skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Go to low-income neighbourhoods, where incomes are closer to those in Europe, and you’ll find tax-inclusive pricing

This is a pretty funny but largely ignorant dig at Europeans.

Every country I've ever been to except the US includes VAT in their prices and I've been to over 30. It's not just a European thing but a world thing, where the US once again is the odd one out.
> Is there anything as good as Firefox with UBO?

The DuckDuckGo iOS app blocks ADs and trackers. Also ADGuard Pro can block stuff at the network level. It only costs $10.00 for a one time purchase.

> My main concerns are will 2FA break?

Make sure to export your QR code TOTP seed images into a new iOS app. Most TOTP apps allow you to do this. I like the app 2FAS[0].

> Can I keep using Google for photos and docs or does everything need to be on icloud?

The whole suite of Google apps are available on iOS.

[0] https://2fas.com/
> This allows companies to advertise one price nationwide.

I think most stores prints their pricing labels locally.

Maybe, there could be a case for national TV to be exempt.

But for prices listed in a store, on a menu card, I don't see any excuse.
ML models are probably not actually copyrightable, for the same reasons their outputs aren't. So you can probably just ignore model licenses, yes.
That’s a widely repeated though at best highly misleading number. It includes all of the backup telephone bank system (for getting the TANs for the actual release [0]), the link to the public health system (for reporting) and the money to upgrade the lab systems so that these can enter the test results in the system.
Unfortunately I never saw a splitted-out version of the budget, but from the list above I’d be surprised if even 10% went to the actual app(s) itself.

[0] which, completely shockingly I know, massively reduced the number is released contact traces
How to help and be helped when debugging software
Previous research in this area has been hindered by the recent public perceptions of "Drugs R Bad M'kay?" in often egregious examples of political propaganda steamrolling academic endeavor.

The politics of academia are such now that I fear for any research being done. There's so many parties who have found academic cloaks convenient for their ideological zealotry. I suspect there may be more predators slavering at this announcement than scholars contemplating asking for support from it.

Hopefully they can avoid that, and do some good work.

One question I'd like to see explored more: why was "annointing with oils" such a common thing in antiquity, and why did it fade out? The descriptions make me suspect it was at least sometimes a vehicle for some active essence, fat soluble, absorb-able through skin. The "altar / censer ash" studies suggest a cocktail of many ingredients in such things.

But modern drugs rarely use a topical application path.
That doesn't seem to be working
But these deadlines are all arbitrary.

Game studios want to plan to release a game in X months; the commenter you're replying to wants them to plan to release a game in X + 12 months.

Why not plan on releasing the game in X-6 months? Is their plan to tell shareholders "Our company plans to make $0 in the next 6 months because we want to implement this practice... etc?"

A company can also stagger game releases; work on more than one game simultaneously, offset by 12 months or so. You still get a yearly - or whateverly - release cycle, but you avoid the burnout and the bad press of a rushed release.
https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/
Was there actually a price increase recently and not 6 months ago?

If people just want to vent about Hashicorp/Terraform, it seems like a text-post would be sufficient for that.
I've worked in many different jobs throughout my life: in the office, freelancing from home, renting office space, or working on company and university campuses.

I feel cubicles are better than open plans.

Allow people to WFH. Personally, I don't mind in office work, but I prefer mostly from home (I am raising the future work force).

Commutes are horrid. Here in Seattle, road rage shootings are common. In San Francisco, on the BART, one could get into an accidental fight with strange people.

Make sure the bathrooms are clean, and don't assume men's bathrooms should be smaller. I find it absurd to stand in line.

Free coffee and candy are not perks.

Homogeneous workplace application is a thing of the past. Flexibility is the future.
The game is much less click-intensive, but you need really good situational awareness for it.
It doesn't have "traditional" micro, you don't need to manually queue units or babysit every single unit so it doesn't die immediately, but to win, you need to micro in key areas and most importantly, manage your economy well.
The psychological effect is probably a feature not a bug
The likelihood of you paying creators directly is the same as movie pirates paying actors directly.

We don’t believe you.
Minus that they are in direct competition to the GPTs and the "app store" and "revenue sharing" that Sam announced on dev day.
> Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

when has he "executed"?

he seems to have had four jobs:

1. a failed startup founder
1. a YC person handing out other people's money
1. openai ceo
1. a horrific cryptocurrency grift

which do you feel he "executed" so impressively on?
Interesting point about not being loyal to a company. If this year is any indication it’s not taken into account when layoffs are done and the only winner is the overemployed.
>the track record on big companies handling alignment/safety in house, rather than open source with the whole research community working on it is still very much up in the air. Sidney (bing assistant) was easy to prompt inject and ask for bad things

Yep, Microsoft did a terrible job, and they should've been punished.

I'm not claiming that Big AI rocks at safety. I'm claiming that Big AI is also a big target for regulators and public ire. There's at least a chance they will get their act together in response to external pressure. But if cutting-edge models are open sourced indefinitely, they'll effectively be impossible to control.

>research that people have been able to do on forcing the output of llama to confirm to certain rules will likely prove invaluable in the future.

You may be correct that releasing llama was beneficial from the point of view of safety. But the "conform to certain rules" strategy can basically only work if (a) there's a way to enforce rules that can't be fine-tuned away, or (b) we stop releasing models at some point.
It can also vary street to street, due to intersecting county and municipal lines, and based on time, e.g. tax brackets that change depending on sales volume or special taxes on certain items.
For the same reason why Dropbox and One Drive and GitHub and Facebook and all the other big services don't get blocked: because they're big enough and well-known enough as content hosters that the default assumption is that they have a bad user rather than that Microsoft went rogue.

It's not fair to smaller and newer players, but it's perfectly rational and isn't a uniquely special feature of Google.
BlueBubbles appears to require you own a macOS device. Nothing Chats didn't require you own one.

Other than that, it's definitely seems better in terms of privacy.
Warning to any mobile users: the site has an enormous banner image that is absolutely crawling over a high speed wired connection. I'm going to guess some idiot uploaded a high resolution PNG...

There's a general "search" field with no indication of how to search for a geographical area.

I did a search and everything that comes up are janitorial positions for the national park service. In what reality are people going to volunteer to scrub bathrooms for tourists?
same here. it tried to threaten me into disabling adblock, restricted the number of videos I could access, it did not work (I just go elsewhere for entertainment), so it restored full access.
I do like makefiles.

I am not at the point I have a mental model of what Nix really is that I have with git.

I understand it has something to do with derivations where each package is a collection of files at a given version and the data and state is immutable. Which reminds me of Git.

It's also a programming language for expressions which evaluate to a hierarchy of files on disk.

pkgs.git, pkgs.vim

I find the tooling, command line utilities aren't immediately understandable to me. I just rely on that Replit have implemented the Nix integration so that when you change "replit.nix" it just updates the environment :-)

I really ought to give an immutable desktop a go at some point such as Silverblue .
> I wouldn’t at all be surprised if someone creates a self-hosted clone of TFC

This already exists[0]. Still in development but it looks promising.

[0] https://github.com/leg100/otf
We (including the OpenAI board) are trying to keep it at zero.
Never thought I would find a cheerleader for non-transparent pricing.
Methinks that already exists as cold-diving neoprene-like soft and flexible but skin-tight high-tech foam.
> It's not just a European thing but a world thing, where the US once again is the odd one out

I agree. That doesn’t make it an issue.

It also doesn’t negate that the U.S. is the odd one out on (a) income and (b) local government. Those are the factors, together with less cash use (though this bucket is less exclusive), behind the phenomenon. My life would literally not change in any tangible way for having keeping menus and price stickers up to date; if another store gave me better service for forgoing that work, I’d probably notice that first.

Put another way: I’ve travelled a lot in the world, and I genuinely hadn’t noticed tax-inclusive pricing until a German friend pointed it out in Frankfurt.
These are not "ways" of achieving superhuman intelligence, these are potential forms of superhuman performance.

It's also a very broad definition, because by that definition we have had superhuman performance in computation for decades. And we've been able to write programs for very narrow tasks that outperform humans for that time as well.

Generally when people are comparing artificial intelligence against human intelligence, they want an AGI. Humans aren't good at just one narrow thing, that's why they aren't all replaced by specialized programs already. We are taking about being able to describe a problem and the artificial intelligence can take it from there. That's why the bar is AGI, which is a much higher bar than any of your broad definitions.
If you explain how I've been in bad faith here, I'd be willing to rectify that. You asked a question and I gave you a pretty straight answer. I just can't see why you'd talk about FOSS so much if you really "want no part of that toxicity".

I also don't think it's bad faith to say that your decisions were motivated by selling your product. That's a perfectly reasonable motivation. I don't think it's bad faith to say you are misleading people, I never implied that you wanted to. You literally said a few replies ago that you thought I had been mislead into thinking you called yourself FOSS when you didn't. Maybe I am just stupid, but I don't think it takes and idiot to read "open source-minded company" and conclude that you are doing something open source. (In fact, wouldn't it be bad faith to assume that I was lying about what you've said rather than just mistaken?)
What got me recently was the fee to select a seat on a flight. I'm traveling with my family, including a 12 yo kid. Am I going to let her sit between two strange men for the flight? Of course not! So I have no choice but to pay the $50/seat (or whatever the amount was) so we can all sit together. This is criminal! Who will be held responsible if my kid gets assaulted in the flight?
> I also don’t hate the side effect that it somewhat points out to you that it’s the govt taking a cut

In every place I have been to, the receipt or invoice has a line item saying how much tax was payable on the transaction. Not least so that business customers can reclaim VAT in countries that have VAT. Different items also often have different tax rates, which is especially noticeable at somewhere like a supermarket where you might buy food, other goods, and alcohol in one transaction.
There are lots of posts saying "I take D because..." Well, yes, if you have a legit deficiency and over-the-counter vitamin D is recommended by your doctor, then by all means use it. I think the article is talking about people who think "more vitamins == better" or quacks who megadose. Truth be told OTC VitD isn't even the most effective delivery mechanism. My doctors have told me: "You can try 1000 IBUs a day but the OTC doesn't really do much and if things do get worse we'll write a script [for the real stuff]."
> I'm trying to poke holes in the "always use UTC and you're good" advice.

There's a much simpler one - recurring meetings/events (in-person or local-ish like within one country) that cross a DST boundary. You always want these to be attached to a local time zone, so it doesn't suddenly happen an hour earlier/later than you intended.
No, my neighbors weed smoke was coming through her closet and raising particulate matter. He’s moved out but we’ve kept the automation and it also cranks up the air purifier.

I did hear about the farting causing VOCs to rise and that kind of happens with us too.
it can't be called a gratuity if it's mandatory
> I've never had issues with integration tests running with real databases -- they never felt slow or incurred any significant amount of time for me.

They might not be slow individually, but if you have thousands of them, even a runtime of a couple of seconds adds up considerably. Especially if they're not parallelized, or parallelizable. Also, since they depend on an external service, they're tedious to execute, so now Docker becomes a requirement for every environment they run in, including slow CI machines. Then there is external state you need to think about, to ensure tests are isolated and don't clobber each other, expensive setup/teardown, ensuring that they cleanup after they're done, etc. It's all complexity that you don't have, or shouldn't have, with low-level tests.

That's not to say that such tests shouldn't exist, of course, but that they shouldn't be the primary test type a project relies on.

> I also don't think unit tests bring as much value as integration tests. In fact, a lot of times unit tests are IMO useless or just make your code harder to change.

You're repeating the same argument as TFA, which is what I disagree with. IME I _much_ preferred working on codebases with a high coverage from low-level tests, than on those that mostly rely on higher level ones. This is because with more lower level tests there is a higher degree of confidence that a change won't inadvertently break something a higher level test is not accounting for. Yes, this means larger refactorings also means having to update your tests, but this is a trade-off worth making. Besides, nowadays it's becoming easier to just have an AI maintain tests for you, so this argument is quickly losing ground.

> My opinion will be of course biased by my past experiences

Sure, as all our opinions are, and this is fine. There is no golden rule that should be strictly followed about this, regardless of what some authority claims. I've also worked on codebases that use your approach, and it has worked "well" to some extent, but with more code coverage I always had more confidence in my work, and quicker and convenient test suites ensured that I would rely on this safety net more often.
Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster
> Altman had been traveling to the Middle East to fundraise for the project, which was code-named Tigris, the people said. The OpenAI chief executive officer planned to spin up an AI-focused chip company that could produce semiconductors that compete against those from Nvidia Corp., which currently dominates the market for artificial intelligence tasks. Altman’s chip venture is not yet formed and the talks with investors are in the early stages, said the people, who asked not to be named as the discussions were private.
> It would be sort of cool if you could regulate car top speed by location,

They do that in Japan on the GTR, where the top speed limiter is removed when you're flying down the track.

https://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/nissan-gt-r-recognizes-t....
Exactly my thoughts and the ex analogy; it would be extremely awkward for everybody as this event has tainted everyone's reputation at OpenAI. I'd think even MS may want to get out of the deal.
So, they remove it in 12 months and your code wasn't ready for the change, and people mock you for having not been prepared by updating your code. The Python people have told you to remove it, so nobody will have any sympathy for you if you don't do it. As you demonstrated, people are sticklers for quoting exact wording when it comes to criticizing others.
Except those same companies then run into hidden limits that exist on Terraform Cloud and hadn't been previously mentioned. Honestly, even bigger companies are better off going with Spacelift as it can scale extremely well, has reasonable support, and is much more feature rich.

As a disclaiming I'm currently writing a book on Terraform, and I've been interacting with a lot of the people in the space. Up until a few years ago I was a huge fan of Hashicorp, but their price changes and lack of support were what made it so I couldn't recommend Terraform Cloud anymore. The license changes they made were the icing on that cake.
first of all startpage.com is a search engine and your site ( start.page ) looks a little spammy
As it happens, this story isn't apocryphal at all! One can readily find the original law, which was enacted on March 9, 1911, and published in the Journal officiel of March 10, 1911 [0]:

> Article unique. — L'heure légale en France et en Algérie est l'heure, temps moyen de Paris, retardée de neuf minutes vingt et une secondes.

The decree which finally replaced it was made on August 9, 1978, and published on August 19, 1978 [1]:

> Art. 2. — Sur l'ensemble du territoire de la République française, le temps légal (ou heure légale) est défini à partir du temps universel coordonné (UTC) établi par le bureau international de l'heure.

[0] https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2022333z/f2.item

[1] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000880128
No it wouldn't. The distribution businesses would still want to buy things exclusively from the production businesses.

It would literally make no difference whatsoever.
Try to sell it and let me know how much you get.

Spoiler: $0. Your data is not worth anything.
>The problem with a statement like is that it leaves the door open to accepting any kind of canned generality as "abstraction in general".

Not really

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09196
what's "artificial" about a license? does proprietary source code keep competitors "naturally" in check? what does that term mean here?
Consider the second paragraph of my post. There are places that prohibit reapplying for an arbitrarily long period of time. It would be wiser to know one's weaknesses before locking themselves out for a period longer than it would take to rectify those weaknesses. Even at places that aren't explicit in this restriction, there probably still is a soft barrier on reapplying.
I’m not super familiar with Zizek so I don’t know if he addresses this elsewhere, but this feels like a false dichotomy to me.

You could easily find a middle ground (call it “Confucian freedom”) where you aren’t expected to want to visit grandma, but you are expected to want to do your familial duty. This is a more general and socially-useful “want” that has been at the core of Western (“honor thy parents”) and Eastern (xiào, or “filial piety”) social organization for millennia.

I don’t think it’s “authoritarian” to teach deontological ethics that have a several-thousand-year track record of holding civil society together.
> The use of smart vs intelligent here is arbitrary though illustrates the difference.

Dungeons and Dragons insightfully divided these intelligences up into Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.
Do we know if supplementing with a particular bacterium has a straightforward, corresponding effect in the gut flora?

I have no idea how complicated the gut / flora dynamics are in response to such a treatment.

E.g., maybe adding bacterium A triggers a die-off of bacterium B, and thus a population explosion of bacterium C, causing reduced diarrhea, leading to growth of D, causing inactivation of E, ...
Yet another reason to skip US on travel. In EU I may get like extra 3 euro council tax for staying at hotel.

In US even basic stuff, like going to restaurant for dinner, is "an experience" that requires reservation and generous bakshish.
I'd argue that one activity is far more passive than the other, on the whole.
However apparently even this wasn't the reason for Sam's ouster... so the question remains, what was?
I definitely get valuable information from it and 95% of that is thanks to the work of moderators. I'm one of those people who would be on messageboards 15 years ago asking "What programming language should I learn???" as an Econ major who had over-engineered many an Excel spreadsheet. The commentary here often goes into details around certain technologies and roles that I wouldn't know had I just read the documentation or hung around someone's Twitter.

Now, no place is perfect and HN does have its issues. As tech has grown beyond matters of "hacker interest" into something the majority of society participates in, the discussion here has naturally expanded into matters of society, economic fairness and regulation/taxation. Regular topics on HN reflecting this change involve immigration, crypto, diversity, free speech and more. These are topics where the signal to noise ratio is very low.

In this current climate we also see heads of companies wading into these topics and speaking in black and white terms designed for broadcast on social media. Nonetheless, these topics sometimes lead to disproportionately lengthy HN threads, where it becomes clear that there is a lot of hero worship and "appeal to authority" thinking that powers the same people that write thoughtful, helpful comments on topics that are more 'tech' in nature.
Irrelevant. Google does something and gives a rationale for it.

If that rationale were valid, it would apply to everyone, including google.

If the rationale does not apply to google, then it does not apply to anyone else.

Please gooogle (if they let you) the concept "double standard".
I'm shocked no one has pointed this out yet, but it's a really really bad move to host user-submitted content on your primary business domain. There's no such thing as subdomain culpability in the way the Internet is operated.
Yes, certainly. Same requirements as other industries and occupations. And the same challenges: Fitting your 2023 accomplishments into the rigid required elements of the 1991 USCIS categories.

One especially helpful force multiplier here, would be to practice writing out a simple one-page description of your industry and your job. Like a little elevator pitch, that's easily grasped in a minute or two, by a time-pressed layperson USCIS examiner. You're basically explaining blockchain at a 9th-grade reading level.

This is hard! It can take a lot of iterations and analogies. But it adds a ton of value, when the examiner can grasp right up front what you do and why you're special.
I don’t think it’s controversial at all to say that drugs can be dangerous in a way that requires protecting users. You may not agree with carceral drug policies (as you don’t have to agree with every conceivable AI regulation), but would you argue that Purdue Pharma did nothing wrong?