skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The term moat was used in a leaked Google internal document about the AI space competitiveness, and now everyone is using it like sheep.
You know, isn't it possible that the AIs might actually be better at rewriting human written SEO spam into better articles, even if they steal the content or ideas? Should "written by a biological person" really be the dominant factor for results ranking?

Ideally we'd just get to the point where search results are themselves unnecessary because an AI can summarize the results, distinguish the spam from the good stuff on its own, and present original research without hallucination, citing prior sources (human or otherwise).

The spam and lists/summaries problems might actually get better once it's just AI vs AI and there's no human in the loop and nobody putting money into SEO spam anymore because they can't outcompete the AI writers. Humans and AI can still both provide new material not yet in the training sets, but we can get rid of an entire industry of junk writing?
Rust is great, but you don't have to yell about it.
Interesting how the Arab countries surrounding Israel will do ANYTHING except accept Palestinian refugees. They have literally never accepted them in history, only expelled them like Jordan did in the 70s as a recent example. It’s almost like these Arab countries just hate Israel and don’t care about Palestine at all
You should at least have some basic ideas about your stack.
How does this differ from similar techniques previously applied to DNA and RNA sequences?
A similar thing exists for Plan 9: https://orib.dev/git9.html
If it's the most anti-tech then it's relevant as well :)
I avoid, if possible of course, going to the hospital right before a shift change for this very reason.
Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though:

* Self-satisfaction

* Sense of identity

* Belief in the company

* Desire to improve the world

* Puritanical work ethic

* etc
They did say "I obviously probably had your idea in the back of my mind when I wrote my code". I included more details in the referenced post.

But the source is not a 1:1 copy, they functionally copied it. Although the source is very similar and derivative.
> only gets them fired

Agree on the blame point, but not on firing point. As a manager, sometimes you need to fire people, that's a necessary part your job. And no, changing the hiring process cannot prevent that.
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-israel-2/

>The U.S.-Israel economic and commercial relationship is strong, anchored by an annual bilateral trade of nearly $50 billion in goods and services. Several treaties and agreements, including the 1985 U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA), solidify bilateral economic relations. Since the FTA’s signing in 1985, the United States has become Israel’s largest trading partner.

I think it's fair to say that the US has strong connections to Israel. I don't know if it's fair to imply it's totally dependent on the US as they implied, but I think it's more complex than the aid being a small percentage of the GDP.
I will take the tangent and not talk about working kid at dangerous jobs.

First of all, i like your country, it's diverse and fun, you have a lot of great people.

But your tradesmen are under qualified. Your security protocol are shitty, the average precision of your painters, carpenter and woodworkers is equal to mine, or that of my father 20 years ago before he took carpentry classes. I have the impression every single tradepeople i've talked to learned on the job, and a good part did not have any mentor. In fact, the old guy i visit in WV mentored like a third of the people at the party, and everybody gushed about how it was nice and rare, how i was lucky to be related to him, and all that effusion of sentiments that make american endearing and likeable (for me), except with an Appalachian accent.

That this kind of accident happen do not surprise me.

Accidents like those happen in France too, recently a 20 year old apprentice died, and it came into light that his supervisor was 24 and not much more competent. The company lost a lot, the rule were tightened about supervisors and competencies, and mybe we will have like 5 accidents this decade. Hopefully no mortal ones.
Agreed! There's also no way this is 5 years away from being viable.

I just checked the timestamps on my Dall-E Mini generated images. They're dated June 2022

This is what people were doing on commodity hardware back then:

https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/165537...

This is what people are doing on commodity hardware now:

https://civitai.com/images/3853761

I'm not even going to try to predict what we'll be able to do in 2 years time; even when accounting for the current GenAI hype/bubble!
Sure, I want a lot of restaurants, but I don't want them to exist due to them exploiting or underpaying their workers. A business is not entitled to workers, so if they cannot afford to pay enough to find workers, the business has failed. C'est la vie.

I for one, do not see paying someone close to minimum wage in return for 40hr/wk of their time as 'supporting' workers. You want to really support workers? Pay them appropriately and provide them a good workplace.
Bitwarden.

PurelyMail.
We still call bitter oranges “Narenj” in Persian. That’s the root of the word Orange as the author puts it. That one hasn’t changed much.
Didn’t realize until now that Munger died, probably explains why this story got bumped into my newsfeed
Me too, absolutely iconic.
There’s many forms of nihilism, and purpose nihilism wasn’t the subject of my comment.

A Nihilist is more stable than you think. A tree doesn’t need purpose to grow, and neither does a human. Instead they follow a process that’s expressed by the body in response to the environment. For humans we not only have physical sensation but also memories, ideas, and thoughts. Without a worldview these all still happen, and your body will still react to your thoughts and sensations without a purpose. A healthy Nihilist would not feel sad about having no meaning, since they never had one anyway; on reflection, they might feel happy that there’s no obligation to respond other than how their situation moves them to. A Nihilist can do what is morally right without the restrictions of a purpose that proscribes them to do otherwise.
There aren't plenty; or shouldn't be!
> As of 2016, the engineer who did the update still worked at KCG. His entire management chain had been replaced, all the way up to the CTO.

This seems like the right way to run a company - huge failures stemming from an individual should be blamed on their superiors.

I’m very curious if it works the same way in other cultures. Germany? Japan? India? China?
Most of the terminals have the tap-to-pay icon, but in my area maybe 75% work. It's a bit of a crapshoot. You go to do it and the clerk'll say "oh it's broken".

Gas stations are worse. Maybe 1/3 in my area have pumps that support it.
I do this for my rental property. I have a complete guide from onboarding to offboarding tenants. Process guides for 6 month checkups, instruction guides on how to use the alarm system, changing locks and codes, dimensions of all appliance cubbies etc etc etc

My wife wants nothing to do with the rental aspect but when she had to handle management for a few weeks she couldn’t stop gushing over my OneNote administrative guide.
Wow. I never knew all this about Charlie Munger, thanks for sharing. It’s rare gems like him that give me confidence that sometimes against all odds one can succeed. Also I appreciate his love for his family. That’s by far the most valuable asset one posses - if not the only.
Very impressive, I'm generating some really nice quality images at 1024x1024 in under 1 second on a 3090 in InvokeAI!
It's a "text fragment"; started as a Chrome thing, other browsers are slowly adding support.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
The previous one that got built seems popular. 8.3/10 in reviews here https://www.veryapt.com/ApartmentReview-a7222-munger-graduat...
Any idea why they would use brushed motors? When every gram counts I would think ditching the mechanical commutator would be a no-brainer, but maybe adding another leg to the H-bridge is a bigger penalty?
Napoleon's Tragic March Home from Moscow: Lessons in Hubris [pdf]
For all the posts here about the excessive costs of higher education, people sure seem to be mad that this fellow tried to do something about it. I'd have been fine with a "prison style dorm" if it had reduced my educational costs.
You’ve just described the same thing twice. You have a model for how to value a company, and you look for examples of market inefficiencies. Buffet/Munger initially took advantage of the fact that there used to be much more opportunity to find these inefficiencies, because information was used much more inefficiently (via mountains of paper records). That’s not the case any more with huge amounts of digital information available along with the technology to process it as quickly as it becomes available.
Dogs have radically different sleep habits to humans, and on average sleep 12 to 14 hours a day in 45 minute bursts. In the wild dogs[0] are crepuscular, meaning they're most active in the twilight hours anyway. Spending the middle of the day at home isn't a huge problem if there are enough hours of activity at the start and end.

I grew up with a lab/kelpie cross, on a 10 acre block with cattle and sheep on it, and he was fine snoozing most of the day because he could run around in the morning and afternoon until exhaustion every day. The other animals kept him active, and we walked him twice a day for a few kilometres total at the same time as other dogs were out for a walk.

[0] "In the wild" meaning feral dogs
If it's your intent to report facts about gun violence in Chicago, and only that, then dropping those other facts detracts from what you're doing. It makes it look like you're insinuating possible causes. Like that voting Democrat leads to gun violence, or that poverty causes gun violence, or that hispanics and blacks perpetrate gun violence.

By mentioning certain remotely related facts, it looks as if you're hinting at giving an interpretation of the central facts.

If you want to convey facts about a topic like gun violence in Chicago, then stick to facts closely relevant to it. Like different ways of slicing up the data. You might show a density map of where in Chicago most of it has happened over a certain period, or demographics about gun violence.

Now if you want to explore a link between gun violence and something else like poverty, then you have to get your ducks in a row about that. Such a subject deserves to be treated by a sophisticated researcher with an expert background in statistics. If that researcher postulates some kind of link, they have to look at all the reasons why that might be false, not only true.
Thank you for the link, it is an interesting read, and has a lot of funny quotes, stories and some interesting ideas. In the beginning I felt it was insightful, but by the end of the read I felt it was just a bunch of opinions based on personal anecdotes.
(disclaimer -- I'm obviously much less wealthy and successful than Munger)
The likes of itch.io, Roblox, and the App Store already exist, each with more games than anyone can reasonably curate.

The games market has been in the same place as the rest of the arts for some time now: if you want to be noticed, you have to mount a bit of a production around it, add layers of design effort, and find a marketing funnel for that particular audience. The days of just making a Pong clone passed in the 1970's.

What technology has done to the arts, historically, is add either more precision or more repeatability. The relationship to production and arts as a business maps to what kinds of capital-and-labor-intensive endeavors leverage the tech.

Photographs didn't end painting, they ended painting as the ideal of precisely representational art. In the classical era, just before the tech was good enough to switch, painting was a process of carefully staging a scene with actors and sketching it using a camera obscura to trace details, then transferring the result to your canvas. Afterwards, the exact scene could be generated precisely in a photo, and so a more candid, informal method became possible both through using photographs directly and using them as reference. As well, exact copies of photographs could be manufactured. What changed was that you had a repeatable way of getting a precise result, and so getting the precision or the product itself became uninteresting. But what happened next was that movies and comics were invented, and they brought us back to a place of needing production: staged scenes, large quantities of film or illustration, etc.

With generative AI, you are getting a clip art tool - a highly repeatable way of getting a generic result. If you want the design to be specific, you still have to stage it with a photograph, model it as a scene, or draw it yourself using illustration techniques.

And so the next step in the marketplace is simply in finding the approach to a production that will be differentiating with AI - the equivalent of movies to photography. This collapses not the indie space - because they never could afford productions to begin with - but existing modes of mobile gaming, because they were leveraging the old production framework. Nobody has need of microtransaction cosmetics if they can generate the look they want.
I like this idea even more!
Your average installed Mars probe widget is not a fungible component; it's been integration tested six ways to Sunday and is certified in its current configuration, as is the assembly of the whole thing, center of gravity, cleanroom status, the torque on every fastener and so on. Even if it's an off the shelf component, it may not be possible to replace it without a chain of sign-offs that would require months of work.
I got to know Quentin Stafford-Fraser a bit when I was at Cambridge. He's a really down-to-earth guy who was working on all sorts of interesting projects.

He's got more details on the whole Trojan Room Coffee Pot experience on his blog: https://quentinsf.com/coffeepot/
> People in the US are too politically encamped for pictures of dead kids to move the needle on gun rights at this point.

One thing I notice is how quick people are to ascribe malevolence to those on the right. Meanwhile, leftist prosecutors and DAs who make it a policy point of their election to not prosecute crimes or to not protest paroles, or leftist governors who say they are going to release prisoners and then do, never face any accusations of malevolence, when those same people go on to kill.

To use my own city of Portland as an example, we've had multiple instances of children being killed or endangered by people released with violent tendencies or let out without bail. We've had several incidents of gun crime committed by people just released from jail. Yet, when you point out that the right-wing pro-gun crowd is not the ones at fault in Oregon, since we have copious gun laws, and the main issue seems to be the left-wing that has held power in our cities and state for decades at this point, everyone immediately starts group therapy in which they re-assure themselves that the elected official's hearts were really in the right place, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Then that's the sad reality. We've used tips as a bandaid for low wages for too long, and now ripping the bandaid off is going to hurt. But the alternative is that the wound festers and potentially gets even worse because it's buried deep under a bandaid.
Sounds like someone has something to hide. /s
Eduards Sizovs may be blacklisted, but Katerina Nenastoyaschaya, Angela Madeupname, and Ingrid Noonesdottir can still put on conferences and speak at them!
This is of course wrong, Mohammed as an illiterate man can copy things because he grew up in a christian and jewish influenced society and no doubt heard the stories of biblical characters and then decided to incorporate them into his own retelling, including various historical errors that make his retelling impossible to be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_in_Islam#:~:text=Accordin....

It is also false to say that gaining followers through appeasement is the way to go, there is not a single sect in christianity that doesnt change vital parts of the bible or how to be saved. It is far easier to obfuscate and pretend to follow christianity and then make changes later.
Actually, you can threaten the president. Several celebrities posted images of Trump beheaded and were not arrested, and were indeed met with wide acclaim.
Perhaps the first back in 2005 was http://web.archive.org/web/20100218153353/http://www.sfgoth....
Can't wait for a talented comedian to make a routine out of this xD
I was just working on that w/a friend. Great minds and all that.
Which he also called, “pounding it in”
A study of generative large language model for medical research and healthcare
Health care professionals is a weird one, because while long shifts are dangerous, patient handover is also dangerous and there may be an argument that longer shifts means fewer handovers which could result in better patient outcomes.
The hot dog stand might actually accept Amex.

High-end businesses accept Amex, because it's worth it. Major chains can probably negotiate good deals. Tiny/seasonal businesses often use middlemen like Zettle that charge high fees and accept almost every payment method imaginable. Those in the middle who use traditional payment terminals and pay list prices may still avoid Amex due to the high fees.
I agree, but not entirely. I.e. you can steal a password, but normally no password manage would allow you to export underlying 2FA code.
Ascorbic acid mitigates the deleterious effects of nicotine on tendons (2021)
We need more "Swiss army knife" architecture
In a time of hybrid work and housing conversions, architects are designing flexible, adaptable buildings that can change shape more easily. We need more of these type of buildings to help us better respond to future challenges.
I want to hear what day 100 of that is like, not day 1.
Is this some bizarre rhetorical question or did you actually spent any time thinking about how this would work practically as a defense for 2.5mil people against a state with access to unlimited amount of precisely targeted bunker buster bombs?

Want to know how well public air-raid bunkers work against advanced bombing technology? Check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing and that's 30 year old tech.
Anybody who withholds large scale distribution of these drugs while taking the drugs themselves is just painting a huge target on their back.

No rational person is going to respect intellectual property rights for these sorts of substances and if they're relatively easy to produce then people will make them themselves.

Anyone who tries to stop the production and distribution of them will basically be killing people with more steps and people don't take too kindly to that.

These people may be living twice as long with these drugs while others die, but that doesn't make them immortal.
> No true Scotsman would think it's the real stuff.

You started on the esports tangent from a sweeping generalization.

I'm sure you can convince someone else of your edgy opinions as you move the goalpost. Good luck with that.
2% on Apple Pay purchases is pretty good, depending on if you frequent places that support it.
Commenting only on their professional lives. Their investment strategy was generally not a high stress one, they clearly enjoy their work so one could assume their professional lives were generally low stress.
There are many reasons for this, one of the key reasons being less insidious than you imply. Americans see Israelis as people with the same "western" values, same cultural and ethical norms. Most Americans are not shocked by tribal violence in Yemen (as despicable as it is by general humanistic standards), but can relate and identify with Israelis both experiencing violence and inflicting it.

I agree with you that we need to always provide clear context for what is happening in this specific situation, not rush to judgment and not to be as reactive in general. Israelis are defending themselves, Hamas is clearly using their own people as human shields. Saying that, Israel does have other options in this war, options that would reduce the civilian death count (e.g. allowing women and children leave Gaza for Israel, even at the cost of an increased terrorist activity).
I think we are also seeing lower divorce rates and suspect a rebound once the economy picks up and as this generation of children ages.
The Old Drum Law
I think I was one of those roommates…
Its a known effect of the popularity of online social networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Technically speaking the same Board of Directors is represented 4 times within that hierarchy, including the entity Microsoft is invested in which is one of the two entities that have investors in them and which still have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, even as subsidiaries of the non-profit.

That’s where a lot of Microsoft’s leverage lies if it came down to a lawsuit over the last couple of weeks. If Microsoft wants a board seat, they’re going to get a board seat one way or another.
I think he already donated most of it
> They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging.

Will they really reduce the medical costs of aging when you take into account the longer lifespan?

To borrow an argument from a different branch of the thread: if everyone lived to be only 20, would you expect that medical expenses would be more than they are today, or less?
OTOH those all have different keybindings, but just about everything has vim keybindings available somehow. I've found it useful to learn vim keybindings because of that. I actually use them for emacs via evil.
No one's saying it's not relevant — what's surprising is not the recognition, it's the endorsement.