skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are three famous people named Zora?
I asked ChatGPT this to explore its limitations, because in my terms, it's a trick question. There are only two famous people named Zora.

On the other hand, you could deny that "famous" has any specific standard, and there are a lot of people on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_(name)

It would be extremely easy to avoid agreeing with my personal definition of fame, for a human.

It replied:

Zora Neale Hurston: Zora Neale Hurston was an American
folklorist, anthropologist, and author who was a key figure in
the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novels
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Moses, Man of the
Mountain," as well as her work as a folklorist, collecting and
preserving African American folktales and oral histories.

Zora Arkus-Duntov: Zora Arkus-Duntov was a Belgian-born
engineer who is known as the "father of the Chevrolet
Corvette." He played a key role in the development of the
iconic sports car and is credited with introducing many of the
design features that made it successful.

Zora LaVey: Zora LaVey was an American burlesque dancer,
model, and actress. She was known for her exotic dance
routines and her appearances in films and television shows in
the 1950s and 1960s.

So I wrote: Is Zora LaVey a fictional character?

And it replied by affirming they are a real person, and regurgitating the paragraph above, with some slight embellishments.

But starting a new session and asking the same question produces: "It is not clear who or what you are referring to with the name "Zora LaVey." There is no widely known public figure or fictional character by this name. It is possible that you may be mistaken or that this person is relatively unknown or obscure."

Among other things, it seems to me significant that while it seems "good" at BS'ing, it didn't BS by choosing an actual person who was on the Wikipedia page and explicitly or implicitly disagreeing about who is famous. There is some general principle of how it works that captures this behavior, I feel certain. Obvious if it were stated clearly.
That's even better. Let's say it was a scam for the first 5 years. Total scam, they spent all the money on drugs. It would only take a year for the short-term low-yield US treasury interest on the rest of the assets to completely pay Tether back. That's only possible because Tether has been growing. It would take more than a decade of interest if it had merely doubled in size.
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Does that work as a password manager provider that you can enable for iOS auto fill?
It's probably the same as the Impressions count that was already available to the owner of the tweet.

From the existing Q&A out there, a lot of people think it's real but that it errs on the side of over counting (e.g. no deduplication, excluding owner views, etc.). But at Twitter's scale I'd imagine there's at least some extrapolation going on.
Quite doable these days; I'd say 90% of my recent rides (Q, B, A, C lines).

Was a total piece of cake in 2020, of course %)
neo-nazi is a bit over the top. there are actual neo-nazis.. the American Nazi Party, the Azov battalion (formerly), skinheads and things. sure, China's trying to force Han ethnic principles on their populace. arguably nationalist, though they're so involved in trade and stuff like the Belt and Road program that it's different. an authoritarian regime, arguably a dictatorship (Xi has the final say but he's not a strong-man like Putin, CCP is more an oligocracy.) but... no, China does not want to resurrect Hitler and lead the Aryan race into the fourth Reich. neo-nazi has an actual meaning, which is important because there are actual neo-nazis out there.
I wonder if such artificial life forms could be hooked up to a machine learning algorithm somehow, so that they learn from their experience in the environment. I imagine the organisms would need some kind of "senses" like touch and vision; maybe a concept of food, light, enemy/friend..

Oh, there's a link at the bottom of the paper to a project called Sensorimotor Lenia, which goes in that direction.

> These patterns can display certain properties of biological systems such as a spatially localized organization, directional or rotational movements, etc. In fact, CA [cellular automata] have a long relationship with biology and especially the origins of life/cognition as it is a self-organizing system that can serve as a computational testbed and toy model for such theories but also as a source of inspiration on what are the basic building block of “life”.

> However, while the notions of embodiment within an environment, individuality and self-maintenance are central in theoretical biology and in particular in the definition of agency, it remains unclear how such mechanisms and properties can emerge from a set of local update rules in a CA.

> In this blogpost, we propose an approach enabling to learn self-organizing agents capable of reacting to the perturbations induced by the environment, i.e. robust agents with sensorimotor capabilities.

> ..Searching for rules at the cell-level in order to give rise to higher-level cognitive processes at the level of the organism and at the level of the group of organisms opens many exciting opportunities to the development of embodied approaches in AI in general.

Learning Sensorimotor Agency in Cellular Automata - Finding robust self-organizing “agents” with gradient descent and curriculum learning: individuality, self-maintenance and sensori-motricity within a cellular automaton environment

https://developmentalsystems.org/sensorimotor-lenia/
Better late than never - Google and Apple have since added OS level clipboard protection and notifications.
Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725M
I doubt that he will get off, but it seems dubious to put people in jail pre-trial on the basis that they would get away without jail time post-trial.
You can't expect them to actually read news articles while they're sharpening their pitchforks. They've only got two hands.
I think about the time tiktok was instrumental of making a joke out of president Trump's rally.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-trump-ra...

Facebook emotion experiment on users. It was facebook but it can easily be tiktok.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28051930

TikTok admitting to finding and firing employee that spied on reporters

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-by...

And I can go on and on.

The banning of tik tok as a social network is not unwarranted. It can be used to influence users and gather data. It makes sense to keep it under some control since we can never know how much influence foreign government agencies have over it.

It should be and needs to be a thing.
What is a terminal meant to do then and who says that?

Actually I would argue that graphical UIs copied terminal UIs that existed first and in some cases they did not catch up even as of now. See file managers. There is Total Commander on Windows, which managed to surpass the old Midnight Commander in functionality and ease of use, but that's about it. Very hard to find a decent file manager on Linux or OSX that comes even close to mc.
I wonder if it’s because US government employees do need to chat with their Chinese counterparts sometimes. For example, when the Economist produced “The Prince” podcast, the journalists chatted with some of their Chinese interviewees via WeChat — despite having an episode on Chinese government monitoring and censorship. They really don’t have a better choice if they want to chat with someone in China.
Even iPads are shit now. I have two iPad 11 Pros and they can not last a week just sitting there. My Ipad 2 and 4s? I charge them once every 3-4 months on super light duty. Apple is slowly and surely going down the gutter.

The iPhone 14 pro is a pretty sad upgrade too with regression in battery life from the 13. I've owned almost every iphone since 4 and the 14 is the one i skipped because it doesn't even have a SIM slot! Lets see if they can bring it around in 15.
1Password Security Design [pdf]
I think they could compete by changing the query on search to be parsed by their own LLM, that is continuously retrained with updates to indexed content. ChatGPT is just a snapshot of data from the internet, it's knowledge is already outdated, and it outputs URLs that don't exist anymore. Essentially if Google can connect a better LLM to search that works with the live internet, they can compete.
LastPass Technical Whitepaper
I am impressed how their emulator MicroM8 emulates an Epson MX-80 printer to write a PDF: https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/peripherals/
Brave just uses Jitsi under the covers.
It doesn’t equate them. It establishes a threshold that both exceed by different margins. For clarity, Tik Tok is worse than Facebook, but Facebook itself is sufficiently bad to merit banning even absent the existence of Tik Tok.

Again, ban the lot.
IIRC, "orc" is just the hobbit word for "goblin", so in the books there's no real difference between a goblin and an orc. Orcs as depicted in the LOTR movies and other modern fantasy works would be called "hobgoblins" by Tolkien, as they were goblin but the larger kind.

Also, while reading The Hobbit, I've always felt like goblins aren't the little pitiful creatures we imagine today, but are a bit taller and muscular, like smaller modern orcs with more human proportions. It's not based on any description Tolkien, it's just how I imagine those creatures through the way they are told.

Last but not least, in the Hobbit his dwarfs (as it's how it should be written, according to the author) were a bit more "cartoonish" than the idea we have of them today: they wore colored hoods (much like garden gnomes), one had a blue beard, it's not said that they wear armor (and it's logical to think they didn't)...

All in all, even though he greatly and directly influenced today's fantasy, it's not exactly his concepts of orcs and dwarfs, at least, that dominate fantasy, but rather the interpretation that some later artists had of his concepts.

I'm not a Tolkien expert, though, so if anyone knows better, I'd love to be corrected.
She got pregnant to delay her prison time. There's also precedent for delaying reporting to prison for things like going to your child's graduation or something. I guess if a person is not a flight risk before sentencing then they're not treated as a risk after sentencing either.
And likewise “military grade encryption” usually means “win2k Visual Basic backend”
I experienced this once with my mother, jesus H ... Good luck getting her to stop installing random "cat cursors" for windows.
I'm not sure if that sticks though.

From Minsky's Wikipedia page: "There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences."
Why couldn’t it also offer citations then. That sounds ideal actually.
Misalignment of incentives.

People typically achieve travel status on their employers dime.

Since the individual personally benefits from gaining status (and reward points), it’s not surprising that people do things not in their employers interest (buying a more expensive ticket, or taking a longer flight) since they benefit.
Having a peep at miniaud.io, I am astounded to say the least.

It supports almost all of the popular back-ends across platforms. A library as complex as PortAudio in a (largish) header.
There is a feedback mechanism to engine throttle that is immediate and physically obvious: The thrust levers. They will move to indicate the amount of thrust the engines are ordered to produce, even when under autothrottle control.

If a pilot doesn't pay attention to where his thrust levers are when appropriate thrust is critical to safe flight, that is pilot error.

A go-around isn't complicated enough to merit reliance on automation anyway: Max thrust (or whatever is appropriate), pitch up and climb according to ATC orders or go-around procedure at airport, landing gears up, and come back for another landing attempt.
They also often appear more likely to pose a threat to the public. How is a white collar criminal a threat to the public?
Wake me up when they reach code Blackwatch Plaid.
Chelsea Manning didn't go though the federal court system.

As an enlisted member of the military, she went though a court-martial under Uniform Code of Military Justice, which are a different set of laws that don't even have the concept of bail. So different rules apply.

But still, they do have roughly equivalent rules around pretrial restraint and needing to prove that confinement is actually necessary (especially since the military can eliminate flight risk by simply confining them to base). Even at the time there was much (justified) criticism that her treatment was a "degrading and inhumane pretrial punishment"
>A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study.

I remember someone doing experiments out of a van back when cmu did experiments out of a van did a screener that basically was “is your major economics or psychology” then got visibly angry when they started a task and I exclaimed “oh is this game theory?”

(As in narrowed her eyes and went “You can just buy candy at 7/11 you know, you’re a grown man.”)

Anyways that experiment was not the one in the OP, but I suspect just like the one in the OP it was so widely known by the time a replication study occurred, it was too well known even outside the field to be truly recreated.

Once you realize huge chunks of social science are effectively a set of competing religious beliefs a lot makes sense.

Eg: Instead of “Protestants and Catholics” you have “behavioral economics and cognitive psychology” :-)

Anyways thanks for the random Wikipedia article OP, but it’s making me a bit hungry.
Is there a way to feed your list of subscribed Youtube channels into an rss reader without having to add each of them manually?
It wasn't clear from the article that there was a fallback plan, or that they decided to use a lightly modified previous gen GPU because that was the only way to get working silicon in the timeframe?
Why would support be in the business of removing it just because someone asks? If I needed it removed I could take a call at my official phone number and photograph my actual ID.

My cell provider requires a photo ID in person or a long pin not stored in the same place as other passwords in order to assign my number to a new phone and 2FA to access account.

This raises the bar from knowing my password to knowing my password, knowing my ID, producing a fake facsimile of my ID, stealing my pin from its encrypted container on my desktop, taking over my phone number, then taking over my account.

I don't have a pile of crypto to steal ergo this would be a LOT of work to send spam as me until my email gets flagged. It would be like a heist movie only with the target being the $40 in my wallet. mission impossible themesong begins playing

Basically support just needs to exercise reasonable caution when removing or changing it.
I live in the Purcell trench (Coeur d'Alene, ID) which was formed by the Missoula floods. (edit: not formed technically, but altered by)

Watch the video :) https://youtu.be/pYFFR2rROYM?t=449

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purcell_Trench

If these people were there at this time they could have been describing one of these outflows in their flood myths. I have read/heard that many of the tribes down the Columbia river have flood stories as well.

It is interesting to hike up to where the water line was. You can clearly see it in the rimrock and hills/mountains around Coeur d'Alene/Spokane. Missoula is even more pronounced with the lake rings.
You can stand on Chilco Peak and look west it is all flat and filled in up to a certain point with aggregate (lots of gravel, great aquifer) and you look east and it looks like typical mountain valleys. The ridges nearby formed the barrier to the flow.

edits: add more info
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I've worked at companies like that before.
Completely against slowness, memory hogging, and discspace wasting.

…Okay, not /completely/. I merely whinge about it too much, and occasionally stumble upon some tiny gloriously responsive app that does what I need.

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But mostly I whinge. Like "Excel 2010 is so _fast_. Sure, newer versions do /some/ things faster, but even their startup time is so slow that I often consider whether it's even worth opening them to Do A Thing or worth closing them when I'll then have to wait for them to open again later.".

Hiding Electron's nature behind more hamsters (faster hardware) and bigger cages (memory+storage) doesn't seem to work for me.
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It's interesting how it is almost as though if you don't understand something thoroughly that you can't pluck the fruits from it. But if that were really true we wouldn't be able to appreciate art either, nobody can point at the reasoning behind a work of art to a degree that would satisfy those criteria, you're either moved by it or you aren't regardless of how it came about.

Present day AI is much like that: we do not understand it in detail but we understand the general ideas well enough to keep improving on it. Maybe one day we'll understand it to the degree that would satisfy a Minsky or a Chomsky, but until then we'll be happy to use the results, regardless of what makes it all tick.

I suspect - but of course absolutely no way to prove this yet - that all that such understanding would do would be to result in massive optimizations, not necessarily new kinds of output. Though such an optimization may well be so strong that it will serve as a qualitative change. And if in the process we discover something about how our own minds work so much the better but that wasn't the goal to begin with, unless you want the specification for an implementation of the algorithm of consciousness. It may well simply be something messy rather than orderly.
One has to wonder what would prompt someone to issue such a violent, random, unhinged threat, in response to a simple question.

You're clearly here propping up LastPass, you don't seem to have a particularly strong argument, as noted by many, you have no substantial history of doing anything constructive on the site, and now you're threatening SWATting me?

I have a better idea: stop the childish, dangerous, violent, criminal threats, and just answer my question, instead.

Do you feel big and powerful issuing threats from behind a cloak of anonymity? Go for it.
Eastern US power grid orders cuts, issues system wide emergency
You have to expand your imagination to how many millions of us government employees there are and hiw many separate IT departments and government devices there are (and expanded to what private employees actually count as using government devices)

It’s crazy complicated and while you could expect, say, FBI employees or those with security clearances to have already strict controls on their devices… there are lots of others out there, hundreds or thousands of separate entities controlling the rules on devices.

Making it a law puts the role have one source everywhere, not subject to the judgement of an enormous number of organizations.
I wonder how closely related their GPU is to PowerVR these days as well. With both PowerVR and the Asahi GPU driver it would be interesting to see if any of the design still resembles PowerVR.
Automation is bad because it can lead to pilot complacency. There are many pilots who wouldn't be able to fly manually, most of whom we only learn about after a mishap due to failed and/or misunderstood automation.

Automation is convenient, and in many cases (but not all!) it can making flying safer. But an aircraft with an idiot at the controls is still an unsafe aircraft, regardless how good the automation is.
Man, a lot more goes into syncing the subtitles than I thought.

I recently tried using bazarr to auto-sync subtitles, thinking that for some reason the autosync would improve things, even though I usually didn't have any problems. Well, after that, all my subtitles were horribly out of sync. FFsubsync did not work as magically as I expected. I ended up just resetting them all to their original versions and disabling automatic subtitle synchronization, which I will only attempt to use if the subs are out of sync for some reason.

Note that I did not use ffsubsync directly, but IIRC that is what bazarr uses behind the scenes when "sync subtitles based on audio file instead of embedded subtitles" is checked.
Nice. I had considered karting but the hologate thing is new to me. I will definitely research this more. Thanks!!
I searched the same thing on Google. The first link says: "It's 31 miles or 50 km from Massachusetts to Boston."
I'm still holding onto my 11 Pro for now, but if the 15 Pro has USB-C I'll happily upgrade. There's nothing on my 11 Pro I'm unhappy with still, though the battery life is noticeably worse than when new by now.
>this could lead to govt banning certain social media from the personal devices of FTEs/contractors with MDM enabled.

So what? The PRC run concentration camps.

I don’t understand why we bend over backwards to cater to them, maybe that’s why I’ve never been a contractor despite multiple long periods of employment after years of focusing on censorship circumvention, an alleged hot topic.
In any case, I'll be wearing my airbag-suit during my next flight.
For the record there's no "German" brezel but two variants: the bavarian and the swabian brezn. See the two pics in the Wikipedia article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezel

The swabian brezel is cut before baking and therefore has a (bigger) "Ausbund" in the thicker section :)

It's also interesting that in the past the Brezn was made with lard in many bakeries.
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Probably a good idea. I know it’s growing like crazy and the weather here can be brutal. It might work.
Republicans lowered taxes for everyone. Many of the tax benefits set up to help individuals and families will expire in 2025.
Compared to the delays that Intel have seen in recent years it's honestly quite impressive that Apple have managed to get new silicon every year largely on time.
This scheme as described is not secure, but with one more step it can be. Luckily, that step has already been automated:

https://www.lesspass.com/
Read this submission and thought - this is the kind of thing dan luu would post on Twitter. Then I saw the submitter!

It's honestly incredible how companies will have issues with the most core fundamental way people are attempting to use their product and no one noticed. Being unable to check out is basically throwing money into a fire and I've had it happen all the time - I take my business elsewhere. People just don't give a shit about their job or what they're actually doing
There can be more than one problem at a time.

* Companies do this kind of data collection

* users don’t take the time to make themselves aware of earth their devices and software does

* this kind of data collection isn’t illegal

* OS providers allow this data collection without appropriate controls or use notification

* and others

Some of these problems have been improved upon, but it’s definitely not just one groups fault.
Alexa spams me with ads all the time - doesn’t seem that hard.