skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, you can access a psychologist for free, and whilst that's no consolation to my American peers, it's furthering the point that America's healthcare system is fundamentally flawed. Technological problems are ideally solved by technology. Social problems aren't always best solved with technology, they're a band-aid.

Well, something being fit-for-purpose is an important consideration. If it tells people that the world would probably be a better place without their broke, uneducated, unwell self and that their life statistically is unlikely to get any better because they're talking to an AI and not a real human being, that's a huge ethical problem, and the LLM is not an appropriate solution.

I can get LLMs to tell me all kinds of dangerous things. The more text you give it, the higher the chance of those safety measures going out the window, especially if that conversation has a lot of back-and-forth over time. When people explain their problems, they use a lot of words and a lot of negative sentiment.

Not talked about this before with anyone, but as a case-in-point, I managed to make an LLM's safety features go completely out the window over me recalling a low-point in my life. I would not recommend that shit in good faith to anybody.
hallarempt, thanks for making that clear - I have no issue with the project in that case. Also thanks a lot for maintaining Krita, I've used the software in the past and it's been great. I'm especially interested in combining Stable Diffusion with Krita.
No that was the Emergencies Act.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-explainer-1...
> the Stadia subreddit still has 110k subscribers

How many of those 110k reddit users are/were actual Stadia subscribers though?

Just because someone subscribes to a subreddit, doesn't mean they are now, or were ever subscribed to the actual product.
Why does it make you nervous?
They could prefix the i with the generation year, to make it somewhat meaningful. "I have a 23i5" would tell most of what you'd need to know to figure out how well it's going to run a certain piece of software. It's also clear that a 29i5 should be a lot faster and more featureful. (Perhaps I should upgrade!) You'd still have to dive into the details to weigh a 23i5 against a 25i3 though.

For the complete SKU some more jibberisch can of course be added. Like 25i7-32mg. This suffix could be generation specific though, allowing for some flexibility. Most people wouldn't need to care.
Compare to Apple who has been crazy profitable but who opted to pile up a cash hoard. Meta and Google and some others saw every spare billion as an opportunity to hire another moonshot team to build AI/VR robot cars. All that stuff was funded by their main businesses. Now they are basically giving up. Stick to their core businesses and just keep the cash.
A liberal democracy has the ever present risk of devolving into a totalitarian state (just look at the Weimar republic or Argentina in the 70s). We must hedge our risks, fight tooth and nail so it doesn't happen, but when it eventually happens, better not to leave a well oiled, powerful machine ready for the totalitarians to crush us.
Agreed but but that's exactly the point. Sweden and Finland have Russia even pushing them out of neutrality and towards NATO. Switzerland is a big repository of mostly illegal fortunes from all over the world and has to stay neutral to maintain this status, so it makes sense to extend its own defensive capabilities as much as it can. In Norway it's debatable, the obligativity is not enforced. You also have Greece where the conflict with Turkey drives mandatory conscription.

For these countries mandatory military service is very much an act of desperation. Maybe the word doesn't ring the right note in people's heads but it's accurate. If avoiding scenarios like in Ukraine doesn't call for desperate decisions I don't know what does.

But discussing the popularity is moot. The people of those countries understand the necessity driven by external factors. They chose neutrality, not their neighbors, so they have to compromise somewhere out of practical need and the desperation of the alternative. This being said you can only assess the popularity of something when it becomes a free choice rather than obligation.
Man, seeing Trillian mentioned in the wild unlocked a core memory.

These days I've been trying out Franz and (more recently) RamBox as ways to connect multiple chat services under a single program. The family Slack, Facebook Messenger, and a couple other programs go in there and I never run the native apps or log on to their websites in my browser.
That's meant to be an explanation of how things are without making a value judgment. For-profit corporations are not people with human rights, they are amoral impersonal constructs, legitimized entirely by the state, intended to serve the economy. If they are not doing that adequately, for instance, by introducing monopolization concerns on a market, their behavior can be arbitrarily restricted.
In there defense, some of those newer drugs also have an order of magnitude increase in price. I'm sure your point still holds, but some Dr's also consider the patient's ability to afford these treatments as a "Quality of Life" issue too.
I believe one way to safely discharge LiPo batteries to render them safe for regular garbage disposal is to fully submerge them in a saturated saltwater solution for more than 24 hours until the cell is fully discharged(some lipo chargers also have a discharge feature). You may still be required to separate them from household waste depending on local regulations, but it shouldn't combust once the voltage is 0.
Yes Mormonism was started by a conman, yes it's utter bullshit, no it's not any weirder than the canonical Abrahamic religions.

There's a dude who parted the sea with his magic snake stick. Actually happened. People believe it.

Burning bush, speaking with the voice of the creator of existence, 100% true. Really, does that sound less ridiculous than Joseph's magic golden tablets?

How about Jesus?

Died and came back to life.

Healed the sick.

Replicated food and drink. Walked on water, and turned it into wine when he felt like showing off.

Less ridiculous?

Not in any way.
Could you expand on how relays differ (mostly conceptually) from something like Mastodon instances?

Adding because Nostr seems to be marketed as something more decentralized than that, and I'd like to get a deeper understanding.
I'm here wondering how "wrong" that wrong way would be... I have a few tubes to get rid of as well, and my local trash/recycle drop-off won't take them.
The article goes on to state that the rugpull on their AI girlfriends meant that a sub-Reddit dedicated to the Replika AI has a permanently stickied thread about resources for mental health and suicide hotlines.

I'd rather people didn't kill themselves, personally.
OP. I agree! RESTRICT is by far the best rule to use, and makes the most sense.
Perhaps to balance my post a bit, and for what it's worth, I don't advocate for "don't ever use foreign keys" as a blanket statement. My experience was one where using foreign keys did not make sense. I do wish they were more operationally friendly.
> So this seems unscaleable/impractical without producing large quantities of Ozone

I'm not a chemist but this piqued my interest: isn't it possible to produce large quantities of Ozone directly with electricity?
why would people bet on FB?
It is a tough one. Microsoft is already huge and has some unclear intentions. They say they want some killer apps to serve as flagship games. But Sony is concerned they'll stop releasing games for Playstation. However the Xbox division is so far behind Sony it doesn't seem particularly worrying to me.

Microsoft looks like a giant in gaming when including PC gaming but there Valve takes most the distribution money.
> A sense of morality or just any connection to what's... normal?

Regular reminder that what is moral, what is normal, and what is legal are three separate questions with time- and culture-specific answers.

This stuff is "abnormal" only because it's new and no norms have been established. Using an AI for anything cannot be a "normal" act because it's so new. This is the possibly dark side of "disruptive".

The more relevant question is: is it harmful? And you might construct an argument that leading people into delusional beliefs is harmful.

(of course, then the free speech absolutists turn up and say that by definition nothing Replika says can be harmful because it's just speech, and it would be morally wrong to intervene in the conversation between a company and its users)
The `whoishiring` account is the "official" account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
Growing up as a (young? future? wannabe?) engineer kid in the 90s, I immediately knew who the powerful old engineering wizards were upon walking into their house, because of the 'Heathkit' logos on inconspicuous devices. On more than one occasion, I would end up at a house party of people I didn't know, and then start hunting for whomever made those Heathkits, because I knew they would be an amazing person to meet, that could teach me something.
The average western citizen might emit more than what is sustainable already but we're talking about people that are emitting orders of magnitude more than that.
There's a decent amount of nuance missing in your story, and I would (truly) love a source if you have one for this as I've not heard evidence before (just speculation):

> So when they heard a mob approaching the jail where he was kept, he actually told the jail guards that his militia was coming and they didn't want to die for this.

But let's stipulate all that for the sake of discussion. Does that really sound more strange than Moses' magic tricks, or the "magicians" all through the Old Testament, or even the very idea that God himself came down as a person to be brutally killed in order to save human souls who simply believe on him, and if they don't believe then he will torture them for all eternity in a burning pit of fire? Frankly the Mormon founding seems a whole lot less strange to me.
Is that an effort to blend in more with evangelicals?
> So how could you point someone at a link, “you have not registered yet, go here”? You'd probably include an entire paragraph explaining what was required and link to several CA sites in order to obtain a valid certificate.

Well as I said, it will be complex if it's some enterprise CA you want your users to use. It's very easy if just everyone in your country has a certificate already. It's fairly easy if you use your own CA and just give the users the .p12 to install.

E-mail certificates, S/MIME, is a bit more complex and not exactly the same - there you'd actually want some larger publicly trusted entity to be used. (Though some already-deployed multi-purpose certificates do exist in some EU countries.)
I don't think that disgust is explainable, so I can't give you an answer.

The best analogy I could make is that if I had a roast chicken, but it had a giant smelly turd smell, and somehow I knew that it was totally clean and edible, it'd still disgust me. Even if the turd smell went away after a few minutes.

It's just weird. There are real humans out there, put down the phone man.
What makes you think I did not try, simply fail to see why/how natural language inconstant comprehension in any way equates to human or any other animal behavior, I simply don't believe/see (subjectively) that any potential of prompt hacking with massive datasets will build consistent anticipatory system (planning and some aspect of learning).

As analogy, the more I look at it, the more it looks like an geocentric model of solar system.
> One of the smartest engineers I know learned to program in college at 20 years old.

To add more anecdotal evidence, I know someone like this too.
> I share their sentiment, especially because they are trying to explain the topic for the novice buyer - but I think it oversimplifies the issue and the discussion/benefit of UVGI.

Most people probably don't change their air filters often enough at home: I have zero confidence of them maintaining an UVGI (themselves, or wanting to shell out the cash for someone to come in).

The best thing to do is circulate air per ASHRAE-recommendations and get high-MERV filters (and hope they are swapped regularly).
Need to or want to?

Offering a bond and using it for buybacks is a way for shareholders to make future profits today.
Inside 18 Difficult  Months at Salesforce
Layoffs may not be applied equally though. When you get into big company spaces, they tend to be closer to an amalgamation of a bunch of smaller companies / empires. So layoffs may target business units that are not performing as well as the average, or the bet isn't working out. On the flip side though, there might be other units that require very different skills and experience that the investment in is getting doubled down.

And for raising debt, a factor is it's usually much easier and cheaper to raise debt when you don't need to. This one applies to startups as well, you're in pretty bad shape if you're low on money and need to raise capital. So if the conditions are right, it's worth it to raise now if the conditions are right, even if you're not going to start torching it for a couple of years.
I know there are already lots of questions to this effect, but if anyone can point to a good blog post that outlines "Why massively profitable companies with huge amounts of cash sell lots of bonds", I'd love to see it!

I can understand when interest rates are low as part of a "might as well get more money when it's nearly free" mindset, but as that's no longer the case, I don't understand the rationale behind this.
Why can't I use the “cut” command to manipulate a file in Finder? (2011)
> No matter the cost governments and big business will unite in using mass surveillance to monitor and control the population.

The cost has almost always been ~0 for gov officials performing unnecessary surveillance.

I trace this low cost back to news orgs. Most editors & journalists opt out of honoring their extra constitutional protections because they don't serve as an adversary to the powerful. Instead they favor publishing sportsball or celebs or parroting gov/corp/leo pr without any analysis, etc.

We don't know how officials will behave if they have to pay a persistent, meaningful cost for surveilling us. We've never tried it.
The reason cloud gaming comes up because on the off chance someone makes it work, it's a very lucrative market with a high barrier to entry.

Steam is still pretty much undisputed leader in today's games marketplace and it's a very comfortable position worth billions of dollars. And that's just on one platform.
Money getting tighter is what has led to higher returns to owners
> i can imagine the type of person who would be willing to apply to an intelligence service in the first place...

What?
Gimp has not yet been converted to GTK 3 and now GTK 4 is out.

Gimp looks pretty bad in HiDPI and the GTK 3 build is not yet stable.
Operation Snow White, run by Scientology, was one of the largest government infiltrations in US History. I don’t see any evidence that the same thing is happening with the Mormon church though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
I think this stuff is probably more harmful when people have a bad mental model of how it works. A better way to think of it is that you’re talking to a fictional character and the service is the writer. The fictional character is just text, and if you’re not happy with the writing, you should be able to take the text with you and find a better writer to continue it.
Sorry for responding on the wrong thread, it won't let me reply to your comment question. The reason I am doing so much awareness raising is that there is a critical deadline of May 23 and if the House doesn't approve the act on that day, it won't become law. I'm trying to drive more clicks to the many articles on this topic in the hopes that this will help persuade legislators to care. We have a chance to make a difference here and save lives. I'm sorry for the redundant posts and I'll lay off it for a bit.
Not if even more people don't do anything because of their hypocrisy.
African wild dogs have a feeding queue: why it makes sense
Part of the appeal might be that some company provides it as a service. You can distance yourself from the need of spinning of a docker container running it, you don't have to go through all the update notifications every week.

Makes it seem more like a person than an appliance.

Open source might not be very appropriate for this. (And it wouldn't help for the company to use an open source product, because if they're in charge of the infrastructure, re-configuring it to use the filters is the problem and could still happen even if they use the open source software title.) Basically, open-source is a specific solution to a somewhat narrow problem, and not a cure-all for everything bad that happens in technology.
A lot of content on reddit these days is advertising that is pretending to be organic content anyway. It's nigh impossible to completely filter out the astroturfing that happens.
They are not exactly trimming 'fat'. This latest round had numerous people who were getting high marks and even AE. There is some meme going around that this was a performance based layoff and it absolutely was not.
Yeah, it's like people who eat meat. Or drink alcohol. Or don't use social media. Or do whatever thing that it different from that you've personally decided is acceptable.
Rich industrialists literally put Hitler in power and you’re sitting around saying he was making war on the banks
Well my comment is regarding who is doing the mining and more importantly where it’s being sourced.

Some have more regulations than others.

Chile has been looking to socialize its mining ops. So the international interests in their sources has waned a bit.

China does it cheaper but with far less concern about safety, environmental friendliness etc.

Overall these companies account for the lions share of raw lithium materials in the world. But what specific percentage and who is buying from who are totally different topics. For example why would a company like BYD look outside of China for lithium for its batteries?

BYD is a big supplier of batteries for companies like Dell, Lenovo and others. And they make car batteries for EVs in China and SE Asia.
This was my first experience with it. Transformational.
non-paywall copy: https://archive.ph/c33Ga
Should prob mark this post as NSFW if that's possible here.
I get that the money goes brrrr attitude, but it's kind of silly.

The FDIC holds an adequate deposit insurance fund, financed by banks who must buy FDIC insurance. It's over $100 billion dollars, which is enough to weather some major failures. With large failures, the FDIC may issue special assessments to maintain the fund at a safe level (they did this with SVB).
look up the interest tax shield
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Yes they are debatable. There are cognitive performance tests that show statistically significant decline in many tasks above 1500ppm, especially on planning tasks. That's independently of the feeling of "stuffiness".

If these measurable declines have a sufficient impact on our lives and productivity is the debatable part.

Edit: here's one reference: "We also found effects of CO2 (a proxy for ventilation) on cognitive function. For every 500ppm increase, we saw response times 1.4-1.8% slower, and 2.1-2.4% lower throughput"

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthybuildings/2021/09/09/imp...
You don't need capitalism to sell sex. Prostitution is waaaay older than that.
Got it. That’s not cynicism, but saying “all progress must stop until my favorite solution is implemented.”

Centralized authorities are even less accountable to private interests.
Dupe: "More than 19k undersea volcanoes discovered"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662580 (134 points | 9 days ago | 92 comments)
If you're working rather than owning, that's your first 'mistake'
Switzerland seems to be doing pretty well? Why do you think they have to vote for the policies you want for it to be a good idea?
> In the UK, you can access a psychologist for free

The waiting list for that is considerable. You can (usually) get a GP for free, and they can chuck antidepressants at you, but that's not quite the same thing.
Do you have a deep understanding of how the stock market works?
interest tax shield it's beneficial for companies to raise debt and pay interest
Emotions are irrational shortcuts for when rapid response is critical.
I don't. My wife (a mother and homemaker) does it all. I should show her more appreciation for having clean clothes magically appear in my dresser.

Back in the day, you could take your bags of laundry to a laundry service and pay very little to have them washed and folded. If you're financially-comfortable, tip generously.

Laundry robots and lifehacks sound too complicated.
It looks very important, popular and well established, but what is it? I looked at the README hoping to understand what a semantic layer for building data applications means but no love.

It helps data engineers and application developers access data from modern data stores, organize it into consistent definitions, and deliver it to every application. Like an ORM? Or a middleware?

> Cube was designed to work with all SQL-enabled data sources, including cloud data warehouses like Snowflake or Google BigQuery, query engines like Presto or Amazon Athena, and application databases like Postgres.

Still not getting it. Is it that it can perform a single query across multiple databases?
Doesn't all of this analysis make the assumption the images are copyrightable, which is best described as untested?
Can anyone explain what this is? all of the comments seem to be talking about different things, and when I look at code though it looks to me like they're implementing a JS based terminal?
Visiting some of the historical museums I found there was a, brief, time when the Mormons tried making their own script and empire. I believe it was called "Deseret". Later they tried to get it accepted as a state.

Interestingly, I've found a lot of parallels between early Islam and early Mormonism. Both of their leaders had similar tendencies and both were evicted from their original location where they claimed their new Zion. Though Mohammed was more successful in retaking Mecca whilst the Mormons were forced out of Missouri (1).

In no specific order:

- Prophet's with dubious histories prior to their revelation
- Both given new revelations from an angel
- Both claim a that the Christians or Jews had corrupted the original gospels
- Focus on political power early on
- Polygamy prominent among early leaders
- No alcohol
- Strong focus on certain forms of "purity"

1: https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/mormon.asp
Profiling people requires you to provide clean data.

Just do not provide clean data. Search for random shit occassionally so that the entire profiling gets poisoned with fake data points.