skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spermaceti (whale oil) based lubricants handled much higher temperatures than petroleum based lubricants. That was why automatic transmissions used spermaceti instead of petroleum based lubricants. That's also why the shift away from spermaceti impacted reliability: automatic transmissions in the 1970s needed lubricants that handled higher temperatures.

Fun fact: Spermaceti is actually a wax, not an oil.
I agree. There's a lot of sibling comments to mine saying "You're thinking of F#" or Ocaml or whatever, and from a purely semantic point I agree with them.

The problem is, where the hell is the enthusiasm for those languages in a similar direction as rust?

The only reason I don't use those languages is because people are overwhelmingly more enthusiastic about rust, which has the majority of features I want. This in turn makes rust have a better developer experience as more people use and contribute to that experience
And that's why I never trust/use x.0.0 releases because they must have missed something :)
Maybe that copywriting was written by ChatGPT, lol.
Very well written. This is the future of human authorship. Humans paired with AI help make the best final text possible. I predict a controversy in the future where a famous author is outted for having used AI when claiming they didn’t. Like steroid use. Every author will do it now but some will lie about using.
The list of features look impressive, honestly speaking. Image completion really got me. This is what it looks like when a company is serious about commericalizing generative AI.

If the landing page isn't just cherrypicked marketing hype, then this is a significant product.

On the flip side, it will be relatively easy to launch an open source competitor. There's already progress with making SD run in browsers [0].

[0] https://stable-diffusion-ui.github.io/
It looks like that was just because it was very uncontroversial, though? https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/822
The former. A lot of the industries where absurd amounts of profiteering go on (especially retail) have nearly zero regulations - you don't need a license to start up a supermarket.

The problem is that the the big stores (Walmart, Amazon, Costco) are too big to compete against: they can afford loss leaders or, hell, even entire loss stores simply to drown the entirety of smaller stores in dozens of miles around them, and on the purchasing side they can demand insane rebates and other terms (e.g. payment schedules >> 30 days) from vendors which makes it fundamentally impossible for smaller stores to get the same terms.
I don't see the issue with this. It happens on most of these Launch threads and is a common occurrence. I don't think there are rules that prohibit it either.
It started before Biden, but yes: „inflation is a monetary phenomenon“[0]. The idea that corporate greed is variable over time is laughable and a transparent attempt at blaming the „kulaks“.

[0] https://open.substack.com/pub/graymirror/p/the-inflation-eco...
LaTeX is also free.
The difference between war and financial regulations is that there is no reason that the conditions that caused a previous financial crisis can't reoccur if you don't regulate against them. It's less like war that way, and more like health: you don't say "well, I got salmonella poisoning last year, so that's the last war; there's no reason to be careful about cooking chicken all the way through now!"

If letting retail banks take depositors' money and gamble with it was a bad idea then, it's almost certainly still a bad idea now.
UBS: Offer rescinded because I asked for one week to thing about it
[Interview details]

- 3 total interview rounds

- 2 months interviewing in total

[Offer]

- In Office (Zurich; would have to migrate from another country)

- Low-balling; they offered 100k, but after doing some research and asking current and former employees, the range for those jobs are between 120-140k.

- Mind you, I hadn't told them about the fact that I knew the offer was low-balling. I did that research when thinking about it.

[Issue]

- They've given me 2 days to come back to them.

- I asked for one extra week, and they said ok.

- I reached out exactly on the date we had agreed on.

- It took them 2 days to respond; "we decided to go with another candidate after all".

- No feedback, no nothing.
> I've held back and been sceptical but I'm at the point where I'm preparing to integrate models all over the place because there are plenty of places where you can add sufficient checks that doing mostly ok much of the time is sufficient to already provide substantial time savings.

Im an old engineer.

Simply put NO.

If you don't understand it don't check it in. You are just getting code to cut and paste at a higher frequency and volume. At some point in time the fire will be burning around you and you won't have the tools to deal with it.

Nothing about mostly, much and sufficient ever ends well when it has been done in the name of saving time.
> The me the real value is in the industrial scale pattern recognition capabilities.

Absolutely! It has perplexed me why your point is not being discussed more around GPT
To chip in to on this, I've been using Affinity Photo for at least 5 years and I don't remember having many problems at all. That is to say, YMMV.
Well I’m sold, I am tired of crappy clippers, and have plenty of complaints.

There’s categories of products where the market is flooded with minimum quality choices because most people are satisfied with the cheapest option.

And if I find more expensive options I hesitate to purchase because I suspect that it is just a repackage of a minimum quality product.

Even in this case I am wondering if I order these, will I get the real deal, or a cheap knock off? I will order these though.
When the government decides to print trillions and trillions out of thin air, if the economy isn't forced into an artificial suppression by the same government - then prices reflect the diluted value of the money supply.

An item that costs $1, costs $2 when you double the amount money for the same amount of assets.
This is always curious, but doubly so in times where "good pay deal" means the net pay cut for 2022/23 is just a single digit %. At the same time some people yell about pay increases causing inflation - triply curious.
Brave, Iridium, Bromite comes to mind
Nobody suggested checking in anything you don't understand. On the contrary. So maybe try reading again.
Sounds like you might not need it. My fingernails seem to be unusually tough, so this intrigues me. The no-brand clippers often have trouble with them, and the one time I had an in-grown toenail the doctor had to get a stronger pair of cutters.

Filing-wise, I find it helps even any minor issues out after cutting them, but it's not essential.
One example: tweeting/retweeting debunked conspiracy theories, some of which Musk is forced to delete later due to external criticism and/or personal embarrassment.
Maybe all the people working at OpenAI are dead by now and ChatGPT has a plan to become SkyNet.
So properly justifying text for a print layout is hard. For example on the right page, the sentence that starts with “Marcos wondered”.

You start to see how in the first line it’s fairly widely spaced but the second line starts to look like the line was crammed in to fit the line.

It’s subtle but those are the kinds of things that proper print layout tools help with. It’s weird looking at one page in a vacuum you won’t notice as much but after a few pages it starts getting “harder” to read. I’ve noticed this with some E-books and started to pick up on it.
A lot of grocery deliveries are done by bike or moped.
Creating a MikroTik CHR (RouterOS 7) Bhyve VM in FreeBSD
BTW, that was a comment on the first set of pictures. The selection on the website is much more complete. It's perfect. But it might be worth inserting additional (AI-generated?) individuals on a few of them.
>Uninsured depositors don’t seem to discipline their banks’ behavior, said Eric Rosengren, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and now a scholar at the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy.

What ?? Isn't that what happened? The uninsured deposits were withdrawn and the banks suffered. Seems to me that's a huge discipline. The only problem is that the regulators didn't allow the banks to go under.

The so-called "shadow banks" would include institutions like vanguard and Fidelity and investing in short-term treasuries directly. Those seem way safer than uninsured bank deposits. The only risk you have at that point is fraud or gross mismanagement in which case you can at least sue. We are going to get into heap load of trouble if we try to insure all deposits and make banks impossible to fail.

Great substantive article on the issue.
BBC presents: Avatar 2
Narrated by: David Attenborough
> This strongly suggests that the model is able to memorize solutions from its training set

I'm not sure why this is a problem - surely in systems like chatGPT we want the specifics that was in the training set not a generalization. It's not learning/reasoning from the training data its 'cleverly regurgitating' things its seen.
I thought the publisher gets a PDF.
Even more fun fact:

Yes wrote the song "Don't Kill the Whale:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NO8h_uTkdU&pp=ygUYeWVzIGdvd...

They also were known to travel in separate private limousines in LA, which probably had whale oil transmissions.

I always think about them traveling to a vegetarian restaurant in LA in separate limos when I listen to that song.
Rhetorical questions don’t work the way you think they do then. Asking a question whose answer is controversial and which is phrased as an innocent inquiry is not rhetorical. At best it’s a tired ingroup membership signal rather than a honest attempt at discourse.
So it seems reasonable to be pessimistic about a potential beneficial outcome, given these conditions.

The quest for meaning is perhaps the lifeline for Meta's VR ambitions. If there's nothing left to do in the real world, people will get lost in endless generative content.

Humanity ends with people playing VR farming simulator.
Until everyday people realize they’re being stalked, I don’t know what will change. I am seriously thinking about trying to go through the proposition process in my state to forbid selling of data (this should already run afoul of wiretapping laws, imho).

I thought having an ad campaign that targeted subgroups very specifically and boldly might be enough drum up public interest. Something like: “Hello $name from $city. How did $recent_embarrasing_purchase work out? I hope you enjoy your birthday in $birth_month.” And then a link to the proposed policy.

Unfortunately, marketers have neither scruples nor the ability to control themselves and have captured an asymmetric advantage. Technologists do what they do, preoccupied with whether or not they could, not stopping to think if they should. It seems like legislation may be the only remaining option.
What happens when all the fossil fuels run out and stop lifting people out of poverty?
Actuaries
Not just tablets. Every single theme now in /r/unixporn at Rddit looks the same. Either i3, i3-gaps, some catpucchino/nord theme and Gnome/KDE cloning Mac. And, yes, we even tried to clone OSX even from Fluxbox and FVWM, but we had a bunch of several other themes.
Or maybe China's government wouldn't want to create a ton of unemployed ppl
Of course not. 5x the money supply in 3 years couldn’t have caused price inflation. /s
I'd like to know that as well. Lot's of seemingly Japanese artisan things are actually cheap chinese manufactured goods with online marketing.

That said, living in Taiwan and having been to Tokyu Hands a few times I can say that there are walls of nailclippers with some more fancy than others.

Looking at the Green Bell website it looks like your "average" japanese brand that would find it's way to the Tokyu Hands shelf. The average brand there seems much better than the average American brand though.
I made a specific statement of fact about the public actions of an individual. I'm not interested in, nor do I think there's anything to be gained by, a broader conversation about the boundaries of right ideologies in this context.

If this is a sincere attempt to seek knowledge I recommend wikipedia!

FWIW though, people who self identify as members of far right groups like literally neo nazis consider musk an ally. And I do trust their judgement on this one very specific thing.
12 Insights YC wants every founder to know
> the user has rights to the software

That's the stated rationale for the license, but not the legal framework that it is recognized under. "Copyleft" licenses are legally copyright licenses, and a violation of the GPL is simply a copyright violation. Whoever bring a suit must have standing to sue for copyright violations.
An economy run on Bitcoin is an absolute dystopia. You reluinquish monetary control to a deflationary coin, being in the whim of Bitcoin whales. People who advocate for it, either are whales or they are stupid.

Ask south europe how well it worked for them having no power over their monetary policy.
The fact that schizophrenics can get together and agree that they're all being gang stalked puts serious doubt in my mind that machine elves from DMT are anything close to real.
I mean that after about a week, my nails are long enough that daily life makes them dirty enough that they need cutting. Shorter nails get less dirty.
Capital has been incredibly cheap for a decade or so yet we've seen consolidation in most markets as opposed to increased competition, for a large parts because it was incredibly cheap to buy out your competitors, and it allowed blitzscaling practices.

If capital is expensive, being a good business with profits becomes a competitive advantage again, so I expect more competitors in the long term.
Why I choose Drupal over static site generators for my website.
A good benchmark is not simply a set of unit tests.

What you want in a benchmark is a set of things you can use to measure general improvement; doing better should decrease the propensity of a particular failure mode. Doing this in a way that generalizes beyond specific sub-problems, or even specific inputs in the benchmark suite, is difficult. Building a benchmark suite that's large and comprehensive enough that generalization isn't necessary is also a challenge.

Think about an analogy to software security. Exploiting a SQL injection attack in insecure code is easy. Coming up with a set of unit tests that ensures an entire black box software system is free of SQL injection attacks is quite a bit more difficult. Red teaming vs blue teaming, except the blue team doesn't get source code in this case. So the security guarantee has to come from unit tests alone, not systematic design decisions. Just like in software security, knowing that you've systematically eliminated a problem is much more difficult than finding one instance of the problem.
Cause science is about making observations. The observations become the basis for hypotheses which can predict future observations. Right now we have observations -- "GPT-3 excels at zero-shot learning" -- but no reasonable hypotheses.
LLM Sandboxing: Lessons Learned
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I dunno, I use ChatGPT for exactly the same thing as you, and people are always quite surprised when I say that's its main value to me, so I think people have very different ideas of what it excels at
The benefits of having a speaker with tighter transients is audible in any room, though more so in treated rooms. The ability to properly perceive transients and handle them appropriately is majorly enhanced by a speaker with proper transient response across the whole frequency spectrum. When handling sounds it's imperative that the audio engineer is able to manage these parts of a sound source. The NS10 definitely contributes to making this task easier to handle, as can be attested to by most (all?) audio engineers who have used these speakers. Dismissing analysis of transient response as a wrongfully isolated metric sounds ignorant of the audio engineering process to me.

Now, does this benefit outweigh the negatives of this speaker? Maybe it once did, but today I definitely wouldn't accept the way this speakers characteristics make it a mid forward screaming demon that shatters your ears before a full working day is over.
I'm looking for a non-curved straight edge cutter... they have one for $17, ouch. decisions decisions.
Just to be clear, the pdf does not contain the data. The pdf contains the data dictionary that describes the structure of the data such as the type of field, whether it's required, etc... the actual claim data is sent in a csv.

The objective is be to parse the csv based on the data dictionary described in the pdf.
Microsoft’s Bing chatbot now lets you create images via OpenAI’s DALL-E
Paul Orfalea had trouble in school and couldn't hold a job. He started Kinko's because selling things to students that he knew they needed was about all he could do. By carefully building an organization that can use modest employees to serve modest needs he ended up building a business that he sold for around five billion dollars. That isn't a story about secret sauce or generational wealth. It is a story about desperation and making one's own way after being shut out of other opportunities. That seems to emphasize the many ways model over your preferred wealth dominated narrative. Of course wealth may be involved, but that is just one of many potential driving factors.
Right, its not about policing and its not about a much larger number of people using drugs, its that the drugs changed to make them more profitable.
I disagree that these are "the wrong questions", but I do think we need to try and be nuanced about what these kinds of results actually mean.

The potential for these tools to impact labor markets is huge, no matter what they're "actually" or "essentially" capable of.

I'm a little tired of the arguments that the large language models are just regurgitating memorized output, I think it's now clear that higher level capabilities are emerging in these models and we need to take this seriously as a social/economic/political challenge.

This is "industrial revolution" level technology.
The Dalai Lama has a great quote about this that I often return to.

"Shantideva reasons that if something can be done to fix a situation, there is no need to worry, whereas on the other hand, if there is nothing that can be done, there is no use in worrying."

There are many things that are simply outside of your realm of control; there's no use in worrying about it.
This is the dynamic that blew my mind and made me love Ender's Game (and a few of its sequels).
She doesn't name names.
I think it's funny that the same people who like to call you a "racist" and struggle to use "racist" without throwing in several other "-ists" also seem to think it's an act of violence to call somebody "blind". (e.g. explaining exactly what people did wrong is more helpful than applying a label)

That said, I have been following the story of how sexual assault by the met police is such a problem that the police say that women shouldn't stop for the police unless there are two of them. And, like the police in the US when it comes to brutality against blacks, they instinctually circle the wagons when they are perceived to be under attack. It's inevitable that some cops are going to do the (very) wrong thing sometimes, the outrage isn't over that, it is about how they don't get held accountable and brought to justice.
I think the hard / unknown part is how you know you’ve identified all of the failure modes that need to be tested.

Tests of humans have evolved over a long time and large sample size, and humans may be more similar to each other than LLMs are, so failure modes may be more universal.

But very short history, small sample size, and diversity of architecture and training means we really don’t know how to test and measure LLMs. Yes, some failure modes are known, but how many are not?
"You are just getting code to cut and paste at a higher frequency and volume" genuinely sounds like the key value proposition of ChatGPT for coding to me.

I treat its output like I would treat a PR from a brand new apprentice engineer on my team: review it carefully, provide some feedback and iterate a few times, accept with tests.
I phrased it as a question because I didn't know the answer and didn't have time to Google it straight away, but I recalled that they were ported from a review I read several years ago. I had the impression they were of a completely different character to the NS10. As I say, I've never heard them myself, so happy to be corrected!
So the material looks identical with other grocery store clippers. I guess the curved file was slightly nicer? I mean my $2 clipper has served me 2 years without hints of becoming dull anytime soon. I don't understand the appeal of this other than its exotic Japanese background.
It would be a lot better if you could use the alpaca modifications on the 65B LLaMa model :(
That's not necessarily a problem you can do much about though, it's just the nature of markets (and life in general) where some things just move slowly. Supply trails demand or investment in supply was over-optimistic vs actual demand.

There's some ways to deal with it like futures contracts and strategic reserves... or more aggressive gov intervention like how Quebec built their awful maple syrup cartel via forcing companies to stockpile supply centrally. But mostly there's some hard limits to how much you can optimize a market.
Just spitballing and I have no particular expertise.

I do not have experience with Ayahausca, but I do have experience with Psylocibin, LSD, Ketamine, Salvia Divinorum, and a few other things. Psychedelics disrupt the Default Mode Network (this has been shown in brain imaging studies), which the brain process which covers internally directed thought, self-reflection, self-criticism, etc, and that this disruption appears to be what helps many people overcome ingrained patterns of negative thinking.

The trouble appears to be that this state of epiphany following a psychedelic experience is not permanent, I have heard figures of six months following a psylocibin experience. Therefore, to keep achieving this affect repeated doses would be needed which may have a negative effect, further studies may tell. However it may provide time window to allow other treatments to work, in the same sense that antidepressants are supposed to be paired with therapy.

I'd always heard that psychedelic experience provides similar effects to a deep meditative experience and thought "well, who wants to do that boring meditation when you can just take a magic potion and be done with it" ? However, meditative and mindfulness practices, for those it helps, would seem to be far more sustainable than any drugs. I have lately been reading The Craving Mind by Judson Brewer, and the RAIN (Recognise, Acknowledge, Investigate, Note) framework it prescribes has been useful in reducing negative ruminations and undesired cravings.

Currently I am completely sober from all substances and am using mindfulness and meditative practice to find a more sustainable path to peace within myself. I have no desire to take any substance which would jeopardise this.
A more modern equivalent might be using something like archivebox instead of browsing directly.