skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contraceptives aren't really what drives fertility down. You've got people losing interest in marriage and childbearing, you've got people having abortions (abortion is the leading cause of death worldwide, 42% in 2021).

Contraceptives tend to encourage risky sex and contribute to unwanted pregnancies, and that's why contraception is encouraged and promoted by the abortion industry; it's great for their bottom line to hand out cheap condoms (you know, the kind that break) and get a "repeat customer".

It's been noted quite well in nations like Japan, where the youth are just simply losing interest in relationships and marriage, and they have a "boyfriend pillow" or porn instead.

In these United States, women would rather get a degree or two and a career, and they'll stop at nothing to achieve those things, so they have less sex, marry later, or just get an abortion if they slip up.
This completely misses what the SAP business actually entails. No one runs "SAP". They run "SAP as customized for business X". That customization costs millions of dollars. It encodes every little specific thing about the business. Companies run their entire operation on top of it. It's impossible to replace, because it can't go down. Ever.

An open source version would be only step one, and not that useful by itself. You'd still need to create the entire consultant ecosystem SAP has on top.
A single coca-cola corporate bond was issued with an initial yield of 7.35%

https://cbonds.com/bonds/100441/

Current META bonds yield ~5.8%

Barclays bond at ~10%

https://www.bondsupermart.com/bsm/bond-factsheet/US06738EBX2...
"Just get a car" is not a solution. A (non-exhaustive) list of people for whom that doesn't work:

- Those too poor to buy a car

- Kids/early teenagers

- The elderly, past the point at which they're unfit to drive (this will be you and me someday, if we're lucky enough to live that long)

- Those with disabilities precluding them from driving

If we design our cities such that driving a car is the only safe way of getting around, what we're doing is making all of these people dependent on others to get around. Even if they're physically capable enough to bike or ride a mobility scooter to where they need to go!
Checks and balances, electoral accountability, independent branches of government, multiple levels of governance (city, county/parish, state/province, national, global). Independent actors within and outside government.

The work of democracy is to continuously resist capture. There is no end of history. There is no state of rest for democracy. Democracy is the work of resisting capture by powerful interests and restoring power-sharing just over and over and over again.

-- Danielle Allen, on the Ezra Klein podcast <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...>
Consumer electronics are designed for consumer living conditions. In many parts of the world, indoor humidity can sit over 60%, all year long. In a dry climate, you could get some significant cooling, and still be under what you'll find in my house.
Sure. The public highway systems.
Did they fix it? Triple clicking and pasting doesn't lead to immediate execution for me.

But even better is to just put such commands in .bashrc as functions. e.g.

curltime() {
curl -L -w "time_namelookup: %{time_namelookup}\ntime_connect: %{time_connect}\ntime_appconnect: %{time_appconnect}\ntime_pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\ntime_redirect: %{time_redirect}\ntime_starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\ntime_total: %{time_total}\n" "$1"
}
> The FCC order said the requirement to list "all charges that providers impose at their discretion" is meant to help broadband users "understand which charges are part of the provider's rate structure, and which derive from government assessments or programs." These fees must have "simple, accurate, [and] easy-to-understand name[s]," the FCC order said.

The point is that the fees are charged to the ISPs, and then the ISPs want to pass it onto the consumer but not actually say that that's what is going on.

Yes, some localities will charge more things. Hell, listing them out would add pressure to make these fees go away! The FCC isn't the one imposing these fees. But ISPs are choosing to charge the users, but also not advertising these fees ahead of time! Advertising "this service costs X" but actually costing X + Y is something that feels pretty unambiguously bad.

Then again the US is the land of "every locality sets its own sales tax" so....
Can anyone actually provide any proof that this was an intentional/nefarious "throttle" by X.

Using ten domains as an example is not evidence. Did anyone check the millions of sites on the internet?

How do you know there were not lots of sites Elon "likes" that were being throttled?

Did anyone test more than 100 domains?

This could have easily been a bug.

e.g. a bug that was happening temporarily because an in memory cache was breaking for certain indexes.

Oh well, people like casting stones — personally I am going to wait for more of the facts.

(Note: I haven't said whether I like Elon or not)

(Edit: If my post is so disagreeable, I would love if someone could take the time to give me a short reply as to why)
And what are those inflation protected bonds returning?
Founder of Artificial Intelligence Startup Charged with Fraud
whoosh that's the point. Pawpaw and papaya are different fruit, Istanbul and Constantinople were the same city
Fair enough, but those are all relatively small, and detected only hours before impact, their effect would not be such that anything major would happen on the surface of the planet beyond some broken windows and maybe a sunburn.

Anything that size aimed straight down would most likely not reach the ground but burn up in the atmosphere and any remaining bits would just fall at regular terminal velocity.

But from 10 meters and up things change and the Chelyabinsk meteor is remarkable in that it (1) was large enough to have been detected but wasn't and (2) struck while we were apparently focused on one that was more visible but that ultimately missed us. We were very lucky that it impacted where and at the angle that it did, otherwise the airburst might have happened far closer to the ground or to might have impacted directly over much more populated territory. That would have been very bad news.

It doesn't matter how many 1 through 5 meter objects we can track because we have the atmosphere to protected us from the worst of these if we miss the 20 meter ones (or apparently even much larger) that travel at speeds high enough to give their relatively modest mass tremendous energy and for which the atmosphere does not give sufficient (or even any) protection.
My first thing to check was if they had information on guinea pigs. I was not disappointed: https://opensanctuary.org/introductory-care-for-cavies-guine...
I dunno. There is a site where people post porn images that were generated by A.I. I think they use a commercially available image generator.

I saw one picture of a girl with four legs and I don't think it was a kink, I think the machine makes that mistake around 1/2000 times or so. (I'm not so embarrassed that I saw the image but I am embarrassed by what that estimate entails.)

The system generates a lot of pictures of girls with two belly buttons, maybe that happens 5% of the time. From time to time it generates a badly mangled disembodied penis.

Someone might conclude this is a good reason to have an NSFW filter but I think that A.I.'s person should be paying a little more attention. They ought to be feeding these back via HFRL or something like that that punishes the system for making these sorts of mistakes.
In the Netherlands, if a stranger shows up at your door and asks for water you are obligated to give it to them.
While you are correct that "eccentricity" as an adjective is a correct usage, OP used it as a singular noun in the preceding sentence, making it ambiguous whether they are appreciating the British for their eccentricities, or for the particular mentioned eccentricity.

If OP's intended meaning matches the adjective as you describe, then it would be clearer communication to use "eccentricity" in this context.
> If, however, one is not bullish on the long-term wealth creation of American companies (and by extensions the stock market), then the question becomes where would you rather put your money? Personally, I have a hard time seeing better alternatives for the average individual.

There's a whole global economy out there.
> Shrug. I was in a happy-go-lucky mood and I was already smiling and ringing the bell. What else could I do? Scowl and lean on my horn instead? Pull over and illegally ride on the sidewalk like he wanted? Argue with him, Facebook-comment-style, about who knows the law better? It didn't occur to me that there are people who may be antagonized by a bike bell.

True
Gump’s Store Owner Slams SF in Open Letter Complaining About Street Conditions
I get that you're spamming out of outrage, but they allowed me to disentangle my comments from my username, which is the same unless you mentioned something you don't want to mention.
I genuinely appreciate you answering my question. I don’t appreciate your assumptions about my genuine questions.

I thought peer review was part of the scientific method and would argue that it’s at the core of what caused the outings…
I find it can be a faster way to retrieve information than using Google for inconsequential tasks like, generating a template of a job description which I plan on editing quite heavily anyway.
I will never forget using TweetDeck from now on. Mastodon has a TweetDeck-like interface under the "advanced UI" toggle.
No country has fixed this a long time ago. This problem never existed in the first place. In some countries not having a clear fee schedule will get you in troubles that you don't want with your clientele.
I'm never sure about applying Hanlon's razor to Musk.
Don't follow WTO rules.
Could a True Streaming Bundle Be Upon Us?
It's called a pineapple because it looks like a pinecone, and pineapple is an older term for a pinecone (the "apple" being a somewhat archaic generic term for fruits).
You are comparing the S&P 500 to a single company bond? Should I also compare the return of a SpaceX stock to the S&P 500?
NYT is 100% a competitor. People go to both sites looking for news.
No, these fees are devised by governments to be passed on to consumers. Not that it especially matters --- it's also the case that taxes levied directly to ISPs are passed to consumers, because money is fungible. But here, it's especially overt that this is money governments are collecting these fees from their constituents; they're just using the ISPs as bill collectors.
Not mathematically, at the very least. Perplexity is a translation of the best measure we have for informing us how a model is doing empirically over a test dataset (both pre and post). It is enough to be, usably, at least the final word on how different quantization methods perform.

Subjective ratings are different, but for compression things are quite well defined.
Backing the dollar?
Because their employers want them to "move fast and break things". Demanding documented requirements and a tight change process is something that's more likely to get a SE fired than be appreciated.
> Can you give me one example of government wealth creation?

I think that's the wrong question, and a loaded one at that. It is probably more objective to think about government's role in providing a stable foundation for the private sector to produce wealth. There are countless examples of that, such as a reliable and just regulatory framework within which to operate, negotating treaties for international trade, creating infrastructure that lead to incredible wealth creation (think the internet), to name just a tiny few.
I have some green-magenta glasses somewhere in the house and have thought about making those. I'm also thinking about picking up a 3D monitor or TV from Ebay or maybe the local reuse center.
The answer from financial theory is that you should be buying the market portfolio that includes stocks and bonds (and other assets) in the same proportion as their market capitalisation.
>and with fiber internet

hell, i'd like to filter on that on the websites of fiber providers. they say, "we can't see what areas are covered. we can only see if a specific address is available." i've seen in the days of ADSL that one side of the street was able to get service, but directly across the street was not. Something about how the lines across the street are clustered in older equipment blah blah blah. So they telco doesn't know what equipment where without that specific address lookup.
If equities are currently highly valued, should we expect IPOs to come back?
Does a majority of the IC industry and the internet count?
iChatWithGPT: Browsing-Enabled GPT-4 in iMessage
I have mixed feelings about this one since it can help reminding people how much of their purchasing power is being extracted from the state. That being said, it could be fixed by having the two prices at the same time.
Sorry, I thought you were implying that ISPs could opt instead to pay some lump sum to the various governments charging these fees, and not break them out per customer. They can't do that. Nor can they charge "$70 steak ($50 + taxes and fees)" --- that's what they want to do. It's the FCC that's saying the bill has to look the way you're complaining about.
I think hate is inherently bad. People who hate will come to experience it as the truth. That's where you're at. You don't address my arguments, you just create more groups of people to hate and to feel better than-- people without brains, people who make basic arguments, college freshmen. You don't have any arguments, just more groups of people to put down. Bigotry is literally how you've come to think. You can see it right here in your post.

I don't care if you hate me, by some old group definition or by something you've just made up, and you need way worse insults for me to hate you back.
I'm feeling a sense of very wry irony will approach us soon....
Compare https://fee.org/articles/russian-smugglers-renovate-road-neg...
Only if you magically know for free which companies are using that model and which aren't.
There are countless papers showing amazing results on MNIST and CIFAR-10. No non experts should be reading any paper like this.

Just like we cure cancer in mice all the time we solve these datasets all the time. And it means nothing. Wait to see if the method is actually useful.
How much are you missing out by buying bond funds? Why would there be much of a difference?
2023 "journalism": hey guyz the stockmarket looks like its at pretty high levels did you see that?
You are assuming the installs number correlates with actual users which it likely doesn't. As several people have pointed out this isn't a google maintained extension. If something is this critical to your business it's on you to make sure it works for you.
Technological Dark Matter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142000
Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco
> Immigrants are a positive demand shock

Ask low skill workers how that's been working out for them. The effects of this positive demand hasn't made it to them, instead they control less of the economy year after year.
Civilization.
I'm not sure what meaning of freedom requires you to run a url redirector that has a similar response time for every single possible domain.

If there was a rule that made it illegal to differ in response times, would that world be more, or less free?
Yes! Where specifically in the global economy are you more excited about than the US?
How did it perform? Was it well received by members?
I don’t think inclusive pricing and the cost of goods are necessarily linked, there are many other reasons goods and services could be more expensive in NZ.
I said nothing about whether I like Elon as a person or not.
This leaves a ton of stuff out.

- Token generation is serial and bandwidth bound, but prompt ingestion is not and runs in batches of 512+. Short tests are fast on pure CPU llama.cpp, but long prompting (such as with ongoing conversation) is extremely slow compared to other backends.

- Llama.cpp now has very good ~4 bit quantization that doesn't affect perplexity much. Q6_K almost has the same perplexity as FP16, but is still massively smaller.

- Batching is a big thing to ignore outside of personal deployments.

- The real magic of llama.cpp is model splitting. A small discrete GPU can completely offload prompt ingestion and part of the model inference. And it doesn't have to be an Nvidia GPU! There is no other backend that will do that so efficiently in the generative AI space.

- Hence the GPU backends (OpenCL, Metal, CUDA, soon ROCm and Vulkan) are the defacto way to run llama.cpp these days. Without them, I couldn't even run 70B on my desktop, or 33B on my (16GB RAM) laptop.
Jesus, can't you give the guy a break already?
We will have to be smarter about the risk reward for fires. It may mean fighting fires with sub fire-optimal chemistries to help mitigate waste.
(Stupid question) are models still non-deterministic if you set the temperature to zero?

Would setting the temperature to zero degrade the quality of response?
Sounds like it's not compulsory though? The ISP is perfectly welcome to lay their lines via private lands (having negotiated permission with each landowner, naturally) if they'd prefer.
> There's a whole global economy out there.

Of course yes, but the article is about the American stock market. Even if it weren't, which other economies or stock markets do you recommend one invests in? I have in the past invested in Emerging and Euro markets, but they disappointment me tremendously.

It is also worth noting that American companies account for 25% of global GDP, which means investing in the American stock market (say the S&P 500) is an easy way to get broad exposure.

Note: I'm not saying the American stock market is the pinnacle of wealth creation, just that it has been the more obvious place to put one's money (if you have access to it).
Feral Buildings?
you can build a portfolio of bonds that satisfy your risk preference and target yield. bonds can also be leveraged a lot which is how they are the largest financial market in the world trumping stocks by few orders of magnitude.

a return of 8-9% on broad market index like SPX in a year when the market made 20% profit tells me you're very risk averse.
Posting here might not be helping.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the Rom-- government ever done for us?
Ask HN: 2023 Lāhainā fire parallels to the 2018 Camp Fire
Q. How many times is this scenario going to be allowed to repeat itself and how many more people have to die before reactive steps are taken to prevent these from recurring?

Similarities of the two incidents:

- Intense winds

- Powerline-sparked fires

- No mass notification alarm, e.g., didn't use the Amber alert system

- Inadequate, chaotic evacuation

- Mass casualties

- Extreme property losses

- Residents delayed and barred from returning to properties due to slow government procedures

There was electric utility company negligence in 2018, e.g., not turning off power when they (PG&E) knew there was a problem with 100-year-old bare wire powerlines held by worn-out fasteners. I'm curious what the investigation in Hawaii reveals why the power wasn't cut to all but critical infrastructure.

While I wasn't in Maui and can't imagine jumping in the ocean, I was in Paradise on November 2018. There was no alert. We knew it was serious because of the sounds propane tanks exploding as we were leaving.

1. Integrated firestorm preparedness action plans for fire departments, state fire protection, and municipalities, including mass communication through the Amber Alert system.

2. Require electric utilities to conduct wind hazard risk assessments on their grid, monitor the weather, and having staged windstorm plans and planned and unplanned shutoffs for public safety.

3. Municipalities ought to seriously cite properties for excess fuel, including trees and landscaping, near structures.

Insurance companies shouldn't be so quick to just hike premium rates or sit passively on the sidelines, but could be lobbying and actively pressuring federal through local entities in order to proactively reduce their exposure and avert future calamities. Because, as I see it, there is a great deal of normalized negligence, incompetence, and inadequate leadership in American government and the regulation of electric utilities and real property.
Ah yes, I want my roads built by smugglers.

You people would rather die than commit heresy against the Church of Free Market.
You might have said this in jest, but I think it is a strong argument against the possibility of time travel into the past.
Has this happened? I can't imagine something like this where the software company is not liable. But maybe I'm too naive.
> On the smaller neighborhood streets, they... slow down traffic. And it seems to work pretty well.

Interesting. How often is traffic slowed down? Pretty often I guess with the amount of bike riders. And no one cares?
>Zillow and the other public systems sit downstream of MLS with a paltry amount of (typically outdated) information.

That is largely dependent on the MLS. A lot of Realtors don't really like Zillow, for various reasons that largely boil down to selling marketing on the listings. Our MLS allows individual Realtors to opt-out of sending to Zillow, but otherwise listing data flows over to Zillow within a few minutes usually.

Now, if you have one of those opt-out listings, it doesn't mean that Zillow doesn't have the listing, it just means that they get it through other means, and that usually is what leads to outdated information. As far as the amount of information, they have access to, AFAIK, all the listing information, when pulled directly from the MLS. Going via other sources will make that vary.
We may simply differ here – for me, types are as real as objects. Or, perhaps more accurately, types are as illusory as objects ^_^
You get to decide the brush strokes that way, and physical paint is clearly different from a photo. It's also a relaxing activity.
“Another Brick in the Wall” reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity