skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. buy a good adapter

2. connect it to the end of your headphones and leave it there

3. do the above

4. buy a good adapter

5. don't use bluetooth and buy an adapter

e: I was a little flippant. Point being: Time has marched on, TVs don't have RCA jacks either. You are an enthusiast and that's fine, I am too, but everyone else has moved on to bluetooth and wifi-enabled speakers and TVs. I'm happy to simply have the option, it's not like half-decent dongles are particularly expensive.
> though the buffet slices were smaller than normal pizza slices.

That makes sense. At my local pizza place there isn't a buffet, but there is a lunch menu for slices, and those slices are double the size of XL slices.
Good, what if only have bad options?
F# doesn’t have nulls by default and can completely interact with C# bybusi by Option types with the value set to None in case of null and Some<T> when it actually has a value.

This is so much more explicit and composes so much better than C#’s null.

If I declare a variable with a certain type in C#, its type is implicitly set to that type and null. I am allowed to call every operation that is supported by that type on the variable, and yet, it’s actually a lie because if the variable is set to null the purportedly supported operation won’t run and will throw an exception.

In F#, however, if I declare something of a certain type, it’s guaranteed to be of that type. Any operations on that variable supported by that type are guaranteed to run.

And if something might indeed not have a value (say a database result) I have to explicitly declare it as an option type so there is a None option for the value. This way the F# compiler will ensure I’m handling the None scenario properly and don’t end up calling unsupported operations on Null.

This is a much better design. I in fact struggle to understand why anyone thought it was a good idea to allow someone to declare a certain type but create an object which is not actually that type but is implicitly Type | null.

It makes sense in an unmanaged language like C, but makes no sense whatsoever in advanced languages like Java or C#.
I think the main reason the UN is dysfunctional is because the largest countries have been effectively in the driving seat and the rest is along for show. As long as there is veto power for a select few and the big military entities ignore any restrictions laid in their way to do what they want to do (by way of veto or otherwise) it will continue that way. But that breeds a ton of resentment elsewhere in the world and the people in those countries effectively have no representation, even if they have the vote. It's apartheid writ large, based on weapons and money.

> It seems to me that the current important decisions facing OpenAI are for the most part fairly technical

For OpenAI, yes. But for society the stakes are much higher and non-technical in nature. For instance: mass disruption of the labour market. Note that when we had the industrial revolution the world population was a fraction of what it is today.

> so it's good for their oversight to be technical

But that could change in a heartbeat and by then it is too late. Winner takes all.

> Representativeness becomes more important later.

There won't be a 'later', whoever gets this first will instantly weaponize it and seize power, though you won't know about it until you realize that it's a done deal. Stable dictatorships are one of the more likely outcomes of AI.

> I'd say if OpenAI actually does succeed in developing AGI, that's the point at which the board should be replacing itself with some other, more representative institution.

Right now our best hope is that they can't. If not, all bets are off and you may want to brush up on your Charles Stross.

> Maybe a good question from a governance perspective would be, how can we configure the institutional incentives to discourage this, or at least select for leaders with strong character and ethics who won't ruthlessly seek power at all costs?

Leaders with strong power and those who ruthlessly seek power at all costs have strong overlap, assuming they are not congruent.

> I've been criticizing Sam Altman a fair amount lately, but it sounds like you take it much farther in essentially viewing him as some sort of crime boss, or else you're assuming that anyone with significant power will automatically adopt crime boss ethics as a result.

I see him just like I see Elon Musk: brilliant but dangerous, not necessarily a crime boss, more like someone who doesn't realize that they don't have the right to make the decisions they make and too little in terms of reflective capabilities and humility.

> I doubt the latter statement is true -- for example, I don't believe that Obama adopted crime boss ethics when he became POTUS.

Obama was a huge disappointment, so no argument there, but the flipside is that Trump was exactly what he promised to be and more and the world came out for the worse anyway. It makes you wonder how much worse that can get. Probably a lot worse. I probably don't want to know.
I use GPT with the custom instructio "provide references where it makes sense" and it frequently provides links which most of the time are accurate. A good prompt does wonders. My GPT-3.5 output bellow. It doesn't give a correct answer but provide a link that makes sense.

Q: How do I create a type alias in typescript local to a class? Provide references where it makes sense.

A: In TypeScript, you can create a type alias within a class using the type keyword. Here's an example:

class MyClass {
type MyAlias = string | number;

myVariable: MyAlias;

myFunction(param: MyAlias): void {
// ...
}
}

In the example above, MyAlias is a type alias created within the MyClass class. It is defined as either string or
number.

Note that the type alias is accessible within the class, but it won't be available outside of the class's scope.

For more information on type aliases in TypeScript, you can refer to the official TypeScript documentation: [Type Aliases
- TypeScript Handbook](https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....)
"I believe" and "conceivably" do not make good evidence that something is in the pipeline.

mRNA cancer therapeutics do not target nuclear DNA. They do not enter the nucleus and they produce proteins to trigger an immune response against the targeted disease, not against the DNA of the targeted disease.
People will actually avoid using their nondominant fingers like their ring or pinky. Its an issue with typing irrespective of layout. Its an issue with guitarplaying even. I am no pianist but I wouldn’t be surprised if new players have an aversion towards using those fingers as well.

I understand how dvorak is designed. I am still not convinced people will be using all their fingers especially their pinkys in a consistent manner that without learning that this is what you should work towards.
The webpage you linked says that the position is no longer available.

Also, are you offering Visa?
This story has been around for far too long and evidence is unbelievably weak, and the claims border on fraudulent.

1. The claim that this strain outcompetes the same S mutans from occupying the same niche cannot be true unless this strain is also capable of creating and tolerating environments with low pH. By definition if it creates acid to the same degree it will also cause cavities.

2. Single applications are insufficient to cause any persistent colonization. Even multiple daily applications of oral probiotics don’t lead to colonization. Oral probiotics function primarily through bacteriocins, not through colonization (except in very rare cases). This is because the existing microbiome is incredibly difficult to outcompete. The community in your mouth has evolved for as long as you have lived, and in some ways was shaped for generations before as it’s technically inherited from your ancestors.

3. S mutans is not the only species that causes cavities. S sobrinus, S wiggsiae, B dentium, about a dozen other acidogenic species also cause cavities.

Source: I’m a cofounder at Bristle Health, the oral microbiome company.
Number of teslas vs non teslas is massivly different. Id love to see comparisons for accidents expressed as a per 100k or similar.
First plasma fired up at largest fusion reactor
Google have worsened backup and filesystem access for power users as they've locked things down; I remember using Titanium Backup on an Android 5 or 6 device to back up my apps and their data, as well as exporting my SMSes and call log to xml, then restoring it all without a hitch.

I wish we had a choice; I'd happily give up some security for an experience closer to my Linux laptop. And don't even get me started on my iPhone and filesystem access there (1).

1: 99% of iOS music players don't expose their music library as a folder in Files; one of the only ones that does is, funnily enough, a cross-platform Android-iOS-Windows app, Neutron Music Player². With Neutron, I can open a-shell³ and 'yt-dlp' a playlist from YouTube or Bandcamp to a new folder in my Neutron music folder - some obscure (esp. foreign) albums and soundtracks aren't available to buy where I am.

2: https://neutroncode.com/player

3: https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell
If that were the actual principle being accurately followed, the first feature to have been removed from browsers would have been plain HTTP before any version of SSL.

Plain HTTP is what people resort to when their browser refuses to connect to an old device or server using HTTPS, which is worse than old SSL.
What’s the use case for anything really ?
While this article is about frequencies you typically use in Wifi communication, it touches another point.

I am a ham radio operator and with many radio devices delivered these days I witness the following. Mostly high quality components are used but they are assembled in a way that lacks knowledge of harmonics, interference, cross-talk, parasitic effects in general. PC board design makes it obvious and results in a sub-quality end product.

It seems like a basic engineering craft which got lost in the last 30 years.
Only if the number of customers is significant and they are litigious organized and funded.

My point is that any time you have >1M customers, you will have many pathological people whom you don’t want to do business with in the first place. The right amount of “firing your customers” is nonzero. Anyone who has worked in a customer service role has experienced this.
Imagine if Nullable<T> allowed ref (class) types, and then disallow ref types from actually ever being null, and you have an approximation of the alternative: option/maybe types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type

I absolutely did not get it until I really used it. It's 10x the sensation of fearlessness that C# non-nullable ref types give you. For example, you can't do something like this:

var customers = new Customer[10];

(If I'm remembering correctly, C# in nullable mode allows this - and it's incorrect). You actually have to give it 10 instantiated Customer, or do:

var customers = new Option<Customer>[10];

Then, once you've filled it:

var filled_customers = customers.Select(x => x.Unwrap());

Now what's especially cool is that these are often treated like Lists with a maximum count of 1. What does that mean?

var customer = new Nullable(new Customer());
customer.Select(x => Console.WriteLine(x));
customer = Nullable.Empty;
customer.Select(x => Console.WriteLine(x));

That only does something in the first Select, the second is like an empty list. When you start thinking this way, you can do stuff like:

customers.SelectMany(x => x);

So, keeping in mind what SelectMany does (it essentially flattens a list of lists into a single list), you'd filter out all the unallocated customers. Think about all the stuff you do with Linq (including the Linq syntax), and how nice your code would get if you could just treat null as a list of length 0. It's super-neat, ? on steroids (? does win in the brevity department though) and once you learn the mindset [generally good] code just flows out of you. It's like the Matrix, you have to see it for yourself to understand it. It teaches you a new way of thinking.
Java doesn't even have "await" feature, while C# has it since more than 10 years.
From what I understand only about 2 billion of the 70 billion tons are economically extractable.
> I don't have a single mono/dotnet application or service installed on Linux, and I can't think of a popular one.

I don't have market share data, but dotnet is used a lot to develop ASP.NET Core services, which also target Linux and whose developer experience is delightful and provides top performance out of the box. I'd pick ASP.NET Core on Linux over any Java-based framework any day of the week.
If that's not because of children then that's your own fault. You married the wrong person, plain and simple. Or else it could be that marriage isn't for you.

People marrying for happiness and being happy is a thing.
But usually, people don't travel with their wireless chargers, or if they do, their wireless charger wire will get the same bad treatment as their phone charging cable.

As for wear on the phone side, the good thing of having a Fairphone is that it is easily replaceable. But USB-C ports are also designed to be more robust than the cable. So unless there is a defect, it should last the life of the phone.
No, the main board wasn't external at that time. The Wallaby were a different design.
“I’m starting to think this CEO guy is like all the other CEO guys.”

Insightful.
> I can tell you that the design was based on the principle that adding a sine wave of a particular frequency and amplitude to an inverted version of the same sine wave at a different amplitude produces a phase-shifted sine wave of the same frequency. The amount of phase shift is directly proportional to the amplitudes of the two sine waves.

I can't follow that. Wouldn't it just lead to a lower amplitude sine wave? Where does the phase shift come from? My visual imagination is failing me here, mostly I don't get why the sine wave would shift forward or backwards if all that changes if the amplitude because that's symmetrical.
would you fall, like you are now, if they weren't?
Nope. Consumed power is voltage*amperage, and it’s constant, so 4x more voltage means 1/4 the amps. Wire heating is I squared R, so with both I reduced and R increased the losses are just 1/4, not 1/16 of the 12V system. Because you wouldn’t keep the same wire gauges you’ve had in the 12V system, you’d reduce them to actually have some benefits from conversion.
As many Raspberry Pi's as you can afford. Or multi-track it?

edit: my bad, MacOS or Windows only...
It's been 3.5 years since GPT-3 was released, and just over a year since ChatGPT was released to the public.

If it was possible to solve LLM hallucinations with simple Chain-of-Thought style agents, someone would have done that and released a product by now.

The fact that nobody has released such a product, is pretty strong evidence that you can't fix hallucinations via Chain-of-Thought or Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or any other band-aid approaches.
She is a front for you know who.
And now he's fired.

What a shit show.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992712/spotify-cfo-paul...
How is making each endpoint a lambda helpful?
Not in Amsterdam where

- there are more bicycles than people [1]

- only 27% of trips are done via car [2]

- people travel half as many miles per day than the US [3]

Unlike most cities, especially in the US but also elsewhere in Europe, other forms of transportation are actually dependable and more convenient alternatives to driving. Making driving less convenient will actually entice mode shift in Amsterdam, rather than simply be a nuisance.

[1] https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/01/02/dutch-cycling-...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009411902...

[3] https://www.peopleforbikes.org/news/best-kept-secret-dutch-b...
And why does that matter? What do we now know as a result? Or what interesting properties follow?
Yet another reason to steer far clear of anything Meta.
Walter Kirn & Matt Taibbi discuss it about 2 weeks back.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aZnMGYuAM4mFnkJju36Y2
> But I guess no one likes to hear nuance.

If you were trying to suggest nuance, you didn't do a great job of it.

"in that situation I wouldn't feel even slightly guilty about it" is jumping to the opposite extreme.

> All I suggested

You definitely suggested more than that.
- Attacking a planet that may or may not be a threat eventually is a much more expensive, noisy and slow endeavor than a shot in the dark in a forest.

(you can also think about all the technical hurdles such a thing would take, also remember that the fast something goes the harder it is to maneuver and to stop at the destination), don't underestimate all the kinds of noise that such thing will create and can be traced back to its origin.

- No species on Earth do that kind of unprovoked attack, unless it is very cheap and quick (and riskless)

So no, I think there are many better explanations than simply the dark forest one
Your first point seems wrong.

> cannot be true unless this strain is also capable of creating and tolerating environments with low pH

Whether it can tolerate low pH environments is not particularly related to whether it creates low pH environments. If it's agnostic to pH levels around that range, then it can inhabit that niche whether or not there is acid being secreted.
The rightful conclusion will be when someone can watch the X-Files episode, query Shazam, and it returns the song!
I think the problem resolved itself when a new generation grew up with digital photography and did not long for grain. Now it is a retro aesthetic, like gen-Z's use of pixel art.
This article will examine the role of AI in chess, with a focus on the two leading chess engines, AlphaZero and Stockfish. We will also explore how AI algorithms work in chess and how they have impacted the game.
I have memories of a time where Apple was praised for their polycarbonate quality. You know, those expensive devices they called MacBook and iPod. They even released the iPhone 5C which, ironically, only made consensus on its good design.

Really nothing is forbidding them to release nice plastic phones.

The only reason they won’t is that they want this shiny aspect in their App Store because the consumer will hide this under a mandatory case if they intend to keep it for years.

Well It’s a shame thinking of all those nice things we could have if we actually decided to break corporate monopolies. But now we are stuck between stupid glass phones without default applications and Google spy phones.
Awesome ty!!
It's very difficult for any major institution to not have problems similar to this, as there will always be individuals in positions of power who take it upon themselves to make decisions that can be construed as corrupt.
However, the fact this issue was revealed to the public, reported widely and also found to be a highly dubious shows the institute is working fine.
They appear to have systems and processes in place to help stop these kinds of dubious decisions, and because of the blowback from this rather poor decision, I'm certain the people at the FDA working the next round of approvals will make sure they hold up to scrutiny, which will be stronger than ever.
This mechanism (electroporation) is one of the first steps in mass-producing the mRNA vaccine.
Is there a way to determine if FDA actually set this requirement for the study? Is it on public record? Or do we just have to rely on what they claim.

Also why not try getting it approved elsewhere first like in the EU if FDA is making it harder to approve?
The trouble is, some of the alternatives are worse. Agricultural product buyers who control the path by which products are moved (grain elevators, stockyards, etc.) are in a stronger position than farmers. So they can negotiate prices below the "market" with farmers. There are farmers demanding that the US government require the big buyers (especially Cargill) to use publicly traded markets so they can't squeeze farmers so hard.

There's history here going back to at least 1870 or so.
> Finally, the raw score is run through a squasher function that outputs a probabilistic risk score between 0 and 1, where 1 is the highest risk of fraud. A raw score of 0 corresponds to a risk score of 0.5.

I vote that machine learning practitioners shall henceforth refer to the softmax formula as the "squasher function". It's so much more descriptive, kudos to the French!
(Im)precisely. As it were.

A lot more likely to do odd things to bacteria and other simple organisms in the water than say local fish. Not to mention all the biota that's probably growing in and around the eel itself. Do they have gut bacteria for example? If so what's it do to them?
Gsuite is clearly a lot better product than Office365. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see many institutions make the wrong choice here.

I base about 50% of my choice of employer on what they choose in that area.
> Edit: It's $5 for a used edition. Then my comment is now moo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62necDwQb5E
https://www.lesswrong.com/ ?
It’s hard even when you don’t take into consideration that you don’t know what you’ve misremembered. Try writing a memoir. You’ll realize you never actually remember what anyone says, but caveating your dialog with “and then I think they said something like” would make horrible reading.
Perhaps, but the ideals of the above commenters certainly do not come from investment banks
Unless they are not popular that much, then not much access either.
I think you misunderstood the author.

The treatment was proposed to the FDA decades ago as a drug. The drug approval process yielded the impossible ask. Those same standards prevent them from seeking FDA approval now as a drug.

That this could be approved as a probiotic is a recent idea. The impossible standards are not the probiotic lenient standards.
MySQL was the biggest problem they had though! They brought in Lucene (Earlybird) that massively improved performance- which makes a lot of sense.(in addition to adding Cassandra and eventually manhattan).

Then they started building a lot of things that weren't web applications, like RPC servers (where they created the finagle library) they ended up with a team where Scala and the JVM was more their area of expertise and interest and solution to every issue.

No one thinks you use MySQL to build every kind of data application, no one thinks you use Rails to build every kind of server.
Actually I think you’re right - there is one data point. Pretty impressive
Your insistence on the technical definition of "ambiguous" aside, you see what I mean after thinking about it for a while, though, right?
I can't help but to think you don't understand even the very basic premises of forming a private company.
Certain Algorithms to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Bet Horizon worlds will get great engagement metrics for the next earnings release on the topic.
Even Microsoft is moving towards Rust.
I’m speaking about the power planes. What they drive is irrelevant from the standpoint that higher voltage systems create safety issues that lower voltage systems do not have. No one is going to be ok with “occasionally being shocked by 48v” or “occasionally seeing arcing in their car from a high voltage system.”

Running 48v to a radio is not an engineering marvel. Running it safely and reliably in an automotive environment full of vibration and weather is.

If you can do that with 400v, I argue you can do it with 48v, so the secret sauce they’re sharing is less relevant than if they did this ten years ago.
Also, it’s pretty false. Apple already did it with the iPhone 5C and the plasticky aspect was about the only positive thing in the reviews of this phone.

Apple largely have the competence and the marketing power to make everyone believe that their premium plastic is amazing. In fact, they managed to make us believe that for glass which must be one of the cheapest materials on earth to produce.