skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just bars and pubs, but restaurants too. As someone who wears hearing aids, the loud music makes meals out really socially awkward, since you can't hear conversations across or down the table. It's not helped by the lack of fabrics and other acoustic deadeners, presumably because they are hard to clean.
I wouldn't exactly call the USAGM the "relevant government bureau". Their purpose is to push US-biased news and media outside of the US. I see your point, and it's a bit iffy, but I'd rather judge on actions than reputation.
This is the 5th time I've seen this comment on HN. How did this misinformation start?!? CPI calculation includes housing. The BLS is very open about it.

Edit: misread GP as Housing COST. Not Housing PRICE

Housing Price is NOT included in CPI.

Housing Cost IS (via the OER)
Shouldn't that logic also apply to ==, which overloads the assignment operator (=) in the same way?
This was why I knew the metaverse was going to be a failure, it was clear as day there were business executives acting with so much self confidence about what the future of virtual experiences will be..... while ignoring the entire medium of designing virtual experiences and all of the collective wisdom learned from successes and failures.

It is like a successful painter annoucing a new revolutionary form of art that involves sounds arranged in time to create artistic experiences instead of paint on a canvas.
They screwed up by defrauding the investors, I don't think they would have gotten caught if they simply stuck to defrauding their clients.

I would ask the community here how common this kind of fraud is. Do companies inflate their ad display numbers or ad engagement numbers?
I didn’t make this up. It might seem like the same concept to you, but I assure you that any serious scholar, atheist or not, knows the difference.

It really has nothing to do with what you personally believe or not.

In your example the difference is that the rock effect is automatic, like gravity, but the god is a sentient being that has a will.

Why is it so hard to accept that people call these different things? You can still despise people who believe in both.
As a Westerner, this was my experience too when I tried roasting the spices, and I gave up on it after a bit.
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One of the reasons why I buy less software than ever before is because so much software isn't sold like that anymore.
If, and that’s a big if, the victim was able to trace the infection back to a charging port, then have the time, resources, and capability to debug the chips.

That’s all assuming the bad port wouldn’t have been removed, and video might just show regular “maintenance.”

Yeah, it’s all above and beyond, but I think it’s in the realm of possibility for a high level target (see: stuxnet et al)
There is something about this that seems unscientific. What defines an "ability"? It sort of feels like the Guinness-Book type records for "most laps done around the Washington monument with a duck on your head". Who is making up these ability tests and why?

As an example, I clicked through to "english russian proverbs" which gives the model an english input and four russian proverbs, and asks the model to pick the closest one in meaning. There are 80 of these questions. My question is "why this task? why 80? why 4 options?" The authors give some nonspecific reasoning in the github page, but it really feels like people are out there creating random tasks as they think of them, running them all against models, and the ones that do better get added to a list to make headlines like "137 emergent abilities of language models", when the number of abilities models can do seems dominated by the number of "abilities" that have been invented, rather than any property of the model. I suspect that if we continued to use the same process to create twice as many "abilities", we would see something like twice as many that models can do.

The fact that the models get better at these constructed tasks when they have more parameters also seems like a no-brainer. You are adding coefficients to a function. A function with 1 coefficient will not be able to describe much. A function with 2 describes more. If you are memorizing the internet, having more coefficients means you can memorize more stuff, and even stuff with only a few examples can be better-fit in the billions of parameters. With growing training set size, and companies hiding their data, we also run into the issue of nobody really knowing what is in the training set. Did someone clone the big-bench repository and it got sucked into a training set and that's why the model does really well on its tasks after a certain number of parameters?
Firstly ARM processors are simpler to produce, with simpler circuitry (RISC!), although the number of transistors tend to be similar between the two platforms.

Research costs are also very expensive for x86, with 2 vendors (Intel and AMD) competing savagely in many different markets such as high-end gaming, servers, ultrabooks and low cost PCs. However, ARM (the company) focuses on licensing the designs and instruction sets. So their research costs are split among many licensees while ARM focused on what it does best: designing chips.

That in turn translates into many vendors who can focus on improving manufacturing efficiency, procurement, logistics and sales. x86 vendors have a wild range of manufacturing lines to keep up.

Finally, the laws of supply and demand play a huge part. The ARM market is 2 orders of magnitude (!!) greater than x86 as far as raw number of processors shipped, ~370M vs ~32B chips in 2022.
This is an misunderstanding of how processes typically work for a couple of reasons. For one, it assumes the "cost of implementing better process for all carpenters is significantly higher". This may be the case for Tao, where he has limited control over the inputs, but probably not the case for the woodworking analogy, for a variety of reasons. You are essentially advocating for "rework" to fix problems which is considered a unnecessary waste in process design.

"Corposlowness" is just another name for "bad processes". It supports the claim rather than negates it. Using AI to overcome bad bureaucracy makes it a workaround, not an idealized process. What often happens when implementing workarounds rather than good processes is that the workaround can create bloat and waste of its own and overtime, not really fix the problem. Like hiring more administrators for a large organization, they can take on a life of their own, eventually becoming divorced from the problem they were intended to solve.

Again, I'm not saying that AI is misapplied in Tao's case. I'm just cautioning that it's not a panacea for bad processes. In many ways, it can be misused as a band-aid for bad processes, just like creating excess inventory is a band-aid for bad quality control.
I find the "human consumption" here funny, because it's the "human" part which led the author to turn to machines which can do it better.
So it has nothing to do with my situation? The feedback I received from recruiters is usually the classic "overqualified" speech.
I think the tricky part with innovation, is almost everything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost everyone. And as the tech or company progresses, more people look at it and think it's a good idea. If it were really obviously a good idea, there's no innovation, there would already be others doing it.

And this is in contrast to what YC likes to call tarpit ideas, because there are lots of ideas that look good but everyone who tries to tackle them fails for whatever reason.

So we can say metaverse was a bad bet for Facebook, but that's sort of looking in hindsight at the struggles that tech has and the unknown market. And it appears to be a big bet and lost.

But comparing to current state of AI, is sort of comparing to a different stage, where there is the beginning of an early majority seeing the progress and now seeing the excitement. But go back a couple of years, and more of us would be naysayers, talking about how bad the tech is, or various failure modes.
I think there’s a chance here to actually tell them the truth.

“This stuff is not studied to work. It is a placebo.” OP study says this can still be effective.
relevant krazam: https://youtu.be/BrQyMrmRBsk
They'll be aligned with those things as long as crypto is the "other" network where people go to do things you can't do with existing payment processors. Without a killer app to drive "normal" people it will stay this way.

It's the same reason why free-as-in-anarchy speech social networks become far right cesspools [1], you have little reason to switch unless you're someone who's been kicked off the major platforms.

[1] I really don't mean to pick on the right wing nutjobs, it's just that the "far left" doesn't exist in the US so you don't find groups pushing for violent worker uprisings, seizing control of industry, and significant wealth redistribution, I'm sure they would split off the mainstream too.
> Cryptocurrencies have one use: to evade regulation. As soon as that use disappears so will cryptocurrencies. Crime isnt a side-effect, it's the point.

Sometimes, HN appears to have the collective memory of a goldfish.

On HackerNews over the years, we've seen hundreds, maybe even thousands of sob stories from people like "X payment provider has locked my account and is not giving me access to my funds"

In every case, it's pointed out that crypto might be a way for people to reduce risk of this kind of thing happening.

Yet there's some people who continue to insist with a straight face that crime is the only conceivable use of crypto.
Their company could realize that giving them one would be a wise use of resources.
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I'm very curious to know who are the worst offenders! (If you can/want to share the details, obviously :) )
Hetzner also has cloud servers and an API to provision them. There is even a terraform module for hetzner cloud. It works very well. But they don’t provide any managed services, like databases or blob storage.
If your tenancy is unpaid your "always free"-classed instances can be terminated without notice in order to provide capacity for a paid tenancy when necessary. You can upgrade to paid tenancy and simply keep using "always free" resources for a $0.00 monthly bill.
Why would GPS use more power? It’s only receiving.
It's also very expensive, for an indie bookstore, to get book metadata legally since Baker and Taylor was acquired by Follett and to drive online traffic in a cost effectively.
But how?

Most devices are charge-only by default, most users have USB debugging disabled, and those who know how to enable it, won't allow the adb server to connect to the phone (you have to explicitly give it permission).
Here is an article about a recent US Congressman using a Superman Comic to be sworn in (along with the US Constitution)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64167015

> Incoming US congressman Robert Garcia will be sworn in using the US Constitution - and a Superman comic.

>Although using the Superman comic may be a bit unorthodox when taking the oath of office, technically it's not illegal, per Article VI of the US Constitution. The Article states, in part, that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States".
It’s obviously a typo or something similar. The customer support person likely has no idea what you’re talking about, they want a passport with your name on it, they don’t care where it is from.
Mine starts as a high pitch and then I can’t hear anything out of that ear for a good 10 seconds.
Not really, because a "sale" would traditionally be for a specific version (or a version and patches for that version at best).
U.S. proposes 56% vehicle emissions cut by 2032, requiring big EV jump
The issue isn't the import duty and VAT, the issue is the 20€ or more fee that the shipping companies charge for the privilege of handling the customs administration for you.

In Belgium for example books have 0% import duty and 6% VAT. Adding 20€, long delays, and a terrible customer experience (good luck trying to correct any data submitted to customs) to that is rarely worth the hassle.
This. About a decade ago I switched to writing exclusively with fountain pens because of wrist and arm pain. I couldn’t get beyond maybe a paragraph until I’d be shaking out my hand from cramping. I tried different pens, grips, etc. but would always fall back to writing with my wrist. Switching to fountain pens stumbling through re-learning cursive has made a tremendous difference.
Sentience, at its essence, requires only the capacity to feel and sense; it is implicit in anything with any form of sensory apparatus. The pistol shrimp has eyes that perceive myriad more primary colors than humans can possibly imagine… it is manifestly sentient in a way that cannot be constrained to mere anthropomorphism.

Consciousness, again at its essence, requires only the capacity to differentiate self from not-self, but it’s harder to define without anthropomorphism; the mirror test is often used as a minimal entry bar, but has always felt deeply biased towards anthropomorphism — it requires eyes that, like ours, are image forming in a mirror and also requires those eyes to be connected to a brain biased towards remembering normal-orientation facial lateral symmetry (but not, for some reason, capable of recognizing inverted eyes) — in other words it assumes that consciousness is fundamentally defined by a particularly anthropic hardware configuration, but there are manifestly self-conscious humans with brain injuries that render them unconscious to anyone who thinks passing the mirror test is required, which leads me to think that self-consciousness doesn’t require mirrored-self consciousness. A non-anthropomorphic understanding of consciousness would probably require, at minimum, awareness of individual death as an experiential possibility and consequent action to minimize risk of such death… but what of bees, that might willingly sacrifice individual survival for the survival of the hive? Gestalt consciousness really throws this whole question out of whack… what is that which isn’t self-conscious but is species-or-community-conscious? I can imagine a consciousness in which humans abandon the current limits of self-consciousness in favor of the gestalt, but what is that?

One thing I do know… I’m not worried about that which is conscious but also capable of meta-consciousness… I’m terrified of that which is conscious but cannot consider the limits of that… which, perversely, is a trait I’ve only seen in human beings, and often (recently) in human beings with a lot of apparent willingness to allow that which we have made in our image to be conscious of what we’re barely sentient of.
He didn't show his real SSN, right?
if you're using sauce with a label you're at the wrong taqueria
I wish there was a cure for it. Unfortunately as a child my father took me to semi-frequently to a night club he worked at, and I had no hearing protection. I have had tinnitus ever since. It varies in severity based on seemingly a lot of conditions (orientation, physical activity, mood), but most of the it's not too awful luckily.

Still, it sucks that we may be a more than my lifetime away from really finding a solution.
Ironically, WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who invested $100 million in Theranos. According to the famous book, Bad Blood, Elizabeth Holmes tried to get Murdoch to kill the story but he refused.
My dad used to joke about how placebos helped my mom and older sisters many body ache complaints. I just thought severe pain was normal until I was diagnosed with autoimmune, MS and a few other things. Doctors told me for years it was just in my head and that I just needed medication for anxiety.

Proper medication and diet changes resolved pain and anxiety.

My mom and sisters all have same issues. Dad and doctors gaslight them and me for decades.

The highlight when I was in the ER coughing up blood. ER doctors explaining how I was faking it since my blood work was normal.
Until chest X rays came back. Then doctor also went pale.
>Court fees: $70

Plus the opportunity cost of your lost time.
This is a concept in the sci-fi book The Mountain in the Sea, where people have "point-fives" (as in 0.5) -- AI companions custom-tailored to be the ideal zero-effort-required friend for you.

In the book, it starts from someone jokingly observing that many people don't want a full relationship, with 2 full people learning one another and being there for each other -- instead, many people want just the easy/fun parts of a relationship: they want something with 1.5 people, where they get to be the 1 "full person" and the other person is only 0.5 of a person, able to make you happy or satisfy your wants and needs while never asking anything of you in return and never having any needs of their own.

Then some unnamed tech company in the scifi-future-geography "SF-SD Axis" (sounds like San Francisco to me) builds and product-izes that, at first pitching it as a therapy/rehab tool, but eventually expanding it out until they're more ubiquitous and many people have isolated themselves to only having their "point-five" as a close friend. One character observes "I think this is the longest conversation I've had with a real person in years" after talking with another person for an hour or two.

I haven't finished the book, so I don't know how that plays out, but as someone who believes firmly in humans' need for community (including, at times, _uncomfortable_ community), that concept was chilling against the backdrop of ChatGPT/LLM headlines.

Imagine all the isolation problems of today, along with all the mess of internet-anonymity-as-replacement-for-friendships that exist today -- but cranked to 11 as you no longer even have to seek out other humans who share your niche views (redpill, incel, neonazi, you name it), because now you can just interact with sufficiently-realistic simulations of people designed to reinforce all your own thoughts back to you.
I'm not sure if Metaverse was a bad idea so much as selling out everything else to go full steam on Metaverse was a bad idea. It felt like they sold out their core user base and destroyed their existing platforms to get there. They were simultaneously tanking their image and reputation with users while asking them to commit and invest in a new platform.
Agreed! I also would love to see the flip-side and have congressional reps wear logos like in NASCAR. Let's be real fucking clear how many are solidly in the pocket of their corporate "donors".
Real Time Chess?
I suggest to get data blockers like this: https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-NA-USB-C-Data-Blocker/dp/B08...
Ensuring correctness by a human is existential to the work itself, not a mere annoyance. Yes AI can do it, but the more work you give to the AI, the less control you will have on the quality of the work.

This AI future you're wanting is an Idiocracy-like world where nobody knows how anything works and everything is in decay.
Since it is really low after taxes, I prefer to keep the equity. But I'm not sure that is possible as an ex-employee
I've actually been working on something similar for the Discord server I have with my friends. Fun to see others doing something similar! It's very funny to mess around with.
Have you used postgres for a work queue before? I have, and it did not scale even for smaller workloads. It's possible there are new primitives that make it more efficient, but back in 2014/2015 it didn't work.
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The most shocking thing for me here is that one of the best mathematicians of our times has to do fucking random data to Excel gruntwork.

What AI seems to be replacing is mostly bullshit jobs in this case, that should have been handled by someone else.
s/employing/led by/. Yeah, pretty much.
Chrome's "Search images with Google" is already good at extracting text. I wish they could recognize table formats within image or a page and allow it to be exported to google sheets. That would be game changer.
I am really worried they are compromising the effectiveness of antibiotics here. I had thought this isn't a pill you should just be using at random in your day to day life.

Mentioned in the article:

> However, antimicrobial resistance experts have hit back at the proposals. Widespread use of doxycycline as a preventive measure could contribute to mutations that make bacteria resistant to the drug, they warned.
> All the new features sitting on my SSD for months aren't helping any customers

But they can be used to build anticipation for the future release.

One of the many downsides of "continuous release" is that it's changed the mindset about software in customer's minds. It used to be that a new release was a highly anticipated event. Now, when people think about updates at all, it's usually with dread.
To add to this, it is actually forbidden to have a different main residency than the one on your Personalausweis if you live in Germany. If you move, you have to change it within a few weeks.
More practically, you visit a place that has public chargers, you study them and create a compromised clone, and then you swap out the real one. Like card skimmers.
For what it's worth, I have a VM on their cloud offering and I've never had to provide them with an ID.
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I am curious to know how far you take this in terms of it becoming second nature. As in, maybe after days and weeks of practice, you can type stuff effortlessly ?

How far away from effortless mastery are you?
Storybook 7.0
The bigger reason why it was a failure is not because it imposes a cost in terms of work on the content creator, it imposes a lack of control on the part of the party that considers themselves the 'owner' of the data. If every webpage that right now is plastered with ads and various junk to get you to subscribe/form a relationship/amplify the content would just be the structured data and a default way to render that data would be present in every browser then most content monetization strategies would fail. Follow the money, not the effort.
Strange for me - the CZ ID cards work the same way as described.
GPT = new UI more conversational and easier transformation to commands

I think a lot of people miss that due to being shown in search instances and companion apps.
NPR says goodbye to Elon Musk’s Twitter
"Western finance" is heavily regulated (well, consumer banking anyway) and for the most part is pretty secure. Crypto is completely unregulated and chalk full of bad actors distracting you with grandiose promises while fleecing you behind your back. Every other month there's a report of some massive theft/data breach at an exchange.
Yeah he's hard to beat! Also I think the auto matchmatching was broken due to the websockets automagically closing after some inactivity. Should be fixed now if you want to play others. I'm starting work now but I'll double check it's actually fixed another time.
German law requires you to own a Personalausweis or Reisepass (passport). If you have a passport, you are not required to also have an ID card/Personalausweis.
Also, programmable USB HID devices https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky
Using virtual threads only, can one make a non-blocking UI application? Or do you still need to fall back to Promises or callbacks?
NPR is ditching Twitter over 'government-funded media' label on its main account
> On a technical level, I found it really helped me wrap my head around what LLMs are doing and how they can be tuned for specific scenarios.

LMAO, noob!

(I guess people don't like when a reply in the tone the OP's friends is posted.)
The SQLite Project visualized with Gource [video]
10 W is the the TDP, a fudged estimate of the maximum power, for x86 chip. Idle power is much, much lower and that's really the important part that the Raspberry Pi can't match because anecdotally it has minimal power management capabilities and therefore runs at full power (~4-5 W) whether idle or active. An x86 system can beat that.