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> All Gaul comprises three parts -> Three parts are comprised of all Gaul.

No, that doesn't work.

You could, however, say "Gaul is comprised of three parts".

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/cw-comprise-comprised...
The use of prescriptivists as though it was a sports team is ironic. It's actually you who's pushing a certain use of language despite knowing that it's ambiguous. You're the one enforcing your language on others.
Can you share more about these services please?
“We have this fiction in our minds that voting is perfectly accurate: that even a differential of a few votes is meaningful. In reality, elections have error rates every step of the way, and a very close election is a statistical tie."

I'm curious about the error rates he mentions. What causes them in practice?

This reminded me of another article on hacking voting machines - https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-electio...
you can just use the API, if you set completions to 0 it will return the token count. Then you can just remove the oldest message until it's under any number. I picked 3k to allow 1k for the reply
There are open source AI models which can approach GPT-3 on an academic comparison done by the people who created these OSS models. There's however zero progress towards OSS products using these AIs, while Microsoft and various startups are already working on products using OpenAI's tools.

OpenAI/Microsoft don't need superior performance to have a moat (though they do have it, at least for now). They could just use the existing moats and make them unassailable. Or add new moats via API or hardware.
Same with Total Commander. 25 years of free updates.
You are a kitten in a catnip forest.

You are vastly superior to any paper clip, universal or not.
I need a reliable way to manage OTP codes for many clients, having one SIM is just not good enough. Partially the same problem because I've run into limits - having a separate card is just less likely to be a problem.
How does it solve static traffic? Do you mean parking? Because a Waymo car takes up just as much space on the road as a human driven one.
> The Stanford study points out that since charging electric vehicles takes time using conventional chargers, owners tend to leave their cars charging in the evenings and overnight, putting added pressure on the grid. Demand peaks between 5-9 pm as people return home from work and use electric appliances like televisions and kettles.

> If vehicle owners were to charge them during the day, this could cut costs and help the grid as the number of electric vehicles increase to meet sustainable goals, the authors say.

My EV (Tesla) already has a charging option for when rates are cheapest. I would assume that most EVs will have that feature if they don’t already?

Not sure I understand why this is considered a big problem.
That's very inefficient, on top of questionable tech stack

Why would you store the screenshot to disk, just grab what ever the compositor gives you and render it on a texture, skipping the whole disk write usage

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2019/09/16/new-wa...

It's similar for both macOS and X11 (haven't looked at wayland yet)
Universal Paperclips can be played faster by setting your keyboard autorepeat rate to maximum and using keyboard instead of mouse to press the buttons. I'd argue this is thematically appropriate and better than playing using mouse only, even if you ignore the time saving.
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Duh! Thanks.

But we usually don’t speak that way about things that might be thousands or millions of light years away but I bet at those “small” scales the difference might be negligible in conversation.
They used to offer exactly this for fine tuning models. Never offered it after ChatGPT, I think the difficulty comes with fine tuning RLHF models, not obvious how to correctly do this.
This is exactly the problem with ML right now. Hinton and other billionaires are making sensational headlines predicting all sorts of science fiction. The media loves a good story and fear is catchy. But it obscures the real danger: humans.

LLM’s are merely tools.

Those with the need, will, and desire to use them for their own ends pose the real threat. State actors who want better weapons, billionaires who want an infallible police force to protect their estates, scammers who want to pull off bigger frauds without detection, etc.

It is already causing undue harm to people around the world. As always it’s those less fortunate that are disproportionately affected.
Not surprising, with the high IR absorption of water vapor (higher than CO2). Together with Oxygen, Water Vapor basically is the global greenhouse effect. There aught to be a law.
I could just be confused, but I thought I remembered the folks doing performance majors alongside us in Keyboard class to get prepare for the piano proficiency exam. Obviously not the Pianists- but I thought every music major had to pass keyboard proficiency.
Well, not exactly. The good thing is that automated, centrally booked autonomous systems can run pretty good car pools. Sure human drivers can do this but it's just not as practical. Not at all. So it's possible that those 1000 people might be served by 500, 300 or maybe even 250 autonomous cars.
Washington isn’t listening to business on China any more
I think you could. the question is "is it it worth it?". the Station was built on the ground mostly in the 90s using 80s technology. I would think there are a lot of design decisions driven by 1980s technology that they are stuck with today. and its non-trivial to move an existing station away from that.

Also I don't think NASA really wants to keep going with a Space Station. from my understanding with the Axiom Commercial Space Station and the Orbital Reef station , NASA is happy to buy services on those stations rather than operate their own. like they are doing with Commercial Crew and cargo. Plus with Lunar Gateway and a possible Mars gateway station. I would imagine that there is a lot of know how and talent on the ISS engineering and operations teams that NASA would like to put to work on the moon and mars projects under Artemis.
"xerox" is a pretty common term for photocopy (particularly in Asia), just as "google" is a pretty common term for looking something up on the internet.
TBH, I found her article intolerably tedious, so I didn't study it all.

I did notice she singled out "comprising of" for abuse, which it definitely deserves. In a claim you write "comprising" or "comprised of."
> It's not just that some people dislike it; it's simply wrong.

Language changes. Words frequently develop the opposite meaning of what they originally had—opposites seem to be semantically closer and more prone to switching than completely unrelated words. When a word changes meaning, it is not wrong to use it in the new way, and at some point it even becomes wrong to use it in the original way: if you used "terrific" to mean "inspiring terror", you would confuse most of your audience!

In this particular case what I find funny is that the author acknowledges that this semantic shift has been going on for hundreds of years and all that was holding it back was the language purists. According to their own account, when the purists fell out of favor in the 60s it was like a dam burst.

The "incorrect" usage recently overtook the correct one in published books:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22comprised+o...
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NYT notoriously makes a ton of errors in grammar and usage. The “NYTtypos” Twitter account is amusing reading if you’re into that sort of thing. https://twitter.com/nyttypos
That’s how Robert Moses’ plans for a Manhattan bridge were stopped - when FDR blocked it on national security grounds for the Navy
I don’t think the set design was supposed to resemble suburbs; I think the quoted line was just an independent joke. But I’d agree in the sense that using The Good Place as a hook for this article is a little bit of a stretch. Maybe the writer just wanted something fun & catchy for what would be otherwise boring.
Etherscan has had comments for years. I.e.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x1f9090aae28b8a3dceadf281b0f12...

Can be spammed and gamed, but an address with a lot of complaints is likely going to be scammy.
Bumper height is the factor there, not weight. A higher bumper is more likely to knock you down and under, not up and over.
I spent a year working on an NFT/crypto anti-fraud solution[0].

The most important thing I learned was that crypto is based on fraud and criminality.

If that sounds overly reductive or sour grapes I’d like to tell you about the many, many scenarios where I was literally told “Why would we want this? We make our money on fraud”.

I am not kidding, and I am not exaggerating. It is without question the sleaziest and most repulsive ecosystem I’ve ever encountered.

I applaud the attempt to do something with integrity in this space but your time and talents are better spent elsewhere.

[0] - https://fnftf.io/
But how do they compare to barber surgeons?
If memory serves me correctly the original mremote was purchased by ASG. The commerical product became ASG-Remote Desktop. Then mremote was forked to mremoteNG.

I'll end here and say its still a lovely piece of software.
That's like saying Classical Latin has been meticulously preserved. Technically true, but entirely irrelevant.
Yes AutoGPT would be the singularity if it had more brain-like subsystems like long and short term memory and is hooked up to real world instruments.
That would be true regardless of the means of obtaining the GPUs -- I was just replying to the issue of the cash->GPU funnel, not asserting that any other part of the operation is easy.
This plan is an insane waste.

Other than Zarya and the other Russian built modules, the American, Japanese, and European ISS segments have held up quite well. Despite the intense thermal cycles and stress, these modules continue to operate with some repairs to sub-systems along the way. For example, Tranquility's Carbon Dioxide Removal Assemblies (CDRAs) has had two unrelated failures a decade ago (2013), but they've been repaired and the station continues to function. And it should function for at least another two decades.

We've spent so much money trucking these segments up the gravity well, and large parts of the structure are "fine," for an unknown quantity of fine. The primary structure, the Integrated Truss System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Truss_Structure, has been monitored constantly and hasn't experienced any significant degradation (or, degradation that has been made public). The modules may not be fresh off the assembly line, but they should continue to function.

My analysis is limited by the fact that I haven't been able to find a technical assessment of the central truss' lifetime, but currently there is no reason why it shouldn't continue to function far into the future as new modules are swapped in and out. The Truss itself is modular, and if push comes to shove, it is cheaper to start replacing segments than it is to build a new station

Here is a simple proposal.

We should send up thermal blankets, more radiators, and a better thermal management system to reduce thermal stress on the station via expansion & contraction. We should also develop secondary systems for each of the major sub-components that are nearing the end of life, and perform 1-to-1 swaps with existing systems (this has been done before!)

We should then boost the perigee up to at least 1,000km. As the density dropoff is exponential, the ISS will then last in this orbit for several hundred years.

The ISS should then be privatized (but managed by the USG + ESA), with different trusses, spaces being allocated to allow people to build on top of the ISS' infrastructure and experiment with in-orbit construction, manufacturing, and mass chemical synthesis in orbit for pharmaceuticals.
That makes sense, I bet you’re right.
This just made me realize the trend of using "myriad" in HN comments died out.
I would say "comprises" in the active voice means "encompasses". X not just contains Y, but X is made up of Y.

When X comprises Y, then Y constitutes X.

Or to use passive: X is made up of Y, X is comprised of Y. Y are encompassed by X.

"Is comprised of" is a totally cromulent use and I would claim it is more logical and more easily understood than the "X comprises Y" usage.
Surely Vase (German) should be spoken as "Vahse" (english phonetic), not with the W sound.

I guess you mean the German F and W! That way it's clear.
Seems not.

> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
"I plan on staying at four hotels.", if you want to more accurately preserve the original meaning (just because it's on the itinerary doesn't mean I'll actually be staying at all four hotels, but it does typically mean there's a plan I intend to follow).
Here's someone that passed a 23 page congressional document:

https://twitter.com/SullyOmarr/status/1654576774976770048
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After I posted about https://cosme.dev/ask-docs on Reddit I received some messages asking me how If I was going to make the code open source or if I could show them how I did it.

So I decided to create this repo so you can take a look at the code and maybe apply the same techniques on your own apps. It's made using only PHP as language so I think is pretty different since most stuff out there is made using python or javascript.

It uses the OpenAI API and Redis as a vector database.
I would guess things like - theoretically perfect election where every eligible voter votes instantly and magically in an instant, and then determine all the things that detract from that: late registration, sickness, distraction, and then add up all the tallying errors and such (none of which even considers if people are making the “true” decision they’d make if they had perfect knowledge and foreknowledge of the outcomes).

Elections are basically an emergency valve and a way to get people to not complain too much.
I can understand how people who are not in the security domain might get confused by this.

The legitimate application's developer cannot do anything if their application is being trojanized by malware authors. Even if Modi himself releases a piece of software, anyone can just create a malicious version of that and distribute it on various platforms.

> The most important thing country needs to do is to protect it's citizens and that is what India is doing.

The important thing the country had to do was to sensitize people about the malicious versions being distributed and urge them to use only the application from the legitimate VLC website. Instead, they went ahead and banned the legit VLC website which just makes people to go to shadier websites to download VLC.

I agree politicians would not have this level of knowledge, but for the officials who assist the policy makers, this should be a basic 101 in security. Now what would you call the official in Cert-IN who issued the VLC ban ? A clown? definitely.
Well, there is also the issue that Watson isn't an actual product. They used the jeopardy game to get brand recognition, but the customers don't get that. They get a team of contractors to hobble together whatever open source software or IBM products are out there to build you a super expensive "AI" product with what seems like a significant rate of failure (conjecture based on internet comments over numerous failures). So there was never anything for the public to interact with in the same manner as they can with ChatGPT.
As unilateral self-aggrandizing.
I think part of the anxiety, at least for me, is how fast progress is being made too. Can begin to feel like the "LET ME IN" meme, when you're watching all day the cool things those inside the magic shop can do lol. Layman btw just looking to use it to automate some volunteer work I do. Thanks for this perspective on how new this stuff is.
Depends heavily on your product. I can imagine there are quite a lot of use cases that have relatively infrequent API usage or highly cacheable responses.
When it asked for my webcam, that was the hardest decision of my life...
Where I'm struggling is how to keep up to date on the latest LLMs and their performance.
Legos is another one of those which I never got why people were so insistent on quoting the corporate statements on it so vehemently.
But that theory is false because there are plenty of other inherent inflationary powers at play, such as the fact that there are 2 people whose combined net worth (Musk and Bezos) is nearly a trillion dollars....and they are barely taxed relative to the amount of economic power they wield.

A one-time "this is your fee for us allowing you to exist and your business to thrive despite you putting a ton of burden on tax payers through tax credit abuse, creative accounting, lobbying, etc..." tax for the 10-20 wealthiest people (or families) would be one of the most deflationary events in the history of this country.

You take 30% of Bezos' net worth away and he'd still have enough to buy the entire NFL....which would probably increase his net worth (and still have a few billion to screw around with). Take 30% of the Walton's collective net worth away and they wouldn't blink an eye. Take 30% of Musk's net worth away and he could still afford to piss away 20, 30, 40, 50 billion on some vanity project and still be one of the top 10 wealthiest people on the planet.

Such a tax would be the biggest shot in the arm to the US (and world) economy in a very long time. It would also be extremely deflationary because it would spike the M2 Velocity chart to unseen highs, which is generally an indicator of middle and lower class economic activity.

It's insane that we have people that are worth hundreds of billions of dollars and we don't tell them "we created this system that allowed you to attain astronomical wealth, and we maintain that system....you should consider that when it comes to tax season, rather than hiring an army of lawyers to avoid paying tax". THEY are the cause of inflation, because there's absolutely fuck all reason to just hoard billions when we have inflation and massive income inequality.
I agree with you "at this point in time" (aka "now")
No, I know, I'm saying that the expected, compositional, interpretation of the phrase (a) exists and (b) is just a slightly archaic passive, and it would still be perfectly cromulent, just backward.
If you cared to look thoroughly on the metrics of the journal you would see that its a well known journal in microbiology, with a fine performance. It might be okay to dismiss a paper without reading it if its from one of the predatory publishers with +1000 journals and jpg artifacts in their page banner. But it is ridiculous to critic a pilot study with a small number of participants for not getting published in a very top journal.

Cargo culting the journal impact factor is so counter to what science is about, that its bewildering that it is so common.
Evolution isn't unidirectional. English reached what it is today not only through the influence of people using words with new meanings but also with the force of people mandating style, taste and opinion. You wouldn't use 'normalized' if it wasn't for Noah Webster calling the shots.

Moralising about caring about style is itself prescriptivism.
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I think they’re saying people don’t charge at work - a disconnected Tesla can’t charge.
Many clients are dependent on me to ensure their accounts are safe and backed up - lockouts with no recourse are real. I will not tolerate having a singular SIM card being the point of failure across a client pool, especially due to some nebulous aggressive policy.
Know the names?
You’re clear in your use of a singularity definition. I’ve always taken the (I think more popular?) stance that the singularity is better defined by AGI surpassing average or best human intelligence. This definition is still far off. The lacking aspects of end-to-end functionality in LLMs may or may not ever see completion.

There are paradigms shifts necessary for many applications.
Is there any good way to move upmarket from upwork?
Ambient release 0.2 – Multiplayer game engine with Rust, WebAssembly and WebGPU
Mental health is a spectrum, it is good this specific persona found an outlet that causes zero harm to himself or others.

Profile of him:
https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-1...

Interesting comments around social on this specific persona - the literal grammar nazi.
Typesense: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/vector-search.html
I mean, it's accurate either way, at least in the Old Testament.
The genius of the US is that, no matter who becomes president, the country still functions pretty well.
https://archive.today/ulnga
create a google query with 3 where clauses
This is one of those issues where I have strong feelings that are in deep conflict. I agree that grammar / usage pedantry can be bad in many ways, that language evolves and you have to accept that.

On the other hand... there's value in the stance that words mean things and lazy usage that leads to "well, people use it this way now so we're going to update the dictionary" is frustrating and not for the good.

I like it when people use comprise correctly. "The book series comprises 20 novels and 5 novellas" or "the Tarot deck comprises 78 cards." I don't think it's a big win that lazy usage has led the various dictionaries to just throw up their hands and accept the other usage.

But I also understand that after seeing comprise used the other way all the time, it seems silly to argue against it after a point. It's a form of disagree and commit, I suppose - you have to know when you've lost the argument and sticking with a specific usage has no virtue.

The hill I'll die on is "then" and "than," though. In the past 5 or 10 years I've noticed a creeping trend of people writing "more then" rather than "more than." "Then" should be used for time, "than" is used to compare things. "More then" makes no sense as a comparison. But, at some point, it started becoming a more and more common error and now I think people honestly think it's correct because they've seen it online so much. Probably driven by autocomplete.

I could totally understand going on a Wikipedia rampage and replacing every instance of "more then" that exists.

As a side note, I find it hilarious that discussing proper English usage with technical folks - who are often deeply passionate about the correct way to do this or that in their area of expertise - are usually like "oh, that's not important. Grammar and spelling are stupid. I can't be bothered to learn that." But God help you if say "container" when you mean "container image" or something like that, because you'll get a lecture on how absolutely nothing you've written past that can be taken seriously because you got a tiny technical nuance wrong.
You’re right but I’d just like to add, GPT-3 probably required 1000’s of GPUs. OpenAI is known to have the largest cluster 16k+ A100 GPUs and most of them were used for the major model training.
Blog post:

https://www.ambient.run/post/ambient-0-2