skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know if any non European language pluralises Legos the way American English speakers do. It's possible their linguistic constructs don't invite it. I have no particular issue with either English changing under use, or neologism becoming normalised. In 50 years Legos may be the predominant form.

After all, "dove" replaced dived. Linguistically maybe it made more sense?

But for now, the Queens English being understood, it's like sheep. It pluralises itself. A piece of lego, a box of Lego, a lego set, a bridge made of lego. It's a lego bridge.
Well, duh. The fundamental issue is the lack of an on-call person who receives all of the notifications and isn't expected to also work.
Grudging upvote because you’re not wrong.
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While I agree that's a great description of the general concept of conservativism, it has absolutely nothing to do with the people calling themselves conservatives these days. The best I can come up with is that it describes where they started off before they got so mad and wanting to tear everything down.

I had never voted for a major party candidate in a national election before, but in 2020 I found myself voting for Biden out of a genuine sense of conservatism.
In windows 11 they removed the ability to launch task manager by right clicking the task bar and it trips me up multiple times a day.

It's actually infuriating.
Decision making credibility is simply not anchored in "being logically correct."

It's anchored in the ability to consider the needs of the tribe appropriately.

Leadership credibility in human society is mostly anchored via your track record of emphasizing with the needs of a Dunbar's number sized tribe.

Empathy, not logic, is the KPI our brains are tuned to. Empathetic leaders emphasize data collection, logical ones make decisions using that data. Evolution has optimized for empathy.

The core problem with large companies is the middle management buffer grows large enough that it forms a subculture which drives decision making.

Plus, institutions of 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, all have their "local" rules of detailed management
know-how. Add it all up, and you have a problem that's just as thorny & knotty as any engineering problem. Requiring just as much detailed expertise.
I recommend Roald Dahl's "Going Solo". The Audiobook narrated by Andrew Sachs is quite compelling.

Also, maybe "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" by G.K. Chesterton.

And of course most by P.G. Wodehouse.
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Ebooks (wrote by you) with extended info.
Ahh the memories. Thanks for bringing that back.
> It is very clearly an improper purpose. The FBI is trying to suppress 1A protected speech by reporting the tweets. The FBI is not allowed to suppress 1A protected speech. Imagine there was a button that would delete a Tweet and anyone could press it. Just because anyone could press the button would not make it legal for the FBI to press it.

I keep seeing this, and I'm confused every time I see it, because speech on a private platform isn't protected by the first amendment.

Twitter can always say no to the feds (and other governments) in re: far more onerous and demanding requests than just an agent clicking a Report button, and in fact with far more official processes you can see the stats where they actually do just that. https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests...
> They have 1000+ channels

What a time to be alive

First of all, talk to your manager. Ask for a trial that you will use Slack just 2-3x a day as you described and otherwise you want to be contacted via e-mail/Jira/etc. If there's something big and important but not urgent (like "production down we are bankrupt"), ask to forward it to you via e-mail.

> I'm simply drowning and my tickets are all piling up.

That's where your pace increases and you will show improvement thus you will be allowed to continue like that.
I went to a ski resort near Tokyo lately and more than half the time I could hear Chinese being spoken. No idea if this due to Xi's insane policies, or just the usual large number of Chinese immigrants in JP.
Interesting stuff. I did some searches on some songs I like and the general gist was right.

I tried it on American Pie and it seemed to match my understanding of the song, but this line stood out a bit:

> Additionally, the line “Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey ‘n’ rye/ Singin’ ‘This’ll be the day that I die’” is a direct reference to Buddy Holly’s song “American Pie” which features the same line.

I wasn't aware Buddy Holly wrote a song literally called "American Pie" as well. Did some searching and I suspect it likely meant to refer to the Buddy Holly song "That'll Be the Day", which absolutely does not feature the line "Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey 'n' rye".
Cancer treatments boosted by immune-cell hacking
Not everyone works 9-5, M to F.
Phantom Menace quote.
Doubling down on lying about words that are right in front of you doesn't make the lie any truer.

Nor does having a tantrum over having the lie called out. Instead it just makes you look like a cry-bully.

The constant stream of lies and whining when those lies are called out from nuclear "advocates" would reflect incredibly poorly on the industry if it weren't obvious it was just a tactic to keep fossil fuels relevant for a little longer.
The phone companies give federal agencies their very own server rooms!
80-90% of electricity from renewables is achievable in many regions with no storage other than increasing the intermittency of existing hydro, existing interconnects, and adding dispatchable loads to soak up the curtailed energy which is effectively free.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z

An example is heating which is a huge portion of emissions and is also a dispatchable load.
Super interesting! I've had pretty much the exact same division of virtual desktops for many, many years. Small variation in what is on the desktops, but it's more like, 40 years old editor instead of VSCode and Jupyter notebooks instead of Excel. The intent of the distinct desktops is very, very similar.
Wrote this for my community.
It already has started.

Look at Meta, and how Apple borked their primary cash cow.

Now, mostly due to concerns about state spying, many jurisdictions are passing enhanced privacy bills.

On top of that, the entire planet now wants cash for news listings.

And the EU is repeatedly extending its legislation, making Pii collection and tracking less and less profitable.

The US keeps considering similar bills. Alphabet can lobby all it wants, but even so, these laws will be passed eventually.

Google needs to smarten up.
I replied to a tweet that referenced Musk and Tesla, and simply mentioned that I sold my Tesla shares at the beginning of this week (and made a loss) because I didn't want any association with Musk any more.

The replies I got from Musk fans were shockingly (maybe not so shockingly) vile.

Turns out Musk sold his Tesla shares at the same time as I did — I wonder how those people replying to me would square that with their insults.
I think there is a strong argument that if you are working for the FBI you are not allowed to even click the report button as part of your duties for 1A protected speech.

You can imagine how this could be weaponised. For example FBI agents could be tasked to report tweets from people who hold disfavoured opinions. This interpretation is also inline with the court’s finding over Trump’s use of the block button: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/trump-twitte...
I work at a telco. We have many museum-grade Unices in production, mostly AIX and Solaris - we even have a Wang still running in one of our datacenters. It's largely a case of there isn't a business case to migrate it to modern hardware - one day we'll no longer operate a legacy copper PSTN network, but until that day comes, we still need it all. We still have maintenance contracts on some hardware, like our Sun Fires. It's very clear that replacement parts are scavenged from whatever they can find second hand.

I recently rewrote the system we use to push user accounts and passwords to systems that don't support LDAP. It was amusing to write an app using a current-day stack on RHEL 8 that purely exists to handle these very legacy systems.

One of my favourite systems I've had to work on is running Solaris 2.5.1. Users are added to the program by editing the source code and recompiling it. How times have changed.
Wow, funny how pencil-pushing[0] accounting conventions so strongly affect fantasy worlds!

I recall an anecdote about a Venus probe. It needed some large sapphire (or some such) to serve as an instrument window. US Customs naturally charged an arm and a leg upon import of such a large gem. NASA was able to get their money back after launch, however, as they kept receipts, then sent them back to customs along with proof that the gem had left US soil (indeed, it was never coming back).

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If he depends on others inside the PRC to enact his decisions he will expose them to risk the more their financial decisions collide with state strategic policy objectives.
Toile was unable to get it published in his lifetime, he died a broken man. His mother kept sending it to publishers until one took pity on her and actually read it. I believe it is the only debut novel awarded a Pulitzer posthumously
lol; now get statistics on its answers to 'what is 10231 modulo 3?'.
Firstly, if this was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever put on the internet I'd be pretty happy.

Secondly, I agree that consciousness is predicated on emergent properties arising from the complexity that simple machines can produce (e.g. a biological brain which is composed of relatively well understood components, but who's observed operation can still baffle us). Consciousness does not seem to be a property of the components or even small groups of those components, but it seems to "fade in" as operational complexity increases (and fade out again during e.g. anaesthesia).
I would expect the FBI to be able to tell whether or not that joke is criminal behavior within their legal jurisdiction.
You can't define it, that's the whole problem, and I mean "whole"; there's nothing else to it. The rest is a relativistic smoke screen.
Evidence of them doing it is not an argument for it being the right thing to do.
> That's a very different question. And my answer was to teach my children not to become prey.

Yeah but from your answers it looks like you failed at that. All your example interactions seem to come from kids that can't take their eyes off the screen.
People also forget the thirst traps on Tiktok. The Tiktok dance trends encourage attractive young women to post borderline softcore porn, and Tiktok is much more lenient about this type of content than any other platform.

The average For You Page for teenage-young adults(males and females alike) from what I've seen consists of a mix of interesting/funny content and beautiful men/women. The ratio is just enough that there's the inherent sexual interest, without going too overboard and making the user feel like they're scrolling through something they shouldn't be on a regular basis.
OT, but for consoles you just leave it in sleep-mode and it'll update things quietly throughout the day. It's more of a problem for desktops
Yeah, 2000 was not a consumer OS.
I have been a nomad for quite some time, I will be settling down with a friend in Chiang Mai for a year.

I also increased my budget for an apartment quite a bit to have a nice living/surrounding area.

I finally plan to start creating content and have a nice setup for it, likely a new chapter in my life, I hope I will enjoy the process
Commenter doesn't say you would produce another Terrence Tao:

> Don't let the existence of someone be the excuse you use to tell yourself you couldn't also do something cool or great.
It's not due to Xi's policies, Chinese have been skiing in Japan for quite a while now. There isn't very good resorts in China (yet).

Japan is probably the only place in Asia with decent snow and resorts, unlike Europe, South America, and The USA.
Look at it from another perspective, proponents of free speech and platform neutrality were talking about this and were considered 'conspiracy theorists', then it got out and its 'unhinged framing' in a few weeks it will be 'we all knew about it and its good'.
This is exactly the kind of problem linear optimisation a.k.a operations research (O/R) is designed to assess.
I agree. The problem is mainly going from an infrastructure that's not setup like this, to an infrastructure that is.

Usually you inherit an infrastructure, and it's usually not set up in this way (in my experience) and then there is a lot of work to re-encrypt the data in order to use KMS rather than the default key.

> it is typically standardized in an org

I have still not found any SCP I can set that prevent the use of the default key and enforces KMS. If you have one, I'd be happy to take it! If you mean "standardized" as in written on a paper, I'll rely on wishful thinking because people make mistakes or just don't know about it even if it's a standard.
The cardinal virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance - help protect the "mind and character" from addiction or disordered attachment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_virtues

I try to help my son understand and cultivate these virtues. He is 11, and is home-schooled.

Practically, right now we use several exercises specifically intended to combat screen attachment:

1) he is supposed to set a timer when getting on his iPad (totally up to him, but HE chooses to use it)

2) two regular days a week when he can Skype with his best friends (looks forward to the social time more than the game time)

3) typically a once-a-month screen detox for 3 to 7 days (no screen time, period.)

The most effective exercise is the screen detox. Within a day his attitude changes for the better: he practices his piano more eagerly, he acts sweeter, he finds "real" things to get into, and is more creative than usual. We're doing a detox right now; he learned backgammon from a friend at his chess club yesterday, made a backgammon board this morning before school, and taught me how to play when I got home from work. ...typical example of what happens during a detox. In the summer it was usually things like playing football or collecting bugs and lizards outside that happened when the iPad was put on the shelf.

I'm ashamed (and humbled) to say that I need a detox more than he does. But I grew up not being taught to develop virtue, and I have a lot of self-correction that I'm working through. Setting my son up to not have to deal with addiction in the first place is something I can give him that I wish I had been given. His generation also has (soon to be "Saint") Carlo Acutis as a role model.

I need to set up a Pi-hole, and filter out adult website URLs for our home internet.
Dated info (2001/2002?) but there was Solaris use at the NSA around that time too. Seems like the military and associated organs like to use it.
I am not totally sure what you mean by an AI-first competitor. Could you give a (hypothetical) example?
Many programmers seem to have pathological humility. Being humble is good, it makes you aware of your faults and areas of improvement. Yet that's only half of it. We also have to be aware of our successes so that we know what we should be doing.

Programmers often look up to civil engineers. They imagine that if we built software like we built bridges, it would be better.

Civil engineering uses the "waterfall" method. You state your requirements, design the thing, build it, and test it. But we have tried this for software and it just doesn't work. We can never anticipate all the faults or design flaws in advance. So we switched to iterative development with very short cycle times. You can't do iterative development on a bridge, so we've already diverged.

Software is fundamentally different to anything that has ever existed. Computers are now writing code, something they couldn't do two years ago. There has been a steady increase in volatility over the previous decades. Attempting to impose rules and structure during a period of volatility is futile. The 2nd Cambrian is starting, enjoy the ride.
There's no need for all that red tape. Since there are so many households, the average will be highly predictable, given the weather conditions. Same as with large suppliers.

Battery capacity is something many households may also want to invest in, if the incentives are attractive enough. Again, no need for long term contractual commitments.
What happened to Jack Ma dispelled any concern that he is in any way of the inner circle of the CCP.

He is a truly an icon of the people.
Why are we pretending nuclear is cheap?
My sweet dude, it's a prototype literally released as a CHAT bot to public to tinker with seventeen days ago.
I’m not sure if cheering an oppressive billionaire who got rich off being a borderline slave driver is a thing to do. A man who has more wealth than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes expects people to work 12 hours a day, six days a week to barely make a living so they can provide a more extravagant lifestyle for himself.

For all the bad things happening in China, attempting to crack down on a borderline comic book villain and spread a little of his wealth isn’t one of the things I can criticize them for.
I feel like the filters need more attention when talking about it's secret sauce too. The tech became powerful enough on phones to give real time filters when editing, even a tool to add your own captions in an animated way is huge. I think it's a very underappreciated feature that makes it stand out too. Maybe it because most of us never end up on the video editing part of the app.
No need to go back that far, the irak war after 9/11 was a resource hog by itself. 600 trillions if I recall ?
A little of column A, a little of concentration camp B
Can you think of a test or empirical observation that would convince you that a model does "actual reasoning"?

Do bear in mind the tests that very smart people have proposed in the past (from playing chess to holding a conversation to understanding pictures). And consider the implication for your position if you find it hard to devise a well defined test that would convince you to abandon this position.
Neither, Japan is close to China and is a popular tourist attraction.
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> It is simply stunning that the seasoned direction and counsel that someone of John Carmack’s caliber is capable of delivering was not being followed.

This doesn't actually surprise me in the least bit, and that's not a criticism of either FB/Meta or Carmack. It's simply that after a couple of decades in industry, I now see that effective organizational leaders are exceedingly rare, and I've seen now many super-experts --legends in their fields-- join big companies and not find their footing.

I also don't really buy the "you gotta be good at cutthroat politics." I have plenty of examples across multiple top-tier companies, of senior leadership who were smart, thoughtful, effective... and still reasonable and compassionate.

I think it's simply that it's tough to move people, plain as that. And in Carmack's case, I will wager that his expertise and track record were not enough to get everyone to drop what they're doing and follow his lead. After all, there are many other legends at Meta too. And, there's an abundance of good ideas all fighting for limited mindshare and limited ability to act.
A suggestion to look into something, with links to start the research, on a forum like this.

Totally fine. People can do their own research on this forum, if someone is on special meds, they are smart enough to check with doctor before implementing something weird.

Besides, a dietary change is going to have slow effects, plenty of time for correcting mistakes.
Even if these people were not joking it is not clear that this is illegal. The statutes that try to prevent election misinformation likely violate the first amendment or they may not apply in these specific cases. The FBI should be prosecuting people so these statutes have a chance of being challenged in court and these people have a chance to defend themselves. Either that or twitter should have informed them that the report was originated by the US government. If this information was never leaked then the people effected by the FBI’s secret speech suppression may never have known and would never had a chance to contest it in court.
Shaken. Not stirred.
I think your reading of all this differs from mine.
> We can establish mental properties through ordinary physical means. Give a chicken cocaine, give a boy Valium; give a bear a lobotomy, and so on. Whatever mental property you have can be biochemically moderated across all objects which share that property.

All three of those "ordinary physical means" are inherently biological in nature. If you define intelligence as requiring biology, than sure, by definition ChatGPT is not intelligent. If you don't, it's not at all obvious what the equivalent of getting an AI high or doing brain surgery on it would be. Either way, your comment comes across as fairly condescending, and while it might not be intentional, I think it would be reasonable to give people the benefit of the doubt when they don't agree with you given that your points will not always come across as obviously correct.
Congrats!

What solution/service did you use for voice cloning and why?