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I just use regular old foam earplugs. I keep a couple in my back pocket so that I can pull them out whenever needed, which is very often in urban environments and surprisingly often in suburbia. Also I can lose them constantly and it doesn't matter because I have a big container with more.

Occasionally some random person asks me a question and I have to pull one out and say "what?", which is a bit awkward, but thanks to my hearing loss I would have had to say "what?" anyway - when someone talks to me and I'm not "ready" for it it sounds like an adult talking in a Peanuts cartoon.
Yup I use it to be logged into various azure accounts
>Because of bad experiences like immigration, the US has been losing influence as foreign decision makers soured on the US due to crap treatment.

So what?
There used to a standalone Firefox Password app for mobile but it got the axe.
Everything is a pile of libraries.

It’s a pile of someone else’s code all the way down.
Probably John von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
You could say that 1W can move a mass of 1Kg a distance of 1m in 1s.

The battery can store NN kWh and the car weights XX Kg. How many Km can it travel?

It ignores wind resistance, road incline, use of air con, external temperature, number of passengers etc.

So it would even more meaningless than the somewhat synthetic tests already being done.
> By zero bugs do you mean zero GitHub issues?

Or, the library just have zero bugs. It's possible, although probably pretty uncommon :)
This will cause a stack overflow. You can convert that into a loop and make your own stack on the heap if you need very deep recursion.
A friendly reminder that Jerry accepts donations <https://infosec.exchange/about> for all the hardware and time that goes into running that community <https://blog.infosec.exchange/2022/12/22/scaling-mastodon-pa...>
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Life, uh, finds its particles.
We draw on the screens we have, not the screens we want.
In all HN Firefox threads with a sufficient number of comments you’ll see a variation of this comment, and people answering how Firefox fails as a daily driver for them.

Firefox is missing a ton of very useful stuff for some people, such as some audio API or AppleScript¹. The latter absolutely kills it for any kind of automation on macOS. It’s the sole major browser on macOS without support for AppleScript but Mozilla people think that’s just a power user feature. I know because I talked with devs at various points, in person and online, and was given the same answer. Thing is, power users create automations for non-power users. When the latter want to use a tool from the former and the answer is “you can’t, Firefox doesn’t support it”, there’s another user lost.

On a personal anecdotal level, I also don’t find it that stable. Just recently I wanted to try an extension and decided to do so on Firefox. After a while it just removed the extension from the list and it was seemingly impossible to get back, even after reinstalling. Every time I give Firefox a try, I am disappointed.

I’m glad it works for you and many other people, but the answer as to why it isn’t more popular is that your experience is far from universal.

¹ Whose bug report has been open for 22 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125419
It's a rolling distro since 24 Dec 2023. I went to site index. You are seeing their latest post on News section.
VW is a very slow moving behemoth with too many cogs. That's why things take forever there.
Your defense boils down to people having an insufficient understanding of zero as an ordinary number, and still clinging to the concept that zero means "nothing" or is otherwise magic.

This hints at a failure of math education.

As an analogy, many (usually, but not always, weaker) programmers still have magic ideas about booleans and comparison operators, and write nonsensical stuff like if (a == true). When you ask them, it's invariably that in their mind, there's mystic connection between comparison operators and if statements.
> Most supplements are garbage…

> My family spends a huge fortune on supplements, most of which are placebos

Unless you are just using “most” as a weasel word to hedge the chance that you might be wrong, using “most” would imply that you are aware of some supplements that aren’t frauds. Can you share them?
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t slashes typically reserved for flags on Unix and back slashes on dos/windows?

Forward slash (/) in DOS, while dash, tack, or hyphen (-) are used for UNIX for command line flags or parameters. The / in UNIX was for the path. The backslash (\) is for DOS paths. (Caveat: I started with UNIX in the mid-80s.)
LessWrong is well, akshyually personified. It's where a bunch of guys with an IQ of 120 go to circle jerk each other to feel superior to people with an IQ of 110. Similar to reddit, whereas reddit is where the 110 IQ people go to feel superior to people with an IQ of 100.
There is still one place it's guaranteed to work, code.

I have occasionally used small ASCII based diagrams inside comment blocks where it felt appropriate and it works very nicely... I'm not a big documentation inside code guy, but like to include it sparingly for the most unobvious code.

Limited to more utilitarian "art", but it at least is guaranteed to work, I've never seen or heard of anyone successfully using proportional fonts for programming (although I have seen people try).
I recently came across this issue (https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/issues/213... and https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/issues/181...) and man that person has really found him self a hill.

What is a bit worrying though is that he is an active member and contributor to TC-39. Meaning that this kind of community hostility is very much alive among the people who rule JavaScript.
> Who would be a programming God

Are you twelve?
Lode Runner: The Legend Returns is the best version of the game I think, the old one is too pixely (like the classic version on iPhone) and the later 3D ones lose the simplicity of the original.
> You’ve always hated people being wrong, and it turns out a lot of things can be defined as “wrong” if you have the right temperament.

> The spite-based path to impact and altruism is not the easiest road. Spite is a less fun emotion than hope, and makes fewer friends. But I also can’t bring myself to wish I didn’t have this drive, because it is my actual value system.

This really resonates with me. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m just a crotchety shit though. Which is probably a good few years after my coworkers came to the same conclusion. I have become either enlightened or jaded enough to not really care much about it at this point though, it’s apparently how I want to live (or need to survive) in the corporate machine. Know thyself, and whatnot.
Maybe, at some point the Mozilla Foundation will acknowledge Firefox as the fundamental pillar of their relevance and existence ... instead of seeing it as this vestigial organ that they can't 'cut loose'[1] ... one can hope.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mark-surman-mozilla-25-y...
No.

In the US, whether or not you make money has little to do with whether or not your use qualifies as "fair use".
USP is an old compendium, it is not an organization! it means United States Pharmacopeia, there is an organization that manages the trademark but they do not produce pharmaceutical, nor do they enforce quality, the enforcement is delegated to the FDA.
>Also, planes use engines differently. They basically run flat out for hours, while cars only use peak power when accelerating.

This is often said but isn't really all that true if you dig in. Most planes have a cruise power setting that is below that used for takeoff, often 65-80%. Further, engine are often de-rated so that max throttle means something like 80% of the engine's max horsepower. Those two factors along with variable pitch props on some planes which act like gears, mean that even planes often cruise at closer to 60% rated engine horse-power rather than 100%.
They are 'less wrong' in the sense that you can't tell if they are right.
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> This would probably be a 1 OOM increase at maximum, if the video transcripts aren't already a part of the training data for gpt.

Human brains aren't trained on video transcripts, which leave out a lot of information from the video that human brains have a shared understanding of due to training. You would train on video embeddings and predict next embeddings, thus learning physics and other properties of the world and the objects within it and how they interact. This is many more than 5 orders of magnitude more data than the text that today's LLMs are trained on.
Example given opening a registration page at 9am for a conference website, and then closing it at 10am. Since it's a feature flag, it can also be overridden using only flags, no code changes. FFlag-ms offers a web interface (fflag-ms.com) to manage flags, which for that same example, can be given to the conference admins to update the flag manually on-the-fly. Super helpful when trying to empower non-developers to change application settings live without pushing code.
> "… do not put my name on it or associate it with me in any way."

If you invented it, then they have to put your name on the application as the inventor. There’s also a declaration that the inventor is supposed to sign as part of the application. If the inventor is dead or otherwise unavailable (e.g., refuses to sign), there’s an alternative form that can be filed.
"Cos-playing academia" is not bad as a description of lesswrong...
The tool doesn’t do anything by itself. The operator of the tool tells it what to do. You could do the same thing with photoshop, or with paint if you have enough skill.
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How about things that aren’t quite facts? Reviews, opinions, etc.
Oh that sucks, I haven't experienced that... Yet.

I worked for a webshop years ago, they wanted to implement a "marketplace" and I advised against it, but they went forward anyway. A few years later I was contact by someone still working there, they had dropped the marketplace again. They simply could not deal with the amount of absolute shit sellers where shipping and it was damaging their brand. This is a store that was really selective about which products could be sold and what resellers was allowed and they still couldn't do it. So why isn't this damaging Amazons brand to the point of them limiting marketplace?
> The question I’ve been wondering lately is, “why don’t most people I meet have personal websites?”

The answer from my experience is simple: because most people that I meet are not programmers (at least not in a strict sense), and don't know many programmers.

On the other hand: most programmers and many STEM degree holders that I meet do have their own websites.
Can large language models detect sarcasm?
Depends on the market and the product. The best way, in my view, is through product innovation by ambitious entrepreneurs who come up with a better solution. Instead of trying to making the equivalent of a faster horse carriage at cheaper cost, they figure out how to make the equivalent of an automobile, rendering horse carriages obsolete.
They likely view the idea off competing with Chrome - a key chess piece of the company keeping Mozilla around merely as a pet to ward of regulators - as impossible if not counterproductive to their mid-term survival at this point.

Which is to say, at some point they might become annoying enough for Google to not want to pay them anymore, and then Mozilla would cease to exist shortly thereafter.

So with that in mind, Firefox as a dedicated separate browser with its own engine is an albatross around their neck. A source of significant ongoing investment and cost for comparatively little return. For the Mozilla "mission" and the CEO's personal goals and purpose, a simple rebadged chromium fork skinned up with open-web platitudes is a far better idea in the long term.
Yeah their android skin is literal malware (and I don't say that lightly, it is impossible to get rid of most of the apps, it installs random stuff constantly, will stop some features from working if you disable unrelated stuff, and is filled with ads). It also has that weird "chinese sales app" aesthetic that is common to banggood, AliExpress and even creality cloud. But you can't beat the price for the hardware, and it's super straight forward to just wipe out the OEM ROM since they allow for bootloader unlocking.
Neither, and NYT editors use all sorts of productivity tools, inspiration, references, etc too. Same as artists will usually find a couple references of whatever they want to draw, or the style, etc.

I agree with the key point that paid content should be licensed to be used for training, but the general argument being made has just spiralled into luddism at people who are fearful that these models could eventually take their jobs; and they will, as machines have replaced humans in so many other industries, we all reap the rewards, and industrialisation isn't to blame for the 1%, our shitty flag waving vote for your team politics are to blame.
Who is driving 600 miles without stopping for a piss at least once?
I did not dig too deep in the technicalities of it, but is there anything that would stop openAI from also implementing something like this ?

Presumably any advances open source community makes towards running on cheap hardware, will also massively benefit the big guys.
Could 2024 become a crisis for commercial AI?

1. We're only barely getting started with free MOE models and Mistral has already impressed.

2. Cloud AI is a poor fit for corporate use at least in EU due to GDPR, the NIS directive and more. You really dont want to exit the EU in where the data processing takes place.

3. There are indications of diminishing returns in LLM performance, where a one year later shot at it from Google, despite massive resources in terms of both experts and data set, still doesn't have Gemini Pro clearly surpass GPT 3.5 and Ultra probably not GPT 4. Meanwhile, competition like Mistral is closing in.

4. The NY Times lawsuit seems like a harbinger for what is to become a theme for AI companies in 2024. Open collaborations are harder to target as legal entities and there is not nearly as much money to gain if you win.

All this points toward a a) convergence of performance that will b) be in the benefit of open models to me.

Interesting times anyway especially as we are STILL only getting started.
Sodium batteries aren't exactly commodified yet, LFE is readily available and not terribly expensive.

For the most part I don't actually need batteries that work in the freezing cold, so much as survive it unmaintained for months at a time. I had solar panel damage last winter that allowed one battery to discharge enough to freeze. That is fatal to a standard flooded lead-acid battery.

If my test battery survives this winter then I will consider using the same type to replace lead-acid ones as they age out.
> It takes a big mover like an Apple...

or an ambitious entrepreneur with sufficient financial backing willing to take big risks.
Honestly at SEA, there’s only ever been one agent staffing identity check at each checkpoint. Dropping staffing would mean zero which fortunately isn’t reasonable.
This.

We actually need the override right-click functionality in some cases. Most of the abused functionality had some normal use case at some point. It's a shame that bad actors make everyone's life harder.
Right, but those people would then get their EV, go for a 20km drive in bad EV conditions, see their range decrease by 30km, and call the manufacturer a liar. Been there, done that. Family member sold theirs because they weren’t “confident in the range” despite never driving more than 80km in a day.

Truth is I think some people just don’t want them and they look for a “logical” out since that conflicts with their desire to be less impactful to the environment.

A 75kwh battery pack has the same energy as ~8.5 liters of gasoline. While the conversion of that energy to movement is far more efficient than a gasoline engine, that’s still a small amount of energy comparatively, so the variance is going to be very, very high.
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You can also use the web platform straight up without transpilation, build tools, post-css compilation and all that jazz.

Just vanilla JavaScript, CSS, HTML, some sprinkles of WebComponents. And you can be pretty sure that you won't have to update that for a decade or more, as compatibility won't be broken in browsers.

Heck, I have vanilla JS projects I wrote 15 years ago that still render and work exactly like how they rendered/worked when I wrote them.
> I think 9 seconds startup time with 1GB of memory use is pretty acceptable.

9 seconds of startup time on a modern GHz computer is completely unnecessary and unacceptable IMO. There may be 9 seconds of work it wants to do at startup, but there's no way it needs to do it in a single thread before letting you start to interact with it. This is an optimization effort, nothing more. Give me a month with their codebase and I could get that down to under a second. (So could most decent software engineers.) It would just need to be something they actually put effort into.
That is an irrelevant comparison.

This is theft and monstrous profit from theft. For actual justice this should be a class action suit of the world vs. OpenAI/Microsoft and the financial consequences should be company-ending for OpenAI. Otherwise, you have incented everyone in the AI industry to steal as much as they can for as long as they can.
The "we're just a tool!" defense didn't work out in the end for Napster.
the wheels remind me of Taiwan's national flower
Z80 Tetris game made in 2023 for a 1977 computer
That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise you could find X country that is loose with citizenship requirements and get around the US' per-country limit.
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There are no active nuclear power plants in Indiana. It had two planned plants that were cancelled in the 80s. Purdue has a very small power plant for research.
According to Modvion, the Swedish start-up that has just built the world's tallest wooden turbine tower, using wood for wind power is the future.
Great concept, but isn’t it just “time horizon”? Everyone knows “time horizon”.
Is the "optimal Julia workflow" written down anywhere?
Have you considered that your expectations of supplements not working have caused a reverse placebo effect?

I don’t take many supplements but they all work for their intended purpose.

creatine for muscle recovery and making me a tiny bit stronger

ZMA (zinc, magnesium, b6). for deeper sleep and overcoming multiday hangovers

melatonin for vivid dreams and waking up feeling more refreshed.

b12/d3 for energy

i don’t take them all every day, but they have consistently noticeable effects and have improved my quality of life.

i also just use the store brands from major retailers, and have low expectations.

More importantly when I was in my late thirties I also thought feeling shitty was just part of getting older, but it turned out I had cancer. talk to a doctor.
How is the question being asked different from the Google Books case?
I think you missed the point of my post. The value of Vim/Emacs isn't the modal editing or key chords. It's the community and architecture, which you lose if you're still using JB with a frankenport of Vim on top. In fact, I think what you're suggesting is the worst of both worlds - a reimplementation of Vim on top of an already resource hungry and complicated IDE that's supposed to let you do things with a mouse. So you're left guessing whether something from real Vim will be the same in your Vim, plus you now have two competing environments for ways to do things, and you have to wait for JB to implement features that (neo)vim have already implemented, without supporting the opens source communities that did the work in the first place.

You also lose the killer feature of Vim, which is being able to work over an SSH connection on any sort of device, even those that don't have a GUI.
Well. I don’t know if I agree or not, but felt like playing devils advocate.

take the example of game development. Trying to maintain, say, the hobbit game from the early 2000s to today would almost certainly take more work than just making a new one from scratch today (GPUs have changed drastically over the past 20 years and making simple 3d platformers with unreal is so easy, “asset flips” are a new kind of scam)

Or a tool which lets people visually communicate over vast distances without specialized hardware.

That was a huge lift in the 2000s when Skype was the only major player, but you can find tutorials for it now using webrtc.
Model 3 doesn't have a grille either.
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See, comment like that tell me you have no idea how a ship engine, or engines in general work. The problem to be solved is not the ships propulsion system, what stupidly keep repeating with nuclear reactors, but the source of the fuel for those engines we already have (developing new engines is happening day in day out, and that development will simply optimize for ammonia or hydrogen based fuels). A question which has almost zero to do with the question you so desperately want to have answered as some kind of, what, childish got ya?

I get it, you area NS Savannah and nuclear fanboy, reality so simply doesn't agree with you, nor do the relevant industries.
One reason Germany has been able to afford more entitlements for its citizens like socialized healthcare is due to the fact that it virtually had no defense expenditures for decades. We can say the same for most of Western Europe. The US has subsidized the defense of the EU for decades.

As for occupation, I wonder what Germany did in the 20th century to merit it?
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Not if you were smart, unless you have some sort of solid argument for why the established case law about this sort of thing is faulty.
I always found it funny that this is printed as a reminder text on Magic the Gathering cards that care about even or odd values: https://scryfall.com/card/iko/88/extinction-event?utm_source...

But thinking about it, I have no doubt that Wizards found out this confusion is somewhat widespread during playtesting, and printing a short reminder was an easy fix.
Been around for 150 years but I imagine the generations who it leans on are dying off. Nobody reads print media format anymore, we get our news elsewhere, for free and with varying political undertones, rather than the fixed one of a bought and paid for outlet.

Keep in mind these guys play both sides of every field they cover in their "news".
> I haven't read Steven Pinkers critiques (could you link them please) so I can't say much about that. What does he mean by goal seeking?

He has spoken about it multiple times on a few different podcasts. Here is a recent discussion he had with physicist David Deutsch [1] where he references this idea (See chapter timestamp for "Does AGI need agency to be 'creative'?").

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ho-vJZsMgk&t=2363s&ab_chann...
Are you saying there could be Viagra in my Endurance 2Nite?
The funny thing you can't block the requests unless you want to drain the battery because ...behold... there is no backoff logic when the connection fails so it goes into an infinite loop lol

The custom roms were not an option since i needed google's safety net feature but i got a different phone eventually