skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this problem, happens for perplexity.ai too for example... I never had issue until two months ago, and now I'm locked out of some quite interesting websites
My wife switched from Android to IOS recently. There is some kind of polish to it that makes no-techy folks think it is a better, easier product. Nothing that differentiates them for me is convincing for her.
In pandas you can chain commands by wrapping the whole command in (). Personally IMO looks far 'cleaner' than all of the ugly %>% everywhere.
Yes, it's the nature of sovereignty that they don't acknowledge any restriction, including from themselves (Parliament can pass acts which say Parliament shan't do this or that, but such acts don't actually stop them doing what they said they shall not do)

I just wanted to highlight that the observed asymmetry isn't as significant as it appears, but the consequence of trying this out, in both cases, might be a constitutional crisis. If you care to learn about this specific topic, look for the "West Lothian Question". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Lothian_question
I'd say that Gmail and unsubscribing are your problems. At $Job, I receive email for 8+ different addresses, all publicly known for 20+ years. Most days, I receive <40 spam messages. $Job's spam defenses are: (1) a ~1,200-entry email blacklist (built up over ~12 years), and (2) an IPv4 firewall blocking about 24K addresses from our mail servers (based on hitting honeypot email accounts, obvious password guessing attempts, etc.). Falsely blocking legit email has happened, but it's very rare.
Following controversy about the dark patterns tax preparers engaged in (thanks, ProPublica), the IRS negotiated a new agreement that eliminated the restriction on entering the tax prep software market themselves.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/1/21045779/irs-turbotax-free...
> browse https://electrek.co/2023/05/15/renewables-us-utility-scale-g... and make a summary

I've been waiting intently for ChatGPT to have this functionality. I think there's a waiting list? Do we have any ETA on when this functionality will be possible?
So apparently now you can't even read articles without subscribing to a bullshit newsletter?

https://archive.md/gAb6l
If they're single, have only W-2 income, and have no children, then maybe... Just the child tax credit for 2022 requires filing an additional schedule 8812 (which is somehow referred to in some places as schedule 8) and in order to complete schedule 8812 you have to choose the correct worksheet and fill that in, but not file it. All of that results in a single credit value which is 1 line on the form 1040.

This is not simple: https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040s8
And more justice for all.
It works in plenty of countries all around the world. Not sure why it couldn't work in the USA.
Note that this was about a month ago. If you see the title and think "again?!", no, this is the same incident where they sent Pinkertons.

Not that it's not worth discussing, just that I'm sure someone might otherwise wonder.
There would obviously be fine print.

> Now you're going to have courts deciding what constitutes grounds for firing and what doesn't

Courts are slow and cumbersome, but also mostly designed for this purpose. Any notion of a bad actor would be a legal one eventually.
For a few months at the turn of the century I lived in nearby Bonny Doon and was training for a long distance hike. 3x/week I'd drive to Big Basin HQ at dawn and run a loop trail through the park. Those are some of the most blissful memories I have. I'd been working in a Santa Clara cubical farm for years leading up to that. The trail head is maybe an hour away? What an amazing contrast between the corporate jungle and primeval forest. Not all "forest baths" are equal, this one was quite extraordinary. I hope it can recover in our life spans.
Yeah, the article states some range between 64 million and a few hundred million. But over the course of years, total costs will surely be over a billion. I'm happy to indulge the lobbyist quote in that spirit.
We've used AWS Trusted Advisor before for these types of cost optimization opportunities, which I didn't see mentioned above. Do you also pull in TA recommendations?
For centuries man had attempted to fly, and for centuries his friends told him it would never happen or that it would only happen millions of years into the future. They called him a crank and a kook and a charlatan. Some were still calling him that on 17 December 1903.
Remember when cars have standardized ashtrays?
I didn't realize we were talking about January 6th.
Interest rates doubling over the past year change the math on this. For instance, to keep my same mortgage payment, even with significant equity, i could only afford what I paid for the house originally, which would be a significant downgrade in today's market.
I completely agree with some form of exercise or activity that is not supplemented by audio or anything else. Go for a walk and leave your phone at home. Turn off your car audio. I love to drive with the heater blasting and all the windows down in the winter time. Focus combined with spacial awareness makes me feel very alive.
Great idea. Let’s start with your pretax health insurance, standard deduction, dependent and mortgage/salt deductions.
If you like Go, that’s great. But stop pretending people don’t know what they’re talking about when they talk about generics or haven’t thought about it.
https://easylang.dev/ide/#run=len%20f%5B%5D%20100%20*%20100%...
The legal limit for PFAS in drinking water is 0.07 PPB. But that hides the fact that not all PFAS chemicals are created equal. The EPA limit for PFOS and PFOA and GENx varieties are 1000x lower. I pretty much guarantee you and your family have been massively over exposed to a large number of PFAS and PFAS intermediate degradation products well above the EPA limit.
That means the same as what he said.
> I can do zero work at my job and I'll get paid regardless? Or they do a super bare minimum, being incredibly unhelpful to everyone and their whole team hates them?

Lots of people already do this.
Well tbh, I tried to go through the regular support channels and the "Was this incorrectly flagged" path, and it wouldn't allow me to post anything (since I'm just a dev on the account, not the owner).

Then I panicked, because we just went live, the event is in July and we almost didn't do this, so everything is just absolutely crazy right now. So I just went full blast on Twitter and HN lol, and I'm floored at how fast the response was.

I do wish the response was as fast as when I hit the "This is incorrectly flagged" button ;)
You can make a progressive simple tax.

The problem is not progressive taxation, the complexity comes in when government attempts social engineering via the tax code by incentivize behavior they deem "good" and penalizing behavior they deem bad

i.e tax credits for EV's , children, different taxes for married vs unmarried persons, etc etc
You are generally right, but currently most homeowners have mortgage debt at rates far below market, so they could afford much less house than before (if they need financing).
> I’ll use Central European Summer Time (CEST) for time stamps, as the majority of Datadog’s engineering team is in this timezone. I’m also indicating US Eastern time (EST) for reference.

I can convert from UTC to my timezone (TZ) in my head, since logs are usually UTC. I know other engineers can do this, too. What I cannot do is convert from a random TZ to my TZ without looking it up. Clearly, the author knew this, which is why EST was added for an American audience.

Note the Datadog post-mortem is UTC [0], but the status page isn't [1]; even the EU one is ET [2].

So why are time stamps not being in UTC a thing?

Reasons I can think of:

* Status pages and post-mortems are not for engineers, but for management?

* Certain US-based companies use ET (i.e. EST or EDT) or PT (i.e. PST or PDT), and everybody else has cargo-culted it.

[0] https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/2023-03-08-multiregion-infras...

[1] https://status.datadoghq.com/history

[2] https://status.datadoghq.eu/history
Can confirm, this is a wonderful game that will do wonder if you avoid any kind of information before playing it.

It has amazing creativity, novel and fun gameplay, a very strong personality and an opinionated design.
> Proposed projects in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Baltimore were ultimately scrapped due to escalating cost calculations by TBC (1) and inactivity by TBC (2).

I’m not comparing it to Tesla/SpaceX. I’m comparing it against their goal of significantly cutting the costs of creating those tunnels (1) and abandonment based on their engagement to trying to build tunnels (2). So yes. They’ve so far failed at their goals. And that’s fine. That doesn’t mean the company has failed. The start of a company is marked by repeated failures. So yes, I agree it’s still too early to tell.

What I was trying to highlight is why people clown on Musk. It’s not because I think he’ll necessarily fail. But his behavior, from the outside anyway, is exceedingly erratic and unfocused. His constant hype about FSD where he’s at best skirting materially lying to investors. His hype about HyperLoop which turned out to be harder than he likely anticipated. His hype with Boring Company which also appears to have turned out to be harder than anticipated. His hype with Twitter and since it’s a private company hard to say how his takeover has impacted their earnings but certainly I think it’s turned out harder than he anticipated.

So again. It’s not about highlighting that Musk is a failure. I don’t think that’s a viable claim. I do think it’s fair to point out that he often can bite off more than he can chew and his behavior does seem erratic and unfocused for someone who’s now responsible for 3 massive companies and a (hopefully) rapidly growing startup.

The reason for those ventures though are clearly strategic. Twitter gives him direct access to the masses / a large media platform which is aligned with how he fired the marketing department at Tesla (let’s him shape the narrative more directly). This is potentially akin to Bezos buying WaPo. SpaceX gives him a foot hold in extraterrestrial transport/mining. Tesla gives him energy distribution / transportation. Boring company gives him in-city rapid transit.
you must have an assumption in order to have an accusation, what's not clear?
> Usually people are more depressed if they had something and were forced to give it up than if they never had it at all and are working hard to attain it.

Third option: They worked to attain it, they got it, and they found that it was empty.

"I worked my butt off to get a bigger TicTok following. And I got it! Why aren't I happy? Why isn't my life any better?" Because happiness and a better life were never in a bigger TicTok following.

Both advertising and social media sell us on empty goals and rewards. We chase them. We're not just miserable because we can't achieve them; we're also miserable because even when we do, we find that we got nothing meaningful.
Music with appropriate licensing- presumably something like CC0 that allows sharing, remixing, commercial use, and doesn't require attribution...
There is no point in playing devil's advocate when the practice in dispute is evil to begin with.

Laying people off after coercing them to abandon stable means of sustenance is indefensible. The devil doesn't need sympathy.
If you move from not-so-prosperous place to where its booming, there is no way you get equivalent home for the same price
I appreciate USB-C, but at the cost of no wireless charging? No thanks.

Amazing how they never release a product that ‘has it all’. They always leave something out, I assume in order to entice future upgrades.
I think he was specifically talking about the Hamburg court w.r.t siding with evil corporations.
> it’s centered around COM/OLE2 (with Unicode strings!)

While NT was Unicode internally, Windows 9x barely had any WinAPI functionality implemented with wide strings, for the most part only ANSI versions of the APIs were available (unless you were using the much later released UNICOWS compatibility layer).

> Did they not have the time to write a eleven-glyph cache?

Come on, the answer is right there in the article you linked:

> saving even 4K of memory had a perceptible impact on benchmarks

Granted, you won't need a full 4K of memory for those digits, but the point still stands.
disclaimer: I acknowledge depression as an illness and state of being.

that being said, if you take someone who is objectively "not depressed" and apply these same depression treatments, what would happen? some state of euphoria? heightened mood? happiness?

suppose that new state is now the normal state in which people are judged against. now, the before-mentioned person who was not depressed, may be considered depressed, relatively. so you now apply the same thought experiment again. clearly this can be recursively done infinitely...

such is an inflationary view. so my question really is around the cultural vs. biological construct of depression. what if it's ok to be depressed? this is not to say that we shouldn't be trying to "treat" it (and the symptoms), but I do wonder at what point do we say it's OK.
I generally read the comments before the article, then article, then come back to the comments.

I don't know how popular that flow is but I have to imagine I'm not the only one.

It prevents me from having to read bullshit articles if it's already called out in the comments, and it highlights bits to pay extra attention to in the article.
There was no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Even if they had evidence that he stole something, a private militia shouldn't be called to enforce this, but a police investigation.

Somebody at WotC should be held liable for this.

Are there no laws in America against this?
IIUC, the somebody spends 300k (for the 2.5% mortgage) and then an additional 500k (to you at 4%) to ultimately sell a mortgage for 400k which is a net 400k loss but they also now own the original house.
Can remote work be like 2012-2022 forever though?
Don't understand the according-to-this-article common dislike of self-checkout. I love self-checkout, especially when just buying a few things.

Walmart's implementation used to be superpicky about bagging, but even there's has become relatively pain-free in my experience and almost always better than waiting in line. I wish there were more self-checkout lines at walmart.
I'm still using Ubuntu 10.04 (2010) to type this here in 2023. The newer linux distros just don't have the text to speech ecosystem good enough to compare to the Festival 1.96 + Nitech HTS voices only available on older distros.
What do you get out of iMessage and its network effect besides blue text instead of green?
You can do this in UK, it's called Porting a mortgage.

Typical interest rate fixes are much shorter in the UK though (2, 5, 3, 10 year fixes are the most common)
GPTeam – A customizable team of AI agents
GPTeam is a completely customizable group of AI agents, with independent personalities, memories, and directives.

We were inspired by the Stanford "Generative Agents" paper and decided to make an implementation that anyone could run.

1 Run setup.py
2 Enter openai api key
3 Customize config.json
4 And run it!

Each agent runs this loop:
- Observe new events
- Decide how to react
- Plan, if we need to
- Carry out the top plan
- Reflect, if its time to

When it observes new events, it assigns an importance score based on how poignant the event is, then stores it in memory.

When an agent is executing a plan, it first gathers relevant memories based on Recency (exponential decay function), Relevancy (based on semantic embeddings), and Importance.

The agents also generate their own reflection’s allowing them to achieve higher level thinking. This is triggered every time the importance of recent memories passed a threshold of 100. The prompt is: “Given the most recent 100 memories, what are the 3 most salient high-level questions we can answer about the subjects involved?” After getting the questions, we use the memory retrieval system to generate answers. This allows the agents to come to conclusions such as “John is very talkative” or “Sally is often late to work”.

This is just an experiment for us, but it was a lot of fun. I think this could serve as a template to folks who are making entertainment or gaming experiences with LLMs.

I dont think this particular setup is optimal for productive output.

We welcome forks and contributions!
Which ones? Tbh, I could name 5 cities right off the top of my head I wouldn't even commute to work yet alone raise children.
Data Breach in Malta: Company must disclose source or face penalties
I was told that my Canadian mortgage could be 'ported' like this, although I haven't had to look into it. From my experience Canadian mortgages have less fees up front at closing compared to US mortgages but typically they sway you towards a locked 3 to 5 year term where you might face penalties for breaking the mortgage. The 'port' options can be used in this situation to avoid the fees.
Silibinin [1] is an antidote to death cap. As far as I know, silibinin has reduced the mortality from 2/3 to 1/3. If the damage done to the liver is already too big, then silibinin does not work and there are two options left: liver transplantation or death.

I wonder why the article does not even mention it, and I am worried that it is a case of "not invented here". Silibinin is here for at least 30 years. I was shocked when I read the story of one who was poisoned by eating the destroying angel (same poison) unwittingly. That story basically said, that at the end of the aughts, his doctors in Great Britain did not know about silibinin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silibinin
I understand how you don't want the contacts coming from neucard into the generic phone app, but then users wanting to call someone must know if the contact is in the neucard app or in the standard phone one (or look in both).

Maybe you could do the reverse, i.e. somehow allow the neucard app to "import" the standard contacts, if this would be possible, the neucard app could double as a "private contacts app" that might have more general use.
I targeted Chrome for the proof of concept because of its market share, but to be honest, I use and prefer Firefox as my default browser.

Manifest v3 is a remarkably hostile development environment: Google knows that people block advertisements with extensions and want to limit their scope. I had to adapt a lot of code, and as such, making it work cross-browser would require more than a few changes. But I understand your point and want Pinbot to run on more browsers, especially Firefox!
> I always considered Rule 110 the simplest system (code complexity wise) that is turing complete

It can get a bit subjective, when trying to compare really simple systems.

> an actual implementation would be quite a few more lines

The simplest Turing-complete system to implement that I've come across is FlipJump ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/FlipJump ).

The easiest Turing-complete system I've implemented is BitBitJump, which is older than FlipJump and slightly more complex ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/BitBitJump ). I used it as a simple way to enumerate the output of all programs: implementation at http://www.chriswarbo.net/js/optimisation/levin_bbj.js and visualisation/explanation here http://www.chriswarbo.net/projects/optimisation/levin.html

(Technically these aren't Turing-complete, in the same way that C isn't Turing complete: the amount of memory they can reference is bounded by their word size. This can be fixed by allowing I/O to external storage. My program enumeration loops through all word sizes ;) )
>and continues to get more expensive.

There still is inflation, but the idea that it's still terribly high is just not true. We are currently below 5% annualized inflation. This is an average over the last year; the rate for the past few months is lower still. The 10%-ish inflation that started this panic is long behind us.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0&output_view=pct_...
> They move back to where they came from, especially if there's a family support structure there.

This is a big deal for workers with families and closer-to-median income. Having to pay $20,000-$30,000/yr to replace services you're getting for free from family (child care, help with home improvement/repair projects, help with transportation, all kinds of stuff) might not be that big a deal to a family making $300,000, but it's huge to a family making $70,000. A 20% increase in income made possible by moving away from family might make good sense for the former, but be break-even at best for the latter (and a losing proposition of CoL is otherwise higher than where they are).
So, is this guy done with Magic, or will he keep buying and promoting their products? WoC have been known assholes for years now, I would think people would figure it out by now.
> Now you’re going to have courts deciding what constitutes grounds for firing and what doesn’t

You mean, like they already do (ultimately, with administrative agencies as a first line) because of public unemployment insurance?
CEOs play checkers with people. Every piece is identical and thus very easy to dehumanize. I'd bet the best direct managers you ever had were playing chess, actually trying to understand the difference between people and how to best apply them. This difference is both required, because of scale, and inexcusable at the same time.
Dedicate a full day to the following:

1. Buy a domain that looks like a knock-off email provider (to avoid some scrutiny later). Something like emailco.biz, etc.

2. Setup simplelogin for that domain.

3. Go through all your existing accounts and change the email to [service]@emailco.biz.

4. Use that technique to sign up for all future services. If you start getting unwanted email to a simpelogin alias, simply turn it off in the app or browser extension.

5. Click unsubscribe on every email you don't want. The first day it will be a lot, the second day less, the third day even less, etc.

6. Ruthlessly click spam on anything you didn't ask for.

Soon, you'll have it under control.
Been there, done that.

- Doing the dishes - podcast

- Walking in the lunch break - audiobook

- Cycling in the park - audiobook

After a couple of months I felt my brain is completely fried from that information overflow.

Now I don't even put my earbuds, unless I'm in a very noisy area and I need to focus on a work task.

I'd say what you describe is an active form of meditation. I do that now when swimming, walking, or simply having a coffee in the morning and looking at the ocean.
And the $200 dashcam usually have super capacitor instead of battery for reliability
Interesting! Sort of like Mag/Phase is the opposite of Re/Im -- where adding and multiplication are reversed in complexity in both systems...
They don't model knowledge, they model statistical matches to desired text.

An LLM can't "know" that it is fabricating or conveying real-world fact. It can take as input: "that statement is false." Depending on the sophistication of the model, it will then retain that correlation for that session. But start another session, and it can generate the same or similar text that is inconsistent with real-world fact, or even with input.
This is definitely clouded by personal preferences far too much.
Acting as if python is void of issues in change over time? We all know the incredible pain of trying to get some ML package running written 3 months ago (let alone 3 years ago) and how much time is spent remaking some conda env inside a docker inside qemu inside... just to get the stupid thing to load.
So don't act like python doesn't have it's problems in change over time.
That doesn’t mean it’s unreasonable to ask for citations when one could be supplied. E.g. a reference to daily recommended nutrition from other government agencies would have been very useful to this opinionated discussion.
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