skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really not that much of a stretch to imagine a further 14% are physically unhealthy while not meeting the criteria for obesity (realistically much more). Think of all the slim to slightly overweight people who drink excessively, use other harmful substances, eat like crap, get poor sleep, have lots of poorly managed stress, or avoid exercise. Any one of these things can lead to being physically unhealthy (even when you appear fine outwardly).
The references he gives in that section suggest that it boils down to a convenient way to try to gauge poison by contrasting sugars to bitterer phytochemicals. Plants with sugar may be less nutritious on average, but that's just counting calories/macronutrients, not taking into account poisonous substances.
It seems like anyone who was in the aviation business when the Columbia disintegrated probably would not share the viewpoint that aero fairings’ attachment points aren’t safety critical.
and bear in mind there was no supplemental oxygen in 1918.
The "Chinese" people in the video need to be positively identified.

Their demeanor is strikingly out of line with the behavior of Chinese tourists.

Their tactics resemble a Falun Gong effort to discredit the CCP.

The first step is to identify them.
To be even more overused, make sure the flashbacks describe a trauma plot[1].

1: https://archive.is/VdZ14
Every language has these.

In C/C++, which is faster:

i++;

or

++i;

These days, a decent compiler will output the same machine code, but it wasn't always true, and ++i was faster.

And really, the "dict() vs {}" performance issue can probably get fixed by the interpreter, but it's such a micro-optimization that it's not worth the time and effort.
probably both

The size some of the large language models have is just insane. To put it into context GPT3 is a Large Language Model (LLM) but GPT4 has like (handwaveing) 5+ times as many parameters. This means the energy cost is also at least that much larger for inference.

And if we look at training instead of inference it's a quite a bit more complicated (each iteration is more costly, more parameter can also require more iterations, but at the same time you might need to spend less time in an area of increasingly diminishing returns per iteration), but if we go with GPT3 vs. GPT4 the 5x+ increase of parameters lead to a 10x+ increase in training cost (of which a huge part is energy cost, through also amortized hardware cost; ~10M$ to >100M$).

Additionally there are various analysis steps you might do when creating new models which can be hugely (energy) costly.

And that is with GPT4 and with OpenAI any major increase in version seem to come with a major increase in parameter size so with that trend we are looking at energy bills in the (potential many) hundreds of million US dollar for training alone.

Another thing wrt. inference cost is that with my limited understanding currently the best way to reach AGI and also a lot of other tasks is to run multiple models in tandem. Through this model might be domain adoptions of the same model, so not twice the training cost.

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Domain Adaption == take a trained model and then train it a bit more to "specialize" it on a specific task, potentially adding additional knowledge etc. While you can try to do so just with prompt engineering there a larger prompt comes at a larger cost and a higher chance for unexpected failure, so by in a certain way "burning in" some additional behavior, knowledge etc. you can get nice benefit.
> Maybe those who described it dysfunctional were dysfunctional and or under 40.

In the cases I was referring to, particular events were described to me which, if true, would be extremely dysfunctional in a workplace by any reasonable criterion. In some of the cases, I personally observed such events on visits to the workplaces in question.
How to measure the distance? Easy, compare the apparent size to the actual size and calculate the distance from that. Then how do you measure the actual size? Easy, multiply the apparent size by the distance!
Many have proposed having government-provided small-scale banking as an option, administered through the post office. It's a government office, with branches in every town, that already handles things like money orders.
> the average person doesn't have the background to understand

yes agree - so there must be manufacturing standards and product testing. Similarly it is established law that some products are inherently unsafe. The law must always adapt to new techniques, materials and chains of distribution.
Taking my bitterness and sarcasm out of it for a moment, in our case it feels much more like a way to deflect blame from senior leadership onto employees for company culture and product choice issues that are affecting the bottom line, along with prep for an ugly round of layoffs to make up some of the cost of conceding to so many of the UAW's demands. Not necessarily that those demands were unreasonable, but it's interesting that "badge swipes will be tracked" came pretty much at the same time that managers were ordered to stack rank like in the bad old MS days under Balmer. We haven't officially received word of the firing of those bottom 10% with "needs improvement" performance reviews, but I think that's mostly a function of performance reviews being communicated now-ish. History says that it'll probably be mid-March. Either way, we've reached updating the old resume time. The unfortunate thing is that I have zero interest in relocating to the Bay, and all the really high paying jobs have also mandated some RTO, so I doubt I'm going to be special enough to get a fully remote role at any of the FAANG companies.

Oh, and also ironically, we just hired a bunch of Silicon Valley people who get to be 100% remote, along with some execs in HR, DEI and the like that are weirdly all in Denver. These announcements came roughly in the same time frame as the new RTO mandate, which is especially insulting because a number of people hired in 2021 and 2022 were hired as fully remote, but if they live within 50 miles of a major office center (not counting assembly plants) they were all redesignated as hybrid or in office, without their consent. This means that some of my coworkers now have 40 mile commutes and needed to figure out much more complicated child care, since they get to spend hours on the road that could have been used to pick kids up at reasonable times. Gotta love the double standard.
yes, same true here

I seem to remember that was a compromise of the government forcing companies to pay wages via electronic transfer
> Why are businesses no longer accepting cash? What are the positives and negatives for businesses?

It's expensive to store and transport. It gets stolen, by employees and robbers. You get handed bad bills.
FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertising
> Most programmers can't implement a PID loop.

Wait, really? I would expect that most programmers could absolutely implement one if they understood what they are, but perhaps I'm biased from living in embedded land
At less than 1080p, you can’t make out digits one car length in front of you.

How are you going to read the speed limit?
Wine does run Windows music software quite well, sometimes even better than Windows; in fact the first and most famous hardware VST host, the Muse Receptor, used Linux + WINE under the hood almost 20 years ago.

Here's a SOS review from 2005: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/muse-research-receptor

I'm not so sure about that under Android, however, since latency in audio apps has been a big problem on that platform for ages.
Wouldn't surprise me if China has already done this.
Have been working with serverless for quite a while now and I love it. It's been really good for our specific set of clients who already have extremely large user bases but zero digital tools. Being able to slowly transition into a digital version of their previously manual product without incurring any substantial infrastructure costs during the transition is extremely valuable to them.

However, Serverless has its flaws. I wrote a post a while back where I talk about the current landscape. It's a bit out of date, but if there's interest I might update it and post it here.
Back then, all they knew was hunting. Probably became masters at each species and teach the young how to master it.

Now we don’t do that and teach are young about math and science. We don’t need hunting because we can just shoot them in the face. Or drop on nuke on their species.
It also works on mobile phones. If it doesn't, please contact me.
I’ve been meaning to start a referral program for byebyefitness.com to help people find gyms like this. Thanks!
https://academictorrents.com/details/9c263fc85366c1ef8f5bb9d... Reddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2023-12 — 2.52TB compressed
Worse, is that Visa/MC/Paypal are "private" companies which can impose whatever religious slant they want, on whatever transactions they want, and your recourse as a consumer is "use the free market to pick a different payment processor".

Cash doesn't care if you're buying groceries or porn. Visa very much does.
This isn't a streaming box, though. Those services are nice to haves, but not necessary for success.
Eastern Europe would be my guess?
I’ll bite: what does “cranberry” have to do with stories about Russians?

The phrase “the old chestnut” to refer to a story about American history springs to mind…
I think there’s a reasonable observation to be made that these kinds of services companies have filled a historically underserved niche.

At the same time, they are fundamentally not banks and are not subject to a whole slew of consumer protection regulations that ensure reliable access to funds. Venmo and PayPal are both infamous for their capricious account suspension policies (which I have personally experienced).

That’s a long way of saying that it isn’t nothing, but is also not the best we can do. It also doesn’t necessarily guarantee service users access to retail (since the cards that come with these financial providers are typically tied to banks and accompanying KYC controls).
SpaceX gets to grow the industry while capturing the business of every new entrant who wouldn't have considered launching something to space at higher price points.
Don't forget that Australia has EFTPOS and most debit cards are co-branded. The RBA is pushing for transactions to be routed over EFTPOS when possible [1].

And obviously, NPP continues to be rolled out: Osko is now widely available and PayTo [2] will be rolled out throughout 2024.

[1] https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/debit-car...
[2] https://payto.com.au
Gyms can send you to collections agencies if you don’t pay them for back-dues. I didn’t get referred to collections but I’ve had a couple final warnings
Because banks aren't just "store houses of money", they play important roles in the flow and quantity of money. (Each time they lend money they create money money out of thin air.)

Which means there is risk in being a bank, as you probably remember from when a few banks failed a little while ago.

But if the fed was a bank, it would be risk free (how could the fed fail?). Which cause all sorts of trouble. The fed could take actions (loan risky money) without worry. Or they would not be permitted to loan money - but that would cause even bigger problems because it would restrict the money supply.

There's no good economic way to do it.
I mean bank account get stolen by the government. They at least need lapdogs of the state to stomp their jackboots on the ground to take a bill out of your pocket.
The good old airplane damage diagram came to mind immediately!
If you've never done psychedelics, then at a bare minimum it will be a novel experience. Generally, my philosophy towards life applies a positive value to novelty, which is of course often balanced against other concerns (e.g., I'm not looking to eat anybody for ethical reasons far outweighing the novelty), and since psychedelics generally don't have substantial reasons NOT to try them, I'd recommend trying it at least a couple times.

LSD is a pretty safe choice of psychedelic, since very few things are dangerous at the dosages that you take LSD at, so the most likely "I didn't get what I paid for" scenario is you getting some formerly damp paper. If you have a family history of schizophrenia, it might adjust your risk calculus, but otherwise safety isn't a big concern.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as the first mind-altering chemical someone uses, since the 6+ hour trip time can be brutal if midway through you freak out, which is typically caused by being uncomfortable with the idea that your brain can be under the influence. But if you've drank and smoked cannabis, you're probably relatively comfortable with the idea that your mind can be temporarily altered by chemicals.

But on the whole, I think the fundamental novelty of the experience, in that there is absolutely nothing else like it, makes it worthwhile to try out. If you enjoy it, then it can find its spot in a broad collection of recreational activities, and if you don't, then at least you've experienced it, and it'll be done and dusted in a day or so.
> How many 5000+ constellations will there be around the planet before we run into space congestion/traffic and aesthetic problems?

I think you underestimate just how big space is.
You're basically suggesting that underbanked or unbanked people shouldn't be able to shop somewhere just because they're not likely to.

The bigger problem is that this may lead to a trend of haves and have nots, and if you have a fee heavy banking system that can choose to "fire" a customer, then you've got a serious issue where people can potentially be excluded from modern life _against their choice_.

There are three reasonable fixes for this that are bandied about

- Require industry to offer no-fee and no-overdraft checking accounts to low income residents. This is onerous for a lot of reasons, a main one being that it would force a lot of institutions to take on break-even customers. It would possibly manifest in the form of a single low-cost bank that the industry funds just for compliance.

- Simple federal consumer banking services (in many countries, done through the post office). This would look like a simple checking account and debit card, with very few amenities or services. Many countries have had something like this, and although a lot of them have privatized since, they have strict regulations that view these services as a public good.

- Require all businesses to take cash. I think this is the worst option, but that's a matter of opinion I suppose.
I mean, you see something similar with watchOS apps, so this isn't all that surprising.

Another platform means another thing you test and commit to supporting, and the Vision Pro is even more niche.
I think one thing missed by most comments is the night-shift.

Some people I knew that had to use tools that were not available at home did so "off-hours" so that there was a smaller cohort of people in a confined space at the same time.
Man, this is a nightmare. I spent my freshman year of college homeless because I had bad credit (thanks, former roommates!). I couldn't even get a checking account to get a debit card...the bank would only give me a cash in / cash out account.
I'm not sure how easy it is to get one if you don't have a fixed mailing address.
I think WHICH apps are designed for the Vision Pro will matter more than how many. I don’t know about other people, but I don’t care if Uber Eats exists on my VR headset, but I do care if Netflix and YouTube aren’t on it, especially if it costs like $4000 with taxes.
It isn't. Does the US not vaccinate boys? Most advanced countries began routinely vaccinating boys in the same cohort as girls. In the UK certainly "Men who have sex with Men" is the next most significant group targeted for vaccination, up to age 45.

The reason this didn't happen from the outset is that you can't vaccinate the boys to protect girls because that's not a direct benefit to the patient, the early data was specifically for cervical cancer and if you don't have a cervix that isn't a benefit.
> SF I think requires you to take cash as legal tender though so it's not allowed there.

I don't know anything specifically about SF, but just to note that the term "legal tender" specifically refers to payment for a debt. Since most retail business require payment before giving customers their goods, no debt is actually incurred. Table-service restaurants are a common exception to this, where you eat first and then pay, but counter-server restaurants often require you to pay up front when you make your order.
> why does the US government not offer all citizens a bank account?

We had one [1]. It was considered redundant to private banking. I'm surprised no states have attempted this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...
Backlog size is inversely proportional to how strong the product team is in your organization. More "No we aren't doing that idea" vs yes men.

If your backlog is massive, people aren't having hard conversations about what work will ACTUALLY get done in the next 12-18 months.
>Likewise when we say "numerical issues", it's understood that we're talking about situations in which the usual approximation of real numbers by floating point representations breaks down.

Guys, try this in your desktop or mobile app calculator:

do square root of 2.

then subtract from it the result that you see on screen.

for me:

√2−1.41421356237

i get:

3.095048801E−12

i.e. not 0.

I discovered this on a physical Casio electronic calculator long back, and also verified it just now on a stock Android mobile calculator app.

what is your result, and interpretation of it?
Do you trust a company that literally hacked customers' device?
There is an enormous power imbalance even in the absence of collusion between employers (which is common). It is difficult and expensive to find jobs, to change jobs, and to move. Many people literally cannot afford to move to a different city for a job. Many employees can't even get a day off to go to a medical appointment, much less apply to a different job. Companies can wait, get loans, and compare offers for dozens or hundreds of candidates. Those candidates need to pay their bills today.

It's particularly egregious in the US where healthcare is tied to employment, meaning that for many people a gap in unemployment would bankrupt them trying to pay for medication or care without insurance. The ACA was insufficient - policies through it are still incredibly expensive with high deductibles, and the lack of a public option for those ineligible for Medicare (or whose state governments declined medicare coverage for them) leaves them beholden to their employer.
It's generally good practice to read a library's documentation to understand how to use it - there's not really a short cut to that, regardless of the language.

As for the syntax, you know that `event` is a method, passed the param `:ignite` and a block, and in that block, you call the method `transition` with kwargs `{stalled: same, parked: :idling}`, and `same` is another method call.
Teaching temporary aussie staff how to count Canadian (and occasional US) cash and coins became an untenable problem.
Brazil is leading on this agenda with Pix [1]; all the payment networks are losing market share.

[1] https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pixstatistics
Sweden is the counter example to this, they mostly didn't shut down, just took precautions with the elderly and those who came in contact with them, and did not have excess deaths compared to their nordic neighbors who did lock down....
Why? Because handling cash is expensive. You need to make trips to the bank (takes time + risk) to deposit, or you pay some company to do it for you (cost).

Positives: You don't need to deal with any of that.

Negatives: You can't take business from people who only have cash, but depending on what you're selling that might not really matter.
> If the legislation had been written correctly then the current nightmare wouldn’t exist.

Legislation is not a technical spec. It's made purposely to be interpreted. And companies are made to optimize their profit given the constraints set by the law. Sometimes companies have to bet that if they do X, they won't get a fine, and decide if they want to take that risk.

Companies can even bet that the fine will be smaller than the profit, which is often the case. And that, IMHO, is the problem: we (I mean our governments) should be much, much more aggressive with the fines. BigTech can basically do anything they want because the fines are always ridiculous (because BigTech are too big, sure).
Terrible for personal freedom and autonomy.

We have to mandate that sellers of essential goods (grocery, fuel) must always accept cash.

Obvious that this will be used against "anti government forces" in the future... which will grow over time to encompass everyone. CBDC discussions already market their ability to limit what/when/how you can use your "money".

Killing cash is just step one. Watch this space.
There are MANY banks that don't check your credit or banking history these days.
The wild speculation about the Vision Pro is kind of maddening. It hasn't launched yet, and it won't for over a week.

The articles about sales figures are equally crazy. No-one knows how many Vision Pro's Apple has sold, except Apple, and if they claim that they do, they are just pulling numbers out of thin air.
Yep, it's a really disturbing trend in people's attitudes.

I wonder if this shift can be attributed to influencer / social media culture. That is, these things exist to get "likes" and "engagement" and build "communities" and "brands" and whatnot. So your average person, someone who even knows a bit about open source, might think that any maintainer worth anything would want those things as well, and see it as not just worth it, but required to provide all the extra free labor required to get those likes and promote their brand.
as I said in my post, how they approach the people they get hits on is where the problems actually are.

this isn't like "bitemark analysis" where the results themselves are used to convict people, once someone is found using this method DNA testing will confirm or deny that it's the right person.

Because of this, there will be solid evidence that this approach works or doesn't work. It will continue to be used or not continue to be used because the resulting DNA test provides conclusive evidence that it works or doesn't. As opposed to bite mark analysis, which relies on expert testimony with all the perverse incentives that exist there.

We agree on the potential problems around getting DNA samples to confirm, but the technical use is harmless otherwise.
4 maneuvers per day for the _entire_ planned network versus the 70+ maneuvers per day that starlink is doing right now with their network that is not yet at capacity. It does not matter how you cut it, AST's plan is _at least_ two orders of magnitude more manageable. They simply need it to survive.
That’s a great question. I would guess that part of the answer is that the cost is a massive differentiator for them.

If costs were higher, competitors would probably not launch on SpaceX rockets. They were also not a “safe” choice until recently. They’ve also been able to capture the market and put enormous pressure on their competitors. I’m certain there are other reasons.

I’d love to hear an actual business person weigh in on this.
I got 1/10…
The article shows the percent of people who guessed incorrectly was between 80-90% I wouldn’t be surprised if the images were handpicked out of a set after being found to be particularly difficult to guess. Or maybe I just suck at this.
> if countries should start redirecting their efforts to building nationalised payment infrastructure that would allow citizens to transact electronically with zero fees

Already done in China, India, and Brazil, but they also largely sidestepped the Credit Card revolution.