skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is only one thing about GPT that is mysterious: what parts of the model don't match a pattern we expect to be meaningful? What patterns did GPT find that we were not already hoping it would find?

And that's the least exciting possible mystery: any surprise behavior is categorized by us as a failure. If GPT's model has boundaries that don't make sense to us, we consider them noise. They are not useful behavior, and our goal is to minimize them.
It's common, but not universal. I once charged back gift cards that had been purchased through my hacked Zune store account (which tied into my main Microsoft account). I had some email back and forth with support and informed them that that's what I had done and why and they unlocked my account. That said, I wouldn't rely on that today.
What is "new" Grafana in this context? The only thing that sounds similar to this is the Grafana Image Renderer plugin, which uses Chromium. But that's hardly new (it's been around for about 4 years), and it's not part of core Grafana...
How does that make the impossible possible? If fairness is impossible we have to somehow deal with some amount of unfairness. That does not depend on having a good proposal for dealing with unfairness.
The Curious case of pornography (regarding intellectual property)
Texas, with the notable exception of San Antonio, builds housing at an exceptional pace compared to coastal cities. That's their big affordability secret, and many big cities in Texas have plenty of cultural amenities. Houston, where I lived before moving to SF, has a symphony and opera and ballet and museums, food and entertainment and dancing and all that. And in my experience there you can participate in the culture as a normal person unlike in SF where you are always bidding against hundreds of literal billionaires.
The bigger issue is that because of the market power of these digital storefronts, it doesn't matter what your mental model of the transaction is, you don't have a choice in the matter. Yes, online stores with better terms exist, but they don't tend to have the games that you'd want to buy.

I always get a warm feeling when a game I'm interested in has an itch.io link, but I'm not gonna delude myself into thinking it'll ever replace Steam, even if Steam had to stop calling itself a store. Steam is just far too established, and the network effect is just way too strong.
That would be one nice way make the whole thing cleaner on top of turning it into a deb package. For now, it's really hacky but has proved to fulfill my needs.

I may or may not take the time to polish this up in the future. In the meantime, I've licensed the repo under GPL so if someone feels like doing it, they're more than welcome to.
How does the fed control the levers?

Customer approaches commercial bank for a loan, bank assesses credit worthiness[1] and choses to make the loan. New money was “printed” into the economy.

What levers did the fed pull?

Also what function does the fed have in the tax part the GP mentioned?

[1] the bank has other depts looking at capitalisation constraints, another dept managing day to day operations of the reserve account, perhaps another dept managing funding sources etc. but the loan making function doesn’t consult them before creating new money to make the loan
Fascism by definition is not aligned with workers, it is aligned purely with the interests of corporations and capital owners
The problem for the startup is they are already doing something super risky and so want to be 100% conservative with the cash used to finance their operations. The last thing their investors want to hear is "so yeah, you wanted us to shoot for the moon with your money, but we didn't want to lose out on a couple percent of interest so we invested it in the market and that's down 20% right now so we're having to wait a bit to execute part of our strategy as we expect that to go back up soon".

Like, the problem is that the mental model of this money is wrong: there needs to be a place where a company that intends to take a bunch of money in and then spend it over the course of a few years can do that without it causing everyone a bunch of issues as those deposits were supposedly backing loans to still other people (such as that story with the hashicorp people that was posted here yesterday with the Chase bank branch that failed to understand that a startup's goal is to lose money, not invest it).
It's not exactly surprising that a company known for its extensive dealings with corrupt actors is also bad at managing risk.
I moved out of NYC to Jersey City three years ago, largely because there was an immediate upside on my taxes. I'm still close enough and can easily go in when I want to via the path.

My friend who works as an engineer at Google was lamenting to me the other day how his 350k+ TC basically feels like nothing in NYC after federal, state and city taxes. He takes a 50% loss. Why would you want to continue living in a place that takes what is a top 1-2% earner for our age group (25-30) and makes them feel poor? And that is even considering RSUs since those are vesting monthly at Google now.

He's almost priced out even in Brooklyn, paying over 3k for his 1 bedroom. But if you don't want to live in some slum lord pre ww2 shit hole you need to be paying a lot.

I'm in the same earning bracket and I've been contemplating a further move because while Jersey is easier on the wage taxes, the property taxes are insane and make buying a house here deeply un attractive.
All good points but while this saves you from the docker images disappearing it does nothing to solve the issue of those images no longer receiving important security updates and bug fixes going forward.
I don't think it should be scrapped, but it should be modified.

The current system was put in place to encourage a decentralization of the banking system. You are forced to spread your funds across multiple banks.

The issue is that this is a pain to manage. Yes, there are services that can manage it, but that just increases the costs and friction associated with it.

So instead of scrapping it, these services should be made available to everyone, by default, and shouldn't cost anything.
Sometimes when you want to say something to be understood, it seems daunting and isolating as those things don't feel heard.

I read this and heard this. The thing I can say is that looking at startup culture now, after twenty years of being here, it's just getting weirder and weirder.

It takes time sometimes to look at something and see it for it was rather what it could have been.

I, too, took $200,000 four years ago. I turned that into employing 40 people, two retail locations, and 100 hr work weeks, and it all disappeared with the pandemic shutdowns. I, too, did odd jobs, have failing mental health, struggled, dealt with others didn't understand, insisted, persisted, etc. If there was just one more thing to be done. Other days, I couldn't do a single thing.

I've also gone through experiences of trying to raise money to get the agency I worked with the funds to kick off a project and watching that fail in multiple hilarious ways.

If this experience was what it takes to handle your health do it. Your oxygen mask on first, always, before others. If you're looking for something to excuse your behavior, find it, accept it, and forgive yourself. Write out what you learned, and and keep trying.
Another explanation is that he has a lot more bitcoin outside the large stack and moving the big stack would crash the market as a whole.
For the feds maybe, but not in NYC or NYS
Thank you for the link! Insane that this can run on a phone.

As my current potato computer has 8GB of RAM, I'll ask a friend to do it :-)
Pypy is great but I didn't find it very useful with Django.

Quick, transactional HTTP exchanges (GET, POST, etc.) aren't really its thing-- there's no time for the compiler to get warmed up; the request is complete before pypy has gotten out of bed.

But if you have to do really complex view rendering (graphs or something) where it would take cpython ~10s or more to process, then pypy will leave cpython in the dust.
And $4 egg n cheeses!
Winamp Reboot
And most of the "Experts" brought into courtrooms will argue whatever you pay them to argue. It's an industry. Lawyers aren't picking random AI engineers out of a mom and pop tech company, they have dedicated people who as a job sell their professional title to lawyers to launder a narrative through "an expert"
Weird. The small places here (I'm thinking chinese take-out, for example) take cash only, order tickets are on paper, they don't deliver, and seem to be thriving. Have the Uber Eats and other tech middlemen started taking such a big slice of the profit that it's not worth it?

Having worked in a restaurant, if someone took 30% of my gross it certainly would have been all of my profit and then some.
I don’t think this would work well because of the relatively small harvesting window for flowers. Assuming that it’s an outdoor farm, you’d also have to contend with frost and other factors that could destroy the harvest. I think it would be nice to have a farm that people could visit though and learn about the process. Another idea that I’ve considered before would be to rent a small plot of land on a larger farm, and pay a fee to have someone else grow and harvest the plant for you. Finally, I think there’s a market for a harvesting service, where people bring in whole plants, unharvested, an the company fully processes the plant (trims and cures the flower, makes bubble hash or shatter from the leaves, etc.)
Living for vacations feels just like living for the weekend. And in the US how many weeks is that really? Feels unfullfilling.
One thing I really dislike with snap/flatpak is how it breaks connectivity with other parts your system.

Example, I run Ubuntu and wanted to use a smartcard for authentication in certain websites. That didn't work because Firefox is in a snap, and can not communicate with the pkcs11 libraries...

To solve that I have to scrap Firefox as snap and install as debian package from PPA.
Europe also has a "« war on drugs », « war on terror », « war on crime » and so on.". Outside of a few outliers like Portugal drugs are still very illegal in Europe, and in some cases Europe is even stricter than America about things like marijuana.

Besides, that is not where the money is going.
I have never experienced like that in 4 different movings. I expect to pay since the day I get the keys till days I return keys for home. I setup and account with utility, or gas, or something. They bill me in 10-30 days, I pay again in about 30 days or less.
Thanks for this. My biggest pet peeve is "Wikipedia is just some random dudes" given that it's so trivially easy to see where Wikipedia sources their info.
I know people who "do fine" in NYC making ~40k by which they mean they "pay all their bills." Unfortunately they are NOT on track to have >1.5million saved up by retirement (as is projected to be necessary).
They're both on the list too, and it seems based on a cursory glance that shady dealings were involved in both cases.

I was just confirming the notion that they're a very shady bank. I'm not qualified to say whether the shadyness is the primary cause of their downfall, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility to me.

And sure, anyone can reduce any view down to a laughable caricature. Good job, I guess.
> What is not in dispute is that the richest New Yorkers pay most of the income tax the city collects. The 41,000 filers in the top 1% pay just over 40% of all income taxes. The 450,000 in the top 10% contribute almost exactly two-thirds of the city’s income tax revenue. The remaining 3.3 million taxpayers pay the final third.

https://www.thecity.nyc/economy/2022/12/6/23497265/nyc-tax-d...
But doesn't Germany also provide those?
There are many opinions, and I don't know the science well enough to tell you what the outcome will be long term.

One town recently had its water supply cut off. But as far as I understand this wasn't so much because the town was running out of water but because the parent city it took its water from was growing very fast and needed that water for its new residents. There was something in the contract that allowed the parent city to do this.

The Phoenix metro in particular has very advanced water recycling tech, most of the water that is taken in gets reused as long as its not used for irrigation (admittedly likely the majority of the water use in the city). Long term this means water will become more expensive, and the many golf resorts and hotels will probably need to change their lawns to fake turf or close up entirely. Most residences don't actually use that much water for irrigation, as a lot of the landscaping is desert-based already.

Recent heavy rainstorms have lead some to believe the Sonoran desert may actually get wetter as climate change happens. And with this the state is planning to use its aquifers to store the water from those storms for the dry years.

The Colorado river is low, but I believe Arizona has higher water rights than e.g. California. Meaning Southern California would lose its main water supply before the Phoenix metro would.

On the other hand, I actually know at least one couple that decided to leave a couple years ago because of their concerns over water and climate change.

There's also concerns regarding the water use of the exploding chip manufacturing industry being built there. These companies will require a lot of water and be able to pay the premiums even over residents.
Maybe an adversarial approach was used in training these models in the first place?
That’s the case for a lot of european countries and they get much more from it.
>They really need to figure out SS as well. I wouldn't mind paying for it if I were guaranteed to receive it but I have to save assuming that I won't.

You are guaranteed to get it by law. The problem is that the law can be changed to remove that guarantee. There isn't much we can really do to prevent that.

The narrative about SS running out of money is about the desire/need to change the law, not that the guarantee can't/won't be met.
You would think the panic over TikTok spying would illuminate the problem with apps having carte-blanche access to your personal data 24/7. There is nothing that the TikTok app does that any other app cannot also do. It seems nobody wants to make that connection.

There should be real protections for consumers to prevent ANY application from slurping up this data, and I don't mean just a disclosure or system setting to hamstring the application into uselessness. I mean, there should be regulations preventing the collection of this data in the first place, with hefty fines and punitive damages.
Yep. Deli sandwiches and halal cart are surprisingly cheap
> software engineers (or working in the field), have the power to not implement these features when our employer asks us to do it.

Realize that you're statment is a euphemism. What you really mean is we have the choice between implementing a dark pattern or finding another job and letting someone else implement it. Stated this way it's a lot easier to understand people's behavior.
All stripe atlas companies now get 50M free OpenAI credits
Amazon would be the one with the most competitors. Many Amazon sellers have their own websites, not to mention Aliexpress, Walmart, Target, HomeDepot, Bestbuy, Monoprice, Staples, Costco, etc.
In an effort to get myself to write more, I made a site to post to (literally) with just about no ceremony whatsoever. Just update a text file and post it.

This came to be because, while working on markwhen.com, I realized I wasn't doing enough marketing or just talking about what I was working on in general. So I'm using the thing I'm working on to blog about it.

I hope to eventually include the ability to cross post to other platforms and maybe also send out emails.
Basically every country in Europe (and many elsewhere) is able to offer both of these, plus universal healthcare for everyone, often with a similar tax burden. Social Security and Medicare aren't the problem here.
It doesn't "understand" those interactions: it models them to be repeated later.

But the way it chooses what interaction to repeat is not by logical decision: it's by semantic distance.

The meaning of semantic distance usually leads to the correct path, but sometimes that pattern is ambiguous.
By "know" I meant has access to. This is a very "database" sense of the word "know".

Now "infer" and "synthesize" I meant the standard human definition of "synthesize" and "infer". In my interactions with relatively bright people, they really expect ChatGPT to be able to synthesize text at the level of a very sharp HS/college student. They don't want simple regurgitation of a text or a middel school analysis -- they want/expect ChatGPT to analyze nuance, and pull in its vast database to make connections to things that maybe aren't apparent at first glance.

The bar has raised so high so quickly -- it's crazy.
It was shocking for me when I graduated from college and moved to NYC.

Sure, it's cool to get a job paying six figures in NYC out of college. But once you've paid your:

- rent (first and last up front, ofc)

- broker fees (often > 1 month's rent!)

- state taxes

- city taxes

- federal taxes

- social security

- massively inflated city grocery prices

- student loan dues

...you realize that you basically only exist to launder money between corporations. It especially sucks when you're just trying to start out with a net worth of less than zero and you're still paying this massive tax rate.

And before anyone mentions student loan interest deductions and federal tax deductions for state and local: they make very little difference, in my experience. Maybe others have figured out how to make that system work for them, especially before the Trump SALT deduction cap.

NYC is a cool city, of course -- probably the best city in the US -- but I'm not sure it's worth the 50% tax rate for decidedly middle class earners. At this point I'd have to make north of $400k/year to justify moving back to NYC because of those insane taxes.
You're over-estimating my intellect...

I do occasionally get through some french youtube with subs and I'm getting better at roughly following - I'm not just relying on Duo.
(I also have a grammar book to hand as well)
When I move I now file a temporary COA and have the mail forwarded to a PO box. I never forward from one residence to another (too many boilerroom sales calls and scam attempts).
The American system incentivizes financial risk and that is our growth engine.

If you take the correct risks you basically don't pay taxes.

If you try to avoid risk, you pay the highest taxes. So if you are just trying to have income and savings, enjoy your 39% taxes and nothing to show for it.
An old pen shop proves mightier than the pandemic and the death of cursive
Zipline announces new delivery drone that precisely lowers a tethered 'droid'
You will get it.

You’ll just be extremely old, far beyond working age, and it wont keep up with actual inflation, so you can’t live on it.

Should see social security disability.

Got to be able to live for a year or more on no income at all while case managers decide that your horrific injuries don’t interfere with ability to work.
Sounds unhealthy but people have tremendous results with high fat/protein.

One possible problem is you cannot revert back to a high carb diet without suffering new health issues. So you should plan to stick with it for the rest of your life once you make the decision.
> Transformers will possibly have a bigger effect on society than Google search did and I'm doubtful Google will get proper recognition for that outside of circles like ours.

Do you think the general public gives Xerox PARC a lot of credit for modern computing? I don't think so, and it's fine. It will just be well known among technology enthusiasts and historians of technology.
Yes, I just said I'm using Pulsar. I don't think it has a future though, since the community seems to be gone (so all the extensions are unmaintained). Hopefully I'm wrong. For now I'll just keep using it until I run into something too broken to work around.
> This has never been a real problem in the past, because libraries were limited by how much they could loan out, due to having a limited number of library staff, and a limited amount of shelf space.

From the publisher's perspective, I don't think staff or shelf space were a constraint. In every library I've been in, inventory far exceeded demand for total books - lots and lots of books were available on the shelves. I.e., they weren't running out of books.

Availability of a particular book might have been limited, but that wasn't due to shelf space. It was due to available copies and to budget, both of which still impact electronic lending by libraries and the Internet Archive. The IA will only lend out as many copies as they own.

IA is very different in terms of availability: Because they distribute electronic editions, and because the Internet provides near-free, near-instantaneous global distribution of electronic editions, the reach of one book at IA far exceeds the same at a local paper library. That means library services become centralized (maybe not good for local libraries), and the new central electronic library (IA) will have far greater supply.

That should mean a far greater selection and, due to the law of large numbers, more stable availability. It doesn't necessarily mean greater availability because demand will also be much greater.
The central question is that a controller is assumed to be specifiable and thus formally verifiable through model checking in principle.

With a neural network you have a black box and for example with ChatGPT it doesn't even have a specification. It turns the verification process upside down.
Graeber and Wengrow is interesting, but it's equally fantastical to Hancock's work; or equally realistic, if you prefer.
Not stating an opinion but isn't that more of an issue with countries that choose to do business with Switzerland?

Swiss banking privacy and their grey/black practices are sovereign decisions they have every right to make but it appears that countries are willing to turn a blind eye to it. We could wax on about morality but the real issue here is it's tolerated by the rest of the world so they have little pressure to change.
Maybe Dagster with Assets?

https://docs.dagster.io/concepts/assets/software-defined-ass...
Even sadder, the US tried to claim it was because of communism. When it was basic nationalism. Communism has historically been the reason. Muslim also fits the bill ala the differences between PK + BG treatment vs India.
This would only benefit the wealthy. Again. Just like making SVB depositors whole, or 2008 bank bailouts. You want torches and pitchforks, this is a good step in that direction.
PGE requires either a ACH autopay or deposit. One time I paid bill by Credit Card to get 3% back, (through Bill Pay to avoid PGE 2% fees for card), PGE asked me deposit because autopay did not execute (because there was no balance).
It's here: https://github.com/certik/theoretical-physics/, I was hoping more people would contribute to the effort, but so far I didn't manage to spark enough interest. It's open source, it's out there and if I find at least a single person willing to contribute to get it polished, the development will pick up.

In the absence of it, I would have to drive it hard as my main effort, but right now my main effort is LFortran/LPython, we are making excellent progress there, so I am not spreading too thin until the compilers are delivered.

If anyone is interested in the theoretical physics book, please let me know!
As a non-technical linux user, seeing the ecosystem move towards some sort of standard on this front is wonderful and feels long overdue. Understanding how to install (or uninstall) software is one of greatest pain points for new / non-technical linux users.
Again, if the government can't even stop people from growing, distributing, and selling cannabis, how are they going to do the same with AI?
brokers lend cash sitting in accounts.