skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not allowed. These are old plumes and they stay around for a long time and are very expensive to clean up.
Since we are adding acts of Mormon rebellion and killing. It is worth also adding Mountain Meadows Massacre to the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

tldr: 120 emigrants were traveling by wagon train towards California, passing through Utah. They set up camp south of Salt Lake in a meadow for the night and woke up to being surrounded by the Mormon militia, painted as Native Americans who then opened fire on them, killing 120 men, women, and children. Their goal was to frame Native Americans of the massacre.

Mormons did spare any child under the age of 8 because Mormon Doctrine states that children under 8 are innocent and they were taken and raised into Mormonism.
The programming involved on the Viasat3 Americas satellite that got off the ride on the Heavy Falcon SpaceX rocket likely needs research grade AI and PhD programming to stay functioning. Userbase is triple digit million humans at least and for iot that attaches a multiplier to reach an almost astronomical sum.
Yes it matters, because there will be a court involved in this process as opposed to if the government “owned” your bank account nothing would stop it from knowing exactly what was in there at all times.
I'd also be curious how it reacts if you try to say that a legal move it made is illegal.
Here’s an idea: let’s make commercial air travel suck less. Then maybe there is less incentive for private jet travel.
Well, fortunately us peons can invest in many of these companies and come along for the ride.
This seems like a really cool idea.

I’m curious what effects it would have on polarization. I can imagine a world where people subscribe to moderation label sets managed by different political parties or ideological sects where we get back to what is implicit in other social media platforms, but at least here people would have to actively choose to bias the content they receive.
Seems like Meta is pursuing a reverse LBO: lay off a bunch of people, _then_ take on a bunch of debt to pay out as a shareholder dividend.
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this is not about Mormonism at all; just "nepotism."

when I was in Google Ads in 2008, nearly all the SmartASS team were Canadian. What are the odds?

Then when I was back in there in 2017, someone told me, "Now it's only about half."
I will take another rare opportunity of anything MySQL ends up being on HN, Considering [1] mySQL v5.x will EOL this year. And MySQL 8.0 with EOL in 2026. Does anyone knows if MySQL 9.0 will come anytime soon?

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After letting grass grow long, mowing it short can cause Lawn Shock where the grass goes brown and can even die. Grass stores its nutrients in the blades so you shouldn't take off more than an inch or two at a time. Unfortunately most lawnmowers can't do this with really long grass, or I'd let my lawn grow more often.
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In theory anything can be scaled up. In practice they aren't having much luck due to the decrepit state of the Russian industrial base. They are also trying to scale up armored vehicles, artillery ammunition, tactical aircraft, air defense systems, etc. Can't scale up everything at once. There are limits to what a country with a relatively small economy can push, even on a wartime footing.

In the mean time the US and other NATO countries are still delivering longer range air defense systems. Even if Russia manages to produce more PGMs it's going to be very risky to use direct attack type weapons. They're going to have to increasingly rely on stand-off weapons which are effective, but which are much more expensive and contain components that are difficult to produce domestically.

But I agree that we should expect an ongoing war of attrition with no clear victory on either side.
So, let's say the NSA is collecting data on every person on the web, and they're able to see who is using these 'mass surveillance avoidance tools' and who isn't. The former category then actually stands out and becomes targets of more intensive surveillance because they're using tools that allow them to hide surveillance to a limited extent. Using such tools would flag the 'strong-selector' metadata collection system for further (targeted) examination, i.e.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_(NSA)

This is of course what an outfit like the STASI or Gestapo would do, isn't it? If you're actually trying to hide from surveillance, the best tactic is to hide in plain sight, maintaining a cover story consisting of bland normal online presence that doesn't draw extra attention.

Of course living in an authoritarian panopticon and having to hide in this manner is an undesirable situation, and the solution is not technological, but rather political in nature. One basic issue is transparency, i.e. the public should be able to see what the intelligence agencies and corporations are up to with their surveillance programs. This is why Snowden's exposure of PRISM, XKEYSCORE, TRAFFICTHIEF, etc. was in the public interest, i.e. legitimate whistleblowing.
The missus got a call-back the very next day. My mother got a call-back the very next day. I got a call-back the very next day.

We didn't get any anti-depressants. More info: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/talking-therapies-medicine-...
The closest example I can think of is my car. If the seat belt sensor doesn't detect when my safety belt is properly working, I think it's ok to disable the sensor so that I can operate my vehicle without warning lights and sounds distracting me while I drive.

I am sure there are comparable sensors on these vehicles that can have inaccurate readings that can safely be ignored if the operator knows what they are doing.
It's not supposed to leach into the groundwater, but nobody is enforcing the companies that are handling these chemicals to ensure they don't get into the groundwater supply. Many of the worst contaminations in the area were caused by big tech companies such as HP who didn't realize their underground TCE tanks were leaking whoops.

As of 2023 only two states have banned TCE (Minnesota and New York), and the federal government has yet to do anything to control it. It has and will continue to be used extensively in industrial application such as at electronic assembly lines, dry-cleaners, mechanics, air force bases, coffee decaffeination, textile industry, and the list goes on. The best you can do is live in a highly residential area which is far from the locations where any of these business could operate.
Beauty may just be in the eye of the beholder.

Have you tried watching it through—not just clips? Despite it having no dialogue, it tells an enthralling story about society & technology. I always give the caveat "this may not be for everyone" when I recommend it, but people usually follow up gleaming about the movie to me.
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GPT-4 is absolutely more generally knowledgeable than any individual person. Individual humans can still easily beat it when it comes to knowledge of individual subjects.

Let’s not conflate knowledge with intelligence though. GPT-4 simply isn’t intelligent.
Apple has been pursuing a “cash neutral” policy for a while by selling bonds in order to do what Meta says they are going to do. I’m no corporate financial whiz but I think that using debt to do those things has some sort of tax advantage.

There also seems to be an effort to show a net zero cash holdings position in order to preempt any political attempts to try to take money that corporations are “just sitting on.” I think there was some rumblings of that when Apple had 100+ billion in the bank. When they got wind of various governments’ ideas of extra taxes on excess cash suddenly share buybacks seemed like a better idea than losing that money altogether.
Title is a clickbait lie? Is the company charging money for access to AI girlfriends?
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well, you're doing a fantastic job of outsourcing their guilt, i'm sure they sleep just fine at night at 30k feet while simultaneously convincing you to reduce your quality of life.
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Believe and do not question - questioning's the devil's work.
It is not just nostalgia.

I think Lady Gaga is a great example of what the poster is talking about. I know so many Lady Gaga songs and I am not even a fan. I have never tried to listen to any of her music but the shared experience means I just know so much from 15 years back.

Contrast that with Harry Styles. I look him up on youtube right now and I have never heard a single one of his songs before this. All I know is he is a giant star but it stops there.
>People still haven't decided what the difference between AI and ML is, for instance, but somehow still insist to treat the two as obviously separate in conversations.

Strange, in most of the papers and the books about this they define AI and ML and their relation.
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I bought mine from a construction material supply web store, and was looking for one of the cheaper ones. Its a Trotec. I wouldn't trust the absolute values so much, but i believe it's directionally correct.
Relatedly, does anyone know about 2fas.com ? They have a very nice app and a lot of installs but it's unclear how well vetted the oss is.
Order is hard; disorder is easy.

That is to say... everything is orderly until it's not.
so it is here that the hot girls from HN hook?

hi i am luqtas and i do not a virtual gf T.T
Someone who is actually doing it would be a lot more authoritative in my opinion. Hinton has been wrong on most of his big ideas in the past decade. He hasn’t actually been involved in the important advances of anything recent. Inventing backprop is great. No discredit to him there. But that’s not a free pass to be seen as someone who is on the cutting edge.

But beyond all of that, what are we really asking? Are we asking about social ramifications? Because I don’t think the OpenAI devs are particularly noteworthy in their ability to divine those either. It’s more of a business question if anything. Are we talking about where the tech goes next? Because then it’s probably the devs or at least indie folks playing with the models themselves.

None of that means Hinton’s opinions are wrong. Form your own opinions. Don’t delegate your thinking.
Let's hope we don't get to Horizon Zero Dawn too soon.
If you don't like Bitcoin, you could always just get an address and if you get tipped, sell immediately. I don't see how this is any different than an app with "gems" you can buy and re-sell back to the app. Some games like Entropia[0] have a fixed exchange rate with the dollar, allowing you to "cash out" of the game, if holding game currency isn't your thing.

It's just game currency essentially for the social app. When I think about it like that, it makes me less nervous.

[0] https://account.entropiauniverse.com/account/deposits/#:~:te....
A person might be able to do that, people collectively clearly cannot stop themselves from treating text as important as lived experience, otherwise we wouldn’t have this story — and that’s still true regardless of if the story itself is an accurate representation of reality or yet another example of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
Once any website with user generated content becomes big enough, content moderation becomes one of its biggest concern. It’s smart that Blue Sky is invite only for now while they work on the moderation part.

Composable moderation is an interesting concept as the baseline is set by the app, but users/community can create their own moderation rules on top of it.
The LDS church specifically has a practice where many young LDS members go on a "mission" for two years. In fact it is so common that almost every LDS member would understand the phrase "[a specific person]'s mission" to refer to that two year mission for proselytizing.
Exactly what the article mentioned, you are not having a relationship with a bot, but with a company.
And as the poster above you mentioned American health care is the most advanced in the world. So even if it is “double” the types of treatments available here are much better.

I’ve had friends travel here just to get treated.
The honest question is, is any of us willing to be that person? Therapists are helpful, but they certainly aren't friends in the strictest since.

And let's not forget that $70 bucks a year is probably, at best, 2-ish hours with a licensed therapist. There are plenty of folks in need that can't exactly spare double digits an hour on a regular basis.
For me it's sad that chatting with AI is a best thing we can do for people suffering from something as simple as a feeling. All those primary feelings are just brain chemistry. We should be able to fix that so that people don't feel lonely regardless of whether they are under the impression that they have meaningful connections in their lives with other people or not. We have a long tradition of thinking of suffering as necessary motivation tool. I think we should grow out of that philosophy as a species.
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> That people are so lonely that they invest emotionally in an AI is flooring

This is "the sex worker doesn't actually love you", except in this case the sex worker has had her job automated away.
Seems like a maximum articles / period counter. Could also maybe just use private tabs if it is cookie based.
I really think it has a lot to do with the situation and expectations. And probably you as well. I think it’s completely plausible to deliver expected value in 7 hours, though you are probably looking at either a very meeting heavy role or just a bit more of a chill role. 1/3 of the code written, but written fit to purpose, performant and with high quality is still outstanding value. Many, many employees at your organization deliver zero or negative net value.
How do you correct that mistake without working?
That doesn't work if people are emotionally attached, and especially if the changes are more subtle than those made by Replika. Did you read the article?
My grandmother had 10 siblings. They grew up farming and they picked cotton every summer. Of the 11 siblings, I believe 8 of them have parkinsons. They have long thought exposure to whatever pesticides were used on the cotton may have caused the parkinson's late in life. I believe the siblings that don't have parkinsons were those that for whatever reason, had much less exposure to the cotton. Both parents lived pretty long and neither had the disease. There are two sets of twins, one identical, one fraternal. I'm not sure which of those have it. I've long thought that a case study could be made just about that family of 13.
The article was significantly worse (less accurate and less detail) than those summaries.
“…they don’t think interest rates are dropping anymore soon.”

At one time they did not think they were going down soon and they did suddenly.

They also thought over hiring was a good idea.

It’s almost as if these people are not good predictors of the future, and are just socially networked such they never lose and it appears to morons as if divine mandate empowers them.

This species is such a joke. Lemmings enabling a minority of abusers. Since humanity is meaningless why not bioengineer a kaiju and have front row seats to the apocalypse. Slowly roasting to death in deference to Zuckerbergs of the world is super boring
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How about composing a digital currency stack in layers, similar to the OSI model for networking?

Bitcoin already has second layers: the Lightning Network, Stacks, and bridges to other blockchain systems.
> regardless of which country you live in.

I usually don't go into these kind on discussions, especially on HN, but allow me to mention that in many countries, nobody would think much of such splash screen even at work. And that doesn't mean in any way that the person in question is creepy or that anyone else around would think so for a minute. If this artwork would trigger a reaction, this wouldn't go further than "hey, nice drawing" without any afterthoughts.

Seeing this picture as suggestive is immensely conditioned by the personal and cultural background of the beholder and his community. These norms aren't universal.