skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The approximate loss of life for major outbreaks in the past 25 years (excluding Covid) was around 500K. In a best case scenario GoF could have mitigated maybe 20% of that or 100k. Let' say one research initiative as r, the chance of that research being successful as s, the chance of that research being on the exact virus causing the outbreak as v, the type of mutation research being the actual mutation the virus had as m, the chance that the government leveraged the research and took action to prepare accordingly to take advantage of that research as g, we get s * v * m * g = P probability of r mitigating outbreaks by 20%. P of r is probably around 1/100 or less. So you would probably want around at least 100 GOF research initiatives to save ~100K lives.

On the surface that might sound ok. However if we undergo a similar exercise of chances of Lab leak causing an outbreak we'll probably end up with a similar figure of 1/100. In a lab leak we'll have to contend with a more powerful variant of a pathogen that has caused a prior outbreak which may kill an order more people than the average outbreak. So perhaps a million deaths alone, or if we entertain that Covid was caused by a lab lead ~10m deaths, or 100x of 100k.

Ultimately it seems GoF research is playing with fire without knowing if the effort actually will reduces total deaths on net.

A much more effective route seems to simply invest in rapid sequencing, rapid wastewater monitoring, PPE stocking/distribution policies, more effective local lockdown procedures/policies.
… and also had half the fuel efficiency of the same F150.
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2019/09/20190930-sivak.html
Because government handled billions and has armies? Sometimes even nuclear weapons. Does your bank habe that?
“This is deeply unethical, especially on the taxpayer’s dime,” Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Executive Director Albert Fox Cahn said in a statement. “Using AI to convince New Yorkers that he speaks languages that he doesn’t is deeply Orwellian. Yes, we need announcements in all of New Yorkers’ native languages, but the deep fakes are just a creepy vanity project.”

Jeeze, talk about a storm in a teacup. Wonder if this guy thinks it's deeply Orwellian to localize the mayors press releases or city services websites into constituents languages too? Who cares if it's in the voice of the mayor or MS-Brad-M-7, if it's getting the message about hiring halls out to the community, more power to them.
Those are abstract categories (accounts). Transactions get assigned to accounts, then (at tax time) accounts get assigned to forms and line numbers.

Remapping a transaction to a different tax line item (e.g. if tax law changes, as it did this year with § 174) is just a matter of updating the account metadata. This is much more convenient than having to go back through the books and reassign transactions to different accounts.

It's plain text in Git, so I have the usual tools available. For example, `git diff` can tell me what changed between tax years, and I can check out a copy of my books as they existed at the time a past year's return was filed.
Almost certainly a good portion of it.
I find it ironic that Fortune charges $1 a month to read about X charging for $1 / year access?
This amounts to the police becoming a mafia with a protection racket. They realized that they have little or no motivation or incentive to actually do their jobs if they can extract more money with side jobs.
doh!
thank you
I'm glad. I've used Cash App Taxes the past few years, and while it's free (including state) and an easy interface, I'm well aware I'm the product. Presumably/hopefully that will not be the case with this new system. I'm in one of the listed states, so I'm ... not exactly looking forward to trying it out, but definitely curious!
This project is awesome! Just recently began to get these anti-adblock notices on YT and while one can still skip them by reloading the page I assume this won't be so for long. Awesome that Odysee even comes with different related videos than YT itself so one can discover new stuff outside of YT's algorithmic bubble.
https://twitter.com/FoxCahn
Mostly seconded. Another upside is this really does put a much larger cost to bots and problem accounts. Even $1 a year is a big deal if you've got an army of 5000 bot accounts (something pretty trivial in this environment).

I'm all for things like Kagi doing this RIGHT and supposedly not selling all my data, but I've argued that companies like twitter charging for access is the path to a healthier environment.

Oh and to add, earlier this year I would've bet money that if Musk started charging, it'd be WAY more. $1 a year is a very smart starting point for a whole slew of reasons, and will let them tier out their services.
Exactly this.

I would be entirely supportive of a model where a social network (not social media) was established with modest annual fees with the condition that the usual privacy violation and targeting and engagement hacking wasn't going to happen.

But that's clearly not what this is.
Users that pay $8/month for X Premium still get served ads and have the same ToS for tracking/spying as everybody else, I don't think the $1 crew is going to fair any better
You'd think they would have figured out a way to send pizza back the other way, given California's deficit.
In what world does raising the price from free to $1 lower the barrier for signing up?
Will she be paid a million?

Quick joke before the omnipresent Dang sounds his warning..
>Musk said “It’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

With so many of these billionaires and CEOs it is becoming impossible to tell whether they are transparently lying or complete idiots. Just admit you need the revenue and you want people to put a card on file to lower the bar for future financial transactions. Charging for a service doesn't eliminate bots, it just shifts the financial break even point a little. If that is truly the only solution Twitter has, that is a huge indictment of his and his team's intelligence.

EDIT: To expand on why this clearly isn't targeting bots, this only applies to new users. It therefore does nothing regarding all the bots currently on the platform. It is clear that they don't want to chase off existing users which applies to both real users and bots.
Glad to hear the dream of the nineties is alive in the midwest:D
How is that related news?
Meh.... very very low range.

For ~$20 you can get a LoRa dongle and https://meshtastic.org/, and with some luck (someone putting a node on a hgh building or a hill), you can reach quite impressive distances.
Beach got Tammany Hall to approve construction of that tunnel by telling them it was... a pneumatic mail system!
No. He ruined the product in every way then said “pay”. There’s nothing to pay for anymore. Let it burn.
i don't really like twitter. it's just where most of my network still hangs out online (for now).
> One of the best-demonstrated advantages of writing by hand seems to be in superior note-taking. In a study from 2014 by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer, students typing wrote down almost twice as many words and more passages verbatim from lectures, suggesting they were not understanding so much as rapidly copying the material.

This is a very strained line of argumentation. The raw fact is that the typists are twice as fast.
Anyone running a TwitterBot through an LLM or other AI tool is paying far, far more than $1/year.

This $1 'fee' monetizes and benefits bot-accounts more than anyone else.

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Let's say I setup 10,000 bot accounts for $10,000/year total. Will I really be banned from Twitter? Or will I be treated like the high paying customer that I truly am?

Is $10,000 expensive for a marketing team pushing a new product? Sounds like easy-astroturf to me.

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The economic incentives here are all wrong. Astroturf / marketing companies pay $10,000,000 for a singular 30 second Superbowl ad. They absolutely don't give a crap about $10,000 for an easy army of astroturf accounts that will upvotes and generate fake LLM discussion around products.
Some types of publics works projects require hiring police for traffic safety and insurance reasons.

In addition, retired police officers often can keep their uniforms and work privately in an official capacity.
The $1 subscription would be for the privilege to do write-operations, e.g. tweeting and liking. Paying to consume content has been a thing for long before the internet
What If We Could All Control A.I.?
Very cool! Thank you for sharing!!
Capitalism - where only things which turn a profit are deemed worthwhile.
Yay. Yet another tax levied against us with ADHD.

(No, I don’t mean a fee applied by a government, I mean more associated physical and mental issues which are co-morbid with or indirectly caused by ADHD)
this would turn me off as a new user. it's already hard to look at tweets if you aren't a user.
> I haven't been paying attention for a few months, is there a lot of development happening around SDXL or are people still mostly focused on 1.5?

There's been a lot happening on SDXL, yes.

> My expectation was that SDXL would probably not see wide adoption for a while because it's hard to make up for the worse training data, is that bearing out?

What worse training data?
I think X should get credit for this move anyways. Them charging for access may make more people comfortable with the idea of paying for social networking, so that in the future more people will join when new social networks are made that don’t mine the data of the people
Yes, the people remaining are addicted to/like Twitter. But this is the equivalent of imposing a sin tax on it and it will cost Twitter engagement like sin taxes lower alcohol or smoking.

It will probably lose them even more money as their primary income is ads and lower engagement will drive advertising incoming even lower.

Like all of new X/Twitter's changes, it doesn't seem to have any foresight or insight into the product at all.
Back in 2016, before the acquisition by Facebook (now Meta), Whatsapp planned to charge $1/year, too. https://venturebeat.com/mobile/whatsapp-is-ditching-its-annu...
Do you say "L-L-Emma" or "L-Lemma"?
the difference between free and $1 is enormous
There's a difference between the idea of paying for a service in the abstract, and paying for one that's past its prime and has gone through extreme enshittification. Would I pay this much for 2015 Twitter? Sure.
What's worse, killing your own company because you can't get advertising revenue, or killing your own company because you are desperately trying to make up for the loss of said advertising revenue?
related .. new AI tech in the USA used to make city police services, as venture .. the words they start the press release with are .. yes you know it .. "sustainable". Apparently this word is flexible enough for almost any occasion !
I see so many flaws.

The article claims almost all automatic transmissions have a sequential mode, and ignores the most common kind of automatic transmission.

The article fails to say "get away from traffic" or "look for a way off the road into a large field."

The article fails to mention avoiding going downhill and to try to go uphill.

The article failed to say that hitting a car from behind is far less likely to kill you that hitting a bridge abutment.

The article ignores the damage done by scraping against something. Only do this if the alternative is to hit a car or something else.

Imaging this scenario: my brakes fail on the highway. I decide not to exit because that heads downhill. I turn on my flashers and move right, downshifting and applying the emergency brake. Cars honk at me and as I near the top of the hill I manage pull into the shoulder and stop.
Seriously. One would have to be a bit of a psycho to put an animal through that without an extremely good reason.
If they put their political differences aside, he said…

Do you understand how massive the interests are which fan those differences?
I agree with all of the points you just made, and don't wish to be anywhere near a gun, personally. This does not change the fact that there are some people that feel the opposite, and will obtain a firearm regardless. If I can, I'm going to incentivize them to choose the safer option.
Any idea what to similarly search for for a cheap, low power server but has at least 4 bays for hard drives to use as a NAS?
i would pay for this.
"In prosperous cities"

Yeah, but we are seeing that many cities are not prosperous and are seeing population reductions. You can't will the creation of value. Just because it gets taxed like the land will create value doesn't mean it actually will.

"in a way that benefits the community."

These taxes don't guarantee this at all. There could be any number of uses, many of which could be detrimental or wasteful (and this will vary based on perspective as not everyone wants the same thing).
You can build one out of a strip of WS2812b addressable LEDs and an ESP32. Requires some basic soldering, probably a 3d printer too.
They are common in the Catskills of upstate New York too
One idea is just to use fewer random bits in peerIDs. Yjs (https://docs.yjs.dev/) gets away with just 32 random bits. If you compromise and use 64 random bits, then even a very popular doc with 1 million lifetime peerIDs will have a < 10^-7 lifetime probability of collision.
The OP seemed to be motivated by bringing joy to people who play his game. I'm saying the aggregator site can help him do that.
Bots and spammers are already using stolen credit card to pay for Premium. This isn't going to stop them.
Well we spent over a decade and millions of dollars studying SARS coronaviruses and yet none of that work was of any help in fighting the pandemic. For example Ecohealth which was publicly funded with our tax dollars has still to this day refused to share it's research/samples/data despite being legally obligated to. The most charitable interpretation for refusing to share this information while millions of people are dying is that it is simply useless.

So why continue to fund such dangerous research if the research will be hidden when we actually need it?
I don't think we're told Nell's ancestry in any detail, but, she's the daughter of Tequila and Bud. Tequila appears to be a typical "white trash" uneducated young woman who is living in the LT but whose ancestors are probably American or European, the discussion of the Freedom Machine (Diamond Age contraception) strongly suggests Tequila sees herself roughly this way. Bud is deliberately your generic Cyberpunk protagonist, if he has any Chinese ancestry it's unlikely he recognises or celebrates it.

Yes, the LT is in China. It's an analogous situation to Hong Kong, physically it is in China, but as its name suggests ("Leased Territories") it is controlled by outsiders, hence the anger of groups like the Fists.
The point of extradition is surrendering a person to another jurisdiction to face criminal charges. Why?, because that's what a treaty is.

Ultimately it depends on what he's charged with and if it's found they can be extradited for it...
This is turn of the century New York. Someone was getting paid from government accounts. ;-)

>> “The high operating costs of the pneumatic system ultimately proved its downfall. By 1918, the federal government considered the annual rental payments ($17,000 per mile per annum) made by the post office to be ‘exorbitant’ and endorsed a new alternative with greater capacity–the automobile–as the delivery method of choice.”
Same here. This talk reminds me why I stopped going to tech meetups with tech talks.
A decade of App Store user behavior refusing to pay $0.99 one time for an app vs. using an app for free tells a different story.
I got really into Emacs, probably 10 years ago. I lived it. So I understand why people like it. Then I left, and I don’t miss it at all. I’m glad it exists; it sets a certain standard. I don’t think VS Code is “there” yet. But for the love of transistors, I really hope that something comes along that checks the boxes of “why people love Emacs” but also embraces graphical user interfaces. If we never have something widely considered a proper superset of Emacs, technological progress will be incomplete. Luckily, we are in a golden age of text editor and plain-text “knowledge base” software. For example, Obsidian is fantastic — far from the goals of Emacs — but it is a new “locus of excellence” so to speak.
ASIO and FBI heads accuse China of being worst intellectual property thief
> Even $1 a year is a big deal if you've got an army of 5000 bot accounts (something pretty trivial in this environment).

I think this belief is highly misguided. Whoever is in the business of managing bot farms comprised of thousands of bots is certainly monetizing them for way more than $5000/month.
I love to mock Elon but even I am inclined to agree with him. It seems like the only other solution is something like Google's Web Environment Integrity thing, which scares me. The best/easiest solution is to make it more expensive for the botters to play the game,
No implied threat- they bombed the mayors office
The Wikipedia articles are quite good also. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
Well, the world is not beautiful. It just is. Claiming that physics or neuroscience is beautiful is just trying to take the place of the mystic. Science only gives you the tools to know when you're wrong. It is not some revelatory cult that you join to be one with the world in a mystical union of knowledge and wisdom. Or whatever.

You are either a scientist, and live in the perpetual darkness of never knowing anything for sure, only occasionally pierced by a pale ray of weak light of uncertain knowledge; or in the land of the mystics who conquer the god-given truth with their every breath. Make your choice.

And stop bragging for dog's sake. We haven't got a clue how the world works. And we are busy destroying it so fast we'll never know.
--no-half-vae, IIRC, is required for the stock sdxl vae model because otherwise it frequently produces errors. I believe there’s a half-precision fixed VAE floating around and baked into many SDXL-derived checkpoints that avoids this problem.
One fun thing about twitter was always the anonymous novelty accounts that people could fire off on a whim and see where they went. Most of the time they go nowhere but the viral ones can be great fun. Any barrier to entry, even $1, ensures that there's gonna be a lot less of these going forwards.
I donate monthly to my Mastodon instance, so it can afford to be an ad-free space. It doesn't take that much.
Tip: a good way to refer to this company is "Xitter". It concise and less awkward then most other conventions, and is easily recognizable. And if you pronounce the "X" with an "sh" you get a joke compatible with Elon Musk's humour style.
I’ve dreamt of an app that works like this. Browser tabs as children of tasks is a really strong concept and I think it’s more transformative than people can easily appreciate. I wish you the best and will give it a try soon.

PS I misread “gamify your work” as “calmify…” and rather liked it. We’re all after some sense of flow.
Anytime I drive through VT or NH it's amazing how well the construction workers direct traffic, and they don't get to charge $100 an hour or whatever the police actually charge.
That's because it is memorizing chess openings, or basically the same thing.

Most Leetcode Mediums fall into the category where the type of solution is obvious (sliding window/graph search/etc), and the code isn't hard to write, but there's a "trick" embedded in the problem and if you don't already know the trick, you're never going to figure it out in 30 minutes.

So the best strategy is to find a "Top N Leetcodes" list like Blind 75 and just memorize them. Of course you can't expect those exact questions to come up in every interview, but having a few dozen solutions already memorized should let you do some pattern recognition and lower your cognitive load while you're trying to figure out what that problem's trick is.
what are the credentials being asked for by X ? Does their roadmap include biometrics? Its not fiction, this google prompt just really happened minutes ago.. first time here
CapRover Launches Pro Version at $2 a month
> "if you do not pay for the product, you are the product"

Yeah, I think we moved from that one to "you're the product, regardless if you pay or not"
It must shift it by a lot, right? I would think the cost of a twitter bot would be in the neighborhood of a fraction of a cent/year.
> If you’re not willing to pay at least a dollar to post, maybe your content doesn’t have any value to the audience or platform.

Said $1 fee would kill my audience, and therefore my incentive for posting there.

It's an inverse network effect, and why bad changes to social networks cause the death spiral effect.
Another reason why I left California. You can't buy a Canik's as a non-LEO. Also,
criminals get whatever guns they want and carry them while law-abiding citizens can't do anything except wish not to be mugged or murdered with strong objections. It's completely absurd given how violent America is.
The reason ideas like Intelligent Design don't get any traction is because the people who promote those ideas never provide any details. If you make an assertion that a process can't work without divine intervention, the burden of proof is on you to explain at what specific point the intervention occurred, and what kind of event that was, and what did it do exactly. You would think that people who believe in the wonder and miracle of God's creation would be overflowing with ideas like that, but for some reason they always dry up when challenged.

It's like when you watch a show like Ghost Hunters. I mean I'd be the first one to express delight if they ever come up with something that was genuinely novel and interesting after all the years they've been on TV. But even if they did, it wouldn't prove the existence of the afterlife, it would be something else. And it would need to be investigated by people who aren't invested in any particular outcome.

So it ends up being a paradox. If you want to prove the truth of a religious assertion, you have to approach it from a neutral place and look for all the possible falsifications. And since religious people never want to do that, we find ourselves back at the place we started, saying that religion is a manifestation of human culture, which is different from a thing that defines a method for explaining novel phenomena.
Well, I’m shocked, SHOCKED. Who could ever have imagined such a thing?
> Them charging for access may make more people comfortable with the idea of paying for social networking, so that in the future more people will join when new social networks are made that don’t mine the data of the people

Won’t that just make people get used to paying and having their data sold? Why would future companies not follow that same model?
They are killing their golden egg-laying goose. It's good.
Agreed. It might also increase confidence that the information you're seeing isn't just a product of a giant bot farm trying to shape public opinion. I, for one, would be willing to pay a little extra if the only "likes" that calibrate my feed are those coming from people paying at the same payment level as me.
We have probably more complex pricing than what Tier seems to handle, but, it's only a handful of tables and not a significant amount of code to handle it all. I didn't think this was a terribly hard problem and a custom solution seems better for tailoring the system to your particular needs?
Meanwhile other tech companies (just from the last 2 weeks):

- LinkedIn lays off 563 engineering roles

- Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%

- Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday

- Epic lay off 830 people thanks to “unrealistic” metaverse ambitions

Apparently they don't have such deep pockets...