skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for things that don't fit in a Prius, you can get / borrow / rent a small trailer.

I get 40 to 50 MPG from my Diesel Chevette, 25 to 30 MPG towing, and it can tow more than it weighs.
Yea, for sure. Mostly responding to the OP more than stating what happened. I think we generally agree - for better or worse, most of the world decided on some limited strategy, which made the prospect of doing any sort of elimination essentially impossible. In that light, balancing whatever success at delaying infections vs. the downsides of being even partially locked down is a non-quack question in my mind.
Mobile Firefox w/ uBlock Origin is giving me an ad free experience.

(I still find AVClub unusable due to bad/LLM generated content though)
As discussed in the sibling thread, the point I'm making isn't about whether prompt-based guardrails are effective enough for production systems. All I am saying is that it's possible to implement guardrails at the prompt level and they do have some limited, non-zero effectiveness, thus indicating that LLMs are capable of processing such instructions, just like humans.

> an instruction that fails to a hostile customer request of a particular form will do so every time, while one intern that id subject to a particular exploit won’t imply every similarly situated intern having the same vulnerability

Give me a perfect clone of the first intern programmed to believe they've had an identical upbringing and experience and I'll bet you such subjects fall victim in the same way to the same attack every time. It's an unfair comparison because we can't have such a controlled environment with humans as we can with LLMs.
I don't need to look up the stats. I already believe in them.

And I frankly don't care to convince you of the fact. I'm not sure if anything you'd say could beat out my personal methodology on this particular question. I actually wave / say hi / talk to the grocery store clerks (and their managers) on a regular basis, so I've got people I trust who can tell me about rising (or not) shoplifting. I really don't need the internet to tell me this.

I literally can just ask the manager (and I recognize him by face since we talk so often) at the store next time I see them. I'm not sure if you'd care on their response or not, but... I'd trust him more than anything you'd say or research. No offense to you personally, but I have my methods to gathering information that I trust more.

There's much, much simpler, and direct, ways of getting information than surfing online for a database... or engaging on internet debates over.
Climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save human civilisation
Listen to any pro-gun advocate: the goal is not to kill the bad guy, the goal is to stop the bad guy… though unfortunately sometimes this means reducing their blood pressure to zero.

The law as I propose it would not legally force Apple to split. They would have 3 alternatives: stop selling software, stop selling hardware, or split. They could fire half the company, but we all know what they would actually do. Same deals with banks: enforcing the separation between deposit and investment wouldn't force the banks to split, but we all know that in practice they would.

Understand here that splitting Apple is not my goal. My goal is to separate the activities, in the hope of fostering more competition and personal freedom.
That's great that you've built a deep roster of clients. Can't disagree that it's the best source of work.
When we sweat pores on the skin open (increasing the surface area of the skin). Vasodilaton results in increased blood flow to the skin. The skin is in contact with water. Water ia a better conductor of heat than air.
On a Raspberry Pi you can still run RiscOS and program in BASIC and assembly language.

And the Pi has all those nice GPIO pins.
On the other hand, ChatGPT started as a standalone service, not a Discord server, and it was also a success.
I was wondering if this was some tricky new scam, but after reading the notice it's probably nothing new for people on here--the infographic's first phase of the scam is: "Tech Support Imposter: Pretends to be technical support; Directs you to install software on your computer to allow them remote access". I sure hope no one on here would install software requested by unsolicited tech support!
Perfectly fine and happy as I can be, thanks for the concern.
Yea, by october when the "maybe we shouldn't do a lockdown any more" talk was 6+ months in, it feels like it's clearly in the "there's a case to be made" zone.
I brought up covid in animals because the original poster mentioned the elimination of covid in the context of lockdowns.

The fact that covid can move between animal and human populations would seem to mean that lockdowns for the purpose of elimination will not work. Eventually humans would be reinfected from animals - mice, rats, pets, etc.

This has perhaps already happened. There is dna evidence that omicron evolved in mice and then jumped back into humans [0].

On the idea of lockdowns to eliminate the virus:

> The coronavirus’ ability to infect so many different animals, and to spread within some of those populations, is worrying news: It means there’s virtually no chance the world will ever be rid of this particularly destructive coronavirus, scientists said [1].

It would be a bummer to be locked down for months or years in an effort to eliminate the virus, and have to deal with the negative repercussions of lockdowns during and afterwards, only for everyone to become reinfected again from animals, and the whole thing start up again.

My apologies if I misunderstood your reply. You did seem to have a different angle than the original post. I just don't get it when people mention lockdowns to eliminate covid, when such a thing isn't possible.

I'm not sure what to say about your concern that animals can evolve a more dangerous virus. That seems like it can go either way. Animal evolved variants can also be less dangerous, like omicron, which is a good thing. Also locked down humans could be more vulnerable to more dangerous variants, their immune systems not having any prior exposure. How can anyone be so sure lockdowns always help?

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-did-omicr...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-06-09/coronavirus...
Thx, I will do my best :)
That's not how it works. Each bit of sample size yields about 6db of SNR. If you amplify a source to 120db SPL that was recorded with 4-bit samples the quantization noise would be about 96db SPL.
Wait, so your argument is because they don't care who they take money from, they shouldn't be responsible for validating that the ads are legit?

That's ludicrous.
And only one remaining permutation of "smart" and "dumb", to boot :)
Caregivers want answers to mystery link between ALS, military service
This isn't how the math works.

The reason why life expectancy is going down is because middle age people are dying. People dying in their 80s has almost no impact on life expectancy calculations
So the company is issuing a firmware update with some new warning system. Early adopters where for unstated reasons this is not sufficient/possible are up for a $100 store credit iff they show evidence of disposing of their $1000 board. Destroy your unsafe board and you're up for 5~10% off on a new model!

If I were were one of these people I'd probably be pissed off. A proper replacement or money back should be the only reasonable response.

At this point there's no way this company would ever have me as a potential customer again after seeing their irresponsible handling of this.
Has improbable actually shipped anything worthwhile?
Tech Workers Paying $700 a Month for Tiny Bed 'Pods' in San Francisco
There was a lot more money involved in attempting to force everyone back to work during the pandemic and let them take their chances before a vaccine was produced.
> How would you do that?

Either figure it out or don't do it?
You would only get shut down if the person you asked assumes themselves to be much more intelligent than you (and therefore actually able to give you some genuinely good ideas, not just spitballing for fun), and also assumes malicious intent on your part by default.

That may be how OpenAI views its users, but its not the normal mode of human-to-human interaction.
Why are you not using normal letters to denote Rⁿ and N, Z or Q?
>My go-to sunscreen of choice is Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch.

Agree, and this is the only brand I've tried that truly crosses the dry-touch threshold. It's a shame that it's more expensive and not commoditized yet (figured it would be by now since it's been on the market for several years).
This is very cool!

makecode.com looks interesting - I'm surprised I hadn't heard much (anything?) about it until now.

From the web site, it is kind of hard to figure out what it is - it looks like MakeCode proper is a Scratch-like blocks language, but then there seem to be tutorials based on various languages and environments on multiple platforms, including micro:bit?
> Disagree. Error rates with 1 million people aren't anywhere near 1/12th; they're perhaps half. It's nowhere near a linear relationship.

Is this only because of the trade off between false positives and false negatives? To avoid raising the false positive rate excessively you could accept a higher false negative rate, but how much does one rate change if you hold the other constant?

> Also, if you had everyone in the database, you wouldn't have lots of people presenting who aren't in the database, which is where most of the false matches presented.

This is just a facet of measuring false positives like that: If you're not in the database, the algorithm may be confident that someone who isn't you, is you. If you get added, you may look slightly more like yourself than the other person does and you may end up at rank 1, and then it isn't calling this other person a false positive anymore even though it does consider them as looking enough like you to exceed the threshold for returning a match. But as long as the database isn't fully comprehensive, that means the false positive rate for someone who isn't in the database is going to get higher the more people who are in it, and then anyone would just claim that they aren't in the database.

As would be the case for someone who just changed their name.

Unless they add themselves to the database under their new name, in which case the opposite happens: The database has Bernie Madoff with your mugshot from 2009, you change your name and go to the Department of Privacy to have your picture taken as Altria Academi, and your recent picture looks more like you do now than your old mugshot so Altria Academi comes up as rank 1 and Bernie Madoff comes up as rank 2 and you've got yourself a false negative.
Can you register new advertisements on a weekend? If so, then they can’t cry poor when actually moderating the submissions, particularly if the registration requires no human interaction on the companies side.
compare all cause mortality before and after covid in red and blue states. its that simple
Don't like it. With the exception of my bank accounts, my digital presence is already guarded by security-through-inanity. The thought of somebody fucking with my unstarred, unfinished, unreadable learning project repos doesn't keep me up at night.
ESPHome
A thing not addressed

Was it the cost benefit of less people dying or our entire health system collapsing and causing massive more deaths.
I’m curious as someone with a local library, how do you stream it in a different format than it’s encoded in, from your phone?
>compressed ilk do not offer sufficient audio quality for serious music listening.

Old old OLD argument here. Apart from -rare-, well-trained golden ears, very few humans can distinguish 192K or better, well-encoded MP3s without knowing -exactly- what to listen for. Or will need to 99% of the time.

As dozens of studies have shown over several decades. The rest is either marketing or self-deception.

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php
Cause technology outraces regulation.
> the software team would work in isolation

Only if the hardware company refuses to share info with them, which - as you clearly laid out - is not in their interest.
I find it convenient to walk to my grocery store. It's inconvenient to have too many groceries regardless of my conveyance home.
I don’t know the real reason - I suspect Bing/OpenAI know their restrictions are workaroundable. But doing so shows strong intent from the user that they can wash their hands of.

Glass windows don’t prevent people from breaking in.
It takes a certain amount of analog circuitry to bring a signal up to 130dBA full scale.

Doing the math on the analog bits, the engineering data indicates the analog noise will always end up greater than the 16-bit floor.

"One day" I built an analog preamp which had lower noise than a CD could reproduce anyway.
It is a fact that EVs are better for the environment and will be even more better once certain infrastructure is built out. There's no reason to shit on an improvement just because it's not a cure. The data is a quick search away if you're actually interested.
That first frame is deep in the uncanny valley!
If Meta wanted too, they could do something about this...we have the labeling technology.

What a policing nightmare we've created...
I mean it was also very buggy on release to the point that it got delisted on Playstation, which is not a thing that has happened to a major release before.
My account was banned from FB ads for unknown reasons, and when I was finally able to reach a person they could not shed the slightest bit of light on it, for an ad that FB, themselves, generated and said “here’s some free ad credits, would you like to try it?” and I agreed … so I’m at a complete loss as to how these ads and many many others get through.
This is the answer. Money talks, so give your money to businesses that earn it.

"But it's not as convenient!" I hear some yell. Then it's obviously not enough of a bother to you, so just suck it up and deal with their bad behavior.

Because until you take your money elsewhere, nothing will change. And why should it? They obviously haven't crossed a line for enough people. Which means it'll just get worse.
Yep, we work closely with longevity community like Open Longevity and cooperate with InterSystems to integrate with the medical system.
The prudent manufacturer makes sure that some of the firmware is truly immutable, to prevent bricking the device if some firmware version is botched enough.

I'm not proposing that no hardware ships with firmware. I'm proposing the hardware manufacturer choses: enable updates and don't ship the parts that can be updated, or disable updates entirely.
In the US, deaths within 28 days of a positive covid test were counted as a covid death, unless they were vaccinated, in which case they also had to be sick (IIRC). So our data about how many lives vaccination saved is really corrupt, the unvaccinated count higher than it should be.

On top of that there was also monetary incentive for hospitals to add covid as a cause of death for anyone who died.
> Having created a polity that broke completely from the European monarchic traditions,

I've got to agree with skissane here on this.

Do you know who else broke from European monarchic traditions? Most of Europe, the UK in particular started in 1066 and by WWI (say) had a monarchy that was almost entire symbolic in power and fully deferred to the elected Government to make decisions.

The bulk of the European monarchies were overtaken internally by governments that preserved the ideal of a crowned head of state but didn't allow them to hold any significant reins of power.

The US "breaking away" from the King's taxes was a good example of UK investors protecting their investments and further weakening the ability of UK monarchy from raising taxes for petty family disputes (ie. wars much larger than the American Revolutionary War)

While the US made a radical jump for the time in which it was founded, it didn't really politically evolve much since - as noted in the peer comment "the United States is a monarchy with an elective king", evidenced by all the Presidental moves taking the US to war, etc. without full approval, the apparent inability of the US government to successfully prosecute a President, etc.

Australia, for example, came along to independence later and established a "Washminster" system of Government, one that drew from both the UK Westminister system and the US Washington system.

What you call a "vigorous collection of local democratic entities" much of the G20 would see as a backwards assembly of petty fiefdoms with local sheriffs imagining themselves a little king.
Usually "you are the product" is a snarky, low-effort comment, but this particular case seems like the rare situation where it actually is directly relevant.

If you run a self-service advertising system, then don't advertisers count as users, and don't their ads count as third-party content that the system operator isn't liable for?

They may not be your service's only users, and people may not like ads, and ads have a commercial purpose, and advertisers pay for them, but I don't think Section 230 cares about any of those things.
What mechanism do you think you exploited to make Bard execute arbitrary code?

Do you think Google engineers left in a secret eval($userPrompt) in the code base? Or do you think the Bard program became sentient and rewrote its own code?
Plausible deniability to avoid liability. Consider that:

1. We're in new legal territory with these models.

2. Many people lack the intellectually maturity to accept speech they dislike. This includes regulators, activists, advertisers, etc.

3. The alignment people loudly repeat their alarmist sci-fi stories to laypeople.

4. People hate Big Tech.

These circumstances don't exactly exude stability, so companies react with caution. I don't blame them.

The situation will settle down. Case law will establish that LMs don't produce derivative work anymore than humans do. Discourse about free speech & personal discretion with these tools will soften outrage. The immense utility of LMs will build appreciation. As this technological revolution rolls out slowly over many years without major catastrophe, public panic will die down regarding sudden mass unemployment, bad actors creating misinformation wars or doomsday bugs, etc.

Today remains the best time to exist in human history. That clear trend will continue. Our imaginations will again vastly outpace the pedestrian, steady, wonderful march of progress. As this moment settles down, so too will companies regarding aggressively thought-policing AI. But it'll be a hot minute. ;)
Cars are only useful because America foolishly built and rebuilt around cars, instead of humans. There were even places that functioned perfectly fine with transit and walking, destroyed and replaced with infrastructure for cars.

Undoing our mistake is always an option.
How in the world is your everyday experience "better" today as a result of Apple's vertical integration?

Spoiler: it isn't.
I had an older family member who fell victim to a very similar scam. Once she installed their remote software, they connected and used her browser to transfer a large sum, from one of her bank accounts into her main bank account.

They then convinced her that they had "deposited" the money into her account by mistake. She could clearly see the extra money in her main account and so believed them. The person pleaded with her to return the money via transfer, and keep it secret, or he would lose his job.

Being a good person, she wanted to help him and not cause a problem.

Fortunately, the teller at the bank recognized it as a scam, but it was a close call.
TS requires you to specify a time column in each hypertable or view (continuous aggregate) where you want it to work its magic. It then stores an internal watermark that it compares to the time column in the table to figure out from where to read when refreshing.

My issue was that for a grand total I didn’t have a time column, so I couldn’t define my query as a continuous aggregate and the query had to start counting from the start of my underlying series each time.
Thanks, yeah this is pretty depressing. Feels almost unsolvable, I love public transit but I don't know how to make everyone else love it. Maybe we'll invent some perfect biodegradable tire, but it feels more likely that we'll just wall ourselves off and people (who can afford it) will drink filtered water and eat lab-grown meat and hydroponic produce to avoid ingesting their own pollution.
If you can, click on the up arrow opposite Igloo :)
My first job was a union gig.

The HR people were comically evil and it was a useful learning experience. Those guys would burn the building down to “beat” the union over some bullshit issue.

Without a contract and a counter-party they usually deploy a more banal evil that feels more like incompetence. But when the chips are down, they’ll gleefully bone you.
Yes, the point is that even without bad software, the world is a dangerous place. Better to not have unsafe, unstable, dangerous vehicles to compound that. It was part my fault and part the pedestrians fault that I crashed, but the real cause was the instability of the platform. If I had been on a bike, I’m certain I could have stopped or avoided the pedestrian.
Right but that’s not the “missing middle”, that’s the most popular game on the app stores making billions in revenue.

Mid-range stuff has not really come ouy of China. The only game that comes to mind by Chinese indies is My Time at Portia, which had alright gameplay but was noted for janky localization.
The person who wrote the original post replied above saying that my interpretation of his post was correct. What other “proofs” do you need?
It also wont magically stop working 30 feet away if you want to use the multimedia remote functionality. Graceful degradation seems like a useful feature but if you aren't careful the result might be flaky
It definitely can, there is a lot of money on the market and the current options can't serve everybody. It is just a matter of executing it well. Especially if not taking a %. People are getting tired of paying so much for matchmaking.
Cartofi taranesti would be in English, I suppose, simply ”roasted potatoes”. At least an image search for each term shows basically the same dish.
It couldn't possibly be due to affluence. /s
It's surprising this article doesn't significantly mention sunlight's non-UV components, like infrared light. There appears to be increasing evidence to support its ability to influence various processes within the body to positive effect.

MedCram has some easily digestible reviews on the topic:

- The ability for light to influence glucose metabolism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Win49aeh8A

- Light's effect on immune response and other processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg
Phallic Pillars at Karahan Tepe
I believe the idea is that the same investors that invest in VC firms that in turn invest in companies, also invest in commercial real-estate, and that these investors can apply pressure to "their" VC-firm executives, to ensure that "their" commercial real-estate is getting used.
I think the issue is the particles are from the friction of the road and to effectively collect the particles it would drastically reduce tire clearance, not an issue for F1, but for the consumer market tire clearance is important, for some reason.
Regardless of training data or AI, they don’t have rights to his likeness.
I made a collection of react components in neobrutalism style
You know, computers that aren't smartphones do exist..

Nearly every non-Apple PC on the planet is sold with Windows preinstalled, yet Microsoft didn't manufacture them.