skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A person is defined by N different traits. From my experience it’s fair to assume that is very big, let’s set for N=500 the moment. We can assign to each skill a value between 0 and 1, and for the sake of simplicity assume also that the distribution of these values is uniform (probably it’s better to assume that’s Gaussian or a fat-tailed distribution, but let’s keep it simple). Skills values are independent. When you’re born you get assigned a value at random for each different trait. We say that you are very good at some skill if you have a value bigger than the 90% of the population for that trait. With these assumptions, the question we ask is what is the probability of being the best at something?

Most people have nowhere near 100% probability of being the "best in the world at something". They might have the potential, but so do countless others not being it.

Let's see the assumptions to get to that "100%":

"Since each trait is independent we have a probability of
p = 1 - 0.99 = 0.01 of being very good at that dimension. Since we have N dimensions the probability of being very good in at least one of the features is given by 1 - (1-p)^N = 0.9933, which means that you’re probably one of the best in the world on at least one thing with a probability of almost 1, which is pretty cool".

First, traits are anything than independent. If your IQ is low, most of the intellectual traits for example lose the chance to be good, much less "better than the general population". If you're overweight or lack exercize you're not going to do well on any athletic or physically demanding dimensions (well, except Sumo). If you lack an education, you ain't going to be the best doctor, physicist, lawyer, scholar, and so on. If you have low EQ, the related trait scopes also plummet altogether.

Second, the probability to being good in any dimension is related to genetics, upbringing, opportunity (not many astronauts born in Lagos), and training, none of which is remotely close to random.

In fact, given the assumptions (independece of traits, random probability of 0 to 1 score in any of them), and how percentiles work, you don't even have to have anything to do with the trait in actual life to be in the "top 99 percentile".

E.g. given a world population of ~ 8 billion, about 80 million people would be in the 99% percentile of being good at a trait, e.g. at "being a doctor", even though there are only about 14 million actual doctors in the world.

Which is mathematically sound, but meaningless, an artifact of assuming the trait skill score "random".
>they can't realistically rule out a placebo effect.

Kind of like every other treatment for depression? Not being funny here but I don't think we gave the control groups in clinical trials for MAOIs brutal kicks to their blood pressure every morning.
>That may cause people with some empathy and with hearts not cold as stone to demand an end to the terror.

Well this should have caused those people to do something with Hammas controlling the area long before recent events. Isn’t it?
This would have be much more Pro-human don’t you think?
It was in fact done by a duck.

I for one, welcome our new quack overlords.
https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-establi...

"Before the current reserved name policy was imposed in 1993, Jon Postel (under the IANA function) took steps to reserve all available single character letters and numbers at the second level for future extensibility of the Internet (see 20 May 1994 email from Jon Postel, https://web.archive.org/web/20100301054658/http://ops.ietf.o...)"

Although I can't find off hand where he said about the corporations but I do vaguely remember reading that at some time as well, may be wrong on that specific point though.
> Is this triggered under certain workloads, or has it been chewing data for everyone, and how much?

Unless you are checksumming your files through a daemon run on a schedule (IDS style) AND manually review the results every now and then, you can't know.
If you grind oily dark roasts, the oils stick around in your grinder and go rancid. That's what you're probably smelling. You just need to clean your grinder some what regularly. This isn't a problem for medium-lighter roasts and water added with RDT doesn't really have any effect in practice.
Oddly enough I had same experience on an iPhone too, despite it only being an interface wrapper over safari
I'd like to see better stability. My biggest issue with Firefox on Windows right now is that it hangs if I leave it open for several days. Mozilla does have a suggestion on their support site: don't do that[1]:

> Firefox hangs after using it for a long time

> Firefox may hang if left open for long periods of time. To fix the issue, restart Firefox.

So I can choose between closing all of my open tabs at the end of each workday or randomly losing them during the workday. Since having my tabs open when I start work helps me jump back in, I've settled on randomly losing my tabs.

They also suggest using their session restore feature after a hang, but with this type of crash, Firefox is never able to restore your tabs. It also doesn't record the crash report in about:crashes. Overall, not great and it has me thinking of trying Brave.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-re...
if it's a stochastic parrot then you are too. You just have a better predictor.

Obviously what I and everyone means by stochastic parrot is that it's not intelligent. It's wrong. It is intelligent. At worst it's as intelligent as a mentally retarded/schizophrenic or insane human. But even a mentally handicapped human still displays a level of intelligence.
I’d love to watch the directors commentary, but it looks like I need to get some legacy media for that.
> I don’t think the majority of people killed so far in this conflict have been enemies of Israel per se

How do you know? hamas overstates death, has had ‘journalists’ with weapons, ‘children’ than are 15-16 year old fighters, lied about the hospital being destroyed, has videos of people crying over dolls, and MrFAFO, the Johnny Sins of Hamasniks.
I also changed what I did quite frequently early in my career. I think that's OK if you're not sure what you want to do. In fact it's more than OK, you're exploring different possibilities.

If I was going to recommend a side project, I'd maybe think about what you enjoyed when you were tinkering around, and go and do some more tinkering.
> Assuming it doesn't have basic design flaws, what is there to be negative about?

Nothing. Haters gonna hate.
> even as the U.S. faces renewed concerns about terrorism in the Middle East.

Looks like we're gonna see another +$2 trillion dollar go down the drain again. A new war would probably involve Iran in some way. Interesting that there are no kamikaze drone startups in the US because that's probably the next unicorn opportunity.

I'm muslim so I probably can't work on this startup idea in my garage. But I'm surprised other American startups aren't trying.
I haven’t had it hang yet but it does slow down and become laggy after a week or so for me.

You can use “Open previous Windows and tabs” to keep your tabs between restarts. It only works on the last window you have closed though.
It's illegal in most of the EU, maybe all of the EU, to register ones "race", even for the police.
Why did you ignore the article?
Odd, I always suspected it was the other way around, particularly when the management are themselves early-leavers.
I don't understand why the only instance monitoring this stuff "regularly" is Samsung itself. The ones with little incentive to actually care about the consequences or accurately monitoring this.
Open Source 7B models have already caught up with OpenAI.

The current top of the open model 7B leaderboard beats GPT-3.5 and Bard while running on a laptop, smartphone, raspberry pi, or 10 year old graphics card.

Tim Dettmers just released code to get Mixtral 8x7b running in 4GB of RAM, the same amount required by Mistral 7b.

We are quite clearly a matter of weeks from Open Source being on par with GPT-4, likely before Google's Gemini Ultra is even released.

This is all to say nothing of the multi-model LLama-3 120B coming in 2 months according to insider leaks.
I had the same problem on my 4a. I've since upgraded to a Pixel 8, and I still have the blank screen problem. Notably with a PWA, has to be killed and restarted. This is on Fennec (so FF dev basically). Annoys so much, chromium-based browsers don't have any issue.
yep, I'm also never said anything beyond me not liking it in a specific way. Through given how the internet tends to be I could have been more clear that I'm not offended, neither think it will offend other, neither hate the name etc. etc. people just love to jump to conclusions.

It's just that it looks like a very promising project and bad names can easily come back and hunt a project iff it has become much larger and more successful. So it having in my opinion a bad name felt like something which isn't irrelevant.
> The government money for the cycle lanes comes mostly from car and fuel taxes:

My experience from the US is no doubt leading me astray.

However, you have mischaracterized your source. It says "Revenue in the NLTF comes from two main sources – fuel taxes and road user charges."

The entry for "Road user charges (net)" says "$6 billion End customers of freight carriers in the prices paid for goods and services. Light diesel vehicle owner payments."

It does not give a breakdown for just cars, and even people without a car pay for goods and services which are transported over roads.

Furthermore, the National Land Transport Fund is not the only organization which funds roads. It took a while to find it, but I see that "Council receive Transport related revenue from several operating streams. These are rates, borrowing and the National
Land Transport Fund (NLTF) subsidy, via the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) which Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency administer on behalf of the Government." at https://ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/The-Council/Plans-Strat... .

You therefore need to include rates and borrowing into the total budget sources.

According to https://www.nzta.govt.nz/planning-and-investment/national-la... , for example, the "Total for Canterbury › Christchurch City Council › Local road maintenance" for the "The total cost of the activity’s phase for all years, including local share" is NZ$ 548,783.1 while the NLTF funding is 32,772.9+35,390.3+40,024.8 = 108,188 or less than 20% of the total cost - if I understand it correctly.

If I understand "Total for Canterbury › Christchurch City Council › Local road improvements" correctly, under 10% is from NLTF funding.

The main entry point to this statistics is https://www.nzta.govt.nz/planning-and-investment/national-la...

That sure seems like far less than half the funding for roads in Christchurch come from car and fuel taxes.

Can you find a better breakdown?

Lastly, look at the breakdown of NLTP funding. "In 2021–24, $24.3 billion of funding is forecast to be managed under the NLTP" of which $910m is "to walking and cycling improvements".

That is 3.7% for walking and cycling.

You wrote that in Christchurch "3% of trips are by bicycle".

Are those numbers pretty proportionate?

Especially given the growth in cycle traffic in Christchurch over the last few years? ("with the city seeing a 30% increase in cycling over the last five years" says https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300918660/back-to-the-cyclo... ).
Firefox should be the obvious choice or at least a very close second to Chrome, considering the millions Mozilla gets.

That or a browser is a billion dollar project nowadays and Mozilla doesn't have the resources to compete?
Pick up a copy of The Fountainhead and read the first chapter. You'll know if you want to read the rest of it soon enough. If you're a technical thinker, there's a lot there.
I also do finger+faucet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually adds _more_ water than a single spritz.
Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools
Hey everyone,

We have been building SecureAI Tools -- an open-source application layer for ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools.

It works with locally running LLMs as well as with OpenAI-compatible APIs. For local LLMs, it supports Ollama which supports all the gguf/ggml models.

Currently, it has two features: Chat-with-LLM, and Chat-with-PDFs. It is optimized for self-hosting use cases and comes with basic user management features.

Here are some quick demos:

* Chat with documents using OpenAI's GPT3.5 model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br2D3G9O47s
* Chat with documents using a locally running Mistral model (M2 MacBook): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvRHL6f_w74

Hope you all like it :)
To take the point seriously: electrical generation, something that can be done at small scale with passive/reliable components and/or recreated from scratch using century-old methods, is vastly more likely to survive an "apocalypse" than a gasoline production economy.

You know how to frack your own well? Me neither.
Speedometer performance has improved; it's almost as fast as Chrome was last year! Chrome is still 13% faster.

JetStream performance is still miserable though; 50% slower than Chrome.

Worst of all Firefox doesn't support PWAs, so I'll be using Brave until it does.
A WYSIWYG editor that spits out a CLI you mean? That would pretty neat, though I think would necessarily be kind of constrained. I wonder who has tried that approach, I can't think of any examples
Do you have any weird plugins or addons by any chance (maybe even antimalware or other malware that you might not have installed explicitly)?

It's strange that it wouldn't report this as a crash. They're normally pretty good at telemetry (sometimes to a fault..)
Have you tried using a session manager extension? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...
And where, pray tell, will you be procuring a horse or donkey suddenly once the apocalypse arrives? It seems like the best vehicle is actually a bicycle, or perhaps simply walking.
This gem alone deserves a sizeable donation to the upkeep of the Internet Archive <3
There's gobolinux, which in my view solves everything and isn't as complicated as nix... nobody cared.
Bitcoin is almost never used as a currency in the sense that you're describing. It is almost always used as a vehicle for (unregulated) speculation.
> It is not advisable to take even close to this dose without significant experience and an ultra-safe, comfortable setting.

5g+ isn't advisable, period. It seems odd that whatever organization this is tries to present itself as professional on the one hand, and gives this asinine advice on the other. Romanticizing crazy high doses is incredibly irresponsible
> Or...hear me out: Firefox gets into the adblocker business and lets the big boys paya fortune to be exempted by default.

That will make Firefox a very attractive browser to people who want to block as many ads as possible, and they will then install an add-on which also blocks the ads that Firefox whitelists, perhaps using Firefox's own whitelist as a source if it's easily available. Then if Firefox tries to pull a Google and be evil and lock down their add-on API so that ad blocker add-ons can no longer be made, these people will just switch to a fork with no such limitations. And in the first place I don't think Firefox has enough usage for them to be able to charge a "fortune" for such an ad blocking exemption in the first place.

By "EU and US govs mandating it as the only default browser" I assume you mean for government employees and not for the entire populace (which would be straight up despotic), but either way it would probably be unenforceable.
> not-ugly Tesla

I tell ya I gotta disagree. It is a boxy and weird looking thing. It's how I'd imagine a PS1 era graphic of a first generation Honda Ridgeline (also ugly).
They all use the same hardware in the joysticks and have been for years (maybe since 90s). there must have been a defective version made along the way, but it's not an easy nor cost effective repair.
We don't have even one method and we have many Nobel prizes to go until we get one, so I again state this is all science fantasy only fit for a movie or other fictional story.
It will work on all open windows if you close them at the same time. File->Quit, ctrl+q or cmd+q are all ways to do that.
Good lord, that's crazy, haha. You'd think with all of their different frameworks, one would have been more suitable than starting from scratch with a browser tab, jeez.

I recently upgraded to 10 because of Steam requiring it in a few weeks, and it's been an adventure. Lots of crashes and restarts that I didn't ask for. I really don't know who exactly modern Windows is for, because I'm a gamer and programmer and it's not been good for either of those tasks...

Windows 7 was solid and I almost never had issues out of it. It booted and got out of the way.
> Firefox gets into the adblocker business and lets the big boys paya fortune to be exempted by default.

This would completely alienate Firefox's core userbase.

> i have ideas on how to implement unblockable ads using traditional means

If a way to serve unblockable ads existed, it would already be implemented and widely used
Same for me. I discovered it was Slack that had some live leak, one time it had eaten 33GB of RAM. An auto-reload extesion did the trick to prevent it from going too far, but I'd really wish Firefox would handle it more gracefully.

Unless I say so, a normal web page shouldn't eat gigs of RAM or tons of CPU.
>More digital piracy would also overall mean less production, and so less expectation from consumers, and less barriers for the people who cannot afford everything (or anything really).

what kind of awful logic is this? We have decades of free (and "free" as in beer) knowledge and media alike available with no ethical quandries. Why do we need to pirate the copyrighted stuff? For all its gripes, Youtube and Tiktok have indeed provided ore entertainment than one can consume for "free".

But for traditionally premium media, Look no further than the music industry to see how this leads. Spotify is a race to the bottom and artist basically don't get any money from their actual music anymore. Great for consumers (it's all free with ads or paying a one time subscrption to remove ads), awful for those wanting to sing professionally.

We're seeing it in gaming as well, and people hate it more than ever despite the "game" itself becoming free these days (can't pirate what's ultimately a thin client that companies give away for free). The value comes from exploiting scarcity of resources. People say it's ruining gaming, but it seems to be the exact kind of endgame for someone who can't afford $40-60 games but wants to play the latest and greatest. You spend your time or your money. Or both.

>But its a pretty quick reasoning, am I really to blame for downloading bytes over the internet?

yes. you're not entitled to all bytes. This decomposition of media to "just data" doesn't work at all in the favor of respecting art. are you really to blame for "just grabbing trees?", or "just grabbing reverbs in the air"?

> am I to blame if their work only has value when imposed?

Yes? If you value a product and you choose to not pay for it but consume it anyway, how are you not to blame? You didn't haggle with the creator, you didn't leave any feedback suggesting to make it cheaper or more accessible, you didn't offer any argument to how contributing this to a metaphoical library would benefit them.

You saw a piece of candy on the shelf and chose to pocket it. That would be considered unethical. No survival mechanism to appeal to (you don't need candy to survive), on extra context to justify your action. Many do it because risk is low and they value the item.

And honestly I don't care when people do it. I'm no snitch and Nestle already took into account X% of theft when pricing the item. But the worst thieves are the ones that whine that "well I deserve this I had a hard life". Just accept you did a bad thing and reflect on if you want to repeat those actions again. Don't pretend society owed you a butterfinger or that you're toppling the Nestle empire by grabbing a single piece out of some 7-11.
To be fair you can't use any gui toolkit to make something like blender. It's all custom.
Yeah it does the same for me (macos) after a few days. Open previous windows and tabs should restore all windows though (at least it does for me).
>As soon as I see a mechanic that is infinite by nature, e.g. a "radiant quests", repeatable randomised dungeons, infinite upgrade trees, etc, I lose interest.

Of course. I lose interest too because the quests are samey. Instead I have to rely on the endless procedurally generated content from humans to keep me satiated.

If a game generated content from AI then the content can potentially be diverse enough to keep my interest for much loonger. Perhaps the AI can generate content that 100% matches human output.

For example, say I'm playing a game like No man sky. With AI One of the worlds that no man sky generates is basically an entire world with the detail and gameplay of Red Dead Redemption. Randomly generated. Of course this is the ultimate goal. The short term goal is we can generated worlds where each world has landscapes that look hand crafted similar to what we see in Zelda BOTW or red dead.

That's what I'm talking about. Not the procedural sameness we see today.

Generative AI is already producing pictures with enough novelty to be comparable to regular art. The next step is video. Then movies. And the step after that is entire gaming experiences.
Philosophy is accurately describing an antagonism instead of asking questions which just further mystify the antagonism allowing it to continue, unabated. This is the time for philosophers.
A set of nice flashlights. Why walk around in the dark? Some that I like: Sofirn SP36 BLF, LT1, SC21, HS10. Wurkkos TS10 (and I’ll be getting a TS11 soon.)
> What I said is that Parag Agrawal and team made the conscious decision to institute censorship policies incompatible with the First Amendment.

You actually said they don't believe in the First Amendment, but I'll take you at your word regarding what you meant. And I'd agree. They didn't run the platform in a way that gave people as much liberty as the First Amendment guarantees them (qua government).

They were running a social media platform. It's best practice when running one to not grant 1A-level privileges; doing so makes it way more likely you'll hit an actual legal snag like "this site was complicit in planning an insurrection."

Your claim basically boils down to "I like the new censorship regime; it's better than the old one." Sure; everyone has a preferred flavor of online community. But as I noted in a peer thread: Twitter does, if anything, more censorship now than it used to.

It just no longer actively pushes Nazi shit off the platform as often, and my opinion of it reflects that new reality. So does its advertising base.

(Hey, while we're on the subject: how do you feel about what it says regarding Musk's version of the First Amendment that he's suing reporters for reporting true facts?)
I would like to be able to use a gui to set up parameter sweeps based on info pulled from argparse and then convert back to a shell script that runs and saves the output sensibly.
I don't get it.

There are dedicated tactile buttons for:

- wipers

- turning signals

- high-low beams

- cruise control (with distance modifications and speed change)

- media, volume, play/pause, prev/next

- drive selection

- power window controls for all windows

- hazard lights

- dome/reading lights

On touchscreen:

- cabin temperature is always visible and in the same place on screen

- navigation input is always visible and same place

- you can have shortcuts for functions you would need immediately

Touchscreen is as responsive/fast as current gen iPad and probably more intuitive (tho this is subjective).