skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I find Siri the most powerful popular voice assistant out there. Once you starting using Shortcuts, you can use Siri for literally anything. With just holding the power button, and a couple words, I can start tracking a run, schedule message a friend, record my thoughts, close all my tabs that contain the word "youtube"... And so much more!

Shortcuts & Siri is honestly the main reason I switched from Android to iOS.
Oh! Here's some references:

"Amazon Black Friday Ad Glitch Cost Advertisers Up to Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars" (28 November 2022): https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-black-friday-glitch-...

"Facebook Ad Systems Error Causes Significant Overspend on Many Accounts" (23 April 2023): https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-ad-systems-er...

"Facebook's Ad System Went Nuts and Ripped Off Customers" (26 April 2023): https://gizmodo.com/facebook-meta-ads-glitch-overcharge-refu...

Notice the trend? (i.e., Ad systems "error" causes overspend on ads customers never saw).

Are people still buying ads with FB and Amazon? Yes.
The change from when I was a kid has been enormous. It used to be that there were places that were basically just a cloud. You open the door, there's a cloud inside with people sitting in it, chatting, eating, whatever. I remember getting sent by my dad to buy his cigs, and I'd try to hold my breath on my way to the counter.

Nowadays, I hardly see any smokers. They still have them outside night spots, but it's not many. I only caught the tail end of it, but it used to be all over the place, every single kind of establishment had to accommodate smoking in some way.

On this issue, it's worth looking up the statistic epistemology around how we discovered that smoking is bad for you. At the time a very famous statistician (Fischer?) maintained that we couldn't actually tell whether it was causal or not. In the end the evidence from various studies ruled out various competing hypotheses, for instance that people who are going to get cancer will somehow be more prone to smoke. IIRC they found a dataset of doctors and found the ones who smoked tended to die of cancer more often than those who didn't.
But that's because they want a phone that happens to be more expensive, not because they (necessarily) have a greater capacity to afford it than (all) those of us with cheaper ones, was my point.

Obviously there are people with a phone choice that has been limited by their ability to spend, I'm not denying that, I'm just saying you don't have to look nearly as far as billionaires for those who aren't.

If you prefer, I could equally have phrased it as people buying iPhones as frequently as they come out or not, either way needn't be billionaires; in the former case becoming a billionaire is unlikely to make you suddenly see that as an excess.
I called a Lyft the other day and saw that there was an option for priority pickup, which flags a driver who's close to you but going to pick up someone else and has him pick you up instead.

In the moment it was nice: I was running late and that got me on track. But it seems really really bad for the ecosystem in general. I'm not sure I can rely on being picked up at a reasonable time again without paying for it. And once everyone realizes that and starts paying more, then we're back to where we were before.

If Uber isn't doing that, maybe it's time to give them a try.
He genteified *his street. He owns her home - at least on paper.
The amount is largely enough for a family of 5 with only one partner working, relative to where they live (DC in this case). I think $250K-$300 + Housing + Transport (I suppose for their safety?) is largely enough.

After that it's up to the person in question...
> Such proclamation of bad faith are an attempt to suppress the expression of opinions like my own, you have tacitly declared my comment to be a violation of the forum rules and therefore deserving of suppression.

No, it's much broader than that. It's a claim that your statement is outside the bounds of what a human could honestly think, and therefore that it's invalid anywhere, not just here.

"If you're being honest, you agree with me. If you disagree, you are being dishonest." That's either very narrowminded, or a very cheap rhetorical gambit.
It wouldn't work because you still have to use your eyes to guide you to the spot since it can't be done by touch.

A simple demonstration of this back from the 80s: My mother was blind. Along come microwave ovens with their flat control surfaces with push buttons behind. She had no way to find the buttons without inadvertently triggering wrong buttons. Labeling them would have been fine if she was alone but a problem with sighted people in the house. She solved it with a crude jig to let her locate buttons without applying pressure, but that was a two-handed operation that required concentration and still wouldn't work on a true touch screen.
I wrote a few things I use all the time.

1. A youtube bookmark manager for Emacs using Sqlite as a back end.
- You can keep track of individual videos.
- Manage series that span multiple videos.
- remember interesting moments.

2. A system to help manage my finances by tracking what percent of my assets are in a given category. This helps with maintaining, say, a 60%-40% stock vs bond split across multiple financial institutions.
How can we get these patches in Ubuntu?
> If I built a company and eventually found myself in extremely high value (ie, 9 figures), I'd be looking to retire ASAP. That would be it. I won capitalism. Time to spend the rest of my life on Maui sipping Mai-Tais on the beach.

There is strong correlation between people who find themselves in 9 figures (outside of inheritance) and people who have completely opposite worldview from yours. If you make money to retire to Maui, you will take the first off ramp which allows you to do it which is way before you get into 9 figures.
Easy:

- I can hail an Uber of my choice before stepping off the plane

- I get free Uber rides via AMEX

- I don't carry cash

- Taxis are hit and miss when it comes to cleanliness
Maybe if it warms up the cable it could speed up oxidation?
Palantir demos AI to fight wars but says it will be ethical
Exactly, some airports like LGA require you to cross a highway to get to any walkable area
If ChatGPT perfected Butt-Head's nervous laugh tic, perhaps we'd all be less likely to believe it.
The Garland/Barrett shenanigans were at least strategic. Kavanaugh was even worse in my opinion. There was nothing special about that man. They could have easily dumped him as soon as the credible accusation against him came out. There are plenty of other judges with similar ideology and opinions that could have replaced him and provided the exact same impact on the court. There was no strategic reason to stick by him. The only reason was to prove a point about not caring about these accusations.

The only way that any more than a couple Republicans vote to remove Thomas or Gorsuch is if they see an opportunity to replace an older conservative justice with a younger conservative justice.
The Democrats did not do the same thing. The obstruction of Merrick Garland is novel and unique.
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You should read this before jumping to the conclusion that this is an outrage.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/the-billi...
Cloud Suck
They are supposed to be accountable to Congress.

Their ability to interpret rights and issues is checked by Congress actually passing specific legislation on those issues, or even better constitutional amendments.

They are also directly accountable in terms of confirmation and impeachment.

The seeming rise in power of the Supreme Court is in some ways a long tail symptom of the continuing lack of efficacy of Congress to fulfill their duties as lawmakers and proportional representatives of the citizens they serve.
Because ProPublica just finished a very intensive investigation uncovering this behavior that Justice Thomas tried to keep secret. There were similar stories about Breyer 7+ years ago, I'm sorry if you didn't hear about it but there was plenty of coverage. It was less of a big deal though, because Breyer publicly disclosed it instead of hiding it and lying about his lifestyle. Here's one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/1...

Another (notice anything missing in Justice Thomas's section?): https://abovethelaw.com/2014/06/underneath-their-robes-a-det...

Another: https://fixthecourt.com/2014/12/thanks-private-jet-ride-just...

Here's one about RBG: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/scotus-justices-rac...

> Clarence Thomas took two paid-for trips

Did he...

Here's one about how rich the various justices are: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breyer-roberts-ginsburg...

Another: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/20/supr...

Here's one about the perks of being a Supreme Court justice, which omits a lot of Thomas's perks since he illegally failed to disclose them: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-perks/teaching-...
It's funny you should cite Blade Runner which was the canonical case of a Director's Cut being very different from the editor's cut. A studio-produced film is made by a committee as a commerical product. One they can recall. There's actually tons of subtle edits than can happen between a theatrical release and a home video release that barely get noticed.

Not to mention Blade Runner was a book first and a remake most recently. There's no canon, it's fiction. And man, canon. The Christian Bible is edition of pure convenience based on centuries of oral fable. Trying to stamp a canonical version is anathema.
> The risks of using steel cable for power are going to be corrosion/rust

Probably fine in Sudan in late spring, tbh. They have to pump water up from the ground with electric pumps, hence the need for cabling, so I guess they don't have much rain right now.
A custom, DIY smart monocle from off-the-shelf parts, 3d printing, and custom electronics: 1080p60hz, 8-11hrs of battery life on a belt-clip battery + computer combo, has wifi & lte/cellular, can run ML models on device. One third the weight of upcoming Apple AR/VR glasses and one-sixth the cost. Just having it working has increased my efficiency a ton without obstructing vision or requiring me to look at secondary monitors or phone.

Working on replacing my wireless keyboard and trackpad with some "gloves" so I can use it while on hikes or just generally outside. Then, gonna integrate some custom AR and ML/GPT.
meanwhile MJ smoking is way up. even if not carcinogenic compared to tobacco the act of taking all that hot smoke and its fine particulate matter into one's lungs is unlikely to make a person more healthy
If colorblind people were trying to indoctrinate kids and make them feel like they too might be colorblind because those children sometimes ponder if they see colors correctly, I'd be pretty annoyed too.

Even the simple dumbing down of gay rights to talk in schools about people who love others of the same gender, just let them love whoever they want! You have been free to love whoever you want for centuries. Im a male that loves my father, and would help a few of my friends fight to the death if they were being attacked. I love them. That has nothing to do with being gay. Why do we even need to have a flag raised at school that talks mainly about the right to stick sexual organs into other people? Because that's the only distinction I see between me loving my male friends and me being gay.
I was over in Germany a few years ago and kind of shocked at how much smoking was happening. My wife and I had initially picked a table outside a restaurant to enjoy the weather, but quickly moved inside when we realized that outside tables are essentially the de-facto smoking section.

I think Marijuana smoking is increasing - it feels like I can't go a day anymore without smelling pot smoke somewhere. (I live in the Portland, OR area)
I ran into something very similar in DC. They let me unlock a scooter that was in a 'no-go' zone and began billing me, however it wouldn't operate because I was in that zone. I ended up having to walk it over a mile to get it to function, while it was billing me the whole time.

So frustrating they even would let you unlock these in the first place. I'll never use it again.
Yeah I think the same pool of drivers drives for both, so it will simply vary based on the current demand/supply conditions
5g is a name for a collection of hundreds of improvements to the cellular network I have been told, yes by people wanting us to make applications where you needed low latency for marketing purpose. In the end they made something that bragged about low latency that actually did not even need low latency.

They know themselves there is no such thing as "5g" but try to explain that to the public. They said the low latency and the high bandwidth is also possible with 4g but they're just upgrading a lot of stuff.

I don't think they're selling a lie, they're just upgrading a network and have some breaking changes.
You definitely got the better deal :)
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Buying is always going to be an option, but IMO internal search products are going to go the same way as data analytics products with a lot of open source tools and very deep customizations that allow organizations to tailor to their specific needs.
For my PhD thesis I did a calculation that was something like 50 pages to derive

https://inspirehep.net/files/20b84db59eace6a7f90fc38516f530e...

using a wavepacket basis parameterized in phase space. I wrote extensive unit tests to confirm everything, I even know I got the signs right.

Errors are really common in “mathematical physics” papers, some of the papers that inspired that work had errors in the middle of long calculations that got past the peer reviewers and probably everybody who didn’t try to reproduce the results.

Although the calculation was correct, the result wasn’t as useful as we’d hoped because we had no idea how to calculate the Maslov index because a periodic orbit in classical mechanics is no longer a periodic orbit when you consider the change in the shape of the wavepacket and with no periodic orbit there is no topological invariant. My thesis advisor and another student were able to reuse the math for something where they didn’t need the Maslov index so it wasn’t a complete loss.
Stack Exchange itself is underrated, it's just that Stack Overflow is really bad.
Back in my day it was easy: Mac OS used the 4-character "creator code" to check what applications your user could open, so you just set the creator code to a known allowed one and could run anything you want.

Of course you don't have access to run ResEdit, so your bring your own copy of that on a flash drive with its creator code already fixed.

"RASM" was my go-to. That was the remote access status monitor, and any user account had access to it.

For the less technically inclined, you could create a custom "Launch Application" toolbar button in Apple Works (or Claris Works before that). It would give you an error that you don't have permission to launch the application, and then it would open anyway.
I spent a lot of time in my career directing it upward, but it's not wrong to blame your peers either.

Boundary setting is a two way street. There's a certain ratio of 'no' in your responses and if you don't hit it then you don't have a healthy relationship. And as the member of a group dynamic, you're letting down your peers.

But the real shocker was when I caught developers agreeing with me in philosophical discussions and then sitting around doing nothing when slack occurred in the schedule. It didn't occur to me that developers would agree with engineering philosophy only to appear high minded, and then defect when the cameras weren't rolling. Boy was that a hard (and angry) week.
Siri recently started mispronouncing simple words that it never mistook before on my iPhone. Phrases like "It's 65 degrees outside" now sound like "It ess 65". Really odd.
Two pretty consistent frustrating issues I have are:

Me: "Hey Siri, tell my Mike I'll send that document over in ten mins. How about pizza for lunch. I also spoke to Jenny and she would come for lunch too."

Siri: "Calling mike."

So cannot tell the difference between 'tell' and 'call', however Siri could use context and assume if I'm talking for quite a while after saying maybe tell or maybe call then it's most likely 'tell' because of the sentences afterwards. This is by far the most frustrating.

Second issue is:

Me: "Hey Siri - what's in my calendar today."

Siri: "Playing alternative radio station."

Such a tremendous amount of times music has started playing, I think the top thing on their "can't understand" code is to try and play music. About once a week Siri will take something I say about anything and start playing music instead. It's infuriating. I've deleting music from my phone but I can't delete it from TV / Homepod Mini / Mac.

Edit: I've thought of a third which isn't so bad.

Me: "Ask Hassan has the mortgage has gone out yet?"

Siri: "Here's your message. `has the Moorgate has gone out yet.`"

It will replace random words in sentences with locations, and locations, in the UK, any word it cannot get, it will first assume I'm talking about any town in the UK and use one of those. It is ludicrous the amount of priority it gives to names of towns, I've even had tiny villages inserted into sentences before.
But bypassing DOM is the main point when you have to draw and animate a lot of stuff quickly.

I say let the browsers use these low level API for speeding up DOM and CSS. But also allow people to bypass this layer.

Back in the day I migrated (more like recreated) a web RTS from DOM to canvas and getting rid of all that HTML and CSS was a massive relief. Deleted so much markup, styles and js all while improving performance massively.
tldr: read "shop craft is soul craft"

in theory it could have been solved by a more competitive market.

I believe most shortfalls in our current market economy stem from a lack of competition and then subsequent cartel style collusion for the few big players, high barriers to entry that are fortified through regulatory capture, and a tendency for lots of small players in tight competition to consolidate over time into fewer bigger players. (I think we need to disincentiveze consolidation in all but the most egregious cases of natural monopolies like most public utilities)

this answers so many questions from "why is it so hard to work on my new car" to "why do my tennis shoes wear out so fast".

there are also cultural factors. people using the tools aren't the same craftsmen who build, repair, and sell them. each of these disciplines is now siloed and few companies are putting real effort into considering this holistic lifecycle view of their products.

then when these options do exist people may not be aware, or obtaining them is more immediately expensive or less convenient in the short term. or they simply don't care.
I'm excited for a GPT or similar voice assistant. Asking siri basic questions and having it tell me it will send me some links on my phone is annoying. I have homepods in the living room and they aren't good for much besides music.
Water is very destructive and yet, where would be be without it. Same goes for oil and gas.
It’s pretty simple. Selling storage is a crap margin business. The provider makes no money on selling you those lower tiers. They only make money when you upgrade and buy more storage than what you use.

They don’t want to sell you a cheap commodity. They want to sell you convenience at higher margin.
I was sober at the time but yes I agree in this case.
At a local coffee shop they had paintings for sale of stormy ocean scenes with oil rigs in the mist. I still regret not buying one (it was pretty reasonably priced)
Can someone explain how vector databases can be used as long term memory for AI (and LLMs specifically)?

Isn't there still a token limit as to how much ChatGPT can hold in working memory?

Is the goal that ChatGPT can query the vector database directly to get information out, and if so, how is that different than using a regular database?
It's in the article from this thread.

Their is also a quote from the late RBG comparing efforts to stop this to some sort of stalinism.

Either way, what is absolutely important is that any enforcement is absolute and not selective / at the discretion of a prosecutor. There is no unbiased person when it comes to potentially shifting the balance of power of the SCOTUS. We can't only be shining a spotlight on justices from one party.
Billionaires typically keep pilots on staff and pay them full-time. These pilots only work for the wealthy or maybe corporate clients and have a nice ratio. Maintenance crews I‘m speculating but in these sorts of situations there are usually a select few companies who are known in that world.
If you're asking me what the scientific consensus is or what the balance of evidence shows, start with this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat#Association_with...
> the SC can also overrule those laws as long as they can come up with a reasonable justification.

They don't even have to be reasonable justifications, judging by the justifications they've used for other rulings recently.
Exactly. Also, 10x more code per developer with LLMs = more reasons to build, not buy.
"You (or anyone) is free to think whatever you want about yourself or others - but you are not free to force others to think like you"

No one cares what anyone else thinks. The only thing that matters is behavior. If your behavior is harmful to others, then we certainly are free to try and change that behavior.
That sounds like part of the problem. Why should we even know the position of a justice on a topic like that? At best making opinions public just leads to recusing in some cases. At worst it leads to the kind of distrust in the judiciary we're experiencing now.
What have you seen in particular in the USA?

I had two Mercedes and they cost way less to maintain than my Honda, and I’m not kidding, though could be lucky.
At times like these, it's useful to remember that the most common Supreme Court ruling is 9–0: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/23/trey-wingo...
I think there has been a lack of innovation and growth. WS can accept losses so long as there is potential (e.g. food delivery)
this is an interesting question. Electrical current creates an EM field that could repel water molecules and oxygen ions. Temperature could also slow oxidation down... like I'm trying to imagine a red hot piece of iron rusting. I wouldn't think it would rust as fast as a cold piece of iron.