skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the garage door bit, yes I actually did confirm this.

With that said, was certainly hearing all sorts of things that I didn't know what they were, typically very low frequencies. Another comment mentioned my own heartbeat which I could hear, and I couldn't go into work for a few days due to how painful and distracting ambient noise was.

For the duration of the period I was wearing noise-canceling airpods, and it was the only way trucks passing by outside wouldn't make me wince.

No history of psychiatric issues fwiw, but have had my share of ENT irregularities (I can't properly equalize while diving, for example).
Yeah. I went from various cheap irons to an equally cheap Yihua station, and it's such a quality of life improvement. You don't have to try to fight a too-short cord that's about to pop out of the socket, and the station is a good place to stick a durable rest for the iron that's much heavier than the stupid little stands they sell with pencil irons.
Ah, sorry. Didn't know how far back you were reaching.

The easy-to-remember alternative would be if (a) you got credits for your AP classes for specific college courses and (b) the faculty was not impressed with your results.
Biggest in gaming history? What about Axie Infinity?

https://rekt.news/ronin-rekt/

(Not in-game or specific to the one game, but thought it was worth mentioning just because of the sheer size, and that it probably benefited North Korea. It still boggles my mind…)
Is that a bright idea?
I have used pwsh in depth in the past. 4-5 years ago when I was exclusively Windows, doing SharePoint, AD, Azure, etc. Also local utility scripts.

I have used bash in depth over the past year, I maintain the local dev cluster tooling at work (because nobody else wants to, see: bash). It's about 2kloc of pretty advanced bash.

While PowerShell is a terrible language, piping around text (or rather, let's face it, JSON) is objectively worse. I do feel more productive with the Bash language/syntax, but I have no faith in any code that I write. Bash is littered with footguns and odd behavior.

I have been learning nushell recently and have been greatly enjoying it. You get to pipe around structures, while avoiding the obnoxious PowerShell syntax. As an example from today, I was double-checking that some envars made it into a container image:

skopeo inspect ... --format json | from json | each { |x| $x.Env }

Now that's certainly possible with bash and jq, but I'd probably be leaning on Google even after 1000s of hours of maintaining a bash behemoth.
Audit Logs Wall of Shame
Part of what's extremely frustrating about talking to people about AI is that people say things which seem like they understand what's going on in one breath, and then in the next breath say something that makes absolutely no sense if they understood what they just said. This post is a great example of that.

Okay, so you apply epistemology to ChatGPT: when you ask ChatGPT a question, how does it know the answer? The answer is: it doesn't know the answer. All it knows is how people string words together: it doesn't have any understanding of what the words mean.

So no, it can't use the Socratic method on itself or anyone. It can't ask questions to stimulate critical thinking, because it's incapable of critical thinking. It can't draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions, because it doesn't have ideas or underlying presuppositions (or suppositions). It's not even capable of asking questions: it's just stringing together text that matches the pattern of what a question is, without even a the understanding that the text is a question, or that the following text in the pattern is an answer. "Question" and "answer" are not concepts that ChatGPT understands because ChatGPT doesn't understand concepts.
That is, funnily enough, precisely the point.
Umm...are you sure? Are you sure the LSD triggered "permanent psychosis"?
I think the card games here have multi-player options:
https://cardgames.io/
> There was some protection in the fact that it was prohibitively expensive to get someone to listen to every single one of our phonecalls/read all our emails/etc.

That's already how it worked on platforms like mturk and uhrs, lots of the work was transcribing audio dumps from microphones built into computers/phones/smart home devices. UHRS especially had a lot of that (it's owned by MS) as well as search engine grading type work. They also certainly do not pay well, I'd imagine that in practice there isn't much cost difference to paying a bunch of bored people to do it vs the compute cost for running an AI model to do it, but the AI model will be vastly more accurate and will work 24/7.
Great to see this tech and the money invested in it being used to take low-paying jobs away from people with limited options, instead of something like drug discovery or cancer biology.
GPT-4 provides little protection against leaking system prompts
What sandbox MMOs do you like more?
I've tried a bunch of the "entry" fountain pens, but I agree, the Liliput is my favorite by far. It fits my hand a lot better than the Pilot Metro / ECO / Lamy Safari, and it writes so consistently how I expect it to. Only real downside is smaller ink capacity, but it's still been a convenience upgrade overall.
I had no idea that some pens are way better than normal ballpoints for writing checks. They have another whole article on the best pens for that:

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Pens-for-Writing-Check...
For those who missed it back in the day (this is from 2018): the guys who wrote this later created the Tailwind css library.

The book/website is one of the major reason why Tailwind was so successful.
Isn't this company's business model completely shattered by ChatGPT?
But that's not an NLP problem at heart. Language is just a collections of tokens (words, letter) that are tied together by certain rules to convey some meaning. There is no concept of reality per se.

For example, consider filling the blank:

A giant ______ flew over my head!

It can be a plane. Or a dragon. Or an UFO. Or a balloon. The thing is all of those are correct answers language-wise and the model works correctly as long as what gets filled in conforms to the rules of the given language.

The language that we generate encodes reality to some extent and the model picks up those correlations but there is no concept of reasoning or reality behind it. Maybe it is emergent at some point (as to effectively compress it needs to encode some subset of rules governing our reality) but it is not an agent that optimizes for understanding our reality. Something like Dreamer would be much closer to that.
Yeah to me it's less that it's dead and more that it's clearly not sustainable without a new business model. Blue is a total flop, and you can tell from the ads they're running now that their ad revenue must be way down. And they needed to grow revenue significantly after the acquisition because of the debt structuring, but it seems like a certainty they've done the opposite.

So it's not that it's dead today, but how long can they make it like this?
Late reply, but yeah the delays in switching inputs is pretty mind boggling. Especially when you need to do it straight on startup - it's SO sluggish on my 6 year old Samsung.

If the remote had hard coded input buttons instead of all the ones I never use, I'd be very happy indeed.

(Swapping between an Xbox and the HTPC).
this is why we have things like shareholder proxies and annual general meetings IRL
"by indigence and unaware butchers"
The way of speaking here is,
with the chosen words and ornament, the author's place in his own personal and whimsical world, the simple context in which it occurs - iron - water -
And the summary may be incomprehensible.
Which, in the beginning, in a forest, flowers, smelling them - think of it as phrasing a paragraph in one sentence -
At this point, the author, without being aware of the words he uses and the way he thinks, actually reflects a personality to the society within his own illusion. This is a disaster for a true writer.
The author is actually pulling himself and his surroundings into a whirlpool, with the mistake of supporting the flow of his thoughts, the elite stance he is trying to gain in the society with the ornaments of the words and sentences he has formed.
Yes, no matter how pointless it is to continue this,
At these points, we can't call it abstraction, it's a fancy salad. Eating, assimilating and digesting this food can be a real waste of time. Because the awareness in the word children and flowers is perhaps a reflection of the awareness in his intellectual journey in his own old and tired world.
Yes, it can be a community, a desire to create a caste-like class and take office if necessary. Or not understanding an authority.
Right after you buy.
> Even california with all it's problem has enough capacity if there was better scheduling available to help flatten the curve.

I don't think so. Not enough power. I am in CA. Power problems are already serious enough.

Scheduling is one of those things that sounds great on paper. What do you think are the chances of people who do not own EV's having any interest in being regulated to help people buying $50K to $120K cars? Less than zero.

Also, power problems are guaranteed. This isn't theoretical and one can't wave it away with concepts such as scheduling. Tesla's Master Plan Part 3 explains that we have to go from 1,200 GW of power generation today to 5,338 GW for full electrification. That, again, cannot be waved-off with scheduling. Even half of that cannot be solved by shuffling cards. The problem is real and power generation has to come ahead of electrification.

I am not saying we need to double power generation five years before adding electric cars. No. What I am pointing out is that we are putting the cart before the horse.

CA says no more ICE vehicles after 2030 (I forget the year, I think that's right). That's 7 years from today. And yet, we did not simultaneously announce immediate projects to add power generation and delivery in support of the new vehicles to be sold starting in 2030.

How long does it take to add non-trivial power generation? Decades?

Somewhere around TWO MILLION new cars are sold in CA per year. The grid and power generation isn't ready for two million electric cars added every year starting in 2030. Those projects had to be launched three years ago, not five years from now.
>Merkel and Macron admitting the Minsk agreements were used to buy time for CIA and British to arm rebels since 2014 was big story.

You don't mean "rebels" (who were/are in fact simply Russia proxies), you mean the other side, Ukraine.

Not sure what percentage of all arms delivered to Ukraine has come after February 2022, but it must be well north of 90%. So apparently all these plans to secretly and slowly arm Ukraine amounted to nothing, and it was the invasion itself that triggered the flow of arms. Some dastardly plan.

BTW always love the not-at-all-loaded use of "admitted".

>Large amounts of money the US has supplied Ukraine and lack of oversight to where this is going

These are the kind of fact-free notions that seem to start their life in the TuckerCarlsonVerse and spread outward from there. Just saying there's "lack of oversight" does not make it so, particularly when there's plenty of oversight by the US gov't. In fact, oversight is one reason why the buildup of weapons supplies (in terms of quantity and weapons systems types) has been so gradual. The US wanted to make sure Ukraine's army knows what to do with the stuff and won't leave on the field of battle so that it ends up arming the enemy, like the Afghans did.

>(the total US aid now surpasses Russia’s entire military budget per year).

That's completely meaningless. Russia's military budget pays for many times more personnel and weapons systems than the equivalent number as part of the US military budget, because the purchasing power of, say, $1 million is vastly different when it's spent by the Pentagon in the US, paying US prices and employing Americans, or by the Russian MOD, paying Russian prices and employing Russians.
The big downside with Nostr is it’s not built on the web. With blogs and webmention the feeds are websites. And there’s already a huge ecosystem for blogs. I’d prefer people build on that instead. Especially if the end result is more or less the same: blogs with comments.
Using Eleventy to Generate Static Websites
From what I gather chatting with coworkers, Turbo C and Turbo C++ are still widely used in schools and universities across India.
> 1920 Hz in my case

How do you measure that?
my recent forays into fountain pens (daily driver for 3+ years) haven't resulted in the smearing or tearing that riddled my fountain pen experiences of my youth.
With regard to privacy, what’s the difference between your email’s text stored on a server, and your email’s text alongside the output of the text processed through a LLM? If “they” can already look at the text, what more privacy is there to lose?
It seems uncommon for one group to strike on behalf of another group. Pragmatically that seems very unlikely to happen even if theoretically possible. Policy level changes seem more likely to me.
I'm a singing bass player myself (not in a class with Geddy Lee) and I don't get the joke either.
How valuable do you think Mind mapping to Software testing?
We all know that mind mapping is useful for organizing logic and divergent thinking, but is it also useful for software testing? How useful is it?
A thousand times yes!
> I’d have to see your coworker’s post to really know if it was hate speech.

You sound like the guy from the shoe factory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_qsAAe1c
It's still pseudoscience. Some remedial massage and stretching and exercise techniques they do may happen to help, but the rigorous scientific medical disciplines for that kind of thing comes under physiotherapy, orthopedics, etc.

An astrologist could tell me the passage of Jupiter indicates I should maintain a healthy weight and exercise, and while they don't really believe in the kooky theories I should still take the advice. It is good advice and it would help my health if I follow it, and it might work for me and I might be happy. That doesn't mean astrology is a legitimate practice or that I should recommend other people seek out astrologers for their health issues.
> What I don't understand is why a couple of the higher quality tractor companies have not started pushing hard to brand "we support repair" and having available online manuals and software to support this. This seems a perfect marketing/product platform for an underdog that also believes this.

My understanding is basically all high-capital machinery makes a _lot_ of money from support contracts and repairs.

I think there is an idea to do something like this anyways, but it legit feels like something that needs to happen out of the goodness of your heart because you _are_ just leaving money on the table.
In this case it is academic research released to the public, which is why anybody knows about it. This is a fairly good thing compared to any alternative I can think of.
I'm curious: is there any correlation between the perceived spiciness of a blend and the taseer, or is the designation based moreso on observations on when it is appropriate to eat them (e.g., someone noticed that it was better to eat something in winter, or people tended to eat something in winter and so designated the spice as having high taseer)?
SympyGamma: A SymPy Version of Wolfram Alpha
Better would be to eminent domain it, auction it at rates of appropriate economic value and ban water exports outside the states.

All these half measures are no better than doing nothing.
Rescuing a Project in Progress
Thanks, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for! I was even considering writing a Plasma widget myself because I couldn’t find anything. So far I’ve been using gddccontrol as it’s been the most reliable, but the UX isn’t the best.
> In this case it is academic research released to the public

That's going to be the exception, not the rule. The benefits from automating crowdwork will disproportionately accrue to corporate profits.
Even smaller nit-pick: it would have to be some combination of 'small screen size' and 'vertically-orientated' rather than just 'small screen size' :).
The terrible idea is only having an algorithmic feed. If you always offer the user the option to not use it and instead have a feed they can control, then it’s a non issue
Seriously? I think "AWS exists" is self-evident enough to almost be a tautology. It's a hugely successful business whose business is making tools that make it easier/faster/cheaper to build and scale software and internet products. If that doesn't prove how much easier it is now to build the technology of Twitter, I'm genuinely curious if you could present a hypothetical set of facts that would actually be convincing to you.

ETA: I want to be careful to say that it's not "lol easy peasy" to build Twitter, but that the question "How likely would an investor be to pass on your Twitter clone startup because they thought the technology couldn't be built by your team with their investment?" is laughable, possibly even if the founding team is non-technical. With $5m, anyone competent enough to even file a YC application could hire a good enough technical consultancy to get a Twitter clone that scales to millions of users.
200,000 wafers per month is a lot of GPUs.
Couldn't it also potentially be a side-channel for crypto breaks, depending on how it's implemented? If I'm reading it right they're advising that it should be as accurate as possible, which is also what makes a good side channel.
FIRE. If you’re working in American tech, especially in the VHCOL areas, there’s absolutely no excuse to not be saving and investing a significant (arbitrarily >>30% of gross pay) amount of your income. Don’t go overboard on the spending and lifestyle inflation. None of this means you have to live a miserly life; instead, you’re preparing ahead such that you don’t have to worry about being solely dependent on whatever future government handout (UBI, SS, etc.) exists along with everyone else. And hey, if this whole AI thing doesn’t pan out and we’re all still working, then your life is all the better anyway being financially independent.

Perhaps the one counter to this is that a future where AI can displace large swaths of knowledge workers is one where the economy and, by extension, your investments become disrupted in a negative way. But that seems unlikely.
I don’t really understand why you’d ask this. The point is to save as many lives as possible.
How sure are you about that? The basic theories have been around since the 70s, have been proven at scale in the last decade, and the NSA has more data and compute than anybody else. I’d be shocked if they aren’t very far along in solving many problems.
On a quick read this seems like another name for Change Data Capture. In general the pattern works better if you can integrate it with the database's transaction log, so then you can't accidentally forget to publish something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_data_capture
What would you do with the kit? Replace other parts in other phones and start a business? Aren't you still beholden to Apple for authenticating the part to the phone every time?
If you look at the table, the GPT-4 model has better correlation with the expert ensemble than the crowd does, but only on some criteria. The GPT-4 model is closer for all of the ethics questions, but the crowd is closer for the utility level and economic impact questions.
GPT Automator
> the button literally just says "Tap to..."

*taps button*

*Satan appears and claims my soul along with all my firstborns*

It's good to have a little mystery and excitement in life!
From reading the paper, GPT-4 also outperformed the researchers themselves in many categories, despite the researchers being the ones who created the dataset being used to perform the comparison.

In other words, the metrics are biased in the researchers’ favor — so GPT-4 would have beat them even more often (probably a majority of the time based on the numbers), if someone else had created the guidelines and golden labels.
Would love to access a text-only version of this.
Yes, it has. Consumer-wise, we've had Dragon Naturally Speaking since the late 90s. It's pretty simple to have a script read what it outputs text-wise and look for key words. No AI is even needed to do this.
Hmm, ya know after thinking about your reply… I could see there being a way of executing TW that increases the chances of higher quality FE—-and probably make refactoring safer and more systematic to boot.

Unfortunately, I haven’t experienced this :/ (yet)
This is totally a tangent, but after all this time, I'm surprised someone hasn't engineered plumbing systems that don't clog as often. Toilet and sink (esp. in bathrooms, because of hair) clogs are still commonplace. We could use some kind of self-maintaining plumbing systems.
I’d argue that one of the reasons Tesla and SpaceX are successful is not just because Elno is a “visionary” (or functional equivalent). It’s because he was/is supported by a cadre of “true believers” (eg that we must disrupt the auto industry in order to do something radical about climate change). Those true believers (like all true believers), are willing to put up with lots of strange behaviour in the name of that belief.

Twitter on the other hand was bought with a management layer that could fairly be characterised as the opposite of true believers in whatever Elon is selling. Hence the implosion.
Yes but you can get GPT to write structured queries based on natural language. It works very, very well at turning normal phrases into SQL.
Most people don't know that the Amazon stores have counterfeits and they don't care because they will almost never actually get one. I place close to 100 orders a year and have yet to receive a single counterfeit product, or at least, one that substantially differed from the product advertised.
I’m guessing they are, and have been, for a while.
Just this week I bought some J. Herbin Perle Noire ink for my Muji Fountain Pen. I loved the shopping experience on JetPens and the reviews were comprehensive.

As for the Muji, loving this thing. It's so great for math, it's saving my linear algebra grade.
Huh. TIL. The (Hindu) woman who taught me a few Indian recipes told me that the spices in garam masala were always pre-roasted, with the exception of the nutmeg.

Maybe it's a regional thing?
> Ezra Klein calls this “vetocracy”, rule by safety-focused bureaucrats whose mandate is to stop anything that might cause harm, with no consideration of the harm of stopping too many things. It’s worst in medicine, but everywhere else is catching up.

This really scares me. It seems like every important facet of American life that can be touched by increased, predatory, and superfluous litigation and regulation has. If we take Scott's word for it, this 'vetocracy' costs 10 000 lives a year due to IRB over-diligence, makes Bay-area housing completely unaffordable, reduces the quality of education, and so much more.

It really seems like our first priority as a nation should be to dismantle this 'vetocracy' and let researchers perform studies, and teachers teach.
@a4isms We probably just have very different streams, based on who we follow and what they retweet, etc. I follow a very small amount of strictly business / technology / economy as technical topics and cull if they strayed from that (as it was my intended use). I don't see the more broad universe of content many see on Twitter due to that curation.