skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True for marketplace insurance, but private plans (which companies would provide to employees at enticingly lower premiums than public options) vary considerably. See, for but one example, https://www.lgbtmap.org/img/maps/citations-nondisc-insurance...
Your first statement seems to contradict your previous. Did you originally mistype what you meant when you said greater exposure leads to worse outcomes? Because now you’re implying more exposure has the opposite effect.

Regardless, it still misses the point. I’ve never been explicitly exposed to base-72, yet I can reason my way through it. I would argue my performance wouldn’t be any different than base-82. So I can transfer basic principles. What the LLM result you referenced shows is that it is not learning basic principles. It sure seems like you just read the abstract and ran with it.

As far as the psychology of decision making, again, I think you're speaking with greater confidence than is warranted. In time critical examples, I’m inclined to agree. And there’s certainly some notable psychologists who would expand it beyond snap judgments. But there are also some notable psychologists who tend to disagree. It’s not a settled science, despite your confidence. But again, that’s getting stuck in the limitations of the example and missing the forest for the trees. The point is not in whether decisions are made consciously or subconsciously, but rather how learning can be inferred from previous experience and transferred to novel experiences. Whether this happens consciously or not is besides the point. And you are further going down what I was explicitly taking against: confusing image/pattern recognition for contextual reason. You can see this in the relatively recent Go issue; any human could see what the issue was because they understand the contextual reasoning of the game but the AI could not and was fooled by a novel strategy. The points I’ve been making have completely flew over your head to the point where you’re shoehorning in a completely different conversation.
> New Solitaire modes?

Joke's on them. When they killed classic solitaire, they also destroyed the last reason to keep my older family members on Windows. If everything is going to be unfamiliar anyway, it might as well just be a Chromebook.
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Most extreme solar flare this cycle also happened to occur.... your diet and recycling has not caused these temperatures

https://twitter.com/drkstrong/status/1675669797462310919?ref...
The reason why ads work is consumers do not want to spend money now that they are conditioned to get stuff on the internet for free. Every time an article on here is posted the first comment is a link to archive.is.

I agree this would be a better model, but I don’t think it will ever happen. Maybe the Web3 stuff will catch on and this will become sustainable.
What difference does that make? Just curious since I thought of this as a viable safe idea to generate presigned s3 URL’s and send them by email to customers for a project..
> 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be surprised if 2-4% of the total frames submitted contain this specific content.

Are there any YC startups specializing in detecting penises? They can probably help.
> We have to remember we were also using CRT monitors, which don't have "pixels" per se like the LCD monitors of today do.

How so? CRT pixels aren't active, is that what you mean? They are still distinct picture elements ("pix-els").
here comes streisand effect, benefitting meta.

well played, zuck.
It's the allistic version of nerd-sniping.

Do something intentionally wrong to goad a smart alec into trying to do it right.
Possibly to some extent

Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318
Good. I don't have a problem with subscriptions that provide content. That said, currently ad supported content stuffed behind a pay wall which still has ads, or even things like Hulu which have "ad free" yet still show ads, there is an imbalance toward shoving ads down peoples throats. The sooner that goes away, the better.
Double Agents: Lobbyists for Big Tech Universities, Also Work Big Oil [video]
> Don't shoot, shit, or camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers.

Folks who've never shit in the woods before may have some trepidation about it. There's a classic book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-4th-Environmentally/dp...

The Internet Archive has the 2nd edition:

https://archive.org/details/howtoshitinwoods00meye

Relatedly, assume all water sources are contaminated and filter before drinking. Giardia is no fun.
That’s actually a really good answer, and is even channeling the intuitive problem solving style of Terrance!
Things like the Dell Optiplex Micro and Lenovo Mini ThinkCenters can provide a similar experience. Generally I have found that they haven't had any major noise issues but a part of that was being very conservative with clock rates.

NUC isn't exactly the same as those, it is designed to be much more user upgradable and the price was very competitive. But even nowadays it is surprising to see them in the wild because they just aren't that common.
Installable web apps would give you a workaround for that wouldn’t it?
The reason to learn calculus is because, as soon as you grasp it, you will start to see it everywhere.
True, but Maine (and NH/VT) have the distinction of having implicit/legal trespass. So if you are in the know on where there are large tracts of unposted private land managed for logging (not talking about the North Maine Woods, which is amazing - and vast - but requires a fee to enter) you can have really great experiences in wilderness-ish places.
Show HN: Single-line command to audit Accessibility score of a website
First, ensure you have Lighthouse installed globally by running "npm i -g lighthouse".

Then, run the following script to audit any desired site against the accessibility test.

If the audit is successful, you will see "Accessibility score is 100." printed in the terminal. Otherwise, it will list all the errors in the terminal which the site administrator can debug and patch.

site="https://google.ca"; form_factor="--emulated-form-factor=desktop"; accessibility_score=$(lighthouse --only-categories=accessibility "$form_factor" "$site" --quiet --output=json | jq -r '.categories.accessibility.score * 100'); if [[ $accessibility_score == 100 ]]; then echo "Accessibility score is 100."; else (echo "Accessibility score is $accessibility_score." && lighthouse --only-categories=accessibility "$form_factor" "$site" --quiet --output=json | jq '.audits | to_entries[] | select(.value.score == 0) | .value.details.items') fi

NOTE:

a) You can audit the test for either "desktop" or "mobile" by setting the "--emulated-form-factor" flag to the desired value.
Be nice if they weren’t 10x the price of normal USB-C cables.
Nobody's asking you to trust anything; you can just take some few minutes to read. It's not my responsibility to show you how to Google; you're just being willfully ignorant.
It's a compile-time cost instead of a runtime cost.
You clearly haven't driven EV if you think ICE don't suck. They suck, extremely suck. Especially old ones that lack modern tech.
I don't think this is the reason you learn calculus in school, but I do think it is a good reason to learn it.
(laughs in Alaskan)
One Ukrainian soldier had six extensively drug-resistant bacterial infections
100% agreed. Modern software has thrown out the design idioms that were so common throughout the '90s and early '00s in Windows (and Macintosh!) software. I wrote a blog post about what happened: https://loeber.substack.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
Payment process is different.

This is all about implying serious work and complexity is taking place for some interaction there the user thinks there should be some.

PayPal used to have an entirely artificial five second wait between the user hitting "log in" and the browser sending the request because it raised perceived security in user testing.

Many banking apps will display "establishing secure connection" for a while for the same reason.

(Possibly paypal still have an artificial delay, but it's hard to tell given how badly the site works these days)
Did a milquetoast motivation speaker write this? "Everyone just needs to realize that we all have to be nice to each other and we all succeed" rarely even works in a kindergarten classroom of 15 students, there's not really even a system for scaling that up to a city of a million people.

Imo it's naive to think that this is ever achievable given how powerful the human nature to find an in-group is.
Not sure whether you were specifically referencing it, but this was made for an episode of Silicon Valley, and is also a real, functional app.

On the show, it was originally created for detecting hot dogs, but found a second (and far more lucrative) life as a penis detector.

https://www.engadget.com/2017-05-15-not-hotdog-app-hbo-silic...

More technical discussion here: https://medium.com/@timanglade/how-hbos-silicon-valley-built...
It made me laugh when Google announced how strong Bard 2 is at over a hundred human languages and then restricted the deployed chat app to like… three.

That’s not even region locking, it’s capability locking while simultaneously advertising that very thing!
The article talks about how adapters like yours use the DisplayPort Alt Mode protocol and then have a DP to HDMI adapter integrated. Rather than implementing the HDMI Alt Mode protocol which also works over USB-C.
At the video cable, no. Both sides assume the other side can short to ground or spike or whatever. This is basic circuit protection that you don’t trust the other side.

At the power though, I guess if you shorted the high voltage long enough to pop the breaker and the computer was on the same breaker sure. But this would be tough to do for enough time to pop the breaker I think.
BTW, GPT-Engineer is openly collecting all of your data: user prompts and other metadata. And they were even defending it until they received some strong responses from the community: https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer/issues/415 They now explicitly ask for consent regarding user data, but can we really trust their motives?
If the problem is that users using an app that's supposed to be, by it's governance structure, decentralized but in practice it's still centralised and this is the primary reason why changes aren't implemented/pushed through. I think it's more reasonable to think about solutions to the governance problem itself.

Imo, thinking a plutocratic structure would ever bring forth power decentralisation is foolish to begin with. Voting with your wallet makes sense if everyone has the same amount, it doesn't make sense if over time resources get concentrated in the hands of the few which in turn use this power to concentrate power even more.

In reality, there's a lot of much simpler methods of governance that could be implemented for these projects. Starting with sortition, the formation of assemblies, working cohorts, etc (all through sortition). This would ensure a much more equitable access that wouldn't really take away from effectiveness (at least the sortition experiments done at town, city and country level haven't shown less quality in the public proposals that come out them).

But honestly, I don't think people in the crypto space truly want effective decentralized structures. I think the do "democratic washing" if you can put it in some way. There's a lot of incompatible ideas in the space.

So, a project like this looks to me to be trying to solve a problem they themselves have created out of stubbornness. If you want dynamic governance in the space then sortition is probably a much better way to go around things rather than "darwinian evolution".

Change should be commanded by users of the system and implemented by developers. Not spear headed by developers and adopted by the users. This second one leads to a lot of wasted effort.
That's true, but in the case of Strings in particular they are generally considered to be thread-safe by virtue of being immutable (and the Javadocs themselves say this in many places). Concurrently modifying the input character array may seem like willful abuse in this case, but I suppose there might be some carelessly written code out there which does it and the post shows how it would create some weird and very hard-to-debug behavior. And I can see the argument going both ways as far as the Javadoc: on the one hand, it only promises to return a String representing what is currently in the input character array, which seems to warn against concurrent/subsequent modification at least obliquely. But on the other hand, it does seem to commit to an up-front defensive copy of the input character array which doesn't quite take place, and without which things go a bit haywire if the encoding of the string changes.

I don't think the correct answer is to sacrifice any performance to guard against this weird edge case, though.
Well there's OpenAI's release notes for one: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-...

Pre-training of a foundational model is what you're thinking of for the "absurdly expensive" part but fine tunes are extremely cheap and undoubtedly are being done constantly. (You can see just how cheap by looking at the papers for Alpaca, Vicuna, Koala, etc). Prices dropped from about $600 to $10 for smaller models. Guanaco, using QLoRA, fine tuned llama-65b in about 1 day on a single GPU.

Another way to empirically test btw is to search for all the articles pointing out what ChatGPT gets wrong (3 or 4). I recently tested those when looking for evals and it gets the large majority (maybe 80-90% of those are answered correctly now).
real reason merges happen is to the benefit of the stockholders looking to cash out on their life time investment in a particular company

honestly this create an economic boon upon closure more tax from sales win-win

but if the acquisition doesn't succeed it is fine too Activision is in a good stance as its titles have been doing better than most
Rare taste, unusual combinations, extremely smooth character or historical value are some of the marks for why people pay extra for wine.
There's fantastic cheap wine out there, just like you don't have to spend on wagyu beef to get perfectly good steak.
The only way ansible could be somewhat like nix is if you reinstalled the same exact version of the target OS each time before you run your playbook. The problem is that ansible, puppet, salt, chef, et al, are simply tools to mutate the giant bag of state that is a Linux OS. Even then getting to the same end state is a suspect proposition unless you're extremely diligent in pinning things like exact package versions and ensure tasks run in the exact same order every time.

While these tools are good at making certain changes, and are even pretty good at detecting and eliding already-done work, they are _not_ idempotent. There are nearly no modules that properly handle unmaking their changes, so once you mutate that bag of state you're left with a state vector that is barely better than completely undefined.

If you're familiar with these tools you have no doubt deployed undo-this-change tasks that you leave in the tasklist until you're fairly confident it's run on every system the do-this-change tasks ran on. Even if a module does attempt to offer an undo-the-state functionality, you can't just remove it, you have to first configure it to run in the "undo" configuration before you remove it.
Like everything keras, this will promise a lot and only deliver on conops deemed worthy by the keras team.
It's pretty cheap here in NZ - 0.14 NZD at night.

Assuming 7L efficiency of new car every 100kkm would save me $15,400 NZD in fuel.

My previous one used 12L, so EV saves me 27.9K per 100kkm.

(7L/100km2.5$/L=17.5 - 15kwh/100km0.14$/kwh=$2.1/100km = 15.4)

Speaking an absolutes, yes I could've sold my gas guzzler and got small hybrid that would cost 1/3rd to run. But ICE cars suck and I like bigger cars as they are convenient with kids.
I'm trying to bring a lite (to start) version of this to web/win/android before too long. Working with a partner on adjacent project to build the tech out for this.

I had a prior competitor who shut down (maybe because of server costs) but had gotten a lot of word of mouth in large part thx to having a free android app. Loads of users over there even if harder to monetize/do native stuff with, but lots of people eager for better apps in certain niches who will build popular consensus via word of mouth
> His two examples are Twitter and Reddit whose ad revenue is dying because those two companies have made huge blunders. Elon seems to almost actively be killing Twitter

I disagree. Elon doesn't care about ad revenue. He stated multiple times that the goal is to make Twitter a superapp.
Im hoping Microsoft will altruistically stop producing these addictive “games”.
As a new console player, the differences between a game like Halo Infinite and Overwatch (FPS 4v4/5v5) are enough to put me from playing and in control to binging.

Here’s a tangent:

The most popular sports leagues in the world are mimicked by people all over the world who play casual and team sports. The game itself is not proprietary.

Why can’t we make popular open source video games? If games were not owned by a single entity, anyone could host tournaments and leagues, more similar to baseball, basketball, and football. We could all play the same game.
People giving out tips on how to "improve" this probably didn't read the FAQ.

> The Free Movie is not about quality– in fact, that interpretation, that rawness, is the specific terroir want in the final film. To paraphrase MSCHF: shitty things are good.

Yes, there are better ways to rotoscope a movie than unmoderated crowdsourcing. So what? Not everything has to be over-engineered and optimized for 150% user experience. Considering how it was made, I think this is actually surprisingly watchable.
I didn't miss the point. The groups you mention spend significant sums on equipment each year. They probably also drink coffee from places like starbucks/etc. They have disposable income and $100/year is a pittance.

Your point of pre-existing free services is a whole different matter and has merits of it's own to discuss. I think, as someone pointed out, couchsurfing.org got kinda weird/shady. I was a member years ago and just stopped paying attention (I recall when there were mailing lists/news groups for such). I think money spent on verification makes sense these days.
Yes. This is key. Especially if like me your dog is ancient, has ALS and is in a stroller!

Everybody knows me as the 6’3 270lb dude pushing a tiny stroller or ‘spankys dad’!

I’d moved to coastal Oregon, knew no one in the neighborhood, I’m kinda scary to look at and not good at eye contact!

Since I adopted this stinky, on his last legs, probably gonna die in a year old pug mix I’ve spent a fortune at the vets but made many acquaintances some of whom are on the way to being friends.

Make a conscious effort to remember peoples names as you do it. I used to be very blasé about that but it made a big difference shouting ‘hey Sue!’ to the old lady who makes Spanky treats on the corner.

It would also work for a cat.

Everyone remembers the dude walking a cat!
You're too right.

We need to move away from prompt-engineering - it's AI-Management. You pretend you're speaking to another (albeit confusing/confused) person when extracting work from a model. You're coaxing things out of it based on hearsay and mysticism that work most of the time. Sounds a lot like AGILE and free pizza to get a junior to stay late and deliver on time.

That's not engineering, that's management.
Only to the untrained taste.

I've helped a sommelier friend study for her exams. In wine school you get taught about how different climates and methods in winemaking gives the wine product its character.

With relatively little training it's easy to spot young wine, old wine, wine that passed through oak, defects like Bret, and other properties.
Probably I had already heard it in a longer version but wow, summing it up like that really hits home.
Space before exclamation or question mark is basically 100% accurate indicator of Francophone writing.
"My goal with our kids is to avoid lying to them as much as possible." ← Thank you. Why is that so difficult for parents to do?
According to the post she's using Sheet not Excel
Email isn’t a secure protocol.
Thanks, hard to format, I was on car while typing on phone.
It can create network namespaces but you need to use other tools to actually set them up.
The amount of human labor involved in the US healthcare system, that has nothing at all to do with medical professionals helping patients, is astonishing.
>But the special case here is that if you can eliminate part of the process entirely, you no longer have to pay for reducing false negatives in it.

I don’t disagree, I was just asking for a concrete example. In the abstract it’s a bit of hand-wavey marketing speak, but I’m not clear on what part of the process would be cut out. You’d still need traceability and pedigree regardless of how the part was made. That is what I pointed out drives so much of the cost.

I think we have a fundamental difference of opinion on reducing costs through quality control. Having worked at different times in process design and quality control in both automotive manufacturing and aerospace, using excess inventory to try to drive down costs is generally a bad practice. But I may an old codger stuck in my ways, so I’ll leave that discussion alone.

As a specific SpaceX example, they had a strut failure because of poor supplier quality control. Their remedy wasn’t to cut more out of the process but rather layer more quality control into it. I don’t know for certain, but I have to think that made it more expensive, not less.
Yeah, it's really helpful to prototype these kinds of things.
Can’t wait to login to d4 with outlook.
Haha, what is a superapp?
An alternative take is that the NUC is made of laptop parts, with a footprint, thermal capacity and level of bespoke-ness similar to a typical laptop.
I have written few on https://nauman.medium.com and planning to move this https://nauman.one

Mostly about rails :)
Owsley wad not your average high school dropout. He was a genius

He was making methamphetamine first, and his starting point for LST was iirc ergotamine, of which he bought several kilos when he could.

After release from prison he reinvented himself as a jeweler, and his work was in high demand
It's ignorant to use "to no end" (uselessly) when you mean "no end" (endlessly).
If you've got water and shade, someone knows where you are, you don't have any underlying health problems, and you're not exerting yourself, then any dry heat on earth is survivable. The saddest thing about cases like the Germans in Death Valley is how most of the mistakes were made before they even entered the park, and how easily they could have been fixed.
Thank you. The game analogy is weird, but okay. I already know the basic bits about defects, but not all details you mentioned.