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>They "haven't been convicted of any wrongdoing" because we have developed a detestable habit, in this country, of allowing—in some cases even encouraging—large companies and wealthy individuals to simply settle major lawsuits "without admitting any wrongdoing" rather than forcing them to actually, yes, admit that lying and taking money they weren't owed and didn't need (or whatever other particular awful thing a given suit is about) is wrong, and requiring them to change their behavior.

Except in this case it's not really clear that taking them to trial would result in a guilty verdict against them. It's also possible that they get off 100% scot free instead. I don't know about you, but if I was a consumer I'd rather get a paycheck in the mail right now, than having both sides' lawyers rack up thousands more billable hours (which will be paid from the settlement and/or future bills) for an uncertain promise of a bigger paycheck and them being declared as guilty.
Careful, you’re digging at the great HN conflict. Everyone making these pointless and disruptive UX changes logs off at the end of the day, jumps on HN, and complains about other products’ pointless and disruptive UX changes.
What killed Anki for me was having to add cards. It is such a chore adding single word cards. I also ran into the problem of increasingly niche synonyms that I'd learn, but would rarely see in text. For some reason I never really considered cloze cards.

The anki default of 8 relapses before suspending a card is much too high. It took me a while to realize, but dealing with problematic cards takes up -way- more energy than learning new cards... it's not energy/time efficient at all.

Do you have any recommended sources on cloze style cards?

[45k reps here for Korean]
If everyone does that the system collapsed, as you're free riding on gas and registration fees that fund road you bike on.
This. It's not only reliability at high mileage, but also as they age. Driving a 2012 and a 2014, both seem to still be 100% mechanically and electrically sound without any major repairs, with only minor body dings that are more related to parking lot negligence than engineering. Totally reliable, no major body issues, nothing. In the past, I've never had any other car go more than 8 years without a major repair, some annoying series of endless minor repairs, or the development of annoying behaviors. Things have changed.

I can afford a new car, but any car buying on my part is being delayed by these cars being effectively free (with insurance, license and fuel costs, yes) at a point while car prices are high. It's also being delayed by the knowledge that if mainstream cars can be this trouble-free with typical maintenance, I'll need to choose my next car(s) carefully, since I like to buy my cars outright, and will be effectively stuck with it for over a decade, so it has to be something I like much more than these old ones.
This is pretty disappointing, but the writing was already on the wall for any desktop-ish version of Fuchsia. I do hope it somehow still replaces the Android core someday, maybe just running the Android Chrome via Starnix.

It's a bummer because Fuchsia takes everything we've learned from automatic software updates, devices that run untrusted and semi-trusted code, proprietary drivers in a OSS kernel, devices whose manufactures aren't compelled to update them, the unsuitability of the user-based security model, containers, and more and applied it to a new kernel and OS.

Fuchsia is more or less exactly the kind of trust-nothing OS architecture I want to run as an end user and as a developer who has to run a lot of random 3rd-party code locally.
By now it is clear that Fuchsia will eventually follow Brillo and Android Things footsteps.

It is a shame, Fuchsia has a lot of cool ideas, I guess by having Binder, Android IPC for Treble drivers with a microkernel like approach, and Rust integration, kind of keeps some of Fuchsia's ideas on Android, leaving little else for Fuchsia, other than replacing the Linux kernel.
"AI will enhance you" is a really hard sell for voice acting. Voice actors are paid to use their physical training and experience in order to perform as directed in a unique way. Even if a voice actor were to go "now I trained this model on my own voice so I don't have to perform anymore", no sensible game studio or animation director would want to pay full price for an AI performance. The AI isn't going to be able to satisfy the precise demands of the director at a recording session, at least without a lot of domain specific training and extra work.

It's like telling a guitarist that AI will empower them because now the computer will play music for them.

An actor could probably additionally sell access to an AI version of their voice on the side, but doing that is devaluing their voice, arguably.
I get the impression you don't realize this, but you subtly shifted what you're claiming to try and avoid the fact that you're in the wrong.

Original claim: they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety

What you're now saying: the claim they’re making, which is something like “DEI led to decreased safety” or something

Read again - the claim is that they have prioritized DEI hiring over safety, a claim amply backed up by Boeing's own statements which are very proud of this fact. Employees who were once told to focus on safety and quality exclusively are now told this is no longer their only priority, and now they must focus on recruiting racial minorities and women as well.

There isn't yet hard evidence this policy has led to a concrete safety problem, which is the claim you're now rejecting. But nobody said it had. Only that it's very, very likely to.
I feel like the AI debacle with Google having no good answer to ChatGPT was only the tip of the iceberg and it's becoming clear that the company does not have a good leadership structure in place.

Some blame Sundar, personally I have no idea if it's true but it's sad to see a company that seemed so bleeding edge slowly decay like that.
I make no claims that the course is even still similar (I remember programming in Octave lol) or relevant, but it looks like it is on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
This is great, I also did find this https://github.com/IgorMeloS/OCR/blob/main/7%20-%20template-... which is part of this https://github.com/IgorMeloS/OCR could be useful for this as well.
> My concern was sometimes I would forget to drain the water. I was creating a big thermal mass which my heater would have to work to maintain at equilibrium.

Is that a bad thing? I honestly ask. I'm twisting and turning the idea in my head and can argue in both direction.

I guess it can be a bad thing if you live by letting the interior go to cold frequently and then try to heat it back to room temp. For example if you would turn off the heating for the day, and then try to heat it back up from near freezing to room temp. That would be bad in itself, and the the extra mass would make it worse.

But if it is just maintained near the room temperature point then it is not that clear to me if it is bad. Would be happy to hear either way.
I don't know if it will be significantly different than what Google Translate does, but I would give the major cloud vendors (Google, Amazon, Microsoft and I guess OpenAI/ChatGPT) OCR services a shot. It's pretty simple and cheap to do (like, about a dollar for the whole thing). Last time I compared them, Google's OCR came out ahead, but it's task-dependent so in your case it might be different.

General purpose open-source OCR solutions like Tesseract, TrOCR, etc will probably not be as good as the cloud ones, based on my experience.

There's some specialized research work out there for antique manuscripts, but that will require some digging on your part with an uncertain outcome. I think at that point, I would also look into manual transcription - for 200 pages, it might be reasonably affordable.
This resonates a lot with me, and I think you expressed what has been running through my mind lately.

Sometimes, I feel like I lack agency; lile I'm not a primary character in my own life's story. It's so easy to sit back, follow the flow, and let the will of others dictate what I work with and spend my time on.

Working on changing that. But now I'm at an impasse, as it's difficult to know which of my interests and hobbies are coming from within me, and not just something I do to--for lack of a better way to express it-- please or impress others.

Current working theory is 'work less, play more', spend time with others, and being as attentive and receptive that I can.

Thank you for your words: they helped me
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Is it the 15.6” model. Curious to know if it needs a power brick to deliver full brightness, and Aldi if it’s pentile?
The Five Whys
Accountability is everywhere, but software managers are always looking for the silver bullet that would let them have a stellar reputation of being on time.
You have provided no evidence someone can walk into a store and buy an amp, speakers, and speaker wire and suffer any problems due to RF interference.
IBM still makes enough research in quantum, AI, patents, and contributions to the Linux ecosystem, that many startup founders on HN can only dream of.
The argument against this, specifically with regard to taxes, is that baking in the tax conceals the impact of that tax from the consumer. Obviously this primarily applies to sales taxes since production taxes aren't consumer facing (even if they impact consumers) but it's still better imo than simply not having that information since most laws are already fire and forget type affairs and so their costs can compound over time to degrees that aren't as immediately obvious to the public if they aren't displayed frequently and visibly.
The “normal” way to support 25W would be to support 9V 3A input, giving 27W adapters functionality. Or possibly accept multiple options such as 9, 12, and 15, and then buck any of those down to the system voltage needed. The 5V5A is because raspberry pi org is being cheap/lazy and doesn’t want to design or pay for a power converter to handle that on the pi, and instead is pushing that complexity/cost to the user via an overpriced and nonstandard supply.
I really don't think you pay anything more as a result of that. They're different frontends to the same service with virtually identical feature sets.
Went from "Here's to the crazy ones" to "we'll punish our customers for not jumping how we say" in 30 years.
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And the cost of the settlement will be recovered with the higher fees.
It’s 30%, and 8/10 of those come from Europe. Not exactly Brooklyn, and crime is rapidly rising there regardless
Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Getting to the point where you can run other people’s code is a great achievement!

I have one question: Did you really implement this in Python? Why not C++ or Rust?
Twitter would be the party mailing the letter to Nitter, and Nitter is mailing it to the end user. Nitter is responsible for mailing it to the end user. It doesn't matter that they originally got it from Twitter or aliens from Uranus. The mail company is Firefox browser.
I know Sqoosh already exists but I guess that doing bulk is more useful
My TB3 mesh network shows interfaces as thunderbolt0 etc. this is on Linux using thunderbolt _net from the kernel. Latency is worse than regular twisted pair Ethernet.
I would try this but the downside is GPT-4 vision currently doesn’t like to extract large text blocks. You could try extracting line bounding boxes with PyMupdf and feeding it individual lines.
Here's a full timeline of all bailouts listed by propublica:

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/main/timeline

which clearly shows this is the last company to receive a bailout (Harbor Bankshares Corporation)

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/events/list/2022/8

A bailout is defined as

" We're tracking where taxpayer money has gone in the ongoing bailout of the financial system. Our database accounts for both the broader $700 billion bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

For each entity, we provide a “Net Outstanding” amount, which shows how deep taxpayers are in the hole after accounting for any revenue the government has received (usually through interest or dividends).

Companies that failed to repay the government and resulted in a loss are shaded red. You can see a list of those investments here. All other investments either returned a profit to the government or might still be repaid. Recipients of aid through TARP’s housing programs (such as mortgage servicers and state housing orgs) received subsidies that were never intended to be repaid, so we don’t mark those as losses..
"

So the lines marked in RED are where money was given to a private company and never repaid. That is an outstanding "loss" on a bailout.
> Companies don't generally spin up 400-employee divisions just so they can keep hold of employees.

Back in ZIRP days, Google did. I was there and saw it firsthand. Were you? I know the initial team that started this. Very smart folks. But there was never a shred of future there. When they tried to convince me to join the team, there was no answer to my question of "who would use this and why?". Android compat would never happen without a vm or container (in which case all the fancy privilege control is useless since all the sensitive data is INSIDE the container that MUST act linux-like and not fancy-priviledge-separation-like). And nobody would rewrite all the apps of the world to fit the new paradigm, as seen by chrome dropping this target finally, and by the failure of much-better-sponsored windows phone OS. Given that even the team had no clear answer to what they were doing and why, yes, the conclusion is that they were permitted to do this just to keep them off market to competitors, and available should they be needed elsewhere at Google. This also explains why there were layoffs in the team once the free money ended, and it expains this article here too.
I don't understand the obsession with imessage, what is so special about it?
Yeah we are just beating the bush, with all due respect, bordering sophistry, potentially using a chat bot to generate replies.
Haha my girlfrient thought I am crazy when I asked her not to let it down for 30 minutes to extract the heat, LOL
You need to model how a person actually plays connections. Start with the most obvious group that has the least ambiguity, and then your problem space is smaller on category 2, then the same for category 3 and 4.

So really you could fine tune 3 models - one for 16 words, one for 12, and one for 8. Then use them in succession.

Also, if you come across a mistake at the end (have some negative examples in the training sets), tell it to start over and add to the prompt what you think is NOT a group.
The article seems to confirm it at the end, mentioning off the shelf components and that it won’t out perform the competition.
Yeah, the learning curve is there, but it has its benefits for software development.

Personally I really am enjoying the one implemented by Unison: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundamentals/abilities/usin...

But Koka's was fun to play around with as well!
That is not an universal position amongst developers. I would even go as far as to say that it's not even a majority position.
https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants Here's my open source game written in Rust and compiled to WASM if you want more reading material :) It uses Bevy not SDL2, though.
> but that doesn't make people living here poor

There is absolute and relative poverty. And while there is little to no absolute poverty in Germany, the relative poverty is still relevant for the poor people.
Yes, the full price needs to be listed. At the same time, if there is the need to disaggregate the items so you can see where your money is going. For example, how much is tax that goes to the government (and might be less if you lived in a different jurisdiction), and how much goes to the company? Among the latter, how much is for the base service versus addons (that you might not need)?
I worked at Google (on the Chrome team) at the time Fuchsia was started and for many years after that.

The team had some of Google's most brilliant engineers working on it. Technically, they had some really impressive stuff.

However, I don't think anyone was ever able to articulate to me its path to success. In other words - let's say you build an amazing, powerful new operating system. How do you actually get anyone to adopt it?

What frustrated me is that there wasn't even an answer for Android or Chrome OS. Why build a new operating system that wouldn't even be relevant or useful for those, the two platforms that Google had total 100% control over?

If I had been in charge of the world, I would have taken a more pragmatic approach. Chrome OS was the obvious first target - it was built on Linux but it didn't have to be. The operating system really only has a tiny number of native binaries that need to run on it:

* Chrome
* The Chrome OS GUI (which shares a lot of code with Chrome but is distinct)
* The Android VM
* A Linux VM

If you port those four to run on another operating system, then you're done. You could start shipping Chrome OS devices based on that new OS.

I think it also would have been reasonable to have a goal to port Android to run on it, basically replace the Linux kernel. Probably it would have been necessary to add some Linux compatibility layer to enable Linux drivers for some number of years, with the goal of eventually shipping devices that don't require Linux.

But the Fuchsia team wanted to build a complete operating system from scratch, including a whole new GUI, a whole new developer SDK, and more.

Why???

When they were finally forced to ship something useful, they shipped the Nest Hub, which in my opinion was a big mistake. The Nest Hub based on Fuchsia does absolutely nothing that the previous one didn't do. It basically took a relatively simple, easy product and increased its maintenance burden by 100x while providing no value.

If they had chosen Chrome OS instead it could have actually provided some value in terms of performance, security, modularity, and developer APIs.

It just seems like such a waste of talent to try to reinvent everything with no plan for adoption, rather than building more incrementally and actually shipping.
In general you'd have a map between string names and functions, yes. But for static calls you don't need a map lookup of course.
Expected behavior.
That’s a pretty stupid plan in my opinion.
:O

This reminds me of the brilliant Portal exchange between two AIs:

In the 2011 video game Portal 2, artificial intelligence GLaDOS attempts to use the "this sentence is false" paradox to kill another artificial intelligence, Wheatley. However, lacking the intelligence to realize the statement is a paradox, he simply responds, "Um, true. I'll go with true. There, that was easy."
As a student also trying to figure out how to use AI "correctly" to increase actual learning, I appreciate your effort. However, I'm not clear as to what the idea is. Like the parent commenter, it also seems to me like you're complaining about professors using ChatGPT to generate tests, but your tool seems to do the same thing. Is your tool basically a magic prompt that makes GPT generate higher-quality tests?
> I don't think that biggest improvements will come from better spaced repetition algorithms

Exactly that, specially for language learning. The stated goal of hitting a target probability is pointless IMO.

Language acquisition is not about memorizing words, but progressive familiarization (eg via retrieval practice).

You have to expose yourself to massive amounts of language, create your own cards fast, review them faster, move on even if you "fail", don't do too many repetitions (6-8 should be enough for >95% of cards)

The most important aspect of an SRS algorithm is to be practical: sensible choices, equally spaced out among them, that allow you to decrease / maintain / increase intervals without ever punishing you for failing.
Man, as a parent this chills me. Before modern medicine the statistics of deaths in childbirth were scary.
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I spent a bunch of time manually just using GPT4 with fairly simple prompts and giving it the same feedback that the game gives. There's an archive of puzzles which I used to try to train it with, and sometimes it would be very successful, and sometimes it was frustrating how bad it was at doing basic things like keeping track of what words it had used so far. Each day I would also have it play the new puzzle from the NYTimes which it couldn't have trained on. Some days it did perfectly some it made really stupid mistakes. It seems like a more concerted effort could achieve better results.
There are numerous ways to look at safety here. All else being equal, non-nuclear-weapon states wishing to arm with nuclear weapons would hate a total ban on nuclear energy, due to dual-use mining acting as a cover for their arms development.

Is that a sufficient justification for actually imposing such a ban? I personally don’t think so, but reasonable people can disagree on that.
The "detestable habit" is just the nature of an adversarial court system. If both the defendant and plaintiff agree to drop the matter, how else can you continue the case? Do you have the judge start the Verizon inquisition[0] and become (or appoint) a new plaintiff? Who's going to pay for their time?

It sounds like what you want is the FTC to prosecute the case in lieu of the plaintiffs. That's possibly viable, but they also kind of have their hands full with Google.

[0] Yes, the alternative to an adversarial court system is literally the Spanish inquisition!
Because Microsoft abandoned the Nokia brand in 2014. Their last globally released MS-Nokia phone was in 2013. But the branding rights were locked up until Dec 2016.

The mobile industry was much more competitive in 2013, someone from Sony, OnePlus, HTC or LG could have snapped up the brand name and started making some nice phones.

Whatever they came up with would have been better than MS, who had no clue about how people use phones. See the Surface Duo and Duo 2 for examples.
Sorry for the lack of clarity. It was a general comment about certain trends I've been noticing and not specific to any one offender in particular. Certainly not Ars, I'm not familiar with them on that level.
Don’t they? Based on their benchmarks Gemini Ultra is supposed to be better than chatGPT. I guess we’ll wait and see when it comes out this year.
10 Gbps does not, but 10 GBps, as written above, is 80 Gbps, matches your estimate.
> This was clearly intended to eventually replace Android and ChromeOS

I worked at Google (on the Chrome team) for years while Fuchsia was getting started.

Replacing Android and Chrome OS would have made so much sense, but they were definitely NOT trying to do that. I never understood why.

They had a great plan for an OS that lived in a complete vacuum, with absolutely no plan to gain adoption or transition any existing platform to it.

It was literally tech for the sake of tech, and it made no sense.
Goods distibuted in samw geographical area generally have similar prices even after transportation, so shop in county A that has lower tax, will be cheaper than same shop 1 kilometer (1 mile) in county B, that has higher tax. Why would the shop want to hide the tax?

In EU shops are made to show price per kilogram / liter too.