere near the Apple M1 hardware. I wish there was better price/performance from apple, but until the PC world has a strong contender, I don't see that happening.

At least Intel has strong competition from AMD now :)
> a partially functional browser that won't load new pages

I thought it was just me because it was going on for so long!

Since maybe half a year, every time you use Firefox for a while (I suspend to RAM when not using my system), it starts to cheerfully go "whoops, this tab has crashed!" or "We need just one tiny thing to keep going [nuke¹ and restart whole browser as the only button]". Makes me want to firewall mozilla IP ranges and subscribe to an rss feed to see when a security release came out so that I can go to the update menu manually and do it not when I am in the middle of looking something up during a phone call with someone.

It's also not as though this uses the regular updates mechanism. There is still Menu -> About -> "you're up to date" / "click here to download update" / "click here to restart to apply update" and it will also notify you of those releases. This is some other mechanism going on under the hood. Perhaps the Experiments thing that gets randomly deployed to random people's browsers, not sure, I thought I disabled all of that years ago.

¹Yes I know firefox and other browsers nowadays have this textarea/input content restoring and such. Ask me how well that works now that every developer decided they're too cool for basic HTML elements whose functionality have been honed for close to three decades now, and would rather re-invent everything from page loading to input fields by using dynamic javascript instead.
Mods, I submitted this exact url 23 hours ago. Why didn’t future submissions go to mine?
Looking at heating: There are still (admittedly fewer each year) people heating with coal, often with district heating. This results in approx. 1kg of CO2 emissions per kWh of heat (with losses due to the distribution) (gas heating is 200g per kWh).

The german electric grid has a carbon intensity of approx. 500g per kWh. If you supplement this with a local solar installation that (let's just say) halves the carbon intensity and have a great heat pump setup with a COP of 5 it results in 50g per kWh. This means you can heat 20 times the amount of the worst-case commie-block dweller with coal district heating before it gets even. And even though commie blocks aren't bad, I'd expect modern houses to have much better insulation (at least in Germany) than original commie blocks (worst [reasonable] case, remember).

In cities there is generally less infrastructure per person, but even though there are less road, cable, pipe kms per person, the ones are bigger and/or more heavily used, needing more maintenance and more frequent replacements.

In Germany public infrastructure accounts for 800kg of CO2 per person, while heating and warm water account for 2.2t of CO2. Public infrastructure is important, but so large to matter so much (and remember, this includes things like public service and military that isn't effected by your living style).

Electricity consumption at 0.5t and food at 1.7t are not that different for urban vs rural areas. Other consumption at 3.4t is hard to classify.

Looking at the statistics in Germany (http://www.mobilitaet-in-deutschland.de/pdf/MiD2017_Ergebnis..., page 48) people living in metropolis drive roughly half as much as people living in very rural regions. This is significant, but hardly an order of magnitude. Just because you live in a metropolis doesn't mean you live in a commie block, but I find it hard to imagine it gets down 1/6th. Even people without a car (not only not owning one, but not having access to one) in a metropolis drive 1/7th of people in very rural areas (but commie blocks are certainly not without cars). So this is hardly an order of magnitude.

A car replacement rate of every 3 years also sounds very high to me (ignoring company cars, but that doesn't change in either case), I think 5-6 years at least is more likely for suburbs and maybe a bit higher for commie-block dwellers but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same.

This was only looking at CO2 (since it's easy to find numbers) and it's undoubtedly true that on average living in dense housing is more sustainable than suburban sprawl or even rural living. But an order of magnitude is huge and much harder to reach.

And since energy usage & emissions are heavily shaped by factors beyond "how dense do you live", it's harder to speak beyond the average. Someone living in the commie block that flies once a year from germany to new york and back produces more CO2 emissions from these two flights alone (~2.5t) than the average german with his mobility (~2.2t).
Did you try to post the patch and ask for a commit message?
Yes, there were so many unnecessary electronics that defense contractors convinced the Army they needed to bring to Afghanistan. Commanders never tied them in to their operating procedures so they went unused. When it came time to close the outpost shipping was not an option so EVERYTHING had to be burned.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockney%E2%80%93Falco_thesis
I live in Montreal (a city with a large French influence) and am regularly in France, and there is no comparison between the bread or butter we get in Montreal vs what is available everywhere in France. If you look you can find decent bread - Montreal has the best overall bakery scene I'm aware of outside France. I haven't found good butter yet.
The physics seem really off. Almost no power out of the paddles for instance.
What about situations where two different clients both begin to publish new events from the same starting point? Those events can't be absolutely ordered right? If you're thinking of Lamport-style happens-before relations, then you can't enforce total ordering of those events. Do you just arbitrarily mark one of those client event streams as failed and force the client to absorb new state and try again?
Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
> The goal is to protect people who already ARE cycling.

if you have 4x as many people on bikes, the cyclists with helmets are safer due to the "safety in numbers" effect. If you've done any urban bike riding you'd see this is obviously true.
I've never had this happen on Windows or macOS. In Linux, I have had Firefox complain when my package manager updates Firefox while it is running, which I think is perfectly normal.

What an odd thing to randomly complain about, and completely off-topic in regards to the article.
The article insists on the point of being «"confidently wrong"», of narrating fiction without signals of statements being invented - and remains oblivious of the critical point that this engine has "unreliable pseudo-reasoning".

They kind of re-invented in worrisome forgiving terms the notion of "artificial bullshitter" shifting it in the direction of "liar", instead of "does not really know what it is talking about".
your point might've been more salient if you'd waited for said vitriol to actually materialize before posting
But then how do you easily navigate / launch apps? Dig thru your folder trees each time in Finder? Most apps I’m finding have folder structures with a bunch of aux files. It’s not so seemless as a dock or even a start menu.

Back even then I used my desktop heavily too.
It's mostly well-to-do privileged people saying things like this. The people that have too much themselves, who consequently think all humans are terrible for the Earth. Go around the world and most will find that idea is ridiculous. Some even live in communion with nature, and actually help to benefit it.
A few days, on the assumption that my body was taking too long to fight off the infection in which case the hypothesized property of inhibiting virus replication via ACE2 pathways might actually have been useful. Came to the conclusion that lingering symptoms were more post-viral stuff (as I said, only just starting to be recorded with respect to COVID at the time) so the nicotine was utterly pointless.

A slight nicotine buzz is hardly a huge acclimatisation (which was sort of the point of thinking it was low-risk to try) and I didn't exactly want to get used to it enough develop a dependency on it!
I absolutely don't think so, no. Any link is unlikely to help you read and understand my initial comment, seeing that you communicate in bleep bloop
Happens on Windows
Is there really no memory in this process? I imagine to some extent, some tensions would be building up or something like that.
> I've heard it said the single best thing that could be done for airline safety is getting rid of pilots since most crashes are the result of pilot error. Then ask yourself if you would get on a plane without anyone flying it.

The first one? Probably not. But going but a lot of comments here and else where, there are plenty of other people willing to be early adopters. People already do some pretty stupid shit with Tesla Autopilot.

5 years in with statistics to show? Yes, I would.

Of course, that logic of removing pilots could be completely flawed based on the chance that the only reason the pilots failed at all was because they had to step in when the automated systems could not handle the situation.
RNNs are probably not practically Turing Complete
tbh I think the ocr image feature is precisely the sort of thing I want people working on browsers to be thinking about. A lack of accessibility in technology is a huge barrier to an increasingly bigger facet of interacting with society. Working on increasing accessibility is the sort of fighting-for-the-little-guys I want a nonprofit to be doing.