skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll say the EA and rationalist community varies a great deal from location to location. Where I am the vast majority use drugs at a lower rate than the general population. There's of course some outliers that are into psychedelics but it's still a very distinct subgroup. Where I am the majority of EA/rationalists are more public policy and human focused and less concerned about AI/x-risk and way more skeptical of cryptocurrency.
When I link it to a well known piece of text, does it go to its wikipedia page (or something of the sort) and summarize that, instead of analyzing the actual text?

For example I linked to Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche - I got a summary that highly resembles something a wiki page would say about the text and quite unlike what I'd expect from reading the text itself.

I've gotten a very similar feeling giving it Plato's Republic.

Update: I've linked it to The Idiot by Dostoevsky and it didn't do well at all. Strange piece of technology - reminiscent of ChatGPT.
Any time I think about Harry Potter now with an adult mind I find the teachers there highly irresponsible. They give young kids superhero like abilities while completely and utterly neglecting their mental health. It is a small wonder that most of them turn out a-okay and there is only a single dark lord going on murderous rampage per generation.

If i were running such an institution everyone would learn meditation, mindfullness, and would encourage every student and teacher to attend psychological counseling paid by the school with a therapist of their choice.

Maybe real world schools should think along similar lines.
Another writer I like, discussing exactly this problem, referred to it as "the quantum unit of sacrifice". It is annoying. Very annoying! But like, that's all it is.
The real problem is OS:es that write to disk for no good reason.

Windows 10 writes 100KB/s constantly.

That should be illegal.
I've considered this myself, but I have a feeling that if I did the math on it, it'd turn out that I'd need an impractical number of plants to keep the air quality at an ideal level
The GP said:

> Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment.

My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.
And the premise of Dark Angel.
I've taken this same trip (although I started from DC and then jumped on the Southwest Chief in Chicago) and echo that it is a blast. I'm from the U.S. but most of my train trips have been in Europe (Mariupol - Lviv, Budapest - Berlin, Bucharest - Chisinau being some that stand out). The characters you meet on U.S. trains are a bit different, its full of people who have made a choice to be there given that air travel is often cheaper (than a sleeper car anyways) and way faster and given rates of car ownership in the U.S. Be prepared for lots of conversations (if you want them) with a broad cast of characters from train lovers to nervous flyers to probable drug dealers (okay this one is just speculation but got strong 'avoiding TSA vibes' from a couple of people). Much of the scenery you pass by isn't stuff you'd put on a postcard, but it opens your mind to just how vast America really is.

Overall, highly recommend anyone to do it if they've got a few days -- the next time I go I will probably splurge on a sleeper car instead of just sleeping in a seat in my jeans (okay for 1-2 days but tough for day 3)
>The Centre for Effective Altruism has a turnover in the tens of millions

Google says that their annual budget is $6M, so I think you're overestimating how much money can be siphoned off. Moreover, given how trendy effective altruism is with young professionals from elite universities, getting a high position will be difficult. Sure, an ivy league graduate could fight tooth and nail to get a position at the CEA that pays a meager base salary and hope to siphon off some extra money, but he can make much more money at a professional services firm or in finance. Better yet, he can get some high ranking position at some private company that has 10x turnover and doesn't have public scrutiny (because it's not a charity). That's not to say that everyone at CEA is behaving scrupulously. It's just that getting into effective altruism to embezzle money makes little economic sense.
> Anyway, gave me a talking point going forward to really, really press management on "it's worth paying for drives from 3-4x brands and maybe splurging for higher rated vs consumer too", but also does made me wonder if there is something going on, or was (pandemic related?), at Samsung's storage division.

What's going on at Samsung is the same thing that's always been going on at Samsung: they use their own flash and their own controllers and they have their own sets of problems as a result. It was a selling point in the early days of Sandforce and other turds (leading to things like the OCZ Vertex series) but now the commodity market has caught up and Samsung doing their own thing is kind of a negative. Like yeah it's fine as long as they don't screw up, but they're screwing up a lot more than they used to.

I don't see any direct correlation between the various failures that have occurred over the years. 840 Evo had something wrong with the flash NANDs that caused them to lose charge over time (leading to data loss) so they put out a new firmware that would just continuously write the flash in a tape-loop sort of deal (lol) to avoid the data ever aging out. I don't count that as a controller flaw, that's a flash flaw that was fixed with a firmware patch.

870 Evo, 970 Evo, 970 Evo Plus, and 980 have all been accused of having problems over the years, in addition to the 980 Pro and now 990 Pro, but there's actually a pretty good variety of controller models as well as different flash types (from 64-layer to 236-layer) there. It's hard to know how much firmware they all share though... or whether it was more flash problems in certain batches, or what. But overall Samsung certainly has had a lot of failures in recent years and I think it all really comes back to the fact that they're using their own controllers and their own flash, while everyone else is pretty much commodity at this point... meaning they get their own bugs too.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcr...
You'll adore the California Zephyr. The passage through the high, snowy ravines in the Rockies and beyond into the painted deserts of Utah and Nevada is a glorious sight to behold. However, if you have a choice, get on in Denver rather than Chicago, unless you're keen to spend 20 hours marveling at the endless ocean of corn blanketing Iowa and Nebraska.
We have a decent coffee chain in Ontario named Balzac’s, that started in Stratford. I hadn’t known this connection. Thanks!
I thought I understood the basics of Haskell but this post makes me realize why my day job consists of Java now.
Oh interesting. You think videogames are influencing the rest of the industry? That actually makes a lot of sense.

Are there other sources (articles, research, blogposts) that talk about this?
> "To achieve this, the guidance system converts the velocity readings, from 64 bit floating point to 16 bit signed integer".

Oh, excellent possible interview question? "Write some code that reliably converts the full range of possible 64 bit floating point values to a 16 bit signed integer. What are the issues you'll have to deal with and what edge cases might arise?"
"Hairy rope, don't be a dope"
DIY box fan filters – Corsi-Rosenthal box
I'm from Vancouver so I'm pretty familiar with this issue. They give you housing but don't allow drugs. Being able to own your own place where you can do drugs helps.

These people are addicts and homeless. We can cure homelessness with more homes, but we also need to help them get rid of addiction.
I haven’t used it recently but I believe it sets a header on the request when it comes from HTMX so you can change whether you send the whole page or just the fragment back.

You can also just send the whole page and use other features to select just the part that you want to update (obviously that has a cost of sending the whole page though).
>> The cause? A simple, and very much avoidable coding bug, from a piece of dead code, left over from the previous Ariane 4 mission, which started nearly a decade before.

>> The worst part? The code wasn’t necessary after takeoff, it was only part of the launch pad alignment process. But sometimes a trivial glitch might delay a launch by a few seconds and, in trying to save having to reset the whole system, the original software engineers decided that the sequence of code should run for an extra… 40 seconds after the scheduled liftoff.

The author appears to be using a different definition of "dead code" than I'm used to. To me, dead code is code that is no longer called by anything else, and has no chance of running. Maybe a more accurate term is "legacy code"?
> What if you could continuously monitor communication as it happens, in place, where it happens (directly on computer, or a server) and know immediately if it should be happening at all.

That's what personal firewalls do (with most known today is Little Snitch, but there were countless others in the past)

And the bypass mechanisms are well known - make someone authorized do the network request. Inject DLL into IE process. Add hidden add-on to browser. Direct existing background downloader to get your evil stuff instead.
A previous Google/CTS group won a delay to return-to-office with just threat of strike: https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-union-alphabet-strike-back-t....
I really like ChatGPT & I similarly enjoy GitHub Copilot. The combination of these two technologies has eliminated a large chunk of the time I previously spent referencing documentation, repo issues, man pages, & stack overflow.

If you treat ChatGPT as the expert, you’re going to be disappointed. But when YOU are the expert & can verify what ChatGPT outputs, then it makes a fantastic automated reference.
Visualizing California’s Water Storage – Reservoirs and Snowpack
Remember this is Australia - a very conservative country. Marijuana possession remains a criminal offence here in most places, with minimal sign this will change any time soon.

When they say "for medical usage", they mean it.

This is not just a nice acceptable easing in of liberal recreational drugs policy.

Don't expect to be buying party drugs from the chemist before going out on saturday night. Despite the fact that this is precisely what should be happening - nice, safe, clean party drugs instead of god knows what probably methamphetamine/ice.
No it's an API endpoint from openai, which they use to provide chatgpt which is a wrapper around gpt 3.5 or 4 or whatever
ChatGPT seems to only know it as Kudhum:

> Kudhum is a coffee variety grown in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia, which is known for being the birthplace of coffee. Kudhum coffee is known for its high quality, producing beans with a distinctive flavor profile that is characterized by a full body, medium to high acidity, and notes of fruit and spice. The variety is grown at high elevations, which contributes to its unique flavor profile. Kudhum coffee is considered one of the top-quality coffees from Ethiopia and is highly sought after by coffee lovers and roasters around the world.
LLMs haven't "learned" syntax, that's the point. It doesn't matter if you just want to predict syntax (engineering) only if you want to understand the human language faculty (science) and nearly no one is interested in the latter.
NPCS: The Unsung Heroes of the Modern City
> the English dub literally changes the ending of Kiki's Delivery Service

True, but that is a rare case where the dub is making a gigantic improvement.
Sure, I'm probably going to extremes. There are definite economies of scale to specialize in house cleaning and the like. I'm thinking more about the stereotypical rich person type of service with multiple dedicated servants for a single household.
How do I check health of a Samsung SSD on Linux?
This isn't the case - Studio Ghibli's English dubs have always been perfect, with the studio being very careful about their quality, and in some movies such as Spirited Away, there's sometimes even details of the original design that are expressed in the English dub that weren't in the Japanese version, like a side character's name.
fair enough but i prefer the perspective of the community here
Or the DC Comics villain?
"Lungs" being the really nasty part. Inhaling smoke from burning poison ivy can be fatal.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35703240/
It’s also totally fine to not SSR if the benefits aren’t important to you.
"Major leak" aka guerrilla marketing. C'mon, are we still pretending that these new product "leaks" are unplanned? Just preview the damn thing instead of acting like we're subverting The Man by viewing their marketing.
While not surprising in the least, it is quite sad that all these schemes seemingly always come down to selling courses or affiliate links.
Sometimes I have no trouble concentrating and getting great work done, while other times I feel stupid and my brain doesn't work. I would like to spend more time in the first category and less in the second. Noticing that I feel unwell is very easy, but is only useful if I know _why_. CO2 levels are one of many things which could cause this, so I bought a CO2 monitor to find out if they're correlated, and if so I had the idea that I could get alerts to remind me to open a window before it became a problem.
that's slightly different.

piracy is a known vector for distributing malware.

this is more for general searches or software with no paid option.

google should deindex scam sites, but this is easier said than done. however they should NEVER have paid ads for malware as they're directly profiting from malware
I think I recognize that section of Chicago's train station from my favorite scene of all time. That shootout scene from the movie The Untouchables. Correct me if I am wrong.
Almost 2% of Anguilla's GDP came from selling .ai domains in 2021 [pdf]
Revenue from domains in 2021: $199.99M XCD [1] = $7.40M USD [2]

Nominal 2021 GDP: $380M USD [3]

$7.40M/$380M = 1.94%

[1] page 64, http://www.gov.ai/documents/finance/2022%20Budget.pdf

[2] 1 XCD = 0.37 USD https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=...

[3] https://data.un.org/en/iso/ai.html
My anecdata:

tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate.

My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 months. It was replaced under warranty with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus.

That replacement has now also failed after 1 year and 9 months.

I bought a 2nd 1TB 970 EVO Plus in May 2019. It has now also failed (2 years and 7 months).

Both are expected to be replaced under warranty.

The 2 970 EVO Plus SSDs clearly had hardware errors (that were not accurately reflected in SMART data) that caused everything from system hangs, game crashes to file corruption on OTHER drives. I couldn't believe it at first but after 5 days of testing and trial and error, I had it confirmed. As soon as I removed those SSDs, my PC was completely stable again.

In the meantime, I have bought a Kingston KC3000 1TB drive as I no longer trust Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs. On the other hand, I have a Samsung EVO 850 SATA drive which has been rock-solid.
> I always feel like my vacation starts after I endure the entire airport + plane experience

Your whole comment brought back so many great memories for me, but this hits the nail on the head. I've only done one long train ride but the experience was so great that I'm eager to do it again. Being able to take a shower and lie down at night was a game changer - I slept so well. For me it was sort of a working trip in that I brought my laptop and did some emailing and light development, but I spent way more time just looking out the window and relaxing.
I wonder if Qvo are still subject to the same issues.
The value rising from 80 to 81 is an improvement. The calculated value decreases when the raw value of "Hardware ECC Recovered" worsens.
Google invests $300M in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic
Python seems to be showing that FORTRAN still has a great present. It's amazing what is current in the Python ecosystem and written in FORTRAN.

Python still has a lot of C extensions and C code but Python has never strictly cared about C++.

From a Python perspective, at least, C++ is more like COBOL than FORTRAN.
Manicheel sounds horrible. It's in spurge family, known for skin irritation in more northern species. This is like the spurge from hell. Native and endangered in Florida.

Hogweed's super scary also. It's all over North America apparently. It contains furanocoumarin, a phytotoxin, and touching the plant sensitizes skin to sunlight. It can cause severe burns, necrosis requiring amputation, and permanent blindness.

A fact I just learned from looking it up: Species similar to giant hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum, are ALSO phototoxic. Did not know that! I thought if you could ID it as cow-parsnip or whatever, it was "safe." NOT. These include - Common hogweed, H. sphondylium -- Cow parsnip, H. maximum -- Wild parsnip, Pastinaca sativa -- Wild lettuces, Lactuca sp. -- Angelica, Angelica atropurpurea -- Queen Anne's lace, Daucus carota.

Other hogweed lookalikes in Apiaceae include the hemlocks, similar appearance but feathery leaves, which go WAY beyond phytotoxicity (all parts of the plant are fatally poisonous to humans).

Fun times. Steer clear! The cool thing about botany is, there's always something more to learn.
I would argue the porsche brand is more valuable than ford.
From an outside perspective, it feels like we're witnessing a slow formation of a new super-nation, called the EU, with many member states, such as Germany, France, etc.

It likely would not take a whole lot for member nations to cede enough power to the EU and make that a reality - either intentionally or unintentionally, gradually or all at once. Within the US, State's rights and powers have been slowly eroded over the years as well - with a surprising number of people supporting increased centralized power within the US federal government.

People already refer to the EU like it's a singular entity. I wonder if this will become a reality in the not-so-distance future.

There's pro's and con's to that, of course, much like States within the US.
Let me guess: nothing
No, just an old hat from the pre-360 era.
If you can, you should try a "blind" test outside your home sometime. i.e. Bring the monitor to a hotel room for your next stay, try to guess it, and then see what the actual number is.
Compare the summary of the book to the summary of the Wikipedia article on Moby Dick (https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...)

> Moby-Dick is a novel by Herman Melville about the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on the white sperm whale Moby Dick, which crippled him on the ship's previous voyage. The novel follows Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod, as he narrates the story of Ahab's monomaniacal pursuit of Moby Dick. Along the way, Ishmael and his fellow crew members encounter a variety of characters and situations, including the mysterious Fedallah, a harpooner who prophesies Ahab's death; Pip, a young African American cabin-boy who jumps in panic from Stubb's whale boat; and the Delight, a whaling ship that is badly damaged and with five of her crew left dead by Moby Dick. The novel also contains a variety of themes, including the nature of evil, the power of fate, and the search for identity. Ultimately, the novel suggests that while revenge may be a powerful motivator, it can also lead to destruction and death.
i feel like people downvote when they disagree despite interestingness
Some wars are great for investors.
Do we know the location of those writes, perhaps they can be redirected to a ramdisk?
Well, this is one way Google the $1.4T publicly-traded company can raise their ad revenue.
You don't even need to get to the point where your consciousness is inhabiting other people to get into this. Today's you is different from yesterday's you and tomorrow's you - you all have different experiences and memories. The you of this moment only exists in this moment and is already gone.
Nice. Good for them!
In 2016 there was an update by the outgoing administration to raise the floor to $913 a week, but it got rescinded and instead set to the current $684 a week rate.
That's an uncharitable interpretation of the GP, I think.

"Absurdly low to be considered exempt"? That's not "privilege of the developer", that's "we shouldn't screw over employees who aren't getting adequately compensated.
and sometimes the vine has branches -- I've seen them a few feet long
I did actually test out 1.1.5.4 in advance of this. I just used saved results instead of the new version for comparison because performance appears very similar on random inputs. I do see a lot of improvement in quadsort and most of the special-case benchmarks.

I was planning to update my repository to grab the appropriate files from the fluxsort repository but if you'd update the wolfsort repo I wouldn't have to. Although maybe I should switch over to cloning fluxsort instead.
This is precisely my reasoning. The larger charities don't need me. Also, this is a way, in large part, to give back to my local community -- the people who supported (and support) my business efforts.

There are many ways to measure impact. I choose to measure it locally.
As a data point, the Linux kernel has a long list of workarounds for "ata" related devices (SSDs, HDDs, etc):

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/69f2c9346313ba3d3dfa4...

Can be a bit eye opening to look down that and see equipment you're using listed. ;)
WD RED SSDs are targeted at NAS use cases and claim endurance of 1PBW per TB, https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-red-sn700-review
Good tip
A couple of my computer science professors at university were Polish. They’d both done their PhDs in Poland in the 70s/80s. Like many other bright Poles, when communism ended, they took the opportunity to depart for greener pastures (and being Australia, sunnier too).
It's not just about conscious action but also perception, being conscious of things. I don't know how that could be a trick.
I still wouldn’t risk obtaining them legally, discretion is paramount for controversial medicine. One tiny data leak and your reputation is tarnished in certain circles, and that doesn’t even get into why the government knowing about it could be risky.
It really seems like the internet as we know it is about to break down under an never-ending ocean of ChatGPT spam.

Trust and curation should become even more valuable than they are today.
> Most of those people are a burden to society.

This is both extremely dehumanizing and also not true.

Forced prison work isn't paying anything back to society. It's lining the pockets of people who are profiting from forced labor.
Sidestepping from the topic of Argentina a bit. Isn't debt always some form of trap, for people or government? I do get the idea of borrowing to generate more income (eg a port) but too often doesn't that income just go to borrowing more? Gradually committing more and more gdp/income into non-productive repayments?