skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good lord yes. I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal for a bit, but then ended up low on cash and needing to cut back on spending. Of all the subscriptions I stopped at that time, they were the most annoying. Because, even though I was able to sign up easily online, there was no way to cancel other than calling them. That disparity in ease between starting and stopping my subscription is why I will never pay them again.
Automakers already use proving grounds. We can set a minimum standard for FSD before turning it loose with amateur drivers.
from TFA:

> So, when I was asked earlier this year to unsubscribe The Lenfest Institute from 22 digital newspaper subscriptions left over from a past project, I was prepared to face confusing subscriber portals, unhelpful phone calls with customer service representatives, and worse.
And even still being opposed to products made from humans who die naturally is an emotional one not a logical one. I feel like people assume that human leather would look like human skin stitched together but would actually just look like every other leather. Google "leather before tanning" and it's just as creepy.
I'm glad to see more studies on this, as it's long been misunderstood how strong of a connection there is between the gut microbiome and mental health. Some go as far to referring to the gut as our second-brain, due to its critical role.

Serotonin (the moood-regulating neurotransmitter), for instance, is produced _primarily_ in the gut (up to 95% of it).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469458/#:~:tex....
In what sense does it offer in pattern matching that ML can't do?
Transcript Between Yann LeCun and Eliezer Yudkowsky
Fiber reducing biodiversity would be news. I thought consensus was the other way around?
What CEOs do you want sent to jail? And what were their crimes?
The unfairness comes from the fact that society is paying to enforce those copyrights via expenses on judges, lawyers, police etc, but society is not getting a commensurate return on investment.

The purpose of copyright is to incentivize creativity, but society does not need to pay for 180 years of monopoly protection to incentivize creativity.
Any alternatives to recommend?
And so it's a meaningless correlation. Telsa has a 30% margin too. Do you want to lump them along with Apple and MSFT?
In other words, a shallow big == bad without taking specfic context into consideration?

Imo I want competition and choice as a consumer. This basically sets things up so that consoles become a non competitive market because Xbox lacks exclusives that Sony has.
Only problems with these rockets. First Starship blows up and now this only a few hundred kilometers from my house. Will humans stop playing with fire before someone dies because of the whims of some billionaire or the ESA?
What major power doesn't do this?
This is a better argument for improving training and testing than it is in lowering the bar and letting a buggy computer program drive.
Feel free to join their Slack as well, friendly folks if you have any questions.
scholar.google.com, search for any species of your choice to see how humankind have studied them.
It's not just images either, it's the same with link previews, so any link that gets posted will get visited by the instances your instance is federated with, it's even worse when you post a link to a video.

Small example log:
https://pastebin.com/raw/jYZ1z8dG

I've seen some cases where there's been 1000+ requests to a site just because a link to it was posted.
I see a general trend for developers to want to put syntax and semantics back into the prompting. This whole idea that we can just get rid of formal languages entirely and replace them with natural languages isn't going to pan out; we have formal languages for a reason -- you don't have to guess the magic spell that will cause the output you want, you can get the output you want because you know how the system works. It's a much less frustrating and consistent way of dealing with computers unless you fancy yourself a bureaucrat.

If this actually happens, I would imagine that talking to an LLM would be a combination of formal syntax and natural language, so the task will look more like software engineering than black magic.
> For example median dev salary is about $110k. Median physician salary is about $205k.

That's an interesting point, but what to the distributions look like? For devs there's evidence it might be bimodal [0].

[0] http://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/
> Do you simply turtle your trust with other servers?

Not sure what turtle means in this case, but spam is currently less of a problem on mastodon (mastodon.world is the instance I'm using) than on twitter. When the admins actually care, they can solve it.
I have fantastically lost my patience with Gradle builds that is why.

I bet if it wasn't for Android, no one would care about Gradle, Google is basically funding its existence.

There are hardly any talks about optmizing Maven builds, with Gradle on the other hand, not only it comes regularly, there is even tooling to track down build performance issues and regular conference talks on the matter.
I’m not an expert at all but believe there’s good evidence for a large stress/unhappiness -> cortisol -> significant metabolic changes linkage.
I can’t make copies or distribute or sell publicly available copyrighted works. But I can definite look at them and study them and make notes and sketch them, etc.

That’s definitely how copyright works.

I don’t think training on these has been tested, but I expect it will be allowed, otherwise how can a web browser receive, cache, and render a copyrighted photo? I think the closest is there were some lawsuits about google caching websites that contain copyrighted material. I assume they worked out in Google’s favor as google (and others) cache web sites even though they contain copyrighted material. The exception I remember is there are some specific rulings and laws governing how news is treated.
> It’s only a matter of time until there will be a CVE found in the official Mastodon software which will leave a vast majority of instances vulnerable

It's only a matter of, er, four years ago, in fact: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/59775/Joinmastodon-Mastod...

Also, by this reasoning, Wordpress is doomed; at peak Wordpress averaged about one CVE _per week_. And yet Wordpress remains stubbornly ubiquitous...
Big Tech companies have a history of buying smaller tech companies and ending or decreasing the products/services that the smaller companies provided which makes life worse for consumers.

In game development specifically there's a line of successful studios that were devoured and their game franchises destroyed or made creatively poorer.
Binance.us calls off $1.3B deal for Voyager's assets
Microsoft Edge Is Leaking the Sites You Visit to Bing
AI is easily our best bet against the true menace, which is distracted drivers.

No, "controlled conditions" don't do a very good job of training or proving an AI. Supervised cars on actual roads is the way it has to be.
Microsoft is maybe the only big tech organization that feels like they're still actively trying to out-innovate their size. They invested in OpenAI (not acquired; invested) then weeks later made substantial improvements to Bing. They made a concept hardware device 10 years ago (the Courier), then finally made it real (it's not great, but that's beside the point). They're possibly the single largest funder of insanely critical open source software projects; Kubernetes, TypeScript, VSCode, etc. They acquired Github then practically speaking left them alone to continue being a really high quality product, while simultaneously investing in internal direct competitors (Azure DevOps). They released Loop a few weeks ago; now they're going after Notion.

You can argue that they're leveraging M365 and their enterprise contracts to out-innovate smaller competitors like Slack, Notion, etc. Yeah, ok; I don't love it. But I really can't help but feel: At least they're doing it. At least they're releasing new products that don't totally suck. I literally can't think of one thing Google has released in the past five years that left a fingerprint on the world. Facebook is a similar story. Apple is a very different company, but its not dissimilar: M1 was incredible, but if you put that aside (because, really, the past three years has been "M1 Catchup" for them) the iPhone is the same thing it was four years ago, the iPad is the same, the Watch is the same, the software is overwhelmingly the same, I guess they have a new Savings Account (when companies start running out of ideas to innovate, they turn to financial engineering).

Microsoft is a cool company, and I'll die on that hill. I'm not happy with everything they do. I think the entire Windows division leadership needs to be gutted and replaced, and they need to think long and hard about what Windows looks like for the next 10 years (and maybe they're already doing that!). But putting that aside, even considering Microsoft's very light anti-competitiveness, I'd take them over the rest of big tech nowadays. They're mostly just lame ducks.
Hmm, switching costs are high when monoliths reign, and competitors need to be much, much better in order to attract people from other offerings.

I think what you are pointing to is how network effects suck up customers the first time when there's basically no competition doing the same thing. E.g. Facebook was doing something much, much better than myspace, and people flocked. But after that, switching costs became very high because of how entrenched people were on FB. It took an entire generation for that effect to atrophy, and this is unlikely because there were better alternatives, and more likely because of sociodynamics.

Now it's TikTok and Twitter and people are having a very tough time figuring out how to get out of those platforms even when they sorta hate them. High switching costs because of network effects.

Doesn't matter if there's a slightly better product. There needs to be either a massively better product or the existing products need to be seen as culturally undesirable (e.g. Facebook is cringe).
Were there any specific things that were making it difficult for you?
This.

I have two separate identities on 2 instances. One has only 40 members, on which I am a moderator, which is a subset of a forum's community and both being funded with donation and a yearly fee to be allowed to post ads in the local marketplace. The other one is much larger but runs on a single Hetzner VPS and is also funded with donation. Admin recently switched registration to manual approval, probably to control and limit the amount of accounts.

If I ever have to run my own fediverse/activity pub server/community, I would definitely put a limit on the active accounts I would serve and have an housekeeping rule to clean up inactive profiles.
Why is profit a metric that you want to minimize? Do you have any other metric that shows lack of competition? Because the above poster outlined some pretty strong positive ones
Just do a lot of exercise and keep going over the same stuff (periodically) until you see deeper into it.
Since this study only explored a 2 week change, does anyone have any info on more permanent changes? I’m uninterested in temporarily having less anxiety for 2 weeks. I would like to know what’s my anxiety after 2 years!
2b1b does a video on how you raise e to a matrix (hint: raising something to e is converted into another function where it's not nonsensical to do such a thing.)

In about 10 minutes he explains something my math methods instructor struggled with over two weeks (4 classes). I was resistant to the view that YouTube could host "decent" instructional content for a long time. That video was one of the first that was CLEARLY superior to the instruction I received at a tier 1 research institution.
I went and looked it up, and the last time they were at war was 1814 [0]. Norway lost and was governed in part by the Swedish king, although they had their own parliament. That was also the last time Sweden was in any military conflict, they've been neutral since then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%E2%80%93Norwegian_War_...
People are allowed to learn from it, but as far as law exists now, AI's are not explicitly allowed to learn from it are they? As I understand it, a copyright has to be explicitly granted.
And the animals. There is more than planet and humans. If it was just us - to some extent - I’d say “we get what we deserve.” But animals vastly outnumber humans, feel pain just like us, and do not deserve any of it. At least that’s what I find myself experiencing when I think about the future of our planet.

Edit: I looked it up. Estimate is 20,000,121,091,000,000,000 or 20 billion billion animals. “Vastly” was clearly an understatement.
I would note that you are writing this on a thriving small social network.
For me it's the visual component, especially the animated transitions that very neatly highlight the relation between various concepts or values.

I learned most of the topics in those videos well enough to pass highschool/university exams, but very often the real "aha!" moment came after seeing lines transform from one into another, planes deforming, or boxes being subdivided in 3blue1brown video.
Is the xbox division the main gaming division of MS?
Have you considered replacing them with ChatGPT?
Are you Spanish? I find the Spanish content pretty good, it's the woke American shit that they force into the platform that is a bore to watch, like the Nth heroine who just so happens to be a black woman. Maybe make it a guy from Kansas for a change? Of course, you might have a different opinion.
Uber receipts in Washington will tell you the drivers share. I recently had a $55 fare and the driver received $31 of it. That appears to be representative of my other receipts.
They can't spin out Gamepass because it is a money pit. There aren't enough subscribers to fund large budget game development. At the same time, Gamepass trains subscribers to not purchase new games, because they'll be on Gamepass eventually.
This makes more sense and seems less egregious when you look at it in use, in a case:

a = []
case a
when Array
puts true
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LLMs are basically a gigantic new attack surface that we don't understand.
> not to treat a customer cancelling a subscription as a lost customer, but as a customer going on holiday from you.

I'm really surprised that so many companies don't understand this. It's just the old wisdom of "don't burn your bridges".
Thanks for building this, Tobi and Alexis! Been a happy user since the first alpha!
Or building an optimal tech stack and doing so continuously.
This will make it easier for large Chinese companies to rule over you that can "snuff out entire startup sectors with loss-leading products".
Hence the video making it extremely clear pretty much right off the bat that yes, any integer plotted that way will form a spiral. The video then goes into a very interesting discussion IMO into why you see the specific patterns of spirals and rays with the primes.
Can't wait to trip balls on my sweater!
And they have so many (non-'original') where they only have a few series available at the end or in the middle. I don't understand the licencing/purchasing decision that can lead to that. Seems to happen far too often for it to be different studios/licencors, obviously that happens sometimes.

BBC's QI is one example. I understand new series not being available on Netflix (in the UK) as the BBC now have their own subscription platform. But it's not just that, because Netflix don't have the earliest ones either, just a seemingly random set in the middle, perhaps even non-contiguous.
Because the medium is different. Instagram is different images, twitter is text, Fb is more local social circle. But if you have 5 twitter clones, no one wants to use 5
An ephemeral copy is a copy! no matter how ephemeral, if you lift the pixels from system A to system B, you are copying.
> Isn't $150k the standard number for the common top end grade? They make adjustments based on location for COL.

COL adjustments are HR policy, not laws.

SV caliber talent typically don't get those, wherever they end up working from.
What nostalgia tv? A lot of 20 - 30 years old TV shows or movies aren't available on Netflix.
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Did anyone make the obvious "Robots in Smalltalk" joke yet?

Okay... here goes...

When I first read that title I thought the author was talking about Robots in Smalltalk.
3b1b is doing everyone a huge favor with these lessons.

Teaching is certainly a lot different today. Decreased attention spans, underfunded schools, and ChatGPT make it a lot harder, but online modules and tutorials like these make it a lot easier.
Apple TV+ has really surprised me. They've quickly become my favourite streaming platform, and somehow even got me interested in Major League Soccer (a sport I didn't even follow previously) enough to subscribe to their MLS Season Pass.

I really hope they don't fall into the Netflix habit of cancelling shows before they have time to find their groove (Mr. Corman was really creative and just getting good and got axed), and some of their dramas are starting to veer into the forgettable "Netflix Hallmark made for TV" territory.
Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching
Brad Templeton is a credible author in the self driving space. It seems like the Forbes concern is just a convenient excuse to dismiss content that doesn't agree with the GP's view points.
I see the plug doesn't seem to be going well, but it interesting to me that Amazon is the only service with something somewhat similar with Prime's X-ray. I know it's easier for them since they have IMDB, but I don't understand why I can't at least have a "Cast/Characters" popup in the other services. Even if it's just the whole cast and not contextual to the scene.
I feel the same. There are often big leaps he makes in terms of understanding, where I get lost.
Who really likes the word expensive?
> a video on how you raise e to a matrix

Video link https://youtu.be/O85OWBJ2ayo
> a carrier specializing in short flights between cities across the South. Many of these routes would not be viable today due to improved roads, but in the 1970s it was still common to fly these brief “puddle-jumper” routes using midsized jet aircraft

It used to be that if it took 4 hours or more to drive to a place, it was worth taking a plane. I remember those days fondly. Flying was convenient, enjoyable, and drama free.

Now, with the TSA and the ever longer FAA delays, the cutoff is more like 10 hours.
Just came here to say I love 3blue1brown
So, like only have PBS? That could be better for society I guess, TV is a bit waste of time after all, but I think it won’t satisfy all current streaming service users.
A highly precise terahertz molecular clock
Agreed. Apple TV in general has that feeling of quality. Another great one there that I'd highly recommend is Slow Horses.

I feel like I must mention though: as soon as For All Mankind decided to have a teenager seduce a grown married woman I lost interest. Then to top it off, they continued that plotline into the next season. What a shame.
I would still recommend it. Well actually I would recommend Code Complete II as it is the be updated version. I met Steve McConnell in person and have read most of his books. I've found them to be gems.

There is a lot of value in reading different things even if you aren't sure about the value to see what you pick up. Sometimes you will learn something or see a situation you never would have expected.
> To anyone about to reply that cruise control never phantom brakes for them, it will. Just keep using it.

I have to think these people are just fans with deliberate blinders. It doesn't take much time at all to get a phantom braking incident. You can minimize by only using TACC in light traffic with a lead car, but there will still be moments it sees something that looks too much like a car coming at you and it'll stab the brakes. In my experience, it happens probably every 100-200 miles of freeway driving. I'm getting pretty good at predicting in advance what scene in front of the car is likely to freak out the car. And I drive with my foot resting on the accelerator ready to counteract the braking as quickly as possible.

I'd really like the option to disable TACC and have a regular cruise control. We know the software supports that, because non-AP cars have it. Just make it available to all of us.
Not literally, but in style. They are clearly trees.

But they exist in a large underground network of roots, and spawn trunks upwards over that large area, not unlike how many funguses do. Convergent evolution of an approach to life.
Many of us software devs are a different sort.
Some IDE's provide a decent graphical project overview. If not themselves, look for an extension.
That was my kneejerk reaction too. It's like saying, "PHPBB is doomed!".
Watching on the Apple TV+ app on an Android TV it frequently replays the same episode I already watched or starts at some random time earlier in the episode than when I left off which is a pain to fix using their scrubbing feature which is itself a bad experience.
Does anyone know of a good tool for modeling wind potential?

For example, PVWatts [1] makes it very easy to get solar potential for a site (at hourly granularity). But having trouble finding something similar for wind. Ideally want something that is also validated against data from real world wind farms after they're built.

[1] https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/
Humans are notoriously short sighted
Yes. The problem isn't the AI not understanding the human's intent. The problem is the human not understanding what the human wants/thinking it knows what it wants but being wrong.

Watching whole communities crowd-source/stumble their way into basic reference question principles is kind of fun, though.
The idea that fat and protein are good while carbs are "crap" is controversial.
Thanks, reread that. I’ve corrected it but wanted to post to make sure your comment kept context.
So which CEOs would you blame for the dire economic climate?
There is also the argument that anything we do to provide additional revenue for the cattle industry is an indirect subsidy for beef. If nobody bought leather, beef would have to be more expensive, which might reduce beef consumption and therefore the footprint of the cattle industry. I don't know enough about the markets involved to say how realistic this is, but it is an argument I've seen.

You could also say the opposite: If nobody bought beef, leather would become much much more expensive, so therefore beef is an indirect subsidy to the leather industry. I've never seen this argument made anywhere though.
>the CEO (Bobby Kotick) was accused of permitting workplace sexual harassment and employees at the company were on the verge of mutiny.

>Microsoft received 721 employee complaints of discrimination and harassment in the U.S. between 2019 and 2021, and Microsoft investigators found most allegations to be "unsubstantiated".

Excluding the 2022-23 complaints, I'm just wondering which company do you think is under more "chaos" and on the verge of "mutiny" right now?
I had written a whole reply about how the pedestrians are in total control of the relationship rather than the fungus, but then I realized it's irrelevant. Symbiosis is a broad term; it applies to parasitism as well as host cleaning. So in the case where a pedestrian creature is wearing another living creature for protection, it is symbiosis.
Hahah yeah same, all my exes still use my netflix. Along with my mother and sister.

Also my ex shared my Disney with friends, so 2 other families are now also using it.

Ah well, as long as no issues, the more the merrier.