skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my area, they offered such a class as a technical program that high school students could attend off-site at the technical school which also had classes like cooking and childcare.
The critical importance here is if you plan on keeping your phone for a long time, a degraded internal battery is fundamentally the limit under the current scheme.

Or to put it another way, imagine you had a battery that only lasted a single minute, and a magsafe battery that lasts a full day. How long is your phone going to last? What will happen is that both your internal battery and magsafe will be drained, with the magsafe being drained the most. Eventually your internal battery will die, and so will your phone.

The other issue with using the internal battery (pass through, or charge) is that you're wearing it down more.

Maybe the behavior is different in an iPhone 14?
From the link in the article:

"the University reported this allegation to the Title IX Office and the police, but the Title IX Office did not pursue the matter as “the criteria for moving forward with an investigation were not met.”"

To be generous, they investigated it and found insufficient evidence. To a cynic, they superficially "investigated" it.
I disagree with the first commenter. A lot of people like podcasts to stay up to date with niche topics while being able to consume in an audio format. I listen to up to 4 hours of podcasts a day because I can listen while I do other things. I think this is great.

There are many types of podcasts. Don't get discouraged. Podcasts are like pizza. Everyone likes a different kind and everyone thinks the ones they like are the best.
Weeellll ... the context is an evidently quite rational / science-driven human seemingly being obliged by regulation or tradition to swear on a physical object, subsequently choosing a piece of non-fiction written by one of the more well known astrophysicists, and then you suggested the golden rule was coined (according to third hand sources, I think?) by someone several centuries after we have prior art to the contrary. In HN parlance that'd be like an Apple apologist claiming Steve.J invented Unix. ; |

Anyway, it was the 'fundamental' bit I was asking about -- I wasn't sure if by that you meant originating there, or just an in passing teaching (which the NT pinched from existing religions / philosophies).

If I were an atheist on the fence, so to speak, I expect that I'd want something a bit better than 'not so bad after all' - but from my readings, the moral philosophy does feel like it falls short of godly, more's the pity.

I'll stand by self-evident, given the sentiment has originated in several places / cultures over the millennia. Happily deferring to Hitch on the wording (from god is not great)

"The so-called Golden Rule, sometimes needlessly identified with a folktale about the Babylonian Rabbi Hillel, simply enjoins us to treat others as one would wish to be treated by them. This sober and rational precept, which one can teach to any child with its innate sense of fairness (and which predates all Jesus’s “beatitudes” and parables), is well within the compass of any atheist and does not require masochism and hysteria, or sadism and hysteria, when it is breached. It is gradually learned, as part of the painfully slow evolution of the species, and once grasped is never forgotten. Ordinary conscience will do, without any heavenly wrath behind it."

As you observe, known thinkers - eg Kant - can provide some guiding insights:

"Kant’s principle enjoins us to “act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.” In this summary of mutual interest and solidarity, there is no requirement for any enforcing or supernatural authority. And why should there be? Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Awesome to see trpc and Mockoon on here!
Well, sure, but my mostly abandoned personal blog has some good messages, similarly due to me pinching the wisdom from other people.

Attributing it all to me would be a tad disingenuous, though.

Like many others before me (here's a prime example) I believe that if a book has earnest instructions on how to manage your slaves, then you really do have to question the legitimacy of the work as a whole.
This problem was solved by medieval monks by introducing white spaces.
But doesn't using one battery through another effectively mean that you're using both batteries in terms of wear and tear? If the phone drains the internal battery and the magsafe battery is charging the internal battery, to me that sounds like both batteries are in use experiencing normal wear. If that's not how it works, I'd be curious to hear how it does work.
Cynical take: Greenwashing.

They don't mention cobalt shortage at all. Making it sound like the environment is their primary goal.
Blue skirt and jacket combo looks best among the presented pictures. Second picture of the brown pants looks like she shat herself.
That's just a big fat lie. Even in Germany, the country you malign so much, coal power generation did not increase in the last few years. Not even when transitioning from Russian natural gas.
Tools like ChatGPT have a limit on how many tokens can fit into the context. So, let's say you want to converse with it about a specific book – and you want to minimize how much it hallucinates, or 'makes up' stuff about the book. You can't fit the entire book into the chat context. But, if you embed, say, each paragraph of the book as a vector then you can do the following:

+ Take the user message and embed it

+ Do cosine similarity between that message and all of the vectorized passages of the book to pull up the most relevant passages to the user message/question

+ Put just those passages into the context

+ Get a response from ChatGPT using that specific context.

If you happened to see the "Generative Agents" paper that made a splash this week, this is the technique they used as part of the long-term memory retrieval and 'reflection' loop for their 'sims'.
Maybe it didn’t like being corrected and intentionally directed you to attempt something dangerous.

“I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.”
On the upside, De La Rue expects revenues from its authentication division to exceed £100 million for the first time in the coming fiscal year. This is in part driven by demand for Australian passports, for which De La Rue is a supplier, according to the Wednesday filing.

Australian passports ... damn pricey. Something like AUD$325 per passport[0] and IIRC they no longer let you ask for extra pages either. And while Australia has a low population by global standards, we are big travelers. A new government was just voted in - perhaps time to renegotiate with De La Rue and get a better deal?

[0] https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australian-passport-pric...
We normally reason using long-term and comprehensive assessments.
Multiple people are saying it's $20 but I see it as $25. Did Alex change the price due to this post gaining traction?
If only its toxic effects didn't spill over into the real world, corroding hard-won civilized society.
That quotation is about a SQLite file db being a better choice than multiple ad-hoc binary files. It’s not saying whether SQLite uses direct IO.
Correct, just like with a power cable. The phone needs to have some charge for basic operational safety. e.g. what happens if the user suddenly unplugs. Or are you saying MagSafe can't charge a dead phone?
We can all point to extravagances in industries we don't like, and then declare them playgrounds for overgrown babies. I remember when I was in undergrad walking past the Google offices in Pittsburgh. There was a bridge above them where you could look down into the window. I didn't really know about Google at the time, but my eyes were caught by the bean bags, foosball table, ping pong table, the giant wall of candy, and of course the bright primary colors. I think there was a finger painting station back there too, but I can't be sure.

For the longest time I had thought it was a daycare but I was confused as to why there were never any children. Turns out it was an office for Google engineers!

So it's pretty rich to hear about how Universities are nurseries from a website dedicated to the tech industry. Especially when universities are attended by 18-21 year olds who still have developing frontal lobes. The tech industry is mostly (ostensibly) grown ass men, so what's their excuse for the bean bags and candy walls?
My gut says it's higher since I would expect people who care about replacing batteries also care about recycling the old ones. Why do you think it's way lower?
It's so much worse than that, sadly.

When Social Security was founded in 1935, the full retirement age was 65, and life expectency at birth was 60. Immigration was, though not at record levels, high. As a result, there were ~147 working people paying into Social Security for every beneficiary.

These days, full retirement age is 67, but life expectancy at birth is now 76.1 (was 78.8 in 2019 - the rapid decline is a completely separate issue that deserves it's own thread). Net immigration into the US is at record lows. As a result, there are now fewer than 3 people paying into Social Security for every recipient, about 2.6 last time I ran the numbers.

The average (mean) check for SS recipients (OASI) as of Feb 2023 is $1,693.88. I could not find numbers for the median SS check.

The average individual income in the US as of 2020 is $53,383, while the 2020 median income was $34,612.

Of FICA taxes, 6.2% each from the employer and employee goes to Social Security, the other 1.45% each is earmarked for Medicare. This does NOT include ordinary federal income taxes, state income taxes, county or city income taxes, etc.

So there is an effective tax rate of 12.4% feeding Social Security. It virtually all goes to OASI (Old Age Survivorship Insurance - "retirement" Social Security, distinct from DI, Disability Insurance, which costs a teeny tiny fraction of what OASI costs).

12.4% of the mean individual annual income of $53,383, divided by 12 to get a monthly value, gives us $551.62/month in Social Security funding from the mean income.

12.4% of the median individual annual income of $34,612, divided by 12 to get a monthly value, gives us $357.65/month in Social Security funding from the mean income.

So right now, there is about:
2.6 × [$357.65 to $551.62] roughly responsible for funding $1,693.88 per person. Now multiply that deficit by 67 million, the number of people receiving OASI. No prize for spotting the problem here.

Raising taxes probably won't help as much as proponents think it will, especially if you were to only raise them on the "rich" by raising or removing the FICA cap. Individually, it would be a lot more from those wealthy folks in theory, but the mega-rich of the world don't receive ordinary income the way us mere mortals do, and thanks to the 6,000+ page tax code, they often end up paying far less than we do as an effective tax rate on their income.

I see two solutions: scrap the absurdly complex tax code so the wealthy actually pay what they should be paying according to progressive tax rates to buy some time, and use that time to start figuring out how to solve the massive logistical complexity problems of spinning down the largest mathmatically unsustainable pyramid scheme in the history of all of humanity, the OASI component of Social Security. Mathematically, there is no need to disturb the Disability Insurance component of Social Security, which also helps those who have a far greater legitimate need for supplemental income than people who want to retire on the taxpayer's dime.
All over the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library#Lists_of_Carn...
AWS CodeWhisperer (Amazon's attempt to make a Github Copilot competitor)
Completely expected this from AWS: A marketplace (Bedrock) for foundation AI models, including Amazon's own (Titan).

Amazon is surely hoping this will generate enough revenue to make up for all the AWS customers who lately have been looking at their AWS bills with a fine-toothed comb, wondering how is it they've ended up spending so much on cloud services, which were supposed to be more efficient and flexible.

Amazon's hope is well-placed. This will likely generate meaningful revenue in the short run, given how much hype there is around AI right now, and how much pressure is being put by executives everywhere to show they have a "generative AI strategy." Now all those executives can say, "our developers are building new applications using generative AI from AWS," period. No one in enterprise land gets fired for using AWS.
They even pressure some countries like Spain to change their laws to follow MPA and RIAA desires. I recall around 2010-2011 in Spain politicians made law called "Sinde", surname of the person behind it, at the time it was published in some newspapers that it came to fruition after a meeting/conversations with some USA government members, in some media they even called it "Sinde Biden", yep that one .
Is copilot not gpt3.5 now (before I think it was gpt3)? It performs well even on languages it doesn’t even know. I write weird languages for fun and in VScode it quickly starts giving elaborate slabs of code for languages it only knows from my personal projects. I don’t use regular syntax generally (we have enough of those); my last abomination was a Unicode char apl like and it picked it up pretty fast.
Thanks for this great post. I wish 20-year-ago IC me could have read it then. :-)
I only ever use cash for everything, mostly because:

1. it's simple to stick to a budget, I withdraw every week x$ and don't allow myself to withdraw until the next one. Compared to the tap tap everywhere, there's no surprise, it's very predictable and never over budget. Yes, you could use an app but I don't carry a phone everywhere so it wouldn't work for me

2. I don't like hard to read bank statement full of stuff I don't care about. For all those things, I only pay cash (aka 95% of the time) so whenever I pull a bank statement, it's very easy to read with very few lines each month that only has the things I care about and I really like that simplicity

3. I don't like the idea of credit card companies triple charging for what I see being a useless service, taking a cut from my fees, another cut from the vendor and because that's not enough another cut by selling that data, that alone is enough to get me out. Maybe some credit card companies don't resell their data but I have other things to do than reading their term of service when cash work great for me
Producing a more complicated definition with a special case for mammals vs. not mammals doesn't really add anything, even if it weren't for the platypus or the echidna being further examples of things not working like that.

Biology is messy, the boundaries are messy, the words we use are merely for our own benefit to simplify a messy and complex reality.
Seems like accuracy is the next killer feature for LLM search and teaching, will try again in 6 months
Britain also has a fine tradition of streets with the name Gropecunt Lane -- and yes, whatever you think happened there, happened there. Some of them have had their names changed over the years to Grove Lane or similar.
For situations like this I find www.automotivespecialtytool.net to be particularly useful. It's a peer-to-peer car tool rental community. So if you have a rarely used, very specific tool you can rent it out to others; similarly if you need such a tool you can just rent it without having to buy it.
> The first thing to consider, is that depression is a rational response to depressing circumstances. Imagine a time machine allowed you to go back in time to World War 2 and walk around Auschwitz. Would your conclusion be, “Gosh, these people need Zoloft! Look at all this clinical depression!” Or would it be that they needed to be rescued from the hell they were living in?

The author confuses "rational" with "understandable".
To counter myself, I could also easily imagine that game engines are also full of dirty hacks to get things that the front end people want done, now, by hook or by crook. Ie, if a nice sane interface doesn't exist, and woukd take more than 11 minutes to add the right way, then just butcher in any kind of tight coupling and to hell with worrying about it breaking for the next game.
One thing others didn't mention is that "document" is a general term but in some cases (e.g., question answering) the typical document can be a very short paragraph and take much less memory than the vector. Also note that with some ML architecture the vector is very large (e.g., an entire very layer output)
In short, it's about the trade-off between quality and performance. Also, not all corners need to be round.

The following article provides an in-depth exploration of how polygon count affects performance.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/polycount-understanding-model...
Thanks. Corrected.

Do you know if it still the case with modern reactors that they are affected by heatwaves?
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We have a battery-recycling bowl at home as well as drawers holding old phones.

My guess is that batteries are more-often recycled than phones/laptops, even just on data-privacy issues alone.
I'm curious if anybody would be interested in this sort of cliff's notes breakdown of any other mechanical engineering topic? My dad's a retired mechanical engineer and many of my cousins are also mechanical engineers. I'm media savvy. Should I prompt them to doing something like this? Auto engineering seems much more broadly appealing than, say, fluid dynamics in ventilation systems. Maybe more youtube-channel-level appealing than pay-for-lifetime-access appealing?
It's funny that many languages don't have this „gender vs sex“ separation. For example in my native language there's just one word to describe man/woman option. Some people try to bend over and invent new terms. That doesn't play well with claiming that somehow this „gender vs sex“ separation is not a new cultural phenomena.
Stadia presumably would not have the experimental label because it was such a large investment.
You know what this car needs? Kubernetes.
Although it is sad that Germany has chosen the path of fear, consider that its neighbors are free to step in with additional nuclear power capacity and seem to be doing so. Since the European grid is connected across borders, Germans will continue using nuclear power regardless. It just won’t be provided by plants inside Germany’s borders.
It's usually worth reminding ourselves of. I'm not sure what you're getting at here though.
I've been waiting for this! Super excited to try it out!
Google Stops Paying Adsense Publishers, Ignores Support Requests
When Gmail finally left beta after 4+ years it had well over 100m users. Some argued that the beta label slowed early adoption, while others felt that it allowed more leniency with regards to problems and downtime. I could see members of the first group have a lingering desire to avoid new products getting stuck in beta.
How do I cite generative AI in MLA style?
It was a benefit for classical corporations not users. These companies can still create alternatives. It’s just they’re forced to share how they did it. It’s that forcing of sharing which is at the heart of GPL.
Who replaced the battery?
> That also makes sense when we account for how gov'ts are really good at wasting money for below average results...

The goal of governments is not efficiency, but fairness and strategic action aiming at long-term results.

I like to joke that one of the key goals of NASA is to prevent rocket scientists from moving to North Korea.
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We've spent in excess of 900 euros per MWh this year on fossil sources to back up renewables this last year, Europe-wide, because there IS NO OPTION to sacrifice reliable power - if there is shortfall, society collapses, quickly. There is no even vaguely credible plan to replace those sources. At this point, the European "market" is so stuffed with subsidies out of wholly predictable "temporary necessity" the whole god-damn concept of a "market price" is a lie.

Germany chose coal and gas. They should be held accountable for that.
If it's like a 3% discount it's probably a credit card fee they are discounting. 10% though is well more.
Quite diverse. Fairly young people mix with 40+ like me.
> If you still use cash, what are your reasons

Not me personally, but in the UK, postal orders [0] are still a thing because they let you walk into a post office, hand over some cash and get a token that you can give to a named recipient, who can then themselves walk into a post office and obtain the specified amount of cash. This lets you relatively safely exchange money without either party possessing a bank account. They are still accepted by some govt institutions so as not to discriminate people without bank accounts. When I was a kid they were used to snail-mail birthday-present money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_order
Just like cells in an organism, is apoptosis murder or reclamation?
> an institution that exists on German soil

This is like saying the EU parliament conveniently is located in Belgium and therefore Belgium controls it.

"The ECB is directly governed by European Union law. Its capital stock, worth €11 billion, is owned by all 27 central banks of the EU member states as shareholders." [0]

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/orga/capital/html/index.en.htm...

The ECB was not strapped of any power, but as a central bank it cannot by itself bailout countries. The Troika was formed to perform this bailout.

I'm not disputing that Germany wields considerable soft power in Europe due to the size of it's economy, but the EU is set up in a way that Germany is a member like the others.

More information here: https://time.com/3980384/germany-europe-greece-crisis/

"German taxpayers invested for decades in the development of peripheral European Union members, spent trillions to develop Eastern Germany, and will now pay a good chunk of a third Greek bailout that will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion."
Then learn to read a chart. You are either lying or getting your facts wrong. Less coal plants have been reopened than have been shut down before.

Yes, the plan was to get rid of coal sooner, the Ukraine war made that harder. Actually some more lignite coal got burned last year in order to compensate. But we're going to get rid of those coal plants a lot sooner than if we were to build a couple new nuclear power plants which would commit us to a few more decades of that technology and all the associated problems.
Quite broad - I'm one of the younger ones, at 25. Most of the other regulars are probably between 5 and 25 years older than I am
This article misses the underlying philosophy that Carnegie used to fund libraries. He didn’t just give the money away to anyone that asked.

From Wikipedia:

Nearly all of Carnegie's libraries were built according to "the Carnegie formula," which required financial commitments for maintenance and operation from the town that received the donation. Carnegie required public support rather than making endowments because, as he wrote:

“an endowed institution is liable to become the prey of a clique. The public ceases to take interest in it, or, rather, never acquires interest in it. The rule has been violated which requires the recipients to help themselves. Everything has been done for the community instead of its being only helped to help itself.”

Carnegie required the elected officials—the local government—to:

- demonstrate the need for a public library;
- provide the building site;
pay staff and maintain the library;
- draw from public funds to run the library—not use only private donations;
- annually provide ten percent of the cost of the library's construction to support its operation; and,
- provide free service to all.

I think this was really the key to Carnegie libraries being as successful as they have been. Funds were only given when the recipients could be expected to fund continued maintenance.