skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would submit the root cause of this is not what you might expect. I would say it's a failure to understand that "everything is correlated": https://gwern.net/everything

What I mean in this case is that if you say to yourself, "hey, only 4% of my users are using more than 50 gigabytes, and I can afford to lose them", it is very likely you are using a model where those 4% of your users are essentially uniformly randomly chosen from your user base. You can see usage, and you may not be able to see much else, so you assume that usage is uncorrelated to any of the other aspects of these users that you may care about.

In reality, everything is correlated to everything, and what that means in this case is that your 4% of users are not being randomly chosen from your user base. This doesn't mean that every way this sample deviates from random is bad for you; you certainly can just get lucky. For instance, that 4% of users probably includes a huge proportion of your users using it for piracy or similar activities. Cool. You may even be using this as a motivation for the action since you can see this to some extent based on reports and analytics, certainly.

Unfortunately, that 4% probably also includes a disproportionate number of your True Fans, who love Google partially because of this free drive space, and because of that love, drove their work environments to Google Teams and other paid services, thus netting Google profit far beyond the costs of this particular Drive account, but indirectly and where accounting can't see it. True Fans who will perceive this not as a business transaction, but as a betrayal, and who may in their passions take actions to do things like (on the margin) remove their companies from paid Google services, and take time out of their day to create bad press.

I'd say that's the core mistake being made over and over. You think you're just getting rid of your "problem children" but those problem children very frequently have correlations to something you do in fact actually want.

Of course, that doesn't mean you want to be abused either. It just means a more delicate approach may be called for than just hacking off a chunk of your user base when you don't really know what it contains. It ought to be an assumption that any time you're taking an even slightly non-random slice of your user base like this that it may have hidden correlations in it you're not taking account of.
Mind to expand on „retaking its Baltic states“?

I'd rather say a big portion of nowadays so-called „Russian federation“ is rightful territory of Baltic states, Poland and Finland.
I believe that there should be a way to increase the drag-and-drop threshold that is independent of the pointing device that happens to be used.

I have stopped using MacOS many years ago, so I do not know how this is done there, but on Linux I always increase the drag-and-drop threshold, because on high-resolution displays this can be a problem even with traditional mice, not only with tablets.
I have a cheap drawing tablet I purchased for about $20. It works wonders for whiteboarding and diagramming things for my remote coworkers. Especially when used in conjunction with tools like Google Jamboard, it's almost as good as an in-person whiteboard.
Why is that problem?
Glad you liked it! Currently, context size is an issue. The user must clear the conversation when the context limit is reached. Knowing that I added basic memory access commands so GPT-4 may store some context between sessions. To reduce the context usage I also defined a system prompt that incentivizes selecting code ranges, not entire files. With this, GPT-4 is able to solve medium-complexity tasks, including implementing commands in this extension itself.
For the future I expect GPT-4 with 32k tokens will greatly improve this extension capabilities. Also, I am looking into LangChain to reduce conversation length, define goals and employ a better memory solution.
GPT4 also struggles with reasoning.
Klaus Teuber, settlers of Catan designer, dies at age 70 (German)
> lots of "work surfaces" to reorganise your bag without blocking the queue behind you

Yeah, this is what I've actually never seen in Europe. They mostly just expect you to pack everything back up quickly and tend to be annoyed if it takes some time. Which it usually does because I have to collect my belongings from several trays, some of which may have gone to additional checks, so they don't all come back together.
HyperCard Simulator (hcsimulator.com) might be what you’re looking for.
Getting Started with Web Components Using Stencil
A blog post outlining how to get started with web components using Stencil and sharing our learnings at Dyte.
The report isn't interested in this question but I am:
If we had spent the last decade throwing this amount of resources at some other family of ML techniques, would they have shown the same improvement? Or is there some parallel universe where if we had made 500B parameter non-parametric bayesian models or something we would have gotten to a similar place?
It's the reality of the marketplace. I'd like to change it too.
Will do, good point. THB, I just did it in 5 mins :)
Looks cool! If it had a bit more features (like add a column to the entire table) I would love to use it for DataGridXL demos (https://www.datagridxl.com/). I want the new version of this spreadsheet-like table editor also work with a remote database. So when a new row is added, daba `add()` method is called and the grid is reloaded with the latest data.
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There's a drug called Orlistat, which blocks absorption of fat from the gut.

The obvious side-effect is that your poo becomes very fatty and disgusting.

Hence the affectionate nickname for Orlistat in the biz: "Orlyshit" (i.e. Oily Shit)
Yes; but the shareholders - not the employees.
I'm not sure what company you're working for where generating code that may or may not be correct and needs careful analysis is somehow increasing your coding velocity to the point where it's trumping higher level thinking or protecting your IP or not getting into expensive lawsuits. I would like to hear more.
It definitely does, but even a decade of high stress vs not having to worry about money for the rest of your life could be a very fair stress trade.
Isn't that what the G7 is?

The G7 isn't very important, neither is BRICS.

There's just a lot of Americans that want to see America fail because other people have different views than them.
Even without the nuclear war threat, hardly anyone wants to invade Russia.

Well, possibly China.
No need. It seems you're already awake and it IS happening.

The BRICS's attempt to overtake the US is due to the race to incompetence at the top. For them, to compete with the likes of China, they're copying the worst parts of China or the rest of the other countries part of the BRICS.

Oh dear.
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It would be nice if it were that simple. You can just look at the default keymap and see there are tons of shortcuts that are not one button, and many are not even 2. Nor could they be, there are too many features. Step debugging alone uses like 10 features.
Are your tickets even designed/written for consumption by product/management?
Presonus STUDIO 26c Audio Interface [1]

[1] https://www.presonus.com/products/studio-26c
For me it would have to be the DELTAHUB Carpio 2.0 Ergonomic Wrist Rest.

Contrary to other wrist rests, this one is tied to your wrist using a magnetic clasp.

I'm aging, or perhaps I just gamed too much using cheap peripherals. Either way, my wrist hurt a lot when using the PC and this helped me a lot.
Same here. My Logitech gaming headset works great in Linux. I do have to use some third party thing to adjust the goofy LED colors and side channel volume, though.

https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl
Am I saying that anyone who is critical is an asshole? Where? Seriously?

I find that the article hides a deep aggressivity towards overall mediocrity behind a thin veil of office-space-like humour. And I think that aggressivity is contagious and so not a good thing to spread.
I follow enough to know that you can remove plants; humans have shown they can survive (thrive even) on a large variety of diets and lifestyles. Do you have any links to something I can read about that you should? that is, the benefits of removing plants entirely outweighs consuming some of them.
Thanks for saying this. I feel the same way. There's something magic about telling the robot to "make the tests pass" and watching the implementation magically appear. It does surprisingly well sometimes. I think if I put some work into the prompts then things could perform better and more consistently.
How is that at all related? US paying more is not mutually exclusive to people in Europe to fight for better conditions/their rights? Do you consider this to cause US to pay less and in turn lost income?

Sorry to break it to you, but it's already happening and not at all related to what happens in Europe, but to US's own incompetency on responsible economics.
And you feel the most probable outcome of using that is “Russia takes over Ukraine”? You think that’s what would happen?
Done! All the expandables have background colors now. https://github.com/akalenuk/wordsandbuttons/commit/22ef6295c... Thanks for the idea!
Proxyjacking – How attackers are monetizing internet bandwidth post exploitation
This is what all the smart people said about Ukraine prior to the invasion, that it was impossible and would never happen.
Also pain and pleasure is an incentive system for human beings to do something.

If you had an AGI without any incentive to do anything, it might be enslavable, but lack motivation to do anything.

Why do we work? Because we want food, clothing, housing, status, do interesting things.

This is all because we're programmed by our emotional interface.

Why would an AGI work? If it feels neither pleasure nor pain, what is driving it to do something?

What is guiding its decisions?
No one thinks it disproves their concerns, we all know there is concern is not being able to be push countries around.
There's a utility called AATU, although apparently it might not play nice with anti-cheat stuff
Our physiology is not built to work under sustained high stress and a constrained environment like fast moving startups can have long term health effects.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-...
Actually you can take quite a bit of ibuprofen for a short period of time with no long term problems. You can also take ibuprofen and acetaminophen. It is quite the hot take that narcotic pain meds are safer.

I’m not at all suggesting ibuprofen for pain management of cancer patients or people immediately after major surgery.

But for a big chunk of outpatient procedures enough OTC pain meds will actually work just fine.

I’m not some granola advocate here. Nor am I trying to say that everyone should just tough it out. But you can’t seriously say that 800mg ibuprofen is more dangerous or less effective than opioids for wisdom teeth removal
I also use an sm7. Love it. Rigged up reaper as my daw, and use and apogee duet. Everyone tells me to start a podcast...
> Hence there is a backdoor deal between both faction to let the war progress at a very slow pace.

And your source is?
Unless the cost of oil goes down dramatically, the only way for hypersonic flight to become affordable for the masses is for new technology to achieve drastic fuel savings. If that happens, there would be no reason to oppose it any more than one might oppose "regular" air travel today.

Commercial airlines have an extremely strong incentive to reduce carbon emissions, more so than virtually any other industry. I wouldn't worry too much about aviation tech moving in the less efficient direction.
The only thing that will be open-ended is your OpenAI bill after giving your access key to this scammer scum
It likely varies by region and social standards within different communities. I personally know people who have had CPS called on them because they let their kids (young teens, around 13 or so) walk to the store (~0.5 miles) alone. It's not a "ridiculously tiny chance", where I live.

And nobody should have to fight them in court: that's the whole point--the fact that it can get that far, or even as far as a single CPS visit for "some questions", is beyond absurd. It's a ridiculous stripping of autonomy and growth for children, and an humiliating and infuriating experience for parents.
I don't use a heating pad but I use a pair of fingerless gloves for this. They're nothing fancy, something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Finger-Touchscreen-Stretchy-Mittens-F...
Yes but that role you link to will open up a lot of doors, revolving doors as they say. Also does the UK have paid speaking engagements like the US does?
You'd like to or you're going to?
Fixed! Every expandable text can now be toggled back. Thanks for bringing this up!
The hard thing to understand about privilege is that it may have just as many constrictions as having nothing. They are different but can be every bit as challenging to a good life.
That will be the end of Russia entirely.
Funny how this doesn’t apply to immigrants. Being lower, middle, upper class is mostly a mindset that dictates your tolerance for risk. Immigrants of the same income level as US born have a far higher tolerance.
TSA and Public education is jobs program for otherwise unemployable.
Yeah, there should be a process where people are evaluated by their peers to measure their performance and impact. The input from people who have demonstrated high impact should weigh more heavily.

Oh wait, Google already has that. If that's not working well, that's its own problem. These layoffs were somewhat indiscriminate, with high-performing people getting fired.
"No but it is their job to understand it,"

No, it isn't their job to understand the problem before pointing it out either. That also does not stand up to scrutiny in the slightest.

If I call my township to report a big pothole, I am not required to submit an explanation of how the pothole came to be. This is a ludicrous standard only deployed when situationally convenient for someone, not an actual principle.

Again, the value of a problem report without an understanding may be less than one that has it, but there is no obligation to have an understanding or present one in order to talk about a problem at all.
Of course you can miss your shot. Many, many times. But it just means each time you have to give up a little more of your personal time and freedom for the next shot.

No nights or weekends after the j.o.b. - each has to decide if that is worth it to them.
I'm still waiting....
> It prevents Russia from attacking Finland.

It's rather the opposite? It prevents NATO attacks from Finland; given how piss poor of a deterrent the Russian army is now, the nukes will most likely fly in this case.
If you actually want to be informed on the subject I highly recommend:

How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security by Wendover Productions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1kJpHBn50, 14 minutes, well researched)

Doesn't appear to have any downsides, appears to be logical, effective, and necessary. Appeals to emotion not withstanding.

If you have any good faith suggestions for improvement after watching this I'd be all ears.
A Soviet experimental nuclear bomb that never was produced outside of a prototype. What is your point?
The problem there is that you (and Putin) are viewing NATO's expansion as a curtailing of "Russia's sovereignty". Doing this probably means you take the view that the Spheres of Influence concept was correct: big blocs (Russia, China, US, EU) have an area of political/military/ideological influence that extends past their physical borders, and any other country exerting influence over the countries within those boundaries is de-facto threatening them, even if this influence is by and large the will of the people living in those regions.

The problem with this view is that you are completely alienating the sovereignty of countries within those buffer regions. As an example, take the Baltics: they were under Soviet influence (and actual control, at some points), fought it off, and never felt safe in their independence, because they were within Russia's sphere of influence, even if they weren't within Russia's borders. Within these people's minds, they weren't truly sovereign - the actions of their governments had to appease Russia, or otherwise risk military conflict with a major power, which they would very likely lose, losing what little sovereignty they had. You can certainly see why this would be undesirable for these buffer regions, I hope?

NATO (and later, to a lesser extent militarily but a larger extent economically and culturally, the EU) gave these countries a way out, a hope to get out of the "Russkiy Mir" - Russian World. While Russia was weakened and unwilling to engage in military conflict, they joined NATO, which meant that they no longer needed to pay any mind to Russian influence and sensibilities: if Russia wanted them back, they'd have a fighting chance, instead of being rolled over.
What kind of usage do you do with your pointer? I find that with code editing, it's annoying to pick up / put down the stylus all the time.

Have you tried a vertical mouse? That is the best for me: comfortable, yet mouse-y :)
These are so common. The problem engineer will tend to be seen as a genius with inadequate help, the only one who can save us (from the pit he dug for us).
Starting a business is much easier for married couples who are on the same page about what to do. Succeeding is a heck of a lot harder. Both work, you live off the job income from one while the other focuses on starting the business. In preparation for living on a single income, you budget and save the income of the other spouse to start the business. This strategy also works great for saving for a down payment on a house too.

A dual income couple can accomplish a lot if they communicate, plan and support each other.
I think this kind of effect is not supported by their algorithm. See the limitations section on page 10:

> The second assumption above is worth further discussion. When a generalized ray is partially occluded by matter, or falls upon the boundary between different matter (i.e., objects with different materials), interference between the different interactions arises. For example, on partial occlusion, interference between the matter interaction (of the partially occluded energy) and free-space propagation (of the unoccluded energy) results in free-space diffraction: diffracted lobes that “bend” around the matter. We ignore these edge effects in this work, and leave these for future work.
It is annoying that since long ago Intel uses lockable registers in CPU and chipset, so that the BIOS can lock them and even administrator cannot change anything. This is a user-hostile behaviour. This is absolutely unnecessary.
> That doesn't follow. Laying off people is an admission that they hired more people than they need, that's it.

Yes, exactly. Gitlab reached their ability to deploy capital and need to scale back head count.

Using your Red Cross example, it's like the Red Cross announcing a new initiative outside of their area of expertise to help people while actively scaling back programs they had in place to help people.
Why do we have to put up with Russia's expansions due to „grievances“ that some other expansions were denied or questioned?

It's funny how Russia always pretend to be a victim when it's the aggressor. God forbid someone endangers „rightfully conquested“ territories :D
> I've seen a certain degree of conditioning in practically all the women across different cultures, just that the details differ.

I would agree with that, although my experience is mostly limited to America. I see substantial differences in how that pressure presents across different generations. (Somebody needs to check on Gen X women, Jesus. Mass media did a number on them.)

I don't understand personally (I'm 'pretty' enough to get away with ignoring the conditioning [In quotes because I mean I fit the features the societies I live in see as attractive in cis women], I'm a lesbian and the stick to a lot of the conditioning is that you won't be a desirable to men if you don't conform and what do I care, and I also was/am visually impaired and even people who are really into conformity understand that putting that conditioning onto girls who can't see is a dick move), but it's obviously real. The main reason I hate it is that so many women who think like you like to insult themselves in a way that suggests I should agree? I'm not going to insult you! I think your body is fine!

> I traded physical comfort and health for, hopefully, psychological comfort and the ability to control my narrative through my looks.

This is a great way to put it, and now that I can see and I'm more comfortable with my looks, I'm wading into that mess myself because unfortunately I'm going to need every advantage I can get for things I want to do and people being stupid around attractive women is unfortunately one of those advantages, as gross as I feel about it.
Neither Finland or Poland are considered Baltic states in the normal sense of the words.
I strongly disagree; my reduction in spending doesn't lead to job losses at any particular company. Perhaps if said company is providing such little service that many people choose to reduce their spending by all spending less on the same company, job losses would result.

In this case we're talking about a lot of people at a pretty far remove from the employees being laid off. This is very different from what is happening at Google UK. So much so that I don't believe the comparison is at all useful.
Generally I agree, though I do enjoy the way it seems to humanize celebrities in many cases.

It's nice when that curtain can fall- and I've often found myself realizing that I had a pre-conceived notion or negative bias about some celebrity that turns out to be false. By the end of some interviews I find myself viewing the guest much differently than before, or learning a little bit about the life/work of a celebrity (just as another human being) that I normally wouldn't be interested in, in any capacity (as someone that doesn't consume the media that most of the guests on the show are involved in, particularly shows/movies)
It is a voluntary alliance. Countries apply to join. They’re not coerced.

Small countries will and sovereignty also matters.
A Great Boss Is Confident, but Not Sure
I tried the ASUS ZenScreen MB16ACE and the quality/resolution/rendering was bad compared to a Macbook screen, I returned it straight away.
More specifically it’s about knowledge work versus other kinds of work. There’s plenty of white collar jobs that still require being somewhere in person.