skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two thoughts.

Are cold outbound calls really critical to your sales/marketing strategy? What is the goal of these calls and can you achieve it any other way? Even if the alternatives are somewhat less optimal, if they are more palatable you’ll probably do them more and be happier about it. You’ll be more motivated to do them. That upside could outweigh any downsides compared to cold outbound.

Second, if you really have to do them, just do them. Repeatedly. If they are really painful and you must do them do MORE of them, not less. Grind it out and see if your feelings towards them change over time. It may or may not. Regardless you’ll have gotten through a ton of calls in the meantime, and hopefully much closer to your overall goal.

Good luck!
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a pretty interesting sim!

Now, I just need to figure out how to find time to play it.
> The Guardian itself is biased to the left

I would describe The Guardian as being biased towards neoliberalism
This is a bit off-topic, but browsing through that subreddit, I've noticed that the quality of comments and posts is amazingly high. Not necessarily in terms of what each person is talking about, but just the style of prose and how well written each post is. It makes sense that a subreddit dedicated to writers would have well-written posts, but its interesting to see.
Yeah she had one of these too.
Thanks for TOFTT
If you define agi to be artificial and generally intelligent at the human level then yes we have.

It seems though that definitions of agi have since shifted to "better than human experts in all tasks" in which case no...not yet.
> I found that as search engines emulated natural language, their results got steadily worse

I would wager that that has not been the experience for the general population (read: non-technical people) and/or that degradation of results has not been because of emulating natural language but because of other factors (like advertising dollars).

Search engines have become incredibly more accessible for non-techies during the past 3 decades. Sure, even today a techie is usually able to coax higher quality results out of a search engine, but it's still a pretty recent advancement that an average Joe can just announce their question out loud and a device on the shelf will not only figure out what they are asking with a decent degree of accuracy, but it will also go search for something relevant, extract an answer, and then speak it back to the user in a pretty sensible way.

It is in this senses in particular that ChatGPT feels like a natural progression for search engines.
> Neutral changes aren’t costly on our users, so while we should be somewhat averse to wasting time and adding tech debt for neutral changes, it isn’t the end of the world.

While I think most of the points in the post are reasonable, I strongly disagree with the idea that neutral changes aren't costly. Some neutral changes are good because they are a part of a larger strategy or vision, but in my experience most neutral features are simply change for changes sake. Any reasonablely large company that ships all/most neutral tests is going to end up feeling like a bloated, unfocused mess.
Maybe they're confusing critical thinking with critical theory? That's an unfortunate near collision of names if there ever was one
Do the cabinets have those magnets or latches that have an annoying sound? Some people avoid the "hit" and leave them slightly ajar.
> does wire-wrapping even exist any more?

Yes! I gave it a try a few years ago and I am impressed.

It's faster, denser, and cleaner than soldering wires onto perfboard. Being able to rework by just unwinding a wire is great. I don't use proper wirewrap sockets, but it seems reliable for one-off hobby prototypes.
What is special about the big bang singularity that makes it different from the conventional black holes we have theorised?

Are we inside a black hole, but with time inverted?
It's true that fruit is heaps of carbs. But, in aggregate we probably eat less than we used to. and the veg component of carbs compared to potato is lower, if not zero. Spuds are 20%+ carbs by weight. green beans or fennel or cauli more like 7%. Carrot is 10%. Parsnip probably closer to a potato.

We upped the veg part of fruit and veg more than we upped the fruit part. Pulses too. Which of course are also carbohydrate rich, but with more protein.

Pasta indeed meant a lot of cheese and oil. It still does, but far less frequently. The mediterranean diet actually is ok with olive oil and cheese, oils ain't oils (the whole 'its just energy in: energy out thing is gross oversimplification. convert pasta or spuds to cold pasta and spuds, you get resistant starch, it becomes more beneficial for lower gut health)

Mainly now I just eat small portions of food my grandmother would complain didn't come with ration stamps or have enough salt in, but recognize, which is what Michael Pollan says counts: Hit your grandmother with it, and if she doesn't die and says its a carrot, its ok to eat.
> Originally earmarked to cost no more than $968 million, the Port authority was forced to pump an additional $18 million into the project in 2021, but now there are fears an additional $78 million will need to be found to address the gate layout design.

Wait, they're complaining about a potential *10%* cost overrun? They should drop by California, I've got a lovely HSR system to sell them. It won't cost a dollar over $33 billion, I swear.
For me, at Tue Apr 11 03:07:12 2023 UTC, 'www' and 'old' are both looking like I would expect 'old' to look like, that's got to be temporary ?

The 'new' looks a bit better than 'www' did when I last saw it so a bit of a win there.
The exact opposite. Im not asking why someone doesn't do the same as me. Being a founder is terrible choice financially, worse than being a startup employee. I'm asking why someone does something different than I did which is take below market rate to work for a startup.

We posted a job for a certain compensation, they applied to and accepted the job at that compensation. If they could make more money elsewhere I don't know if it's their fault for accepting our offer, but it was their choice.

I don't think they were signalling their inferiority. Some we paid above market to, some we paid below market to. People we paid below market to we try to increase their salary to match market.

We never sold any intangibles, and the only intangible we offer but don't advertise is we're very flexible with hours and it's low pressure environment.

At the end of the day these are not children but adults who need to do what's best for them. If our offer and job isn't what's best for them then they shouldn't have applied and accepted the offer.
Overlap isn't actually an issue. Overtime Anki will spread the cards out more so you don't see them together.
>self-driving cars could cooperatively pack/unpack themselves into space efficient configurations.

I've had this same thought, but haven't seen it discussed much.

Parking lots essentially switch from random access (which requires expensive unoccupied 'lanes') into a slowly snaking space-filling curve. Cars can crawl slowly from entrance to exit, moving like water through a pipe. The paths can even branch and merge to make efficient use of the entire surface area.

If you also want to charge the cars stored in the parking lot, your solutions fall into two broad categories:

1.) Arrange the parking lot with rows of chargers that automatically plug in. Cars choose the appropriate row based on state-of-charge, twith he algorithm making sure the entire row finishing charging at roughly the same time. This minimizes unnecessary disconnect/move forward/reconnect cycles. Or,

2.) put wireless charging under the parking lot. This would be a lot more feasible than electrifying large swaths of highway.

Personally I still prefer option 1, because the peak charging speeds can be much greater.
I really wonder what do the people in humanities consider “critical thinking”. Mathematics and formal proofs are the epitome of logical thought IMHO - while arguments in the humanities often don’t have the same level of rigor; nor are their p-tests as stringent as in the physical sciences. So what exactly is it that’s they think is missing from STEM?

Edit: Don’t just downvote. Explain. That’s what we are here for.
Isn’t that artificial super intelligence?
I don't think it's a fallacy to use imperfect information.

All information is imperfect.
This is really awesome work! Thank you for sharing, and good luck for what’s ahead. Several source files are referenced through the post (emu.c, emuC.c, emuJit.c, patchpace.c, etc.), but I could not find them. Where can these be accessed please?
The Experimental new Tracing Channel work is from Qard, one of the maintainers of the DataDog tracing library dd-trace-js.

I'm interested to know a little more. First read on the PR didn't immediately click for me.
Just watched the whole thing. Holds up surprisingly well! Mysterious charges on hospital bills are just as relevant today as in 1974.
Should we entertain unfalsifiable theories?
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A search engine that forces people to "sign-in".

There is a problem here and that is how to stop "users" from spamming the project with marketing garbage. If the "solution" is to collect more personal data from users, e.g., e-mail addresses, mobile phone numbers, multi-factor authentication, etc., as a prerequisite to even submitting a search query, then that is not a solution. It is an additional problem.

Assuming the project is collecting personal data from users, e.g., peoples' search queries, where is the agreement that governs what the project is allowed to do with that data. If there is no agreement, then presumably the project can do whatever it wants.

We can guess what happens next. Search engine as userdata-gathering exercise and commercial entity. Been there done that.
Big fan of Auto GPT but def not ready out of the box just yet. If anyone needs help with getting started I created a step by step guide: https://youtu.be/ka5VI7ay3uE
If the bus doesn't have right of way, it should be given it.

But "ticket both" would still be an improvement.
The evidence isn't that clear as I read it [1].
But who cares really, playing music is great.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-athletes-way/201...
you ever been a waiter?
Bookmark Beat: EP 14 Layoffs, links and a lot of new subscribers
Really does feel like a “doom loop” for San Francisco. Who will write the definitive book on how everything went downhill over the past 10 or so years? Michael Lewis would entertaining. Or maybe it’s a job for Matt Levine? Who else?
Congestion tax will solve that in a hurry
The amount of strength to draw an archery bow, and steady ones body, would be closely related to strength and VO2Max - with O2 being required for both muscle activity and holding ones breath. And curling is a highly phsyical sport, and for sweepers () its very similar to a full body sprint for each hurl.

There are plenty of metrics you can use to quantify someones atheletic capability, not least of which is your bodies ability to hold and transport oxygen.

() I don't know the technical term, but the point stands.
Decades? Centuries.
Plus they're often used by kids who might not have the body weight to give a good slam.
sell the diet and exercise plans people are supposed to use while taking glp-1 agonists
That Russian one goes beyond the jet engine and he actually builds a plane around it and flies it too. Highly recommended.
Thank you for that example. I've been thinking a lot about how difficult it is to persuade people to change their mind. Most people seem impervious to incorporating new facts or ideas into their internal narrative (myself included). ChatGPT has made me wonder if that is because much of what we consider "cognition" in humans is really just "human sentence predictors".

We've all been "trained" with various facts and when two people meet who have been trained on substantially different bodies of knowledge/facts/experiences it can be very difficult to find common ground.

FWIW, I asked ChatGPT to give me a short list of cognitive biases and psychological phenomena. Interesting to think how many of these are dependent on our personal "training data":

Confirmation Bias
Cognitive Dissonance
Anchoring Bias
Belief Perseverance
Groupthink
Ingroup Bias
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Motivated Reasoning
hmmm, but if you have two bushmen, one with a high IQ and one with a low IQ who will better survive. Or what if the most intelligent person in the Savanna was a bushman...So it depends on what you consider intelligence. Critical thinking is part of IQ testing and I would expect a wiley bushman to be good at critical thinking if he is going to survive.
If they make it to that far. A really offensive thing in this area is disposable vapes. The rechargable ones are this close to being reusable. Heck if you take them apart and put in juice, they are. But the sheer number of them that just get thrown in the trash, with their lithium-ion battery, is disgusting. I ask all my friends that vape to give theirs to me when they die, then I take them apart and bring the batteries to a recycler. Those things should be illegal on the basis of wasting lithium but I assume they're made in China which is where a good portion of the world's lithium comes from, so there's little chance thet'll change be stopped.
Well I hadn't yet thought about a possible outcome of driverless cars being better mass transit, that makes sense to me though. Once personal ownership is removed, and as atomicity is slowly reduced in exchange for efficiencies/cheaper rates to the customer, certaim areas would be analogous to mass transit.
US Government Stashes Billions of Pounds of Cheese in Missouri Caves
Are you me from a parallel universe? My wife does this, bless her heart.
I can assure you that I perfectly understand the bug and corresponding patch/fix. The patch fixes Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and how it allocates temp buffers.

The speculation about SQLite at the top of that Mozilla bug report is mostly irrelevant.
With the rate AI has improved over just the last year, I expect a lot of these problems to go from "impossible to solve" to "trivial" pretty quickly at some point within (pessimistically) the next 5 years.
Residential units primarily. Chicago has received $1.2B in proposals to convert office space to residential apartments, for example. I imagine you might be able to convert to hotels as well, but admittedly I have not yet done that research.
That's an argument that's pretty hard to justify. Most zoning rules with parking minimums attempt to meet peak demand for free parking. Subsidized free parking means that all the extra spaces are paid for by the business regardless of whether they're used. So the business (and thus the customer) is always overpaying for parking, compared to some hypothetical business with no free parking, but reimburses all market-rate parking for visitors and employees. Of course, that hypothetical business could only exist in a dense or very pedestrianized area, and not all businesses are suited to zero-parking.

The point I'd make is that mandating minimums of free parking is absurd: businesses and developers could instead decide how much parking they anticipate their business would need. They could come up with many creative solutions somewhere between the extremes of zero parking and plentiful free parking depending on the area. In most towns and cities across America, except for a few dense urban cores, we mandate one extreme and the result is higher prices for everyone (including the non-drivers, who get to help pay for all that unused parking as well).
Great. Now let’s have a pre-registered replication study.

Also, the article claims higher blood glucose in the LC group and I didn’t see that in my skim of the paper, nor what I was looking for, which is how the levels compare to healthy or optimal range.

I’m not a fanatic; I tried it and don’t like it, possibly for all the reasons mentioned here, but it has a very impartial feeling to it.
No idea where this is headed, but created a frontend for DALLE-2 where you can generate images with a single prompt, and download the image or print it to a canvas. The idea came from my brother wanting to do exactly this, and hang up art in his home. I have a canvas on the way that I'll be hanging up!
"Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%,[6] with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%.[7] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults. The heritability of IQ increases with the child's age and reaches a plateau at 18–20 years old, continuing at that level well into adulthood." [0]

You're denying settled science. Trying to tie it to the Bell Curve to assassinate the basic character of the science isn't tricking anyone. Pronouns in your profile only make this bad faith move easier to identify.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
(The wheel:) another way to custom actions for ChatGPT(or other LLMs)
I hope to convert some meaningful tasks into actual executable instructions while chatting with chatgpt, such as querying real-time weather, and then mixing it into the reply of chatgpt.
Well I am not too sure about that cheap easy calories as far as fat goes.. as far as the price yeah oils not too expensive but Meat is not cheap and meat is really the way you have to get most of the calories in fat... Easy to digest? Starchy carbs far and away the easiest
Easier said than done. Shopping on Amazon makes the cheap products look just as legitimate as the expensive products.
FTC fines supplement maker $600k for 'review hijacking' Amazon listings
Heh, I also have an NC2 Miata, and I don't drive it for 3-6 month periods, and it still starts on the first/second engine spin.

If the battery is over 3 years old, I would replace it and start anew simply because of the life/abuse it'd had so far.

And then I'd start at the obvious ones - radio, aftermarket radio, alarm, etc. You can literally put a multimeter along the fusebox to see what is pulling voltage after - but most likely it will be something along 12V connected switch.

Wiring isn't problematic, but if you have a hitch installed it may be wired to always be on.
> I plan to continue working on Mesa drivers for a long time

My guess is intel. Second is steam. Third is Amd.
> huge success... I'm still alive...

> valve?

But but ... does she said she's still fully alive or half-alive ?

(we can keep the joke alive too)
"there are no elephants in Germany" can mean "there are literally zero elephants in Germany" or it can mean "elephants are not endemic to Germany". Only the first excludes answers b and c. The latter does not. Language is often imprecise =)
This is not mutually exclusive is the thing.

Commonly, you will put a feature behind a feature flag, and roll it out locale by locale, or never.

You build a new feature that only works for a certain place, and you turn it on via a feature flag, and then you expand it to new places, also using a feature flag

I guess the question is when do you grant authorization? Before or after the feature has launched in a region?
I read Sanfransicko, and thought it was interesting (although not completely convincing). It did help me create a mental framework to understand what happened in North America as a whole while I lived abroad.

I definitely would be interested in seeing all of the missed opportunities and failures in prioritization; that would require a reflective insider, which seems unlikely in the near term future.
I mean, I clicked, but that title is not accurate =)
This "inner voice" idea reminds me of how LangChain works too, where you give it a task, and it comes up with actions, observations, thoughts, etc. For example: https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/agents/gettin...
Only 1,500 police in SFPD? How does this even work?

What's the minimum number of officers per capita in a major city?
Yeah, I think we're talking about different things (and per my comment, I didn't say that it was a search engine). I'm reasonably well aware of what it is and what it's made of; I'm talking about a mental model for understanding and predicting when and why it works well vs when it doesn't.

And what I've found so far is that when I place it in the same mental bucket as the interface to a modern search engine (not the search engine itself, but the interface for both input and output), it actually fits in pretty well there in many ways. Not in every way, of course, but things like the nuances of crafting prompts and how a scarcity or abundance of reference material affects its output.
Who would have thought optimizing for techies, implementing a monoculture of sorts, would be bad for a city.

I recall headlines of restaurants struggling to find cooks due to the cost of rent + commuting being too prohibitive for service workers of the city.

Who knows, maybe this "death-loop" is actually healthy for the longterm well-being of the city.
You wouldn't need a car if you lived in San Diego - it's the most bike friendly city in the US!
> it's been decades without any military reactor-related incidents

Excuse me, what? There are quite literally ongoing military nuclear reactor incidents at this very moment. The fact that they started decades ago is hardly a consolation.

This kind of wool-pulling makes it very hard to trust the pro-nuclear crowd. Maybe if we could manage to contain the waste we've already created (or at the very least if pro-nucs would admit we can't), I might have some faith in our ability to contain the waste we make in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Maybe the city could implement some sort of "Sanctuary District", a walled-off ghetto that is used to contain the poor, the sick, the mentally disabled, and anyone else who cannot support themselves. It would be right on schedule for 2024.
Science is but a tool for understanding what works and doesn’t work. It’s neither necessary nor complete for solving any specific problem. I have a few instances where I’ve used science to hack my own problems and it usually works if you are careful and methodical, but my result isn’t scientific and it’s only manifest in a sample of one. I can’t advertise it as a solution for everyone as it’s not science. But it doesn’t mean I’m anti science, rather, this is how theories and hypotheses start - not in a clean room with a pencil and paper extending known science with sterile logic. It’s having an insight that’s a bit crazy but you know enough science to support it, you try it out and holy smokes it works. Then you craft an experiment to prove it didn’t work, some similar well controlled construction. A personal example is I suffered from long covid. I knew that citrulline is a non essential amino acid that is a part of the nitric oxide cycle that is easily digested and metabolized into arginine in the kidneys. It’s got a lot of uses for exercise endurance, erectile dysfunction, but also sickle cell anemia. The popular misconception is the shape of the sickle cells can’t carry oxygen well but that’s false. In fact the symptoms are caused by the shape irritating the cells lining the blood vessels, and arginine is a vasoprotector and vasodilator that’s redirected to help heal the irritation leading to loss of energy systematically. I figured covid attacks and irritates the blood vessels maybe there’s something similar at play. Regardless, by juicing the NO cycle overall blood flow and energy levels increase. I checked with doctors and the body can consume large amounts of citrulline without consequence other than GI discomfort in large amounts. I got a bag of nutricutical grade citrulline from Amazon and within half an hour I felt great for the first time in a year. In a few months of daily dosing feel normal again. Maybe it was luck, maybe a placebo, maybe real. It doesn’t matter - it’s not anti-science, it’s proto-science
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510987