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When Twitter censored content on its private property, it was a veritable scandal around here generating thousands of comments across many submissions. Our resident free speech absolutists bellowed from their soapboxes for weeks.

Here we have the actual government making a bid to require ISPs to censor information about abortion.

crickets

I’m shocked I say…shocked.
The whole point of HTML is to let the client display it the way it wants to. Don't blame the server when you tell the browser to be as wide as possible.
Yes but the author suggests that it's difficult to perform or requires constructing messages in a complicated way which is not the case. Generating and attaching a UUID to a message is very simple, so is checking whether or not a UUID has already been encountered on the receiver side.

The author's definition of 'message delivery' is incorrect and so is the title which is clickbait.
If I’m interacting with it without my knowledge or intent then I am _DEFINITELY_ not paying $20 per month for that.
Actual news of harm though seems incredibly minor/infrequent. What you show as risk seems to me like a society extremely good at managing risk & cooperatively improving. Our margin-of-safety is high everywhere & violations get dealt with.

USB-C's minimum requirement is 20V3A, 60W. It's really not a difficult standard to meet. Your insane example of 2V 7.5A is poppycock... it would be hard as heck to make a cable that could carry 2V but not 3V or 5V. 20V is a tiny amount of voltage, the shittiest insulation will be fine. And no one wants or needs that. A 7.5A cable on the other hand would be considerably more expensive & thicker than most. It's so hard to imagine a real scenario where someone would ever make a wildly out of spec oddball cable that wouldnt just work in any circumstance. 20V is more a factor of the connector than the cable, and 3A is probably not going to be enough real current to do anything scary.

Chargers might possible catch on fire, are a fire hazard themselves, since they deal with mains power, but in this shockingly rare circumstance, i'd guess it will usually not harm a phone; it will self destruct, and the phone will disconnect ahead of time.

This sounds more more searching desperately for FUD. And more lacking any real evidence that the rest of the world is actually all catching on fire & burning down all the time.
In my experience this is one of the keys to a good OSS project along with rapid ticket response/triage.
It's an asset on their books, but I doubt any of their investors/creditors can get any real use out of them. So my guess is AWS gets to keep that extra $$$.
It took a long time to change 100s of passwords and migrate off of LastPass, but I’m glad I did. Not sure why anyone would trust their security to them at this point.
Nothing. Digital is already more expensive because the digital publishers claim a physical book checked out x number of times needs replacing so if a digital book is checked out x number of times, the library is charged full price again. I rarely saw books checked out that many times to require a physically new copy due to wear and tear - libraries generally had staff that could repair the books.
I wonder if this could be solved with a properly run NGO that works internationally with law enforcement in the most dangerous countries to setup these stings while doing most of the heavy lifting, so police can focus on the rest of their problems and just show up to arrest the sting targets. This is also the sort of problem that could get easier to deal with over time, like a pile of dirty dishes.

The idea of a sting for kidnappers is like a reverse double catfish, which seems a lot more dangerous than a regular catfish like Chris Hansen might use. One difference is that there's no question of the intent of the kidnapper, since you can't categorize them as one until they _actually try to kidnap someone_. It's not like they tell you on Tinder that they're going to take your wallet and condoms before throwing you in a well (or even that you're talking to a catfish). Whereas a "pedo sting" can (sometimes controversially) label someone a "pedo" as soon as they agree to meet up with an underage decoy; there's no need to physically interact with them to elicit evidence of their guilt, unless you're Chris Hansen and/or need to film it for your vigilante YouTube channel.

That difference alone is enough reason to make amateur vigilante groups a bad idea in the context of "reverse catfishing" violent criminals (not that I wouldn't watch some of these YouTube "pedo hunters" use themselves as cartel bait). And perhaps it makes it too dangerous for even an NGO. But I suspect a dedicated team of a few hundred professionals could make a difference.
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> there are africans and europeans who share more dna than with others of their own ancestry

You're probably referring to the "greater variation within than between races" argument. But it's only true when looking at single genes, not collections of genes - that is how genetic tests can accurately determine race. And most traits are polygenic, so it does not even make sense to compare using only individual genes.

That's the reason Asian couples don't spontaneously give birth to European-looking children, and vice versa. And genes not expressed in superficial appearance were exposed to selection pressure just as much.

Whenever you see a theory so obviously contradict the evidence of your eyes, you should be at least skeptical of it (though not dismissive - e.g. quantum mechanics are true, however counterintuitive)
I speak 3 languages fluently and always wondered if anyone really managed to learn anything via Duolingo?

It seems similar to learning code syntax and understanding but in practice not being able to communicate.

To me it doesn't seem like any of these mechanics would help to actually learn, just to increase retention and revenue.

I wish there were still companies who's NorthStar would be customer success and in this case proficiency instead of making people stuck to their screen longer. But I get it... investors.
For the past 20 years or so, Colorado has raised taxes in order to pay for a commuter train from Denver <-> Boulder. After the funds were collected, they decided to use it to build a toll/HoV lane on the highway between those two cities(US-36) and offer an occasional bus service. And then sell the rights to some Australian company.
it seems the theory is more disputed than i remember, so lets say around 5000 years ago there was perhaps significant indian introgression into aborginal genetics (as per article above), the introduction of new tools, the arrival of the dingo (speculated by some to be introduced by these indian peoples) and the spread of this language family from a small progenitor language to the dominant language on the continent. So something significant was happening at that time. There are other hints there couldve been previous waves of new peoples from art and so on (these are disputed, from memory). The story of the aboriginals will wind up being more complex and interesting than "showed up 60,000 years ago and were unchanged until the first fleet".
um this one is printing money. this is a monopoly. if they are not "showing" profits, it would be because they are trying to be shady or they are so inefficiently run
Huh! I have a locally made wood bow made from red oak and it's an absolute bastard to shoot. I think the bowyer wanted to one-up my 55# Samick sage so he made it a 56# draw weight. And even with a thick leather armguard it hurts quite a lot to shoot because the brace height is barely over 5" and it doesn't have a trigger grip being a piece of wood. I wonder where red oak ranks on the strain/mass chart. I'm used to hearing about yew being a really good wood for bows, but I'm more into shooting them than making them.

I did find this which appears to rank them: https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/bow-woods/ but I don't know which if any of those are Australian.
What you describe would be a broken charger, not a broken cable.

The charger is supposed to interrogate the cable and only offer 5A if a) the cable responds and b) responds with a 5A capability.
How to explain the concept of margin of safety and fair value to a 5-year-old
They did not release the older more performant model to the API. Please ask them to on the Discord or Twitter. But I think they will not. There is too much demand to handle and the older "less streamlined" models are very problematic for them (based on the fairly constant API/ChatGPT problems and well known incredible demand).

I get the impression that until there is a significant amount of excess capacity, they will not put out new larger/slower models, so the only way you get a better one is if they can still make the next ChatGPT model release just as fast/"lightweight".

My suggestion is to find specific abilities that seem to be lacking in Turbo, and try to get a message to OpenAI staff about it with a request to attempt to improve the next ChatGPT model in that way.

Having said all of that, text-davinci-003 is still available.
My motto is, All data gathered from my device is user identifiable until proven otherwise.
There is the Woomera though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_(spear-thrower)
As I recall, overnight ‘mail’ delivery was innovated by private enterprise (FedEx) not the USPS.
So what do you do to eat while traveling, since cafes and grocery stores have you approaching a server or cashier to get food? How do you get around town? Until we have self driving cars, Taxis/Uber require approaching a person (via an app that's very much engineered to have you approach the driver). Do you just sit at the airport (because the hotel experience is engineered to have your approach the reception desk where there's a person) until it's time to leave? I guess you can avoid a person at newer hotels and some Airbnb's, but what a weird way to travel!
On your last point, even just a language like JavaScript (or even Java) has, over long enough periods of time, evolved to accumulate enough new features and common idioms that if you look at typical code from the 90s vs now in those languages, it's not hard to picture entirely different languages. And engineers are expected to just learn the new changes and keep on, much as they're expected to just learn algorithms, libraries, test frameworks, other domain specific frameworks that come and go, database stuff, profiling and other monitoring methods, security concerns, how not to violate the GDPR, ....

But suggest a different language or a DSL for something, no matter how much sense it makes (sometimes getting simple SQL in places is a political struggle, and it's unfortunate when teams develop a "regex expert" even though all the regexes are simple), even one that is already super similar to one they already know like GDScript and so is rather trivial to learn (no one's asking you to learn something on the order of complexity and different-to-others like Haskell here), and devs start putting their foot down and saying "Of all the things, I"m not learning that!"
sell something like the ID4 for $30-35K and you will have tons of buyers. will be interesting to see how many ID4's they sell because they cost $40K and they are made in Tennessee so they qualify for the EV tax credit which puts them in that price range.
I’ve seen similar techniques applied with 2D sprites to great impact, especially for someone terrible at drawing sprite art.

On another note once SD can output blender files with somewhat correctly modeled 3D files solo game design could get much more accessible.
(native Chicagoan, not living there now)

Selling something with long-term value for a short-term lump sum is the kind of thing a politician would do. He or she isn't going to be around later, so why not get reelected now?

On the other side, Richie Daley didn't have the acumen of David Bowie, who did the same thing:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/david-bowies-bowi...!

Just think: who knew that parking meters would continue to throw off money? what happens when self-driving cars are cruising around and no one needs to park anymore?
In a regulated industry there can be a perverse incentive for operators to be less efficient. The practice is called Gold Plating. The regulator allows the operator profits in part based on their network investment so an operator has an incentive to over invest in maintenance and upgrades and inflate the costs. That is one of the ways they can make super profits in what is supposed to be a regulated market. Consumers pay for the overspending and the profits on top for no benefit which is worse than just paying for higher profit margins.
I was saying this based on what Ive read previously. It seems the theory is more disputed than I remember but it is consistent with this genetic introgression and other things happening at the time. Whatever the case a lot of things changed circa 5000 years ago.
I also don't drive very much (~4k miles per year), part of the desire to upgrade would mostly be for safety with the ever increasing size/weight/acceleration of other vehicles on the road.

Heard someone say recently: "we need less cars and we need less car"
sure it’s plausible, but is there any linguistic evidence of it being the case? otherwise there’s very little point in discussing it
I think UK-style recall elections for ridings makes a lot more sense than short term limits.
Agreed, ancestry is boring. I focused on ancient human migration which I find interesting.
I have a Jarrah cane! I'm completely confident it would stop a steel sword. Probably mess up the edge in the process. It's heavy too.
That tiny fan with the gargantuan power adapter is the funniest damn thing I've seen today.
They're also the only culture to invent the boomerang which is a weapon that comes back to the thrower. Pretty cool if you ask me
Looks like it's just getting it to "show its work" to improve the output.
Isn't Barq more of a social app than dating? Though maybe we must blame Tinder for making those two different things...
I am saying that it is ad-hominem fallacy to say that advice (aka arguments) are any less valid based on their provenance, or as you put it “where it came from” (and of course, who it came from).
"There should be more trust."
Nope. Trust is always earned, never given.
Why? People, Corporations, NGO, Governments are all broken in some way and are basically as evil as you allow them to treat you.
Yes, I meant the behavior pattern has been known, not the bio-chemical cause.

Read A Framework For Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne. It explains this phenomenon and the book dates to the 1990s. Basically that the stress of growing up in poverty stunts your ability to plan for the future and you choose immediate gratification over longer-term strategic saving.
If the workers really are producing "substantially more" value for the economy, they are probably underpaid in the first place, or the specific train line/project is a bad investment (too expensive).
I'm just using it as a reproducible version of homebrew for macOS. Brew is annoying to set up again on a new install, nix is just copy my config and build it.
There's no goalpost to move. Psychologists have been saying that IQ tests are of limited scope and utility for decades. Specifically, it is widely agreed that an IQ test is not a valid way "to assess intelligence in a broader sense".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity...
I agree about there being no virtue in experiencing pain, but I think there's value in it. Neither form of personal enlightenment is inherently better, they are different experiences that lead different yet similar paths, though both provide an understanding the other cannot
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I too thought your criticizing was overaggressive, but I'll grant you one thing: the comment "You may know that you're not the man who does that, but they don't, and the consequences can be worse than losing your wallet." does give the impression that the worst thing male victims might suffer is a "lost wallet" when the article makes it clear that these attacks against men are violent and have included homicides

I'm not convinced that the commenter was intentionally trivializing the attacks on these men, but it's likely that the way it was phrased would have that effect.
> probably neither given Australia's harsh defamation laws

Not to mention if you rub the wrong people your house might get fire bombed:

https://www.google.com/search?q=australia+house+firebombed
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Yeah, non trivial is correct.

A common Kafka approach is to partition by key, so that a given UUID will only be placed on one partition, and we're guaranteed that any further messages with that key will also be placed on that partition, so handled by the same consumer.

Then create a change-log topic that's co-partitioned by key with the input topic. And then funk around with partition assignment strategies so if consumer X is assigned partition 10 of the input topic, then it's also assigned partition 10 of the change-log topic.

Then add RocksDB as a fast state store on a persistent volume claim, as restoring state fresh from your change-log topic turns out to take about 7 minutes.

And then realise you've just reimplemented bits of Kafka Streams poorly.
My biggest hurdle is searching within a note.
Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?
C-like syntax is a poor choice for data description. It's not flexible enough. This is why many newer DDLs were created.
Depending on your ability to share state between these agents it could very well be impossible. It depends on other factors.
> The only way to a post-scarcity economy

There is no way to a post-scarcity economy, the phrase is a contradiction, and scarcity is an inescapable consequence of human desire.
There are millions of old homes that need to be retrofitted for AC. They don’t have duct work because they are heated by radiators. When they are upgraded to have AC they often have 2 (or more) units since running ducts up and down isn’t feasible. So for the first floor you run ducts in the basement and vent up. For second the coil is in the attic if possible and vent down.

These types of homes often have 100A service and running 3t + 2t already stress it.

People also do it for efficiency reasons. Running hot/cold air long distances is a good way to waste money.

It’s also better design to have multiple units and therefore multiple zones. Why are you cooling your bedrooms all day and your living room all night? Installing multiple units is better design but cheap builders just try and keep prices/quotes low to customers that don’t understand it.
I see your point, but I'd be much more willing to try to work on an EV myself than a ICE vehicle. So many fewer parts and with the computer diagnostics it seems like replacing a drive motor or something would be a lot simpler than replacing the engine.

There are some companies that make aftermarket replacement controllers for motors and stuff, although they are generally performance oriented.

I hope in time more 3rd party repair options open up, due to sheer tenacity or competent right to repair legislation.
Hows this compared to notion?
Ok, then I understood you correctly. :)
Why would AWS complain? A company coming along and converting some of their month-to-month instances into 3-year billing commitments while taking on all the risk is fantastic from their perspective. No wonder they are encouraging it.
Tesla touts plans to halve vehicle production costs
> using WhatsApp for OTP delivery. It’s the de facto messaging app in many countries with scketchy carriers

I don't think that would go over very well in the less sketchy countries - I know many folks (myself included) who would be up in arms if a service requires WhatsApp just to send an OTP - in that (and any) case I'd prefer 2FA via authenticator apps
This is true but is also something there would be reason to doubt in Australian context. It seems more likely that peoples in northern australia had some contact with outsiders around the time discussed in article, got some technological advances and small degree of genetic mixing from absorbing the outsiders, and then spread out, probably helped by some new techniques. But this is just one conjecture.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962563

The headline of this is terrible and obviously intended as clickbait. The other discussion explains why better than I would.
"We know the number of floating point operations per token for inference is approximately twice the number of parameters"

Does someone have a source for this?

(By the way, it is unknown how many parameters GPT-3.5 has, the foundation model which powers finetuned models like ChatGPT and text-davinci-003. GPT-3 had 175 billion parameters, but per the Hoffmann et al Chinchilla paper it wasn't trained compute efficiently, i.e. it had too many parameters relative to its amount of training data. It seems likely that GPT-3.5 was trained on more data with fewer parameters, similar to Chinchilla. GPT-3: 175B parameters, 300B tokens; Chinchilla: 70B parameters, 1.4T tokens.)
Its a usual for:

"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcomes."

Need for growth, need for fundraising => everything is skewed towards tweaking the % on conversions into paid despite sacrificing on end mission and goal that should be essentially driving customer happiness and success. But who cares these days?

Hyperoptimisation is here to stay...
> Why doesn't anyone discuss the giant Elephant in the room - the need to have a product/service people actually want to buy?

At a price they are willing to pay.

There are plenty of companies using all their VC money on subsidizing products few are willing to pay the full price for.
Workers always earn less than the value they make for a useful business under capitalism (and that's before taxes, which don't necessarily require or imply capitalism). There's always a point where a cost to a worker exceeds the value to that worker, but doesn't exceed the value to society of facilitating that worker's labour.

There are edge cases, but in general inhibiting the ability of workers to work (e.g. by making it expensive to get there, or expensive live near enough to the work, fail to allow them to be healthy enough to do the work, make it hard to take care of children while working, restrict access to or quality of education etc) is not good for a society built on work.
Locally-encrypted, cloud-synced is sort of the sweet spot I find for Standard Notes, so I am a paid subscriber.

It is easy to use across different devices and operating systems, and they do a good job of continuing to give me access to my own information. (E.g. encrypted backups, ability to export notes).

I don't really use the myriad editor features, because if they do matter much, I'm using Emacs. So I suppose a decent small-Emacs type mode would be nice, like if there was the equivalent of Zile or something.

I would also love to be able to link across notes, wiki or Zettelkasten-style, but that has not been a priority of theirs to date. (I asked.) Too bad, that.
There's an element of "network effect" here. Most (non phone) apps use the WIMP interface, therefore all OSes support it. All the apps are written for the WIMP interface because 1) that's what the OS supports, 2) that's what all the other apps do, and 3) that's what everybody knows.

To break through that, a new interface paradigm has to be massively better - enough better that it's worth buying a new computer, a new OS, and all-new apps (from a very limited selection) to get it. That's an insanely high bar, which no alternative to the WIMP interface has cleared. So the WIMP interface continues unchallenged... except for phones. It's going to continue to rule the desktop/laptop world, though, and not because of "corporate greed". WIMP will continue because nothing is enough better to be worth the cost of switching.
Pure malarkey