skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, because those are always easy to come by.

Question: how do you know that this third party is both well-regarded and neutral?

Answer: Read a detailed review from a well-regarded neutral party that conducts laboratory reviews.

Just a small example of why the entire mentality behind "being responsible for our own outcomes" is utter bullshit. You want to be responsible for all your own outcomes, go live on an island by yourself. The rest of us live in a complex society where everyone is interdependent, and where strong governance over the things we depend on for survival is extremely important.
You're right, I misunderstood. Thanks.
I saw that too but what data did they train on?

iMessage, apple photos, Siri inputs? These all seem problematic beyond the standard open crawl type datasets. They don’t have a web search corpus.
Hm. All of my sync data is encrypted. Is that not the default?
Maybe more apps should do like git and make `--end-of-options` the official long form of `--`

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcli
Here is a very simple linux driver
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pwm/pw...
I disagree, because the 'processing' occurs on the local (my) machine.

A user is not "visiting" a website, they're not stepping onto their property, they are sending a request for data, and the website is replying to that request. A copy of their data is being willingly sent for display to the users machine.

In the case of DNS blocking, requests to advertising addresses aren't made, so no response is received. In the case of in-browser content blocking, the received reply is put through a filter to remove the elements of the reply that the user doesn't want.

The concept of trespass just doesn't fit here.
Observe the phrase “still working on” doing an extraordinary amount of heavy lifting, certainly more than any Hyperloop ever did.
I think you misunderstood me, or I'm not sure how you got the impression I'm taking a jab at anybody. TFA pertains to nursing homes (a.k.a. "skilled nursing facilities"), not personal care homes or assisted living. Sisters of Mercy seems to fall under one of the latter categories, so the poster to which I responded may have conflated the two. Obviously, Sisters of Mercy has nurses (who are skilled) working for them. I was only curious whether they provide care that can't be obtained at an assisted living facility, such as IV meds and ventilators. But they aren't listed by the ProPublica tool, so that probably answers my question.
CPI adjusts prices on a per weight or per volume basis. Shrinkflation is definitely captured in the official metrics. The hidden inflation is in the service industry where it is impossible to capture whether or not your dentist gives you a toothbrush now or not. Or if you get a free smile with your Big Mac. This is what I call skimpflation but I think some people use it interchangeably with shrinkflation. Inflation is also always "constant" in the sense that the government wants to target a constant 2% inflation rate. I think you meant to say "constantly high".

Regardless, I agree with your sentiment that inflation is still above the 2% target and may prove to be sticky as incomes need to rise to meet the inflation we saw over the past 3 years. My prediction is that we'll be at 5% rates plus quantitative tightening for at least another full year. If they start doing rate cuts, I think we'll start going above 3% inflation and then the Fed has the tough job of taking the fruit punch bowl away from a market which thinks the party is just getting started. Going into an election year, that becomes politically difficult regardless of what they do.
> Why aren't those people ostracized and defunded.

Even Jeffrey Epstein wasn't ostracized, people who are responsible for corporate mandlaughter aren't defunded.

Can you name a single person who was? I dont think this ever really happens.
No they needed just your phone number in the original iteration of the app.
I’m sure he is working on it just like he’s working on FSD with Tesla.
I only used it for experimentation so far, but I abondoned it, after I learned, that only one worker can be the active user of a SharedArrayBuffer. So they cannot be shared at the same time? Sharing seems to mean, now A uses it, than gives control back, via the main thread, then B uses it, etc

(but I hope I missunderstood something there)

But I need many threads to access the same data, at the same time (readonly, so no racecondition).
Yes. Its that second part that makes me unsure. Not that they're checking month and day and year.
Legal mechanisms seem moot in a situation of sabotage against the
national infrastructure of a state. The word that's in th back of my
mind right now is, at a stretch, "terrorism".
My mum always worked on most of the public holidays because we never really cared about them but it did mean everyone owed her favors (she was a physician and would be on call, at the hospital etc) so she could get someone to cover for when whenever she wanted.

Growing up ignoring holidays is mostly great (fly on xmas and everybody feels sorry for you, even though they are the ones working on xmas). But it causes relationship problems bc even when you genuinely try to participate you’re “doing it wrong”.
> Tesla are getting exactly $0 of this money (it goes to the customer).

You're technically correct, when limiting to first order effects of the rebate. It would be equally technically correct to state farmers don't get any money from SNAP (it goes to the customer!), and yet SNAP is "surprisingly" (to pendants) included in the Farm bill.

Your assertion that Tesla doesn't get any money from subsides is radical because it suggests that either subsidies don't work, or the do work with none value making it's way to the upstream industry the government explicitly set out to support with subsidies. Either one of these positions need supporting evidence.
Yes, I’m aware. I shouldn’t have used that specific verbiage but that was what I meant. Which is worse than paging from a UX perspective since in practice no app does it perfectly (esp if there’s unsaved user input in a textbox).
Within Europe you get a different dialog box that has more explicit buttons, removing any sort of plausible deniability for Google here.

Looks like this https://blog.incogni.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/enhanced...
Only thing keeping me out of using Firefox is the lack of multiple profile (one for work and one for personal).
I know containers exist, it's not the same (they share extensions for example).
It has been requested for many years but they think containers is the way to go which I disagree (or at least think it's not enough)
> The analogy is that they are both alcohol so they are the same right? Obviously not.

They are the same. The difference is just that the bottle sold as "rubbing alcohol" has been intentionally poisoned.
Your anecdata isn’t evidence of anything, and there is a far greater on-balance positive EV to society for solving transportation problems. If we need to pay someone to mind the scooters in the accessible path, that’s a solution. It’s not a reason to discard the only solution that has produced results in the past 75 years.

What I take particular objection to is the suggestion that it’s my lack of empathy for folks needing accessible ramps that drives my affection for having a more convenient life where traffic problems can actually be solved.
This is a good resource but it's limited and doesn't contain some of the facilities that many people would think of as "nursing homes". In particular, many assisted living and memory care facilities don't appear.
I love that the headline needs a negative angle to sell ads.

The negative things mentioned in the article: old people might have a hard time with the privacy policy and there might be a labor shortage coming up that would make it hard for caretakers to teach old people how to use VR (?!).
Did you mean IR formulations, or are you saying that extended release formulations of Adderall are considered a blunt instrument? Compared to what other than Vyvanse?
$1k per week is very high even for the SF Bay Area or Manhattan.

I would need proof to believe it, and am interested in what kind of pampered existence these kids have at school considering TN’s average CoL, and even if such a daycare exists, it is surely not representative of 99% of daycares.
> nobody used it

Nobody could use it. It was by invite-only. EV bloggers contacted them to ask if they could try it and were stonewalled. They only reason they built it was to get subsidies from a CARB program for cars that supported battery swap so they could technically say the Model S supported battery swap.

(now personally I don't think battery swap is ever going to be a solution for consumer cars [maybe for stuff like taxis or buses] but the Tesla effort did not appear to be done in good faith - I don't think they ever believed in it even when they were building it)
Can you not serialize this state to/from JSON? I'd encourage trying to reduce the state to be JSON-serializable, and then re-initialize any "classes" after deserializarion with a .fromJSON() method (the "factory method" pattern) - in fact you can even call such .toJSON() "replacer" [0] and .fromJSON() "reviver" [1] functions in a callback passed to JSON.stringify and JSON.parse.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
And the time you take out of your kids doesn't get back ever again.

The transient nature of it is frustrating.

Wonder if some kind of trial period of 30 or 60 days wouldn't work better and be fair for both sides? Any company tested something like that?
The guy harassed and stalked women and has attacked staff. This is literally stated in the article.

Being neurodiverse doesn't mean you get a free pass on sexual harassment or violent behavior.

Plenty of neurodiverse people don't harass women or violently attack people.
You don't think Tesla is working on FSD?
How can you be sure if you would never try?
I don't actually do LLM research or engineering myself - I hate Python :) So I am ignorant about a lot of the nitty-gritty in actually training and deploying an LLM. There's a lot in this paper I haven't read closely. But this struck me as suspicious:

"Building on Kocon et al.’s insights [37], we explored the zero-shot learning capabilities of the scaled-up AM-SNet model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on The Pile dataset [35]. Zero-shot learning tasks, which test the model’s generalization to unseen tasks without specific training, are crucial for
language models’ practical application."

...but a good chunk of the text generation examples begin with "As an AI language model..."

I may be mistaken: I thought "as an AI language model" was OpenAI's design, and they deliberately instilled this specific phrase into GPT via RLHF. It's not something LLMs say "naturally," and The Pile by itself shouldn't make an LLM preprend certain answers with "as an AI language model." The paper does not say they did any RLHF themselves, or even any prompt engineering about making the LLM respond like an AI chatbot. LLMs don't "know" they're AI unless they've been prompted to that effect.

[Edit: I missed this in Section 3, "Subsequent fine-tuning was conducted on the MOSS finetune dataset, which is tailored for dialogue systems." See causalmodels's helpful comment below. What I wrote below is wrong yet not totally off-base. The research wasn't "clumsily faked," but the post-training conditioning was certainly corrupted with GPT-3.5 output, which IMO makes the natural language generation analysis quite flawed - and in general should make us wonder how "zero-shot" these examples really are.]

I am suspicious this part of the research was clumsily faked. Happy to be proven wrong: maybe there's something in The Pile that explains it, or part of the modern LLM toolchain does some pre-training to make things more ChatGPT-like. Maybe the researchers actually trained it on GPT-4 and didn't mention that in the paper.
Not disclosing it to postfix is the biggest issue I'm seeing people talk about. From the article they reached out to three of the biggest individual vendors, but there's no indication of them disclosing it to postfix or any of the other providers of mail server software.

In the article they even mention that postfix is affected, and show it as being the most used mail server online, by a large margin.
While very impressive, the latest AI craze is a huge distraction. In fields where original research and discovery is key, AI will for the foreseeable future have little marginal impact. My 2 cents. Canadian.
Just seems like useful information for most of the commenters who are taking a victory lap or generally complaining about Elon Musk.
I've always thought that his ideas like the boring company and the hyperloop make a lot more sense when you remember that he spends a lot of time wondering how someone should build a moon base or Mars base

If you don't have an atmosphere, the near vacuum conditions are free

You need robots to dig tunnels if you want sizeable bases. Figuring that out on earth just gives you a headstart.

What should transit look like on the moon? On Mars? Can you use those tunnels? What will be different with lower gravity?

This is the most charitable interpretation I can make, fwiw
Are you IC9?
"you wouldn't download a train would you?"
> it's shocking how pharmacies advertise their drugs to tourists

I’ve been there and a number of other tourist traps in Mexico, none of it is even close to legit. I would trust a drug dealer on the street over a Mexican pharmacy.
This might be a defining case that sets the power relation between
governments and the comapnies that supply all the stuff they need.
It would be more thermally efficient, but not as economically efficient.

Firstly, consider the capital costs of an engine + natural gas pipeline + heat pump (excluding electrical motor) versus either a natural gas pipeline + burner _or_ a heat pump + electric motor. A high guess on the lifetime of a suitable natural gas engine under consumer quality maintenance (variable and generally late) would be 10,000 runtime hours. On heating duty cycle that's about 5 years. You can reduce runtime hours with more starts and stops, but that reduces the engine life -- probably more than it saves.

So the extra capital costs of the engine must amortize over five years out to less than the lost efficiency. Importing electricity has economies of scale in capital costs. Direct burning of natural gas has low capital costs.

Secondly, there's the efficiency question. A moderate-sized heating system has a peak power of around 100,000 BTU/hr or about 29 KW. That's about 37 horse power. Engines of that size are piston engines with around 20% efficiency. Therefore out of every 5 units of fuel-heat you get 1 unit of mechanical energy you have 4 units of waste heat. That mechanical energy put through a heat pump will net you around 3 units of heat for a total of 7 units of heat for every 5 units of fuel.

That's better than just burning it, but 140% thermal efficiency is only ~45 points better than a natural gas furnace and comes with much higher maintenance costs (oil changes, filters, etc.).

Importing electricity has economies of scale in production, even if generated using natural gas, because the 'engines' are of more efficient types with 40-60% thermal efficiency. Further, an electric motor is low maintenance and long lasting. So for every 5 units of fuel-heat in a power plant you can get between 6 and 9 units of heat through an electrical heat pump. Not too different overall, but with much lower per-house capital and maintenance costs.

So compared to a natural gas furnace it's not a win because of the capital costs and maintenance costs versus the much cheaper equipment; a ~$3000 engine every five years is $600 per year, which buys a lot of natural gas. Compared to an electric heat pump it's not a win because the efficiency of engines that small aren't great.
Multiple profiles in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
which tv do you have right now ?
What an inappropriate response
Non-profit nursing homes are a great option for many people. But they usually have long waiting lists. And many are unable to deliver the necessary level of care for patients with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Those patients often have behavioral problems and are difficult to manage.
I was under the assumption that the majority of people dying were at the 50+ age range. So not as many people that were employed.
I agree, I don't even care about ads in specific. I primarily use the tor browser which doesn't block ads due to fingerprinting (it's ok for casual browsing, though some sites are actually obnoxious and slow down the browser). More generally, I care about web scraping and being able to control the presentation of content: for internet archival, using a featureful video/music player (mpv) or library like a local imageboard, utilities like user scripts to add features/programatically do stuff, content blocking (filter rules for specific posts/users), creating RSS feeds for notifications if the site doesn't offer one, simpler/faster frontends like invidious/nitter, etc.
Print it to a pdf
There's value in being the one to serve personalized results, get people to sign up for accounts, cross-sell other services...
Both the Android and ARM Linux versions of Firefox are available and installable on ChromeOS.

Google has been taking steps to decouple Chrome from the base OS for a bit now[0].

0. https://chromeunboxed.com/lacros-chrome-browser-chromebooks-...
Thanks for the kind words, it's appreciated.

I might add comments down the road if there's enough interest and if there's enough traffic to warrant it. Don't want to add them just yet and have zero comments on everything and it look like a ghost town.

Keep the suggestions coming though as you use it more: matt@emergentmind.com.
Not sure why you think HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn is relevant here?

The facts of that case are not analogous to the matter at hand.

hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn primarily deals with scraping publicly available data and the definition of "exceeds authorized access" in the CFAA. And to a lesser degree selectively banning competitors. ToS violation was a generic argument and not the contentious part.

Meanwhile Bowers v. Baystate Technologies, Inc. is current standing law on reverse engineering clauses in ToS and EULAs, while the matter at hand has nothing to do with publicly accessible data, no exceeding of authorized access and no data scraping.

> The other question is whether Beeper is violating terms of service or their users are.

That would be Beeper, no question about it. They had to agree to the OS license agreement that prohibits reverse engineering and the ToS for Apple Media Services that also prohibit reverse engineering, before they could get to the parts that needed the reverse engineering they did.

The users didn’t do any reverse engineering, although they would be in violation of the terms that state iMessage (and other Apple services and software) is only licensed to be used on Apple devices.
But that’s small fry in comparison to reverse engineering, repackaging and reselling Apple’s service without a license to do so.

> I'm guessing Beeper is not and they instead need to be implicated for some kind of tortious interference.

Tortious interference has more to do with affecting a relationship you’re not a party to.
This is more of an intentional tort, like conversion, although in this instance that would be more of a “side-dish” claim.

After all why go through that trouble and prove damages when you’ve got more suitable options with statutory damages.
They were claiming that specific manufacturers had not used their allotted cap, so they refused to raise the cap of other manufacturers that had reached their cap.
To be fair, It's more comparable to MP3 players in the 50 to 100 usd range. (See zishan, f.audio, hiby, shanling, fiio, xduoo)
The difference is it is using open source hardware and software. Chinese MP3 players have little repairability, limited to no modding and a terrible OS. This tries to fix that.
Still expensive in my opinion but I'm waiting to see if people make interesting things out of it.
15min History of Reinforcement Learning and Human Feedback [video]
Yeah especially South East Asian roads with all those motorcycles buzzing around. Actually I'd be way more impressed with self driving motorcycles.
Nope. See the following page for some screenshots of the UI to turn on encryption with sync passphrases: https://palant.info/2023/08/29/chrome-sync-privacy-is-still-...
I haven't really gotten to the point where anything works but doing the serialize de/serialize combo is possible. The issue is, that I am thinking about doing this not a few hundred times but more like several million times (preferably per minute), so i'll likely have to implement several competing versions and benchmark them.

The full idea is implement a deckbuilding game like magic and use genetic algorithms and montecarlo simulation to balance the card pool. But that requires millions of games with millions of simulations to work. So i'll see if it's even possible.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a Latin Stanford graduate, from a wealthy two parent household. I'm sure there were some people who escaped genuine poverty among my classmates, but for the most part anyone at Stanford is privileged regardless of background.

I find that companies only care about improving their annual diversity report pie chart, and have adopted a cynical attitude along the lines of "the diverse talent pool is limited so we need to make sure we get more of them than our competitors". Nobody is actually trying to get more underprivileged people into tech as a whole.

A company instituting a DEI initiative where employees take one day a week mentoring students at a less affluent high school would do way more good than a percentage quota. The former actually makes the world have more software developers of underrepresented backgrounds. The latter just increase the share of "diverse" devs at that particular company, doesn't actually shift the needle in the industry as a whole.
Can you (or anyone experiencing similar issues) share any details about what's not working in Firefox? I tested it and all is well for me, though it's definitely possible there's an issue with some other version of it.
True.

But it still might be worthwhile to find policies that at least help to steer things in the right direction without being failures themselves. Easier said than done, obviously.
I had a huge amount of cousins on my mom's side, and a small amount on my dad's.

my siblings' kids had 2 cousins each, and I doubt any of them will have kids at this point - if they do it will be a dimisishing return.

no real shock at this point: as the need for child workers has decreased, so has the birthrate.
W. Richard Stevens (RIP, still hurts) famously used troff for his books.
They can ask for the properties of the client, and the user can then make a informed decision to consent to that collection of personal information. In EU it is similar to asking for identification credentials.

Naturally this may make the process a bit cumbersome and websites that does not behave like this will gain a bit competitive advantage.
Am not into expensive things, but I do enjoy a pack of jarlsberg with smoked salmon once a week. Before the pandemic, I splurged $20 for a satisfying portion of both. But nowadays the portion size has gotten really small for the same price :(
There is a bill in the works right now to keep mutual funds and similar from just scooping up every house they can for rent, I imagine there are very few actions that could make more of a difference.
DAY >= 21 AND MONTH >= 11 AND YEAR_2digit >= 21

The condition yields true from 2021 on for:

nov. 21 - nov. 30

dec. 21 - dec. 31
What's the superlative of conflation? That's what bringing analytics into the discussion here is.