skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Excel as a format is an awful abomination of XML"

You and I may think so, but why would it matter for the end user?

"and the program itself is an awful experience that people just stick with due to a mix of Stockholm syndrome and inertia"

Disagree. For the purpose of what Excel was made for, it seems reasonable. Or rather, I've yet to see what benefits alternative experiences produce. For the vast 90% of users, Excel is a 1NF/2NF db, emphasized on visually viewing their data. It's dead simple to enter, dead simple to share, and reasonable easy to add some constraints, some linkage, and show data trends.
Hi Jennifer! Not a dumb question at all, a smart contract is very similar to a traditional legal contract, but it is for the web3/blockchain space. Rather than being written in english, it is written with code and executes on its own when a certain set of criteria is met. Most users interact with them anytime they purchase an NFT, or token of any kind, so important to know what you are agreeing to. Hope that helps :)
My Samsung 980s (1TB so not affected per article) are still going strong but Samsung has been dropping the ball across the board for me in recent years. I've had a bad experience with their Samsung Frame last year, their fridges are a nightmare to fix, and I'm now hearing bad things about their washing machine and their SSDs. I know these departments are not related but it's not a good look.
So, to summarize:
1. No beautiful woman in an adjoining cabin.
2. No high stakes poker games.
3. Not a single murder to solve.
4. No apparent spies. And given the menu had only three wine selections it would be very difficult to ferret out any spies using ones high class upbringing. So for all we know the train could be lousy with spies.
5. Nobody gets tossed off the train.
6. No fight on top of the train cars while the train is approaching a tunnel.

Amtrack is really going downhill.
Any time you copy/paste from a password manager, alarm bells should be ringing.
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Layoffs are indifferent to outcomes by the third year.
I don't insist on this (or even suggest it) for others (I'm an old BBS'er), but I do generally use my real name on the internet.
The reason EA seems like it's a form of utilitarianism is of course the association with the so-called rationalist community. As you note, it's very appealing to that type of person. This is partly because the math used to rigorously compare consequences seems easy, and partly because utilitarianism has a lot of good places to hide your subjective value judgements.

You can apply EA-like concepts with any sort of consequentialist ethics. E.g. the Rawlsan veil of ignorance can work -- would hypothetical-me rather reduce his chance of dying of malaria by X%, or reduce his chance of malnutrition by Y%? It's just harder to explain why you rank one course of action over another, and therefore you're probably not going to be able to centralize the decision making.

This isn't because it's somehow unsound[0]. It's because it's harder (though not impossible) to explain with math, and the subjective value judgements are right in your face rather than hidden in concepts like utility functions.

[0]- It might be; you might not accept the premise of the veil of ignorance. That's not the reason it seems trickier than the utilitarian version, which has the same problem.
Damon Chen here (waving hand)

I'm just a guy quitting 9-5 and hope to make some money online to support my family :)

I mentioned apps I built before in this tweet. Testimonial.to is the only one that took off.
https://twitter.com/damengchen/status/1344525420813697024
I think people should primarily be mad about AMD continuously raising prices (particularly in lockstep with nVidia), because limiting supply naturally follows from that as a consequence or side-effect.
Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In
At home and internationally, ‘governance’ is the space watchword: 2023 Preview
It does matter for sure. At least in a modern/energy-efficient "tight" (as in, airtight) build.

You can be right that turning on circulation makes the number go down. But that doesnt matter. Over time the concentration can go up and up and up, even with h"v"ac running.

Few residential HVAC systems actually ventilate. The focus on energy-efficiency has been a bit blind to the need to get rid of od co2 & take in oxygen. You can get fancy energy-recovery ventilation (ERV) devices that actually do air-exchange with thermal coupling, to cool or heat the incoming air. But this sort of system is alas exceptionally rare.
I'm not sure that there is a universal social contract in place. There are many situations where a lie is acceptable or even expected.

In business dealings it's acceptable to lie about the price you are willing to pay (or receive) for a service. It is however completely unacceptable to lie about business finances when communicating with investors or the tax office.

Even in personal matters, if someone told you information to keep in confidence, and then someone else asked if you know anything about it, it is acceptable (even honorable) to lie to maintain the trust with the first person. However, there are also situations where revealing the information to the second person is the more honorable action.
Ha, I believe I stepped out there for a few minutes though. :)
The Calls for More Progress on Space Governance Are Growing Louder
Early last year, I got a new job with health insurance from UHC. They repeatedly denied my initial claims until I pressed back against them. They asserted that I had other coverage; I had to provide hard proof that I had canceled my old policy. I can only assume that was a flagrant lie on their part, because they never provided any proof that I had other insurance. It literally took hours on the phone with their agents to get them to cover a $50 claim.

As a direct result, I do not trust them to cover me in an emergency, but this is what my employer provides. I cannot afford to pay for better insurance out-of-pocket, not that I expect any other insurers act any better than this. To wit, I do not expect any insurance company to honor their policies, whether for health, auto, home, or life coverage. I only pay for insurance because it is required by law (or by the bank).

Unless my life is in danger, I will not risk bankruptcy by participating in the medical system. Presently, I am actively avoiding going to the doctor to investigate potential ongoing health issues, even though I have a so-called "platinum" plan. What a fucking joke.
https://archive.is/WzPJS
But all that code is necessary to make our sites work the way we want.

It's necessary to make shitty websites that are impossible to load on slow/flaky connections.
> The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything.

What about if you're less smart? Wouldn't you be more easily fooled?

Maybe it's not about smartness, but about arrogance?
But where do you draw the line at "overthinking"? I agree that "don't help the homeless guy down the street in favor of funding AI alignment research" is a bit unintuitive, but keep in mind that "don't help homeless guy in favor of helping 100 random guys in africa" is also unintuitive (at least to the extent that we needed a whole movement to popularize it). I'm not saying that AI alignment research is actually the most worthwhile cause to fund, but "convincing people to donate to unintuitive, but theoretically greater utility projects" is basically the reason why effective altruism even exists. If people already naturally donated to the highest impact charities rather than donating to their alumni or the local opera house, we wouldn't need EA because that would be the default.
what does the SMART data for your drive say?

I'm morbidly curious how much it reports lifespan remaining for its internal write-wear-leveling system.
the teflon musk. also show the power of having the best legal counsel money can buy
Elon Musk found not liable in fraud trial over take-private tweets
Dry run: Balloons called top ‘delivery platform’ for nuclear EMP attack
About the author Gene Ray:

> Dr. Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray was an electrician and inventor who created the website for Time Cube in 1997. He proclaimed himself a Doctor of Cubism and Wisest Human in 2002 and was known for his anti-Semitic, homophobic, and racist views. He ran four separate websites, all revolving around his apparent insanity, and promised $10,000 to anyone who could refute the Time Cube theory. He died in 2015 at the age of 87, but his domain registration for timecube.com was renewed in 2015 under his name. His most coherent sentence was "God is the supreme excuse for human adults to absolve themselves of any obligation to preserve natural resources for their own children during their lifetime." His most famous quote is "1 x 1 = +1 is stupid and evil."

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://rationalwiki.org/wi...
The few times I've had to contact their support, they've been responsive and helpful.
That was a fraud to steal the business value from his brother/co-owner.
Governance in outer space: The case for a new global order
It's been interesting. Fastmail continues to be effective in filtering out spam, but Gmail seems to be faltering as of recently.
> hmm, do you have a hidpi display

nope, standard DPI (ie. 100% scaling). On my phone it looks perfectly fine.
Funny that you mention it, as that is exactly what we have been working on :)

It is not publicly linkable but we demoed this in our Discord few days ago (check #ai channel)

https://kagi.com/discord
I wish more independent review organizations would conduct destructive "write lifespan until ultimate failure" real world tests on SSDs. With a mixture of real world large contiguous files and small random writes.

Real ultimate write lifespan on 3-level-cell and QLC consumer grade SSDs varies wildly for things of the same capacity and similar price.

Such as this series of tests from 7 years ago: https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experi...

It looks like the bar charts and other data in that URL are now broken, which is sad, because I recall reading it when it was first published and it shows some amazing differences between the drives that died first, and the ones that died last.

another similar: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/endurance-test-of-samsung-...
I have no submissions because I've not found anything compelling enough to share. :D
I don't know the circumstances, but compared to armed robbery or smash and grabs or some really desperate crime, this seems more entrepreneurial, like "hey there's still some copper in the abandoned mine". And it's essentially a victimless crime - it seems like there might be some conservation implications, like they disturbed a bat nest (which could also lead to histoplasmosis), but not the same as property crime, more like illegally cutting down a couple trees deep in the forest.

All that to say, desperation may be an element, but the sophistication required indicates there's probably more to it than than.

And making someone go to jail for 30 days for this is just stupid
> Either way it's modified.

Yep. The oldest rules I've seen require that the machine have an original stick.

> More to the point the footage is consistent with 8-way movement

Which footage? An eight way stick let's you barrel steer while ladder climbing. I don't believe that this will be detectable from looking at footage alone.

> And the appearance is consistent with an 8 way.

This is impossible to tell from the photographs. The restrictor plate is mounted on the underside of the joystick assembly.
The best part of this was the malort, hands down.

-- All jokes aside: I discovered how great the long distance west bound trains are through the Empire Builder train. It's great, it s peaceful, and it's relaxing. Also, it's a heck of a lot better than the OBB nightjet trains.
> Just because you didn't know murder is illegal does not mean you can go kill random people and claim "oopsie, I didn't know, I wish you had warned me ahead of time".

It's a wrong comparison. I'm not saying that people that are abusing CF's services are not guilty.

> I mean, it was clear enough for the other OP to know they went against it.

The point is not about these specific cases(in the one I posted it's definitely user's fault, this one is more ambiguous) but how CF acts.

The automatic/human process inside CF that decided to "ban" doesn't know if users are aware or not. They just assume (as you) that's user's fault and proceed with the "ban". While, if I'm running a service for months or even years and no one complains, there are a lot of good reason to assume that I don't do anything wrong.

Imagine that you have a totally compliant service but, because of a bug in their detection mechanism, your service goes down, and it takes days or even weeks to clarify everything with them and bring it up again.

It's an insane "default".

I mean, for CF nothing changes if they give you an x days notice but for your business changes a lot and (as mentioned before) when you run 1/3 of internet it's not only about the TOS.
I don't want to get tangled up in abstractions here. To a decent first approximation, every large charity well-reviewed by Charity Navigator (or the like) fundraises from past donors aggressively. It would be a red flag if they weren't annoying previous donors. Empirically, the idea of "never giving money to organizations that ask for money" is likely to steer you away from the most effective aid organizations.
nvme-cli can, in principle, upload firmware. I’ve never personally tried it.
I just asked the same question

“Luke Skywalker did not have a problem with Tribbles. The character Luke Skywalker is from the “Star Wars” franchise and tribbles are from the “Star Trek” franchise.
There are lots of different use cases.

1. Further defense in depth against common XSS attacks: if you only ever log into banking sites in a Banking container, then some random ad-sprung malware trying to access your bank in any other container will never find a logged in banking session to hijack (no matter how good your bank thinks they are at XSS protection and auto-timeouts).

2. Isolating tracking cookies from major ad companies. This reduces cross-correlation between/among them. I have separate containers at this point for all of: Google account usage, Twitter account usage, Facebook account usage, and Amazon account usage. The amount of targeted advertising I see decreases every time I sequester one of these major accounts into its own container. The trade-off is the increase in ReCaptchas needed and the increase in advertising companies complaining I must be using an "ad blocker". (I don't have any ad blocker extension installed, just this strategy of isolating major cookies to specific containers and Firefox built-in Enhanced Tracking Protection.)
These are not available with retail support so if you manage to acquire one (which may have been pulled from service with an unknown level of previous wear) you will get ZERO support from Samsung no matter what goes wrong.
September 12-13.

An oceanographic research ship is doing gravity and magnetic surveys off the coast of Brazil.

Suddenly, data acquisition software crash!

byte day_of_year;
My parents took me on a trip via the California Zephyr, Coastal Starlight, and Empire builder when I was 5 years old. I'm now in my 40s and that was one of the most memorable trips I've ever taken. I re-took the California Zephyr with my wife some years ago, and hope to take it again with my child some day.

Memorable travel, not just memorable destinations.
Better yet, Eddie Murphy nails it with this "documentary": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
Not to say that it isn't a problem or that the community shouldn't do better, but this seems like the sort of stuff you could dredge up about pretty much any group of comparable size. I'm intensely curious about the decision-making process that got this article published.
I find that the following is true: those who are very vocal about their own virtue/altruism are usually rotten.

Those who aren't, often surprise you with their goodness when it matters.

I've found the "I am so good/empathetic/etc" crowd to be either self deluded and useless, or manipulative, specifically for the purpose of trying to work your way in sexually (as in this story)
It is easy enough to wrap libc's qsort() with LD_PRELOAD, sure. The problem is heterogeneity: qsort() is by far not the only sort implementation the machine is running. Even identifying them all might be a daunting task, not to mention figuring out how to wrap them.
Ok, but it's reasonable to suspect other users might also have had their accounts banned if it had been a systematic outage or ML hiccup, and given there's a 24hr limit to that ban becoming permanent, it's reasonable to expect an update soon as possible, even if that update is just a one-line "our status is X but we still don't know why this happened to us".
How well does their example work over satellite internet with 1.2sec latency? How about my cell connection when T-mobile throttles me to 64Kbps for going over my data allowance? How about my sister's cell connection, as she is on an MVNO and deprioritized sometimes to 128Kbps, sometimes to 6Mbps, and sometimes it varies within a minute between those two?

FFS, people, learn to write proper software that does everything locally!
Orwell’s account cannot be trusted.

> Of his contemporaries, Cecil Beaton wrote of the piece "It is hilariously funny, but it is exaggerated".[22] Connolly, on reviewing Stansky & Abraham's interpretation, wrote "I was at first enchanted as by anything which recalls one's youth but when I went to verify some references from my old reports and letters I was nearly sick... In the case of St Cyprian's and the Wilkes whom I had so blithely mocked I feel an emotional disturbance... The Wilkeses were true friends and I had caricatured their mannerisms (developed as a kind of ritual square-bashing for dealing with generations of boys) and read mercenary motives into much that was just enthusiasm."[32] Walter Christie and Henry Longhurst went further and wrote their own sympathetic accounts of the school in response to Orwell's and voiced their appreciation for the formidable Mrs Wilkes.[33][34] Robert Pearce, researching the papers of another former pupil,[35] made a comprehensive study from the perspective of the school, investigating school records and other pupils' accounts. While some features were universal features of prep school life, he concluded that Orwell's depiction bore little relation to reality and that Orwell's defamatory allegations were unsupportable.[15] Davison writes "If one is looking for a factual account for life at St Cyprian's, this is not the place to seek it."[36]

On Orwell's claimed state of misery, Jacintha Buddicom, who knew him well at the time, also raised a strong challenge. She wrote "I can guarantee that the 'I' of "Such, Such were the Joys" is quite unrecognisable as Eric as we knew him then", and "He was a philosophical boy, with varied interests and a sense of humour—which he was inclined to indulge when referring to St Cyprian's in the holidays."[23]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Such,_Such_Were_the_Joys
My memory was marathon on the Mac played over a similar connection speed. I forget the software but it allowed a networked game to be emulated over a PPP dialup session.

Fondly look back at those times, indeed.
That is so.... meta...
he average height of an american revolutionary soldier was 5'3". A more representative sample of the population as a whole. And they certainly weren't obese. You can go to museums and see the guns they carried and the clothes (tiny) they wore.

of course they are not obese, they are soldiers
Something being highlighted about Flutter is that it ultimately compiles to native code so unlike RN which transpiles to native widgets, its UI animations should technically be buttery smooth.

But in watching the flutter announcement video https://youtu.be/Nu5m1FiS5X4?t=60 (timestamped link) on the screen as menus are opening and the mouse cursor is shown selecting different items, there is... a very perceptible stutter and lag. What is that due to?
ESXiArgs ransomware attack targets VMware ESXi servers worldwide
FWIW, none of those are even scored even slightly high, so I don't think it is claiming something horribly incorrect.
Is it just me or are peoples expectations of chatGPT absolutely ridiculous?

No it's not a magic oracle. Yes you still have to check your work. Yes it will make mistakes.

But as a tool to assist you? It's incredible.
Having taken the Zephyr before, despite not being practical, Amtrak is really stupidly beautiful. There's something stunning in being in the middle of the mountains with nothing around.
I also want to note they are using older versions of Axion and Nx
Pretty much. I want to colonize Mars, but not as a solution to apocalypse scenarios. Long-long term it would help, but yea, it isn't the optimal solution to solve current problems we are facing now. Still want to colonize it, but just because it would be cool. Whether we take 5 years or 150 years to do it or 1,000 years to do it, doesn't bother me. Although doing it in the next 30 years would mean there is a good chance I could see it happen, but thats about it.
The problem with polls is they only show, assuming they are accurate, what percentage of people will vote a certain way. They don't indicate who will win. Due to the electoral college, many votes are effectively thrown out. This is the reason for the discrepancy. It would increase democracy in the US if the electoral college was eliminated.

FiveThirtyEight.com uses polling data, but also looks at the electoral college, and accurately predicted that Trump could beat Hillary and that Biden could beat Trump, although the odds that Trump would beat Hillary were low, they did predict it was possible.
You're referencing an article about one of the most shocking violent incidents in Hyde Park memory. In 2021, Jahmal Cole was a congressional candidate who was shot at (though not injured) while visiting Hyde Park in a crime they never determined the motif for.

If you go look at the actual Violence Reduction Dashboard referenced in the article you'll see that Hyde Park has less shootings per capita than the loop and the near north side. Its tiered in the safest neighborhoods in Chicago. Its used as an example of what the Dashboard calls "The Safety Gap" to distinguish how much safer some neighborhoods are than others.

Chicago has a violent crime problem, in some neighborhoods its an absolute multiple generation failure and an outrage. But if you aren't comfortable with Hyde Park's crime rate, you aren't comfortable anywhere in Chicago or you have some other bias at play. Thats fine! Feel free to make your own choices about where you go but Hyde Park isn't rough by any American statistical observation.

And it certainly isn't germane to whether kids play outside! You'll find that in the absolute roughest neighborhoods in Chicago as well as the poshest.
I will note that I have been paid less than $27.63 per hour as a software developer ($27.50 to be precise) to make it so that I was a non-exempt worker.

On one side it meant that my employer would be very unhappy if I worked less 40 hours punched in. On the other hand, when punched in for 50 hours I had a nice bit more on the paycheck (the 40h one was $1100 before taxes; the 50h one was $1500 before taxes).

I'll also note that the median per capita income was about $25k/year and I was able to buy a house on a double lot (large fenced yard) for $60k.
I've noticed that GPT works quite good for recipes, try prompt like "Recipe for ..." should give you ingredients and instructions in a simple form.

You can then ask it to prepare a shopping list based on recipe.

Need to check with a human for legibility though if you're not experienced with cooking.
As discussed at https://www.theonion.com/murder-mystery-on-train-not-so-fun-...