skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very justified and panic-worthy deadly dose of radiation is around 1.4 million times greater than the background radiation that you can double or triple and not even notice.

And yet here we are with a comment thread of heated debate over a plastics exposure study that's 50 million times greater than realistic exposure levels. When or if a realistic exposure study is done we may find that a plastic cup is more like a transcontinental flight than living near a reactor meltdown. Let's find out before we jump to conclusions either way.
I had it slighty worse: As a teenager I bought Holy Blood, Holy Grail on a whim (it were the 90s) in a bookstore because I was reading another Grail-focussed book series. HBHG is an utterly absurd book which could not even hoodwink a 14-year-old. One of the few books I deeply regret buying. Slightly later I read Focault’s Pendulum which of course inoculates one even more against this crap.

But of course Brown copied everything in his Da Vinci Code from HBHG which is obvious, when reading it. Every twist and turn is then utterly predictable. There was a copyright case in the 90s, annoyingly decided in Brown’s favour.

The real history behind HBHG is far more funnier: turns out the authors took their story from a french con-artist who fabricated documents and genealogies and deposited them into the Bibliotheque Francaise. And of course according the the con-artist the last descendant of the Merovingian Kings was himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Plantard
Dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173>
There are some products but in systems with metal seals you don't use grease/sealant as as they off-gas various contaminating small molecules

https://www.tedpella.com/vacuum_html/High_Vacuum_Leak_Sealan...
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While there are some (many) like that, I don't believe that Nate Silver is one of them.
Dan Brown books don’t contain ‘action’, they contain ‘motion’.

I understand how the way Brown writes makes it seem like he thinks something exciting is happening but in fact all it is, is his protagonists are moving from place to place in a series of taxis.
And my point is that if you’re only going to touch one perspective, don’t act like you’re touching two perspectives.
tsx-11 was, IIUC, primarily a mirror of Linux (i.e. the kernel itself). But it could certainly have mirrored Slackware as well.
You forgot to mention the lefts position. They usually used the lab-leak theory to ridicule, mock and even have careers ended for those who dared to propose it as plausible.

As so many of our media outlets lean to the left, the mocking and ridiculing was clearly ubiquitous.

And when it started to look like lab leak theory had some merit, media just went silent on the matter.
SO I disagree hard with that it's a right or far right tool to sell hero worship.

Journalism has turned to absolute shit and anything that comes from the perceived "other" side must be instantly mocked without any investigation or partisan integrity. And should the "other" side show merit there will either be silence or continued mockery along the lines of "even a broken clock is right twice a day" .
Left and right equally guilty.

Journalism is a joke. Maybe it always was and it's just these past 3 years that made so many of us realise exactly what a sh**show it actually is.

Several polls have shown that trust in news media is at a historical low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-med...

and even expert opinion https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/02/15/americans-tru...
has lost all merit as it is just, for the lack of a better word, raped to haul in clicks.

This is especially true for the medical scientists who could not get their shit together during the crisis and seemed to have a pissingcompetition of who could recommend the most intrusive, obnoxious guideline that conflicted the most with what any other "expert" scientist recommended.

Masking toddlers, banning sitting on public park benches, banning children from playgrounds. Banning walking outdoors in company. Masking while standing up in a restaurant to take it off while sitting down.
Banning sports, isolating the elderly to the point of driving them to insanity and severe cognitive decline.
DENYING AEROSOL SPREAD. That one is my personal pet peeve with the scientific community.
The embarrassing list is endless.

My own trust in medical expertise, that is, the one I see in the news. Is at an all time low.
I ofc listen to my personal MD. But if she'd proclaim something in the media I'd probably never listen to her again and switch doctors.
Whatever happened to the old Netcraft site where I type in a url and it’d tell you what OS, webhost, webserver, etc it ran.

Netcraft seems all corporate now.
If you make lots of money selling bazillions of copies of a mass-produced work that appeals to and entertains a large segment of the population, you're a hack who makes trite garbage.

If you make lots of money selling one work to one very rich person or corporation, you are a Fine Artist, and anyone who thinks what you made is ugly (which is very often a large segment of the population) is an uncultured fool.

There's a range somewhere between these two extremes where you make enough money off of your art that it pays your bills, but doesn't require you to cater to the whims of the catastrophically rich. I'm in that range and it's pretty nice.
The gameplay was too short, but still it was a better game than any Diablo releases later. I still remember the horror when confronting the Butcher for the first time. Butchers from later releases are all boring.

Later I learned to cheat by duplicating stuff with a pile of coins, and the difficulty of the game was lowered so much.
Yeah they had a problem where the amortized ID rate was less than the number of valid UUIDs you could generate in a given time interval, but with a peak rate well above that, so UUIDs weren't quite going to function for naming/numbering them. You gotta be pushing a lot of messages through a system to hit that, but it's possible. And adding more layers of coordination on top of something meant to reduce coordination overhead tends to... make things messy.

I've half-heartedly tried to look up his problem every time I've had to introduce UUIDs to something (most recently fixing agents not generating correlation IDs), and I have not figured out which version of UUID he was talking about. I now suspect it was some proprietary or industry-specific quote-unquote UUID spec rather than an industry wide one. I may look through the UUID7 spec at some point to see if they mention prior art. Much more plausible than him being a time traveler.
> I get that, but a solution to that problem — on my mind — doesn’t involve people voting less regularly in Federal elections, but rather getting folks to vote more regularly in local elections. Separating the two seems arbitrary — federal elections have more money behind them than local, so awareness is greater. That’s a solvable problem, and one we’ve seen tremendous gains on in the last 15 years.

I'm not saying "avoid voting in some elections", I'm saying the voters who only turn out for the big ones probably have some wrong ideas about where their time and attention is most-effectively spent, and which bubbles they fill out on the ballot or taps they make on the screen are most important. How many can tell you one thing about any state judge, say, (for states that elect judges) on that presidential ballot, but can rattle off all kinds of crap about both major presidential candidates? Priorities are skewed the wrong way. It's just an observation about how voter attention tends to be focused on the wrong things. That top-line vote every four years matters more for getting people out for the down-ballot, than it does per se.

> inexorably led us to a place where vast segments of the populace haven’t been paying attention, and assumed “both sides are the same”, and now we’re in a real pickle, Federal policy-wise.

I don't think paying less attention to the news gets us there. Plenty of folks I know who hold that (deeply silly) "both sides" opinion pay a lot more attention to the news than I ever have, certainly.

Again, I think we'd be better-served, and have a better electorate, if those folks mostly stopped watching the news and started reading more books. However, I admit that this is impractical to apply broadly, as a huge proportion of US adults can't profitably read even slightly-complex non-fiction texts and get much out of them—but for an individual not in that cohort of barely-readers, it might be a good change to make, if one of their reasons for following the news so much is to "be a better voter & citizen". More books, less news (very little, infrequently, possibly except local news).
There are similarities, just exchange lung cancer with suicides among teens. Big Tech must take its responsibility more seriously and not pretend it's not their fault.
PalmPilots used a serial port to connect to a computer, modem, or the infra-red module.
> Google [...] won't let other people to make up their own self-beneficial rules in a similar way.

What "other people"?

If it's the "you" who is not allowed to scrape google in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817237 then you can make your own "google is not allowed to scrape my thing" rules if you think that's beneficial for you.

If it's somehow related to LLM providers or users I doubt that's what the original comment was referring to.

To be clear, I understand the original comment as

LLM companies say "I can use your content and you cannot not prevent me from doing so, but I won't allow you to use the output of the LLM" just like Google says "I can scrape your content and you cannot not prevent me from doing so, but I won't allow you to scrape the output of the search engine"

and that doesn't seem a valid analogy.
You might like Builder.io (https://www.builder.io/m/developers) - they let you embed drag-n-drop powered sections within your regular page markup, and it looks like they support most frameworks like svelte.
Thanks, appreciate the link and going to keep this in mind. Cheers.
Why does a biopic need "the highest quality imaging format ever devised"?
submarine article
In Canada, my "free healthcare" doctor doesn't even do annual physicals, so...
There was also a folding keyboard that used the serial port in the dock connector.
> Federal Reserve deserves credit for handling inflation well.

That is a stretch. They jacked rates on Trump, lowered rates for Biden, and in my opinion were forced to raise rates when the Ukraine money/power grab ramped up.
Yes!

You have two options:

1- Find some port for it to run locally on GitHub (it will be quantized and not that useful right now, till 2024-till Qualcomm will ship their phones).
- see https://github.com/Bip-Rep/sherpa

*The better one*
2- Host the version on a server on the cloud (or locally on your computer with tunneling) using ooga-booga (with --api flag), and communicate with that self-hosted llama, directly. This way you won't be limited to 7/13B versions but can run the 70B...
Congestion Avoidance and Control (1988) by Van Jacobson: https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf

Often called "the paper which saved the internet" due to solving congestion collapse on the ARPANET, and inventing the fundamentals of TCP Congestion Control still used countless times every single day on all computers everywhere. It's very readable and presents complex math in easily understood graphs for non-math people.
It is not even true of low-end manufacturing because on the low end, the critical input is energy, and the US has much lower energy costs than China because China must import most of its energy.

Just keep believing that. Energy is but one input cost.

But a question: "If it's so much cheaper to produce stuff in America, why is the World's manufacturing done in China?"
Diablo it's just a real time watered down Moria :).
Get the real thing and play Nethack/Slashem. Moria feels repetitive in comparison. If you feel combat oriented instead of thinking out of the box a la NH/SLSM, play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Well that explains why most reporting on aviation and financial issues in the mainstream media is such garbage. I mean I'm hardly an expert in those areas but even I can tell that the stories are crap in terms of missing key facts, not asking relevant questions, drawing bad conclusions, and pushing biased narratives. Fortunately there are some YouTube channels where I can get good information on those topics, although they aren't typically labeled as journalists and don't work for media companies.
There isn't enough money in journalism anymore to sustain this.
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Try it with below median income in a southern state (us, 10 years). Healthcare generally wasn't on the table if we wanted to eat - and our story was far from exceptional.
The essence of science is not trusting an expert, but requiring evidence and repeatability. Scientists aren't more trustworthy than those other groups for no reason, it's because they work in a field where work can be double-checked. As the repeatability crisis has shown, many believe their work will not be double-checked, and once they believe that, they become less and less worthy of that trust.
Yeah... no.

The need to tinker to get everything working correctly is generally down to the sheer number of hardware/software configurations out there, and you see this on Windows and Linux platforms. In contrast, on more strictly-defined platforms - like, say, macOS or the Steamdeck - you know the general hardware and OS combos up front and can optimize around that.

This thing isn't a computer in the traditional sense, regardless of the OS it runs. It's absolutely a good goal to provide an experience where the non-power-user doesn't need to tinker with shit randomly and go down a rabbit hole of options that they will inevitably shoot themselves in the foot with.
> The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket.

I love it. "clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive"

If you look at the publishing industry, there are well-defined genres (YA: young adult, MG: middle grade, romance, mystery/thriller, cozy mystery, sci-fi, etc.) A lot of agents say explicitly which genres they're interested in.

For me, if I know the author is assiduously sticking to a genre and doing what he thinks the reader wants, then I'm turned off. It would be nice to shut my brain off and just enjoy it, but I can't. YMMV.

If you're Dan Brown, you don't have to care what the critics think. So why would you?
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If I was dang I would permanently ban every user who did this stupid bit of posting chatgpt crap in threads about chatgpt. It's not funny, it's not clever, it's just obnoxious.
the line about "The truth is never going to come out" is related to the uncertainty of whether or not it came from a lab, not (as the piece implies) having anything to do with "They also thought they were going to get away with it". it's very misleading and should be corrected
Hey, it's Ansel, co-founder @ Finch. I can't speak for the horizontal platforms mentioned here since they have a very different approach/goals than we do.

TL;DR -- People pay for Finch so they don't have to do a ton of BD to gain access to closed APIs or build non-API integrations with employment data systems.

Finch is vertically focused on the employment data ecosystem (starting with HR & payroll), so we're NOT building CRM or ticketing integrations. Our focus is depth and coverage in this super fragmented ecosystem.

Our vertical presents a few challenges that aren't solved with an open source solution:

1. Limited APIs -- Many providers don't have APIs for the detailed data required for many mission critical use cases. Often times we have agreements in place with providers that allow us to build connectivity using other methods like SFTP, report generation, etc. We have an entire product operations team supporting those methods.

2. Closed ecosystem -- Those that do have APIs, operate a closed ecosystem and require a direct agreement which may include additional payments for access. So you'll need a BD team to build a partnership and we've seen that take 12+ months for certain providers. Working with us allows you to leverage our existing relationships to gain access immediately without the blocking and tackling or additional charges.

3. Edge cases -- There are so many edge cases in these systems that require a high level of expertise to navigate and categorize. In many cases getting this data wrong results in fines for our customers. We have a continuously evolving system that categorizes and audits the data at a granular level which is then validated by in-house payroll specialists.

These problems compound with fragmentation since there are 5,700+ payroll and HR systems in the US alone and the top 10 are only cover 55% of employers. Keep in mind that none of the top 10 have open APIs and the biggest one, Intuit, doesn't even have an API at all.

Now, all that said, if you're looking for a very light amount of data from only a few systems that have APIs it may make more sense to use an open source provider.

Curious to know how Merge thinks about these open source platforms since they're the most closely competitive with them.
I read Foucault’s Pendulum on vacation, and picked up Da Vinci Code on a whim in the airport on the way back because I was in the mood to continue the theme. To say he suffered in the immediate comparison would be an understatement.

All I can say in Mr Brown’s favor is that the book was at least the perfect length to finish during the flight.
So how does that refute my point about Oppenheimer's infamy being a result of the actual risk he produced and not the technology behind that risk?
That might be the right call.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-checkup-for-the-checku...

> Careful reviews of several large studies have shown that these annual visits don't make any difference in health outcomes. In other words, being seen by your doctor once a year won't necessarily keep you from getting sick, or even help you live longer. And some of the components of an annual visit may actually cause harm. For example, lab tests and exams that are ordered for healthy patients (as opposed to people with symptoms or known illnesses) are statistically more likely to be "false positives" — that is, when test results suggest a problem that doesn't exist. Even if these inaccurate findings affect only a tiny percentage of the more than 200 million adults who would undergo such exams, the monetary, practical, and emotional costs are huge.
According to the link below its an 8m long steel tube filled with various types of graphite.
I have been upset with the NY Times for years because of their uncritical addiction to access journalism.

* They held into the Abu Ghraib story for a year to avoid influencing the 2004 election.

* They dismissed and discredited the story about DNS lookups between email servers at Trump Tower, Spectrum Health (DeVos / Erik Prince), and Alfa Bank (Russia) in 2016.

* They uncritically repeated the Barr memo about the Mueller report. That one I couldn't believe -- there had been weeks of reporting about how Bill Barr had been hired/appointed to suppress the Mueller investigation. Then Bill Barr publishes a memo a few days before the report saying that it's no big deal, and the NY Times is publishing mea culpas about how they had done wrong by reporting on Trump/Russia connections exposed by the Mueller investigation??

Instead, it seemed like the New York Times liked getting scoops from their sources high up in government, and they didn't want to preserve those sources by not upsetting them.
You know I don't really care. I think your historical analysis is flawed. But I don't care. Fuck the US gov. Sure.

But Russia is the one launching a genocidal campaign, leveling cities, and posturing to intentionally cause a nuclear disaster at the largest nuclear plant in Europe. I don't think anyone should engage with them diplomatically until their government is completely reformed. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and wounded. Civilian targets are hit on a daily basis. They have lost the right to diplomacy. Any further tolerance of this country will lead to more instances of what we're experiencing now. Run the war to its conclusion when the government inevitably collapses.
BBC's obit: <https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66271090>
I wonder if it's the textual equivalent of looking at an "average face"?

Is ChatGPT just blending all its sources together into a wall of text that always looks the same?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-average-face-...
That sounds like a shallow dismissal to me. We got rules against that around here, bud.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Apple sells devices and consumer services. Microsoft sells an OS and Office suite to businesses. Amazon is a retail marketplace and a cloud operator. Nvidia sells graphics cards. Adobe sells graphics software. Netflix makes movies and TV. Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments all design chipsets. Salesforce sells CRM. Oracle, IBM, Cisco and the like all sell various business services.

Go down the list of big tech companies and you'll find tens of trillions of dollars of valuation – more than most other industries put together – having nothing to do with social media or advertising. Even if you remove Meta (which the article is about) from existence, "big tech" would largely remain the same.

So yes, all the concerns raised in the article are valid, but equating Meta/Facebook with the entirety of tech is idiotic. Such companies make up a very tiny slice of what the technology sector is about, and they hardly wield the amount of political influence that is suggested.
The cost of iPhones includes the cost of programming them.
That's why I prefer roguelikes. Hoarding and grinding won't save you. Lateral thinking, lots of times.
> It’s like open source in that anyone can use it and modify it and build on it

Not anyone. FTA:

“if the technology is used in an app or service with more than 700 million monthly users, a special license is required from Meta.”

Also, the “use it” part is restricted. Again FTA:

“the community agreement forbids the use of Llama 2 to train other language models”

That’s not what commonly is called open source.
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Its quite amazing indeed! For the curious, here's the changelog for stable releases 14.0 [0], 14.1 [1], and 14.2 [2]. Not all packages are updated (such as the kernel version, but many critical attack surfaces are such as curl [3], ca-certificates, and sudo. Also note that for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 releases, this was prior to the Mon Aug 3 19:49:51 UTC 2015 bump of the build architecture from i486 to i586 builds [4]. This means that one should be able to run currently supported Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 on any 486 compatible processor, and Slackware 14.2, 15.0 and -current on Pentium-compatible i586 CPUs since they are still building 32-bit packages [5][6]!

[0] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/ChangeLog...

[1] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/ChangeLog...

[2] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/ChangeLog...

[3] http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-sec...

[4] http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/sou...

[5] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386

[6] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386