skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and disagree.

Law firms make money, like any professional services firm, by billing hours. Fewer billable hours means less income for the partners. So while it's the low hanging fruit technically, it will resist as long as possible. It will be clients saying no to paying $250-$500 an hour for work that AI could do better and for free that will force the issue. I foresee more legal work moving in-house.

Medicine is a different beast. There's an acute shortage and a different incentive model (not run as partnerships). Big hospital/medical/insurance firms will invest most heavily in AI.
No recreational drugs involved in this case but thanks for the heads up.
This is partially correct. FUTA is a federal payroll tax that in part funds unemployment insurance and is fixed and a pretty small amount. The other part, SUTA (State Unemployment TAx) is usually only fixed in the first few years of a business' existance, and then is annually adjusted by a bunch of factors including industry, unemployment claims, completeness of employer reporting and penalties for outstanding assessments. In practice, too many claims can land an employer in a situation where SUTA can go up substantially. In my state, SUTA ranges between .2% and 5.4% (of pay), so unemployment claims can be quite expensive if they result in an increase in SUTA.
> the fact that so many people think exactly like you do is why those proposals don't have any chance of being treated seriously

No, they’re impossible because the US political system is deadlocked by design and not conducive to controversial reforms, not just because not enough people believe in them.

In fact I’d argue most people believe reform in various areas is possible, as evidenced by the fact that they continue bothering to vote for congress.
For anyone else not making sense of the old method, that's because it should have '(previous step's result) + (carried 2)'
Always look on the bright side of life
Do you think the card catalog down at the local library is sentient?
Maybe that's not enough data, though!
Is the card catalog for NY Public Library sentient?
Maybe that's still too local.
Is Google sentient?
Everyone with a clue would admit these are all examples of "knowledge"
It's the same parlor trick, with fancier algos. It's not intelligence. It won't produce a human-level AI.
Period.
China had never ruled over the island. It called it a province for ~ 7 years before Japan took Taiwan and actually ruled over it. The US was allied with KMT after they took over from the Qing dynasty. And continued to be allies after CCP pushed KMT out. When China attacked Taiwan the U.S. stepped in.
Tiny Polystyrene Particles Detected in the Brain Just Two Hours After Ingestion
The noscript tag is the correct way to do this. Server side, when you first generate page content you have no idea if the client has scripting enabled, which is why you include a noscript element to advise the user what to do, or redirect them using a meta tag inside the noscript element.

So all these suggestions below to use server side generated HTTP headers and 302 (or 301) redirects are incorrect...because you won't know, on the first page hit, if the client has scripting enabled. At this point in time only the client knows if scripting is available. Also browser capability sniffing based on headers sent from the client in the first request is not reliable.

For more info see:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...
We paid those engineers a salary. Some of that salary is due to the cost of self funding their education. Now that is publicly funded, I would expect a more european salary as opposed to a american one. To do otherwise feels like socializing the losses and privatizing the profits for a entire class of people who are generally better off than average.
This is the easy answer.

Some countries have teleworking visas (Mexico, I believe), but a lot of companies don’t want to deal with the potential tax implications.

Doing it all completely legally is hard and expensive. The world isn’t setup for it in most cases.
Just for kicks, what do you think is the reason for that curve at the end of the hockey stick diagram? Because there's quite a bit of work that's been done there, I don't know what you need more!
But don’t be silly. Obviously safety is about avoiding harm to humans and avoiding damage to third parties. “Avoiding explosions” is usually a good partial proxy to achieve this goal but not always. In terms of rocketry you can’t reliably avoid explosions. So you do other things like launching towards an ocean, maritime exlusion zones, NOTAMs. Even with manned rockets we usually can’t entirely avoid explosions but instead furnish the manned compartment with some means of an escape system.

Have you thought about why SpaceX a company headquartered in Hawthorne, California is testing their rockets from Boca Chica, Texas? Wouldn’t it be so much simpler to just wheel the rocket out from their HQ and launch it right from there? Of course it would be, but when things predictably go wrong they would rain metal shrapnel on lovely Californian suburbs. The whole reason why they built a launch pad on a coast is safety. Not safety by not exploding things, but safety by making sure that when things explode people and other people’s property will be unharmed.
It's getting late here in Germany. Thank you for your input so far. I probably should have put the city name (Chattanooga) in the post. Let me hit on the two aspects so far.

My impression is that the US goverment can't really be relied on to help people dig themselves out of such holes. Those social programs are designed to prevent people from starving not put people in a position where they are able to efficiently be able to contribute to society.

I am not aware of substance abuse issues. There is psychological baggage though related to parental abuse and being trans.

Edit: Yeah i should really sleep now.
Typically there’s an oncall rotation. So your oncall periodically (like 1 week out 4-6). It’s not something I love but I like the rest of the work. Also the oncall is just the L1 triage. For anything more complicated a lot more people get paged in until the thing is handled.

That’s my experience so far anyway.
Never thought I'd see such an excellent article from The Daily Mail, although I see it's adapted from a book. I'll just pull some choice quotes...

> Often, I'd even be eating UPF (ultra-processed foods) during the call. But it felt increasingly like reading about lung cancer while smoking a cigarette.

>Without additives, she told me, the base industrial ingredients of UPF would probably not be recognisable as food by our tongues and brains.

> Without salt, sweetener and flavouring, I realised, my mid-morning snack would probably be unpleasant to eat.

I'm going to order and read this book, although I know it will be a little preaching to the choir because I already have a pretty good diet of a lot of actual food ... but I could still be doing better!
Just one more thing to break. I’ll take a standard manual door any day.
Reuters uses a really soft paywall. You can just open in a private tab/window and it won't remember.
I think the issue is that your average Duolingo user doesn't have an intrinsic reason for learning a language -- anecdotally it seems many are just trying to fill their time in a way that's marginally more productive than playing a mobile game or scrolling social media.
Ah. Then I must avoid you, to be sure. Thanks for the trite advice.
Garmin I’m fairly certain you can do everything ‘locally’ over usb and a laptop. I think Connect requires an account though
My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)
A Primitive LLM Enabled Todo List
A Very Primitive GPT4ALL Based Todo List with Flask and Python
No it certainly is not normal, and in the case of my friend only started within the last six months.

There's more information here so you can get an idea what I'm talking about: https://visualsnowsyndrome.com/
They aren't upset about $8, they just don't see any value in paying, and the change disrupted something they did value.
The GDR was never formally part of the USSR just under it's thumb.
Many countries wouldn’t be happy with this arrangement, USA included.

If you show up at the border of the US asking for a tourist entry and declare your intent to work while in the country, even remotely for a foreign country, there is a very good chance that you aren’t getting admitted.

Canada once gave me trouble on a day trip because I had a tool bag in my car. The US is much pickier about these things.
I mean, what others report to you will be filtered through your sensory organs. What's to believe and what's to doubt?

(the mistake of the solipsists is the assumption that they themselves are real)
It's a side of effect of purges and centralization. It changes from a bureaucracy to giant game of telephone where the message is their interpretation of what Xi wants.
Sure. TPT-PV systems are pretty close to the same concept, with a bigger LCL filter on the output. IMO the tricky part is all the compensation and software design required to minimize ground leakage currents, since that needs real-time analysis of the grid state. I've seen some neat tricks with common-mode current injection off the DC bus using another converter.

Most of the inverter designs offload all the complexity to the software controller in an attempt to keep the power component choice and placement simple. The cool control stuff is mostly available in published IEEE papers, particularly from 2015-2020. It's not open-access, but it's definitely easier to get ahold of IEEE papers than a PV inverter. Once you know what you need to implement, the rest is just software engineering.
China is simply normalizing the notion that borders are ephemeral. Who’s entitled to them and where they are should be left to powerful states, like China, to dictate.
The part about Saturn’s deep rotation is very interesting. Voyager in the 80s measured Saturn’s rotation (based on radio signals) at 10h39m, while Cassini itself before the Grand Finale measured Saturn’s rotation (again based on radio signals) at 10h45m. Now with the Grand Finale data, Cassini has measured the “deep” (core) rotation at 10h33m.

All the measurements are regarded as correct. The explanation for the 6 minute disagreement between Cassini in 2004-05 (10h45m) and Voyager in 1980-81 (10h39m) was proposed to be slippage between Saturn’s magnetic field and Saturn’s core causing the magnetic field to be slowing down (and presumably speeding up) over time. The explanation for the difference between Cassini’s radio measurements of magnetic field rotation (10h45m) and Cassini’s Grand Finale measurements of core rotation (10h33m) is that Saturn likely has pretty extreme differential rotation: the core rotates once every 10 hours and 33 minutes, and the concentric layers of its atmosphere rotate progressively slower.

I’m guessing the core is throwing out a steady magnetic field but there is enough magnetically charged material in the slower-rotating layers to drag on that magnetic field. Likely that there’s some grand cycle going on: as the magnetic field rotation is slowed by charged atmosphere drag, the core begins to exert more force on the atmosphere through magnetism in addition to friction, speeding the atmosphere’s rotation back up. Because of the massive amounts of material involved, there is a massive amount of inertia, and the system overshoots equilibrium. It’s getting very speculative and well outside my layman’s expertise but I think this would predict there are periods during the cycle where the atmosphere of Saturn actually rotates faster than the core does! I think it’s also possible that the cycle goes from “significantly slower than core” to “slightly slower than core” and back?

At this point I am well into fantastical sci-fi scenarios but I can also imagine the differential rotation being too strongly determined by friction and other non-magnetic forces, so all of this charged drag is concentrating certain types of material (highly affected by the magnetic field, relatively free to move) into a thin shell some distance from the core, and that shell expands and contracts in diameter as it tries to find the specific height in the atmosphere that is currently rotating at the same speed as the magnetic field is. So like a marble inside a balloon, and the balloon is expanding and contracting, except there’s a bunch of gas inside and outside the balloon obscuring all of this from our sight.

(Would love astrophysicists to chime in)
Op was poking at a stereotype, relax and try not to take things so personally.
Autumn:
Vendémiaire (from French vendange, derived from Latin vindemia, "vintage"), starting 22, 23, or 24 September
Brumaire (from French brume, "mist", from Latin brūma, "winter solstice; winter; winter cold"), starting 22, 23, or 24 October
Frimaire (from French frimas, "frost"), starting 21, 22, or 23 November
Winter:
Nivôse (from Latin nivosus, "snowy"), starting 21, 22, or 23 December
Pluviôse (from French pluvieux, derived from Latin pluvius, "rainy"), starting 20, 21, or 22 January
Ventôse (from French venteux, derived from Latin ventosus, "windy"), starting 19, 20, or 21 February
Spring:
Germinal (from French germination), starting 20 or 21 March
Floréal (from French fleur, derived from Latin flos, "flower"), starting 20 or 21 April
Prairial (from French prairie, "meadow"), starting 20 or 21 May
Summer:
Messidor (from Latin messis, "harvest"), starting 19 or 20 June
Thermidor (or Fervidor*) (from Greek thermon, "summer heat"), starting 19 or 20 July
Fructidor (from Latin fructus, "fruit"), starting 18 or 19 August

???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
Now it makes sense to me. Explosive decouplers and reusable components are somewhat incompatible.
woops thank you
I agree with your points, but I submit that regulatory capture creates significant barriers to entry.
A similar notation for fractional units is used to write formulas for tinting paint. Sometimes you'll see paint color formulas written as a matrix of fractional fluid ounces for each colorant, but they skip some fractions so that the positional values are sometimes 2 or 3. I suppose this makes it a base 4 representation.
> With robust end-to-end encryption in place, there's no need to rely on the trustworthiness of the backend

Actually there is. The backend transferring information is the sole point of failure. While the message content might be secure, nothing other than that ever is. In fact, an E2EE app could send unencrypted messages in the payload or the private keys and you still wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

This is why I question WhatsApp's effectiveness in the first place.

> Even with Telegram's encryption, messages can be compromised through a straightforward SIM swap

2FA - Cloud Passwords have existed for a long time. Most people fail to mention it when mentioning SIM swap, which is a physical device security issue, a responsibility of the user.

> I recommend checking out Moxie Marlinspike's Twitter thread on this topic for further insight.

I'm sorry but I consider that misinformation at worst and propaganda at best.

He thinks that any encryption that's not his, is 'plain-text'. On top of that, he's very much the reason why Signal was never released on F-Droid. He's got some weird biases against other tech that he can go to any lengths to defend it.

Not only are his Twitter threads loaded with bias but the language he chooses to use, I'd consider that plain misinformation. He does not have any authority to claim things he can't prove.
Good listen at 1.5 speed.
There is a common experience that people have of sleeping on a problem, and having the subconscious brain keep working on it in the background and waking up with some insight. In my experience, when your brain doesn’t have any pressing problems from daily life to solve, when you just have nothing to do and nothing in mind, this is when the subconscious starts working on the really big problems and starts to deliver all kinds of insights.
You're right, Duolingo is of negative benefit.

Good, motivated language learners will quickly discard it and proceed and progress with more effective methods. People who stick with duolingo will end up getting something like the old 'highschool French'. Some basic familiarity with the language but gained through an unsatisfactory, frustrating learning process that actually hinders them from getting to any degree of fluency.
(not a climate scientist)
Also, for the graph showing "peaks" - it seems to me that the "pattern of peaks" is constant through your graph, but the average temperature rises continually through the peaks.

If I were to guess, the peaks are things like volcanoes, currents and such, which are "constant" through time. The rise in CO2 is shown in the graph by the median not being a flat line.
I may be incorrect and they are now using explosive bolts. I've seen those mentioned elsewhere.

However the engines were on the whole time, producing >1G of thrust along the direction of the booster. So that force is going to hold the StarShip and the booster together. But you would expect some lateral force from air friction to push the stack apart at some point.
No “user/kernel mode”, yikes, esp when executing third party apps. I guess since all the third party code is executing in a VM, this could be much safer with verification up front and no dynamic code execution.
The problem with your argument is that you conflate procedural arguments with arguments on the merits.

No person is entitled to an account on a website. However, it is sometimes bad and sometimes good to ban people, depending on who they are and what they were doing.

I believe it's good to ban a Nazi and bad to ban a critic. I see no inconsistency here.

It's attractive to think there's some simple rule (like ban nobody) that lets you get out of deciding whether people are good or bad, but that's a trap.
Same! My house is the most expensive thing I own, I worked incredibly hard to get it. I am proud of it. I take care of it the way I want it. I don't care what some other un-invested party has to say about how I live.

> they've done nothing but enforce rules everyone has agreed to

But that's not really true is it? Most people buying a house in America do not have access to HOA by-laws until after signing. It's increasingly hard to even find homes that don't belong to a HOA unless you have the financial means to buy wherever you like. Plus, HOAs aren't opt-in/out either.

It doesn't matter if a majority of you decide on rules, unless the same majority is willing to fork out money to pay my mortgage+taxes, Idgaf what you have to say.

> I want to live in a neighborhood with others who feel the same way.

If you really believe this, you can go ahead and disband the HOA. You don't need to enforce with a stick if this is really the case.
Thanks for recommending Language Transfer. I browsed the site a bit (I'm on mobile, at an airport) but can't quite figure out in what way it's different to other methods. If you could say a few words about your experience using it, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks!
She needs to move.

The psychological pressure we trans people are under in red states is breathtaking. Many of us are losing our health care. This is not a minor thing for us -- speaking personally, I'd rather die.

Even if it hasn't happened directly to her, it will have happened to her friends. We all talk. It's hard not to empathize with one another. I myself feel like I'm a tiny leaf on a river of grief, most days.

Just today, another one of us was shot in Atlanta.

Your friend needs to get to a sanctuary state. Someplace like California or Washington.

This will be very difficult. But we're literally now refugees.

Watch what happens to us. Learn what lives in the heart of the America. Disgust is appropriate.
Maybe a difference between prompts or v3.5 vs v4. I asked ChatGPT v4 and it gave an answer that used capnproto::serialize_packed::read_message. I asked it about the difference between read_message and deserialize_message and this is the response it gave (truncated, as it got some parts wrong):

> In summary, you should use read_message when working with packed messages and deserialize_message when working with unpacked messages. Make sure you choose the appropriate serialization and deserialization functions based on the format in which your messages are stored or transmitted.

Google was surprisingly little help on the topic. At best it pointed me to https://capnproto.org/encoding.html#packing which covers the general idea but glosses over parts.

The problem with ChatGPT is you can never be certain or confident that its answers are correct. It’s as useful as rolling dice in guessing a number sometimes. With the training from the internet, the dice are loaded, but the answer is still likely to be wrong because it just assembles words together.
> Trivially explained as "even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Trivial, vacuous, and wrong. It is not plausible to correctly predict the output of a serious Python program by coincidence. See the detailed examples in the paper -- one of which was pseudocode, not Python -- to see how silly this claim sounds.

> First, it was published by Microsoft, a company that absolutely has a horse in this race

Firstly, this is evidence that you are neither very familiar with Microsoft, nor with academic or industrial research labs. Microsoft Research (the affiliation of the authors) is practically a different company, and run more like a university lab. It is somewhat deeply insulting to their (often still primarily academic) researchers to suggest that they would publish a misleading puff piece to benefit the commercial arm.

Secondly, while the paper describes itself as qualitative, you can reproduce the major claims yourself (and I have).
Now do <blink> :)
I learned the term while learning french, working for Médecins sans Frontières Suisse. It was most definitely translated as démerde, not débrouiller.
Maybe, but there is a balance to be found, if the AI asked you for perfect clarity, it would be more like a programming language than a natural language model.

The whole point of GPTs is that they are able to guess what you need based on incomplete prompts and how people usually react to these incomplete prompts. Prompt engineering is the art of telling just enough information for the AI to understand the specificity of your request, but still let it fill in the blanks.
> 1. That Duolingo has the ability to teach a language to the US Foreign Service Institute standard. I have reasons to doubt that.

My point is that how many people here have put in the requisite time to even find out. I’d wager less than 0.01%. Duolingo have come out and said their long term aim is for each course to get you to B2 standard eventually. I’d say they’re not there yet but they’re on their way. The other thing to bear in mind is that we’re looking at this from an English perspective. The Duolingo English language test is widely accepted at universities as a demonstration of English proficiency so they must be doing something right in that regard.

> Several years ago I completed the entire French tree in Duolingo and I am in no way proficient: I can understand a bit but I can't really formulate a sentence beyond the absolute basics.

What do you mean by “completed the French tree”. Do you mean you went through and unlocked every lesson once. Or did you gold every single lesson? There is a significant difference. You unlock extra vocabulary and the lessons became more focused on writing and listening comprehension when you complete the higher levels of each lesson. This is now baked into the new format as you go along.

> Now, there's clearly a significant cost difference between the two approaches. My point is that an hour of study isn't really a good metric when it comes to comparing methods of study.

I disagree with this. Hours of study is an important metric. You need proficiency on a standardised test along with hours studied for a true measure of method efficiency. And as you mentioned cost is also a massive factor. Most people cannot afford 65 hours of one to one tuition.