skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That formulation erases any distinction between capitalism and anything else, leaving it as just an empty synonym for badness. I'm calling out the intellectual emptiness of that use as an epithet here.
This is not a good question to ask as a data point. There are lots of people in their second and third careers who bring a lot more to the table because of their experience.

The age at which you start doesn’t guarantee anything other than you can say “I’ve been writing code since X”.
I've had mostly the same experience as calmoo.

And when it does go wrong, I've had good success telling it what it did do wrong. It will usually correct itself then.
I know there was a big scare around PFAS and stick-free pans. That confused me because they are actually on most food-wrapping. Sure, the heat and scraping don’t help the pans, but I can’t imagine that having it on most things we throw in the trash and then burn or put in a landfill helps much.

> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently approves more than 90 PFAS in food container materials ranging from paper cups, parchment paper, and microwavable popcorn bags to fast-food wrappers, pizza boxes, and pet food bags, the Interstate Technology Regulatory Council reported in September 2021.
You don't need to know anything about the Chinese QA process. This is how QA is done for literally everything. What exactly do you thing QA is? The cheap batteries you buy from ebay are batteries that were rejected to sell at a store in the west, and rejected to sell at a store in the east.

I'm not trying to change your mind on anything here, as you seem to have your mind set before bothering to spend even a minute looking up something you stated yourself you know nothing about.
Your public face isn’t enough: you’d need a 3-D scan. Similarly, fingerprints need more than a single image to pass a modern sensor.

That’s not impossible, of course, but it raises the question of whether the comparison is fair. For example, how likely is it that someone can scan your face accurately at a coffee shop but wouldn’t be able to record you typing your password dozens of times during the same visit? If someone is collecting your fingerprints off of your water mugs, they can also plant cameras or have a drone record you. Very few people have to worry about targeted attacks like that and if they do, neither biometrics nor passwords are sufficient.
People "not being logical" renders their decisions random. Or biased in case, some common cause for such biased thinking is present. Like prejudice towards skin colors, poverty or whatever.

The former case results in GP's tie, the latter in the absurdly skewed prison population the US is known for.

People are horrible at logical thinking.
I'd like to use it eventually but as of now API usage is too limited.
That has already happened.[1][2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/08/darktrace...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165448073/voice-clones-ai-sc...
Because when they do an open house everyone will know who the agent is?
Sure, but now it will never have credibility. That's the tradeoff: either the check is discerning, or it is not. Musk agrees with you and thinks that Twitter should not be deciding who is "notable" or not, so now the check just means you are a subscriber. It will never mean anything more, because that's all it is.
No, because it would be widely known what information is collected and what information is given in a verified fashion.

How exactly would you prevent leaking?
I've got to do something with them...
> Conservative policymakers and a cautious public mean Japan is much more likely to look for internal, rather than external, solutions to the demographic crunch, despite projections pointing to the inevitability of more immigration.

Suppose they choose to "solve" it with immigration - what will happen? It will enable their current fertility-destroying system to persist, shrinking their population indefinitely, while supplementing it with immigrants.

Social-economic systems that cause below-replacement fertility are in this way much like parasites, feeding off the host nation. Without immigration, eventually this will cause enough of a crisis, or a high enough fever, to continue the analogy, that will allow the nation to shake off the parasite and change their system to something sustainable.

But immigration functions as anesthetic and immunosuppressant - keeping the host population just comfortable enough that they go gentle into that good night, and giving the parasite economic system a new host to feed on.
Depends on what is size of said node and what type of queries.

Example of something I was struggling in the past:

- 200milion-4bilion rows dataset with properties like country, production, x etc
- support arbitrary filters on any of 70 columns
- provide result in less than 4 sec and support different aggregations

Example of problematic query:

Calculate monthly aggregated (sum) time series of X for all where country is Y and another attribute is above Z. In Elasticsearch this query takes 10-20sec and with heavy caching it somehow works. It was hard to partition data in a way that was friendly to all queries.
Arguably this civilization has been hacked for centuries.

Capitalism is undoubtedly a sort of AI that only seeks to find equilibrium points in markets, and the idea is running on almost everybody’s brain. I hardly imagine that any sort of AI could be more dangerous than something that currently let’s millions die due to malnourishment because it’s trying to satisfy some loss function - equilibrium.
You're right, methane breaks down in the atmosphere. What does it break down into again?

> The point is if we invest much more in nuclear, it will become too cheap to meter

So if we ignore the financial costs (invest today) it'll become too cheap to meter.

If nuclear plants can generate with costs <1¢/kWh, why don't they?

If nuclear is cheaper than all other energy sources (too cheap to even meter in costs) why is there any energy kind of energy usage and why would it need massive investment to make it happen? If your costs are practically zero, isn't your profit margin essentially 100%? Shouldn't all nuclear power plants be making money hand over fist competing against expensive nonrenewable resources?

And yet it's often one of the more expensive sources of electricity today.

Don't get me wrong I'm a fan of nuclear and wouldn't mind seeing more of it but not if my electricity bill is 30¢/kWh+. That's not moving towards too cheap to meter.
Language change humanity.

Writing changed humanity.

Compared to this AI doesn’t even register on the scale.
thank you.

to me that indicates that its an app available on the play or app store, not a website.
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Average yearly performance increase is about 20% at best. And closer to 10%
I guess I don't see what the problem is. Are you worried about this happening from a economic perspective, like "we should let private industry do whatever dangerous or immoral thing it wants lest we risk losing the competitive edge in said dangerous or immoral markets," or a cynical one like "well if someone's going to fuck up the world it might as well be us?"

It's not like we must either stop in our tracks or allow every coked-up startup founder to do whatever they think will get them on the cover of Forbes. Also, pursuing this tech with wanton abandon won't stop, say, China from progressing with their own efforts.
I think it’s very likely some of each.

Assuming we are talking of a scenario where there is sufficient testing where we can be assured we aren’t introducing new bugs, it’s probably a good idea to do rewrites after a couple of decades have passed, and to use whatever the state of the art respected language is, is if it has demonstrable advantages.
Harari's next zinger: the internet does not empower clickbait -- clickbait empowers the internet!
Kobos are¹ good. You can load them with your own files and they support a nice range of formats. Before loading EPUBs, convert them² for better performance³. Old models keep getting software updates for years, and those can improve performance.

PocketBooks⁴ look interesting, especially in the colour e-ink offers⁵ but I can’t personally attest to that.

Take a look at the Good e-Reader website⁶ for reviews of several brands and models.

¹ https://www.kobo.com/

² https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

³ Though you don’t have to; unconverted EPUBs load fine.

⁴ https://pocketbook.ch/

⁵ https://www.theverge.com/21507390/pocketbook-color-review-e-...

⁶ https://goodereader.com/
Thanks, makes you really think. No, I don't want to have people getting away with murder, but these numbers tell a lot. I wonder what the 'more getting away with murder' numbers look like if we start comparing to population increases rather than just last years numbers?
Different trial (attempted murder), but I too was on a Jury.

At the start of deliberation, it was an even split. Towards the end of deliberation it was 11/12 in favor of returning a verdict of guilty.

However... One juror opened up some bizarre Pandora's box arguing against the fundamental knowability of the universe. How could any fact truly be "known"?

At times, I love conversations like that. But not when a man has been stabbed twelve times and directly pointed to the defendant.

Our jury was hung.
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It's an ineffective one, because there isn't any single category that is even 90% or 80% of the issue. Everything is just a small drop in the bucket, it's just that there are lots of drops.
I don't know what to tell you brother, two months of mixing is very doable for humans beings... As it was done by two people to make OK Computer? I don't think having an AI will change much for your music production if 2 months of mixing is too much work. Don't even know what you'd ask it to do - you'd probably have to readjust it until it's the way you want it...it would probably take the same time don't you think?
“ The first crucial step is to demand rigorous safety checks before powerful ai tools are released into the public domain. Just as a pharmaceutical company cannot release new drugs before testing both their short-term and long-term side-effects, so tech companies shouldn’t release new ai tools before they are made safe.”

Not sure I agree here. Who watches the watchers? Who sets the safety checks? Who gets to see behind the curtain? Do we trust our current governmental and regulatory structures?
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
I rocked the boat to save a failing project and then I had to bust my ass working 24 hour stints for several months to make sure it succeeded while I watched incompetent people go on vacations.

His advice is legit.
One thing is kind of unclear to me, are we segregating by murder type?

For example (not sure if true):
It would seem a drop in easier to identity domestic violence murders would throw stats off for the others that were always hard to solve.

My googling is failing on getting the mix of murders by type by year.
Does it rise less or the same in the districts that were not de-funded?
> It is true that he presented himself like a financier,

Which is why these people were meeting with him like he was a well-connected financier.

The people who were meeting with him weren't checking his bank account balances to see if he was really a billionaire or how he got his money.
Isn’t that like relabeling accidental deaths on public property as “systemic murder”, ignoring that the word “murder” connotes intent?
Perhaps if they weren't trampling on the law they wouldn't run the risk of legitimate secrets being let out from numerous malcontents.
> "police who were near incompetent in their investigation, the forensics people who could barely maintain chain of evidence"

Are you sure they were all bad at their jobs? It's certainly possible. But it's also possible that you simply had unrealistic expectations for what the process looks like, exemplifying the "CSI Effect".

This is why I find these sort of pseudo-anonymous anecdotes very difficult to judge; I know neither the details of the case, nor you personally. It's like trying to get reviews for headphones online... suppose I read a review from somebody who says the headphones sound worse than a skinned cat. Is that review from a typical headphone user with reasonable expectations for sound quality? Or is it from an audiophile with very high, perhaps fanciful, standards? I have no point of reference for determining where that person is coming from.
I think just about every industry gets more money when their KPIs go south, but in anything government-related (typically a natural monopoly) it all goes to one organization. Another example on the opposite end of the spectrum is that NASA did such a good job in the late 60's and early 70's of getting humans to the moon (a feat still never matched) that their budget was cut massively. Government problems attract money, solved problems result in budget cuts, it's an almost inevitable result.

That being said, you're not wrong that there is a severe morale problem among American police officers. I'm not sure we have the knowledge to figure out the solution, at this point. I suspect we are seeing the beginnings of something similar in public education.
Yeah, I share your surprise. That was my understanding too. Not sure what to tell you other than I know what I saw! These were literally 3ft tall kids holding their parent's hands...
I disagree, it is an extremely strong strategy. You shut them up, they cannot inflict any more damage. The public can speculate what other secrets exist, but they can't know as they would if the whistleblower was kept around. The short-term negative publicity is tiny compared to the fallout if more information was leaked. This is why organizations basically always move to silence: It works.
It doesn’t matter what is meant by AI, it is AI behind the scenes.

The way this AI was deployed has definitely done some nice damage to democracy and society thus far.
It looks like you get updates:

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If they stop working on it, I imagine that you're SOL.
I get those too, all from the wiki disambig page.

> UUG is an acronym for: Uniface Users Group. Universal Underwriters Group. Unix User Group.
It certainly also involves generating code(e.g. WebGPU, vulkan) that are more akin to traditionally compiler, and more like graph and memory optimization. So indeed more than packaging.

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I think you have to define quality. If you define quality as the absence of annoyances I think you're probably over optimizing the wrong thing. You want to provide a clear, fast path for users to solve their problems and at scale you have to prioritize providing paths to solving big problems for users rather than fixing the volume of small annoyances, it's incredibly more impactful.
Perhaps a graph of police resources used by race, per capita, could substantiate that claim. Because the article doesn't even make the claim (except perhaps implicitly), let alone offer proof of it.
The local llama subreddit wiki has good info about RAM requirements: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/wiki/models/
This incident does not seem a common-enough occurrence to change my behavior.

That would be like euthanizing every dog on earth because a person might be killed by one.

~30,000 people are killed by dogs every year.

How many times annually do people have their phones unlocked by police without their consent?
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Not according to stats: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/31/violent-c...

Totals are not up, and "red states" are much more violent.

As you observe, police funding has about zero effect on crime.
Apostasy laws.
Hah. That happened to my brother in law.

He was driving home in twilight (after regular work day, no drinking involved) and a mad guy jumped in front of him on the road. My brother in law swerved and avoided the crazy dude and kept driving.

A kilometer later he was chased down by a angry violent police officer in police cruiser who arrested him, put him in cuffs, slammed him into the cruiser with no discussion. Turns out the crazy guy was a police officer running a hidden speed trap, but of course it was hidden so there was no police cruiser in sight, no lights, and the officer was wearing a plain dark vest and armor which just looked like regular clothes.

The complaint has been stalled for three years now of course. The officer still claims my brother in law was deliberately trying to run the officer down. Meanwhile my brother in law (like, THE most kind and easy going and peaceful person I know) is basically permanently scarred.

As a kid I thought police officers were like angel saints. Now I know enough of them to understand they're just people, doing a job. Some are good at it some are bad at it some are ass holes. But the job gives simply incredible amount of unchecked power,while they deal with worst in human kind.
As NPR is the source of this story and I’m too lazy to look up actual statistics…

They had a story a week or so ago about how all crime is up and speculated that the police are less likely to interact with the public because they’re afraid the encounter will escalate and they will end up getting prosecuted for doing their job. Think they even had an “expert” to back their claim.

So what you get is police who won’t do their job out of fear of retaliation and people seeing there are no consequences for their actions just doing whatever they want.

And, of course, the current narrative is the police are “silent quitting” in protest because who else are they going to blame?
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A place to search and review any US address
A new website to search and review any US address.

Open to anyone to rate & review any address. You can also follow properties & get notified, etc.
Right now it's pretty simple: First I drop the table/column information if the token limit gets exceeded otherwise (this is shown as a warning in the UI). Then if the limit still gets exceeded, the I show an error to the user.

I plan to make this process more smart eventually.
"While reasons behind the drop are multi-faceted, Cook and other experts warn that more people getting away with murder in the the U.S. is driving a kind of doom loop of mutual mistrust: low murder clearance rates impede future investigations which in turn potentially drive up killings in some communities where a lack of arrests undermines deterrence and sends a message that the police will not or cannot protect them."

Interesting that the article mentions the sizable drop in clearance rates in 2020 yet does not offer up any explanation for why that may be the case.
It’s not a slowdown strike, it’s gangland extortion. The mob is also famous for demanding “protection” money, where what they’re “protecting” you from is themselves and little else.
holy crap -- my pithy comment blew up a bit. I'm really digging the discussion.

Why haven't we seen all the amazing properties of graphene commercialized yet? like super capacitors made from graphene that replace batteries and can insta-charge?
Works reasonable well in meetings.

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Anti-human nihilist much?
It's GPT-3.5 only so far but I might add additional models at some point.
The Textualize crew appears to be making some cool stuff. I'm looking forward to the Web browser.
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How will that continue to work in the future as society becomes more polarized and culture wars grow in importance?

Every trial will be a hung one, you will have one blue/red juror which will refuse to find guilty a blue/red defendant.
Uptime nines aren’t equally distributed
Polyfills can be quite expensive on a client device depending on their complexity, so they’re not some kind of free lunch.
In that vein, when the cheating scandal happened a few months back Hikaru (a top 10 player) said the only information he would need to make a difference in a match is getting a buzz when the position is critical. Not which move to make, but when to spend time analyzing deeply.

It is hard to over-emphasize how much high level chess is about time management.
No one said overvoltage is a failure mode. You took a list of things that can go wrong, for some reason created a cause-and effect between two random things on the list, just so you could correct someone?

a 9V battery should produce around 9V. There are plenty of recheargable 9V batteries sold that are over 9V, because 9V is either using lithium or nicad in series - none of which add up to 9V. The 9V lithium batteries I buy have a tiny voltage converter and deliver 9V. If I order that same battery from a random ebay source, they can easily save on the voltage converter and deliver 10.5V for example.

More to the point of my example, a bunch come off the production line with a Broken voltage converter. They don't pass QA and get sold on ebay.
The context of millions of women being forced to wear the hijab around the world makes importing those values slightly concerning.
There is no MAD deterrence to limit advertising: only keeping up with the leader.

Once you've figured out how to efficiently kill most people on the planet, you can decrease investment in the endeavor and just keep a finger hovered over the button.
"""1.0342 x 10^100 to 1

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Somehow being off by 341796308487334800992832804222885104773611498499997696000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 feels like it's not... that close.
I know: bonkers!
"Epstein was a serial pedophile, therefore the Moon landing was faked" is just impeccable logic, I don't see why you've got a problem with that line of thinking. If you prove one thing true, you've proved them all.
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One reason why murder is a widely cited stat for police effectiveness is that it is harder to falsify the top line number. But as others have pointed out it's not impervious to being gamed.
Wow, first time hearing of this.. so terrible.. no money in the world is worth the lasting damages he contributed to.

There are few of such people still alive in the world, without which we'd have millions of less deaths and people left disabled..
Hope someone finds out and the PR stops them from continuing somehow :/
I mean...not really?

It's not particularly helpful to think of Apple before Jobs' return as iCEO and Apple afterward as the same company. His leadership philosophy and his vision for the company were so completely different than Gil Amelio and his fellow suits, any attempt to draw conclusions based on things that happened during that period is going to be an exercise in futility.

Unless, of course, all you want to do is score points dunking on Apple. Which has been a beloved pastime of many tech people for about 40 years now.