skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People expect their software to work perfectly nearly all of the time. And for the most part, it does. So not really sure who you think these people are who think it's a laughingstock.
> Your question stands: why not test it?

Because there are so few late stage rabies victims that you simply can't get the data?

By and large in the US, people know the protocol--get bitten by a strange animal, head to the ER and get ready for rabies shots. And it almost always works.

Apparently, the US never had a post-treatment death until one 84-year-old man with an immune deficiency (and a bunch of other health issues) died of it. It's not clear anything would have worked for him.
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/04/04/...

Basically, the only people who die of rabies are those who missed that they got bit or those who were dumb enough to refuse the vaccine. And there just aren't that many of them.
> Code is usually a much smaller piece of company's business process than we developers like to think.

I agree.

Btw, I think you inverted the meaning of my sentence regarding 'hand over fist'. I was saying that staying on an old version is asking for trouble and is going to cost a lot more than upgrading.

> That's the reality which JVM and Clojure folks take very seriously, but is very often overlooked by younger people.

Ah, the irony of being called young because of a comment I made :). I'm an old hand at this point.

FWIW, my shop also stayed on JDK 8 for a bit longer than we should have, but that was largely because of upstream dependencies. We're currently on JDK11, but again just because there are some upstream dependencies that are holding us back from JDK17. (It's mostly to do with the infamous module system change. It's a good change overall, but some projects have been super-slow to adapt.)
don't mind me - nonchalantly taking credit for various nonsense i did as a kid. way past the statue of limitations - and hopefully found interesting to someone
Half-a-million-year-old wooden structure shows wrong to underestimate ancients
Wow that's cool. I didn't know about it, thanks for sharing!

Side note, it looks like the AMD MI250 supports FP16, and the raw TFLOPS is ~15% higher than an Nvidia A100 80GB, with a significant advantage for AMD in terms of memory bandwidth. The price range for the two cards seem to roughly overlap.

It seems this card is a pretty good deal barring crazy software edge cases. @AMD, if you ever see this, I would be interested to test your card and publish a complete writeup. I'm currently fine-tuning LLMs on A100/H100 and have a good reference point.
I would presume it's to keep it from being locked into Ubuntu?
Big fan of using Orbstack for this. Full Linux VM with transparent access to Mac disk. I love it.
US debt repayments are similar to their military budget, and their military budget is designed to hold down China (rival superpower) and Russia (possesses a global threat nuclear arsenal, with whom they are actively at war with) and a few other countries.

I'll happily agree that the limit is unknown and it might be higher than anyone expects - but at the current trajectory we're all going to find where it is as the US hits it face-to-wall-at-speed style. Years ago we crossed the limit where that debt was never going to be repaid in real terms. Now we're getting to levels where even the interest probably isn't going to be paid back in real terms.

And, in amongst this, it isn't really clear what the debate around science funding is supposed to look like. The US appears to be going broke. It'll probably struggle to find the money for big spending on science over the next few years. Even if they execute some sort of default they're still going to have to do a round of belt tightening.

Also - on Japan - topical news: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/10/ja...
You've heard of long Covid, but did you know there might also be a long cold?
> It's not intended that way, and I'm posing it with honesty.

Yes, I believe you. But still, I don't care for your framing of it; it is still too loaded.

When learning about a new concept, one owe it to the concept to give it a fair chance. It is all too easy to misrepresent an idea. (To me, when looking at your comments overall, it seems possible that this is what you are doing: you aren't fully open to really understanding the idea; you've already _judged_ and _dismissed_ it.)

Aside: To be clear, I don't think "open mindedness" is the ideal _end_ goal. Open mindedness is a _tool_ to evaluate and understand. But the _goal_ is to draw conclusions in order to act wisely.

> If it's too loaded, then replace Hitler with, I don't know, <insert_bad_guy_here>. It doesn't matter who the bad guy is; the point is: you kill an innocent person (grandfather_of_bad_guy) in order to mold the future in a way that you think will save more, other innocent lives. Correct?

To do consequentialist ethics (CE) rigorously, one has to explore all likely outcomes. In my view, the best intellectual framework for doing so would be to build and evaluate a probabilistic tree of possible outcomes over a suitable time frame. See Decision Theory [1]

The example you gave has two major problems. First, it offers a false dichotomy. Why would one think the only choice is to kill an innocent ancestor or just "let" the bad guy do all the terrible things? Second, even to a pure consequentialist who is willing to set aside the "present value of a life" (I don't even like saying this), killing a person has negative consequences on their family, friends, community, city, state, and country.

Of course there are differences between CE and DE, but in practice I don't think they are as jarring as people can make them out to be. The specially-constructed "wedge" examples get too much airtime in my opinion. It is far more important to teach people about decision theory and how it applies to not just economics and cybersecurity but also morality.

I've written enough here for now. I hope you view your questions as jumping off points for additional philosophical investigation. I have seen for myself that studying these ideas is worthwhile: personally and from studying history.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory
>Ok then explain why RL can’t be used to prevent certain behaviors please.

Preventing certain behaviors does not mean you can make a model never output something. RL simply just doesn't work that way. In this instance, You are rating certain responses better and asking the model to predict like that. You can make it more likely to refuse a request but the idea that you can guarantee it won't is completely wrong. There is nothing open ai can do to make GPT-4 never do something. Nothing.

https://chat.openai.com/share/b7faf20c-b295-4d76-85a1-a15e04...
I couldn't find details on the Perceptron's motors, but I expect they were DC motors, rotating the potentiometers higher or lower as needed. The synchro is useful if you have a rotation in one location and one to match the rotation at another location. But with the Perceptron, you don't have a specific rotational angle you want, just "more" or "less".
> (i.e. are you passing on your lifestyle to the next generation?)

Memetic reproduction need not coincide with biological reproduction. Of the non-monogamists I know, almost all of them come from monogamous pairings.
I moved back to audio courses (michel thomas) and grammar workbooks. Worked very well
This is great, I just wish it were a bit easier to set up and configure. That multi-page wall-of-text document is not looking inviting at all.
It's weird to see pieces of Typescript in there.
It -can- be unbalanced.

I've seen women and men with a 'hierarchy' of partners, and they all know it (these were typically D/s relationships as well, so it was at least consentual [0])

I've also seen cases where people just like to have a routine to go through. My partner and I are no longer practicing poly, but even when it started they were, aside from special occasions, just a one night a week thing. It worked out well because it was a night I worked late, so we couldn't do anything anyway.

But there were times it was a little unbalanced one way or another, really though as long as you can communicate, it can get worked out.

As far as procreation/etc, Aside from Mormon and other polygamous cultures/religions, it doesn't NOT work out.

Or, I've seen scenarios where a polyamorous relationship allowed couples to have children where they could not otherwise.

I think harem builders create lots of animosity tho.

[0] well, parts were. Others were abusive.
What do you mean, you remember?

It still does that now if you put your search terms in quotes.
I was hoping this was going to somehow monitor my sleep and split test sounds throughout the night and dynamically generate sounds.

Maybe in a 2.0!
Get Mentally Prepared for (Lots of) AI Content
In the race between OpenAI, Google, Meta & Amazon to create the most advanced language models, they’ve opened a digital Pandora's box. And what's pouring out? Content. Endless, infinite, A.I.-generated content. Are we prepared for this?
Isn't one of the key elements of ethical journalism that you need to ask the subject of your article for comments? I have a hard time believing they asked Google to comment on this piece and didn't get "that is categorically false and if you publish it you will be hearing from out attorney" as an answer. So I don't really see how this one got through unless they didn't ask for comments.

This would be like the SWE equivalent of pushing to production without code review. It's not an excusable mistake like when a bug gets through.
Where did you get the photos from?

Please use the original title as requested in the guidelines.
Is it individualization that's done that, or rentier capitalism?

Individuals in the western capitalist society spend most of their time making capitalists of all sorts exceedingly wealthy, rather than spending most of their time on themselves.

Give us 4 - 6 months off a year like our ancestors had, and we'll have plenty of children
I see interoperability as the oil that keeps the machine running, and
people aren't using enough lube. When the car finally grinds to a halt
a responsible adult has to go change the oil. SV has been driving
dad's Ferrari like in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, making it a displaced
symbol of acted-out irresponsibility.
Computers only perfectly* execute their instructions but how those instructions are provided can have errors. Whether we are talking about a garden variety coding bug, or the fact that LLMs are learning their capabilities from the output of (very flawed) humans.

*in theory - not addressing things like bit flips, etc.
I have tinnitus :(
Is this available for F-Droid?
I assumed small was referring to how much time/effort it takes to make them.
There was a point in history where both facebook and google offered XMPP with federation to their chats

You could just join any XMPP server and chat with your google/facebook contacts directly from that. Imagine that now...
Ya I was thinking that. I assume that the source is something of quality. I mean what's the point otherwise? It isn't like they're selling it.
This resonates quite strongly with me.

Back when I first learned Haskell, I strongly got the impression that the Haskell community just... didn't like programming? I kept running into endless papercuts like these, language extensions which were poorly documented and mutually incompatible but basically mandatory due to widespread usage, and libraries which were considered "top-of-the-line" but where anything beyond the happy path was considered an open research topic.

All in all, it felt more like a loose collection of unfinished PhD theses than an actual programming language. Which is a real shame, because it has quite a few excellent concepts which are a genuine pleasure to use. Unfortunately I think languages like Rust and F# are essentially killing any chance it has at gaining a mainstream foothold: they bring over enough of the good parts of Haskell into mainstream programming that it simply isn't worth having to deal with the bad parts anymore.
Not surprised to see some familiar names in it.

"brave_100_percent.pak","chrome_100_percent.pak", "libchrome.so"
Only read the first page but is this a manifesto? I read it like a guide on how to start programming (what the author considers/calls) small games for fun. It’s just guide, you can do whatever you want. If something isn’t working for you just deviate from it.
I was blown away when someone noticed that ChatGPT can pretend to be a Linux terminal and was able to generate convincing outputs to commands. Like having a CPU inside Minecraft kind of cool but the implementation was just a sentence.

So, if we had infinite computing power it should be possible to make an LLM pretend to be an OS, then you can create and train another LLM in it which will never know that it's running inside another LLM. It won't have a method to prove or disprove the claim even if you reveal it.
Poly is for some just a scheduling fetish.
Why is an increase in diagnosis an increase in awareness? All they have literally done is make diagnostic standards more lax and decided to up the amount of diagnosis. The diagnosis is extremely relativistic and you can draw the line between autistic and not autistic wherever you please. Diagnosis is done on an overwhelmingly subjective and culturally bias way (E.G. lack of eye contact being seen as socially incompetent rather than respectful)

We just decided to call more people autistic, we didn’t become more aware. I’m still awaiting any research, at all, to suggest that diagnosis with autism actually helps the people diagnosed at all. Never mind helping them enough to outweigh the various costs of medical treatment and various entitlements received post-diagnosis. I just hear if we call more people autistic that means we’re more aware and that’s fantastic!

The CONSTANT diagnostic drift also means the vast majority of research on autism is likely non-reproducible and worthless (because it might have been conducted when 5x less people were considered autistic). I’d very much argue diagnostic instability is actually SABOTAGING autism awareness not helping with it.
Some of the smartest professors I’ve had, in terms of academic ranking, were millionaires for doing graph-based algo companies that got acquired, others were virgins who lived with their mom.

Intelligence alone doesn’t seem like it automatically leads to success in all possible ways; some mathematicians just don’t care about wealth.
I'm super impressed. I have a Consumer Reports membership going back 25+ years, but I almost never use it unless I go to buy something. So maybe I'll log in once a year. I consider it a donation to them because I think they do good work.

I would not have expected this type of app to come from them, but it makes me appreciate my membership even more!
> Yup this is nonsense advice.

It wasn't advice, it was an anecdote about my experiences from doing what I describe. People can use that as advice, while knowing it's based on what I've experienced and not a wide survey of how the industry works.

>> as they offer the same or better rates usually

> I will say in most cases, it seems around the same.

The same what? Price? Wasn't that what I was describing? Or are you referring to some other aspect of it that I'm not connecting?

To further ground my statement, I'm generally dealing with larger name hotel chains or tourism spots that deal with repeat visitors, not random small or independent hotels. Maybe that matters.

To my eyes, most this thread seems like a missed opportunity for people to examine why sometimes dealing directly seems to work well and why sometimes it doesn't, and which types or brands are better than others in this respect. I think that would have been a much more interesting conversation. (I know you did contribute somewhat along these lines as well, I'm more criticizing the thread in general, not your specific replies).
For a free, Anki-native version of this see https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1713698257
Just curious, how did you run integer math in JS to compare? Since it doesn't support it natively.
Not scoffing, performance is nice to have. I really like how Bun replaces all development tools, is much faster for package management and bundling. The fast startup is also a bonus and means it could be used for writing command line tools.

However, as a server side runtime it doesn't matter much because the time spent on those libraries is minimal in compared to the time spent waiting for I/O
East Asian Female most likely has the same weight as Black.
It's not the same assumption. Target might not know theft has occurred at the time. It will show up later when doing inventory as a discrepancy and be recorded as shrinkage. Target in such a case has nothing to report to the police.

There may also be reasons not to report known cases of theft. Lack of evidence, uncooperative police and/or prosecutor, or small enough value so that the effort isn't worth it, for example.
Check out Charles Proxy for mac. It’s great.
Google's rebuttal [0] seems incredibly weak.

>replaces them with ones that monetize better.” We don’t.

How is injecting names of brands (that likely advertise) like "tj maxx" not monetizing better?

[0] https://twitter.com/adamkovac/status/1710041764910846061
Maybe they meant that google invested to the tune of $1B back in 2016 making it one of the largest spacex investors.
Why not just go all in and start with Haskell 2, the way Python did with Python 3? Yes it's less convenient, looses interoperability etc., but Pythons experience shows that its doable and in the end it might be worth it.
Question: for the cost of a single treatment for symptomatic rabies, how many vaccinations could be administered? We might not be able to properly cure rabies, but we could possibly wipe it out. Even in animals, eatable rabies vaccinations might work.
Yes, GoDaddy does this.
The Response to Google's 7 Year Update Promise for Pixel Is Getting Weird
> By what metric are we "nowhere near" productive in how we fund research?

Spending as a % of budget. I feel that was obvious given the article.

I suspect you're reading something that I didn't write though - I'm just pointing the US government doesn't have spare money lying around to increase their funding of science projects. It isn't a case of "oh we'll just budget a bit more for science". There are enormous cuts/tax increases needed before that conversation can even begin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKGdhJybmT8
labeling a serial killer a sociopath doesn't imply that if they hadn't killed someone nobody else ever would have.

It's people who refuse to act responsibly in a community because they have zero regard for the negative impact they have on others that matters here, not which particular asshole would be first to act purely out of selfishness.

"Directing attention to your business" isn't a problem either, any more than "setting down your butchers knife" is a problem. It's when, where, and how you do those things that can make it a problem. It's the difference between plunging your butchers knife into your dishwasher, and plunging it into someone else's chest. People can advertise, with or without permission, without polluting the internet and turning their selfish behavior into a multi-billion dollar a year problem for everyone else to clean up.
Yup. 'Paperwork' is fine to talk about in the poly world, as is honest communication about how to work around it.

I've even had partners in the past with HSV1 or HSV2 and have tested negative for years after, because we were safe and worked around outbreaks.
> All VCS have a data structure. It's inherent.

"having a data structure" is very different than "being a unique data structure that you won't encounter anywhere else". I don't think most programmers have implemented their own version control systems, so the idea that needing to learn a new data structure to learn git isn't obvious even if you consider it "inherent"
Depends where you go. NYC sure but in a smaller place I still usually prefer to have a house or ideally a cabin rather than staying at the sad chain hotel next to the highway
I've been using Borgmatic for this.

It does everything, uses pg_dump under the hood, and adds the output as files for Borg.

Borg then takes care of encryption, incremental and also bit rot. Best solution ever in my book.

Also you can directly restore the db with Borgmatic.

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/backup-your-databa...
I've been following this project for the past couple of years. The process of learning to manufacture enormous Nixie tubes as a product is a testament to Dalibor Farný's incredible dedication and skill. Who wouldn't like this succeed as a viable business? It's so niche, yet so cool.

One hopes that others who see this art work are inspired to use these incredible display tubes.
Pimsleur has rebranded to an internet product, but the old Pimsleur tapes are great if you can find them. I started learning Armenian with these and it put me on the right track.
Edna: Disguising and Revealing User Data in Web Applications [pdf]
Really? I just read over it lying in bed for the last 15 minutes and found it super straight forward and well explained. Kudos to the pg team!
Although I've never been primarily a developer, it's always been about the people I know and have worked with in some manner. My network, if you would, although that term tends to get conflated with things like "networking events." Job-seeking hasn't been about about applying to posted jobs for me since I've been working professionally for decades.

Even in school I wasn't applying to multiple positions per day on average. Probably a more focused strategy is indicated than sending applications into the void.
USA paying more interest on its $33T debt than on defense – who holds the IOUs
> There is no mechanism by which LLMs have agency. They have no internal desires, drives, motivations.

Why? Folks make these strong assertions, and I don't get where this confidence comes from. We're so comically ignorant of how our own minds work, let alone alien ones, or how any commonalities between them may manifest. What am I missing?
Sure, but everyone sacrifices time for necessity sometimes. In a library, you can sit and read for the 30-60 minutes you're there, use a computer, research whatever's important to you or take in some fiction to relax the high levels of stress you have. No different to people filling time commuting, picking up kids, waiting in line somewhere, etc.

I also would expect charging at the gym or work for those who have access would be a problem.
My car got written off. 11 years old but in good condition, got hit on the rear left corner, sheet metal work was damaged. The tier 1 body shop that the insurance company sent me to quoted about 3/4 of the car's (undamaged) value in repair costs, including replacing most of the left side, the back window among other things, and even $600 worth of paint.

Shopping for a replacement vehicle in the damaged one, various tier 2-3 dealer types said, oh, we could fix that up real nice for $3K, and one of them would have been happy to have the car at the insurance company's quoted value in damaged condition. So you can bet that that thing has by now been auctioned off, fixed up like that and sold, possibly with a "rebuilt" title, at a modest profit, and continues to be used. It was too good to scrap and the damage, while a PITA to fix, was not even remotely structural.

So it's not that insurance companies consign all these written-off cars to the scrap heap. It's just that they don't want to deal with the repairs, and possible post-repair complaints. So just like bad debts, it's sent down the pipe to the people best matched to the job. A broken cast frame would short-circuit this process, causing the car to be scrapped for real and thus raising costs for everyone.
If hotels were to explicitly promise “home-grade” Internet service then they would seal the deal for me.

They’ve improved a lot in recent years but I’d still want to have that explicit guarantee.
Thank you. We will prioritize Windows first :)