skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Omnipedia's algorithms can keep track of your emotional state and, depending on your reactions, highlight content that piques a particular interest or restrict content that may be deemed upsetting or inappropriate.

lol their cookie acceptance popover. This website is pretty good
Invisibilia was just a rip off of 99% Invisible with female hosts. No real loss there.
Seems to be resolved now. My `brew update` works again.
> Consumers cannot just say "food is too expensive for me, so I think I'm going to to go without it this month".

One could be temporarily elastic, e.g. thaw meats from the freezer, eat shelf-stable food from the pantry. And in a few weeks, prices could be different and they do tend to bounce around week to week.
I think the Youtube comparison is a good one up to a point. It's a niche product. Everyone wants to be part of it, competing for a very very limited resource which is our attention. While with technologies like GPT or whatever comes next we empower anyone to excel in any area and create whatever (for now non-material things).
> Nobody asks for these proposals when building tract housing.

Of course they do. In my area we require any proposed development to include a detailed independent analysis (not a few pages, it's an inch thick book) of all the infrastructure requirements to support that development as well as the predictable downstream effects, and so on.

Maybe that's not universal. Maybe it's why my suburban area hasn't experienced any of the infrastructure failure predicted by places like strong towns despite well over 100 years and counting. But I expect that it is more common than not.

If you're only talking about "how much food land somewhere in the world do we need to support X people here or somewhere else" then sure, I guess nobody probably does that. Regardless of housing style. It's not very useful, unless we're planning some dystopian population controls and are looking for justification.
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The wording seemed fairly straightforward given the given the context.

The sentence itself speaks about the "solar system history," mentioning the sun for comparison, and the paragraph after that attributes the heating of planetesimals to Aluminum-26 specifically. Ceres is not even mentioned in the two paragraphs that describe heating.
Because it’s true of every single non profit in the US. You can say the same about random churches, but that level of support doesn’t keep the lights on.
> I remember when Stadia was going to light the gaming world on fire

Really? All I remember is huge amounts of skepticism that Google would really commit to it, and as we know in the end they didn't.
Because the linux desktop is forbidden at many tech companies nowadays, for the very reasons you wrote!

At a company I worked, overtime they wanted everybody on Mac or Windows. No code locally, only ssh onto a Linux VM. When you argue you can also ssh from Linux, the response is: we cannot run the spywares on Linux.

Sure you can change job. But I have noticed the trend all over among my circle of friends.
Back up now, it looks like.
This is a common bug with a lot of software. For example some HTTP clients that do pooling won’t invalidate the connection after timing out waiting for the response.
You think 15% of the population is too dumb to deliver packages? More than 1 in 10 people is not smart enough to pack things?
>Cutting out that middle band of ability and resources is a surefire recipe for social unrest.

I don't know, the US has been pushing that envelope for 40+ years and people are still paying taxes...
I listened to NPR every day for 20 years, but around about 2006 they took on a clear bias in their reporting. Public Radio should be unbiased, nonpartisan, and provide programming enrichment for everyone. For me, it didn't matter who the bias was against, it was just the fact that this was supposed to be publicly funded programming, and I could no longer trust it's objectivity. Terri Gross and the whole lot abdicated their responsibility to be neutral.
Not OP, but I noticed around the same time an increase in focus of looking at every issue through the lens of racial inequities, which got worse during covid and the BLM protests. That being said, they sent out a survey a year ago asking specifically about this, and I think theres been an effort to not have so much tunnel vision.

Source: me, take this all with a huge grain of salt

Edit: Upon reading which podcasts were cancelled, I feel my theory is somewhat validated.
Living at floor 185 as opposed to floor 0 does not improve the quality of life.

Humans need space both inside and outside, and they need sun exposure and some contact with nature to feel well.

Living only between concrete, steel and glass takes its toll on the well-being.
I see what you’re saying. The world has lost its collective mind.

HN seems to want to hand over the keys to the kingdom to basically a string generator. The string generator believes nothing, understands nothing, knows nothing but here we are.

Any intelligence that gpt4 shows is an emergent property. Humans are the ones reading GPT’s output and imputing meaning to it.

Reminds me of astrology and mass hysteria - people convincing each other to give this new oracle a chance because they personally have seen value in its ramblings.
> They need to monetize it, which means ads.

Why ads? Seems like they're going the service route. Are you predicting them to start targeting the masses and build search/assistants/etc?
Tax-cuts for businesses and not individuals is effectively the government “giving” money to businesses no?
I listen to Marketplace and Fresh Air regularly.
That's correct, US cops lie to people all the time in order to get information
For me the actual dark pattern in pricing is when prices remain fixed but quantity/volume really reduces. It's subtle on the aisle, but if you use online shopping it's blatant when the product you usually order is no longer available and it suggests an item that is identical in terms of the product it is and price, but has a glaring reduction in weight.
In the words of Sandra Day O'Connor "I know it when I see it."

The problem you've highlighted with defining what porn is is not a new debate and as you've admitted we'd be here all day - and likely still not agree on a definition. The problem with your definition is that what people find arousing is a pretty wide spectrum and would include things that are not traditionally regarded as porn.

Going back to our thought experiment, at what point would my theoretical graphic memoir of Riley Reid no longer be porn? What would the words to picture ratio have to be? You can make this same argument about Gender Queer; does the inclusion of the illustrations add any significant value to a memoir about someone discovering their identity?

As far as whats appropriate for minors in a public school setting, society decided a while ago that once sexually explicit material is included, there is no countervailing interest. This is a pretty black and white standard that until recently all parties found agreeable. If you are advocating for changing that standard, you'll have to defend why children/teens/minors have more of an interest in seeing illustrations of a minor boy performing oral sex on another minor boy than seeing an adult woman in the nude. Claiming it not being porn can be argued both ways for both.
>Shark was born in an attempt to fix some python issues I have spotted with the years: Python is slow

I constantly hear this, but are there some actual use cases where this commonly matters? Yes, yes, looping is slow in Python, but whenever someone in real life complains about Python being slow execution of the program still takes so little time that even if Python has 10 times slower it wouldn't make much of a difference.

Or have I just misunderstood this completely and python actually is unusably slow for common things?
I think both answers would be significantly improved — and way more interesting — with a bit more care here.

Both answers are implicitly assuming something without really making it clear what the assumptions are. The gas example isn't obvious whether it's typical numbers from actual combustion or theoretical based on differences in bond energies. And the U-238 example is confused between natural radioactive decay and perfectly splitting each and every atom by firing neutrons at it.
LHC experiments see four top quarks
For me, and I am usually not person making this sort of point, was the change in focus towards topics and stories often described as “woke”.
https://github.com/redis/redis-py/pull/2641
Microwatt is the only one I know of. Built as a tiny fgpa core.

https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
I wonder if there's a way to factor in planning time needed. My perception is that the US requires years of (e.g. environmental) reviews before construction can begin which countries like China do not have.
Because while it’s technically true (each American does contribute about $0.40 a year to NPR stations via federal taxes and the corporation for public broadcasting) it’s a tiny fraction of NPRs budget so the statement is misleading.

It would be similar to complaining that people are forced to pay Ford via taxes because the government uses F-150s
It’s a classic innovator’s dilemma no matter how successful they are at building stuff - there is no way Google will launch a product that eats 40% of their own lunch.
I’m a quarter way convinced mid-sized banks’ stock shouldn’t be publicly traded.
I lived thru that era, read one of Volcker's books, and don't need to cut and paste a response.
I don't get it either. For a bill of £4.90, you were already owed £5.10 after giving the tenner...

How does throwing another 20p into the mix simplify anything? Now they owe you £5.30
I think because you can easily photograph a meadow that's now a metropolis, but you cannot photograph an area that hundreds of square miles of meadows and forest and now covered in sprawl, humans instinctively think city = bad, sprawl with two trees = good.

It's hard to understand somehow that the trade-off is between ruin a giant area or totally ruin (even that's subjective) a much, much smaller area.
That is literally the opposite of what the supreme court ruled.
Are you gonna explain how you went from 'co-ownership and better wealth distribution' to 'ok then give me 10% of your paycheck'?
Any ideas for a computer vision project?
Hello, currently in my final year and we have to do a project. I've decided to do it on a problem of computer vision.

Therefore, am now looking for project ideas related to it.

Would be very grateful if I could get some recommendations from you guys. I should mention that the project should showcase about 6 months of hardwork from a group of 3 people. Therefore, I require an idea which can be done in that timeframe.

Thanks in advance.
> Google who have 50 different things

their bread and butter is search ads, which means they should have second-to-none search quality. but they don't. google knows more about me than my wife, yet fails to give me even remotely relevant ads except for things i have already searched for and usually already purchased or decided against. it's truly remarkable how terrible it is, and has been for decades.
Yep, it's common for the cheapest things to be on the bottom shelf as they make the store the least money. And the way to combat it - always choose something from the bottom shelf then look further up to see if there's something you would prefer.
The way you tell it, it sounds like you are passionate and talkative, which is mainly a good thing, unless it's so extreme that it's distracting and annoying.

It's important to fit in, but people also like people that are authentic, passionate and stand out in some way.

Fitting in and conforming to the group will stop you from being below average and an outsider, but will also stop you from excelling and being a leader.

It's kind of like dressing or fashion - it's better to wear a smart suit and tie to blend in than wearing something scruffy that sticks out as bad, but it's even better if you can own a look that sticks out as unique, like Steve Jobs with the black turtlenecks.
Bing's homepage is full of ads and sponsored content aka news. They have rewards in the top bar. Chat only works on Edge. I just directly use ChatGPT instead of going to Bing.

I will continue to use the cleaner look of Google, even if they are a year late to the party.
I'm sure all the people with dyslexia / ADHD would not agree
> While Altman’s lack of initial equity reportedly gave investors pause in 2019...

Initial equity.

Doesn't say anything about whether he has an agreement in place to receive future equity.

Does he have any options or warrants?

Is he a member of, or LP in, any organization that invested?

Did the reporter not ask any follow up questions?

Or was this careful phrasing ("initial equity") intentional?
And now (Mar 24, 2023 - 21:10 UTC):

This incident has been resolved.

This is indeed resolved.
Not only that, but you probably need follow the sun if you want <30 minute response time.

Given a system that collects minute-based metrics, it generally takes around 5-10 minutes to generate an alert. Another 5-10 minutes for the person to get to their computer unless it's already in their hand (what if you get unlucky and on-call was taking a shower or using the toilet?). After that, another 5-10 minutes to see what's going on with the system.

After all that, it usually takes some more minutes to actually fix the problem.

Dropbox has a nice article on all the changes they made to streamline incidence response https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lessons-learned-in-incid...
A small local business's profile account got marketing mail from Google encouraging the business to sign up to try Bard. I've never seen Google mass mail to business profiles outside of the time they tried to get everyone to join their astroturfed anti-regulation group to complain about antitrust law.

It's so shockingly rare for them to use mass mail to advertise a new product, especially one that's in such an early stage, that it seems incredibly desperate to sell the narrative "We can AI too".
If the prices on hotdogs are like what I've seen at the store, no it is not. They're not priced quite like a steak, but it's close. And then you got the buns which are also like $5 for a 8-pack of the cheap store brand ones.

A lot of the basic foodstuffs -- dry beans, grains, milk, eggs, flour -- have all gone up in price significantly. I've seen prices double over the last two years on some of these.
It's better now.
I was disappointed when the macOS equivalent app (DriveDx) lacked such personality.
Timezones are a thing - your 3am is someone's 9am and may be a significant part of your customer base.

Being paged constantly is a sign of bad alerts or bad systems IMO - either adjust the alert to accept the current reality or improve the system
I thought British are smarter than this and they enjoy country side and seeing a bit of nature.
It's not even about the data harvesting, it's because the £1.50 is a "promotional" price and that means they no longer need to display the unit price.
> I do believe it sources many of it's results from Bing.

It does, yes, but not only Bing. At least report, it aggregates from about 400 different sources, and they also run their own crawler.

They used to have a list of the other engines they use, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
> They need to monetize it,

What's wrong with the current approach of just selling access?
Right, it's mathematically easy (again, up to floating point issues) to recover the weights as needed, but in terms of distribution/serving I'm guessing the plan is to have the original weights and carry around the LoRA weights and merge as necessary.

(Also, I'm assuming you're the first author of LoRA.)
How do you sell ads on an AGI product? Since they made their original mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful") subservient to their ads business, they didn't have an incentive to build it. It's the old innovator's dilemma. AI makes their business model obsolete, so they couldn't imagine how to build it.
And to you core part of being human is being inefficient?

Think about the hunter gatherer who was given a bow, but stuck with throwing rocks because he didn't want to get too efficient.
I read a little of the book of optics and I could see it influencing Brunelleschi. The other reference requires a login so I wasn't able to look into the claim.
Yeah, there's been some work on silicon microchannel coolers to enable this.
This is so comical because it's so relevant.

Do you think people architect poorly designed systems more often than not as a means of job security or just a failure to put much forethought in whilst planning it?
I wouldn't doubt google's ability to pull this out in the long run, but they seem to need some caffeine in order to wake up to the reality of current competition.

Their cloud is not top dog.
Their search is losing ground.

I guess they have youtube, android, and gsuite.
Honestly this article seems pretty reasonable for the most part. Source matters, but content matters the most imo.
Yes, there are open core IPs for POWER:

- https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/a2i

- https://github.com/OpenPOWERFoundation/a2o

- https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
Shoutout to @xme, great sans instructor, had him for a day.

Keep in mind scdbg is an emulator, if you want to debug it and see what it does the best way I know is to use jmp2it and attach your favorite debugger.
At this point I'm really not sure what they're up to in terms of grand strategy. I don't even know that making money is their ultimate goal. At a certain level of ambition money is just a tool to get what you really want.
People who blindly copy from ChatGPT or Stack Overflow are most likely either very inexperienced or simply bad programmers. However, from where I see it, ChatGPT, Copilot, and any other such tools are fantastic at prompting you to think differently, getting you past writer's block, giving you ideas, or saving you some time googling for syntax yet again. You need a nudge to trigger recall of what you already know. It's a fantastic tool, just like an IDE.
I couldn't find any information about this. Am I missing a joke or a point?
Funny, so far i've been just asking it things i normally ask Google. Same paranoia of answers that StackOverflow/etc give me, but far quicker and more responsive.

TBH i'm not sure under what scenarios people search into Google expecting perfect answers. Ie where we're disappointed by incorrect information. I filter through a dozen wrong answers on Google every day. Why is it different if it's from ChatGPT?
This race to the top is in fact the race to the bottom when livability and quality of life is concerned.
Still some weird stuff around (* subject: CN=apistatus.chorus.co.nz).

curl https://www.githubstatus.com/ -vvvv -I
\* Trying 52.215.192.131:443...
\* Connected to www.githubstatus.com (52.215.192.131) port 443 (#0)
\* ALPN: offers h2
\* ALPN: offers http/1.1
...
\* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-AES256-GCM-SHA384
\* ALPN: server accepted h2
\* Server certificate:
\* subject: CN=apistatus.chorus.co.nz
\* start date: Mar 6 23:10:30 2023 GMT
\* expire date: Jun 4 23:10:29 2023 GMT
\* subjectAltName: host "www.githubstatus.com" matched cert's "www.githubstatus.com"
\* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
\* SSL certificate verify ok.
\* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
Well, their selective take is like a description of a mass shooting that only describes where the bodies ended up, but no discussion of who caused it, or even that bullets might have been involved, let alone which people actually did it:
"Households had too much leverage in 2008 : Mortgage debt % potential GDP..." "The Global Financial Crisis was driven by price declines in low-quality assets with poor disclosure leading to a solvency crisis."

Drink one finger very time you find a bank mentioning the Glass-Steagall Act, and ten bottles every time you find them admitting they lobbied Congress hard to repeal it. [0]

"Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs (or executives) go to jail after the financial crisis?" (also a list of criminal and civil charges, and which banks got fined) [1]

...and here's some shameless revisionism by Cato [2] ("It wasn't the banks [being allowed to issue the CDOs], it was the securities salesmen who spontaneously invented and sold CDOs"). I must remember that compelling excuse if I ever get busted running a casino in my own living-room.

> "In any case, the 2008 financial crisis had precious little to do with Glass‐Steagall, one way or the other. It was caused primarily by bad lending policies, which in turn led to the growth of the subprime market to an extent that neither the lawmakers nor regulatory authorities recognized at the time. The commercial banks and parent holding companies that failed — or had to be sold to other viable financial institutions — did so because underwriting standards were abandoned."

[0]:
https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2018/11/de...

[1]: https://features.marketplace.org/why-no-ceo-went-jail-after-...

[2]: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/repeal-glass-steagall-a...
> Why wouldn’t the chat provide you with sources on request?

Because many are still fake, nonexistent.

Wolfram is very limited scope for the global population needs.

E.g if you ask about local hunting laws from ChatGPT, without correct reference, what can you do with that information? It is very dangerous to trust them blindly.
Increased prices (and sufficient demand to justify the price increase - e.g, overall profit increase) is part of the interaction between demand and supply. Sure, demand for food is inelastic, but there are plenty of different suppliers at each level of the supply chain (different food brands, different grocery stores, etc.) who are individually acting to support the price search function (via individual profit maximization).

Price is a signal of scarcity. Food is more scarce due to supply chain issues, therefore food is more expensive. Is that bad? Sure, let's address the supply chain issues, overall macroeconomic inflation and, uh, other disruptions (incl. the UA war).

Unless you are specifically alleging direct conspiracy between food producers to raise prices (e.g., monopolistic action), (also already an illegal thing), there doesn't seem to be a clear call to action here.
I would imagine the JS setting covers LS. Point being if JS is enabled but LS is not and the JS uses LS...things might get ugly.
What news sources and content, if any, do you follow instead?

Personally, I started listening to NPR in 2007, and have consistently found them on point, unbiased, and including programming that enriches all. I tried to listen to talk radio (AM, some FM local) before that point and was decidedly turned off to most, if not all, of it (admittedly, I do not listen to every show).
Not even then, that's just your brain.

Still an existence proof though.

> Like humans, I predict AIs will have to get jobs rather than have time to take over the world.

Only taking over job market is still taking over.

Living costs of 175 kWh/year is one heck of a competitive advantage over food, and clothing, and definitely rent.
CPB gets almost 500M/year from the federal government. 50% of CPB's budget goes to public radio stations. Budget of NPR is 300M.

I'm going to say that any claim that NPR's public financing is very low (1% or 5%) is either malicious splitting of hairs or outright lying.
No, it's just random "plausible" response. Re-roll the response and you'll get something different.

Think of the prompt as "pretend you're some random person, tell me some details"
>why would anyone ever fully fine-tune a model?

You're asking it as if it were a rhetorical question, but I think it carries more weight than many people seem to believe.
At What Point Dedication Becomes an Obsession?