skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My same question, yeah. If you think of buying a new car, for example, the salesman will size up the customer in all sorts of ways, taking many signals into account in order to negotiate the price as high as he think he can get the customer to agree to. Perfectly legal, and it happens all the time.

I don't know if this DoorDash suit named the specific area of law that they allege was violated, but I would need to understand the difference between what DoorDash is doing and my scenario of the car salesman, for example.
Speed, speed and speed. M-x gnus-jog-cache is slow as hell, mu4e makes it fast and on Usenet slrnpull+Gnus it's the ultimate combo:

My ~/.gnus.el:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-spool-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
nnspool-nov-directory "/var/spool/slrnpull/news/over.view"
nnspool-active-file "/var/spool/slrnpull/data/active"
gnus-check-new-newsgroups t
gnus-post-method '(nnspool "")
nnspool-inews-program "sh"
nnspool-inews-switches '("-c" "cat > /var/spool/slrnqqqpull/out.going/X$(date +%s)-$$-1.$LOGNAME"))

(defun my-slrnpull-post-only (&optional dont-check)
(interactive)
(when (or dont-check
(message-news-p))
(gnus-message 5 "Posting news...")
(shell-command "slrnpull -d /var/spool/slrnpull --post-only")))

(add-hook 'message-sent-hook 'my-slrnpull-post-only)

~/.slrnrc:

set auto_mark_article_as_read 0
set username "anthk"
set hostname "example.org" #YOUR HOST HERE
set realname "bozo user"
set post_object "slrnpull"
set read_active 0
set scorefile "/var/spool/slrnpull/news/score"
set server_object "spool"
set sorting_method 9
set spool_inn_root "/var/spool/slrnpull"
set spool_nov_root "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
set spool_root "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
set use_slrnpull 1
set wrap_flags 4
Gotcha. Agreed--not a hop skip jump away. Hopefully they make their way to your neck of the globe soon.
The current poverty rate in the US is around 11% today vs ~24% in 1960, and the poverty rate for children has dropped even further. There's also been about a 6% decrease in homelessness in the US in the past decade[1].

[1] https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/
>As far as I've heard, the EU isn't chasing folks who run a small website.

But they could, which has already had a chilling effect on small businesses. Even though the intent (and current enforcement) is to punish large companies, GDPR is written in a way that puts a large compliance burden on many small companies and startups.
the infinite density is actually after a finite amount of time, since black hole collapse has already happened, which is why it matters that they are predicted to have infinitely dense points at their centers. The key is that this isn't a limit, GR seems to expect that there are infinitely dense objects just floating around breaking space-time.
I don’t think attitudes towards addressing climate change have changed much. This was 8 years ago.

https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8
https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/riots-at-apple-plant-in-india-...

this is what apple does. they use their clout, then they turn their back and play ignorant whilst placing unrealistic demands on the subcontractors who then place those demand on the labour.

from: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/14/only-half-of-indian-iph...

> "Apple engineers told that Chinese iPhone suppliers and government officials have a "whatever it takes" approach to win iPhone orders, work was often completed weeks ahead of schedule at "inexplicable speed". In India, [we] are not running at this pace. "There just isn't a sense of urgency," one Apple engineer remarked."

Remember, this is a $3 trillion company, with resources greater than most countries. A company built on tight control of information. If you see lots of positive or misdrecting comments, it's not necessarily a coincidence (imo).
why does it have to be a baseline? how about "send a more ink when the current one is low". like amazon's feature to automatically reorder certain items when they run low. you can then specify that each order should be 1, 5, 10 or however many cartridges you need, and if you pick 10, but are not a heavy user then it simply takes longer until you need another delivery.
Does anyone here knows what is the temperature value that we are comparing to?

I cannot find that anywhere.
This is something that's not really worth considering unless you want to pick a fight. You just look it up and see if it is true or not.

edit: Ah, "customer segments" vs. "classes"; I didn't understand the misunderstanding.
I think OP was just using the definition of "class" as in a larger group of people that could file a lawsuit.

See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/class_action
Or they are the first countries falling to the superintelligent AIs they themselves have developed... :o
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Yeah, after my initial honeymoon I'm souring on blueprints fast. Working with them on a team using version control must be a bit of a nightmare. Not having a way to export them into a human usable formal (say a good quality Lua style DSL) means excluding all kinds of tooling that could be built by other parties for handling text based code.
That is confidential information.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Full stop.

Hitting the 2100 target 70 years early should be a wake up call to us all.

I see little evidence we will even attempt to cut our output and less that we will pay money to solve this issue before we have global disaster.
What's the purpose of denying recorded averages[1]? It's a given 1.5 will happen, as none of the drastic measures have been acted on and most goals have not been hit.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
You make a very simple statement without any real justification: "We just need to stop growing such crops." I'm guessing that you have all sorts of justification for this and assume that those justifications are well-known and generally agreed. But for those of us less educated, what is the justification? Why shouldn't agriculture be given priority in these regions?

Why is water different than land in this regard? When a developer wants to put up a new subdivision, they buy property from the current owner. Why shouldn't water shares be the same?
If I'm reading these charts right, it's more CO2 per year than at any point on the geological record.
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What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
Yea, I think it started with trade barriers, but I think Apple likely wants to increase non-China manufacturing to reduce their risk a bit. Tensions with China have been a bit high and when you're Apple's size, it can be good to lessen the risk there. Even if it's unlikely that something would cause a disruption, when you're a nearly $3T company it's probably wise to diversify that risk. Apple's annual revenue is greater than the GDP of many countries like Finland or New Zealand. Ramping up manufacturing in India could be a good hedge against China or the US doing something that might impact their exports from China.
> Granted, it’s not the most optimized way to do it, but more often then not, the resulting query plan is perfectly fine.

It usually is the exactly same. (MySQL has a potato for a query optimizer tho.)

The biggest case it is suboptimal is when you need to produce multiple fields from the sub-select. Because then you need multiple sub-selects.
Agreed on one of the best introductions to dithering.

Shadertoy has also been a good site to quick experiment with dithering using shader code:
https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=tag%3Ddithering
You know the line, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

San Francisco is ground-zero for the coming cyberpunk dystopia.
> willing to pay a lot to avoid feeding data to MSFT/GOOG/META.

Right now, you can't pay a lot and get a local LLM with similar performance to GPT-4.

Anything you can run on-site isn't really even close in terms of performance.

The ability to finetune to your workplaces terminology and document set is certainly a benefit, but for many usecases that doesn't outweigh the performance difference.
Thanks. I tried FF and Safari on two different devices here in Ohio. Maybe it's a regional DNS thing.
irc.libera.chat

It's not affiliated with HN but there are people there that know specialist stuff about a lot of tech topics.
Here is Russian ultra nationalist Girkin’s take https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660273337744982023...

> Oh, they will almost inevitably do something, somewhere. But the fact that they managed to retake a lightly-defended area that one time gives people all kinds of crazy ideas.

That lightly defended area was 12000 km.
I wonder if AI will ever scale down to personal hardware, or if every step from here forward is going to rely on an internet connection forever. I don't like the idea of never having real control.
“The 2 Exaflops Aurora supercomputer is a beast of a machine and the system will be used to power the Aurora genAI AI model.”

and instead of a data center with a distributed load of Nvidia cards, they’re going to do 1 supercomputer? Are these guys intentionally stuck in 2007 or am I missing something
> the target size for the new model is 1 trillion parameters. Meanwhile, the target size for the free & public versions of ChatGPT is just 175 million in comparison. That's a 5.7x increase in number of the parameters.

Did nobody notice?
Bath salts are similar to amphetamines. They have nothing to do with ketamine or other psychedelics.

You're committing the same error people did when they declared cannabis and LSD as scheduled 1 drugs in the same category as heroin.

By this line of thinking might as well avoid taking aspirine, because sounds like ketamine and is also a drug.
SMS is not a secure authenticator for identity proofing due to SIM swapping/hijacks/etc.
I think people are very familiar with surrealism. Juxtaposing two things that most probably would not be together is a constant in advertising images. It is specially obvious in print. Sometimes it feels like print advertising stopped at surrealistic images and it is now a formula.
Not sure if either of the linked issues below are from you, but it looks like the referenced file in Log4CL references internal SBCL symbols which are liable to change in versions. Last I heard, the M1 build of SBCL was a bit unique, so it might be worth opening an issue there. The sharplispers fork is the maintained one, I believe.

https://github.com/7max/log4cl/issues/41
https://github.com/sharplispers/log4cl/issues/45
Interesting that they’re telling us to focus on dubious sci-fi movie tropes instead of actual dangers and risks documented today.

But yeah, Skynet is who we need to watch out for, not biased AIs making decisions today.
Performed. (And a college professor told me she recorded at half speed.)

The sequences of the time weren't like a midi file is today. I'm used to hearing the repetitive sequences in 1970s music that were a few bars long; if there's any kind of example of programming a Moog to play something more than a few bars, I'd like to see it.

IE: Something like this only appears to play a few bars on repeat: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SequencerCBM--moog-s... It's not capable of playing an entire song.
"See what the GitHub community is most excited about today."
It's like shouting in the darkness, isn't it? Don't become discouraged, though.
It's the speed of warming that makes our current climate change so harmful. 5 degrees of warming over decades is much more harmful than the 10 degrees of warming over millennia that your link predicts. Over millennia species and ecosystems can evolve.

Not to dismiss your paper, but a lot of people hearing your comment or reading the link will think "If going to zero won't help, let's not bother going to zero".
Somebody’s salary is getting paid, a demand is being supplied and while they may not be making enough, there’s enough money to be made to attract deliverers. The music might one day stop, but it won’t be because anybody really wants it to. At the very worst, DoorDash or something like it might be the best way to put in a pickup order.
Will general door dash users even know of the suit. Not exactly plastered over the news, hackernews is the only place I've seen an air about it.
Didn't mean to say that it's worse, just that it's still bad. It's better in some places, but it does seem worse in others. Been to DC in the last few years?
> In just a few weeks, I felt like I’d aged ten years. I was aching, exhausted, miserable and angry

What does this mean? How could anyone possibly qualify this statement? That someone makes a statement like this in the press as if it means something just makes me think that the subject can’t probably assess things.

Obviously, junk food is bad, but it’s not possible to age 10 years in a few weeks even if you only ate pure sugar.
It is very likely that you will just point it to the docs of an API and it will create plugins from it.

There is no business model for plugins.

For APIs it could lead to increased use, but only if the cost is really marginal.
Hacker News always comes through with the hard-hitting analysis.
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> 2. NATO is a defensive only alliance, and can't be invoked for an invasion of Russia. If their concern is the ability of the US to store missiles and other military gear on its border, too late - the Baltics are already members. It would be an odd choice to invade purely based on the likely future expansion of an alliance that is designed to prevent you from invading its members.

It's worth noting that the Soviet equivalent to NATO was the Warsaw Pact, whose largest military operation was invading a member because they wanted to leave. While ostensibly a collective defensive alliance, like NATO, the Soviets treated it as a tool of binding its sphere of influence together, and it would not surprise me if the current Russian leadership sees NATO the same way, a tool by which the US government coerces its sphere of influence to do its bidding. (Needless to say, this is not an accurate view of NATO, but I suspect it is the view that Russia has of it.)
We are trying!

Cars get ever more fuel efficient, there's more investment in public transit than ever, Britain is interested in nuclearizing again, carbon offsets are widely purchased and many of our most energy hungry companies are finding ways to go to less or zero emissions.

Continuous carastrophization and disrespect for things people actually are working quite hard at doing, with implicit blame for "those other guys" to boot is how you make people try less.

Large efforts to transform the economy are quite difficult and take a long time. Transitioning away from fossil fuels entirely may be the single most complex international effort ever attempted.

You can say that all the bad guys at oil companies want more cars and more profits - but the reason they are so profitable is that energy consumption is directly related to quality of life, and until 10 or 20 years ago - fossil fuels were the way to get it.
It is 1850-1900 average per the article
Why would a big tech company be stoupid enough to build a massive and super fast neural net (at least on the human brain scale) with real time complex outputs/inputs and which would be trained (interacted) continuously for years?

You know there is a big chance "it" could become self-aware, don't you?

Oh! And "shutting down"/"resetting" such self-aware being would be murder.

In theory, humanity would build such neural net if it was facing a certain extinction event and that "close" in time which human science/maths had no answer to.

It might give us beyond human science/maths which could save humanity:

Humanity: "Super AI? How could we save ourself from our soon to happen doomsday?"

Super AI: "42"
Literally every bit is defined.
Huh. Then Babe Ruth and Cy Young should have lived forever! If statistics work in the opposite direction.
After Putin, Xi, Trump, and Boris Johnson, we should give the AIs a chance.
If it instead said 3.7 billion meters cubed, you wouldn't need an analogy to understand how much that is?
What would superintelligence look like? What is the worst case scenario?
No, that's not what a republic means. The U.S. is a republic. It is mentioned explicitly in the U.S. Constitution in Article 4, Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

As mentioned, the definitions of republics and democracies have blurred over the years as people often use them interchangeably. Republics have representatives. Just as the ancient Roman Republic did, with its famous Senate. Pure democracies run on majority rule and direct voting on laws.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S4-1/AL...']

https://constitution.congress.gov/search/republic
Yes, people are doing that. I think it's risky.

One way to think about it, though, is that many important processes have a non-zero error rate. Particular those involving people. If you can put bounds on the error rate and recover from most errors, maybe you can live with it?

An assumption that error rates will remain stable is often pretty dubious, though.
Good repairability would be another way to combat it! "Buying stuff that lasts forever" and "buying stuff you can fix when it breaks" are both good ways to avoid the cycle of temporary crap
> The 1.5 ºC number was chosen in an attempt to limit the severity of the impacts of warming, taking into account factors such as food security and extreme weather events.
OP here. I made this app for quick data analysis on your spreadsheets and Google Sheets. You can ask questions like:
1. Run linear regression to predict Y variable given X inputs
2. Tell me the top 5 movies that had the highest ratio of revenue to votes

You can also do Data Analysis in BI mode by doing specific tasks such as filtering, cleaning, merging, and visualizing. You can even write SQL code that runs directly on the spreadsheets.

Each step in BI mode can use results from a previous step, so you can have a repeatable workflow for your data analysis. You can then generate a report that you can share.

This uses the Open AI API. We can install a custom LLM backend for you, and install this app on your servers if you have security concerns.

Looking forward to having people try it out :)
self driving cars
Several US state officials, even Biden, stated they would do this if the US invaded Ukraine.

They stated what, specifically? That they would literally bomb the pipeline?

You need to be at least a little more careful with these cognitive distortions you're pushing. Remember, in order for them to work - they need to be at least logically plausible, and in some way grounded in believable, every day reality.
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Exactly: Comment the "why" more than the "what/how" (although I sometimes comment the what/how if it makes things easier to understand, even at the risk of the comment getting out of sync with the code)
Do such quantitative metaphors not exist in countries using the metric system?
Aren't you missing a 1000 there ?
10^6 / 175 = 5.7 x 10^3.
Some points:

1. Depression is measured by severity on the MADRS scale. But the Ketamine group seems to have started out less depressed than the Placebo group. Thus the placebo group had further to fall. Normally this will be adjusted away when calculating treatment effect, but seems not to have been done here. I think if it had been done ketamine would have had a slight (but highly nonsignificant) edge over placebo in the linear model.

2. Many of the patients are already on some kind of depression treatment, going into the study. This is kind of odd.

3. 5 of the patients in the ketamine group had experience with ketamine previously, but only 1 in the placebo group. Were those having experience with ketamine insensitive to it, as they seem to have become depressed again? Or did they believe they'd be insensitive to it?

4. Sample sizes are small, and usually larger sample sizes are needed to see efficacy in depression trials, even in highly efficacious treatments.

5. The so-called routine surgery may have been fairly anxiety-inducing for the patients and getting it done could have made them feel quite a lot better by itself. That effect may be stronger than any medication effect.

6. Yeah, of course, this doesn't tell anything on whether ketamine has efficacy against MDD or not. Just that it could look like the efficacy of ketamine +(extra) anesthesia is about the same as anesthesia by itself against MDD, upto 14 day post-treatment.
> Yes, but it's an ID, not a value.

In normalization theory and relational algebra an ID is just a value. DBMSs make no difference between this column and any other primary key column(s) and they make no difference between PK indexes over strings or numbers or any other supported data type.

You're just cargo culting here instead of applying database theory or actually looking at implementations.
We are fast approaching the point where renewables are cheaper than fossils. Why would anybody invest in them anymore?
There is not a single shred of evidence we'll reach superintelligence any time soon. There's however a lot of evidence that regulation benefits incumbents.

You can do the math from there.
Let us ignore the 14,200 new temperature reading weather stations installed within United States since 1975.

Have fun doing a running means, medians, and average year-over-year as your N-sample increases without regard to urban versus rural settings.

This eliminating of cluster bias because of this hyper-focusing of added but coalesced sampling has got to be nothing but challenging.
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You are misinformed. Dutch don't seize farms because of global warming, in fact they haven't seized any farms so far. The problem in the Netherlands is about nitrogen depositions. Furthermore, we currently export more than two thirds of our agricultural output, and import two thirds as well.

The possibly maybe eventual seizing of a couple of large and polluting meat farm / factories close by natural reserves won't have any effect on our ability to feed ourselves, at all. The problem is mostly about unsustainable ways to produce ungodly amounts of meat and milk, not 'farms' in general.

Woke has nothing to do with it.
We eat at Indian restaurants, so we would probably try an Indian meal prep service. It's not familiarity, per se - or it is just to the extent that we need to believe it'll be tasty. (Trying a new service involves a certain amount of in-the-moment impulsiveness. Like, "Mmm, that sounds good...")

A good price on a flier will usually get us to give it a try. (The rationale is "that's about what we pay for a meal now anyways" or "that's cheaper than a restaurant." Or, "it's probably healthier than what we're eating now.")

The bigger question is why do we stop using the services. That's usually "I didn't really like the taste of the last couple meals" or "I'm getting tired of the same limited choices." At some point you recalculate the per meal cost, and decide it's not worth it.
Were you using IRC as your corporate messaging solution, because that's what slack is? İf people send you a message they expect a timely if not instant response. Their work depends on you.
To expand on this. Shit code is not the result of poor developers. It is the result of bad requirements. Bad communication. Bad business processes.

All of this is usually the result of a VIP or someone who thinks he is a VIP screaming to make an exception for his special needs. This shitty exception results in illogical processes. And shitty code.

At the end of the day, it is all boils down to weak management who cannot stand up to problem customers.