skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, that’s actually great to hear! I genuinely enjoy hearing stories like that, making our tiny theory a bit more believable.

Regarding the jealousy of others’ partners — it is always a problem! According to my girl friends, we (guys in our group) come up pretty often in talks with their partners or new boyfriends. We try to overcome those problems by either introducing our significant others to the friend group as soon as possible, or exclusively date people who also have platonic friends of opposite sexes.

Obviously sometimes things go wrong, then we have to explain these people in very toddler-esque way (“Do you have any siblings of opposite sex? You wouldn’t consider that relationship romantic, would you? Yeah it’s that between us.”). Some people don’t buy it, but we’re kinda used to it at this point. But oh well, such is life.
Seems like a cartel to me. In my state commissions are 6% almost universally. Id expect 99.9% of listings and sales with agents charge the same amount.

I think that’s only possible due to cartel behavior.

Of course, we’ll see how the trial goes but it seems like a valid opinion to me.
STL: Surprisingly Tricky Logic (For System Validation)
"...Much of the recent work developing formal methods techniques to specify
or learn the behavior of autonomous systems is predicated on a belief that
formal specifications are interpretable and useful for humans when checking systems.
Though frequently asserted, this assumption is rarely tested. We performed a
human experiment (N = 62) with a mix of people who were and were not familiar
with formal methods beforehand, asking them to validate whether a set of signal
temporal logic (STL) constraints would keep an agent out of harm
and allow it to complete a task in a gridworld capture-the-flag setting...

...Our data do not support the belief that formal specifications are inherently
human-interpretable to a meaningful degree for system validation. We recommend
ergonomic improvements to data presentation and validation training, which should
be tested before claims of interpretability make their way back into the
formal methods literature..."
Nordics (in particular the Finns) are renown for their heavy drinking to the extent that their disapproving states try to price them out of the habit. They don't care and get pissed anyway, which I find endearing, and real in a nice way. More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/style/pants-drunk-time.ht...

What happens afterwards?

Yeah, just fall asleep (probably in the chair).
Not op, but maybe the perception is based on relatively few aha moments or new insights in the article. The one thing I would come back to it for is the listing of pipeline languages, which sounds interesting. YMMV.
> Storage in particular is so early in the cycle that we can expect the cost will drop at least in half. We've barely started making battery storage, the industry has 100x growth ahead.

You can add at least two more zeros there, and possibly three or more. Storage right now is mostly dams and all the easy places have been done. Battery storage is really at the proof of concept state and if you take hydro out of the equation you're looking at a tenth of a percent at best.
Carrying pistols in the UK? I didn’t think firearms offices carried pistols at all in the UK, I’m also surprised they’re carrying any firearm when they’re off duty.
Gas can't compete, because gas is too expensive. Coal actually could compete, it usually was the second type of power plant able to sell on the electricity markets, becasue CO2 certificates are just dirt cheap, way to cheap to move the needle, and coal as fuel was the least expensive (sun and win being free).
While I agree with you that it's a better fit semantically, it won't happen, but not for the reasons given in the thread. The real reason is not the ignorance of the general public, but -- IMO -- the fact that even highly intelligent AI/ML engineers themselves have a limited vocabulary* and generally do not know this word.

* this is the prevailing secular trend, at least in the US
Yes, I am wondering this as well. It sounds nice but , like google sso, do I depend on google or Apple etc? As that sounds like a bad plan.
https://archive.ph/k58ID
The standard meaning of "confabulate" is just "chat". The "memory reproduction error" is psychology jargon. For this reason, I support continued use of "hallucinate" for LLM errors.
It might be helpful to share your stats also. I can't imagine either position can be verified very well unless you work at Twitter/X.
A weak opinion, strongly hold. Or some such.
Fondant Physics
I think it's just coming from experience. They remember how every past attempt at making cars eco-friendly eventually resulted in worse personal experience via taxes, prices and worse repairability, so any new one gets a "no" by default.
Language changes all the time, nothing is set in stone, and HN is one of the better places where this change can start happening. Media copycats will follow.
> To this day the first and third Beale ciphers have never been cracked.

Yet in the very same article it says:

> attempting to use the Declaration of Independence again on the first note yielded several sequences along the lines of ‘abfdefghiijklmmnohpp’.

Surely this is the plaintext itself, or something close to it.
My understanding is that this blog post converts a specific instance of the halting problem into a Collatz-like problem. It starts with a description of a specific Turing machine, and presents a Collatz-like problem that, if solved, also answers whether that Turing machine halts or not.

Isn't this almost exactly what Conway did, with the only difference being that Conway's proof works for all Turing machines, and this proof only works for a specific Turing machine?
Even if it's 120 fps you can still have high latencies, because the time from button press to the next frame acting on that button press can be slow.

The game can stream at 120fps, but take extra like to register a jump for example.

Again, you might just not be sensitive to that.

There's also compression artifacts and bitrate that can make fine details already coarse and all that, even if it's 4k. That's what some won't find to be an issue and others will.
putting AI everywhere to get more money from investors
The process can work both ways.
I have several if you want one!
Totally fair, I guess I should not be making such generalized comments. Probably a lot of self-selection bias happening in my bubble too.
I think the main difference is youtube gives you access to nearly everything without a login while instagram does not.

Having said that there are some web pages allowing you to browse "public" instagram accounts outside of the instagram page but I guess they rely on tons of short lived bot accounts.
Have you seen the size of game patches? 100GB isn't uncommon and you can't play before it's been applied.
Anyone know why they start at level 52?

Is there some story behind 52-70 instead of 1-19? Or is it just arbitrary?
I had literally never heard this word before people started complaining about LLMs hallucinating. I think I'll stick with the one that makes sense and wait for dictionaries to catch up. Words literally can mean multiple things.
A huge portion of the English speaking world would also not know the meaning of confabulate
No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known
exactly right, buzzword-driven capital acquisition play
Amazing amount of effort spent on preventing the occasional superfluous vehicle stop when the pedestrian is gone for some reason. Would be surprised if the sensors did not raise a lot of false negatives for pedestrian presence, forcing them to keep begging at the knob?

I wonder what drivers would have to say to lights that are always red unless they press some button and wait?
There's nothing worse than spending years on a project, then when you try and show somebody, they instantly have wave it away and dismiss it as 'crap' or suggest you do X instead.
The link at the V&A museum shows excerpts from a few pages. This looks incredible. It seems unlikely, but perhaps someone somewhere has scanned in a copy of an instructional book.
Host an event you where you're hoping to co-opt third party developers into using and evangelizing your platform. Provide a lousy interface to navigate the event. Send cease and desist notices to those same developers when they try to improve it. Hmm.
From the article:

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Level 70:

Base pay: $231,700 to $361,500
On-hire stock awards: $310,000 default to $1.2 million with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $945,000

Level 69:

Base pay: $202,400 to $316,000
On-hire stock awards: $235,000 default to $1.1 million with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $750,000

Level 68:

Base pay: $186,200 to $291,000
On-hire stock awards: $177,000 default to $1 million with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $490,600

Level 67:

Base pay: $171,600 to $258,200
On-hire stock awards: $168,000 default to $700,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $336,000

Level 66:

Base pay: $157,300 to $236,300
On-hire stock awards: $75,000 default to $600,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $160,000

Level 65:

Base pay: $144,600 to $216,600
On-hire stock awards: $36,000 default to $300,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $90,000

Level 64:

Base pay: $125,000 to $187,700
On-hire stock awards: $24,000 default to $250,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $60,000

Level 63:

Base pay: $113,900 to $171,500
On-hire stock awards: $17,000 default to $200,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $44,000

Level 62:

Base pay: $103,700 to $156,400
On-hire stock awards: $11,000 default to $125,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $32,000

Level 61:

Base pay: $92,600 to $138,100
On-hire stock awards: $6,500 default to $75,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $24,000

Level 60:

Base pay: $83,500 to $125,000
On-hire stock awards: $4,500 default to $50,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $16,000

Level 59:

Base pay: $74,400 to $110,800
On-hire stock awards: $3,000 default to $30,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: $0 to $12,000

Level 58:

Base pay: $70,300 to $92,600
On-hire stock awards: $2,500 default to $20,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 57:

Base pay: $63,800 to $83,000
On-hire stock awards: $1,500 default to $10,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 56:

Base pay: $60,700 to $77,900
On-hire stock awards: $1,500 default to $10,000 with approval
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 55:

Base pay: $55,200 to $71,300
On-hire stock awards: N/A
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 54:

Base pay: $51,600 to $67,000
On-hire stock awards: N/A
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 53:

Base pay: $46,600 to $59,700
On-hire stock awards: N/A
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"

Level 52:

Base pay: $42,500 to $54,600
On-hire stock awards: N/A
Annual stock award range: "By career stage"
That's an easy and conclusion everybody arrived at before. It's probably the right one, the problem -- it's boring. It doesn't make a story, doesn't increase social cohesion and provided no value whatsoever.

Unless you actively fight opressive religious authority (parents excluded), which some people do, but most are probably not writing on this forum, it's fine to search for something more amusing and with potential of story-telling.
At this point is there any disadvantage to legislating that all companies should share a transparency report where they list their levels + avg, min, max, median salaries for each level?
Sun and wind aren't 'free' but they have the lowest operating costs compared to alternatives and they have the lowest capital cost per W of installed power. But you probably should account for a storage component as well once those hit deployment in volume. I'm holding out for the next generation of storage batteries and then I'll pull the trigger on a system large enough to do both arbitrage and cover the day/night cycle of this house for a week. That works out to 70 to 100 KWh of storage, which is right now both too expensive to make sense (we still have net metering here) and a safety concern. But I expect the next generation storage to both be substantially cheaper and safer than what's out there today.
Have you done any experiments on this? Using hard water vs demineralised? I have no idea if this is a thing that's spoken about in the Sourdough baking world.
simply because your wage will not keep up with inflation and would force most people to take a second job
> Bandcamp has been successful because of the trust they have within the internet music community. It’s not a very complicated product, but people buy music there because the whole thing feels like it’s a part of the music scene, not the tech or business scene. Given that the Daily is well regarded in that community, I highly doubt those six writers, who were likely paid significantly less than the median staff member, were the problem here. Even if they didn’t have the purely trackable ROI, they were a huge part of the platform’s only moat: its goodwill with the artists and listeners who used it.

To provide an opinion from a user of the platform with "no skin in the game" regarding non-technical aspects of the platform, the social presence of Bandcamp was a significant portion of its appeal to me. I did not (and generally do not on other platforms) regularly seek out new media, and instead tend to rely on on various social media feeds and suggestion algorithms to help expose me to new music. I used to follow Bandcamp on multiple platforms until their acquisition by Epic, when I stopped following them for ideological reasons. The headlines/titles/posts that Bandcamp produced up until that point were far more alluring and generally attractive than any other music platform that I also followed, and their articles were generally of a significantly higher quality than others as well, with a large focus on the artistry present.

I discovered several artists through this form of interaction that I otherwise wouldn't have, and haven't since I began avoiding Bandcamp after their acquisition. I can't imagine that layoffs are targeting purely technical staff (as technical staff are the backbone of the observable functionality of the business), and I fear that the strategy taken by Songtradr will result in a tremendous detriment to the marketability and external usability of the platform. This cost-cutting measure seems to signify either a terribly-fated problem regarding changes to the company, or yet another act of private capital tearing down its competition. Given that Songtradr is in the market of licensing music, I am strongly influenced to believe the latter; using a buyout to cripple _the_ commercially-successful indie music platform (which serves as a competitive and independent means of releasing and licensing and distributing music) seems like a logical way to further capture a part of a market that has historically been dominated by media giants that use legal precedence to dominate.
Go back to Lesswrong.
If you live in Georgia, Bread Beckers is an excellent source of different grains and instruction. Most of her classes/workshops are free on YouTube as well. Changing our diet with good grains has really helped overcome some chronic health conditions.
Neither really seem appropriate; they're both far too anthropomorphising. The machine isn't making an error of _thought_; it's simply accidentally incorrect instead of accidentally correct.
What I saw is that role isn't working either way. TLM don't have manager's power (can't reward and cannot punish) and at the same time expected to churn out production code, carving continuous focus hours out of manager's schedule.
Can one not just add an after-market adblue filter onto the car to hit the emission requirements? Like, do a reverse VW on it.
> But hey, let's geek out a bit more on the surveillance/civilian murdering technology!

You realize if they had better border monitoring technology, Hamas would never have succeeded in their terrorist attack, and then the retaliation we're seeing would never have occurred, right? It literally would have saved the lives of thousands of civilians on both sides.
Oh definitely, everyone's experience will be different, not just due to their location in regards to the Nvidia datacenters, but also personal sensitivity to latency and such.
Yup, there's definitely a window of opportunity here before the market has matured and the hype is still on. I honestly blame myself for being too lazy to capitalize on my basic AI skillz and get paid $$$ for basic advice/guidance to organizations and municipalities here. I know some that are cashing in right now.
A bit of fun whatabautism: I've tried unsubscribing from mailing list, it required to login. I've asked it to reset my password, it send me my old password over email as a reminder.
Resistance against antibiotics cannot come free for bacteria. If we stop using some, the resistance should vanish as quickly as it turned up, shouldn't it?
Wow, that's impressive. Thank you for these.
A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict
Try https://dataconomy.com/2023/10/17/leaked-microsoft-pay-guide...
This is just terrible and inexcusable.

I would want to like Microsoft but time and again they prove they pay no attention to security and privacy related issues. The same with Azure too along with it being too slow and buggy.
I think the implication is that wherever you have your car, it's worth less because it costs money to drive it in london, which directly affects its resale value. Pretty indirect though.
The link without paywall from my WP subscription: https://wapo.st/401qJ2L
Why not both? You took a public action that your company could derive value from. You're offering value in return, in the form of technical content, but...it also advertises your company to your target audience. This article wasn't posted organically by someone whose only interest is in the content of the article.
If you think "we will need more laborers in the future" is a good reason for someone to have kids, please don't have any.
In terms of communicating with laypeople, I don't think this is a hill worth dying on. "Confabulating" is not a term I think that many people outside of the field of psychology are familiar with in the first place.

If you do want to use another term for laypeople, I think "bullshitting" or "BSing" would have connotations that are more relevant than "hallucinating".
Can you elaborate, to a fellow (?) German, about just how a "green" political agenda will increase public health care costs? Or a re you just mixing multiple talking points (renewables bad, nuclear good, public health care bad, private health care good) without making any sense at all?
There is no incentive for Microsoft to modify their shipping patterns. Buyers consistently reward them by not only buying their software in immense quantities but also by paying exorbiant amounts of money for security software and services on top, of course of the MSFT brand. And then the cycle is completed by publicly celebrating them on their threat intel reporting, generated by their own products, sourced by actors abusing their own platforms.

It would be incredibly beautiful if it wasn't morally completely wrong.
One thing people forget is loans with modern banking can effectively increases money supply as well.
1) tether claims they mainly hold tbills
2) they have a redemption method which has never failed
3) they run a big exchange which supports OTC
And Windscale (whitewashed to 'Sellafield') and an endless series of near-catastrophes.
In the US, it would probably be enough to state-ise them, rather than nationalise them (and far easier constitutionally). The key thing is to remove the authority of tiny local government leaders over the police.

Oh, and stop electing sheriffs and judges.
"Hire a top drawer test automation engineer to lead the company in how to run QA properly - this should be a senior developer"

Trouble is, they are few and far between and PE doesnt know how to find them...they only understand money they dont understand talent. Furthermore, when they do stumble upon talent they dont know how to leave it alone and won't trust it.

PE mistakenly tends to think that they are there for more than just what they are...money.

They need to understand that they are just people with money. The same way I understand that I am just a techie that produces things.

I bought a loaf of bread today, but that doesnt make me a baker or an expert in baking or running a bakery.

Same applies to PE. Just because they buy businesses and invest in them, doesnt make them experts in whatever they buy.
> The situation on the ground is very different in Japan. Rarely do you have mass shootings or gang and drug violence. Those problems are a daily reality in the U.S.

The vast majority to US police offers will never encounter these situations in their careers. There’s no reason to have every officer armed to teeth just in case they’re blind sided gang violence, or a mass shooting. Besides we also know that most U.S. officers have no interest in responding to types of incidents, preferring to sit it out until someone else comes a deals with their mess.

> American police officers would never wear a tie. They’d (rightly) fear that someone would try to strangle them with it.

That’s why police officers in other countries wear clip-on ties that are specifically designed to breakaway if yanked on. Nobody wears a real tie.
For me what didn't work is the psychology of the book. I'm a big fan of Iain Banks, and I've read Use of Weapons twice, and both times it left me unsatisfied. I'm always surprised when someone says it's their favourite Culture book.

Spoilers ahead: The character of Eletiomel was so thinly drawn that when the conflict with Zakalwe occurs, it's really not clear what his motivations are aside from helping win a revolutionary war. And he commits an evil, barbaric act completely out of the blue, suggesting he's a calculating psychopath willing to murder an innocent person (his own lover, no less) in an apparently very elaborate, premeditated way which also happens "off-screen". And then we are supposed to buy the idea that he was so traumatised by his own actions (not actually a psychopath, then) that he adopted a new identity and spent the rest of his life mentally suppressing his past and also somehow atoning for it? I'm not buying any of it.
curl 8.2.1 in insider since 2023-10-05 (not advocating, just FYI):
https://winbindex.m417z.com/?arch=insider&file=curl.exe
Folks act like this is a unique problem/behavior by Microsoft. It’s not - as an industry we aren’t held accountable for collectively mostly treating security issues as an afterthought.
To play Devil’s Advocate here, could it be safe because they’re able to defend themselves against grievous injury and death?

Instead of looking at death, we should look at overall incidents of violence for an honest measure of the danger involved. There are somewhat controversial figures in the civilian world around “Defensive Gun Use,” including non-lethal acts ending possible or would-be violent encounters that, if true, speak to guns leading to less death and injury than the current ~10,000 number we suffer as a nation.

I’ve heard a similar argument that we shouldn’t look at the murder rate as a measure of inner city violence, but attempted murder type charges for the fact that casualty care in hospitals is so much better these days that would-have-been murders are now only attempts.

An interesting stats rabbit hole I have, sadly, not the time to explore.