skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. If you join a public chat in Telegram you don't have to share your phone number with other members so you don't have to be afraid that they will find you in real life. You can write anything you want. But with WhatsApp or Signal you have to share a phone number with everyone which means they can easily find who you are and where you live (this data is cheaply sold on black market).
I think you're selling yourself and the value of your skills too short!

But more importantly, I hope you see the question isn't whether huge volume matters. It's whether it's nearly the only thing that matters. The quote you cited is quite innocuous, an exec saying they have "brilliant people, working tirelessly to improve its products." Twisting that quote to suggest they are a liar seems really unfair.

I'd also say leadership matters, not just engineers. Microsoft says their shareholders would have struggled to accept the high price tag of a deal with Apple. That's their fault? Either that, or they don't believe their own argument here.
This is something I really miss now that I don’t live in NL. I have found it along the coast in Washington, but almost never for sale.
How did it know the answer when the cutoff date is meant to January 2022? (I just found another instance at [0] so maybe "cutoff" doesn't mean exactly what it seems.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11iv2uc/theres_no_...
software does all of the above
Fundamentally, there's a major conflict of interest here--what incentive do they have to actually investigate? Finding the truth means they're out the money. Letting it sit means they're not.

This will persist until we change the laws to make misbehavior more expensive than proper behavior.
And yet, statistically, the vast majority will be healthy. And the ones with chronic issues should know where they need to be on how to manage it. It's down to you if how you want to live your life. Plenty of tech companies that aren't startups. Plenty of countries that pay less and have higher taxes that have the safety net. Pick your lifestyle and live with your decision. I did, took the risks, it didn't pay off, but I would do it again.
CFPB Proposes Rule to Jumpstart Competition and Accelerate Shift to Open Banking
Thanks for the detailed answer. I guess these are unavoidable without investing a lot more money on it if you are aiming for basically reducing false negatives to zero at that scale. One thing that surprised me is that Yann LeCun frequently mentions transformers have been in prod for all parts of moderation on Meta for a while already but maybe they come into play at more critical problems or at later stages.
“Hyper growth mode” = hiring as fast as possible. Startups gotta borrow and spend their way to success, and fast, ya know. Can’t keep the VC’s waiting on their returns.
Those sites usually pay a license for the lyrics.
Something about this feels really weird. I'm supposed to believe Apple lacks agency here? Also, it's funny to suggest that Apple must build or run their own search engine. The solution is more vertical integration monopoly?
No good when everything is on fire /s
Need gaussian splatting integrated asap https://huggingface.co/blog/gaussian-splatting
Maybe this sort of thing will make us less pearl clutch-y and gate-keepy over arbitrary syntax and focus more on people's real needs.

Despite the amount of people claiming lack of belief in deities rocketing up the last couple decades, prior experiences get wedged in our memory, alter our DNA.

The elders belief in hallucination, nonsense semantics are alive and well in the form of conviction in American Civic Life as we've been experiencing it the last 2-3 decades. Look at Doctorow bleat that life is no longer like the 2000s for him. Trump and the Reaganite cabal as they generationally churn out freaking out.

Reciting correct association of meaning to context is the exact kind of police state 1984 was talking to. Here we have social media via screens to remind us every day how the words must fit together.
How did you learn to build a BitTorrent client? I love the idea of codecrafters and books that walk you through building something but I always struggle if I don't have something to get me started.
You mean: it wasn’t.

If it walks like a duck.
Interesting, sounds like the kind of stuff we're excited about helping with! Would love to hear what you think once you try it, email is in my bio if you're open to a chat.
SADS is a literal thing that kills people. Not sure if this is supposed to be funny?
Inkscape and diagramming tools are trying to solve very distinct solutions.

Inkscape is a general purpose vector graphics program, designed to let you do anything.

Diagramming tools are there to provide you with a fast way to draw a diagram, which most importantly often contains connecting boxes with arrows that will auto-route and re-route when you move the boxes. I'm not aware of Inkscape supporting that, and I suspect that even if it somehow does, it'll require many more clicks.

Draw.io is good enough for a one-off usecase, but if you're creating a couple diagrams and consider your time to have monetary value, the better usability of Figma means it'll pay for itself really quickly.
They overcome limitations of most social profiles not being flexible enough. Kind of useful but easily made obsolete once said social networks improve things.
The "web search industry" back then wasn't very large. AltaVista was kind of a PR project at DEC. It took Doubleclick's supposed reverse take-over of Google to crack the nut of how to make money from web search.
Amazon begins testing Agility's Digit robot for warehouse work
I’ll re-up here that I’ve collected all the ChatGPT system prompts together [0], including DALL•E 3 [1]. I wanted them all in one place as I work on the next release of my ChatGPT AutoExpert [2] “custom instructions”, which will include custom instructions for Voice Conversations, Vision, and yes, DALL•E.

[0]: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/Sys...
[1]: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_sy...
[2]: https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/
I think the expectation is even worse for the car case than anything since so few people bother shipping cars to begin with. But just looking at moving and shipping, even then no one has really beaten the model that Uhaul has created. Have the 7/11 or big box hardware store parking lot and clerk be your brick and mortar and labor force. Have a very basic website match you to pickup and dropoff locations. Buy a bunch of cheap aluminum trailers that won't rust out on you. They will even sell you overpriced cardboard boxes they probably get a ridiculous markup on. I don't think you can lighten this sort of business much more than that, and yet the profit margins still aren't as high as you'd expect from such a skeleton crew of a business. 16% last earnings.
The real question is if they know True, False, and FileNotFound.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
Having an ability for a remote driver to quickly take over the vehicle via some kind of telepresence solution is one way to cover a percentage of the situations where these vehicles block emergency responders. But how to quickly initiate that? reliably?
That, and/or a sandbox model where plugins cannot escape a sandbox.

And/Or a setup where a plugin's runtime is isolated from main WP and other plugins and it can only communicate with WP over a tiny and very much hardened API.

so many possibilities. This problem has been solved mostly. Just not for PHP (that I know) and certainly not for WP.
> they may choose to use funds belonging to the company (after paying outstanding obligations) to pay severance

If they can do this, they can pay salaries another month. Making a go/no go call at the edge is difficult. It sounds like Convoy thought it was getting a loan that didn’t come through.

Put another way: if the CEO shut down the company while loan negotiations were in place, it would have zeroed out the common stock while giving preferred investors a pay-out (in addition to everyone some severance).
I use https://www.chatbotui.com/ all the time - not exactly the same approach you've taken, but is very useful.
That sentence from the article seems more straightfoward and technical, and more toned down than the headline here. It's not a philosophy paper.
Perhaps conscript some doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers under penalty of fine or imprisonment. Don’t let them go until they provide the health care we each and all deserve.
A good craftsman should also be capable of making and improving their own tools. A woodworker with a bad chisel simply reshapes it.

Relating back to software as tools, this only works if you have access to the tool code.
LLMs are not suitable for some types of work but they seem suitable for others. ChatGPT hasn't changed my workflow drastically but I do use it at least once a day for one task or another. For example I just created this PowerShell script I would normally wouldn't bother to do to change some settings, send some automated emails etc.
I'm working on something kind of similar but for Appium. This is excellent work!
Compose is fine for what it is, it’s served my personal VPS for years perfectly and I’ve hosted internal tools for teams with it for stuff that would never need to scale beyond that instance and never needed to be public. Personal projects and even small companies can likely get away with it just fine.

But if you’re dealing with any larger organization they probably don’t want to deal with you spinning up a random unprovisioned server running docker and compose services and will require stuff like Ansible scripts or similar to manage it. Once you start trying to manage docker-compose with extra tooling you might as well bite the bullet and learn k8s and get more out of your time and learning investment.
To be clear, it actually isn't a recognized psychological phenomenon as you can see at your own link. It was invented by a police psychiatrist who did a bad job being a hostage negotiator and came up with it to explain why the hostages were mad at him.
I think I've done pretty well providing sources and you're pretty adversarial. e.g.

> you're carrying their water for them

[You made a statement, and anyone who chooses to disagree with you is "carrying [Apple's] water for them". So I guess we should just STFU?]

> they could have explained themselves why they don't serve that language community

I think this is ridiculous. Are you aware of any company making a statement about why they don't serve a specific language community?

In any case, sure, I will take the bait and further strengthen my point:

Within Quebec, 1310 in the last census indicated that they are conversant in ASL.

The number of people in Quebec who would prefer to speak Quebec Sign Language are dwarfed by the number of people in Quebec who would prefer to speak any one of Moriysen, Telugu, Bosnian, the Swiss dialect of German, Nepali, etc. I have not heard any statements by any firms about why they do not cater to these language communities in Quebec.

There's also hundreds of people in Quebec who are native speakers of other sign languages other than LSQ or ASL. Apple does not cater to these people, either.
I switched to a local credit union years ago and I can't imagine going back. Service can be slow-moving, but it is always humane. When a fraudster emptied my checking account several years ago, I simply walked into the branch, told them what had happened, identified the fraudulent transactions, and they sorted it out - practically on the spot. I walked away with some cash and a new debit card; the rest of the money was returned later that week. A brief chat with an investigator several weeks later concluded the matter (they had identified the culprit).
That reliably solves every conceivable situation where these vehicles might block or impede emergency responders.
>while the good craftsman learns to use what they have

No, he goes out and gets new ones or fixes/builds them himself. That's how I always understood the saying; the emphasis is on the word "blame" not the word "tool". It's about people who sit around and complain rather than taking action to fix the problem. It doesn't mean you should put up with shitty tools.
It is their money. You lent it to them when you made the deposit. All you now own is an admission from the bank that they owe you $x. The whole point of getting hacked is that the bank doesn't know it's not you, so of course they'll try to get out of refunding you.

There are some asterisks to this statement due to the large amount of regulation around bank accounts.
I think its because GTK, but I'm not certain. I used Inkscape quite a bit but shifted to Affinity Designer.
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I wasn't speaking to that point... excessive operating expenses are clearly a management failure. I was contending that this shutdown is not likely simply "through no fault of their own"

People who can't asses fair value of a business from a discounted cashflow perspective shouldn't be running a company. It's usually financially ignorant people like this that lead the business down a dark path. The prior round valuation, and thus the implicitly underwritten future expectations of growth, is evidence enough that something along these lines happened here.
Doesn’t seem to have any of the podcasts I listen to on it - all of which are very popular. The skeptics guide to the universe, no such thing as a fish to name a few.
It’s a feature. You get an instant social graph by being able to piggyback on people’s contacts.

Also the original purpose of signal was secure sms, so using phone numbers make perfect sense.
Igor Limansky, from Alone Season 9, didn't do well living off of just seaweed. He grew very weak and developed heart palpitations from malnutrition.

Including seaweed in one's diet may have worked for people but living exclusively on seaweed seems to have problems.
I recently finished moving fr Python-selenium to Python-playwright. Though my outcomes might be different, it is such a significant improvement that I would strongly, strongly recommend at least spending a couple days trying it out if you are familiar with selenium.

To my team, selenium’s only advantage in the python ecosystem is that it is easier to hire people with experience. However, anyone familiar with selenium is likely to pick up playwright extremely quickly anyways

Playwright does ship a pytest integration but it is not required

Some highlights:

1. Better waiting — everything is auto-waited and auto-retried by default

2. Easy to install browsers — no need to get separate webdriver browsers. Just run “playwright install chromium”

3. Full, accurate typing

4. Trace viewing to step through a script execution

5. Async support

6. (Arguably) more pythonic syntax and easier to pick up/ train people

I really enjoyed mastering selenium over the years, but I struggle to think of a use case for it outside of maintaining legacy script suites anymore. Playwright just does it better.
Darwin probably has some theories about this.
Thanks! It's still very much early days for the Sidepanel and the API feels very much in flux but an exciting new form factor for browser-integrated experiences. Makes total sense, supporting other browsers is likely something we will do in the future

I used https://www.screen.studio/ for the demo and past demos, it works quite well I find though it can get a bit too excited on the zoom ins and I have to cut out some of them
Interesting its a bit like Aqua security's tracee open source project. The policy engine and set of rules approach to this problem is an interesting one in the age of AI malware.. will be surprised if this can stay ahead of the latest flavors of malware as they evolve.

The NSA and John Hopkins + MITRE have a project like this, but it goes above and beyond the rules/policy approach and is more about measuring integrity of the linux kernel at runtime using eBPF
Borges' infinite Library Of Babel with infinite books re-created in VRChat
>(It's known that machine learning on human language reproduces the humans' biases in the AI.)

just like being raised by your parents to have similar political/religious biases. just like going to the same school will mean you have similar educational biases.
Yep people talk like they are owed something. They are not. Outstanding obligations are met with each paycheck.
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I‘d rather just use DuckDB and write a few SQLs, and be done.

This can be done in the terminal as well.
I have Copilot at work and the suggestions are more often wrong than right but when they're right I save a few seconds right there:)
I think I understand what you're getting at, but of course if you permaban anyone for any reason they'll have no choice but to leave or make a new account.
> After the twitter files I just assume the government has their grimy little fingers in every company...

Yes... twitter, Yahoo emails, telephone companies... the rabbit hole is deep and well-documented. So much of it illegal and unconstitutional. All we can seem to do is scream into the wind and at best... get downvoted.
Actually good founders and CEOs do tend to be realists. They know when to hold and when to fold, and they place a high value the well being of the people especially when things go poorly.

Manic founders who insist that a rescue will come right up until the last second often leave people feeling burned and don't get as many second chances when things don't go well.
The Payment Services Regulations (2009 & 2017) already encode this liability in UK law. It outlines a very clear set of standards that need to met for payments to be “authorised”, and make it clear that banks are 100% liable for any unauthorised payments.

Banks of course will do everything in their power to shirk their responsibilities. But reading the legislation, and writing a well worded letter, plus a follow up with the Financial Ombudsman (FOS) is pretty much sure fire way to get your money back.

The FCA set clear rules around how banks must deal with complaints, and the FOS makes it easy to escalate complaints when banks refuse to acknowledge they’re responsibilities, and are extremely consumer friendly (I say this as someone who’s dealt with the FOS from the banks perspective)
Blog post author here – happy to take any questions. We're looking to unify the conda + PyPI ecosystems and build a really nice cross-platform, language independent package manager (which is called pixi).
This is the worst take I have ever seen. This company just raised $250 million. That is more money than 99% of companies will ever have in the bank. Being a "startup" does not given you license to wantonly play with your employees' lives and wellbeing. As the quote from Dalton above shows, there are norms around these things which companies 1/100 this size regularly abide by.

This is not normal behavior for any company, and you should run away from anyone trying to convince you otherwise. The people responsible should be treated like pariahs.
> This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my retina to the processing my brain does to understand what it's being shown.

It's even funnier (or more disturbing) to think about all the ungodly pile of hacks this processing entails - like using the high-level understanding of how the scene is lit to override color perception (see: tower / checkerboard color illusion), interpolating or otherwise guessing most of what we "see" (see: saccade, blind spot), and lying about passage of time to "cover the tracks" of all the hackery that's going on.
> Ask the guy saying "alhamdulillah" if he means Allah or if he means God.

It's like asking whether someone means cake or gateau. Islam is an Abrahamic religion which means they worship the same deity as Jews and Christians.
Businesses aren't human beings, and there's no meaningful way to confront them with emotional consequences. Whatever obligations they have should be satisfied in a way that gives them the least possible influence over the process and the least possible way of taking credit for it. I.e., through taxes and fines that fund aid for the victims.
Sounds great.
But I supsect PHP had to make big tradeoffs for its checked-at-runtime types that would make this hard.

In contrast to TypeScript or Flow, which can only check the program flow at compile time, PHP will crash and burn if you pass an int into a string function parameter at runtime.

Would you expect the presumed type aliases to be checked at runtime too?

There are already union types in PHP 8, but no aliases.

I think in PHP it is always the best approach to work with classes, whose type you can check at runtime (in contrast to duck-typed languages such as JS, where there is instanceof but that is generally a last resort).

Structural types checked at compile time are a different approach to the one PHP chose I think. Alhough the lines between compilation and execution are blurry in a JIT language of course.
> Do you have any inkling of how costly in h/w would it be?

For something like addition, a ripple-carry adder is ~5 gates per bit. To check for NaN on input, you'd need a wide AND/OR on each input (~N log N gates per bit per input, so ~4 gates per bit for a 64-bit adder), a multiplexer on the output (~3 gates per bit), and a bunch of fan-in/out for the "is this NaN" signal. That'd likely more than double the size of the cell.

Subtraction makes that even more awkward. With 2's complement, an adder can also perform subtraction by inverting the second operand and carrying in a 1. This trick stops working if one of your bit patterns is a special value, so you either have to add even more logic to specify that NaN is inverted, or duplicate the whole mess for subtraction.

You'd also have to add a bunch of completely new hardware to distinguish between e.g. "X is bitwise equal to Y" and "X is numerically equal to Y" in equality tests, because NaN != NaN. It's hard to speculate how expensive that would be, but it certainly wouldn't be trivial.

> For floats it's been decided that paying the price was worth it, it seems.

That's a bit of an oversimplification. I'd say that it's more that:

1) Floating-point arithmetic is already fairly complex; even if you didn't handle the special values it'd still require a lot more logic than integer math.

2) Handling special values like infinities and NaN was simply part of the "spec" for floating-point math. It wouldn't have been considered fit for purpose without those features.
Did you know that your article was one of the reasons I quit my paid job to attempt to find a solution for open-source funding?

At that time, I was exploring existing solutions like Gitopia, Tea, or even Polar. I believed that these solutions would not meet your needs, so perhaps it would be a good idea to create a solution that would.
I meant in Telegram you don't need to share your phone number with your contants or members of a public chat you've joined. While in WhatsApp or Signal your contacts know your number and can easily find out your identity and where you live if you write something they don't like.
I'll get it installed and try it again. I appreciate the work you guys are doing!
I don't think you are basing these assertions on the available evidence.

Not all humans can perform all human cognitive tasks. Some tasks require great training -- ie, I am unable to compose a symphony right now.

There also seems to be an evolving view that backpropogation (for non sparse networks) is a more efficient algorithm than what the human brain does. I don't think that A(G)I breakthroughs will rely on replicating human brain structures.