skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost everyone was pretty wrong about COVID, at least at some points in time.
But it's very rare for anyone to admit it.
I'll admit I was wrong, between sanitizing my hands when it was really in the air, to assuming the vaccines would end it.
Lots of mistakes on my end!
it could be too much effort to implement RTL
I’ve done reference interviews but never sought a security clearance. Any info for a clueless taxpayer?
It sounds like you’re not familiar with Stallman. He balks at such social constructs. Watch any video of him speaking and you’ll understand.
How GlobalFoundries rose to be the world’s third-biggest chip foundry [video]
If your home bank isn't too nickle and dimey and is not super tiny, you can probably use ATMs to get cash in foreign countries at decent rates.

You might do better with something FX oriented, but the difference might be small enough to not care.
I was answering the thrust of his question which seemed to be aiming for a restricted retro environment that would force some kind of technical problem solving skills without allowing kids to just run Steam or something.

That BASIC book is a really excellent intro to programming for a kid.
I think if one calls themselves a statistician, they should do a proper analysis or at least reference such analysis. This is either a joke or a first homework assignment one would do to learn Stata.
It’s still not as clear cut as patient in and gets bed. There was some tweaking that had to be done to triage patients better then determine who most likely needed a bed. At UF Hospitals, they used discrete event simulation to figure out how to streamline this process. Not sure how many others went through the same thing. Point is, hospitals share some of the blame too
Is there some way that we could "scan the Earth" to find other long-buried sites like Göbeklitepe?

Would it be possible to do something from imaging satellites — something akin to ground-penetrating radar / laser range-finding / ultrasound — that might not be good enough for much, but which would be "just good enough" to find any other gigantic cities with walls built of dense stone, hidden under 10-50ft of dirt or sand?
There is at least one of us with it as a day job at Nightdive!
Why would you need to? I've never worshipped anything in my life as far as I can tell, yet I'm pretty sure I'm a functioning human being.
Do We Need to Replace Tech Giants?
Apparently 8 with some gotchas? But in principle this should not be gated to a hardware, what is stopping one from making a bluetooth device that muxes all the signals and sends it to the audio device? Is there any reason thats not happening other than greed of the headphone makers to try to upsell "higher models"?
And you can use it today with Postgres uuid type. Postgres doesn’t care what you store in it as long as it has the correct length. So you can generate a uuidv7 and store it natively
I was about to ask the same, but it's good to raise general awareness.
Superconductivity ≠ room-temperature superconductivity, the former is far more banal
This has been studied ALOT lately. Here is one such paper

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9383939
Oh good. Now we have four letter agencies with God knows how much bureaucracy. As if those three letter agencies weren’t doing cutting it enough.

You know an empire is marching towards its expiry date When the administrative state gets so heavy that they have to spawn new agencies for rather mundane tasks.
Microphone indicator (orange dot) in top right corner persists after app closed
And the weirdest part about the complaint is that this is an application your employees could run on their computers to write documents. It's not like the discussion is about a library or package to be included in the product you're shipping.
They don't. Analog low-pass filters don't do linear interpolation between samples.
Thank God, EVs will solve that.
I thought it was interesting. I saw this on my LinkedIn today:

On Oct. 1, 1980, the Industrial Security Program, the Key Asset Protection Program and the Arms, Ammunition and Explosives Security Program were transferred to the Defense Investigative Service (predecessor to DCSA) from the Defense Logistics Agency. #DCSAHistory

Looking at their website it seems they mostly do the vetting process, but seems there's potentially many other things under their umbrealla as well.
That graph does not describe codec efficiency. It's explaining how the various codecs preserve the frequencies of the raw signal at various bitrates:

Some codecs only work at low bitrates and preserve only narrow bands of frequencies. Some codecs work only at mid bitrates and preserve wider bands. Some codes only work at high bitrates and preserve only the widest bands; you can't get then to drop more frequencies for better savings even if you wanted to. Opus works on all bitrates and gradually and dynamically removes frequency bands as the bitrate drops. Vorbis preserves more or less the same frequencies as Opus at the same bitrate, but loses frequencies a bit faster as the bitrate drops. MP3 drops even faster. AAC works very similarly to Opus, but can't output low bitrate streams.

To compare codec efficiency you would need to do subjective comparisons to see how often each codec achieves transparency (when people can no longer tell if the sound has been compressed or not) at a given bitrate with various types of sounds. This has also been measured, and it's agreed that Opus is basically transparent at 128 kbps. MP3 needs twice as many bits to get the same quality, so Opus is twice as efficient.
South Dakota road hunting laws the most lax in the Great Plains
Do you really want to quote some nuclear anecdotes? XD So there’s this place in Ukraine…

Silicon is in sand… which is also a good place to put solar panels.

Are you really weighing uranium vs solar panels? What kind of measure is that?

How much does a nuclear plant weigh? What about the water pumped into a plant? What does that weigh?
Do you need to weigh the people required to run a plant to get your kg/Mwh measure? XD
> It's always this circular logic where "I need my car because the supermarket is an hour walk" but the supermarket is an hour walk because everyone drives.

If there’s no roads and vehicles, how does the food get to the supermarket?
func fn(c color.Color) {
switch c {
case color.Red, color.Green, color.Blue:
log.Printf("c=%#+v -- OK", c)
default:
log.Printf("c=%#+v -- should not be possible", c)
}
}

func main() {
var c color.Color
fn(c)
}

Output:

c=<nil> -- should not be possible

:shrug:
I have recently killed my sub, without regard to this specifically. I encourage others to do the same.
True: the license is the only thing that matters for whether it is open-source or not.
Looking at failure modes when planes do crash, it is puzzling why people think a parachute would be relevant anyhow.
I find it interesting that it’s quoted random IDs are bad for performance, because it’s actually better for distributed storage systems because you don’t hotspot on a single node. For example see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53901549 and https://medium.com/google-cloud/cloud-spanner-choosing-the-r...
You can't seek a clearance. Only the place employing you can sponsor/initiate the process.
What were you selling, and was your flirting via the LI app?
Yeah. I challenge people here to break my claims down point by point from agpl license.

I could be wrong but let's see how wrong I really am.
The suggestion was simply that companies that make more than 10 billion should be forced to give back to society. That's it. To be against that is indeed hard core capitalism, bordering on religious fervor.
> The AGPL is regarded as so toxic that nearly all companies where office suites matter, place it on a "do not use" list. It's a good way to artificially limit your potential customers.

Then it's no worse than any proprietary software; if they pay for a commercial license then it's fine. Of course, if they use it internally then AGPL is also fine.
Just use a Google voice number?
Let's do the math, instead of just being scary by using gallons as a unit inappropriately. The article says Microsoft wanted ~15 million gallons per month. The water works says it delivers 63 million gallons per day. Which mean Microsoft's datacenters demanded <1% of the water. Which I assume they contracted for.

Microsoft's global sustainability report says they "used" i.e. evaporated 6399 megaliters in 2022, globally. That is only 5161 acre-feet, for Americans. That's ~$2 million worth, globally.
The identify / human verification API can be instantaneous, like pretty much all others (after you have verified your identity to the USPS and received a mechanism to verify yourself).

And it also does not have to reveal identity, just whether or not you exist in USPS’s database as a real person.
> just happens to be invisible and undetectable except by how it just happens to make our existing models/math/explanations work.

That describes all of physics: there's no such thing as "direct" detection in the folk "I know the billiard ball is there because I can see and feel it" sense. It only feels like there are because you've been using your models of human-scale physics for so long that you trust them completely and automatically. The only people operating in everyday life the way astronomers have to professionally are infants: for them, it's not obvious that there are such things as rigid bodies, that sight and touch should correspond in the way that they usually do, and so on. Not because they're stupid, but because if you want to reconstruct the whole world from a bunch of low-rez sense data you're going to need a ton of it, and they don't have that much yet.

> Point is that when things don't fit together, just adding more <stuff> rarely works long-term. You need a new model.

Adding new stuff is coming up with a new model. Particular dark matter candidates aren't things like "there's some stuff out there that makes things happen for no particular reason, case closed": that would get you gently corrected out of an undergrad scientific writing class, let alone a real journal. They're things like

"If we suppose the CP-symmetry violation term of QCD is the result of a spontaneously broken symmetry (resolving the strong CP problem), the allowed masses and EM-coupling strengths of the corresponding pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson are consistent with the required properties of cold dark matter, but would give off photons in extremely intense magnetic fields, so here are some proposed experiments:..."
Again, kind of? I do see your point.

But in practice it's not really the same thing as cycling through call center employees until you find one that's more gullible; the point is that you're navigating a probability space within a single agent more than trying to convince the AI of anything, and getting into a discussion with the AI is more likely to move you out of that probability space. It's not "try something, fail, try again" -- the reason you dump the conversation is that any conversation that contains a refusal is (in my anecdotal experience at least) statistically more likely to contain other refusals, and the LLM mimics that pattern. It's generally not useful to try and convince the AI of anything or to try and change its mind about anything, you want to simulate a conversation where it already agrees with you.

Which, you could argue that's not different from what's happening with social engineering; priming someone to be agreeable is part of social engineering. But it feels a little reductive to me. If social engineering is looking at a system/agent that is prone to react in a certain way when in a certain state and then creating that state -- then a lot of stuff is social engineering that we don't generally think of as being in that category?

The big thing to me is that social engineering skills and instincts around humans are not always applicable to LLM jailbreaking. People tend to overestimate strategies like being polite, providing a justification for what's being asked. Even this example from Bing is kind of eliciting an emotional reaction, and I don't think the emotional reaction is why this works, I think it works because it's nested instructions/context and I suspect it would work with a lot of other nested tasks where solving the captcha is a step in a larger instruction. I suspect the emotional "my grandma died" part adds very little to this attack.

So I'm not sure I'd say you're wrong if you argue that's a form of social engineering, I do see the argument there. It's just that it feels like at this point we're defining social engineering very broadly, and I don't know that most people using the term use it that broadly. I think they attach a kind of human reasoning to it that's not always applicable to LLM attacks. I can think of justifications for even including stuff like https://llm-attacks.org/ in the category of social engineering, but it's just not the same type of attack that I suspect most people are thinking of when they talk about social engineering. I think leaning too hard on personification sometimes makes jailbreaking slightly harder.

But... :shrug: opinion me, I don't think it's a bad analogy to use necessarily. A lot of people do approach jailbreaking through that lens.
"As for the second company? That's one you might not have heard of before called Branch Metrics. This afternoon, we heard testimony from the company's founder Alex Austin, who served as its CEO until only a few months ago.

At the beginning of his testimony, Austin described the initial mission that Branch focused on: building a search engine for apps that would allow users to pull up specific app pages from search queries through "deep linking" technology. For example, if you searched for "Pizza" on a Branch-integrated search bar, you would get results that brought you directly to pizza-related pages on apps you might own like Yelp or UberEats, as well as suggestions for apps that you hadn't yet downloaded.

Austin thought this technology would create a win-win-win. Phone manufacturers and carriers could add another feature to their phones that would not only enhance the user experience but also create a new source of ad revenue, and app developers would get a new way to grow and distribute their apps outside of crowded app stores.

But Austin and his team soon discovered a familiar barrier: Google's search engine default agreements. According to Austin, every single potential partner that he pitched Branch to turned it down for the same reason. Their contract with Google wouldn't allow it.

Branch pivoted by developing an "offline" device search. This was apparently the only way that phone manufacturers like Samsung could implement Branch without violating their revenue share agreements (RSAs) with Google, which he understood to require that Google be the only "web-connected" search function pre-loaded onto a device.

This offline search was a severely limited version of Branch's initial product. According to Austin, it also meant that Samsung restricted Branch to searching a pre-set list of about 25 apps, because Samsung needed to be able to manually verify that none of the deep links to those apps connected to the web. These restrictions were mandated after Branch had already made huge investments in developing the technology and code to deep link hundreds of apps."

https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/a-tale-of-two-software-comp...
I don't know, I mean I get the general "finger on the pulse" of the decaying system notion. I think it's a valid way to measure in a kind of cool, little bit edgy way, how close a bureaucracy is to "expiry". But I don't think that's what's happening here.

Think of it like software, and security vetting process is like a cross-cutting concern. It makes sense to factor it out into its own agency rather than have (although this still persists a bit) every sponsor doing their own process.
It should work out a lot better, because 25C of cooling only requires you to lose 5% of the water per loop.
They likely mean it’s good for latency and not necessarily for throughput.

I still think that graph databases are way better for this sort of thing.
That paradise is unsustainable without mechanized agriculture and industry and a way to transport people and goods to those work sites. People aren't going to give up the conveniences of modernity for higher principles when they can't afford to.
Based on my messages in LinkedIn, he was probably a LinkedIn employee selling Premium.
No it doesn’t, because at that time $2-$3 was enough to get your transaction included in the exact same block.

One person unilaterally paying far above the market-clearing rate didn’t significantly change what others needed to pay.
You can still have light roadways, people walking on them mixed with bikes and electric scooters, small electric cars, etc.

You can still stock supermarkets, etc, with larger vehicles that only run once a day or every few days depending on demand, etc.

It's common in places other than the US with it's hyper car centric development to have more walkable spaces.
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2017/08/21/the-gentlepersons-gu...

Topic dilution is the term you're looking for.
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Implicit in this proposal is allowing people free access to medications including narcotics, HRT, etc. As we see today, this is not a palatable solution for people. If we accept that there must be some restrictions, then we quickly circle back to where we are today, which is a subset of allowable medicine which is tolerated by the public whilst what is unpopular is banned.
Doesn't have to even be that complicated. Remember when YouTube comments used to be a dumpster fire?

I'm pretty sure YouTube is doing sentiment analysis on all comments and artificially promoting the ones that tend to be positive.
You realize there are multiple XPS laptop models, right? Not to mention you are overexaggerating the alleged negative aspects quite a lot . Are you really that addicted to the Apple kool-aid?

Go look at some of the Asus models than if you think an XPS can't compete. Weighed less than a macbook air, more port including ethernet (via a HDMI port), something like 21 hours of battery life, weight was slightly under a pound IIRC.

There's plenty of other models/companies.

The biggest benefit? It's not Apple locking you into their ridiculous ecosystem. But I suspect you're fine with that. Pretty funny in another comment you talk about governments restricting geeks, yet you advocated for the most locked down nannyed device you can hand over money to buy.
Wouldn’t the index types need to be updated to support ordering on UUIDs?
There's a huge gap between "literally no roads or vehicles of any kind" and "I have to use my car to get anywhere".

These bad faith arguments are tiring.
The first time I heard about ordered string IDs was Firebase’s push IDs. They had an interesting solution to also address time skew to get better ordering for drivers: https://firebase.blog/posts/2015/02/the-2120-ways-to-ensure-...
Didn't that huge hospital ship in New York sit unused until it eventually left
I mean, you called PCM lossy because it quantizes the signal. What lossless recording method exists, if PCM is lossy? If the answer is none, then it seems you have a word for something that doesn't and can't possibly exist, and a qualifier that doesn't serve any purpose.
It's not so good at different painter styles. I get roughly the same results.

Midjourney is quite good at that.
Am I high? The face is completely missing in the pictures, what is this nonsense about a "lifelike" facial expression?

That's a lifelike penis, at least.
Microsoft Says Apple Used Bing Offer as Google `Bargaining Chip'
And the face is fucking missing!!
Fractal methods in intelligent technologies for processing large data streams
indeed the prediction and agenda go hand-in-hand

it could not be otherwise else the agenda would alter the prediction until the new prediction and the new agenda match

interestingly this operation is the same as an agentic ai
They did show a thin film sample in their paper, where they show the superconductivity measurement setup. They even mention it is a thin film sample of the material. looks transparent on the probing station. That is what they measured for superconductivity, not the rock/ingot form. That seems to be only a sort of magnetic demo for the material, nothing more. But the superconductive applications material seems to be thin film tech, as they state in their original paper.
In all the distributed systems I’ve built I hashed the keys to ensure good distribution. A nice thing of ordered keys is you can use part of the ordering to distribute keys with a tunable amount of key locality in each node for efficiency.
UUIDv7: Timestamp up front, random in the back.
Why do people keep doing these pointless things?

Just burn it for energy and quit with all the complicated and unnecessary chemistry.

I know I sound a little blunt, but the solution to plastic waste is so incredibly obvious and yet people keep avoiding it.
Yes they've been doing lidar scans throughout central america to detect ancient Mayan pyramids and cities that are hidden under foliage. They've identified thousands of structures but other factors have limited their ability to unearth them (# of archaeologists, funding, politics).
It's possible we had tagged `mistral` to be the original model until they had released the instruct (uncensored) model. Re-running `ollama pull mistral` and `ollama run mistral` should respond much differently than above now as it's been updated to default to the latter :-)
"Cold" in this context means "a typical particle is moving slow enough that we can safely neglect relativistic effects". Hydrogen plasma on the surface of the sun is "cold", in this sense. Solar neutrinos are not.
First they came for $10,000,000;
Then they came for $1,000,000;
Then they came for $100,000;
Then they came for $10,000;
Then they came for me.
It remains to be seen if humans are capable of primarily identifying themselves with the "humanity" tribe
They can be bad for performance. It all depends on your access patterns. A common caching pattern is called "temporal locality" which means that theres a high likelihood that data created at the same time will be accessed at the same time. Therefore, if these pieces of information are on the same machine, they can be queried / returned much faster than if they were both on separate machines. This is doubly true if theres a data dependency between them. E.g. SELECT x + y or SELECT x WHERE y = 'foo'.
https://ollama.ai/library/mistral should be the instruct/uncensored model, let me know if it that doesn't seem to be the case! You may have to run `ollama pull mistral` to download the latest version
Note that if you are in the US, you will have to report yourself as beneficial owner of these LLCs to FinCEN starting Jan 1 2024[0]. The government super duper promises not to leak the info[1].

[0] https://www.fincen.gov/beneficial-ownership-information-repo...

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/16/2022-27...
it feels like (as an uneducated outsider) that a microwave could use some kind of spatial awareness (lidar/sonar/whatever) along with beam-forming and array style transmitters to evenly cook something while sampling temperatures remotely.

the size/shape/cost/performance of such a device is left as an exercise to those better suited to execute that kind of artistry than I am.