skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I showed up at a hotel at around 19:00. Website stated that their reception was open till 21:00. Nobody was there, front door was locked. A single call to Booking.com and an hour later they had put me in another hotel, free of charge. Cost of the other hotel would be paid by the first hotel.

I now do most of my bookings through Booking.com. It is very rare that booking directly gives a lower price (I always try) and the upside of guaranteed logging in that area is a big bonus for me.
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> even discounting fads.

I did touch on it, with a ten foot pole.

That’s a conversation that requires beers.
this is similar to many immigrants learning the Danish language, there are at least 22 vowel sounds (but probably more like 40 when you count regional pronunciations) and 9 vowel letters, but it can be different to hear the difference or associate them with the right vowel letter.
Is this in the same category as after effects or nuke?
> I have difficulty imagining a company led by a man being valued at $10 billion based on a lot of hot air and then going to zero overnight as happened with Theranos.

FTX / SBF.
"Human output" isn't automated nor connected to your production systems. Would you let any random user run arbitrary SQL against your production DB?
> world's most awesome waterfall, for a long time

Apparently it was more of a big ramp and rapids. And it was maybe as short as only one (wildly incredible) year.

> This flood would have descended a relatively gentle ramp into the Mediterranean basin, not as a giant waterfall

> later estimates of the size of the Strait of Gibraltar channel implied that it would have taken much less, potentially less than a year until reconnection

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
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“Greed is good”, say the capitalists, except in the case of rising workforce salaries which is bad and requires intervention by the Federal Reserve.
This is so badly written. Seems to exist mostly to plug that mini cabinet.

Here's a much better one from 10 years ago:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-spac...
> Mostly it's a usability nightmare for typeclasses

And also for Rust traits, C++ templates, etc (those are all nonterminating)
> Thanks to ChatGPT for valuable feedback and editorial input on early drafts of this post. It was a joy collaborating with it. It provided consistent and helpful feedback, and was always available to assist with any changes or questions I had during the collaboration process2.

That kind of things will for sure go into my domain's blacklist
Verbing. It's a thing.
Plus training, lessons and inspiration. And talent.

It’s like with dreams. They can be terribly intricate and detailed, but ask me to draw something creative and I’m out.
Those are all important but degradation is very important as well and a limiting factor in many use cases, as well as low temperature performance and safety.
I would be really surprised to hear of a single undergrad math major hitting 300-level math without learning at least the basics of LaTeX syntax. For better or worse, TeX is to math what SQL is to databases. It might be old and have some serious challenges surrounding it, but it’s managed to remain better than anything that’s tried to dethrone it. I can remember how mysterious all the backslashes looked when I first started working with TeX in 1986, but they quickly disappear into the background.
In a sense, sure I guess my brain almost always knows whether I wanted a question or not - after all, native English speakers have no problem asking questions. However, it's hard to get used to it, when I've never done it before.

It's like a habit. Imagine you make coffee every morning - after a while it becomes second nature and you don't even think about what you're doing, you just get up and mindlessly start the coffee grinder. Once in a while your girlfriend visits, and she wants milk in the coffee, no problem, I'll pour some milk on her cup at the end.

And one day you have a different girlfriend, and she doesn't like coffee at all, so when she's visiting you have to make tea! So you just get up, start grinding the coffee, and half a minute later, "Oh damn, not again!" Even though making coffee and making tea take about the same effort, it just throws a wrench in your morning routine until you get used to it, which make take a long time.

> If not, there are plenty of ways to bail out of a statement midway through a sentence.

Sure you can also do it in English, but you can't do it as gloriously as in Korean, where you can start the same sentence and end up with:

한국어는 영어보다 더 효율적입니다. Korean is more efficient than English.

한국어는 영어보다 더 효율적...(read the room, oh no, bail out)...이라는 헛소리를 하는 사람이 다 있더라고요 하하하! => I found an idiot saying Korean is more efficient than English, ha ha!
I find strange that accounts praising Elon Musk are created seconds before posting the comment...My Neural Nets are firing on all directions...
My favorite part of AsciiMath is the concise matrix syntax and also just using quotes to write normal words:

(-1)^n = {
[ 1 , n " even" ],
[ -1 , n " odd" ],
[ cosn+isinn , "otherwise" ]
:}

R(theta) = (
[ costheta , -sintheta ] ,
[ sintheta , costheta ]
)

It makes typing simple equations very simple, and if it gets complicated I could always write more explicitly/fall back to latex syntax which it parses as well.

It's kinda similar to the philosophy of Markdown -- make simple things easy and allow an escape hatch for when you need to be unambiguous.
I mean it's in the API reference: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction

Applications should not use user input for the system role. It's still not a firewall, but it's substantially better than the completion model from GPT3.

There was also a blog post / article / quite somewhere from OpenAI talking about how RL for GPT4 made it treat the system role as more immutable than was true in 3.5, but I'm not finding it in a quick search.

As the technology matures, we'll see security improvements as well. That's kind of the story of tech, right? SQL is doing pretty well despite having a similar problem with instructions versus user data.

I won't hang my hat on LLMs ever being perfect, but nor will I assert they are fundamentally broken and unfixable in this area. It is a very very young technology.
tedyoung the idea of the platform is that you already have a Stripe account with products and prices, the platform will allow you to put together a pricing widget in minutes to embed into you page. IF you're interested I can provide a test key for testing
The N1 certainly was a failure, but still, a lot of research went into it. Research that was hidden from the west.

What I think Elon Musk and engineers at SpaceX though was: hey, we are not in the cold war anymore, we have access to what the soviet did, so let's pick that up, take the good parts implement them with modern technology.

The way I understand it, the USSR was better in some fields, like metallurgy, and made designs that took advantage of it. So now that the US can do even better metallurgy, then maybe take these soviet designs instead of the US designs that were made with material limitations. And also take advantage of, say, better electronics to succeed where the soviet failed.

Maybe I am wrong, but that's my interpretation. It is not full credit to the soviet, but more like giving them credit because they couldn't have done it on western technology alone.
what kind of barbarian dislikes beef jerky?!?
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Eternal slavery to the corporations, accessing their stuff on their computers from our consoomer terminals :D

(At least we'll be able to complain about it on their platforms, as long as we keep it ad-friendly)
This was the first response when I shared this with someone else.
The link I gave described that exact topic. Stallman wrote:

"I do not submit my tax returns on line because it requires nonfree software. I use xournal to write my data on the PDF form, and print that. As I have no printer, I will visit a copying store to do the printing."

Note that the copying store will be using a printer with nonfree software.

Thus, your (a) is correct, your (b) appears to be incorrect as Stallman was doing this 3 years ago, and your (c) is incorrect as Stallman doesn't have that objection.

We futher know (c) is incorrect because Stallman at https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html write that he will use someone else's cell phone, even though it it not free.

Regarding (b), I can't tell if the 1040 at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf uses XFA forms ("deprecated in PDF 2.0", in 2017), but it appears to work in Firefox, which I believe is using free software. Even if it does, you can order the forms at https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/forms-and-publications-by-us-... or visit a post office or library (see https://www.irs.com/en/articles/local-irs-tax-forms ).

These do not require using software, so I don't see why you conclude that Stallman would have a free software objection to filing taxes at all.
a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness

Say you generate a picture with midjourney - who is/are the closest artist(s) you can find for that picture?

Not the AI, not the prompter, so the closest artists you can find for that picture are the ones who made the pictures in the training set. So generating a picture is outright copyright infringement. Nothing to do with unfairness in the sense of "artists get out compete". Artists dont get out compete - they are stolen.
I am probably cynical, but perhaps these rules and regulations are only there to be used as a tool for removing undesirables.
That’s an unfortunate name for a book. What I meant was: neither the Christian nor secular definition of miracle is appropriate for people simply wanting to do the right thing at the time. That Fry was not Jewish himself is unrelated to the morality of fighting the way Nazis treated people. And even if the holocaust was not apparent to the American population after the fall of France, everybody understood what Casablanca was about: even if you’re losing to the powers of fascism, it’s important for the survival of all good people that you collectively keep fighting.
Correct as an English word, incorrect as a Hindi etc. word, right? When a language borrows a foreign word, it doesn't bring any new sounds (or letters) with it but adapts the word to the language instead.
Possibly yes - I think that's my point with predicting peak oil wrong for 50 years. Still, right now it seems every time OpenAI/someone else adds a new content filter, someone figures out a prompt escape that works.
I think the more correct argument is that Stable Diffusion effectively did a Napster to force artists into shit licensing deals with large players who can handle the rights management. It’s unlikely that artists would’ve ever agreed to them otherwise, but since the alternative now is to have your work duplicated by a pirate model or legally gray service, what are you going to do? This seems borne out by the fact that Stability AI themselves are now retreating behind Amazon for protection.
I'm very much ashamed of this, but when the receptionist couldn't match the Booking.com price I made a reservation through Booking.com while I was in the lobby. Two minutes later the booking came through in their system and I got the keys to the room.
$15 for a turkey sandwich?

Disney: Hold my beer.
"it’s whether your parents have money"
It isn't. Or at least, write your responses assuming it isn't. Nothing you do on employer-owned devices should be considered anonymous or private.
Title shouldn't have been changed to be so clickbaity.

Real title is: "Daniel Sanabria, psychologist: ‘The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money’"
All but one of the eight authors of that paper left Google, as laid out in this thread: https://twitter.com/Contrary_Res/status/1621203016903954438?...
For example, "(1) Aidan Gomez (@aidangomezzz) left google and founded @CohereAI in September 2019".
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> you made up some history of the origin of the phrase

Providing information that you can directly check - you can find sources around with a search engine?!

Unbelievable.

Post scriptum: and there we are with a sniper. Sniper, the poster accused of "making things up", very gratuitously (even Wikipedia contains references). This is very offensive. And if you have anything to say, say it directly instead of just being uselessly irritating.
I had to do this when they let a new renter cancelled my cable internet multiple weeks before my move-out, even after I told them that the new renter's dates were wrong when they called to confirm. Regular support wanted me to sign a new contract and pay an install fee to reactivate.

It was a really shitty situation that should never have happened, but the executive team was what all customer service should strive to be. A single person, with ample time in their day to fully understand the problem and blow past all the usual roadblocks on the way to a solution. Was still a few hours on the phone, but at least I wasn't treated as though it was my fault.
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Hello everyone,

I'm currently searching for alternatives to text-ada-embedding, as I'm looking for a way to perform similarity search and embed PDF documents without having to pay OpenAI's fees.
To solve that, you have to move from the easier static made-for-one-width design (what we think of as desktop-first design) and move to fluid, reflowable design which we tend to call mobile-friendly design.

Unfortunately, it tends to take more thought because we usually want widescreen components, like sidebars, that are easier to build when you can hard-code a device width, and hard-coding width is what breaks zooming and text size changes.
Honestly, that experience was years ago, and I don't really care enough to raise a fuss about it just today, since their first-party router is "not too terrible".

About Xfinity in particular though, assuming someone else uses them, I did learn just recently that at least Xfinity allegedly offers a special decoder box (or something) that is, I believe, free of charge, and lets you hook up your router directly rather than putting it through theirs as a DMZ, and it's supposed to get them to not cut the line. Some self-install kit or something. You can only get it by asking over phone call.
A much better example than WeWork.
I remember some webdesigners specializing in cutting those layouts before there were good tools available. Sure, before that there were image maps, but with cut-up layouts you could do on-hover effects and add small animations here and there.

It wasn't exactly useful per se but then again it was done mostly for marketing purposes, to stand out, so it did the job.
Really reminds me of this short story by Ted Chiang: https://waldyrious.neocities.org/ted_chiang/liking-what-you-...
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"The toilet, where is it?" is also grammatical in English, and with the right tone "The toilet is where?" gets the point across.
Would you also want to charge commercial delivery vehicles $0.10/mile? They are also private businesses and they already pay gas tax.

Do you realized the cost will simply be passed on to the consumer in the end either way leading to higher inflation?
It just needs to be on an executable page. The processor doesn't care about anything else, so this will work with things like JIT-generated code too. The key idea is that in essentially all cases of compiler-generated code, every return address will be immediately after the call that wrote it.
I really startet to hate using Booking.com, especially because every time after using it, they start bombarding me with emails. I could probably turn them off.

Another thing that makes me laugh now: I often go to the same hotel, and Booking.com provides better rates then booking directly (no idea why, I asked multiple times for the same discounts). And for my favorite category the hotel has only one room. So booking.com constantly warns me "only 1 room left!". Yeah, I know, there is only one ;)
If you are going to argue for Elon Musk engineering credentials, you have a steep climb ahead of you: https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/159330754193247436...
A quick google says that the brain uses about 15W of power. Or 20% of total usage of the person.
This one doesn't even mention .NET in the generators.
When I did Photography at college, a lot of the work was looking at other works of art. I spent a lot of time in Google Images, diving through books from the Art section and going to galleries. Lots of photo copying was involved!

I then did works in the style of what I’d researched. I trained myself on works I didn’t own, and then produced my own.

I kind of see the AI training as similar work, just done programmatically vs physically.

Certainly a very interesting topic.

I can’t get my head around how far we’ve come on this in the last 6-12 months. From pretty awful outputs to works winning Photography awards. And prints of a dog called Queso you’d have paid a lot of money to an illustrator for.
Not the same BPF JIT, but, https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-29154/
Is it problematic? Certainly not for the employee.

Surely there's about a 10-20 year span where this person is getting ahead due to factors that are external to their work before age starts to take its toll on their looks. A bald, average-looking, overweight man and a slim, attractive man with a full head of hair with the exact same production will not be treated the same in most companies. Of the two, the more attractive guy will be seen as management material. A future face of the company. So they will get promoted first. And once they get ahead, they're not giving that lead up, because these comparisons will happen again and again at leach level.

And the Theranos woman? Her connections got her the fame she needed, and she then relied on cultish tropes to trick folks into giving her money. Even with hours in a makeup chair, she's barely even attractive at all.
What kind of Stockholm Syndrome is required for a user to believe that a transition from "bug-compatible with FIPS-certified stable releases" to "no-promises best-effort ABI stability" is desireable because now we get to do our own tech support?

I'll never in my life understand this. It's like Red Hat took the time they should have used to talk to their customers and spent it writing a Guide To Enjoying Eating Shit to lecture everyone about how great things are now.

I'd respect the company a lot more if they just said "we bought all this CentOS stuff and it turned out to be a money pit so we're throwing it out and making it a part of the beta testing process" instead of this relentless gaslighting that anyone on Earth wanted this.
Pretty cool stuff. Personally though, not a huge fan of his “the one” choice. Some of the other images in his assortment were much better imo. Each to their own of course though!
Do you think if we picked a random issue of Vogue magazine from 1975, 1985, 2005, and 2015 and asked 100 people to guess which issue comes from which year, do you really think people would be just as likely to confuse 1975 and 1985 as 2005 and 2015?
For variadic functions, what type is the built-in 'argv' variable?
In other cities they have to use the official taxi price, that is calculated by distance and time. So this is different for every city and also changes over time. Fixed prices are much better for the customer, because you know how much you pay upfront and the driver tries to get you there on the shortest and quickest route.
Part of the multiplier is that they enjoy second-mover benefits.

The US buys a lot of very expensive first-of-its kind defense bric-a-brac. The rest of the world-- both foes and allies-- can ride on this expenditure.

1. They can watch what we buy that doesn't work and skip it.
2. They don't have to lead the way. For the price of one nth-generation tank/plane/missile, they can buy several previous-generation models and zerg rush.
3. When they're ready to make their cherry-picked decisions, it's a few years down the road and overall manufacturing technology-- from semiconductor processes to materials tech-- is a little further along, so building even largely the same unit will be cheaper.
Why not? Large truck already don't pay for the damage they do to roads.
Stable Diffusion works fine on a CPU - on an AMD Ryzen 5700, approx 90s per image (and I believe comparable or faster on my old i7-6700). If you want to kick off a batch in the background while you work on something else, that's plenty fast. (I use: https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry).
I think this is why I'm so bored with modern video games - they all look the same - Unreal Engine, lots of same type of foliage and rubble and "background art" everywhere - take a random screenshot from a random aaa game and I couldn't tell one from the other.
It's not just having money, it's keeping it. Plenty if stories if lottery winners being back where they started soon enough. Plenty of poor athletes and musicians too who once had it.

It takes intelligence and discipline to build wealth and if your parents have it they may pass that on to you. Sometimes that doesn't make you wealthy but they are still good things to inherit from your parents.
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One thing that we've all been even more accepting of is the assumption that the federal debit limit will be cooperatively raised every time a new spending bill is passed. The limit was enacted for a good reason, but somehow each spending bill warrants an exception to the rule. Spending is completely out of control and all political parties should agree on this.
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Yes, or just getting attuned to the specific voice patterns of the speaker.
Anyone interested in this should also read the most ambitious XKCD ever, "Time", which is about 3,000 panels long: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/
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Despite their shady practices I still only book through Booking.com when I to unknown places for the firs time. At the end of the day Booking sticks to customers when theres an issue and all the Venues/Hotels seem to care about their relation with Booking.
That method is pretty much guarnateed to give you completely broken stacks. We (Sentry) use it as a fallback if nothing else works, and the success rate is awful.
I wonder how much RTS research could be expected to produce better materials for making electromagnets.

Even Niobium-tin only gets there via clever manufacturing techniques (e.g. the internal-tin process; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium%E2%80%93tin#Niobium_ti... ).

Is ductile HTS a major research target too, or even believed to be possible? Or is the hope that by studying RTS' we'll stumble into something that can be manufactured by chance or gain some deeper understanding of their behavior that let us design more useful materials? It seems the media spills the most ink on room temp but I agree than LN2 temp but able to be formed would be more important-- I think if YBCO worked at -70C it still would not see that much commercial use.
The article actually says that lithium batteries aren't going away any time soon. The "disruptions" the inventor calls for are more about how lithium ion batteries are made, in particular:

- Reducing energy inputs for manufacturing

- Eliminating cobalt from cathodes (largely achieved already, depending on what performance characteristics the application can live with)

- Using clean energy while mining for battery materials, and ensuring that there are regional supply chains around the world

- Expanding battery recycling

These sound more incremental than truly disruptive to me, but mining and heavy manufacturing change on a much slower cadence than microchips and software. So maybe these changes would be disruptive in context.
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