skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yea, that's my first thought seeing the result too. we need a reputable proprietary eval.
That needs colossal moderation efforts. Otherwise, trolls will simply game the system and eventually trump. And social networks usually have >1000x posts compared to HN with a considerably worse signal-to-noise ratio.
What about my obsolete car software?
Maybe I am misinformed, being in the US I always hear that Canadian points based immigration policy is way better than US and it encourages high skill immigration. Is that not true?
From the company that refuses to allow for multiple user accounts on an iPad.
Most people buying an EV don't buy because of efficiency. One is ideological (I don't want pay the gas tax), another is performance (EVs have full torque at 0 rpm).

Then there's Tesla's (successful) war against dealerships. Some people simply don't want to ever talk to a dealer ever again.

Honestly, I'd prefer more mass transit and less cars but I don't think that's going to be solved in the US any time soon.

Agreed charging network evolution is required for people who don't have capability to charge at home or work fully. Right now EVs are great if you own a home + solar which means you don't pay for fuel at all, and fine even without solar if you have decent electricity rates.
There are lots of forces, and the feedback loops are starting to hit.

- Warming has been going on for 200 years, so we are deep into it.

- The polar ice sheet has been shrinking because it is warmer. So instead of the long summer days reflecting off the ice, they are absorbed by the ocean.

- Shipping has been eliminating sulphur from bunker fuel to reduce acid rain and smog (2020 change), and the lack of smog allows more sun to reach the earth.

The recent shock of cleaner shipping exhaust has combined with the historical warming and the feedback loops of falling ice albedo (and others) shows up in warmer water.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/aqua/nasa-study-finds-evidence...

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
If he pulls this one off, he'll be legendary for fleecing everyone.
I think it's a recently developed pushback to the widespread love cannabis has received online for a long time. For a long time, it has been either heralded as a gateway drug or a magical cure all that could do no wrong.

Now that it is much more widely available and many more people have actually tried it for extended periods of time, the narrative has shifted.
Got any sources on that? I'd like to learn more.
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

— Philip K Dick, Ubik, 1969
You can label it however you want, if both the lender and borrower are willing participants, it will be difficult to prevent this from happening.

Like mentioned in the article, often times the material is very obviously suspicious and banks probably know this and still turn a blind eye to it because these borrowers are low risk and much less sensitive to the high/rising interest rates of today...
Because social media should support multiple points of view and not just a single aggregate pov. Why should a person who is interested in the political career of Gavin Newsom give a crap about the downvotes from Ben Shapiro listeners?
> anyone still stumping for the mainstream media is utterly naive

Anyone silly enough to lump all such things together given the vast array of different outlets is utterly simplistic. The name is simply used to discount reality conspiracy people don't like.

I'm not stumping for anything other than things which have the best track record of reporting accurately, as evidenced by outcomes.

A simple subset of this can be checked by polls before an event measured against outcomes. You can get historical datasets of polls from pretty much all outlets, then compare against actual outcomes. For example, 538 posts a crapton of historical data from lots of outlets along many axes at https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/

Guess what - mainstream media far outclasses other outlets. This is science, not opinion.

Now do the same for other datasets, which you can also do - from finance, to political events, to science claims, to pretty much anything that has basis in reality.

There - I gave you an empirical method to measure accuracy of a news source. Please show me something not mainstream that outscores the median of mainstream places on one of these empirical tests. I have analyzed data on many of these things, which is how I know the answer you're going to find. Good luck.

Of course, people enamored with silly labels rarely actually check evidence in a principled manner, which is how they get to using silly labels.
I've been playing Travle for a while, didn't know it had a dedicated URL for the challenges, that's nice. I wish the challenges had an infinite play mode like https://travle.earth/practice/, but oh well. Thanks for linking that!
Don't forget Doom!

We got lots of time on our hands.
> How quickly Shamji and his associates were to claim that Zac "seemed suicidal"

It's already known that they knew he jumped into the river; this is pretty easy to explain.
Virtually everyone I know left. That's the most important part of a social network. What's left is almost exclusively things I do not care about. Many of those new features contributed to its decline.
Madrid is booming. Growing while keeping its cool will be the tricky part
> Creeps could go in public, see a person they like, and put porn next to them without anyone knowing.

Does this affect anyone else more than imagining the same thing using one’s brain?
Having fewer children globally would make the world a better place. Less people with better quality of life is better than more with much worse quality of life.
I do not have any of the extensions that I've come to love on desktop firefox on iOS. Whilst I don't get containers on Android, I get pretty much everything else. We can't have that on iOS just because Apple is a dick. I'd almost be OK with not being able to install a browser from the app store, but I find it humiliating that I don't even have the ability to compile my own browser, with JIT and all, and install it on a device I own.
>It's been a well known risk for at least a century. Aldo Leopold began popularizing the idea of using prescribed burns to manage forests in the 1920s and by mid-20th century it was officially part of US Forest Service management practices.

Actually, the Native Americans historically started the practice.
Besides your insults, can you provide any examples of Elon being "toxic" on twitter?

There's tons of people on Twitter who don't like Elon, so that part of your statement is false.
like a --verbosity=cute level, perhaps
> Care to explain further why there should be zero regulations on the UX of monopoly applications used by ~15%+ of world population?

Because there isn't a monopoly on chat apps. What you're asking for sounds like rules for the sake of more rules. I can think of more than half a dozen chat apps offhand: Signal Messenger, Whatsapp iMessage, all manner of IRC clients, Slack, Teams, stock SMS, Discord, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Session, and so on and so on.

We're not talking web search here, the market for chats is diverse and competitive. You got walled gardens, open source, and everything in between with a bunch of different UI's.
Running is good for your health, but maybe 500 km in a go is excessive.
Well I can't load that website so I can't assess their methodology. But I am telling you it is objectively worse for me now. Many others report the same.

Edit - the website finally loaded for me and while their methodology is listed, the actual prompts they use are not. The only example prompt is "correct grammar: I are happy". Which doesn't do anything at all to assess what we're talking about, which is ChatGPT's inability to deal with subjects which are "risky" (where "risky" is defined as "Americans think it's icky to talk about").
> Human challenge studies are used to test the efficacy of therapeutics and vaccines, not to test the pathogen itself.

Actually, you're wrong.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/worlds-first-coronavirus-...

: Published 17 February 2021

: Due to begin in the next few weeks, it will involve up to 90 carefully selected, healthy adult volunteers being exposed to the virus in a safe and controlled environment.

: The safety of volunteers is paramount, which means this virus characterisation study will initially use the version of the virus that has been circulating in the UK since March 2020 and has been shown to be of low risk in young healthy adults.

Note that this study was in 2021, after the virus had already mutated. In order to ensure that the volunteers are infected with a specific virus version they would have to have cultured it.

: Once this initial study has taken place, vaccine candidates, which have proven to be safe in clinical trials, could be given to small numbers of volunteers who are then exposed to the Covid-19 virus, helping to identify the most effective vaccines and accelerate their development.

As shown here, the first cohort would not have been given a vaccine. But would have been used to characterize the activity of the virus on healthy humans.
I came across this yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39265127
Oh no, you got me.

I'm a Chinese Canadian citizen living in Canada who advocates for Canadian geopolitical interests before Chinese ones, which I advocate before US ones. That means useful immigration, including Indians who can pay and contribute to economy, not when it gets remitted back to India like MENA model, or eat away at locals QoL. I'm fine with going back to 600k immigration levels, which is still high and having Canadian schools 40% Indian, because frankly PRC talent staying in PRC is good for PRC. For reference, I also advocate Canada cooperating with India on sikh seperatist (and India cooperating with Canada on assassinating Canadian on Canadian soil) to get relations back on track.
Most people with EVs charge at 6W/hr or less (mostly at home). Fast charge is only needed for road trips (which is not an issue if you have a 2nd car).
Expat 2.6.0 released, includes security fixes
That's another good hypothesis! Just goes to show how correct the author was in stating that it's very hard to interpret.
Stripe's Personalized Gifts
> This is not something that corporate America recognizes, and in fact, seems eager to censor and suppress.

Numerous American companies recognize this and are developing services and products tailored to your needs. The comment just above yours highlighted some of these companies.

However, Apple may not be the best-suited company to take action in this regard.
I actually believe any social media platform back in those days would have made things worse. War mongerers seem to scare people to silence in the initial hysteria phase.

Looking at e.g. Reddit today it seems the narrative is controlled by bots. Maybe that would have been hard in 2003.
seconded only to "the TRUTH about..."
I guess I am somewhat different than many of the commenters in this thread.

Cannabis has caused anxiety in me before, but I had anxiety problems prior fwiw. In a weird way, I kind of used the anxiety from Cannabis as "training."

What I mean, is that when I would get anxious from cannabis, I would try and talk myself down, remind myself that nothing bad was going to happen, and then kind of intentionally try to refrain my thoughts in order to force myself to enjoy the experience.

I learned that the more I did this, the better I was at being able to do this in other situations where I would be inappropriately anxious about something (even without Cannabis).

It's not perfect, but has seemed to work better than anything else I have tried. So, my point is that I learned the only way I can apparently beat anxiety is to charge it head on.
> What is this plethora of options people have for banking, paying rent, getting documents from their doctor... And this isn't just an issue with phone apps either.

There are a lot of ways to pay bills. You named one that you happen not to like.
That's an interesting hypothesis too!
Lifestyle and Cognition in Older Adults with Common Neuropathologies of Dementia
Well,… my fave post grad course was Bankruptcy. It was insolvency after insolvency after insolvency and in a way also survivorship bias, but I digress — like Poor Charlie (RIP) used to say: find out where you are going to die and make sure never to go there.
Plan for Europe's new particle collider takes shape
I would also like to hear more about this. AFAIK there's no way to keep your ActivityPub identity if you (or the instance owner) loses access to the domain it's hosted on.
It has settings for mirroring prs, issues, and other stuff. I don't need it my own mirrors so I've never tested them.
Litestream can handle realtime replication.

But most projects don’t even have customers when they start, let alone large quantities of their data and legal requirements for guaranteed availability.
How did you find out that they did?
Given that it is a non-essential part of how the protocol works, I disagree, but I understand that reasonable people may differ.
Until I have to jailbreak my bricks to make my own designs, Lego is nothing like Apple.
No, but there's so much great jazz these days that wouldn't have existed without those absolute numbers. Quantity (aggregate supply) is a quality (increases specialization of labor) all its own!
my main goal is just to make an ICBM from this game but i havent yet
On Mastodon I only have to block half of the obnoxious people.
OSM Named as a Digital Public Good by UN-Affiliated Agency
I specifically said “draconian drug laws” and didn’t go into which ones I believed were bad, because that’s not the point of the discussion. The point is that those laws continue to exist to fill prisons and keep the prison industrial complex moving.
nah I was using it for benchmarking downstream services and the benchmark "worked" in that it overloaded the downstream services and accidentally had the lambas waiting too long for responses (we had to wait, to simulate real load and connections).

It was originally estimated like 10k or something per test which was approved at the time (had like 3 level of management all down my neck for getting it out, hence using lambda originally).

We did deliver, just needed one more sprint to rewrite it as a distributed system on servers. ;) Moved to like 20 machines w/ 128gb of ram that we could spin up as needed (testing millions of events a second, system in NodeJS!)
No need to sugar coat it. If that's what you really think, then write it clearly: "Hey guys! Hey my fellow hackers! That poster is a... is a... CORPORATE SHILL!"
This really isn’t a lot of money for anyone in the USA, which is where the product is offered.

Hell with the current economic environment I unfortunately spend more than this on my morning coffee.
Sure, I guess I meant for long-lived products.
You are correct.

I was referring to start of the video when referring to the reporting bodies that aggregate the model data.

Of course science doesn't have 'feelings' but the people that report it do. And, you can take the same words' and some people call it 'hype' and others call it 'downplayed'.

Maybe I shouldn't have said 'scientist'.

Scientist have 100's of studies, and create 100's of models.
The results are a range.

Then various agencies release 'reports' that are summaries of the models.
But, like in a lot of fields, you can toss outliers like the top 5 extremes hot and cold.
And of course, it's a report, so the language can be as 'toned down', or 'hyped' as you want to make it, or judge it. I'm sure if it was over-hyped, many would complain that way too.

What this video was then explaining, was that some of the 'hot' models might actually have been more accurate. So the entire report is even more skewed 'cold', the emergency is actually greater.

You are correct.
The Video was all about the 'hot' models and how they might actually be the most correct. Thus the reports are skewed in wrong direction overall.
I helped run a moderate a small forum community in the early aughts. We only had maybe 800-1000 active users at our peak. Moderation was fucking terrible, and not 'solved'. We had several users we elevated into moderator positions and still.. I think we were running about 1.5 moderators per 100 active users on average.
TimescaleDB: An open-source time-series SQL database
Any server that must not fail is just not important enough.

(Build your services with HA in mind, so you don‘t have to worry about a situation like this one.)
It's true on Twitter.
At 102 years old, veteran WWII pilot takes to the skies on a ride for charity
You've just described the value proposition for bitcoin, a peer to peer electronic cash system. Sadly, bitcoin has been captured by banks and is now only useful for gambling and parasitic investment scams.
also if any of you have found out how to make it tell me
Hi! OP here, addressing one more question I received somewhere else:

3) “Can it also track the model's state during training if, e.g., there is an early stop, and then I want to continue the training process?”

With MLtraq, You can dump and load arbitrary objects, including model weights and other state parameters. Let's consider the example https://mltraq.com/howto/02-artifacts-storage/. MLtraq dumps and reloads from the filesystem the binary blobs referenced in the tracked metadata. Similarly, you can store artifacts in third-party services and data stores.
Gambling and virtual reality: unraveling the illusion of near-misses effect
The call if of course on device owners, and not device manufacturers whose responsibility it truly is to manufacture secure devices.
For 1 dollah?
Related:

Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314107 - July 2012 (1 comment)

Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768297 - Aug 2009 (36 comments)
I have two cents. “Expert” can mean a few different things. On the one hand, it can mean expertise in the knowledge pertaining to the field. On the other hand, it can also mean becoming a part of a community of like-minded and like-interested people engaged in furthering that field and being practitioners of it. With that in mind, you might also try to get connected with other people interested in what you want to learn about, whether that’s as simple as participating in an online forum or local book club, or something more involved such as taking an academic class or joining a professional society.
I can see how that would ruin the platform for you.

Doesn't mean it collapsed, but I get the point of your language now.
It is shitty they killed libspotify, but it isn't hard to reverse engineer the way the app communicates with the backend, this has already happened in the form of https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot as an example.

And if Apples ecosystem wasn't so locked down I could write a HomePod client using librespot and Daniel Ek could get however mad he wants about it.
As needed, but it's fine to take daily with no negative downsides.

I'll take it before I need to go do something which might have triggered an attack, but the long term benefit here is that doing those activities without getting triggered lessens the sensitivity to the trigger (if that make sense).

So lately I haven't taken any in weeks, but when I was first prescribed it I took it every day.
What is vaseline used for? Does Unilever promote vaseline the way you think Apple should promote their headsets?

Answer is no.
One day we’ll collectively realize how damaging constant access to “news” (in the modern day, engagement-optimized despair/outrage/fear porn) is on our mental health. Until then we’ll never be able to square the circle of how things can be so bad while our actual immediate lives are perfectly fine
Quality is a pretty good guess, there. I know nothing about porn, but I've watched a few VR-first films. In my mind, the only good attempt at the genre has been a ten minute real-time rendered thing that invites the viewer to come sit down and look around the room while the story happens around them. Small scale. But it makes sense to me. Flat screen cinema didn't start with Lord of the Rings. Even if it was technically possible, that would have been a disaster.

It's very tempting for a filmmaker to carry whatever techniques they are used to in traditional film and use a fancy camera to make it "VR". It takes a long time for the lessons we've learned to actually take root so we can tell a story without throwing the viewer around in some gravity-defying kaleidoscope of headaches.

Apple is up against a widespread misconception that VR means motion sickness for a huge number of people. Largely because of cheap garbage like Gear VR, and content designed for it.
Exactly. HSBC was laundering money for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels and fined $1.9 billion by the US government, which is one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a bank for breaking U.S. law.

Deutsche Bank fires pretty high on the fraud meter as well.
I have said this over and over again: Canada is the most overrated of all the developed countries.

The whole country is a gigantic house of cards propped up by real estate, with horrible service quality, terrible healthcare, no jobs, ZERO innovation, risk taking and entrepreneurship.

Having lived and travelled extensively, most Canadians want a house somewhere in the woods instead of doing something meaningful with their lives or try and innovate to build something.

All of this is propped up by rampant levels of immigration from China and India. Where US got the best talent from India, Canada got the worst, the ones who scam their way here and take the lowest level jobs.

Now all of this is coming home to roost. The next decade will be Canada's worst and if they do not learn that risk taking and entrepreneurship is the only way out of the mess they find themselves in, they will become a third world country in another decade.
100%
Democracies are accountable to the interests of people as they understand them. Nobody wants to be told what's good for them.
Did anyone in that town actually get connected? Anyway they paid to remove it...

I'm with you though, why try anything new if there's a chance of failure.
that does describe voluntary employment to me.
China breaks into Dutch defence ministry computer network
English mirror: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/china-breaks-into-dutch-def...
Tariffs Are Coming
Hybrid is just a slightly more efficient ICE.

Plug-in is where it gets interesting as you can go mostly without fillups for commutes/shopping if you have access to charging at home/work.
The "rule" is about how people behave. Not a moral judgement. It's more like:

"People excuse almost anything for those in power got into power."

instead of:

"It was morally OK to do the things that led them to obtain that power."
At some point, you all need to think about herd mentality. tiktok is much chagrined here, but it's not any more egregious than facebook, twitter, youtube, or reddit.

The extreme aversion here to tiktok in particular is not well-informed.
GoogleDeepMind Fractals and the intelligent behavior of LLMs