skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though I do like bars and restaurants, most of my interests are far more obscure, and can only be supported by large numbers of people that congregate in dense areas. For example, the types of science I do requires both high densities of people and attracting this strange subset of people to a few geographic centers.

High density does mean more bars, restaurants, and yoga but it also the prerequisite for highly specialized professions like tailors, rare book collectors, rare tea, etc. etc. etc. Bars and restaurants are the tip of the iceberg, but the rest of the iceberg is a long tail. Just as the internet allows people with rare interests to find each other and talk, high density allows these rare interests to meet in real life and develop face to face relationships.
Information Theory Finds the Best Wordle Starting Words
A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
I looked into serverless postgres offerings a few months ago and came to realize that while it is possible, it doesn't appear that we have figured out how to develop with it as well as we have with traditional postgres. ORMs are fairly incompatible with serverless postgres, and schema migrations are difficult to handle because you have an unknown number of asynchronously updated copies of your code spread around the world. Definitely something you can account for with good planning, but probably not worth the headache to the small and medium-sized teams that would want to sign up for Vercel.
I'm surprised you'd consider Hinton as not being "someone who is actually doing it".

Are you basically saying that you only trust warnings about AI from people who have pushed the most recent update to the latest headline-grabbing AI system at the latest AI darling unicorn? If so, aren't those people strongly self-selected to be optimistic about AI's impacts, else they might not be so keen on actively building it? And that's even setting aside they would also be financially incentivized against publicly expressing whatever doubts they do hold.

Isn't this is kind of like asking for authoritative opinions on carbon emissions from the people who are actually pumping the oil?
Go doesn't link against libc?
I completely messed up one of the examples, sorry.

I meant the 'this' thing - a sibling comment to yours contains the correct code.
> It works in Austria quite well. The healthcare and social service systems would not be able to function without the mandatory and voluntary unpaid 9 months work of the 17 - 19 year olds before they hit off for university.

In case anyone is curious, this appears to refer to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivildienst_in_Austria which is an alternative to conscription in the Austrian Armed Forces. Conscription applies to men (but not women), and this alternative civil service option is chosen by ~40% of these young men.
Thanks!

Those were the parts I was talking about and I agree it is far from a firm claim or commitment. Even "plans" are subject to uncertainty. If I recall correctly, There was also a bit where he talked about expectations/aspirations for 4-5 launches this year.
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I think that the communists might want a word with you:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communis...
I would like to join other commenters in questioning whether or not civilians are already routinely and indiscriminately killed.
-facepalm-

Thank you.
There used to be a product called Statsbot which was a friendly UI built on top of Cube.js. They shuttered the service a few years back and we're still struggling to find an alternative that is as simple to use by anyone in the company and easy to set up. We've gone through all the usual BI suspects and nothing comes close. I'd love to find the time to rebuild this.
Given that another large bank just failed, you could have picked a better day to say that.
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While people do love to get involved in some delicious nepotism, some groups do it more.

I have worked in the same area and I have seen a team of 35 go from 1 or 2 Mormons to 30. Slowly, the less palatable personalities were let go and replaced by friendly Molly's. So it's not as ridiculous as you are proclaiming.

It's not some huge conspiracy, but it does happen. Mormons are definitely more likely to hire someone they know from their Church than most Social Groups who source candidates internally. It's not malicious...generally it's just a matter of kinship... "Oh, I heard Jeff's daughter needs a job! Bring her in for an interview!"
It's funny to me that there is a widespread perception that in 2023 life has become more regulated in most developed economies. Most of what is now the "developed" world reached its height of regulation and government involvment in daily life in the middle of the 20th century. Deregulation and market solutions have largely been the direction of most advanced economies. Those, more aggressively in the U.S. but fairly consistent none the less.
https://mises.org/library/planned-economy-and-economic-plann...
UK version of Planet Earth is unforgettable. I find myself re-watching it every other year.
> You're being dismissive of an entire profession as "a child can do it with a bit of training". It's not helping your argument.

Nobody is being dismissive of anything. I'm just showing you proof that 17 year olds can also be professionals in that field because what is a professional, but someone who received professional levels of training and got certified. Guess what? So are those 17-19 year old boys and girls to the same standards of much older people.

In fact you're the one being dismissive and ageist because you think young people can't be trained to do a job just because of their age.

> A teenager shouldn't be pushed in this kind of job.

And yet they seem to be doing it just fine. And they are not pushed, they can choose for which service they volunteer. They can work in kindergartens, but many choose emergency services because of the practical life skills learned there, camaraderie, and other personal reasons.

> don't force them, unless there is a desperate situation; use your critical thinking and don't believe (or worse, promote) the vagaries your government sells you when they want something their way.

Nobody is forcing them, and it's not my government as I'm not Austrian, and the government doesn't benefit from this as the kids don't do work for the government but they provide work for their own citizens, neighbors, etc.

It seems strange to outsiders like you and me, but this is the path that the Austrian society has democratically chosen for its kids and it seems to be working for them. Why judge someone else because they're different? School kids in Japan also clean their classrooms instead of janitors.
I've always thought the implication of the saying is that in aggregate they are.

I don't think that necessarily translates to the median individual.
It's not probably out there, it's definitely out there. One of the absolute best places to be a hunter gatherer is in river deltas and low lying floodplains. If we could magically lower sea levels by 100m, we'd find evidence of humanity not only in doggerland but off the coast of Africa, China, Australia, and more.

In fact some archaeologists are planning future underwater digs based on today's topographical hints of ancient riverbeds now underwater. There's a massive one off Bengal, another one near Ceylon, and a few more I can't remember right now.
There is so much amazing beauty in the world, including the largest country on the planet, Russia - and then especially areas in China, which I would LOVE to visit, but the governments of each country kinda suck, so its not a place I'll likely go (imagine mtn biking through some of the amazing landscapes of either)

With that said, I'd love to hear Lex Fridman's opinion on all of this.
As an introvert that sounds not just more stressful than my job, but literally the 10th ring of hell
>I think the crux of the issue here is that the recommendation algorithm isn't built to say "find ISIS material and promote it". It says "find content that will generate more engagement for this user".

Which would be a good point to argue, and a good distinction for the law to make, but Google's defense is that even a deliberately pro-ISIS algorithm would be exempt under 230. From the article:

>>They argue that in an internet brimming with content, there is literally no way to present things that doesn’t involve some deliberate prioritizing of what to show. Taking their argument to its logical extreme, Google’s lawyers even claimed that Section 230 would protect a platform against suit over a deliberately pro-ISIS algorithm.
My favorite part of the article is the mention of the submarine hitting an uncharted sea mount. I rarely think about the fact that they can't just leave sonar on at all times to be aware of their surroundings and often rely on known mapping data.
Yeah, if you go into the dashboard it gives you a bunch of options for connecting to the DB including the names of the automatically generated environment variables. And that includes POSTGRES_URL which most tools default to.
What are your measures? How do you compare WWI and WWII, for example?
JFC, when did the world suddenly become full of prudes that see sexuality in everything,
Here's some context [^0]:

> While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant numbers of divorces. With nearly 1.7 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants Portugal has roughly the same divorce rate as Germany and the Netherlands. Interesting is furthermore that although marriages in Portugal tend to result in divorce lightly more often as in Luxembourg (80.3%), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced a 0.6 point higher divorce rate.

[^0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-...
Or easy to accidentally get divorced :P Any wild places where you must re-new or a marriage expires?
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I think you'll find that consumers care a lot about the lending side of the business. A lot of people have mortgages, lines of credit, personal loans and credit cards!
Honest question:

Does anybody have experience with this behind an ISP CGNAT network that provides IPV6 as well? I'm getting worn down from trying to deal with CGNAT and IPv4 for my homelab...
Interesting so many LLM tools called loom https://github.com/socketteer/loom
There's a major correlation at a company like Meta where a huge chunk of your compensation is payed in stock grants.
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The acronym does not make sense outside of English.
with the caveat that I dont personally use bitcoin, I still think the above description is simpler then using gift credit cards, for a couple of reasons:

- gift cards involves getting in a car and driving to a place to buy them, which introduces annoying logistical issues

- the purchases made on a single card are linked together, so you have to keep track of cards you use for x store and what cards you use for y product (this is also true with bitcoin though, which is why I prefer other more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies)

- with gift cards there is a very high chance that your funds will be rejected or flagged as suspicious. which also limits the amount you can spend to around 100-200 dollers, since any more risks having all the money you put into that card flushed down toilet

I do personally keep a couple of gift cards on hand for the rare occasion I find myself needing to pay for something online and there is no alternative vender that accepts cryptocurrency (usually event tickets or membership subscriptions), but its a pain and I much prefer paying for things with cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency is an unregulated and environmentally disastrous ecosystem rife with monopolistic vender lock in, fraud and abuse, and little to no accountability or legal recourse for end users. But that's also true with the credit card / debit card / other electronic payment ecosystem.

At least with cryptocurrency I get a modicum of privacy.
No, not really. Good dovetail joinery, without machines that do it perfectly, take a LONG time.
Not knowing anything about Hinton's work, I am guessing there is no mystery to why he left. Many people leave after a couple of years. His initial grant of RSUs has vested and he wasn't able to make a sufficiently large impact within the company to justify him staying.
I do recall NZ passing a law a few decades back - trying to make it so that gay couples could get marriage benefits while religious bigots continued to fight the idea of gay people having any legally recognized marriage, and essentially produced what I think America calls “common law marriage”? (Very much an “I think” issue here). But the wording of the law meant if you had the same flat/housemate for more than a couple of years they could claim half your property \o/
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> now they're making advanced AI to dynamically target and kill people.

I'm curious, which projects are working on this? Any ones that we know about?

In terms of production weapons I know the newer Switchblades, Excalibur, and even Javelin do some fancy automated targeting before the terminal phase but that's not really AI beyond image recognition and the targets/specific destination are pre-selected. I'm curious what sort of applications would use autonomous targeting without overt human involvement.
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The notion relies upon fundamentally faulty assumptions about universal fixedness to pricing, namely that it exists at all. It is frankly, insane to operate under it but because of Marx's and his disciple's fixation upon labor as a basis of economic value they stalwartly refuse to see what is right in front of their face. Water by the river is far cheaper than water in the Sahara. Hauling the water to the Sahara isn't guaranteed profit however because of the lack of people in the Sahara in the first place to serve the exchange, however.
I made a website that helps me search for specific techno tracks across DJ sets.

It helps me find DJs I vibe with the most
Not surprising.

When my wife and I went to Egypt ~20 years ago and would be shopping for anything, we decided to test this exact thing out. We'd pick a trinket common to any vendor, like a souvenir pyramid, or a ceramic bowl. We'd pretend to not know each other, and my wife would ask the price in English, and I would ask for price in Russian. Russian price was typically 1/3 that of English. And that's the starting price, to be bargained down.

After the test, all of our souvenir shopping was conducted in Russian.
> And besides, British royals are Germans not Brits.

One's father's ancestry doesn't determine one's nationality. The majority of King Charles III's ancestry does appear to be German (about a quarter British, and a good helping of Polish), but Prince William is majority British.
Beware of their quite well hidden opt-out telemetry collection:

https://cube.dev/docs/config#options-reference-telemetry

It's really quite improper to not have this clearly mentioned anywhere obvious.
Great point about being direct, and the priority on DX seems to be a semi-moat in itself, worked for Vercel and Supabase so far!
I'm a US citizen and surely not of any interest to the government. I'd like to travel abroad, but I have an admittedly irrational fear of being denied re-entry (or, at the very least, being subjected to considerable unpleasantness upon re-entry) that gives me great pause. (I keep justifying to my wife that we haven't been to all of the US yet but that argument will only go so far.)

I absolutely would not travel with any of my daily-driver devices. I worry having a completely empty phone w/o a SIM or a visible history of use would cause me to be more heavily scrutinized. Same goes for a computer.

I've heard there's an expectation for some returning travelers to divulge passwords for online accounts upon re-entry to the US (at the risk of "unpleasantness").

I worry because I don't have accounts on the common major social networks. For the accounts I do have (basically Facebook, LinkedIn, and a moribund Gmail account I have grudgingly) I wouldn't know the passwords (because I use a password manager and random passwords exclusively). I wouldn't have my password manager or 2FA seeds with me either.

I know I'm a crazy person when it comes to other aspects of my life. Am I a crazy person when it comes to this? (It definitely doesn't help that I've watched various "reality TV" border/customs TV shows...)
In most countries there are significant financial reasons to get married.
it's more to prevent employers from making you work during vacation
Look like the documentation is updated.
Yeah, I think this is an experience some people seek out today.
The vast majority of society doesn't have 250k+ on their bank account. Hell for most this is barely news as long as the US government keeps their FDIC insurance promise.

America is no Argentina or Lebanon.
I don't understand the point of traveling with clean burner devices and keeping your data encrypted in the cloud. Yes, it protects for threats where the devices are stolen or compromised when out of sight, but not for cases where government authorities are targeting you, as described in the article. What happens when govt. goons tell you to write down a list of your cloud accounts (email, storage etc.) and their corresponding security credentials and threaten you to not leave any out? Or, when you are asked to log in to your cloud accounts with the threat actors hovering around you? How many of us would refuse and/or roll the dice on not revealing certain accounts and risk them being discovered later (along with implications of not having revealed them earlier when specifically told to do so)?

Wouldn't it be more rational and reasonable (for everyday folk, not journalists, activists, dissidents, etc.) to never travel with or keep on cloud storage any data that they would rather authorities never, ever see, if at all they have such data?I think the vast variety of business and personal data does not fall into this category.

Note that, in principle, I am all for privacy and resisting govt. intrusions into private lives by crafting appropriate legal frameworks and strong technical mechanisms. In practice, as an average Joe, I don't know how much I should resist if/when I am personally targeted and threatened with dire consequences while traveling in a foreign country. It is easy to think that in such a situation, my priority would be to get out of that situation asap and folding completely may be seen as the fastest way to achieve that.
I was surprised to see no mention of Chile's Project Cybersyn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

There is an argument to be made (and indeed it seems it has already, in this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towards_a_New_Socialism ) that with modern networking, data speeds and computing capacity, a centrally-planned economy could work.
I mean, we have not tried it with modern computers… and he Soviets never even got close as the technology to see literally every non-black market transaction has only existed for a decade or so. Not saying I want to live in 1980s style Soviet bureaucracy (or weird modern Chinese mixed system) - but that doesn’t mean we can’t do immeasurably better than those systems.

I am not sure “8 billion Turing machines” is intrinsically more efficient or accurate than “one really fast one.”

Also, worth mentioning that you would sell your wedding ring in a heartbeat if you needed to pay for food/healthcare/etc. Sentimental value is important you’re right, but in my experience (maybe not yours which is fair) - when the chips are down you do what you have to do to survive. The problem is, in the current system we value human life less and than market equilibrium, and that’s silly. We could feed every starving person on the planet… several times over… but we don’t because it’s not profitable. That’s objectively stupid.
Doubtful, as 99% of people aren't taking a detailed look at the bank's risk profile when they're deciding to withdraw their cash. It's a knee-jerk reaction to keep their money safe. After all, FR was actually safe, had their not been a run.