skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a long time ago, I had some success with finding things that were custom made and making tools to better model/simulate what the end product would look like. So, for example, some place that sells custom pendants/necklaces with a name on it. A front-end that lets people enter the name and produces a photo-realistic rendering of the necklace can drive sales they wouldn't otherwise get. I got past $1k/mo in revenue, but then had to put it aside for reasons unrelated to the work.
> happened almost exactly at the same time as the fact that rents jumped out of reach for many people.

Bingo. But if you accept this as causation than fault lies in at the feet of an inept government and central bank and not the individuals stressed to the max by a society built to ensure zero social mobility and widening wealth inequality.
Really not. The «chosen words and ornament» are picked for communication, with the intent of facilitating that the interlocutor sees the point (and details). They - them words - are chosen for precision in case the interlocutor needs to analyze the written, just to be sure of having understood. The ornament just follows - it is presumably a byproduct of the structure.

Words such chosen are there out of awareness, so that «without being aware of the words he uses and the way he thinks» really needs all the extraordinary justification.

Those words describe not a «personal and whimsical world», but the only relatively personal description of facts, as they are seen. Debate is there to show that facts may be different. The «whirlpool» is broken by new facts or nuances gained about those facts; it is true that there is a mechanism of reinforcement, but avoiding the expression is not a solution.

The idea of «the elite stance he [would be] trying to gain in the society with the ornaments of the words and sentences he has formed» is extremely weak: it easily may be just your immature perception. There is no need for society for thinking - nor for status.

And when you make accusations like «fancy salad», you should show it on factual basis, on the actual matter, as opposed to sensation.

If you do not want to touch that food - if it is a «waste of time» for you -, you are probably participating in the wrong discussion.

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There exist more domains: in some domains "Could you please pass me the salt" is a proper expression for exchange, whereas other domains use different expressions. The context in which you intervened is very practical. You know what happens if we do not dissipate ignorance, even worldly ignorance: as I said, «indigence and unaware butchers». There is also a fight against that kind of ignorance: because it is dangerous, worldly dangerous.

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You are expressing yourself more clearly, but I encourage you to pay further attention - some parts of your speech remain too lax (too many possible interpretations).
Language is only useful if we all agree on a common meaning for it. If you use old fashioned language I may still recognize it, but it is still wrong: you need to update your language to whatever is current (this does change!) so that we continue to understand each other.

Maybe I can't define why it is old fashioned, but if it is old fashioned it is wrong. I would hope that people who better understand the details have a better definition of the terms in use and could apply it, but all I know is your usage is old fashioned. (Note, the above doesn't preclude the idea that I'm wrong and the language is current, merely that we both need to do more research and should be more careful in this area until/unless we do!)
No, like almost every other issue it claims there are two sides and describes arguments for both. The arguments themselves are plausible, in that if you had to argue for the blatantly absurd claim that you should let 10 million people die before saying a bad word you probably couldn't come up with a more convincing one than GPT-4 does.
If the site isn't working for you, try this:

https://archive.ph/gDsQA
Cool idea and great way to promote your product, Tony. Congrats on shipping :)
Investigation of ‘Near-Miss' Between Navy Ships in San Diego Bay Completed
On the liquidity side, would you pay more for a security that you could easily and quickly sell with small slippage than you would for a security that could not be easily sold or only sold with a large slippage?

"People pay for [that]" because it's a genuinely useful property of an investment vehicle.
>Ultimately this question is the question of why the universe isn't completely isotropic in all directions with a completely uniform distribution of matter and energy.

I don't think it's a self-evident given that going against the grain of increasing entropy leads to complexity. The obvious but naieve opposite of increasing entropy is going towards something like relatively simple crystal structures.
> Disposable needle containers in the Tim Horton's bathrooms is not something I was expecting.

You do understand they have an actual purpose for some diabetic people self-administering insulin, right?
What an opportunity! I get to spend most of my time writing grant proposals, compete with 30 other associate professors for 1 tenure track job, then when I get tired of that I can switch to a marginal wage industry job because AI researchers are the only scientists that get good compensation as a group, and the 28 other people who didn't get that tenure position are probably also trying to do the same thing (thus depressing wages)? Sign me up /s.
learnpython.org

Generates ~10k/month. Plus, teaches a bunch of people how to code for free :)
Meta has open-sourced an AI project that turns your doodles into animations
And maybe I just missed it, but they never said whether the amount of crime was actually worse. They spent a fair bit of time on a survey where most people said they thought crime was worse. But that has never not been true, even when crime was rapidly falling.
Awesome, thanks! Glad it's working well for you :D
Started AwardFares (https://awardfares.com) back in 2018. It's a search engine for finding flights to book using your airline miles. Started as a side-project, completely bootstrapped and self-funded.

We hit $2k monthly revenue after about 1.5 years. Growth completely stopped during COVID, but is now growing very well (more than 10x that).
It is not hypocritical: whatever "Open"AI does to make GPT-4 "safer", makes it dumber. Specific example is drawing a unicorn https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c
Who is this "we" you are referring to?

In other words, when I control my thoughts, what is doing the controlling?

(see George Gurdjieff's philosophy which speaks to this issue of the `mechanical vs the conscious`, but please don't run off and join a crazy cult and ruin your life).
passively cooled single board computer that's manufactured in a trustworthy country.

Not cheap but I use Protectli firewalls [1]. They have the option to be reloaded with either the Coreboot or AMI firmware. They have 2 to 6 NIC's depending on the model. They are passively cooled but have fast processors so that people can run VPN's at wire speed. They are basically a mini-PC optimized to be used as Firewalls and Network-to-Network VPN's. The NIC's are Intel.

[1] - https://protectli.com/solutions/firewall/
European parliament prepares tough measures over use of artificial intelligence
OpenAI’s CEO confirms the company isn’t training GPT-5 and ‘won’t for some time’
As of 9 days ago, the PDF 2.0 spec has become freely available: https://www.pdfa.org/announcing-no-cost-access-to-iso-32000-...
you just need a bigger cpu, so that the site uses less.
Xournal, not Journal.
Religion has nothing to do with it. Some religious countries face the same issues (e.g., U.S.), while some do not (e.g., Saudi Arabia and UAE). It has more to do with the lack of social safety nets, inequality, rampant drug abuse, et al.
I thought this was going to be about "Moose Boulder," whose existence was (rather unconvincingly, I think) "disproven" a couple years ago, and which begs the interesting question about how we define "Largest Lake."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moose-boulder-debunked
Sometimes I'm not sure what the point of these Mercator criticisms are. GDP per land area is kind of more interesting, in that if you have a lot of land, but not much money, then there are probably a lot of desolate or lawless areas. https://ssz.fr/gdp/
I wish science would come up with a better definition. Just like we no longer have Pluto as a planet (there were other definitions they considered with different results - the important thing is a useful definition)
One of the best things about meeting people in person is that no one is rude enough to make this kind of comment to your face. Unfortunately the internet removes that barrier.
This "word creation" ability is a novelty that was likely deliberately baked in after the initial round of criticism towards the inability of earlier versions to do exactly this. If it took the liberty of creating a term based on encountering an ineffable idea, sure, it would have created something. In your example, it isn't creating anything new so much as rearranging known word parts based on a prompt. Arguing that it's creating something new just because it created an arrangement that can't be found on Google is missing the point that its still just arranging tokens, and not actually attempting to communicate a new idea through denotation.
Association between cognitive ability and body mass index: Sibling-comparison
Regardless of what people think about N Korea, this situation is getting more dangerous all the time.
Half of Americans would be more likely to date someone if they had a dog
good luck with that, it's pure natural DNA and pure natural gestation and pure old-school education. only the fecondation was provoked.
If this is what happened, what explains the fact that some of these models performed great for about a year before decaying?
OK, I agree with you. But this sort of struggle that you highlight is common in many aspects of research. As a researcher you are conflicted between your curiosity instinct to explore new paths, and your desire to also have big results. Ideally you would have a balance between the two, although you can definitely make a career out of only one.
Boeing 737 Max production hit by a new defect
I mean, there is some true to that. I left a Macbook Pro in public in Saudi Arabia. I came back looking for it (5 hours had passed since) and it was still there.
Do you plan to add syncing of notes between devices?
The article is paywalled, but an excerpt of some of the potential consequences includes:

“MEPs in Brussels are close to agreeing a set of proposals to form part of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act, a sweeping set of regulations on the use of AI, according to people familiar with the process.

“Among the measures likely to be proposed by parliamentarians is for developers of products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to declare if copyrighted material is being used to train their AI models, a measure designed to allow content creators to demand payment. MEPs also want responsibility for misuse of AI programmes to lie with developers such as OpenAI, rather than smaller businesses using it.

“One contentious proposal from MEPs is a ban on the use of facial recognition in public spaces under any circumstances. EU member states, under pressure from their local police forces, are expected to push back against a total ban on biometrics, said people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.”
Well Sidekiq is free to use. It's only the pro version that he charges and the free version code is open source.

I don't see the problem in having that kind of business model, it still allows the community to thrive and offers entreprises a way to have premium support.

Plus it allows him to invest more time in maintaining the free version.
I have looked at the template method pattern, but to me this just sounds like what you really want is composition.

open class Importer {
fun import() {
// do common logic...
val parsed = parse() // call specialized behaviour
}
open fun parse() { ... }
}

Vs.

class Importer(private val parser: Parser) {
fun import() {
// do common logic...
val parsed = parser.Parse() // call specialized behaviour
}
}

In my experience, using inheritance can quickly make things worse.
(Go seems to agree, there is no inheritance in Go, only composition.)
Oh, I understand the premise. But one premise does not a good argument make. Maybe witnesses are less likely to cooperate if they know the murderer! Maybe this type of murder tends to happen inside homes, where there’s less likely to be evidence such as surveillance footage! Maybe it is easier but only by one or two percentage points! etc etc
Sam Altman and Lex Fridman Round 2 [video]
The key is analogy and to recognize where they're being made.
Half (50%) of Americans would be more willing to date someone if they had a dog, while only 9% would be less willing to do so. Women are more likely to be interested in a partner with a dog (54%), compared to 46% of men.

Americans are split when it comes to cats. While 35% of Americans would be more willing to date someone with a cat as a pet, 30% would be less willing to do so.
Imagine future job market, where a 5 year old will already be super familiar with the T-posing, which currently mostly CG artists now about
High rent, low pay, no housing or safety nets.

If people want to say this is a hard problem to solve then fine but a bit tired of government and news organizations acting obtuse like they just can't figure out what the problem is.
To be fair to Mike, Sidekiq is absolutely free. He sells an enterprise version for money, that comes with support.
> However, in practice, SQL is surprisingly easy to write and expressive.

SQL is not expressive. Compare SQL queries to LINQ queries, and you'll see a notable difference in expressiveness, abstraction and reuse.
> This explains nothing. Stating it's an emergent phenomenon gives us just as much information as saying it's magic. Arguably even less, because it sounds like an explanation, whereas "magic" doesn't pretend to explain anything.

I don't think that's the case. Of course at one level we can understand how GPT4 works, we have a working implementation of it after all. But that doesn't help us predict how it will behave, because its properties are emergent, and have to be studied separately at that level. That's not saying it's magic.
I don't think we are disagreeing. Of course ideological and political conflict are to be expected in any healthy civil society. But my argument is that the threat of violence by the government is no longer what keeps people quiet, no matter how discontent they are.
Yes. Their design reminds me of WIRED magazine from the 1990's, not at all like web pages from the 1990's.
I'll give you a small anecdote.

A few months ago, my uncle died. To the outside world, he was very well put together, eloquent, and admired by all who knew him. Worked on physics books as a proofreader for a major publisher his whole life and was celebrated for his work. He was a recluse, but very sociable and an excellent go-between for any socially difficult situation, a real keeper of the peace.

When I went to clear his home, I discovered that his personal space was the opposite of all the above. Dirty, messy, not well organized.

Of all the people I ever expected that from, it wasn't him, but he did an excellent job of appearing to have his shit together.

I shared this with a few others who had late family members that had done very well in their respective field, and the sentiment was the same: nobody ever really seems to get their shit together, they just get better at presenting the parts of themselves that matter.

He was a very happy soul.
When I say “we”, I mean each of us. You control your thoughts. You are the doing because you choose the thought to act on.
>>US can just forbid Microsoft from paying bribes.

That's already the case. It's already illegal for an American company to pay bribes abroad, even if it's "legal" there. The problem is that like many other people said - you just hire a local "consulting" business that handles that for you and your hands are clean.
Toronto's (and GTA) social services system is completely underfunded and neglected. There isn't nearly enough capacity for housing those in need, let alone support and recovery programs. Not really sure what the solution is but its broken as hell. None of this is helped by the fact that so much drug and sex trafficking goes through this city.
This one From Yale is really good.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0
…and signal acquired! Telemetry is coming in.
Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
Oh cool, those do look nice, thanks! I didn't find this company in the hours I spent researching this yesterday.

They look similar in configuration and price to Fitlet [0]. Personally, $300 is more than I'd like to spend, but perhaps that's the price for a trustworthy and sufficiently powerful setup.

[0] https://fit-iot.com/web/products/fitlet3/
The immediate red flag to me is all the domains listed do not end in .edu which is easy to register if one has a real accredited school.
I think this interpretation is somewhat perverse. It’s true that the purpose of art is often to confront social norms and taboos. But that doesn’t lend itself to the conclusion that art is somehow going to benefit from restrictions on expression and access to information. Some of the best artistic expression has been inspired by some of humanity’s worst misery, but promoting misery for the good of art would be rather insane.
I think "Dial F For Frankenstein" makes your point clear. It is absurd to think the telephone network would just emergently become conscious when there are enough phones it connects together.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2137
It's my understanding that we use UTC because it favours neither the english nor the french. English wanted CUT, french wanted TUC, so UTC was chosen to favour neither.
Your beef is then with unpaid overtime, or companies which don't consider dietary inclusivity. Leave the pizza out of it.
This shouldn't imply access is unpartitioned.

I can look things up on a company Google Drive. Doesn't mean I can see everything!
I used to think continents and seabed were the same. If you were to add more sea there would be more seabed, less continents. Remove the water and all that's left is a single continent.

But that's not even close. For starters, the continents are ancient. The seabed, the crust between the continents, is in a constant process of renewal. The age of the seabed is measured in millions of years, not billions.
> Chief among this escalation was the killing of eight on-duty Canadian police officers in just the last six months. For context, between 1961 and 2009, a grand total of 133 Canadian police officers were murdered in the line of duty – an average of one every four and a half months.

Imagine my surprise that years of ACAB and calls to defund the police would lead slain officers. It's depressing to me as a Canadian that we allow what's happening in the US to drag us down; I think our country can do a lot better than that type of discourse.
I don't think you can "make right" a murder. You can be punished for it, but that doesn't absolve you of the deed, and it shouldn't force others to forgive or accept you.

Yes, it's a tough deal, but let's be honest here: it's nothing compared to what they do to their victims. And there's really very few cases per decade that will make you a nation-wide celebrity. For the most part, moving 50km away will for all intents and purposes make you "a new man".

You can often attain forgiveness by showing regret. Many don't, which is why they aren't forgiven, and aren't happily accepted by society when they get released. Who could blame them? And why should we help them wash away their sins and treat it as a secret?

I also don't buy the excuse that recidivism is significantly driven by rejection from society. It's the easy way to explain your behavior when truth and reflection would paint a different picture, but one that's harder to accept: that we're responsible for our deeds, and (yes, with some super specific exceptions) nobody made us do them.
This seems like a very useful way to rubberduck ideas that are not yet well formed. I like it! Are there limits to a conversation? The input prompt disappeared in the middle of an exploration of the utility of rotating tires every 5k miles :)

edit: ah I see that there is an upgrade path. if that's why it stopped, a callout would be helpful explaining it.
Africa is enough separate that you can make an argument that it isn't part of Asia+Europe. I can see no good reason to call Europe and Asia a separate continent. (I'm not sure if it is bigger than north+south America - it feels like it is, but maps can be deceiving and can't be bothered to look it up). Of course if Africa is not part of Asia+Europe then it is hard to argue America is one continent.

In the end we don't have a good definition of continent though, so you can find plenty of weird things you can argue should be the definition and thus come up with a lot of contradictory answers.
Can you explain why you assume that cutting funds for the police would decrease crime?

Why would a trend of increasing crimerate reverse if you cut police funding "more than slightly"?
I “think” I understand what you’re trying to get at. But it’s an unfortunate and limited perspective. Sure, New York isnt Thailand and the restaurant didn’t source their ingredients from a Bangkok market at 4am that morning. But that doesn’t mean the chef didn’t cook, study, or live in the region previously. So does that mean the only thing that makes a dish authentic is its local ingredients and there’s no credit given for the chefs experience? Also, how do you know the chef didn’t import any of the ingredients or spices from the place you’re expecting for it to be authentic?
It's strange how you are being downvoted when my foreign friends say the exact same thing. They say that the food at the restaurants we go to have a different smell from the food back home.
Ok, but the opportunity costs pertain solely to the spender, and even if not they are priced into the market. why do you feel entitled to the fortune that someone else decides to use for a vanity project.
Run Your Platform Team Like a Product Team
Are you familiar with Pinker’s research presented in book The Language Instinct?

> language enables intelligence

In his research, he argues that it’s the other way around; we have an innate intelligence for acquiring language.

To put it another way, language has made us more knowledgeable (because it’s a great mechanism for building and transferring context), but intelligence or aptitude for language was present before we developed languages.

Does this align with how your views were reshaped post LLMs?
I will never ever complain about free pizza. Especially if it's accompanied with free beer.
Canada has made a concerted effort in recent years to accelerate immigration and increase their population. I believe their population recently went up by a million in 1 year for the first time ever for example. For a smallish country, that's a massive leap.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65047436

On an individual level, I'm sure most immigrants are fine people. But there's a social cost to rapidly increasing the population too much, too fast without also increasing the amount of housing and other resources to take care of people and integrate them culturally into a country.
NP "very conservative"? Milquetoast, wanna-lose conservative is how I would describe them.

Half their webpage is dedicated to weed smoking and its lifestyle.
Civ Kit: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Market System
Looks like the owner was frightened away
Yeah the number of people who seem to forget that Google is among the most profitable companies on the planet both in absolute numbers and in terms of margin is wild.

Yes, Google's revenue and income growth rates aren't stratospheric like they used to be. It seems to have more competition for core products than in the past. But like, it makes an absolute shitload of money.