skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is part of the problem, Visa and mastercard nor the banks want to make an easy friction free micropayment system because their systems are soooo terrible they could not stop the fraud, and they love the $0.30 per translation fee that makes them the bulk of their money.

What on earth gives you the idea their systems are "terrible." They seem to be quite capable and do an excellent job of all the world's commerce. In Europe card networks charge 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit, as required by regulation, so it's clearly not an efficiency thing. Heck an ACH payment costs 1/3 of a cent in volume, and that's going to instant/real-time next year with FedNow. It's been that way for 10 years in the UK, EU, AU with Faster Payments, SEPA and NPP respectively.

However my point is that you just need a stored balance wallet, like Cash App, Venmo or PayPal, and we've had at least one of those for decades.

Literally all a micropayment is, is increment(A) and decrement(B).

There's never been a technical reason that isn't possible with pretty much any dollar amount.

Do you have any reason to believe this is the case? I've seen a pile of dead bodies in the startup space over decades trying to do exactly this and nobody wants it. But every cycle people seem to convince themselves that there are no bodies, and Visa can't process payments, etc etc, and they give it a go. Only to end up in the graveyard with everyone else.

What is it that all these failed startups missed? I'd love to know because intellectually I want micropayments too. I just don't think it's actually something people really want IRL.
>A doubling in plasma PFOA was associated with an increase in weight at 26 weeks by 1.50 kg (95% CI: 0.88–2.11), with an increase of 0.91 kg (95% CI: 0.54–1.27) for PFHxS, independent of diet groups and sex.

That's not a huge difference, so it might even be happening for all we know.
"Welcome back. We saved your progress." after F5 is hideous, when you are stuck inside gravity well of some large planet.
They would buy someone they have started a relationship with already most likely.

Your friend needs an introduction
Tune in tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel.
>I would like to see the source for your data since clearly in my case

I literally provided the links to the government sources.
As a graph “fanboy” I’m impressed, humbled, and inspired by the work that’s been done already and the direction you’re heading!

> Note that CozoDB does not have any meaningful concept of user/authentication/authorization (yet)

Please please please implement the Palantir security model unless you already have a smarter idea coming down the pipe. Palantir regularly scrubs past media from the internet, but there is a blog post that has the ACL slides from the now-private video: https://onetwo.ren/级联GraphQL访问控制/
A bomb on wheels that rides the cable before exploding.
I made the move to using glass, ceramic, metals, and cast iron for most of my daily uses regarding food and beverage.
This isn't true. I was in prison at the time and trusted that Fox wasn't totally lying and believed the election was stolen. There were almost huge riots between political persuasions and the BOP locked down all facilities (which were already under COVID lockdown, so double double lockdown). If it is all you are exposed to it very dangerously shapes what you believe independent of the narrative you want to hear. You assume they can't just blatantly lie.
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> How the hell were we supposed to believe that Mike got his hands on these so-called "packet captures"?

You're not supposed to. You're not the target audience Mike is trying to convince.

And when he's proven wrong, it's just more evidence that there's a vast conspiracy by the deep state that's out to get him and the people who believe in the Truth.

Heads he's right, tails you're wrong.
At the very least, there is disagreement between experts on what the root cause is.
Well in the case of the Shuttle both accidents that killed people were due to previously identified failure modes. At the end of the day, risk will always be a number greater than 0%. At some point someone is going to have to make a judgement call that the risk is low enough to proceed, and sometimes that call is going to be wrong.
Soyuz has only had 140 flights, and had some non lethal mission failures in recent decades. It’s a manned mission vehicle only though. Overall I don’t think you can really say one is more reliable than the other, they’re both very reliable. I’m just saying the suggestion that SpaceX approach is inherently less safe is very much contrary to the evidence.

Having said that I do think propulsive landing for crewed vehicles is pretty scary. F9 firsts stage landings have been pretty reliable for a while, and they now have several boosters with 10 or more flights, so we’ll see. It’s not like capsule landings are 100% safe either.
I was impressed at first, for maybe 5 minutes, especially for the visual aesthetics, it looks really cool! But I admit that knowing that this is just a bunch of chatgpt prompts going back and forth doesn’t really make me want to play it. Then again I was never really a fan of procedurally-generated games in general.
Good luck though!
The only time I'm annoyed by corrections is when it's halting the conversation and stopping others from progressing towards the goal.

Since this forum has threaded conversations, someone can correct grammar at the same time that someone else is progressing the discussion, so I wouldn't have a problem with it here.

Well, okay, there's another time: If they're obviously being mean about it. But I think most people would dislike that, regardless of context.
You said, literally. "Whatabout Saudi Arabia." That's called whataboutism.

Also SA is not worse than China. Saudi Arabia may have some modern day slavery going on, but China is depriving over a billion of basic freedoms and currently commiting genocide. They support North Korea, thr most oppressive regime on earth. They promote in their propaganda the worst mass murderer in History by far, Mao Zedong.

But as always, there's people like you to say "but whatabout so-and-so."
"it has all the significance that exists" in this case is a weird way of saying "there simply isn't much significance in this are", but OK!

You brought up the Spanish flu which is a GREAT example of how you're blatantly abusing stats in another way too!

You're fixated on one stat: length.

The Spanish flu killed 1 in 150 Americans. Covid killed about 1.1M so far, which is 1 in 300. So if we are choosing to treat those as comparables, what happened? We traded a year of duration - and most of 2022 was pretty damn back-to-normal compared to 2020 and 2021 in a de facto sense even if we "officially" called it a pandemic still - for 1.1 million deaths instead of 2.2 million deaths. That seems pretty good, no?

Or maybe all pandemics are different after all?
just a lil' bankruptcy with dinner, please
It plays like that "gameified" education course at work that teaches me what phishing is.
Is there evidence for widespread property damage in neighborring communities and are the individuals scarred for life, as the author predicted?

I think we need fewer such passionate voices who place such a high value on a handful of birds and am glad they are largely ignored.
I have to assume so, if not why else did Google acquire them?
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i.e not only do they make rocket engines they make the worlds most advanced and complicated rocket engines and they make so many of them you could consider them mass produced. (as far as rocket engines go that is)

These engines require a very delicate dance of chamber pressure, temperature, fuel/oxidiser mix, turbo pump speeds, etc to get started but it's all worth it in the end for their insane efficiency and thrust/weight.
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Some changes have been detrimental like trying to force Snaps onto people.
Wait what? This argument makes no sense :
- housing conditions suck
- government is a major factor in creating current housing situation
- ergo government should be more involved...

What?
Or OP just put the wrong URL. A quick search of Google News indicates Inslee has indeed signed the bill now.
Oh, you'd be surprised!
https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
Healthcare and Housing will be the end of the American civilization XD
> But it's also possible DeepMind as an institution lacked the pressure/product sense/leadership to produce consumable products/services. Maybe their instincts were more centered around R&D and being isolated left them somewhat directionless?

It seems like this is more a Google problem than a DeepMind problem though, no? Google created one of the most successful R&D labs for ML/AI research the world has ever known, then failed to have their other business units capitalize on that success. OpenAI observed this gap and swooped in to profit off all of their research outputs (with backing from Microsoft).

IMO what they’re doing here is doubling down on their mistakes: instead of disciplining their other business units for failing to take advantage of this research, they’re forcing their most productive research team to assume responsibility and correct for those failures. I expect this will go about as well as any other instance of subjecting a bunch of research scientists to internal political struggles and market discipline, i.e. very poorly.
Yeah. It doesn't really work all that well. Xerox tried it with Xerox PARC, Digital with Western Digital, AT&T with Bell Labs, Yahoo with Yahoo Brickhouse, IBM with their PC division, Google with Google X & Alphabet & DeepMind, etc.

Being hungry and scrappy seems to be a necessary precondition for bringing innovative products to market. If you don't naturally come from hungry & scrappy conditions (eg. Gates, Zuckerburg, Bezos, PG), being in an environment where you're surrounded by hungry & scrappy people seems to be necessary.

For that matter, a number of extremely well-resourced startups (eg Color, Juicero, WebVan, Secret, Pets.com, Theranos, WeWork) have failed in spectacular ways. Being well-resourced seems to be an anti-success criteria even for independent companies.
I bet the landscaping company was called after the location was already internally shortlisted by mistake, and some people would've lost face if they suddenly had to change it, so they rolled with it and doubled-down.
England is rainy. Music, literature and the royals are its reason for visiting.

We also have 1000 years of history, museums full of stuff we pillaged, the best pubs in the world, and Greggs.

Quite why anyone would want to visit any other country is a mystery.

Oh, and we're the best at sarcasm.
a few seconds after liftoff a hydraulic unit on the bottom of the booster blew off. That could have had all kinds of ramifications for further events down the road like stage separation and MECO. I'm actually surprised it maintained as good of control is it did given i'm sure that controlled at least some of the gymbaling too.

The cartwheel is on purpose. They're using the angular momentum of the flip for boost back to fling the starship off instead of the usual explosives. I think it cartwheeled multiple times because of multiple attempts to get Starship to separate. Whatever was holding Starship to the booster wasn't letting go which could have been a hydraulic failure (see my first paragraph).
It’s funny that you use the NBA as an example. You are talking about a league with less than 1,000 players (aka less than .00001% of the population of the US, and players are recruited globally), and even still there are people who are that short who has lengthy careers.

As I understand it, and I’m not going to pretend to know everything about him, Sam Altman is not a successful programmer but a successful businessman. To assert that his success is even primarily due to IQ rather than being at the right place at the right time and having connections to the right people demonstrates a dogmatic deviation to the notion that IQ is all encompassing, when in reality is it consistently shown to be poorly correlated with success.
I'm genuinely trying to understand (based on this and another comment above): wouldn't storing data for pre-training vs fine-tuning carry the same risks?
Maybe that's just the wrong link? Apparently it was really signed.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/gov-inslee-signs-bill-repea...
> it's reaching into its training set and stochastically parroting a response

Yes, this is how humans work too.

Also I hope the irony of trotting out this oft-repeated quip much like a stochastic parrot would isn't lost on you :P
Headline for me is: Washington Legislature votes to repeal death penalty
OP's link is a week old. Inslee singed the bill an hour or two ago.

https://www.kptv.com/2023/04/20/gov-inslee-signs-bill-remove...
It seems like a lot of the entries in TTS are either close sourced saas apps or something like this with limitations on customizing it. It seems clearly inevitable and likely only months away that a high quality unrestricted open source option for things like voice cloning will emerge so i'm not sure why these projects are even really bothering trying to stop it. I think in order for TTS to have its StableDiffusion moment it will just be a matter of an unrestricted easily trainable open source model.
Yeah thats just not true. You are competing against both but not on every home.
It's committing genocide on the Uyghur people. Of course we don't have a lot of evidenc, you'll say. Same thing useful people likely you said in the 1930s about the Holodomor. And there wasn't much evidence back then either for the same reason: communist dictatorship doing a hard lock down on journalism, and people like you to turn a blind eye to the horror.
Wasn't saying it did. MSAS (Japan) can be used in AU if you accept the performance degradation, but the lack of a public SBAS for the southern hemisphere is a big reason why SouthPAN is being brought online.
Seams so ^^ Too bad, that the open source model has this problem. Hope they will survive and find a fitting business model.
> I have an intimate familiarity with a wide breadth of both hardware and software.

Broadness of this statement force fear into my soul.
I’d probably be dead.
Stephen Wolfram wrote a very detailed explainer: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

Wolfram also has an intro playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfn5q-Gbg8&list=PLxn-kpJHbP...
That's what great about competition. It kicks you in the pants and reminds you you need to try.

iPhone scared the shit out of the phone market and today we have great phones from Samsung and Google which dominate the market. If everyone was trying to predict the smartphone market in 2007 they'd be talking about how Nokia missed the boat but excited to see their response (or Motorola/Sony/Blackberry etc). The market today won't necessarily be the market in 10yrs from now. It might be Google, they have a solid head start to be #2 and future #1, but who knows what will happen and whether that talent/advantage stays in Google.

It could just as easily be other companies we don't even consider serious players today.
And? So what if it is? That makes it not real in some way, or not worth consideration or study? It's affecting a lot of people, their suffering is real. The cause is significant to understanding and relieving the effects. If we determine 100% that it's mental we still don't get to shrug and say alright then that's that good luck everybody.
My current one - just white knuckling it until my 1st tranche of RSUs vest.
> because whatever tool couldn't be run from 10+ year-old Linux

Why... why would you assume that? (Why would a student even be running an obsolete distro?)

Since it's too much for you to read the article yourself, allow me to pick out the highlights:

> What raised concerns was that the system set up by VGTU only allowed two options for 2FA, Microsoft Authenticator (app notifications) and SMS.

> Microsoft Authenticator is proprietary software, meaning that users are not allowed to study, share, and improve the code without restriction. In addition, the app was only available on two platforms: Android with Google Play services or iOS, meaning that people using alternative Free Software App stores were locked out. The alternative SMS option required users to share their phone number and personal information with Microsoft, which also made students uncomfortable.

> They pointed out that the study agreement did not require them to have a working phone running Google Play services or iOS. According to Lithuanian law, educational institutions cannot discriminate against students on the basis of their social status or beliefs, and the University's 2FA restrictions could discriminate against students who refuse or are unable to install a proprietary application on their personal devices.
> Some argued that if the death penalty is eliminated, prosecutors will lose what little leverage they have to get murder suspects to cooperate with police.

This seems like a trivially testable hypothesis. Civilized countries outlawed the death penalty for murder a long time ago, do their murder suspects in fact simply refuse to cooperate with police since death isn't a possible penalty? I would assume the answer is "No".

Many European countries don't even have life-without-parole as a possible sentence. All criminals in those countries can in principle be paroled, it's just that if you're an unrepentant murdering nazi, the parole decision is really easy, "Hmm, do we want this nazi to kill a bunch more people as he's repeatedly insisted he will if given a chance? No".
(Should be fixed now!)
Whoa, where's the backstory for that recipe. Guys, I think we need more AI safety.
I think the rather dumb justification was that they had already announced they would be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons, were denied by the hotel, and thought this would somehow be a less embarrassing out than simply finding a more reasonable location without the same name.

It's really surreal to remember how unstrange it was at that point. Hair dye dripping down Guiliani's face as spearheaded a blatant lie everyone knew was a lie whilst trying to overturn an election. Just completely insanity all around, and yet, it didn't feel that far off from everything that had preceded it. Just the frog getting a little hotter.
those fatcats in PubMed with their hog legs on the neck of the proletariat!
I wonder if the author intended to use private inheritance?
Yes, he was quoting it.
COVID aftereffects? Brain fog seems to come up frequently.
>> i'm not sure why these projects are even really bothering trying to stop it.

CYA aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_your_ass

also it still requires tons of money to run, so it's likely only businesses will do it
Hmm. No thanks.
Ubuntu is shit. Use Fedora instead.
I dont think so?

You need observation studies to characterize a condition before you can claim to have any impact treating it.

The artlce you shared makes great effort to spell this out.
First real paragraph contains false or at least misleading information.

then a venture backed startup created a web application and support structure for the git program called GitHub (a web application and support structure that was mostly separate from the git project) and sold themselves to Microsoft for seven and a half billion dollars in stock.

GitHub didn’t get involved with VC until they had already completely captured the market. They were a bootstrapped, remote-first startup which later became venture-backed.

Decent review overall, excellent book, but when they created the “web application and support structure for the git program,” they were not yet venture-backed.
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> Some are unwilling to go public, because they fear the stigma and disbelief that have dogged long COVID.

This is a problem caused by anyone who confidently claims that it's not real. Regardless of any reservations about claims that it is real, it is an equally wrong claim to say it is not. We simply don't know, and stories like this are helpful for learning.
eBPF was just launched on Windows: https://microsoft.github.io/ebpf-for-windows/.

Why not use that as the tracing stack as that’s the de facto in the Linux world already?
Isn't is already sorted out? Current model full of ads is the best for business.
it has been the state of humans throughout history that we could not all universally reach a compromise without taking a drug, which makes sense given that we haven't had a lot of time to evolve since then
No worries :)
I mostly agree. With the caveat that, IME, it's easy for one bad "trigger day" to throw you completely off track, and perhaps lead to the full "relapse" you describe. Certainly not in the same sense that heroin or gambling could do so (unless maybe you have a food addiction).

One of the core skills of keeping any daily habit is to not get so discouraged by momentary lost progress that you give up the whole game; but that's easier said than done.
If the tire factory takes a day off, the truck in the field can still drive.

If the rubber factory takes a day off, the truck in the field can still drive.

etc, etc.

Can't talk to a specific single space computer with no fallback? truck in the field might as well be a potato.
FWIW, as a non-pathologist with a pathologist for a father, I can almost pass the pathology boards when taken as a test in isolation. Most of these tests are very easy for professionals in their fields, and are just a Jacksonian barrier to entry. Being allowed to sit for the test is the hard part, not the test itself.

As far as I know, the exception to this is the bar exam, which GPT-4 can also pass, but that exam plays into GPT-4's strengths much more than other professional exams.
Causal link requires an investigation to understand what is the nature of the link.

Is it possible that people who are likely to be more obese are also likely to eat garbage food delivered in low quality plastic packaging? And more healthy people are more likely to cook their food from higher quality ingredients like fresh produce that is not delivered in plastic?

See, the above explanation, I think very reasonable (though requiring a proof), could explain why obese people could have higher PFAS?

Another possible explanation (again, I am just sayin', no proof for it): imagine all food is contaminated with PFAS, but obese people have different chemistry that is worse at removing PFAS from their bodies.

This is why we say "correlation does not imply causation". Yes, highly correlated things are interesting and require further investigation. Even if PFAS is not causing obesity we still might learn something interesting about either PFAS or obesity or something else that is connected to both.
Same for me, I find Copilot to be a huge waste of time overall. It has a tendency to complete fields that don’t even exist, doesn’t check types, and it’s slow as a cow. It also comes in place of perfectly good deterministic intellisense when it has no idea what I want to write.

It’s helpful for autocompleting pure algorithms but that’s about it. And even then, I feel like I waste time reviewing its output and making sure it does what it says it does. I can write these algorithms myself slower but more reliably.

It’s really not worth its price.
GPT-4 beats elite workers in sentiment analysis - https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-cro...

The idea that bespoke models match this kind of performance is a joke. NLP is solved and GPT-4 is in fact a game changer.