skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Student loan is very different from most (all?) other types of debt - the collateral is inside the debtor's head. In other types of loans creditors can put a lien on some type of property - cars, houses, business, etc... For student loans there is no such recourse.
Student loans lost bankruptcy protection in 1976 [1]. Student loans became a crisis way later than that (I went to undergrad + master in late 90's, early 2000s and nobody was fretting about student loans. First I heard somethign about it was in the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis).
I think student loan crisis is a combination of out of control tuition prices, low financial education on the debtors' side and predatory marketing techniques on the creditors' / colleges' side.

[1] https://www.tateesq.com/learn/student-loan-bankruptcy-law-hi...
Film Review: Tread, the documentary about the Colorado Killdozer (2020)
Pour a bottle of bleach over them before they are allowed to come into the house.
While you joke…

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite...

No the author is not some homicidal maniac. In interviews he emphasizes that no policy should be made based on his findings. But if policy were made, he would focus on universal healthcare, pre-school, government funded maternal leave, etc to support women.
The only population that is probably tested routinely are those entering jails and prisons (in the USA), where testing is near 100% as you don't want to let someone into such a crowded situation who is potentially infected.
Is there an nft or a paid online legal workshop associated with this claim?
I think this article is really lacking in trying to quantify the sentiment. I mean, when some idea goes worldwide, there will always be some wierdos taking the label and claiming it applies to their view. But is it widespread enough that we would actually care, or should we just look at the original goal? For example my mom claiming she's a feminist because women are better does not invalidate or change what actual feminism means or has achieved.
Very annoyingly so - it's a nightmare for anyone with flexible hours.
How is it fair? You do give the same amount to everyone, but you do not take the same from everyone - you have to take more from those who chose to work. Hence the unfair part.
The main argument I can think of for separating their memory is that, of course, GDDR can be optimized for bandwidth and regular ram can be optimized for latency or somewhere in between.

But, memory latency continues to make poor progress compared to CPU speeds. So, since we’re already going to need a complicated system of caches on the CPU side, maybe it is not such a big deal if CPU memory acts more like GDDR.
The original one with 256MB of RAM? The later models upped that to 512MB. I ended up breaking the full-sized SD card slot on mine.
Sounds very much like how .ini files work and/or how regedit works on windows? :p

Not a bad idea at all, but perhaps re-inventing a very old wheel?
> My chance of living 5 years goes from 78% to 88% by taking an expensive pill everyday with side effects?

Reducing the likelihood of death by a half is still something... Of course yeah, the price is pretty insane but besides that it's still a great achievement and a significant step in the right direction.
A company I used to work for extensively used this method. It's incredibly useful to be able to read a config or state value from any language and even bash scripts quickly.

However, and this is a big drawback, once you have too many config files and you start reading and writing from different processes, you get into bottleneck situations quickly.
And if you skip records that you are depending on for your poor man’s queue, aren’t you just hiding bugs?
It's complete bullshit

You can now comfortably afford to hire a staff of PhD students to tutor you 1on1 in every subject you want to learn more cheaply than going to a university. So where the FUCK is all that money going?
> in short, overstate risks but let patients decide.

Then you have to battle the people selling highly marked up snake oil as an 'experimental' treatment - when every expert could tell you this treatment is already well known to be ineffective.
What is a one day strike going to accomplish?

You want to strike? You strike until there is a real financial harm to the company and shit gets changed. Otherwise, keep your useless opinions to yourselves.
> If you work at "big shipping co" and "box" 1 item a day and your colleagues do 100, should you not be fired?

If each of those boxes earns >100 times the profit, the boss would be kinda dumb to fire me. At any rate measuring that doesn't require surveillance software.
And those can be replaced with what has to be an infinite pool of people willing to volunteer as thought-police for a public company.
Framerate-agnostic damped spring model, in 16 lines of Lua
Yikes, that guy just sitting underneath the moving gantry loaded with tons of sleepers... And then the other fellow crawling in between the wheels of the whole machine _while it is moving_... Do they not have something like OSHA wherever this was filmed??

Also, disappointing they didn't actually show the new railstock being laid, just the ballast and sleepers :/
Gab is not a Mastodon instance because its code base has been altered to the point that it no longer federates with any Mastodon instance or fediverse service, so that line of criticism is outdated at best. While Tusky has a great user interface, it is just one of many Mastodon clients and it is not developed by the Mastodon team.

Also, Gab has a lot of content that is prohibited on Twitter, but allowed on a self-hosted instance of Mastodon. Mastodon would actually be of "greater openness" than Twitter in the case of Gab's content.
How to reconcile the above article with this[0]?

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
In general, socialist regimes have not cared about the environment. The Stasi records museum in Berlin has a mention of this in the courtyard. Lack of private property leads to government pollution.
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What's the use case for this kind of setup?
Updating to add the Onboarding Algorithm post I mentioned above. https://www.cybadger.com/2023/06/04/the-onboarding-algorithm...
Microsoft is spyware. How the tables have turned. My preferred test for if a company does spying is to tell them i use linux. If they disagree, they are spying. Next client please.
A mid-lifetime upgrade where you pop in a new GPU, fill up any unpopulated ram slots, or add in a new drive, can be nice. CPUs last a really long time nowadays.
Caldigit sells them https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-4-usb-4-cable/ including 2m active ones.
> but the assumption is most will then choose to work and earn extra income on top of that.

Also important to stress that most (limited) experiments suggest this assumption to bee true. UBI is not as radical as many people pretend it is. It is essentially a one size fits all solution replacing all existing welfare programs with, in many cases, better outcomes.
puts on CDK hat And it'll be that way for as long as I can make it.
You just spewed a lot of bullshit but couldn't give 1 scientific reason for how 400,000 tonnes of rock were removed from a mountain. Nothing of what you said has literally anything to do with Kailasa Temple. Just a bunch of rubbish.

We have plenty of comparable architectures across civilizations but nothing compares to the Kailasa Temple in terms of how difficult it was to have constructed something like this. Carving a mountain is almost impossible considering even today's technological advancements. Just boring a tunnel through a mountain takes months. This is a megalith structure carved from top to bottom. According to local legend it took a week to finish. But scientists insist it took 18 years based on carbon dating. Even if we consider 18 years as the value it is almost impossible to have done it.

To give you some perspective of how mammoth the task was:

18 years to build the temple. Required to remove 400,000 tonnes of rock (this is not even considering time taken for creating layouts and carving sculptures). 22,222 tonnes of rock per year had to be excavated out. 60 tonnes of rock per day. Even if the workers worked 24 hours non-stop, without any breaks for refreshment or sleep, it would be 2.53 tonnes of rock per hour. That is 2530 kgs of rock. Per hour! With just chisels and hammer we are told.

To give you more perspective on how difficult it was to just cut the rock, the Temple was attacked by invading Mughal King Aurangzeb in 1682. He employed more than a 1000 workers to destroy it. They tried for 3 years to break it and could only chip off few sculptures here and there before giving up.

> Physics, ropes and levers.

All this comes later. I am only talking about just cutting the mountain rock. Not even excavation and transport.

We don't even know where the excavated rock went. And mind you the Kailasa Temple is just 1 complex situated in the middle of 34 rock cut caves/temples. The only reason Kailasa Temple gets more prominence over the remaining 33 rock cut temples and caves is because an entire mountain was carved out from top to bottom instead of from front to back.
I keep reading how "it'll get better soon" but still can't buy them like I used to.

Their messaging has been consistent going back to at least sometime last year, from what I can tell: things will be tight at least through the end of Q2 2023 (albeit improving towards the end of that range) and will get much better through Q3 and Q4, with normal (pre-pandemic) availability by sometime in Q4.

So far things seem to be tracking exactly along that path. Prices on the scalper-resold Pi 4's on Amazon started dropping precipitously about a month or so ago, and have dropped from north of $200 USD to around $120 USD (for the 8GB model). And rpilocator consistently shows far more availability of different models than it did a couple of months ago.

Clearly we aren't "out of the woods" yet, but one can absolutely start to see the lights of civilization in the distance if you look.

https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-Computer-Suitable-Workst...
The first thing you cited is totally irrelevant. That was an old racist law that has long ceased to be in effect.

The second example is confusing. It is completely normal for credit and insurance companies to provide their services based on judgements of risk assessment. Crime rates can factor into that decision. What is supposed to be racist about that? By the way, the article also says "Redlining was prevalent in Canada from the 1930s to 1950s in Ontario, although the practice has since been virtually eradicated due to progressive reforms."
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The simplest exercise to follow this to its end: only parents should be allowed to vote on matters that affect children. Education, medical policy, school boards, etc.

It’s an easy case to make that always comes with pretty intense debate. Assume that…but with everything.

EDIT: To be clear, this is an example to show where this path leads. Not something I'm advocating.
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The delta between possible and easy makes all the difference in the world in situations like this. A periodic static screenshot obtained through an onerous process is one thing. A “productivity dashboard” packaged and distributed for the intended use of end managers begs to help drive micromanagement and misconception.
That's a good idea, that would save me starting from scratch.

We do use a fair bit of vendor-specific language, would be cool to make a good Oracle version and then commit back to the project.
Everyone at CNN, who work for him, so some reporter probably fed it to colleagues at CNBC.
Never in my life have I seen a ".dll" webpage.

Other links on the site seem to have ".aspx" so I'm assuming it's some sort of .NET thing, does anyone know what a ".dll" page is?
During covid when WFH, I received a legitimate looking SMS message with a link, so rather than clicking it, I curl --verbose'd it (and one subsequent redirect) before seeing it was an obvious phishing / troll. The next day, my VPN & SSO was disabled with instructions to contact corporate security. My use of curl had been detected and while they didn't accuse me of anything, they claimed that they wanted to make sure that I hadn't been hacked. I've never felt safe since then - I don't know how "deep" this spying goes. Yes it's their equipment, their network, etc. But I hate the way this makes me feel.
Yeah exactly. If they think that openAI stating that as their mission creates a fiduciary duty, well they are simply wrong.
Speaking of it being more of an issue at high speeds, the freight trains through our area go through far more slowly when we are having a hot spell.

I've been told it's to be more safe on the expanding possibly-not-perfectly-straight rails.
A lot of the depends on if you think the moderator role is truly impactful in a meritocratic way where better work is rewarded with higher quality communities and content V.S. a largely rote role which involves correctly implementing the community rule set.

If the former is true, the moderators aren't really "replaceable" in that way. You can fire them, but the output of your product will suffer as a result. In that interpretation the moderators are actually some of the most important customers of Reddit - they produce quality content in return for free hosting and occasional assistance.

If the latter is true then you can just fire them and it doesn't matter...but it kind of seems like no one believes that? If Reddit really thought they could fire them they probably would have just done it? I don't know what the truth is but I think the former interpretation dominates thinking.
Why is the video description just a link to Matt Taibbi's substack?
Sure, I understand. Just providing feedback as a potential user of such a tool—personally, I'm not super interested in the current community it's attracting, and a hands-off approach to moderation seems like it's unlikely to attract the kind of community that I (or others with tastes similar to mine) would be interested in.

There's a couple neat glimmers on there, like the link about beekeepers, but if I wanted to hear conspiracy theories about Joe Biden or mean remarks about trans people I would just go on Facebook and see what my uncle's been posting lately :P
Nah. That's not the issue. The issue is cloning my system, so I can basically have a portable workstation on a USB stick.

It's been a while, since that was possible.

The M-series just basically put a fork in it.

That, and CCC kept crashing the machine.
Hi, Thanks for you response. Here are my responses to your responses

"tool is closed source"
I am open to changing to open source but I do not understand the business model yet.

"tool is windows executable"
I created my program with C# and java. I had a sql server dev try to run it but he didn't have java installed on his computer. Apparently they have an intense dislike for java and avoid using programs that need java like the plague. LOL I guess I can't win either way?

"pricing page is 'contact us'"
There is no lockout feature of the program that stops working after X days if you don't buy it. Also I am a 1 person startup. I am extremely flexible on pricing. I am not sure what people are willing to pay for it, so it is hard to put a price on it.
This is absurd. Your ilk was willing to risk well being and health of youth for some hypochondriac fear because the very old and co-morbid had some risk. There's nothing honorable or good about this.

>Typical white Americans

This is pathetic
Super confused by stories like this. I went to university in Germany and any course materials we needed were provided to us as pdfs. They also had a service where you could print it out on a bunch of copy paper if you wanted a bit more tangible form, for basically the cost of paper and toner. My entire tuition likely cost less than American students waste on books. Don't you want people to learn?
I said this in a sibling comment but it felt responsive to yours, so you summarize, I think what we're finding out is a.) When the marginal cost of joining another network is 0, people will join "lower value" networks and b.) When you have enough people on the platform, the marginal value to the user of adding an additional user becomes negative - when you get to a certain scale, the new people joining are less likely to bring you additional conversation then additional trolling and harassment.

Anecdotally, HN is at a sweet spot for me. It's large enough that I'm just a person in the crowd (which I value), but it's small enough and the interaction is limited enough that I don't feel I'm likely to receive persistent, ongoing harassment. (I catch plenty of trolling, but it never feels personal really, I don't think they'll recognize me in the next thread we bump into each other.)
I visted EBR-1 last year - this is definitely a hidden gem!
My guess is that it was structured such that the company still owned the implant, rather than the person in whom it was implanted.
I just added a new section to my post about some clues from the InstructGPT paper: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jun/4/closed-model-training/#...

That paper (in January 2022) says:

> To make our models safer, more helpful, and more aligned, we use an existing technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). On prompts submitted by our customers to the API[A] our labelers provide demonstrations of the desired model behavior, and rank several outputs from our models. We then use this data to fine-tune GPT-3.

This was before they introduced their policy that data submitted to the API would not be used in any way to affect future training (that was in March this year).

Personally I think there's a significant difference between "your input to the model will be used as raw input for future pre-training" and "your prompts to the model will be used in an exercise where human labelers are shown multiple responses and asked to pick the best one".

What I'd really like here is for OpenAI to help people understand how that data is being used in as much detail as possible.

I guess the problem with that is it makes it harder for them to use that data in new ways they haven't yet anticipated needing in the future.
I think there's a hint of a good idea in the type that checks strings with a regex. Obviously it's comically impractical written that way.
Unless you had several co-morbidities, even the original variants of COVID weren't all that severe for most people.

Per the CDC:

> 146.6 Million Estimated Total Infections
> 7.5 Million Estimated Hospitalizations
> 921,000 Estimated Total Deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

If memory serves, most of the panic in the early stages was really about the risk of overloading hospitals (which mostly didn't happen) and a lack of ventilators (which it turned out that ventilators made things worse for most COVID patients). COVID-19 itself wasn't extremely lethal at any point.
Emerging science supported by multiple studies suggests 4x boosters may have actually hurt more than they helped: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/repeated-covid-19-vacci...
If it’s the name we are focusing on, I agree with you - the system isn’t “full self driving”, the name is misleading, and Tesla didn’t do themselves any favors by naming it that.

But if it’s how reliable and useful this feature is in practical applications, that’s a completely different story, and for 99% of people who don’t actually care about semantics, that’s going to be the important part.
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You need to update those stats
I think your comment might have been downvoted for the way question was asked.
Depending on the Terms of Service flavor your platform of choice serves you, it’s generally that you own the content you post, but grant an infinite, irrevocable license to use that content for just about any reason, including as an entry in a dataset sold to a separate entity for use training a large language model.

I think this is a really important question worth answering by future UGC-based platform incumbents.
It is a business between publishers and universities. There is no mystery here.
I do also have this problem in large/crowded/concrete-walled venues (looking at you, Pizza Express), but it's so annoying when there's an entirely optional 85dB+ noise floor apparently just to make absolutely certain I can't hear a thing anyone says until I say "screw it" and head home to nurse the tinnitus.
Somebody hunted her down in the street and shot her with a tranq gun or what? Why weren't they arrested for assault, unlawful detainment, etc.?
I mean, another version of the headline is "Children responsible for 791k US Covid deaths."
The social culture in our society (and especially in circles that would be implementing the support structure) leans heavily towards "it's not your fault, you are magnificent, you do you, there's no consequences whatsoever whatever you do". This approach is not going to work for the vast majority of these cases. There would be consequences, but since the "support" people will refuse to be the bad guys and implement the consequences, the consequences will come in the form of these programs turning into disastrous nightmares - just as various "housing hotels" turned into disastrous filthy drug-filled rat-infested nightmares. Throwing billions at the problem might provide a nice income to a number of GONGO staff and make them feel excellent because "they are doing something", but otherwise will not do much.
Taxation is quite separate though - we all have the same access to government provided services and infrastructure regardless of how much income tax we pay, I don't see anybody arguing that's unfair.
Huh, UBI has its own moral panic. Never thought I would see that, but it seems obvious in retrospect. Both capitalism and communism worship work like some insane religion. If you work, you are a good person. If you don't, you are scum.
Yeah, what's the issue?
But I dont think many are using SAI's cloud service. Its... Not, that great, maybe barring SDXL which is very new, and they have no advantage over random hosts.
There is at the beginning a comparison of various structural differences between the UK, France and Germany to motivate the piece so I was sort of expecting to see at some point how decision making structures compare and the impac to that. Anecdotaly NIMBY behavior and vetocracy is quite widespread across Europe (at least). Or, to turn the argument around, if there are concrete practices that can be shown to have worked elsewhere one does not need to reinvent the wheel.
And reddit staff can reverse that immediately. I'd be amazed if they didn't prevent huge subreddits from going private altogether without someone from the staff giving the go ahead.
That article pretty much ignores centuries of political scienes and historians' work. All based on some unconnected charts and a personal opinion on what projects are "good" and which ones are not.
It's a rather straightforward dig at C\C++ which work exactly like this with `const` variables.
That great guy sounds like a great guy. Wish I knew someone like them.
You are looking at the wrong data.

You must use studies about pandemic spreading before corona because in the pandemic with a new virus you can only make decisions because of knowledge you already have.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Imagine studies later would have revealed that children are super spreaders and they were responsible for the death of their parents or grandparents.
It’s a prisoner’s dilemma. I don’t want to send sick kid to child care but if the other parents do then I have no choice because I’ll run out of sick leave
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