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We at https://www.gumlet.com use bigquery a lot, but now it seems we will have to move to click house. Can’t trust google with anything. First Kubernetes price intro, then multi region storage price increase along with inter region price introduction and now this.

I would trust AWS but not Google.
The risk was not minor -- COVID remains a leading cause of death in most countries. https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/just-how-do-deaths...

It is now, thanks to swift and absurdly successful mRNA vaccine research, a minor risk to you.
Yeah that does sound insane. I still think not using their services really is the better option though...
I remember using Mozilla Suite and submitting and testing bugs to Bugzilla for the pre-1.0 days of Firefox. I've used Thunderbird (and forks like Postbox) at various points and am typing this in Firefox. Even in its darker times, Mozilla's products have always been worth using.

On a related note, I am anxiously awaiting the Thunderbird redesign. I need to replace Spark (v3 was about the worst update possible from an interface/workflow perspective, so I'm still on v2) and I'm hoping Thunderbird will be the client I settle on.
RPGs are great. I'm currently playing Octopath Traveler 2.

That new Monkey Island game, or any other adventure game, works great on Deck. Don't forget it has a touchscreen for your mouse input!

Rhythm games work great, no input lag.
I basically agree I think, or at least agree to within normal-group-variance. Which is to say, at least with my friends, is someone said “I want to roll stealth to steal the lizard,” the DM would probably say something along the lines of “it’ll be more complicated than a single roll, you’ll have to get in there, get the thing free, there might be unforeseen problems (it is a barely tamed lizard monster after all).” I think we would probably not need to be warned in the first place and would go right into planning the heist anyway, because who doesn’t love a heist?

I think the specific thing I didn’t like in this example was the presentation of a specific path to the player. Although taking a second look, it seems the autoDM just presented it as a potential path, so maybe it isn’t so bad.
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Or negative, then I would consider thinking about it, maybe.
Hey, author here! Thanks for the feedback! I went back and forth with having `data` being a JSONB field or VARCHAR, but ended up with VARCHAR to show that `nodes` don't have to be anything crazy. Really `nodes` is just a standard table you'd see in any old SQL database, and what makes it a "graph" is the `edges`/relationship table.
The point of the Steam Controller is the touchpads, which are not positioned comfortably enough or large enough to be primary input devices on the Deck.

If you want a controller where a touchpad is a secondary accessory, you already have a great option in the DualSense.
The current public school system does not work. My proposal won't solve every problem. But it will do much better.
The Fed is 42 billion in the hole. Rather alarming if one takes a moment to think about it.
Yeah i tried that, but the experience is not that great. The main issue is that the steam deck inputs only work as steaminput (vs xinput) so only work natively with steam games.
I have seen some third party app to convert, but never had the patience to try them.
I think you are right, and I just checked out a preview of Mel Bay's Rhythm Chord Guitar Method, and it's dots between frets.

Maybe it was my guitar teacher who wrote tab that way when I asked him how to play something.

Which makes sense to me since it seems like it would be simpler to write tab that way by hand...as opposed to typesetting it where it would probably be about the same amount of work either way.

What I mean is dots on frets would almost certainly be how I would write down tab for myself...and it seems like it would be clear enough to anyone who had a guitar in their hand.
The idea that lithium mining is uniquely destroying the environment is mostly nonsense. Making mines anywhere in the western world is difficult.

Also this articles says literally nothing about how exactly the environment would be destroyed.
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.”

― Alexander Hamilton
What I have noticed is that CDs had lower yields than Treasury bills of the equivalent duration, until the bank runs happened. I think a lot of banks suddenly increased their CD rates just because they were also fearing a bank run. CDs lock in depositors' money a lot more. When the bank crisis subsided the CD rates went down because banks didn't feel a need to attract so many depositors.

Disclaimer: I bought a 5.4% CD a few days after the collapse of SVB.
"Neural networks don't really work" isn't an accurate representation of Marcus' position, and his actual position hasn't been shown to be wrong unless you believe that LLMs and diffusion models display, or are manifestly on the way towards displaying, understanding. That is something many think, and it's not in itself an unreasonable view. However there are also plenty of reasons to think otherwise and many, including me, who haven't conceded the point. It hasn't been settled beyond reasonable debate.

To assume that the person you disagree with can only hold their view out of cynical self-interest, wishful thinking or plain insanity is to assume that you are so obviously right that there can be no valid debate. That is a bad starting position and I'd recommend against it as a matter of principle. Apart from anything else, however convinced you are of your own rightness it's plain rude to assume everyone else is equally convinced, and ad-hominem to ascribe negative motives to those who disagree.

As for Gary Marcus, as far as I've seen he's been consistent in his views and respectful in the way he's argued them. To read about him on HN you'd think he's spent the last few years badmouthing every AI researcher around, but I haven't seen that, just disagreement with people's statements - i.e. healthy debate. I haven't followed him closely though, so if you know of any cases where he's gone beyond that and said the sorts of things about AI researchers that people routinely say about him I'd interested to see them.
This is 'what makes this time different' - the self-managed vs. bank-managed net returns per unit risk are too hard to ignore. Having all the money move at the same time was not the intended design - things showed cracks, some poked at it, and though we have avoided immediate danger, there's a strong potential for the financial engine to 'lock up.'
example would be trying to create the sbom on a build server which is meant to produce the artifact. and you're only intersted in what your artifact needs (pulls in). How would any tool know what to include in an SBOM?

because normally the sbom generation tool will try to query your package manager, whether thats rpm, dpkg or pypi and others to try to understand what it sees. so looking at the build stage might include a lot more (tool chain etc).

most commercual tools eould cater for this b6 alliwing you to rectify incomplete or wrong information.

the problem you mention, liability, is an important one. if the law requires the sbom to be correct then this is a problem humans need to verify. and tgats really annoying.
I'm not aware of any banned firearm that suddenly becomes legal when you change the cosmetic aspects of the grip and shorten the barrel. Usually barrels are already about as short as they can be without reaching NFA territory where things become logistically, if not always financially, expensive to get your hands on.

I think the problem most pro-2A people have with proposed gun regulations after a shooting is that none or very few of the proposed regulations would have done anything to prevent it. I'm happy to debate a 10-round magazine limit or something like that on its merits, but when there's a gang shooting with an illegally-modified AR-15 and you start talking about 8-round limits instead of 10, or when there's a school shooting with a legally purchased AR-15 but you start talking about banning unrelated ammunition you lose a lot of credibility in my opinion. If you want to ban something just to ban it let's talk about the merits of that proposal, but let's not pretend that changing the NFA barrel length from 18" to 16" is going to do anything.
The Fed has also agreed to buy the worthless bonds from banks, should they need cash, albeit they expect repayment @ 4-point-something %, which I understand banks immediately took advantage of. I guess we'll just deal with that problem later, as usual.
I see a lot of skepticism like this on hackernews. People constantly downplaying how impressive this technology is. It's great to be critical. But most of the criticism is too stuck in the present. If it's already as good as many stackoverflow answers, what kind of potential will we see in 1 year, 3 years, a decade. This is massive paradigm shift in the way we program and this conversation thread will be look outdated in a year. So much of the tedium of programming has been eliminated in my day to day. I actually have ideas I pursue now that I know so much friction in the setup process is gone and I won't be severely blocked by bugs.
1. Drug overdoses

2. Obesity

3. Lack of access, due to a lack of affordability and/or availability, to healthcare

I'm a volunteer EMT-B who has a full-time day job so I only work one weekend shift per week and on average I narcan someone once per month. In my state approximately 3,000 people die every year from overdose. Me narcan'ing someone means there's a ~25% chance of them dying in the next year from overdose.

Twice in the last six months someone who was too obese for me and my partner to move by ourselves died while waiting for assistance to arrive.
EVs aren't here to save the world.

They're here to save the car industry.

We need to get rid of cars altogether, electric or not. Public transport and bicycles are the only system that scales.
That's where I'm at. Our 2016 Toyota has their horrible Entune system, and however much I like everything else about it, that thing irritates me every time I look at it.
I would be nice if you could simply add lines in your code like #askgpt: can you fill in the method on line 345. It needs to calculate x. Input is y. Output is z.
So you dont have to go out.
It could be done, you could make a virtual image from many small sats. Since you see from different angles, if you timestamp data with high resolution you could even cancel out a lot of atmosphere.
To be fair to Bill, he asked for a definition of "sex" and the definition he was given did not include a blowjob as part of that definition. Everybody else knows that a blowjob is a sexual act (when I lived in Florida, it was listed as "sodomy" but then if you weren't a married couple, everything other than "missionary" was defined as "sodomy").
It's ongoing. I ditched my smartphone for a Nokia running KaiOS and a Bangle.js. It took a couple weeks to break the habit of compulsively checking my phone, which was nice, but everything is so much nicer when you literally do not have an Internet-compatible device on you.

The hardest thing was giving up Discord, which was something I wanted to do anyway for free-software reasons, but I've found life more appealing in the real world anyway. When I do want to talk to other people like me far away, I find that many of them maintain their own websites and are more than happy to talk. This is my utopia.
My uncle is a kinetic sculptor and I have early childhood NYC memories of visiting him. The memories range from the smell of urine in the vestibule of his building on the Bowery or strategies to avoid ones battery from being stolen while parking a car. NYC had at least the reputation of being bankrupt. I also remember when suddenly the city exploded with the I heart NY campaign. The simple message was a master stroke of double-speak or Stockholm syndrome but proved as resilient and timeless as NYC.

I should add there were multimedia slide shows with songs in theaters on 42nd street. Surrounded by prostitution and pornography.
For me, it was that when Chrome came out, it was a good deal faster and more efficient. It took FF a very long time to close that gap all the while watching them chase other dead ends.
I don't know much about finance, but I'm confused how the blame for a bank run seems to lie with the people who put their money in a bank and then want to take it out, as opposed to the bank not being able to support their customers withdrawing their money, which seems like it should be one of the first priorities for a bank.
Honestly anything I hear about NYPD sounds like they are beyond being fixable and
need to be dissolved and recreated from scratch with anyone in power of the recreation needing to be unrelated to the original NYPD.

But then what I hear about it is very limited an done-sided.
> correctly manipulating images (via their source code) without having been programmed for anything of the kind,

I've read plenty of suspicions that it is multimodal. I guess he's confirming it's not?
Max from CoScreen here.
Yeah, we hear you. We have a web client coming out soon and a headless client that works on Linux in the pipeline. Hope to bring some early users onboard for the latter in Q2.
They need to pivot or find niche verticals and they needed to do that 7-8yrs ago. Didn’t realize they are still around
Crazy photonics matrix multiplier accelerators are amazing analog computing things, look up LightMatter!
Just using the geography stuff and doing joins on ST_Intersects. I couldn't guarantee that my data formed a partition of the plane, which is necessary for topology iirc.

Fun was had and headaches too. The biggest speedup I got was computing the graph online (creating a node/vertices tables from geometries) and then doing the recursive CTE on that table.
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The ease-of-use of software or hardware can unintentionally filter for a certain profile of user base.

If it’s hard-to-use, Kafkaesque, or unforgiving, users who are able to integrate the hardware/software into their daily lives are likely to see it as a trial-by-fire and be gatekeepers to others.
ocaml managed, but it took a significant effort to improve the general tooling ecosystem
$120 per American, really alarming?
I wonder how that would work.

Everyone bids on what they would pay and then Groupon goes to negotiate a price?

Then everyone waits?
People who value their time so little generally make poor advertising targets
> Isn’t that saying the opposite of what you’re concerned about?

What do you think I'm concerned about?

Also: no.
The US is not in any position to start a shooting war with anyone that has the ability to push this field forward and come out of it intact. AI training will continue and Yudkowsky will be proven wrong.
I feel like many people who signed the statement did so not because they really agreed with it but because they want a pause on the churn, just as OP had colleagues who admitted as much just for their academic reasons. A lot of people don't really think it's smart but find it dangerous for other reasons, or they have issues with the blatant IP violation that is just being assumed to be okay and "fair use."
nixos missing 2/3 is what's behind my repeated insistence that nix is in sore need of a plan 9-esque host system. perhaps with fuchsia there's hope yet.

cgroups and linux namespaces are great and all but pervasive namespace abstraction really really needs a fluid, low-friction interface for constructing those namespaces and subsequently examining precisely how they're put together. this is why typing ns in plan 9 is a huge eye-opener for a lot of newcomers. suid and friends ensure a perpetual lower bound on red tape and drudgery where traditional unix-likes implement namespaces.
I think GP means that it has to completely expand the recursive part for every branch before any where condition on the edge nodes can be applied. Graph databases presumably can optimize this.

I've found recursive queries to be difficult to scale in real-world queries past a few million edge nodes. We've denormalized several tree relationships so that the edge is connected both to its parent and to the root of its tree in several cases.
Yes and at some point the sun will destroy earth. If Peak oil just means 'all resources are limited' then its an insight that an empty bottle of water could have made. It has no relevance for the real world.
Thanks for this. HN is great to burst my bubble a bit sometimes.
> But you can take solace in the fact that most government organizations are pretty inept.

This is literally the thing that they've been trying to convince you of. Remember Snowden? If not, why not?

So, at least their propaganda wing is working great.

P.S. also, US federal agencies tend to be uniquely stupid, largely due to starve-the-beast politics.

It is not a universal truth. Americans always base their opinions of state institutions in general on their experience with institutions of the American state.

Other countries can & do have actually-effective apparatus, often terrifyingly so.

See, for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/technology/police-surveil...
There are PhDs who've spent their careers studying AI safety. It's a bit insulting and reductive to cast their work as "coming from science fiction", especially when it sounds like you haven't done much research on the topic.
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go to our blog: lots of interesting articles on phishing. https://novoshield.com/blog/
Yeah but everyone's looking to make a buck because it means they can spend more time on a topic they're so passionate they started a blog on the topic. Don't let money ruin things for you. Just because Ms Green Thumb is selling merch for her blog she started about gardening because she'd really like to be able to quit her job and do gardening full time. Those branded hats shouldn't automatically impugn the passion she has for gardening, it's just this attitude that money ruins everything when it shouldn't. well, not automatically anyway. But she'd rather be gardening than putting up with Tom, her kinda creepy boss at the accounting firm she's at. Going viral and selling merch is her only real way out of that. That or a lottery ticket.
I assume the ads would be for soup?

https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
Honestly the fan noise is pretty overblown. It's barely noticeable on less intensive games (which naturally stress the CPU less), but I did a ~100 hour playthrough of Elden Ring (a recent and graphically intensive game) solely on my Steam Deck, and only ever noticed the fan noise in the lull of silence in the moments as my heartrate came back down after losing to bosses.
The bank was at fault. No question about that. But do you really believe that all of the customers all of the sudden needed to spend $42B the next day to make payroll?
There was also a flight to quality that pushed down t-bill (especially the 4 week) yields.
Should individuals also count mark to market losses in their savings? I have a three year CD at 2%. Have I lost money?
considering I was at his wedding reception when I asked I sure hope not!
Isn't starting a brand new product line on an already full market a very different task from managing an existing product with a lot of legacy users and a famous name?

For an analogy: Tim Cook is a great manager for Apple, but I don't believe he would be a great founder of something similarly big on the contemporary smartphone market.
It's worse than it seems - they are levered on average at 10-1. So they've lost almost 30% of their equity in aggregate.

Put another way - if they lose 10%, they are finished.
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The AI is unaccountable. If the leaders get good ideas from the AI, then cool, let them present them and take responsibility.
I meant “I don’t want them to stop farming, personally”. It is not up to me. It’s not personal.
> They either break from Vim's model (kakoune, helix) or follow Vim along with all it's flaws (Neovim, Vis).

I am sincerely curious of what flaws from Vim has Vis inherited, in your opinion.

I have the impression that the design idea of Vis is taking only the modal design of Vi (not Vim), plus the structural regular expressions of Sam, then make it as clean as possible with programmability via Lua plugins.

In fact, the state non-goals [1] seems to clearly distant itself from Vim.

[1]: https://github.com/martanne/vis#non-goals
That is the point that gp is making. Many has no definition and many (see what I did there?) disagree about where it’s appropriate.
Note parent also mentioned bus driver. 20 tonnes does not merely "bounce off someone's bumper"; 20 tonnes plus 70 passengers even less so, and all that's assuming it's only a 40-foot bus. Articulated buses are 60' here, with some articulated trolley-buses having such outrageous torque they had to be de-tuned to avoid destroying themselves.

A zero-to-sixty (kilometer) on par with a Miata, no loudly revving diesel engine or exhaust, and approximately 40 tonnes between coach and passenger weight should not be so quickly dismissed.
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Renaissance actually has a long history of taking talent with NLP experience. They poached some of the top people on the IBM Watson team.
> GM’s move to restrict access to CarPlay and Android Auto […] will help the automaker capture more data on its customers’ driving, listening, and charging habits. It could also help inform future subscription products, as automakers across the board are seeking to generate more revenue beyond just selling cars.

Yeah no thanks. I have a 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV that I absolutely love, but I will not be buying another GM vehicle if this is what they’re going to be doing.
Okay, I am corrected. Only ~$350 billion out of ~$750 billion is local. So it's not the majority nationwide. It's still 7 out of 15 dollars. That's a substantial enough minority to have very disparate outcomes.
I am not being malicious. I do not accept those papers as being actual examples of emergent behavior in a true AGI sense. This is just another case of humans imagining that they see patterns in noise. In other words, they haven't rejected the null hypothesis. Junk science. (And just because the science is bad doesn't mean the underlying products aren't useful for solving practical problems and enhancing human productivity.)

The blowhards who are calling for arbitrary restrictions on research are the ones being malicious.