skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Insisting on speaking English with you, thus slowing your integration.

Insist back. Repeatedly.

Germans (usually) don't do this out of malice, they do this out of (in this case, misunderstood and shortsighted) kindness and friendlyness. They try to be welcoming and make it easy for a foreigner by speaking English, thus removing the language barrier. To them, speaking English is improving your integration, at least in the short term, because you can communicate easily and efficiently right now. If you just ask once to speak German, you will be ignored since it is assumed that you are just doing this out of politeness. It is, to Germans, perfectly acceptable if you then insist on speaking German nonetheless and point out that you are not requesting German out of politeness but a desire to learn.

But the default mode for a German will always me to speak English to foreigners, never German.

Speaking slowly and simply has a similar connotation of impoliteness. If you speak slow and simplified German to a foreigner you are (in a German's mind) pointing out their flawed grasp of the language, thus offending the foreigner. Better to "compliment" the foreigner by speaking "normally", thus pointing out the foreigner's competence...
AI (Deep Learning) is going just great...

...and is most definitely not an enormous snake oil grift that is producing tons of CO2 in data centers in our already incinerating planet whilst catching fire [0] and wasting an enormous amount of water and resources. [1] /s

The wastage continues to accelerate without any available efficient and viable alternatives of training, fine-tuning and inference today after years of the field of 'Deep Learning' existing.

[0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/data-cen...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...
Ah, in that case it seems I've misunderstood you, so treat it as some random stranger making a well meant but useless anecdote that merely vibes with you rather than properly adding — I think MandieD was on the same page as me given the response to me in the same vein?
My English is not great (not a native speaker)... what is the article trying to say?

Does it talk about missuse of the language or lack of skills in it?
> That feels dumb

Because it is dumb. Reddit is and has always been for profit company. To justify its valuation of $10B, it will need to generate at least $1-2B of revenue. Wikimedia has $165M revenue in comparison. No board member will be content with such small return.
Indeed maybe this is what Musk is hoping for...
If the extraordinarily boring, centerless, sprawling city that is Seattle is your idea of wonderful, you can have it! Young people are moving to NYC over Seattle because that’s the sort of city environment they want to live in.
ZFS will also let you mix drives of different sizes. And the pool would grow as soon as you remove the smallest one.
Tvtropes – Krazam
> far from any actual life-threatening situation, which is what it actually is

Not clear. Several legitimate interpretations of "going North" into current situations are factually «life-threatening».
Ah yes, FAA's famous corporate execs and stocks with their famously good dividends.
yyjson: A high performance C JSON library
It’s easy to forget how difficult learning is, for us as individuals and as flocks in formation. Pick any topic and it’s likely it took you years to learn well. So simply switching out beliefs embedded in that topic requires overwriting years of patterns and synapses in sync.

Where Kuhn is so helpful in understanding that even scientists have immense difficulty, if not vigorous myopia, stuck with wrong beliefs. Paradigm shifts with funerals is easier over decades than getting scientists to evolve their models.
The ocean is enormous, featureless, opaque and deep. It also has currents that can easily move something like an airplane.

Compared to something like the Titanic, an airplane weighs almost nothing parts can easily end up far away from where it fell.
Obsidian Self-hosted LiveSync: Community implemented synchronization
The fastest train still has to stay on the tracks, I think OPs point is that the potential for devastating knock on effects from a mismanaged AI effort can cause overall slowdowns. The red tape and bureaucracy may slow things down from some theoretical maximum, but a train can't fly so as the crow flies is only a theoretical route for a train.
Thank you for the detailed response. Truly appreciate it!
Vegas shooting was done by a(presumably fired) contractor who ran a CIA funded safe house on American soil. They used special munitions only government agencies can buy.

Before the shooting it was accounted (and reported in papers) a homeless woman was shouting (paraphrased) “they’re going to shoot you, you’re all going to die!” The man who did the shooting was a white terrorist and these run government contracted “safe houses” all over America.
The difference from project management I understand, but a lot of what you described regarding keeping the progress going seems to be a SCRUM master's job. Would you say that is also management? Its all a bit fuzzy to me, because for example these are still engineering tasks for me:

>- Saying yes/no to projects

>- Medium term planning, resource balancing

>- Helping to set team vision and mission

>- Keep up to date and abreast with what’s happening in the org, filtering info to the team (down)

>- Often acting as a tie breaker for decisions (including technical)

>- Often involved in steering technical design and solutions

I think it should be done by senior engineers organically as engineering is a social activity. No one person can achieve greatness and to me an engineer becomes a senior engineer not by being a brilliant coder (for example) but by understanding that the job is to solve problems.
I suggest you read Bret Devereaux's "This Isn't Sparta" [0] series. He dismantles the myth the "hard times" cycle you mentioned.

For contemporary examples, just look at North Korea or Russia. Life is undeniably harder for citizens living in these countries, but where is the expected "strength" and "good times" that should result?

[0] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
It doesn’t mention scope anywhere. It says “small web”, and last I checked “small” implies size, not scope.

How do you not get bored of fighting windmills?
R/ring – anyone else have a camera hacked?
tldr. this video shows some kids got access to the Ring video camera installed inside of the house, and spoke to them with Live View. Person who posted it claims that they all have 2nd factor authentication, which means it will be hard to hack them.
They have contacted Ring support, and no informative answer yet.
most of these are loooong time there. list[:] replacement is since ever. (used for reversing a list, when there wasnt .reverse method)

But my beloved one, is the sequence of these changes, in time:

ver.134: x = ('a', 2)

some change in requirements made 2nd value unneeded, so it became:

v167: x = ('a',)

which is one day, "optimized" to:

v193: x = ('a')

Funny thing is, and x[0] will still deliver 'a' as it was before. Now if that 'a' is not constant but some parameter, and it's not 1 character long string..
Mycorrhizal fungi could dramatically help sequester carbon while at same time increasing yield and decreasing amount of fertilizer required.
> But we already let learner drivers try things out on the road, and their supervisors can’t even take control. Human drivers crash and make mistakes too… where is the uproar for allowing them to drive?

Drinking water supply also gets contaminated all the time. So I assume you won’t have any issues if I start pouring my experimental medicine into your municipal water supply, right? How else can I get large scale data to test it and develop?

Remember, cancer kills millions of people per year! I hope you are not against progress to fight it!

> I think you’re just regurgitating the standard anti-Tesla talking points… and avoided the questions on the fact Mercedes hasn’t tested this in actual streets and has just rolled it out and while it’s admitting liability isn’t that just as bad as what Tesla is doing?

What makes you think that Mercedes didn’t test on the streets? Just because there were no army of YouTubers, not trained in any way, with no relation to the company, making videos?

> Given all the approaches (with a hope of working) are using AI - how do you get the data to train the AI? This isn’t a Tesla problem, this is an AI training problem.

Yeah, if you think it’s an AI problem, not how to build and test safety critical systems that’s all I need to know about your understanding of the problem domain.
The "experts" are experts in ML: stats and linear algebra and whatnot. Their hot takes about it coming alive or through some other means destroying us are just as irrelevant as any other lay person's. From what I can see, a lot of this is about delusions of self importance on the researchers' part. It's not a coincidence, though a bit ironic, that LeCun, who comes across as the most arrogant and contrarian is the least caught up in the "oh what have we done" faux hype and the most realistic about what the technology is.
Mass shootings did not only start happening a few decades ago. The Texas University shooting occurred in '66. That seems to line up with a timeline of surplus cheap, military grade firearms trickling into society.
> a, b = b, a

> (don't know why this is so famous, I never, ever used that in prod)

This allows you to sort an array in place. It's heavily used in Go:

https://godocs.io/sort#example-package
Surely, I can't be the only one that feels this way?

Not but there's a lot of people who don't feel that way too. So you're just one of many people who has their own preference.

I use language servers and I find they're a game changer in a way that Copilot isn't for me.

In fact I believe there was a study on here that showed Copilot only helps mediocre programmers improve the time it takes them to get something working. More experienced and skilled programmers received minimal benefit.
With, to be fair, is a mostly sane attitude in this space.

When they DON'T move at glacial pace you get the 737 MAX.
> Before today, access to AI was gated by firms like Google

Did you miss Talk-to-Transformer, GANbreeder and Stable Diffusion? Did you ignore GPT-J and the GPT-2 quantizations that existed long before LLaMA or ChatGPT were common parts of everyday discussion?

I think a lot of people telling the history of AI completely miss the zeroth and first waves of AI generation. ChatGPT and GPT4 are asymptotes of that intelligent scaling - past this point, very little will impress the average person.
(Apparent) Certificate Authorities aren't always actual CAs
Has anyone tried filing a class action lawsuit?

How about an FTC complaint for unfair and deceptive business practices?

This seems like a great case.
Maybe next time you should check the actual Wiki page before posting since it is still there.
But how do you make sure that it provides consistent hallucinations?

Between GPT being consistently patched and such output being prone to statistical error I'm not sure if this vector of attack is efficient in the first place
We are already below replacement TFR in most countries in the West.

"Limiting children" in that case is "human race should die because the climate" and like, no.

Please stop repackaging anti human doomerism as climate action.
>I think that comes down to how comfortable you are with classes and multiple inheritance and what

No, not really. Multiple layers of inheritance naturally causes code to lose cohesion no matter how familiar you are with it.

It's one of the reasons for the maxim "prefer composition over inheritance".

>But in my experience, FBVs become a mess even if they're relatively simple, because of the temptation to keep it all within a single function.

If calling functions or classes from within functions is a struggle I dare say you might have bigger problems than whether to use FBVs or CBVs.
It doesn't really work that way. For instance, if you're discussing something with your boss, and you have perfect recall about what was discussed 6+ months ago, but your boss disagrees with you, they will just use their version of previous events as the reference of record. People tend to get angry when you disagree with their version of past events.

It's a lot like the myth of Cassandra -- doomed to be able to foretell the future, but nobody believed her. Doomed to remember the past, but nobody ever believes you. Everyone is 100% committed to their own version of the past that lives in their head.

What's the advantage?
Simply based on the people on Reddit and such that recommend this podcast, I knew that it was not for me.
The thing with rural areas is that very few people live there. Most people in the US live in or near densely populated areas. This is not an issue for them. And even rural areas have electricity and infrastructure. All you need to charge a car is a functioning wall socket. It won't be particularly quick but it will get your car charged eventually. A nice charger at home, a few functioning fast chargers in along nearby highways, etc. That's all you need. Most of the US has all of that within reasonable range.

Basically, your current situation is that what you are spending on fuel and repairs to keep your old car going would probably add up to a nice second hand EV pretty quickly. Also, I hope you don't get any medical emergencies and have to rely on a 17 year old car being able to drive 200 miles (which is a big ask). And if it breaks down, it indeed can get expensive. It's a good reason to not go on long journeys with cars that old. That and the fact that the fuel efficiency is pretty terrible for such cars generally.

You should be able to get a nice second hand EV for around 15K. It won't be the latest and greatest but you might find e.g. an old Nissan Leaf or something similar for that kind of money. You might reasonably expect to spend a lot less on fuel and repairs than you currently are. Do the math, I would suggest. Don't get too hung up on the range either. If you really do that 200 mile journey a lot with your 17 year old car, you are a brave man. More likely is that you rarely do that and given that you are so cost conscience about getting something better, your time is pretty cheap too meaning that a charging stop on your rare longer journeys shouldn't be the end of the world for you either. It all boils down to how much that is worth to you.
Reductions in access to medical care is an accelerated problem in rural US. Populations are sparse, declining, and unprofitable for our medical system.
That's fantastic, it seems like such an essential feature that should have been part of the regular OpenAi UI on launch
Just tried a few logo for a brand. Results are good. Can we indeed use it for our startup and may be copyright it just like any other real logos? Or not for real projects, but for fun only?
The Death of the Internet, Five Years Later
Once you have some post history, I’m pretty sure the harsh rate limit, the one that would stop someone from posting in every comment thread, is only triggered manually by the mods if you’re a prick (personal experience).

The basic new account rate limit and the one you get from getting downvote quickly are too weak to stop what they are complaining about.
Now you have to understand this actually applies to everything in Journalism these days.
Converting single family lawns into small gardens would do more to help with climate change than these ideas.

So much pollution is generated by industrial farming and transportation of the food to city folk.

Everyone who is _serious_ about helping with climate change should be willing to put in a little sweat equity.

Sadly I do not see that as the case. Much easier to talk about it, and insist other people make changes or sacrifices than to make them oneself.
You can also pot the PCB, and/or enclose it in a physically secure enclave where if it detects ambient light, actuation of a switch, breach of a conductive trace embedded in the case around it, etc, it wipes the RAM and, depending on your paranoia levels, blows the hardware up. Some key management Hardware Security Modules do this.

Also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey's_Resort_Hotel_bombing

The designer could probably have made more cash patenting his systems!
If companies have such metrics, they'd use them as part of the rationale for RTO. Nobody states anything other than "culture" or "casual synergy" or some other hand wavy stuff.

I conclude they don't have such metrics.
The “farebox recovery ratio” of a road is usually zero. Roads are funded through taxes (with the exception of some toll highways). Why can’t transit be the same?
> If they had nothing to hide, they wouldn't be hiding everything. If that was a criminal case, this kind of behavior would be taken as a evidence of guilt.

No, it would not. First, dictatorships hide things all the time, whether there is something or nothing. It's just how they operate. (Many democratic governments do to btw. How often do we need freedom of information requests just to find out that it was totally benign, the government just stone-walled because they could).

Second, not saying anything is not evidence of guilt in any criminal case in the civilized world. Everyone has the right to silence.
Diagnosis of a mental illness would be an explanation, not explaining it away. You have used your brain to form the hypothesis that you are experiencing mind control by the government; but if that brain has a chemical imbalance (or some other difficulty), then all your thoughts are affected by it, including your self assessment. It's a bit like using a broken computer to diagnose itself - if the computer has a problem then you can't be sure that it's diagnosis is correct because the problem might prevent an accurate diagnosis.

How about this - you could have a chat with a doctor anyway, and maybe they can help you. If they can't, well, then you're no worse off than you were before.
What kind of equipment does an airplane need for "space-based" ADS-B? Isn't it just satellites capturing the regular air-to-ground ADS-B signals?
I always thought the idea was ambitious and interesting.

The biggest problem, as he points out, was that it was a bit too simplistic. Anyone who was anywhere near to being a power user with work to get done was mostly going to be frustrated by it.

It was cute - even delightful - to me at first, then quickly just got in the way. To my mind, two things which could make such an idea more successful would be 1) making it easier to deactivate, and 2) having a more robust 'advanced' mode which points you to actual documentation, articles and support forums and other than that leaves you alone. I don't think the tech for that second part was possible back then (especially parsing natural language inquiries), but it is now.

The characters I ended up using most were the little dog and the bouncing ball. I didn't mind Clippy, but after seeing how others reacted to him I didn't want people to know that. The animations were great for all of them regardless, there was clearly a lot of talent deployed there. Unfortunately that has almost no connection to usefulness.
> thanks to poor regulation

Comparing different systems overseen by different agencies with different regulations, rules and conditions without an objective data doesn’t seem that productive.

also comparing subways with intercity freight trains is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison in the first place.
I’ve been using GPT based coding tools for quite awhile. GPT-4 coupled with my extensive experience has enabled me to tackle just about every programming challenge I set for myself, from systems programming, neural networks and up to GUI programming on multiple kinds of devices and languages.

I have been programming since the mid-90s so I have strong fundamentals. What I often lack is knowledge of syntax, APIs or libraries. Once presented with this information I am off to the races.

Almost the entirety of this codebase was written by GPT:

https://github.com/williamcotton/chordviz

Yes, it required a background in LA and studying various ML techniques in order to understand how to guide the completions. It also frequently produced incorrect code but I was able to isolate the problems and reduce the complexity presented to GPT in order to get functional results.

The majority of the time was spent labeling around 12,000 images using the labeling software that I guided GPT to construct.

I now have a SwiftUI iOS application that takes a live camera feed and predicts guitar chords based on a PyTorch CNN model trained on images labeled with a React application.
Hate baggage fees? Wear a fishing vest on the plane
Also, before one draws conclusions based on the _kind_ of virus that is researched, coronaviruses aren't even uncommon. So better evidence is clearly necessary than innuendo.
As I recall, the atomic raids did not do the most physical damage they were merely the most efficient by far. There is no comparison to the radiological damage. There are museums in Hiroshima and Tokyo that document these things.

Kyoto was spared by Stimson’s familiarity with it and some concern about its significance. As the imperial palace was (mostly) spared. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Niigata and Kokura were reserved vs b-29 bombing so they had a means of checking the blast effect of an intact city.

Sux to be on either side in a total war with no quarter given.
That's not primarily why MH570 was lost. Nobody had any idea where to begin looking. A GPS fix at the point of crash would have changed the search hugely.
I’m sure most of this is true or at least true-ish but to be appropriately skeptical, all evidence which has a Chinese source here should be considered as potentially made up.

Regardless of whether or not there was a coverup, the Chinese government has certainly acted like it was covering something up.

The circumstantial evidence is sort of ridiculous here though. An institute with weak safety controls experimenting with creating novel pathogens has an outbreak of a novel pathogen next door? No no, it’s because of climate change (an actual argument I have seen).
Yeah but in Python list.sort() takes care of that.
My position hasn't changed for years: if covid was really a lab creation we'd know, because someone would have told us. An email dump, a memo, a document, an interview. Something would have leaked out. The incentives are just too high and the access is too pervasive[1] to believe otherwise.

Is it possible? Sure! Is it likewise possible that some of the circumstantial claims about WIV are true? Sure! But if someone made this thing, someone else would have told us by now.

[1] This is science! There are notes and logs and backups and email and chat and whiteboard photos and conference attendees and visiting scholars, all spread around a population all trained to compete with each other.
For Spore, there is Thrive, an attempt at an open-source replacement: https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/
And yet, retail pharmacy and grocery store businesses have near zero profit margins.
It's going to be another "Software Bug there is nothing we could have done."
The only dimwits terrorizing people and removing access to knowledge are redcap Republicans. An actual cult.

You are brainwashed to be upset. You cannot even define "wokism," it's just a word that was used during your brainwashing. You are so mad snake oil salesmen were not allowed to commit fraud that you are having a knee-jerk reaction siding with Nazis. Take a step back and seriously think about how scrubbed clean your brain is that you are pro-Nazi.
Bitmessage is decentralized and works.
"Yes but don't you know son, in a few years it will solve climate change?!?!?!?!"
I think the problem lies in the fact that this is a necessary but not sufficient component of the cycle.

There’s also an interesting micro vs macro level distinction.
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