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>The far-right. All the others seem to love this practice. Thank you democracy, you're useless.

If you poll the voters, and the non-far-right voters generally approve of this, then democracy is working as intended. Just because you don't like the results doesn't mean the majority of your countrymen don't.
Most likely that’s because cocktail rhymes with Molotov

What definition of 'rhymes' are you using here?
> I think it's not helpful, as you're joining the ranks of the people
who misuse the word "society" to mean "how I happen to think about
the stuff I don't like in the world".

Helpful to who?

I see it differently. I think it helps us all to aspire to clear
values. Karl Popper thought "there is no society". Lady Thatcher
thought we merely misused the word society, not as you say - to
universalise social facts - but to forget our "duty" (Thatcher's
words) to ourselves and our neighbours (my emph). Thatcher sincerely
saw business as a social good, as do I. Using the word society in that
way is avoidant. You seem to think that's what I am doing?

Social facts exist, at least in Durkheim's view as behaviours and
attitudes. They definitely include greed and selfishness as
psychologically measurable traits. You may not think much of sociology
and psychology, but to a lot of people they are solid sciences.

Moral judgements are also social facts. And for us Christians (as a
moral framework), greed is more than a neutral, observable fact. It is
an ugly weakness.

The hoarding of power and wealth by a tiny minority to assuage their
insecurity , while returning nowt but "disruption" to the world is
objectionable. Being parasitic upon the rest of the population
is a harm.

So I've no problem declaring, greed, vanity, megalomania as "stuff I
don't like in the world". Others may or may not agree with me. As an
individual, you may disagree. But as an individualist you must
concede my equal right to call out greed and selfishness as harmful to
the rest of us - even without a "Logical basis". Further, you must do
so without criticism.... unless you deny the existence of social
facts, or yourself find greed attractive and virtuous?
Explanation literally doesn't make sense.
I was never impressed by Wolfram alpha.

In the for hour conversation on topic, he asks "if you want to know the weights of various dinosaurs, you can ask Wolfram alpha and it will tell you". So I asked it "what's the weight of a stegaussaurus", and it gave me some number. The i asked it "what's the total weight of all the stegaussaurus that ever lived" and it gave me some nonsense about the average [don't remember] for the population of the US. It didn't even understand the question. Calling it compute is overestimating it by as much as Wolfram overestimates himself.
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Not Europe, just Von der Leyen and the like. Germany put her down multiple times on this bullshit now because it violates our constitution. But she tries again and again and again.
We have on-the-record cases of potatoes that have caused a similar number of deaths and injuries [0].

These incidents, while uncomfortable, are just not that concerning. You can kill yourself with damn near anything if you mishandle it badly enough.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine#Recorded_human_poison...
Silicon Valley has been auto-parodic morals-wise for a while. Hell, just the basics of you can have super violent gaming but woe-betide you look at anything sex related in the appstores is intensely comedic. America desperately tries to export its puritanism but most of us just shrug (along with many Americans). Surely it's hard to argue that being open about sex (for consenting adults) is infinitely preferable to a world of wanton, easily accessible violence.
If anyone is wondering why wealth inequality is skyrocketing and at record highs in the US in centuries, this is why.

High inflation for consumers, access to low cost of capital for asset holders.

In addition to the erosion of progressive taxation.
>> In 24 years, they haven’t gotten one gram to orbit.

> ULA has launched a lot, but mostly with over 20 year old rocket designs that are > based on even older rockets.

by that metric the butcher around the corner here is better than ULA. He makes model rockets as a hobby and just tested one he just build and designed last year. And since it was designed last year and not a decade ago its also a newer design than New Glen. so its better?

Yes if New Glen works as designed and they can launch it it will probably better than what ULA now has. But that doesn't change the fact that BO has nothing yet.
Yeah, in hopes not to give white replacement conspiracy theorists some AI-fueled tool to feed their racism, they gave them instead actual ammo to bring in a debate.
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What you're predicting has already started. Two weeks ago Geoffrey Hinton gave a speech advocating banning open source AI models (see e.g.: https://thelogic.co/news/ai-cant-be-slowed-down-hinton-says-... ).

I'm surprised there wasn't an HN thread about it at the time.
I find that NIMBY concerns can be very much connected to cost and profits. Looking at wind farms which has both a lot of noise and visible footprint, people becomes much more acceptable to those costs if the profits from the farm ends up with people who live there.

An other comment here talked about how almost 80% of the energy bill in California are from fixed costs from primarily transmission. That is a lot of space to create economical incentive for people to have a plant located very near where they live. Similar, politicians are much more willing to be permissive with permits when there is an economical benefit for the region, as energy costs are quite significant bit of a regional budget.
What math chops does taleb have? The same ones as any options trader, as far as I can tell.
Doesn't this line of reasoning imply that human intelligence is magical, i.e. is not the result of scaling/emergence?
Because you assume outcomes are related to how many people a company have. This isn't the case. Blue Origin is basically the size of SpaceX, just without actual doing much. Bezos is literally just burning like 2 billion $ every single year on that company. And they are pretty vertically integrated.

ULA on the other hand is the opposite, they are just the launcher, they don't build their own engine and in general get most things from suppliers.

But based on revenue of course, BO is nowhere near able to buy ULA. Its literally just more billion directly out of Bezos pocket.
Not to be judgemental, I doubt you usually hear a lot from Japanese person in the first place; most Japanese don't speak English at all. Locals speaking to a BBC reporter in fluent English don't happen in Japan or with Japanese users on Internet.

Japanese public education curricula do include "English", but it's largely "English-Japanese document translations" classes than actual English, which is good for research papers and bureaucratic letters, works like any 2000s machine translation in conversations. The majority won't bring that technique out and employ it well to win an Internet pub fight, especially on societal-macro-economical problems, so you likely will not hear anything from actual Japanese people on this topic or anything else.
And yet something like this happened for Twitter => Mastodon. And at some point YouTubers did not have sponsors either.
I recently started paying for YouTube, it sucks way less without all the ads, and I generally feel I get my money's worth. I know I could technically use AdBlock or something, but it feels really nasty to do so. YouTube Music is okay, but I still use Spotify, as the interface of Spotify is better.
I could've used this before where I accidentally booked a non-transferrable flight on a day where I'd also booked tickets to a sold out concert I want(ed) to attend.
Not disregarding and condescendingly educating your interlocutor is a good hint.
The issue surely though is the comparator.

Your analysis misses the "what can you achieve without a degree?" part of the equation.
Besides the regular gaming content on twitch there is a bunch of weird stuff. I noticed there is this ASMR type content where people lick plastic ears in front of a microphone. The amount of views they get, concurrent streams was mind boggling for me.

But regarding 'sexy' content they recently made some policy updates, they initially hammered down on such content, but I think it hurted their income stream.

https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Updating-our-Approach-to-...
Echoes of early 2000s USA Vice President Dick Cheney, and former CEO of oil company and defense contractor Halliburton, constructing a decision to invade Iraq based on false pretenses of weapons of mass destruction. Giving that same company no bid contracts on the both Iraqi oil projects and military spending.
Actually I'm not so sure this is real, could be parody based on some comments to the post on X.

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1760500433733165226
My current car lost maybe 10-15% off it's original price over the last 3.5 years and it's a Skoda. Mostly thanks to inflation and supply chain issues.
One of the primary reasons Debian even considered systemd, was because Redhat's control of the Gnome foundation, and thus Gnome's at the time requirement of systemd as an init, created a major conflict in terms of "do we drop gnome or not".

If you want you can read the proposals, the mailing list discussions, the debates, the votes. There's nothing opaque or hidden here. If you haven't done so, then I suggest you do so, instead of disparaging someone who lived through the debates, read the list daily, and partook in the process.
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Jesus Christ what an awful example. If there's one thing that feynman did whenever he met anyone, was made it clear to them that he's smarter.
Yeah the latency in my demo is definitely worse. There also seem to be some issues where it picks up it’s own audio and keyboard/mouse clicks and tries to transcribe them which leads to derailed convos.

The unnatural voices happen I think because for some reason the way I stream audio to the browser breaks up the audio from ElevenLabs, so you get almost this “start/stop” sound that makes it sound worse than usual.

There’s a lot of minor details to get right, but it’s a fun problem to try to solve. I wish Retell the best :)
If someone mentions a TV show and I search for it, there will be 100 reviews of the show, 1000 short clips of the show. Try yourself: think of a TV show that was big in the last 10 years, then search for it on YouTube. Whether or not the actual content is ON youtube (which is the question my search is trying to answer) you'll get thousands of search results. In the off chance that the actual content of the show is actually on YouTube, the odds that you'll get the episodes of the show in your search result in any sensible order seems like zero.

Another example: a huge use of TV is news. Every big news outlet has a presence on YouTube. But if you pick one (say CNN) and go to their page on YouTube, you can see a list of clips. But the clips seem randomly selected and unordered a a week old. So there is no way I can play their "news"? At least not at first sight.
Landing today. The machine is in orbit at the moment and has sent some photos back.

More information on the current mission at https://www.intuitivemachines.com/im-1. There's hopefully going to be live streams of the landing attempt there and at NASA.
Could you just iterate through the entire key even if you know it's not a match after 1 byte?

Then it would always take the same amount of time to return `true/false`, even if you knew this value earlier in the loop.
It's quite amusing to see how many obfuscation layers it goes through, but also how many different security issues it relies on to propagate. Seems like there is a ton of thought put into it, but it's most probably just a collection of skiddie tools stacked on top of each other. Wonder what the end result is, anyone got a clue?
Totally agree. Another takeaway is that data from different modality has some shared intrinisity, so one can be mapped to another.
> Why do you think there will be a lower value depreciation for a Chinese EV than a Toyota?

Because it's cheaper to buy and cheaper to drive.

Let's start with your example (12 years, 130K miles, 50% depreciation). Let's assume that the EV depreciates much more (80%):

Corolla value depreciation = $11K

BYD Value depreciation: $12K

From a purely financial perspective, it doesn't mean to invest $22K instead of $15K for a $1K gain after 12 years.

Now the calculation above does not take the energy costs into account [1]:

Petrol cost @ 130K miles = $20K

Electric cost @ 130K miles = $4.5K

[1] https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf
Hopefully, they re-release this under an open license. Making everyone go through the exercise to authenticate and agree to terms hasn't worked for any model to-date. It just limits it's reach. We saw the same thing with Phi-2.
Mastodon is a very tiny tiny sliver of the user base of Twitter and the people who migrated there (myself included) are not “creators” that make money through their audience.
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Thanks! Definitely a work in progress but getting better by the day.

We have run tests with image-detection to try to categorize products. We currently do search based on the name, description, price, store, and brand.

The problem with image-detection is cost. Given the size of our data set, it's very costly to run 800m - 1b images through a model (i.e. most products have 4 - 5 images). We've considered only doing the first 'hero' image to start though. Open to any cost-effective ideas though.

For example, if you search for "wooden chair", it would be nice to select a filter for 'category' to narrow down if I want to see "office furniture", "dining room", or "art".

https://www.searchagora.com/search?query=wooden+chair&count=...
Yes but point here is that in the end there are more Android phones in the world than iPhones. So 'best selling phone' is not relevant in context of this thread.
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> BE-4 engines from Blue Origin are fantastic

Are they? Outside of being staged combustion they aren't that impressive. Their chamber-pressure is still really low. The TWR isn't that great. For a staged engine they are entry level.

Their re-usability is theoretical at this point. The early engines the delivered to ULA are not the reusable version that will later go on New Glenn.

> I see a real chance to be competitive with SpaceX long term.

'competitive' as in actually peer competition, not really.

But I guess they can 'compete' by 'Jeff Bezos is gone finance the company for many 100s of million of $ every month' for the next decade.
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Looking upwards and onwards.
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I see good value in the sync.

But since I use different flavors of UNIX and Linux
some of the commands are different.

I think it could get confusing.

Obviously you could just not synch between platofrms
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(don't know if that's unexpected, though)
How long has it been like this though? The meaning of words change surprisingly quickly, but not as quickly as their second-order connotations.
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Bigger rockets are more efficient. That's literally just physics.

There is a reasons to build bigger rockets. There is a reason that each organization with big space ambition builds a huge rocket.
Because on the whole it takes time to actually impact a place. The amount of time varies by level. I'm not going to ding a junior for short stints, but if I see someone with 10 years of experience who never stayed at any company for longer than 2 years then I'm going to be extremely suspicious depending on kind of role I have. If I have a role that requires deep domain knowledge and relationships to be effective, pass. If I just need someone to come in and crank something out, then I'll check them out to see if there's any notable red flags.
Lobste.rs is invite only which means that most people can't participate on the site.

Result is that there is a low volume of content and participation.
I suspect, in part, that this article and people pushing for a ban wouldn't have even noticed the Flipper Zero if it didn't look like a toy. The case design looks like some advanced Tamagotchi and places in a more accessible part of the lowest-common-denominator mind. If it looked like a raw PCB and wires, or some rats nest jumble of little components, it wouldn't catch their attention as much. There is a lot to be said about how we package our hack tools, and the second you move into "magic box go brrrrr" territory, suddenly it gets real to those outside technical circles.
Learn non-deterministic balanced play with solvers.
It's important to note that Transformers can be used for a lot more than just LLMs. There are plenty of models that can be fine-tuned to perform a single task better than LLM prompting.
Right. The X account claims they've been laid off from OpenAI, Twitter, etc.

The author seems to target liberal roles/personas. Musk 'humour'.
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The other half of this (the "Most decisions will be easy" part) is knowing rough odds.

Four to a flush on the flop? One in three chance of getting it. If a lot of people are in the hand and the flush looks like it would be the best outcome, stay in.

Same with an open-ended straight, and you should know whether others could have a better straight draw than your own.

If you see a bunch of random crap on the flop e.g. no straight draw or flush draw or high cards? If you have high pocket pair or two pairs, get aggressive as everyone else is either drawing (and you want them under the profitability threshold of 3+ other players in the hand) or playing a hopefully lower pocket pair or very ill-guided low two pairs (so watch the big blind or historically loose players).

You can usually calculate in your head how many of the unseen cards need to be somewhere to beat you: Suppose I have the best two pairs on an otherwise unspectacular board. My opponent needs a pocket pair to beat my hand. I have 8 opponents, usually a pocket pair is dealt 6% of the time. Even if I sum all the percentages---mathematically wrong but worse than the truth---it's less than 50% chance SOMEONE has been dealt a pocket pair, so I don't have to feel bad about staying in.

If you can do this quickly and make it look like you are acting impulsively or inexperienced, more money will bet against you.
import multiprocessing and up the process count until you hit network bottleneck.
Either you run it fully locally, or you accept that whoever runs it has access to your thoughts and interests.

Whether you go with microsoft, google, meta, or whatever apple will come up with, it feels like a case of "stay out, or make a pick and stick to it".

I know some have different feelings regarding this or that company that is "better" or "worse", but the reality of it is they're not, and even if they were you don't know where they will be in ten years, and they will still have your data then.
Windows licensing don't always require individual license keys, and they just let you pass sometimes for some hardware configurations and sometimes using BIOS-provided keys.

I guess it's working as intended since it only refused to work with me in weird cases, and other times it was tolerable annoyances at time.
It will benefit Blue Origin because ULA actually has costumers (mostly the military). They also have launch facilities and people who know how to launch something.

New Glenn will take years to ramp up to any real launch rate.

Blue Origin will go from kind of a joke to being a big military contractor. Making New Glenn essentially a favorite for the next big military procurement cycle.

They are basically buying their way into being a big military contractor.
because its designed to run on many servers.
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The modesty and constance of learning technologists who actually deliver new ways of doing new things are two characteristics that stand at stark odds with the snake oil that characterizes a Silicon Valley flavor of edtech littered by empty boasts of technological solutionism.

Furthermore, this change around the edges is no failing of the often talented, dedicated, and passionate individuals who have advocated for more effective use of learning technologies inside their institutions.

It is, rather, that the rate of change they produced turned out to be far slower than that of the tidal wave of Digital Transformation that is spilling over our societies.