skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just that the sequence of events is "I'm told masks prevent COVID" => "I was wearing a mask and got COVID" => "masks don't stop COVID" (or it happens to a friend or a friend of a friend etc). You have to explain that masks help prevent it but aren't perfect because your eyes & ears remain open (my hunch is that it's likely the eyes as the next major transmission vector so glasses or full goggles would be almost fully effective).
It's usually proxmox or virtuozzo, or some other kvm front end. I've worked at 4 huge webhosts and they never used vmware for vps/shared servers. Only our dedicated customers paying for support (think RAX) used vmware and that was their own.
Since you are talking about Ford, it's worth pointing out that autoworkers in the US are still doing very well... even better since they recently renegotiated their contracts at strike-point.

I am guessing that in 1960 they were doing relatively well compared to other factory workers also.
Ironically working at a big old company I wrote almost no SQL, because the database was DB2, so we had dedicated Data developers to write stored procedures in COBOL / SQL. While at a small shop and a more modern tech company I wrote tons of SQL.
"I have read too many stories of shaken baby syndrome or other abuse that would have been prevented just by walking away. "

Reading is something very different from experiencing it yourself.
My main take is pragmatically, if I have the energy and calmness, I am with them. Hug them if they want it. Ask them, what they really want, even restrain them (in a playful, but firm way). But if I feel I cannot do it calmly, I indeed let them have their tantrum and am in the next room. But if it is in the middle of the night and other people want to sleep, then this is not an option and you have to be creative (like I wrote above, going outside with them for example always worked, or a bit of water on their head, to literally cool them)
Intercity passenger rail makes little sense over most of the USA, outside the existing northeast corridor.

In a sane world Amtrak would shut down most of the long-distance routes, fix the northeast corridor, and focus on gradually expanding that, but the politics of that are unattractive so it bumbles on with trains that only train nerds would ever consider actually riding on.
> If a NN is trained to do something, it can be equally considered as "wanting" to do that thing within the autonomy it is afforded, as much as any human.

Human wants are driven by instinct though - i.e. our preferences; if you like women, you like women, if you don’t, you don’t.

Our “output” is in service to those wants.

Current AI doesn’t have instinct / preprogrammed goals - except for goal-driven AIs but the hyped up LLMs aren’t such AIs. Their output isn’t motivated by any goal - a LLM can’t deliberately lie to you to get you to do something; it lies because it doesn’t differentiate between what’s true and what’s false.
> Have we lost something? Where will future hackers get their inspiration from? Maybe a million different YouTube channels and proliferation of cheap ways to learn and tinker are fueling the next generation. Let’s hope so.

I can watch rocket launches live streamed on a handheld device, then consume expert or very well informed layman analysis shortly afterwards. There’s probably 10 substacks for every scientific and engineering specialization written by experts. I can look up primary sources, even preprints, and aggregate a range of expert opinions on them. I can watch a million impeccably animated explainer videos on any topic. It’s harder to choose sources due to the plethora of choices, and the printed medium is tactile and nice, but in practically every other way now is vastly better!
Even within a single city, median house values are pretty meaningless. There is no median house or neighborhood. It’s a blend of multiple neighborhoods and housing inventory, just an artifact of recent sales history in an aggregate set. If you actually went shopping with the median value as your budget, you’d likely find a lot less desirable and a lot out of reach, not a lot at that budget. At least this has been the case where I’ve resided.
I'm not sure I fully understand why MAE is that big there (~0.35). Is it a difference between theoretical (based on rating difference of players) expected score and actual score averaged over many games? If score is in range 0-1, then MAE=0.35 seems a huge to me. I get it, that there is some deviation from theoretical prediction, but if I understood correctly it happens for larger ratings difference, but I guess more games should be played between players of similar strength.
It goes against my intuition that many prompts are so stable.
Consumer protections.
I think there's some merit in creating a fresh solution with little or no bias from the original. Trying to adapt an existing codebase is limited by the existing applications architecture and how much you can change without breaking everything
> The principle of proportionality prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”.

http://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/proportionality
Isn't this also(just?) a description of how high-dimensional embedding spaces work? Putting every kind of concept all in the same space is going to lead to some weird stuff. Different regions of the latent space will cover different concepts, with very uneven volumes, and local distances will generally be meaningful (red vs green) but long-distances won't (red vs. ennui).

I guess we could also look at it the other way; embedding spaces work this way because the underlying neurons work this way.
IANAL but the fastest way to find out would probably be to try it

pls write about it on hacker news when you do, im curious too
I recently found out you can do that on one of the roads to the entrance of the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy museum in Dulles. Nowhere near as Gravely Point, but it will do in a pinch.
Shein is at another level of low quality compared to H&M and Zara. That said, I suspect that people virtue signal about fast fashion because they are uncomfortable with the idea of blaming themselves or people they're close to. I've had no problem wearing my H&M shirts for several years. Besides the fabric quality, it not too different from my other clothes. If people really cared about clothing waste, they would mend their clothes like they did a century ago.
FYI you might have to turn it on beforehand, and it might send logs to Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96817?sjid=53683799...
Turns out sci-fi speculation is more marketable than sci-reality.

I still remember thinking how cool it would be if the Lockheed Venturestar came to fruition. Like, Wow! Would that have been cool or what?

Maybe it's ok that it's a lot of speculative stuff after all? Maybe there's something to be said for reading about the wild-ass ventures that are high-risk and high reward. Incremental progress gets you a long ways, but the occasional moonshot can really move the needle. Watching the two Falcon Heavy boosters land simultaneously was the kind of thing you feel like you'd have read about 10 years previously in Popular Science
Something something money something something more money
The passing is the important part. In chess you can't pass so going first might be bad, you could be the first to reach a forced zugzwang. If you have the option of passing your first turn, then having a turn before the 2nd player gets to go is at worst neutral for you. Likewise in Nim you can't pass and taking your turn might be bad for you unlike Hex.
> interest is what causes ups and downs in economies.

That is an extraordinary claim.

If government set or controlled allowable interest rate or set it to zero there would be no business cycle? The downturn in 2020 was caused by interest?
His main point is that the specifics are irrelevant when it hinges on something that isn't there.

The debate should instead be about something that is tangible now
How Jensen Huang's Nvidia is powering the A.I. revolution
>Your confidence that neurons and ANN weights and «pulleys and gears» are all equivalent because there is, in theory, an intention to instantiate some computation, and to think otherwise is tantamount to belief in magic and broken causality, is just confused and born out of perusing popular-scientific materials instead of relying on scientific literature or hands-on experience.

Computation is substrate independent. I'm not saying neurons and ANN weights and «pulleys and gears» are the same. I'm saying it does not matter because what you perform computation with does not change the results of the computation. If the brain computes, then it doesn't matter what is doing the computation.

>No they do not fire because of input, they modulate their firing probability based on input, and there are different modalities of input with different effects. Neurons are self-contained biological units (descended, let me remind you, from standalone unicellular organisms, just like the rest of our cells), which actually have an independently developing internal state and even metabolic needs; they are not merely a system of logic gates even if you can approximate their role with a system of equations or an ANN. This is very different, mechanistically and teleologically. Hell, even spiking ANNs would be substantially different from currently dominant models.

Yes, a neuron is firing because of input. To suggest otherwise is to suggest something beyond cause and effect directing the workings of the brain. If that is genuinely not the case then feel free to explain why, rather than an ad hominin attack on someone you don't even know.

> So what, magic ? a soul ? If the brain is computing then the substrate is entirely irrelevant

>Stop dumbing down complex arguments to some low-status culture war opinion you find it easy to dunk on.

I personally don't care if that's what anyone believes. The intention is not to attack anyone.

If you believe in a soul or the non religious equivalent, that's fine. We just have different axioms.

If you don't believe in a soul(or the equivalent) but somehow think substrate matters then you need to explain why because it makes no sense.
For tuition, I’d also be okay with funding it as an investment. Prior to the late 1970s, tuition at the UC system was nominal – where the “part time summer job paid for college” beliefs came from – and it worked out well for California having so many graduates paying taxes for decades to come. The idea that education should be paid by the student is just tragically shortsighted (and dovetailed with nastier things: a lot of the late-70s “taxpayer revolt” stuff was also older white people deciding they didn’t want to pay for things their own kids no longer needed because the current beneficiaries didn’t look like them).
Hmm ... Good question.
In my experience in these situations (I was always being acquired), the acquiring company is at least partially counting on cost saving from getting rid of departments like finance, marketing, sales and legal as they believe they can do that with their own teams.
The acquiring company also will have their own metrics for proper sizing (employee count and spend) for engineering, support, product, etc which is likely lower than the company being acquired. But in this case VMWare is pretty mature so those metrics maybe ok
Can’t say I support this, but the bean counters love it.

Edit: “ Broadcom has not returned CRN’s request for comment about the job cuts. The company, which closed its acquisition of VMware Wednesday, had previously stated it could find $250 million in synergies once it completed the deal.”
Synergies is code for the redundancies I mentioned above.
At least National Geographic, Wired, and 2600 all still have print editions.
Thank you for adding this information. It shows how important it is to get granular with data otherwise so much nuance gets lost in the interpretation.
That is not the sense of the word "private" used by jltsiren:

>>> its employees have the same right to strike as any other private sector employees.

A business owned by the state is part of the public sector, not the private sector. This isn't a question of whether shares of its stock are traded on a public exchange. Companies with publicly-listed stock are still private companies in this sense.
It really is. I switched to them a while ago and I've used Google maybe 4-5 times since, in over a year.

Never looked back.
Just waiting for passkey support before I switch!

https://orionfeedback.org/d/3025-support-passkeys/42
Phillip J Airfry made me smile, love the name.
> without it, they have little protection against the whims of Elon

What stops them from quitting at any time, or not working for him to begin with?
These people are able to find customers that OpenAI might not have found and bring that revenue to OpenAI. Looking at the ads I see for these products on twitter, I suspect the average user of these products is so non-technical as to be unaware that they could just use ChatGPT.
Oh nice! Good to see they are working on it.
Unfortunately it's only for 8 European languages to far, and the beta version only adds 4 more.

I need Vietnamese. I guess I will have to wait another few years for that. But still, it's progress.

I wonder if they will add the option for cloud providers. While I love the idea of the added privacy of doing it locally, pretty much everything I'm translating is publically available so privacy is not important to make compared to the quality of the translation.
need to throw in a Google to Google to Google language translate to get some more variety
There's a huge opportunity here for a rugpull - Give people a small revenue-share to do your market research for you, swoop in with your own app and better tuned model when you figure out what applications are possible.
AGI and human intelligence don't necessarily have to work the same way. While many of us assume that they must be very similar, I don't think there's any basis for that assumption.
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the Law."
can you buy something new, of that quality, in that same store today?

no doubt that some older pieces are lasting quite well - at this point some are outlasting more recent ones. not limited to h&m, quality seems to be getting pulled down.

brands that were once bought because they would last for 5+ years are still making sales based upon that reputation, but the products aren’t matching.
Many contracts have illegal terms in them that explicitly also add durability clauses so that illegal terms in a jurisdiction are already thrown out but the rest of the contract stays.

That established, what business contracts are entered, executed, and completed ethically and with equal respect to the rights of the contracting parties? Very few, if any. In practice, the ability to enter a contract is the ability to go into moral debt and be slave to a document.

So no, I don't think contracts should be entered freely because most contracts are actually one-sided as fuck and generally have no room for negotiation.
If I load reddit.com on the iOS Orion browser the page is completely unresponsive. Anyone else experience this? Not a great first impression sadly.
Yeah, I see they added that in the last but one release. However it's only for a tiny number of European languages, and not the one I need which is Vietnamese.
It’s one of several factors that could mean the prices seen by the median person looking for a house are worse than that 4% median house price increase suggests.

To take it to an extreme to illustrate why this may matter, if one town gets abandoned and the houses all sell for $1 to a single family, while all the former residents move to another similar-sized town that sees prices more than double… you’d be best off ignoring or down-weighting the effect of those $1 houses if you’re trying to figure out how the housing market is looking to most people.

Though it’s possible the figures used for the analysis already account for that kind of thing, in some fashion. Are they actual sale prices, or asking prices? Do they only count sales to someone who’s intending to use the dwelling as a primary residence, or all sales? There’s a lot of room for the median experienced house price for a person just trying to buy a place to live to differ from the median on-paper, depending on how it’s handled.
They've already won an injunction.
Make a new account? Try a different game?
On a related note... one of my favorite parts of magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics was always the ads in the back of the magazine. You could always find all sorts of weird shit advertised back there. Anti-gravity mechanisms, Tesla coil kits, ultrasonic weapons, "free energy" stuff, plans to build your own log-splitter, forge, plasma cutter, whatever.

And one of the top places selling some of the cooler stuff was an outfit called "Information Unlimited". They, sadly, went the way of the dodo recently themselves. Apparently due to the death of the owner. :-(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38329274
Tencent Unifies Their Gaming Analytics with StarRocks
That seems believable - the UK saw 390 million passenger rail journeys in the last quarter [0]. Amtrak saw just under 23 million in all of FY22 [1]. That’s before accounting for the UK having a population around 1/5 that of the US.

[0] - https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/passenger-rai...

[1] - https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
Cars and homes in 1960 were considerably cheaper to build in real dollars. Cars didn't have any electronics in them whatsoever, the fit and finish was primitive, there just weren't that many parts in them. Similarly with homes. No dishwasher, no garbage disposal, no microwave, 1 bathroom, single pane windows, no A/C, and on and on.
Personally, I would prefer to stay as long as I can in one place, and work on something I really like until retirement. But, I admit, these kind of jobs are rather rare in the modern economy (even though I'm not in the US and from my experience it's a bit better for someone with my wishes here in Germany).
Indeed! I should have written "especially" not "specially"
Population is still growing just fine, due to immigration. Not sure what you are saying here.
Can't say I'd sell a GPU over it unless it sucked, but I see where you're coming from. Those things sell for over a grand now! I remember when a high end GPU (one or two steps below the best) could be had for a cool $400-500...
I honestly cannot tell if this comment is a joke or not.
The thing that is truly mindboggling to me is that THE SHADOWS IN THE IMAGES ARE CORRECT. How is that possible??? Does DALL-E actually have a shadow-tracing component?
Brother HL-L5200DW.
As someone who never had a subscription, but would always thumb through when given the opportunity, that's a bummer.
Try not to include universities with 12 figure endowments as standard pricing.
Wow, thank you! That actually works really well.

I've tried quite a few firefix translation extensions and all of them either open a new tab or a popup, this is the first one I've seen that translates in place.

OK, sold. Switching to Firefox today :)
Same. The rocking chair on the porch saved us countless number of times. The sounds of the neighborhood, the bicycles, cars,the wind, the lights of airplanes, learning about the neighbors brought her comfort and allowed her to fall asleep.

Great tip
Yah, this is a weird one. Did you test the performance with and without directory integration?
Snatches of Uncertain Information
"Misinformation Nation is the sort of memorable rhyme that might seem better-suited to a Schoolhouse Rock tune than a scholarly monograph, but as Jordan Taylor argues, misinformation was so pervasive at the founding of the United States that it might well deserve an educational song."

"The first four chapters of Misinformation Nation are a must-read intervention in the historiography of the American Revolution, a newspaper-driven perspective on paranoia, propaganda, and the emergence of a national identity."

"The increase in digitization of newspapers in recent years means that previously impossible projects like this are now doable, but only if the value of the work is recognized. Even without a catchy song or cartoon newspaper, Misinformation Nation should convince readers that “every revolution is an information revolution,” and that historians must think critically about how information travels and who determines what is news."
I've been using it for a while as my main browser and it suffers from all of the usual issues that early development stage browsers have: bugs, memory leaks. The bugs are nasty as well, I'm sometimes forced to switch back to Firefox: one example is once there was a build that crashed my browser when I opened a new tab in tree view.

The extension support is in progress as well. UBlock Origin and BitWarden work, but YNAB Toolkit doesn't work too well.

Overall if you are okay with alpha/beta testing a browser it's fine, but if not, stick with Firefox.
The high home prices, inflated away wages, and poor quality of life for long hours worked, plus no fault divorce, the family court system, etc, may be contributing to the demographic issue.
... for an extremely limited number of European languages. Great to see progress though.
C compatibility is both the best and worst thing about C++
It is not a leak, anyone can use this jailbreak to print GPT's instructions: https://twitter.com/literallydenis/status/172914701074842437...

Btw, img2img was added bt me, so, mine definitely not leaked
I wish they were accessible offline as PDFs.
> We know that such viruses have to enter your body through eyes, ears, nose or throat or there’s no way to get an infection. Why do you think it’s so surprising that blocking access to your respiratory system by a filter that is small enough to exclude the virus (whether cold, flu or COVID) prevents you from getting sick?

I never said it would be surprising, I did however say that taking that seemingly plausible argument and immediately concluding that masks would meaningfully reduce infections in a whole population is premature. As you just said, viruses enter the body through multiple mucous membranes, so if everyone who wears masks doesn't wear them properly, or still touches their eyes and doesn't sanitize their hands properly before eating, the effect of masks could still be minimal.

> Furthermore, if I recall correctly there’s studies showing efficacy of having even a basic cloth covering helps because the thickness of the material means that even if the virus is small enough to get through, the probability of crossing all the layers through the cloth is harder

It's important to keep in mind that 50% of studies in medicine fail to replicate. Don't put too much stock in "I saw a study".

> Picking up illness from contact with a surface -> touching your face is a much more difficult infection vector than the direct access port available through the communication ports on your head.

Is it? Do you have empirical data to support this claim? I'm sure it seems plausible to you, just like it seemed plausible to those old doctors you mentioned that a gentleman's hands were always clean, but I think the real lesson is that we should rely on empirical data and not only on seemingly plausible arguments from seemingly plausible assumptions.

Which isn't to say that advising people to wear masks is necessarily a bad idea either, but there's a world of difference between "this seems like a good idea if you're cautious or want to reduce your changes of getting sick" and "you're a terrible person if you don't do this because this is proven to work".
Los Angeles -- at least LA proper -- is mostly okay-ish for density. Where it lacks is in street/road design, which can be updated.
How is it actually working now? The last time I tried it I felt it was pretty buggy -- but in an ideal world I'd love to switch.