skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire car alarm industry is a scam, promoted by Republican congressman Darrell Issa. It has seriously disrupted our lives in every way imaginable and has drowned out the beauty of nature. I can’t think of a single car that has been protected by a car alarm since they were invented. They are useless and should be banned for the health and safety of mitigating noise pollution.
Any publicity is good publicity it seems like. People don’t get that hating is not the opposite of love, it’s indifference. Mute and forget.
It's approximately the structure Microsoft had in its early core Gates + Allen + Ballmer. Vision (Allen), engineering (Gates + Allen), understanding tech (Gates + Allen), pragmatism (Gates), selling (Ballmer).

I'm sure all sorts of variations of combinations will work (and in different quantities), but you need most of it to build something big from something small.
Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship after one year, citing worker safety
> Going into public and throwing filth at people, accosting them, and generally endangering the safety of other citizens is implicitly a crime

In the US, there is no such concept as “implicit crime”, but, yes, some of those things are just plain explicit crimes.

> We don’t need to wait around for a court to indict a person for “being a crazy homeless person”

If you are going to treat it as a crime, then, yes, it has all the procedural safeguards generally applicable to crime.
1. ChatGPT is very, very new, and habits change slowly

2. For non plus users, chatGPT UX is poor with slow responses, captchas and random logouts

3. All of this will eventually change

There is no more major growth for Google, which is all that matters to Wall Street.

It will go down slowly, but it will go down.
What if Substack just eats Twitter's lunch? Would you see the point then?
>Motion controls had a huge wave of popularity starting with the Wii, but that died off.

is there a consensus to why this is? was it just a fad/phase, or is it just too physically demanding so people literally and figuratively tired of it?
TBH, I really like Facebook's groups in terms of UX and maintainer level. I don't like FB themselves though, and their warnings are sometimes just at a level of insane.

Keep thinking I'd like to create an easy button for FB groups like self-hosted community setups. Then you can control/host your own interest group... add in live group chats (that FB used to have for groups) and just have a centralized auth and search that are opt-in.
Aging does not work like height. There are several biological processes that contribute to aging so one gene mutation would not make someone live longer. We can make people taller by giving them growth hormone. If aging was as simple we would have easy ways to slow aging by now.
> It might catch the tumor in 99.9999% of cases, better than any human doctor. But missing a malignant tumor 0.0001% of the time is unacceptable

Those probabilities are way off given biology, but anyway ...

The interesting cases of AI in radiology would be being able to catch stuff that a human has no hope of catching.

For example, a woman with lobular (instead of ductal) breast cancer generally doesn't present until mid-to-late Stage 3 (which limits treatment options) because those cancers don't form lumps.

You can stare at mammograms and ultrasounds all day and won't see anything because the "lumps" are unresolvable. You're trying to find a sleet particle in a blizzard. Sure, it's totally obvious on an MRI scan, but you don't want to do those without reason (picking up totally benign growths, gadolinium bioaccumulation, infections from IVs, etc.)

An AI, however, could correlate subtle, but broad changes that humans are really bad at catching. Your last 5 mammograms looked like this but there is just something a little off about this one--go get an MRI this time.
Then hold him accountable for any crimes he has committed. No amount of stealing money from fraudulent investments is going to solve or help convict him of war crimes.
People have no idea how quickly the house of cards can collapse. It’s a very dangerous path to juice profits by paying to be a default. Basically a self-made Ponzi scheme.
It's probably less this and more "if you only talk about one topic, then when we show your posts to similar users, they are more likely to like it"
Something I always keep in mind: the medical field is one where the provider gets paid no matter the outcome.

You notice nobody in the field advertise their success rates or makes any firm commitments...
You don't think anyone should ever steal? What about a partisan group opposing an occupation? Is it allowable to steal weapons from the aggressor's depot, or must they remain moral? At what point is stealing permissible?
> I feel like centralized social media is a blessing and a curse.

This is what makes Mastadon interesting. I'm not using it, but a lot of people I pay attention to are.
For a college graduate, that is the starting point. Test results are supposed to signal that the person can learn new things. While a fresh graduate needs a lot of supervision, they should quickly become more capable and productive.

For a language model, test results are the end. They are supposed to measure what the model is capable of. If you need better performance, you must train a better model.
Had a great encounter with this recently!

In an environment I work there's multichannel audio recordings that are archived. The archival recordings all had a perfect 4kHz tone appearing, seemingly out of nowhere. This was happening on every channel, across every room, but only in one building. Nowhere else. Absolutely nothing of the sort showed up on live monitoring. The systems were all the same and yet this behaviour was consistent across all systems only at one location.

The full system was reviewed: from processing, recording, signal distribution, audio capture, and in room. Maybe there was a test gen that had accidentally deployed? Nope. Some odd bug in an echo canceller? Also no. Something weird with interference from lighting or power? Slim chance, but also no. Complete mystery.

When looking for acoustic sources there was an odd little blip on the RTA at 20kHz. This was traced back to a test tone emitted from the fire safety system (ultrasonic signal for continuous monitoring). It's inaudible to most people and will be filtered before any voice-to-text processing so no reason for concern. Anyway 20kHz is nowhere near 4kHz though so the search continued.

The dissimilarly of 20kHz and 4kHz is true, until you consider what happens in a non-bandwidth limited signal. The initial capture was taking place at a 48kHz sampling rate. It turns out the archival was downsampling to 24kHz, without applying an anti-aliasing filter. Without filtering, any frequency content above the Nyquist 'folds' back over the reproducible range. So in this case a clean 24kHz bandwidth signal with a little bit of inaudible ultrasonic background noise was being folded at 12kHz to create a very audible 4kHz tone.

It was essentially a capture the flag for signals nerds and a whole lot of fun to trace.
Myfitsta (Social media fitness platform)
Mid sized cities in the region are very habitable, diverse, and reasonably priced. Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Lansing, Green Bay, Springfield, etc. The big cities are harder but still better than the coasts, $$ wise. I think Milwaukee is reasonable, though.

Diversity will vary a lot. The manufacturing cities are pretty diverse: My city is about 60 percent white and 40 percent POC.

They do lean more towards 'working class' liberal than 'professional' liberal. More 'rah rah unions' and less Ibram Kendi. Though if you're in a university city or capital, both are decently represented. If you meant other than racial, I haven't had a problem being gay in any of those areas since the mid-00s and a lot of those cities have small but thriving immigrant populations and the cities are small enough that there is political diversity coming in from the burbs/rural areas.

I feel like those areas are more diverse than the big big cities I have lived in. (Boston, Seattle, Vancouver).
MYFITSTA is a social fitness platform that is changing the way people think about fitness. It is a platform that allows anyone to buy and sell programs. it helps you achieve your fitness goals, by surrounding you with a supportive community.
Do you ever think about why you’re probably a 100x programmer, is it just working memory and pure intelligence or some strategy or tactics that make you so good at this. Asking for a friend :-)
I really wish the article would name the spokesperson who claimed "We’ve upheld our jobs commitment," when it clearly goes against Legere's testimony.
> It has seriously disrupted our lives in every way imaginable

I assume this is one of those things that changes dramatically based on where you live—for me (western US), this statement seems almost comically exaggerated.
No, Federal prisons aren't subject to parole or supervised release. There are limited credits for good behavior that max out at 15% of her sentence so the best possible outcome for her is serving 9 years and 7 months of her 135 month sentence. She won't be out of prison before 2033.
The original redditors are the boomers of HN. The crowd has changed quite a bit though. Still lots of good stuff on there.
In my more complicated personal projects, I'll usually do this in comments in the code. Basically pseudocode to just expand out and then I'll either write things in between the comments that actually add the functionality or I'll just leave it at the top as a kind of "this is what this iteration does" because I'll also frequently complete an idea and then I'll have some other idea with it that requires refactoring and I'll make my second file etc!
Ablain, "Uncertainty in Satellite estimate of Global Mean Sea Level
changes, trend and acceleration", p4

They have shown that there was a drift in the GMSL record over the period 1993-1998. This drift is caused by an erroneous on-board calibration correction on TOPEX altimeter side-A (noted TOPEX-A). TOPEX-A was operated from launch in
October 1992 to the end of January 1999. Then TOPEX side-B altimeter (noted TOPEX-B) took over in February 1999 (Beckley et al., 2017). The impact on the GMSL changes is -1.0 mm/yr between January 1993 and July 1995, 120 and +3.0 mm/yr between August 1995 and February 1999, with an uncertainty of ±1.7 mm/yr (within a 90%CL, (Ablain, 2017)).
Why is it ok to touch the tungsten to the silver, when it isn't ok to touch it to steel?
An internet with less surveillance could be possible. This is how
Ominous... Care to elaborate?
After controlling for what are probably the most important factors, there's a correlation in something. Is that even meaningful?
+1 for Kagi. It's been my default search engine since Jan '22 and I'm very happy with it. On the rare occasions when I use Bing or Google I'm reminded all over again why I'm happy to pay for search.
You can use whatever you want, sanctions don’t affect that. What you can’t do is paying money to sanctioned entities.
Funny enough my country was starving under communism but we are living in plenty under capitalism. Since I lived under the alternative and I have seen its evilness, I will take capitalism any day - the very system that allowed and incentivized us to create those resources you are eyeing in the first place.

As for greed, I have yet to meet a person more greedy than the ones claiming to know where to direct those scarce resources they did not create, if only we’d give them the power to do so. Such high morals too, unlike those "morally bankrupt" capitalists who greedily built businesses, jobs, countless goods and services to only enslave us and enrich themselves, obviously.
She is too famous and/or isn't rich enough to do this.
Python Monorepo: An Example. Part 1: Structure and Tooling – Tweag
There is a huge range, parts of Boston and the NYC suburbs that extend into CT might compete with San Francisco on astronomical prices (and real estate market absurdities) and parts of Maine will compete with anywhere in the US for cheapness.

The average is not as meaningful here because there are places all along the scale (except in Boston, again, kind of crazy there, but there are commutable suburbs with fairly reasonable prices).

No place is going to have the same diversity, fun, or nice weather like San Francisco. Certainly not in New England. That why it sounds like studios are going for $2500 or more there and I have a 3bed2br house for less than half that here.

The cool thing is I'm 15 minutes from downtown Worcester, 45-60 to Boston and Providence, and 2.5 hours to NYC. I find that I get out in one city or another about as often as people who live there, but am also able to take more trips internationally because I'm not spending a fortune on housing. But if you're the kind of person who really is taking full advantage of what a place like San Francisco has to offer then it probably does make sense to live there.
Holmes was charged with a federal crime and there is currently no parole for federal crimes. [0] She will do almost all of the 11 years. There is a good conduct reduction, which caps out at 54 days a year, so it's possible she could get out in 9 1/2 years. [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_parole_in_the_United_S...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time#:~:text=Good....
If I can make convincing messages based on the structure and swapping around pieces of data, then it sounds like I got past the encryption well enough to have a partial understanding of the plaintext.

Like when you encrypt an image in ECB mode: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Tux_ECB....
For almost all technical queries, I've found GPT-4 to be vastly superior.

Most of the time, my search queries are just to find websites. Like I'll search for "[movie] rotten tomatoes" or "[book] wiki".

I've found duckduckgo to be a good enough replacement for Google for such queries.
Arthur or Harvey?
It was an interesting example and maybe deserved a few more caveats to actually serve the point. After all, we've all heard a fire alarm of some sort in the past year (if not the past month) but how many were actual fires? (Technically the author said smoke which helps but not really.)

Where I was expecting the author to go:

- Clearly was talking about residential smoke detectors, not commercial. That could have been explicit.

- Smoke detectors do have a high false-positive rate but almost always at the right time. A home smoke alarm going off while I'm cooking is quite different to a smoke alarm going off when I'm sleeping. To the author's point, there are very few false positives while I'm sleeping so when they happen, I'm getting up.

Speaking of the commercial context, I wonder what sort of businesses would get a lot of false alarms and how that varies across industries.
The other option is global collapse of civilization thanks to resource and energy crunches!
how does that address the point that committing crimes against bad people is still bad? if you start to make exceptions for people you don't like you're just flushing the whole Enlightenment "let's stop persecuting Protestants/Catholics when they're not in power" thing down the toilet.
Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4 [video]
How much better could the memory profile really be if they’re using the same rendering engine?
Oh, you can guarantee, huh? Wow, guess that settles it then.
> wild west that was IRC in the 90's.

There was tons of /kick and /ban there too...
I never thought it would happen. I thought surely she would be deemed too pretty, too smart, or something, and not go to jail. I do not believe she thinks she did anything wrong
Tick-Borne Disease Passive Surveillance Database
>if an act is a crime in multiple states (which is possible), you can be charged and punished separately by each state

For the California three strikes law, am I correct in guessing all three strikes have to be in the state of California, or can 1-2 of the earlier strikes be in another state?

If the former is true, is the optimal choice after 2 strikes to leave California permanently (other than ceasing criminal activity of course)?
> turbinate reduction / deviated septum surgery

I had this too, and it did nothing at all for me - except I now have a permanently numb spot on the top of my nose.

Surgeries are a massive source of profit in the US. I'd recommend getting multiple medical opinions (preferably from the surgeons who don't own multiple yachts) before doing any kind of surgery.
Her baby daddy's family owns a luxury hotel chain, so presumably she wouldn't have to work.

https://www.evanshotels.com/
There is a system called Faster Payments in the UK, which is "near instantaneous" between the UK banks which participate (most of them offering current accounts as far as i know).

But it is a permanent and final transfer, no easy charge backs like with a credit card, or fraud protection from debit cards.

You have to know which account you are paying into (sort code and account number), which is the main part of what Visa/Mastercard do. They are the layer in front of the bank account which means customers don't have to send money directly to an account.

I suppose now everyone has a smart phone it would be easier to hook up something like Faster Payments in a user friendly way with an app and a QR code/NFC reader that the merchant has. But Visa/Mastercard are entrenched obviously.
I am in exactly the same position, if our experience are the same though at least we aren't burned out anymore. I am uncertain what the next move is though. The timing indeed couldn't have been any worse lol.
If I used the preferences of commenters here as a basis to make investments I’d lose all my money pretty quickly.
Maybe this is a dirty secret about Japanese: it's often necessary to basically ghostwrite sentences to go to/from English, because direct word-for-word substitutions won't make sense.

GPTs don't seem to do that, and as far as my exposure to them(<3.5) goes, they don't seem to understand what I'm talking about.
> The moment you persist to your queue you can ack back to the client.

Relational databases also have this feature.
You’ll have to forgive them, they’re probably trained mostly on HN posts. ;)
You... really have no idea how to read that graph, do you? Or what a lagging indicator is, I'm guessing.

The fact is - we can see the rate of change of the sea levels start changing in the mid-90s, though the graph you're using compresses the Y-axis to minimize how obvious that is (deliberately, I'd say, given the source).

Which, given its a lagging indicator of the result of rising CO2, makes sense it would happen after.

So, even accounting for the dishonesty of the presentation (and make no mistake, it's VERY dishonest) it actually demonstrates the exact opposite of what you claim.
Lattice Problem
> When the system was created we didn't have the same ability to authenticate cardholders that we do today

The problem is that for any of the new security features of cards to drive any of those kinds of changes the old mag-strip style of card authentication has to be deprecated and removed - which is likely not going to happen in the next 20 years.

Visa and Mastercard (and the layers between them and the merchant) have tried pretty hard to apply financial pressure (extra fees) to promote chip-only transactions and it still hasn't stopped mag-stripe from reigning supreme.

We're basically in an IPv4 and IPv6 situation in the payment industry =/
Perhaps they will have improved the product in a few months. I'm sure they're collecting a lot of feedback.
Being on the run is not exactly the same thing as living in some 10 million dollar mansion in some non-extradition country.

What would the feds be willing to pay for her? Snowden got asylum so some minor power could piss off and show up a geo-political rival. She would just gift 1 million dollars to some king who would just claim that she was not in his county when America came asking for her extradition.
The condo you buy with 30% of your net is going to be worth 30% or more later. That's a good investment.

Musk spent 30% of his net worth on it then immediatly burned 90% of the already questionable value it had.

What Musk did was just bad business.
how does that help if you still have to have a DB tracking status? you still need the same order-of-magnitude of DB throughput
For the majority, also not dangerous to the unvaccinated. Most of the time people use numbers for paralytic polio (death rate of like 20% IIRC) and just call it "polio", which is completely wrong and misleading. The actual numbers for polio in general: https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/index.htm

* 72% of infections are asymptomatic

* 25% of infections are flu-like

* 3% of infections result in something serious (not just paralysis)

* Between 1 in 200 and 1 in 2000 infections (0.5% to 0.05%) result in paralytic polio (which includes weakness, not just fully paralyzed limbs)

Polio is scary because of the visibility of the survivors in that 0.5%, but as a proportion of the population the vast majority of the population won't get that (and polio infects by ingestion, so on top of all this making it less visible, clean food and good hygiene can also prevent infection).
If you follow any artists or writers or similar on Twitter you'll note that the biggest reason most of them cite for being there is because they have a conversational community that feeds into support for their art.

Substack has a perfectly good mechanism for publishing (paid and unpaid) to support people, but that conversation is missing. It's a pretty obvious move if you are engaged with the overlapping users of Twitter and Substack, and has potential to peel a lot of people out of Twitter if they're primarily there to follow their favorite authors, showrunners, etc.
Unfortunately, there isn't a straightforward "therefore".

The default would be "therefore, we have to accept that very small numbers of people will be harmed for the benefit of the vastly greater number". Only the most diehard utilitarian would love that.

A better answer is "therefore, we need to radically alter the polio strategy, which will be expensive and difficult but would prevent those 15 cases, and maybe eventually eliminate it entirely. Oh, and we don't know how to do it". That makes the diehard utilitarians grumble, and everybody else cranky.
> 11 years playing golf

Not quite sure there's a golf course there. Here's an overview of the same jail a "real housewives of salt lake city" is in.

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/7141761/jen-shahs-pris...

"It’s unclear why Shah asked to serve at that specific prison but People says other notable inmates who have been sent to the Bryan camp have included Hidalgo County, Texas, Commissioner Sylvia Handy; Jenna Ryan, who participated in the January 6 Capitol attack; and Lea Fastow, a former assistant treasurer at Enron."

https://www.kbtx.com/2023/01/08/reality-tv-star-wants-serve-...

I wonder if the buildings have A/C. Summer in Texas can be pretty hot
The last “civilization-ending technology” – atomic energy – has been the subject of intense governance and extreme care on behalf of its engineers, Russell said. Even less charged technology fields, like aviation, are meticulously regulated. AI should be, too, he said.

It is hard to conceive there could be successful regulation of this space. Atomic energy has a very high barrier to entry due to the physics involved.

AI is already available at consumer level and with the predicted power increase of computing power, if we reach AGI it will likely be in the hands of everyone.

And the best we can do is only a high level conceptual plan of "alignment" for which nobody can actually define that has no real science behind it as of yet. Additionally, I would if there is anything almost provable, it is the fallacy of the alignment theory is itself a paradox, which I describe in more detail here.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap