skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't good arguments.

I think its pretty disingenuous to suggest that all humans are religious. I don't have faith in anything. Faith isn't an operating concept in how I approach the world.

And I don't even understand what you are talking about in the second point. As a matter of fact, technically speaking, I'm a so-called moral skeptic - I don't believe morality constitutes any kind of universal truth. I see it as an often unfortunate shorthand for social conventions. Not only I am ok with the idea that humans have to live together and come to accommodations about behavior, but I think in general the world would be a better place if everyone else understood that social convention is precisely what we are up to when we discuss morality.

And the mere desirability of moral certitude in itself is neither evidence nor justification for believing things that are implausible.

History, hubris, enlightenment have nothing to do with it, from my point of view. God is just a very implausible assertion about the world and therefor I don't take the idea all that seriously.
Have y'all tried steeping in anchovies for salty / umami flavor? It definitely moves away from Asian chili oils and into Mediterranean, but I find anchovies add quite a hard-to-describe depth to the chili oil.
Is that for a citizenship application? I’ve moved to Germany around 1.5 years ago and quite excited about the perspective of relatively easy and fast citizenship, but the process you’re describing is insane, I won’t be able to get paper docs from many of my employers.
Is the art deco inside as beautiful as cracked up to be?

Ps I also worked in a phone exchange building. Cool thing was that there were half floors. 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2 etc. These floors were in fact half height like in the movie Being John Malkovich. Except there were no offices, they were used to route the huge cable trunks between floors and rooms.

These days with single fibers replacing thousands of cable pairs I'm sure they're a lot more roomy than they were back then.
https://archive.ph/2NjV9
Sweden is the No 1 country for affordability, safety and overall quality of life
As someone who grew up in Sweden, allow me to push back pretty hard on some of this :)

"the cost of living in Sweden is, on average, 20.9% lower than in the United States, while renting is 57.5% lower"

Maybe in USD terms, but within the local context, and frankly compared to other European countries, Sweden is not cheap, in fact it's incredibly expensive, and any savings you eke out will not be worth much abroad

"Sweden is well known for its free healthcare"

The healthcare is public and universal but mediocre at best - unless you get optional private addons, you're extremely lucky to get any care at all, whether at the ER or waiting in line for elective surgeries etc etc

The higher education, gender equality, generous parental leave systems etc etc are undeniably great and well functioning, and there's no arguing with the life expectancy figures

But I don't understand how Sweden can score well in Politically Stable or Safe - it's neither of those things

Add in the extremely long, dark winters and not-that-great weather even in summer, a culture of social isolation and more and all in all while it has its ups it's far from the most liveable place in the world IMO

that said I love these studies because they're always food for thought - what are HackerNews most livable places in the world?
Do you think an open-source solution that only uses Deepgram API and does not store any recordings would satisfy your privacy requirements?

How many hours per day or month do you actively use speech recognition?

60,000 minutes per month. I had to double-check my calculations. It seems you've found a 30th hour in your day.

Let me give you some context:

I saw your blog post about Deepgram. They charge $0.0059 per minute for pay-as-you-go.

- If you use it 24/7, it costs:

- $8.496 per day

- $254.88 per month

- If you use it 8 hours a day (with voice activity detection), it costs:

- $2.832 per day

- $84.96 per month

I know the 24/7 cost is too high for your budget ($60-80 a month). But voice activity detection can save you a lot of money.

About privacy and trust, open-sourcing the solution might give you some confidence. Deepgram is backed by YC and has many users, which might also make you feel better.
You don't need those voting for the bill to act in good faith if you have as part of the system of passing bills that the opposition gets to write the (adversarial part of the) test suite.
Then either that forces any loopholes (or other undesirable effects) to be: updated as explicitly intended (with bad publicity and potential for reversion upon a change of government); or taken into account and the bill updated to reflect that, or left in the test case for case law to cite as intended.

Either way you really want intent to be encoded somehow.
If you want more detail you could make a Twitter account.
Okay tiger mom. Bartenders don't get fired because they got a cheaper office in Estonia or India to write code. They don't have 9am meetings. Git is an insult you call somebody; What's a JIRA‽ You don't want to work in the nightlife/entertainment industry, which is fine, but it's a $36 billion dollar industry and some people want to do that instead of sitting in front of a screen all day long.

At the end of the day, take home pay is one metric we can actually compare, because different people want different things.
Yeah, that's totally fair. I think I misunderstood because the word "rich" in that era was really reserved for people with butlers and yachts, and excluded those who were merely highly paid professionals like doctors and lawyers. But the word "rich" today is used somewhat differently, for most people it probably means to include highly paid professionals as well as CEOs and oil fortune heirs.

Also, at that time, there was not this extreme divergence in income that you have today. A lawyer might have made more money than a police detective, but the difference wasn't really that extreme and often these two people lived in the same neighborhood. Since that doesn't seem to be true anymore, it makes sense that the definition of "rich" has shifted.
When I tested pitch it was working

https://github.com/icculus/mojoAL/blob/1adfdf5cd5447c68e11b0...

I overall have a good experience with mojoAL.
I agree with you.
I have often made use of quite generic sentence structures and words such as “Therefore”, “However”, “Henceforth” etc… particularly in my academic writing.
Additionally, I find that a challenge that I have is that with my studies there is high value placed on conciseness. So unlike informal writing where I can be excessively wordy, and abuse commas, when I write for academic purposes, I generally edit obsessively to get rid of excessive wordiness and grammar issues (eg, instead of saying “in order to” I will write “to”).

Something I also noted since ChatGPT was released, however, was when I first played around with it, I did think it had some interesting ways of stringing some sentences together, and used words I wouldn’t have typically used in my own writing - but I’ve since stolen some of its use of words and copied its pattern of stringing some words together, and written them in my own writing - as if the chatbot impacted on my personal writing style - but I don’t actually use AI to generate ideas, write content or edit my actual writing.

It makes me wonder - will AI also influence human writing patterns/styles and therefore make it more difficult to distinguish between humans and AI generated texts.

It’s a shit time to be studying at uni, I’ve gotta say.
And for some reason I cannot quite process it, even though I generally eat a lot of vegetables. The second most painful trip to the bathroom I have ever had was after an impossible burger. The first one was after a beyond meat burger.
> We apologize for the confusion

Ah, I guess it was just a big misunderstanding!
If only there was some way to talk to their customers ahead of time. Corporate infantilism at its finest.
64 bit ints (long long) have been used on 32 bit platforms since mid-80s (ILP32LL)
What Ilya Sutskever Wants
The Concept of Anxiety (1844)
Or if the you lose the computer game but can win it by force why abide by the result of the game?
I wouldn't use bitcoin as an example. Monero is far more important.
Wars aren't accepted, they are imposed. Russia didn't ask if it was acceptable to invade Ukraine.
> This includes the committee that makes the standard and requires a working battle tested implementation before inclusion.

This "requirement" is a mirage, as you can tell by simply installing any of the three compilers from say the week C++ 20 was published and trying to use the headline "modules" feature described in the standard. There are no working implementations.

If you've worked at a large dysfunctional organisation you'll recognise the pattern. Nobody wants to say "No" and make a decision themselves which may go badly - so instead they look for excuses and you're listing one of the excuses. But when they want to do it none of the excuses apply.
How about you fire the CEO that allowed such a boneheaded decision? With them in charge, how could one ever trust your company to not make such moves again?
Imagine someone paid you 25c/hour for 4090 compute sharing.
People who need them on short notice often pay more. The rent AWS collects on their IPv4s also pays that off in a year, I think.
Yah, it certainly seems like maybe that was peak pricing. This write up has some more data on historical pricing https://www.ipxo.com/blog/ipv4-price-history/
I've also heard folks pay quite a bit over the average price for novelty IP addresses, so perhaps that skewed the data? I'd love to be able to buy 2.2.2.0/23 or my favorite 42.42.42.0/24
Anything is probably possible eventually, you could engineer a fungus to grow and taste like meat. Is it economical and possible with current technology, maybe not.
I don't run IPv6 on my home network. I try it about once a year, enabling it at the router (it's already enabled on my laptop).

And then random stuff just doesn't work. Various websites hang, various widgets just don't load, etc. Then I turn it off and everything gets better again.

I'be been too lazy to diagnose why exactly it doesn't work, I just figure it's easier to run with it off. At some point a website I really want to access will require IPv6.

Hopefully by then whatever is broken will be fixed.
IPv6 usage also went up 10% in that time

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
You're sorely mistaken if you think a Xilinx firmware blob is more transparent than other offerings.

They don't want you to know how their FPGAs configure - for a multitude of reasons.
Unity will be making changes to new runtime fee policy
https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

$30-35 is the low end per IPv4 address over the last year.
Okay but what does this mean in terms of actual policies? At least in the short term it doesn't seem like AI is going to replace workers wholesale. Chatgpt/copilot isn't going to make programmers obsolete, but it might make them do their work faster. In this context how do you "reap AI benefits in form of ‘lowering workweek'"? If chatgpt saved you 8 hours a week, do you take the friday off? What if your coworker would rather continue working 40 hours? What if you're a plumber or similar job that can't be automated for AI? Do you continue toiling 40 hours/week? Maybe you tax AI and redistribute the proceeds? How would you determine the value of AI? Where do you draw the line between AI and not AI but still labor saving (eg. some one's spreadsheet)?
Death would be unlikely, but food poisoning from cooked food is pretty common. You'll just vomit for half the day. Which while being a long way from death, is still very unpleasant.
If we’re jumping to conclusions a much simpler explanation would be that Republican led states enact policies that lead to poor health outcomes.
They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/
Two different things there though. It's a good example of something that is unethical but not (yet) illegal. Because it's legal, it makes more sense to block it.
I think jobs said on stage back in 97' when he returned something like: "I don't care if we're different, we want want to be much better".

Folklore.org is a blast to read learning about the people who put the Macintosh together.
Some noob questions here.

How does one buy a block of IPv4 as an individual? (If that's allowed)

After you purchase it, how does it come into your possession?

How do you utilize them?
I wonder if you could get a correct compiler (or 100% emulation in their terms) by allowing it to choose optimization pass order rather than doing more arbitrary things
People have been blaming entitlement and lack of punishment as a source of crime for 5,000 years though and yet nobody has ever shown that to be an actual cause. To me it just sounds like an excuse to ignore all the systemic economic and political problems of a society.
You can finetune 40B falcon on 4 x A10 with compiler optimization technology from CentML. No changes to the model.
respectfully disagree here - not entirely, but rather the axis upon which the split is discussed. AI at this time mostly involves natural human language (typed first) interface to knowledge, enacted in code.

The failure of Prolog and that era of AI was said succinctly by IBM's Sriram Raghavan (sp?) as "determined by rules and facts, and who is going to type in all those rules? so it went nowhere"

At this go-round, some semblance of understanding of questions, plus really a lot more data on tap, changes the equation. An "AI" freed of needing pre-built if-then-if-then could possibly work at speeds of iteration, or speeds in response times, that will startle even those prepared for this. So in the "John Henry race against the steam engine" [0] sense, no contest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

What humans will retain, and build, is authority. A signature authority is a ticket to an easy life, as many in law and health care know well. "executives" of all kinds, and even the lowly salesmen, will retain that signature authority despite any competency of any other, human or machine, because it is adversarial in the first instance. The contest of will and locks will not be ceded, but the contest of erudition and good taste, will be lost by the human in most cases. That is a suggestion for the axis upon which to measure the future fates of humans in markets and governance.

AI is a surveillance state wet dream in the making. It is the humans we have to watch out for, starting yesterday IMHO.
"We" being the USA, for anyone playing along at home, not super interesting on a global scale.
Wonder if anyone has ever heard about Mathematician Manifesto… if not, why not?
The population centers are also democratic hotbeds so it’s most likely a matter of policy.
Super interesting. I also think we would win with a kind of versioning system for laws, including a definite objective for a law from the time of it's creation, and constraints under which it should be questioned again
Hell no. The limitations of this sensor/optics size (regardless of fancy periscope tech) is apparent given how overreliant Apple has gotten on their DSP/image processing to produce 'better' images.

I've actually been more and more dissatisfied with the results from iPhones over the years; their sensors have had the same limitations with dynamic range and low-light ability for years but try to make up for it with fancy signal processing. It (mostly) works well when you look at these images on a small 6 inch screen, but blow them up to even a moderate sized computer monitor and they look pretty abysmal compared to even a basic entry-level mirrorless camera or DSLR.

The latter two have much less intrusive noise reduction and produce a far better looking honest, unprocessed image than any phone camera could. Shooting in RAW on an iPhone is proof of this; the raw sensor output is much, much noisier than a low-end DSLR in anything but peak noon outdoor lighting conditions.

That's not getting into many of the other benefits of dedicated cameras, like much more granular control over colors, WB, exposure, aperture, shutter speed, filters, true control over depth of field, more lens choices, etc, that are aided by the superior ergonomics. Cell phones have completely replaced point-and-shoots but large-sensor cameras and film cameras still blow the pants off of even the most sophisticated mobile cameras in terms of detail and versatility. The question is whether you have a use-case which calls for the greater expense and size of a camera like that.
Well, it's cause a rounding error of Democrats aren't going to vote for an otherwise ok candidate if they don't support tougher gun control laws, while a non-rounding error of Republicans supports would probably not support a Republican candidate if they did support more gun control.

Put another way, I think it's fair to say that the majority of people who care about enacting stricter gun control, also do not put it in say... the top 5 issues, especially at a national level (loosening gun control laws might be otherwise). The converse position is true on the other side. I don't think there are many gun fans who would say... "repeal the NFA" as a top 5 'must have' position. But "national semi-auto ban"... well, that's like a top 5 position right there.

Put another way - would you have preferred Obama to enact ACA, or stricter gun control laws?
There was certainly a confusion of ideas in the process of reaching the original decision; maybe that's what they're talking about...
MacBasic
I had a Mac LC with 4MB of RAM when I was a kid. It ran System 7 and was slightly too underpowered to run a web browser. I think you needed at least 6 MB to get Netscape 1.0 to run. Even if you did get it to run it would be painfully slow, especially if you're connected via a 14.4 modem as was common at the time. Loading a single image could take a full minute or more.

Rule of thumb for Z-Modem transfers on a 14.4 modem was 100kB of data per minute.
Changing the policy is not a complete u-turn on the policy. The trust is gone.
I wouldn't put that t exactly like that, but I would talk to the director and put something similar.

Most compliance frameworks like SOC 2 have a requirement for an annual pen test, so if the pen test was over a year old it wouldn't matter anyway. Best approach would just be to talk to the director and say something along the lines of "Our next pentest is scheduled for date XYZ and we can send you those results upon completion".

People who tend to freak out in situations like these where "let's lie" is their go-to, when an honest approach is possible that will likely get the job done, scare me.
I know the reason, one thing I don't understand why this wasn't planned for from the start.

But it's not a big deal. 13.2-RELEASE is great.
Get a Kardia 6 leed ecg device (around 150 USD). They even have one that fits in your wallet.

Heart rate is not enough. You need to look at the QRS and P wave via ECG.
I had Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. The compilers were insanely fast compared to what had come before. But I still think that programmer ergonomics sucked. There was no syntax highlighting, definitely no autocomplete, and it couldn't necessarily find all the syntax errors on the first pass, so you'd fix a few errors, recompile, and there'd be a new set of errors. That's my recollection anyway.
Didn't etherum cut power consumption by 99.95% by switching to Proof of Stake? So what are you securing exactly with all those hashes?

Kinda crazy how people stick to Bitcoin but preach decentralisation. You can't be half way noble.
Object lock support on S3-compatible storage does it for me. That was my only concern with restic, in the event of ransomware and compromised bucket credentials.
https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/ransomware-protection/
https://nitter.net/unity/status/1703547752205218265?s=46&t=7...
Boundaries of Predictability
Neural net that can decode heard audio from patients' brain activity
> the only way it’ll work is if we have giant (semi-)open vats like salt evaporation pools that convert solar energy directly into protein and fat

if we could replace the typical cattle pastures of today with this other system (basically the same idea without needing an organism that has a nervous system attached to it), I think we'll be closer to "making it"

> with an engineered biome that responds to contamination like an immune system

I saw a farmer once demonstrate how their barn has an automatic ventilation system that kicks in when the temperature gets too high :)
For many people SSO would be a waste of time except you need to store the empty string.

There are people who make a lot of very short strings and need them to go fast, but not so many to justify making that a core language feature, if not for the fact that C++ empty string needs a zero byte for C compatibility.

That's why Rust got away without it, their empty string has length zero.
But they couldn't have a top notch smartphone or a computer that is as fast as server the size of whole buildings.

Although most people want to buy a house, given a smartphone and a rent or a house but living with no smartphone or internet, I think most people would choose pay rent and have access to internet and a smartphone.
What kind of recruiters are you talking about? I am interested. Most of the tech recruiters I have encountered have been mostly of the low-quality inbound Cyber Coders type, and even the higher-quality ones have been the types who get paid by the company--they have no real relationship with me or incentive to help me personally.
Isn't this just because people were boiling more of their drinking water (and killing pathogens in it)?
Even Apple did similar with their proposed CSAM scanning, and after the uproar, walked that decision back. So at least Unity is at least giving a head nod towards decency. It could definitely be worse. Imagine if Musk was in charge.
Catala is also a human language.
Love the colors and your graphs.

Here's mine, https://drollery.org (I have not put much effort into the mobile version, it's a bit wonky since a recent styling update, best enjoyed on desktop). This is mostly in exercise in "why not?"
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had notable contributions in ideas such as Leap of faith, Existential despair, Existential philosophy, Angst, Authenticity etc. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard
If you ask most people if they support "background checks" you're going to find that almost all people support that, things change a bit when you explain the difference between the existing background checks and the proposed "universal background checks".

Most people don't understand the difference. And to be quite frank, the organizations running the polls might not understand either, or it's in their best interest to not explain
Hush has changed the desktop browsing experience completely for me. I have rarely seen cookie banners in years.

I realize how big a difference it makes when I open a website on Firefox Focus on my Android phone and half the screen is just filled with the cookie accept/reject dialog box.
Yes, that could be a viable strategy. Also Latin America to meet the "latinx" quota.
I fail to see how a bail payment is going to make anyone behave any better. At best I see it making poor people desperate for money and thus more likely to resort to criminal enterprise.

Also your analogy isn't so effective when many people do think drugs should all be legalized to both reduce harm to users and cut the cashflow out from gangs and criminal enterprise.
That's really interesting to me. MOBAs are notoriously new player hostile, just with the sheer amount of knowledge the game demands, and the fact that a team really does rely on its members which is too much pressure for a new player (which can translate into verbal abuse from your team depending on the game's culture).

So what's the MOBA that got you interested even though you're not familiar with the genre?
"Don't get us wrong: We're not changing a thing. But we heard you!"