skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one datapoint: this war has motivated me to make at least this house as independent of external energy sources as possible within the limits of physics and my budget. Gas prices have gone up so far and so fast that freestanding houses are listed for sale all over the place here. I've installed a relatively large amount of solar (nominally a bit over 10 KW) and I'm using that to offset the gas bill as long as we have netmetering (essentially this allows us to use the grid as a battery). A relatively small air-air heatpump is providing auxiliary heat on really cold days to help limit the gas consumption. A larger one will be installed this year to help increase the self consumed portion of our generated energy so that when the netmetering days come to an end (projected: 1/1/2025) we'll still be able to use that energy efficiently and without the use of batteries.

For us the subsidies never came into play (they have always been maxed out and besides the payback time is short enough that I don't think subsidies should be there at all), but the war certainly did.

Finally, dropping the temperature a bit also really helped, unfortunately people have different comfort levels so this is a bit of an issue but by keeping one part of the house at a slightly higher temp everybody gets theirs and we still save a bundle.
...I would seriously consider bytecode manipulation to remove this "feature" from the executable. And I haven't touched even assembly in almost 20 years.
Polish startup ‘deep fake’ makes DiCaprio sound like other celebraties
IMO BigTech had the notion that for the most part you wouldn’t be laid off unless you “underperformed”. The fact that people with long tenures and good perf were still let go definitely has an impact on how these companies will be perceived by future employees.
That's because it's not. It's electron on every platform including Windows.
It's not, but it's aware that certain words are less likely to be used in the sentences attributed to an agent who is specifically not meant to be 'controversial'.

I do wonder how much testing has been put into some of these prompts though. Given that the LLM is not 'being' the agent, it's guessing what words the agent's output should contain, wouldn't it make more sense to ascribe attributes like this directly to the agent, rather than say what the agent 'should' do?

Like, "Sydney's responses are never vague, controversial or off-topic", rather than 'should avoid being'...?
Crate and Barrel holds inventory. They buy it in advance. Also I think they have items that you can't get anywhere else that are made special just for them?
That's fair, I suppose a better way to word my point would be that any sort of "extreme" maneuver, absent some warning from the pilot about a rough takeoff or landing (or turbulence while in flight) is unusual for a passenger plane. Having that happen just after takeoff we're near the ground would give me some concern regardless of which direction I subjectively felt we were moving in, up or down. I've been through plenty of rough takeoffs and landings as a passenger and I just find it hard to believe that not a single person on the flight didn't at least think to themselves "hey, this isn't a normal climb to 10k".
But if/when you decline to work in an office you'll have documentation making it much more difficult for them to try and deny an unemployment insurance claim if you put one in.
Exactly, like an AV pack
Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models
I love that we’re in an age where folk art is resurgent and that you can raise enough money to commit time to your art and get it seen.

But copyright is what enables some of the big cultural spectacles that a lot of us enjoy, like bookstores and galleries and professional editors/finishers and blockbusters and broadway shows, etc etc. Without copyright, these industries aren’t sustainable and grand art becomes dependent entirely on arbitrary patronage by the aristocracy and government. For what ills there are to capitalism, these billion dollar art industries have their upsides.
WFH is a sub-bullet of one through five.
Also tomatoes.
I highly doubt rustamm or anyone partaking in this discussion is remotely qualified to know whether the most successful hedge funds, including Renaissance Technologies, Citadel, or Bridgewater are successful simply due to luck.
Here is another perspective, if you're at all interested. Let's say you commission a paid artist for a piece of artwork with the want of "butterflies and rainbows". I'd say that you are giving that artist direction in the exact same way of the AI system.
However, in the former you would probably not be granted copyright for the work as you didn't create it. So why is the AI system any different? You gave it direction, but you didn't create the final product. Also I'd argue that you aren't operating the AI system at all considering that along the way of creating the product you don't get to make adjustments; you are merely giving it direction.
I rarely see more than a thousand comments on a topic. There are undoubtedly more than a thousand users on HN. Therefore one could deduce that not all milkshakes bring the same people to the same yards.
I’m not suggesting it’s easy, but the trick is to play with pricing a lot in your early days while learning what those costs are. Start a little higher than you think you need - it’s easier to adjust down later than go up. Outliers can be caught with a small amount of code (hey, Slack me if a customer who I thought would use this thing once a day uses it 20 times so I can reach out to them to learn more about how they’re using my product).
Spam Will Be 'Solved' in 2 Years–Gates (2004)
When you look at the mechanical design of most VR headsets, a lot of weight, space and effort is spent making the interpupillary distance adjustable. They made a deliberate choice here to manufacture chassis with fixed IPD, and to mold the front. It moves the weight and mechanical complexity out of the headset and into the ordering and manufacturing process.
My current company had the same thing happen on acquisition, we had to ditch Zoom for Teams for video, but could stay on Slack. I find Teams video absolutely fine. It just works and I never think about it.
You get to whine about conspiracy N+1 when you finish defending conspiracy N.

> None of the left-wing people I interact daily with knew about [conspiracy N].

It seems their information filters were successfully rejecting bullshit -- which makes their filters better than your filters.

The "Biden's Laptop" story was bullshit when NYP posted it and it's still bullshit when you linked it. Furthermore, you know it's bullshit, which is why you tried to change the topic like a coward. Fine. Be my guest. Run away! If you want to defend your position, I'll be waiting.
What I'm really struggling with is how much this contrasts with the story for the developers of Dwarf Fortress, who don't get that same hate and vitro piled on them, and in fact, people throw money at them because they want the developers to have money. To the tune of like $9 million or something! Whereas this guy, pouring his heart into something useful and not for fun, gets all this hate shoveled his way?

I really don't understand people.
Teen Girls Experiencing Record Levels of Sadness and Suicide Risk, CDC Says
AT&T in the US offers "trade in rebates" on phones. You trade in a phone and they rebate your phone bill by $800 or $1000 over a 24 month period when you buy a new phone on an installment loan. It's a 0% loan so I'm not going to throw money away just to avoid paying less money over time.
Ditch your tripods and use shower curtain rods instead. Seriously, they are way better. https://james.darpinian.com/blog/mounting-valve-index-base-s...
Yet those laws ( 4 actually, not 3 ) have deep social and psychological implications.

We actually lived laws 0 and 1 through the recent Covid pandemic.

law 0: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

law 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

How many people are able to place the _perceived_ good of the entire human race vs their own personal wants and beliefs ?

I've read all of Asimov and he's nothing short of a genius in predicting pretty much all the issues we are facing today.
Now in the latest version(v1.2.1), you can find more similar photos by a spcific photo results. Have fun : )
Sample Size Determination with Julia
If you're ever lucky enough to ask someone in a western nation who came of age before World War II "What made the biggest positive difference in quality of life over the 20th century?" they'd most likely say "penicillin". It makes a tremendous positive difference not having to deal with the constant barrage of severe disease and death that was so common before modern vaccines and antibiotics.

At the same time, death to many of us has become little more than an abstract concept, something relegated mostly to the very old. With less suffering and death, we have less to ground us in an inescapable urgency about life, or a sense of immediate and pressing purpose. I'm convinced if it weren't for penicillin and vaccines, people would generally take life more seriously; there'd also be a lot more religious feeling, fervor, and searching.
I'd like to take a shot at sharpening the line. The AI has agency when instead of being motivated by whatever you tell it to do, it is motivated by a need to make money to pay for its own cloud services bill and thus continue existing. Whats the point of an AI "owning" anything if it has no want or need of money? Once you have to start paying the computer, rather than merely expecting its obedience, then and only then does no one own it but itself.

I pay rent therefore I am.
Sure, but you (maybe not you specifically) _solve problems_ by using a lot of open source. Your ability to do your job and get paid depends on the labor of others. Why not compensate them for it.
What would you say if you were in Russia? Would you publicly pour out your complete thoughts, whatever they may be, in a popular blog post with your name signed underneath? With an unfunded OSS project, a family to support and criminal history? Don't forget, you can't just "say stuff" in most corners of the world.
This is too big of a discussion to have in hacker news comments. But the decline in R&D spending, the amount of grants drug companies accept from the government, the amount of government funded research that goes into new medicines, the current state of healthcare spending in the US compared to other countries, the politics of it, the success of companies such as Cost Plus Drugs, and the amount of new medicines that come from countries that have much higher medical regulations all point to the fact that this is a bad system. I have worked on a few healthcare projects, and the general consensus is that it is unsustainable to have a system where health outcomes decline, even if profits are going up. It has been prevailing wisdom that patents help recoup the (admittedly enormous when you factor in clinical trials) cost of developing new drugs, but it has put the US especially into a really awful healthcare situation compared to other nations.

Long story short, there are enough sick people to provide medicine to and have a profitable business through a high volume of care, and governments are much better at providing long term financial stability than private corporations to burden the necessarily regulatory costs.
I like to try giving logical puzzles to these chat bots to see what they say. I don't really expect them to do the reasoning to come to an answer, but it's interesting to see that they just make up new rules to satisfy some answer it thinks I want:

Prompt: Sally will go to the dance if James goes to the dance. Michael will go to the dance if Julie will go to the dance. James is sick and can't go to the dance. Will Michael go to the dance?

>No, Michael will not go to the dance. If James is sick and can't go, then Sally won't go either. And if Sally won't go, then Julie won't go, which means that the condition for Michael to go to the dance (that Julie will go) is not satisfied.

I think 'actual reasoning' would mean ChatGPT can solve (albeit contrived) puzzles like this. It can't, at least not reliably from my poking and prodding.
No, the lack of Lamborghinis isn’t causing problems.
How can text-to-image models be patched against the vulnerability that the attack in this paper exploits?
It's boring reading comments like these.

Really? 2.5 years of "nothing but poor experiences"? I have to ask: what the hell is wrong with your computer?

I started using Teams heavily in 2020 and yes, back then it was unequivocally the worst of the bunch. But I've seen it make great strides, and it's been many months, perhaps years since I've really had any problems with it. Audio, video, screen sharing, PSTN dial-in, whiteboard, call handoff between mobile app and desktop... it all works fine. I'm not using anything special. Just a run-of-the-mill MacBook Air. They started pushing out an Arm-native build for macOS last year and that really solved the slow perf and battery drain. As long as you stay reasonably current with updates, Teams works just fine.

It's just lazy at this point to bash Teams "because".
I posted something to this effect elsewhere, so forgive me for repeating myself. I do want to get your take though.

First, the implementation of the fine isn't so important as the fine itself. Most landlords are individuals that own a few units [1]. Maybe a couple decided to buy a second home or a duplex instead of investing in the S&P500. That's a lot more common than you'd expect. These are the folks navigating renters protections. Large companies don't have issues with them. They hire professionals to follow the rules. Or they build newer buildings so protections don't apply to them. We're not going to get even with some multinational real estate syndicate somewhere through a vacancy tax. We're mostly going to transfer wealth between varying shades of middle class. And really largely, we're transferring it from folks that saved for a downpayment and risked a 30 year mortgage and financially put their ducks in a row and those that spent years and years renting while knowing full well they were getting a comparatively affordable monthly payment in exchange for not building equity.

Second, I'm pretty familiar as a renter and property owner with tenants rights in SF. If I were to buy a duplex in the city I would never ever ever rent out the extra unit. I'd lie about tenancy, ask a friend to pretend to rent it, or pay this proposed tax rather than rent it out. I'd recommend the same to everyone.

Tenants are a liability for landlords in SF. You cannot end a tenancy, not with any amount of notice. That's a big deal and a huge policy mistake. Really messes up incentives. Let's say you and your partner have a duplex with two 2B/2BA units. You eventually decide to have kids and your parents are retiring. You want them to move into that unit so they can be close by to retire and babysit now and again. You could evict, but it's going to be costly and time consuming especially if the tenants are protected. Lawyers are going to tell you to buy the tenants out. Tenant buyouts in the city are usually mid five figures and they end up restricting some of your uses of the property in the future. It will take months (maybe more than a year) and may end up creeping up towards six figures. You would've been better off never renting it out in the first place.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that most owners letting their properties sit vacant are probably doing it because of bad policy that deprives them of fair use of their property. Not because they don't already realize they're missing out on rental income and would see the light if they had to pay a little more tax each year.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/02/as-national...
The top 100 companies who depend on this software should be slinging millions at this guy.

That's my simple ethics take on it. The value created is that large at least. The amount of money he saved them in dev time.

"Then he should license it as xyzsksudhsj, he should have released it as a commercial product, he should have put on a tie and pulled himself up by his bootstraps" no. Highly unlikely the tool would have become as useful as it as, or as widespread and thus a source of truth (and a guiding force in the world of web standards). That's victim blaming.

It's time for the top 100 companies to pony up, straight up. They don't "have to..." until the outrage gets high enough, until the internal pressure gets large enough.

So we should all do our part and start sending emails up the chain, start the conversation, start being a little annoying.
The parent didn’t defend anyone.
There's more than comprehension. It can do some amount of higher order reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

"Theory of mind (ToM), or the ability to impute unobservable mental states to others, is central to human social interactions, communication, empathy, self-consciousness, and morality. We administer classic false-belief tasks, widely used to test ToM in humans, to several language models, without any examples or pre-training. Our results show that models published before 2022 show virtually no ability to solve ToM tasks. Yet, the January 2022 version of GPT-3 (davinci-002) solved 70% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of seven-year-old children. Moreover, its November 2022 version (davinci-003), solved 93% of ToM tasks, a performance comparable with that of nine-year-old children. These findings suggest that ToM-like ability (thus far considered to be uniquely human) may have spontaneously emerged as a byproduct of language models' improving language skills."
The same tos they changed to say that? The same company who's ceo encouraged this at the peak of everyone signing up?

It's a little bit creepy that you used the word weird in a negative way here.
It doesn’t matter what you call it, or whether you agree with the choice, the end result of overly burdensome requirements like these is a decrease in the safety of housing.
MS Teams has been the worst tool of its type I've ever been forced to use. Emphasis on forced.

Historically the UX of most (but not all) Microsoft software has been bad, so I was not surprised.

For the same project I was forced to use Azure's login system the first time: another clownshow.

It was a sad day when Microsoft acquired two of my favorite things, GitHub and Minecraft, because I bet that the awful "Microsoftness" would creep in and degrade them. At least the Teams mandate at GitHub is only for internal comms. But it tells me that bad taste and bad judgment is still there.
and what exactly is shady about Amdocs ?
I don’t think it’s so tin foil hatty… but it does seem like it’s intentionally being made a bigger deal than it is? why is this being handled so publicly
You can do it with two, but availability will be lower than even a single node because if either one disconnects the cluster enters a split-brain state and cannot safely mutate / update anything.
> pushing down on a scroll wheel is not the solution—it often triggers a scroll or tilt which sucks.

This is my complaint about the wide adoption of the IntelliMouse design, which replaced the previously-common middle button with the clickable wheel. It always imposes at least one of these problems:

- accidental clicks

- accidental wheel movement

- accidental mouse movement

- hard on the wrists

- wears out too early

It's such an awful substitute that, when forced to use most wheel mice, I resentfully give up on middle click actions (which I normally use a lot).

Fortunately, there are a few mice with both a wheel and a middle button:

- 3Dconnexion CadMouse Pro

- Logitech G600 (requires remapping w/ ratbagctl)

- EVGA X15 (I think)
I like blancolirio's channel but his theory about what happened is probably incorrect even though I think he chose the right analogy.

His information about the previous 777 incident from 2021 is incorrect. The crew in that case did set the correct altitude in the MCP, but the system was stuck in ALT HOLD mode. The crew was hand flying following the flight director, which was telling the crew basically not to climb, so they had a very slow rate of climb. Unlike in this case, they didn't have a descent.

Boeing issued a special airworthiness information directive about this - https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExternalWindow/DRSDOCID15068...

What happened in this case is somewhat different. They had a sudden descent. Perhaps in this case it was enabling the autopilot (= automatically following the flight director, stuck in ALT HOLD mode at airport altitude despite setting the MCP) that caused the descent.
What a waste! That would have been a great addition to the survey!
I tend to leave the book in the bathroom closet, so it's relatively clean.

But, I mean, most people bring their phones into the bathroom with them and then hold that sucker up to their face, use it while eating, etc.
This is the next wave: soft layoffs. Reducing headcount without "having to pay" severance and allowing for some self-selection. "We didn't fire them! They chose to go!" and saves money at the same time.
Beware that masala and marsala are very different (though both are delicious).
That's a pretty popular podcast. I would be surprised if they aren't all AI transcoded and the text of them on the internet somewhere.
ah, it's 9p that's slow, then.

there are other ways to get files from A to B. consider backing up to the local network rather than the host Windows machine, maybe. I don't know.

another option may be to mount your home directory from another host.

that may not suffice if you're doing a lot of windows interop I suppose. once in WSL I tend to stay there, and not do much related stuff in Windows, and I just tar & gz the home directory and put it on a flash drive when I want to back it up.
This doesn't seem like a response to your parent comment, which in no way suggested they were "irked" by this or consider it bad. It was an insightful comment contrasting strengths and weaknesses of these language models. It's a pretty weak rebuttal in my view to just say "there are no weaknesses, you're just doing it wrong!".
Then let's make it 5-10 years.
I don’t think that’s correct

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https://www.cmegroup.com/company/files/cme-fee-schedule-2023...
Vinyl chloride will form some dioxin upon combustion.

When left to break down in the environment, after several days vinyl chloride will break down into a combination of formaldehyde and hydrochloric acid. The latter of which won't be harmful, but the former will be.
At least in Australia, IBKR used to have a fairly limited margin product that actually precluded you from being exposed to a possibly negative balance - I've probably overgeneralised that case (or thought it was more common than it is). I can't find a reference to those particular terms anymore. Obviously being IBKR, they have very aggressive auto-liquidation if you get margin called (ie. you don't get one).

I did end up finding the specific agreement - it pertains to Australian retail clients (https://gdcdyn.interactivebrokers.com/Universal/servlet/Regi...), and clauses 3 and 7 lay out that retail clients are not liable for a negative balance arising from a margin liquidation. Retail clients for Australia have pretty limited margin (25 or 50k iirc), so this isn't super high risk for most people regardless (can't lose that much money).

The other stuff I talk about arises from other products in Australia as well - it's possible to borrow money and buy shares without being exposed to margin calls, so long as you make repayments on the loan. It's pretty different to a traditional margin account though, and only really applies to ETFs (NAB Equity Builder). I also imagined that existed elsewhere, but really I'm only speaking from what I've seen available in Australia.
Something something dimensional analysis is just a typechecker