skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it were a subsidy then Wendy’s would be closed during downtimes.

Which is what happens, many restaurants now close earlier, open later, close during the afternoon, or otherwise reduce hours.

> In general, prices are always about demand, not cost.

Prices are the intersection of supply and demand, with a lower limit being the cost of goods sold.

> Acting like the opposite is untenable is ridiculous, it’s the way the whole world works and has worked forever, except for one industry that gets away with everybody hating them because people have no alternative.

This is not true, spot pricing exists in many, many businesses. Obviously, the volatility of price changes is usually eaten by merchants at the retail stage in many businesses, but there is no need for it to always be the case. Many restaurants have "lunch menus" for this very reason. Even in theme parks, they effectively engage in a hybrid of spot prices by allowing people to pay extra to cut in line.

> It’s solely about increasing profits at the expense of customers, let’s not pretend anything else.

Yes, that is called business. No one accepts $20 per hour if they think they can get $30 per hour.

Supply and demand curves are constantly in flux, regardless of how often Wendy’s changes the prices on its menu. The only question is how much utility the merchant thinks they will get from eating the cost of the volatility versus letting customers be exposed to it.

A kitchen surely has a fixed limit to how much food it can serve up, so the supply has a cap, which a higher price can be obtained, which means the merchant can better compete with other businesses along other lines, such as investing in the facility, paying employees more, building more restaurants, etc.

And obviously, the barrier to entry in the food business is extremely low, and the prices people are willing to pay are relatively low, so even if Wendy’s managed to extract a few extra percentage points of profit margin from more accurate pricing, it is not going to turn into a trillion dollar business.
The IRS unit taking on America's millionaires and billionaires
Well yes - if you are willing to adopt a standard of living from 100 years ago, then you can probably easily afford it with modest savings at age 40 or even less. I'm talking multi-generation homes in a not-very-urban area, maybe a car, and you have to fix a bunch of stuff yourself.

If you wish to retire on the median standard of living from 2024, well, that's gonna cost median wages from 2024. If you want to retire on your standard of living, well, you'll need 40 years of your income to last you till 80. That's hard to do.

The median standard of living nowadays is lightyears ahead of the median standard of living from 100, 200, etc years ago. That's almost all productivity increases spread around to all of us.
Trojan horse: Shell launches a climate tech startup advertising oil and gas jobs
It's not a truth engine
I find it really difficult to write parameterized SQL. The problems are many fold:

I want to write a sql query I can deploy against test and prod, so I need to be able to parameterize table names to some extend. Then there are values, as shown here, with all the footguns that entails. But in the end I also want to be able to have IDE niceties while developing. Autocomplete on column names and table names and inline be able to see types and those kind if things.

And I have never seen anything that can give you all those things.
Other fields are restricted from using unsafe materials and materials, and are required to demonstrate safety. I think IT still has it's head in the space of an immature industry of hackers.

IMHO, at least for many things, such as IT systems controlling fundamental public functions (e.g., DNS), services (e.g., electrical grid), dangerous machines, etc., our engineering should be held the same standards as bridges, airplanes, etc.

Look at the endless problems and costs caused by our crappy quality: National security harms and risk, privacy violations, endless fraud, systems that are almost impossible to adequately secure.
You could also say that OIT "works", just from reading a couple success stories online. But the whole story is complicated. I know a family that spent enormous amounts of time and money on OIT, and ended up stopping due to a random anaphylactic reaction to a maintenance dose a few years in. I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to know what percentage of people have had a negative/mixed experience with TIP. If it's as safe and effective as they claim it is, that's truly incredible - and I'm glad to hear it worked for you! But I need real clinical trial data before I sign my kid up for it.
haha I was in a similar situation myself. A manager asked me for an estimate to do a certain project involving software system S, and I replied back that I wasn't familiar with the deep inner workings I'd need to know, but if he gave me a day to poke around I could see what's possible with it and give a good estimate. He replied, "nah, don't bother, I'll just hire someone who's already an expert at it."

Fast forward three weeks, we had the new hire intended for this role. I went over to introduce myself to him. At this point, I wasn't upset, I figured that was a reasonable judgment call that could have gone either way, and was actually looking forward to learning from someone who was familiar with it. So after introductions, I said, "I'm glad we'll have you around, I hope I can learn from you about S," and he was like, "Oh, S? Man, I haven't used that in ages, I'd need at least a few days to get familiar with it."

Facepalm. I guess I should have just lied. Even with my help, I don't think he ever got to where I was on S.
(White House) a path toward secure and measurable software [pdf]
> Banning debt doesn't help all poor people and surely hurts many of them.

Nobody mentioned or suggested banning debt.

The problem for the bottom 40% isn't that they're spending too much; the problem is "their current resources", which are negligible.
definitely not :)
I get that! In order to check out the repo, these permissions are required though. What could I do to make you feel comfortable granting those permissions?
Does this relate to HITRUST as well? I know the pain of those audits as I worked for healthcare companies that had them and a lot of the rules are similar.
I can confirm esim.me works for it, it's just expensive for one of them. This service does not require an IMEI pairing to the EID because at least in the US it's using T-Mobile (at&t has a device whitelist and verizon requires a valid IMEI/EID in their database).
Which - importantly - is better than Mistral at 81.2% ...

Gemini Ultra scored 90% which is better than GPT-4.

This reads like a paid-for press release from Microsoft to pretend like they're almighty and Google is incompetent.
There are plenty of tools like these. Why does this particular one require browser requests to:

- facebook.net
- google.com (and related tagmanager domains)
- paypal.com
- paypalobjects.com
- twitter.com

Is this some kind of data harvester?
In the UK, the NHS runs scans and blood tests as standard procedure at around 12 weeks, which can indicate any risk of something like Downs syndrome. You can then be referred for amniocentesis if necessary, all free at point of service. I'm sure many other European countries are similar.
Lot of situations I use

pdftotext file.pdf - | nroff | less

pdftotext is from Poppler Developers http://poppler.freedesktop.org Glyph & Cog, LLC

nroff is a GNU common util on most linux/unix systems

(though I don't trust poppler utils to be secure)
The Monty Hall problem is a thought experiment (based on a real game show). As evidence, see this letter from Monty Hall himself ("no trading boxes after the selection"):

Dear Steve:

Thank you for sending me the problem from "The American Statistician."

Although I am not a student of a statistics problems, I do know that these figures can always be used to one's advantage, if I wished to manipulate same. The big hole in your argument of problems is that once the first box is seen to be empty, the contestant cannot exchange his box. So the problems still remain the same, don't they. . . one out of three. Oh, and incidentally, after one is seen to be empty, his chances are no longer 50/50 but remain what they were in the first place, one out of three. It just seems to the contestant that one box having been eliminated, he stands a better chance. Not so. It was always two to one against him. And if you ever get on my show, the rules hold fast for you -- no trading boxes after the selection.

Next time let's play on my home grounds. I graduated in chemistry and zoology. You want to know your chances of surviving with our polluted air and water?

Sincerely,

Monty

https://web.archive.org/web/20100408200824/http://www.letsma...
Big C might have to stop sponsoring Sesame Street, so they have money for lobbying :P
It's not open source. Do you have any specific questions about what it does? I'm still working on how to better communicate this to users.
To be clear I don't mean ChatGPT today. I meant the technology we are using.

As in while AI in general could do more the highest possible echelon of this kind of AI is junior developer.
Excel Anonymizer: Anonymize your sensitive Excel files
As I explained in my reply to your comment on mine, this analysis doesn't work out, even in this very-lopsided case. If the game resets when a car is revealed, then games where you first choice happened to be a car will always complete, and games where your first choice was a goat will almost always reset. On average, of 1000 games, your first pick will be a goat 999 times, and of those, 998 will be reset because MH opens the car and 1 will complete and give you the car if you switch, whereas in 1 in 1000 you will pick the car first, in which case the game is certain to complete but you will lose the car if you switch. Therefore, most games will reset, but of the ones that complete, there is no advantage to switching.
Excel Anonymizer is a Python script that anonymizes an Excel file and synthesizes new data in its place.

You can now install and use Excel Anonymizer using just:
pip install excel-anonymizer
excel-anon yourexcelfile.xlsx

It can be used in Data Science, IT or Cybersecurity.

Hope this helps someone!
Down syndrome is caused by a chromosomal aberration that comes about during formation of an egg, not a mutation. It's not possible to detect it by screening the parents' DNA.
Tech and Science Newsletter (mixed with horrible dad jokes)
dot matrix printer background noises

Sorry I didn't get the last part of what you said, come again?
Humans "at their very best" are at least trying to be right. Language models don't - they are not concerned with any notion of objective truth, or even with "looking right" in order to gain social status like some human bullshitter - they are simply babbling.

That this strategy is apparently enough to convince a large number of (supposedly) intelligent people otherwise is very troubling!

Not saying that General AI is impossible, or that LLMs couldn't be a useful component in their architecture. But what we have right now is just a speech center, what's missing is the rest of the brain.

Also, simply replicating / approximating something produced by natural evolution seems to me like the wrong approach, for both practical and ethical reasons: if we get something with >= human-like intelligence, it would be a black box we could never understand how any part of it actually works, and it might be a sentient being capable of suffering.
> mixtral [...] sometimes need to double-check its answers and be critical of its responses. [...] really strong in areas of science and

Caveat that common science education misconceptions compromise web, wikipedia, and textbook content, and thus both llm training sets and quick double-checks. So mixtral sometimes says the Sun itself is yellow (but does usually manage white), that white light is white because it contains all colors, that individual atoms cannot be seen with a naked eye because they are too small, and so on. A lot of US science education looks like training humans on low-quality trigger-and-response pairs for llm-like "explanation". I've wondered if one could do a fine-tune, or train, on science education research's lists of common misconceptions, or on less-often-bogus sources like Science/Nature journal editorial content, and research paper introductions.
If you don't mind spending, Roon is the gold standard. I got a lifetime account at the start of covid and it transformed how I consume music.
>I know how to fill that hole - increase the ~5% target payout rate to ~8%

That's a fantastically glib answer; do you have any reason to believe that's a sustainable rate? The endowment is supposed to last forever, remember. The usual citation for a safe withdrawal rate in retirement is 4%, for example.

>Just put a lot of it in the bank and interest alone fills the "hole".

The Harvard endowment is actively invested and generally substantially outperforms the interest that you'd get "in the bank" - that's the only reason that withdrawal rate of 5% is feasible.
this goes beyond getting some things wrong. It's conscious effort to be biased in a very specific way. When it struggles to put a white person in the generated images, or has trouble deciding whether Musk or Hitler were worse for humanity, you know it's been trained and guardrailed hard the wrong way
Was clear evidence from day 1 they were recycling GPT3 and GPT4 responses.
The question was obviously referring to money not owed.
Since no one is born with innate understanding of what "summarize a book" means, the same question can be raised about people.
> https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/OpenEUICC Needs a root on Android

It usually needs to be priv-app installed, which means you have to build it in with the rom or add it with a Magisk module (don't use the one on github though it's horribly out of date, if you must... make sure your device is in light theme mode or you won't see the QR code and confirm buttons).
If you do go the mobile route. Android development has more demand. Apple has a lot of developers, android not so much.
You Don't Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes
Yeah but all they have to do is make it the slightest bit upgradeable or repairable and it'll leave apple in the dust with respect to ethical production.
> idea of having drivers flee police cars as well as having to look over the shoulder to figure out where the police drone is as well doesn’t seem like a recipe for safer police car chases

Sorry, what? We're concerned for the wellbeing of the person fleeing the cops? Is this man an idiot?

> he fears increased drone use could result in privacy violations and higher levels of surveillance of communities of colo

Prop E specifically requires these data be treated "consistent[ly] with all applicable City poliicies on data and privacy" [1].

I'm seeing nothing here that is remotely convincing. Prop E is broader than drones for car chases. But replacing a speeding cop car with drones seems like an obvious improvement. I'm shocked it even needs a referendum to be implemented.

[1] https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-10/20231017_Poli.....
How about in geosynchronous orbit? So the control facility doesn't have to deal with the fine particles.
I don't disagree with you, but an open source model fine tuned for your use case, and embedded with your data is probably going to be way better at many companies uses cases than GPT4 is.
Age of Empires 2's Definitive Edition is getting its first expansion next month
I won’t eat at that restaurant anymore because the chef no longer publishes cookbooks. Oh, you say he will tell me the recipe as long as I agree not to use it to open a restaurant across the street? Well, f** him that’s not good enough. He built his career learning recipes from cookbooks who learned recipes from other cookbooks. He owes it to me to publish his recipes and let me do what I want with them.
Those are numbered points, not bullet points.

Did you actually ask for bullet points and ChatGPT gave you numbered points instead? Or did you just ask for 5 point summaries and it chose to use numbered points?

For the books I checked where I felt I could reasonably guess what topics would be covered and in what order, the 5 points seemed to cover things in the same order I expect the book covered them.

If that is the case numbered points would be more appropriate than bullet points, so if it was ChatGPT that decided on numbers vs. bullets it looks like it made the right call.
> LLMs are insanely helpful if you use them with their limitations in mind.

This depends on your use case. I can honestly tell that all the chat bot AIs don't "get" my kind of thinking about mathematics and programming.

Since some friend who is graduate student in computer science did not believe in my judgement, I verbally presented him some test prompts for programming task where I wanted the AI to help me (these are not the most representative ones for my kind of thinking, but are prompts for which it is rather easy to decide whether the AI is helpful or not).

He had to agree from the description alone that the AIs will have difficulties with these task, despite the fact that these are common, and very well-defined programming problems. He opined that these tasks are simply too complex for the existing AIs, and suggested that if I split these tasks into much smaller subtasks, the AI might be helpful. Let me put it this way: I personally doubt that if I stated the subtasks in a way in which I would organize the respective programs, the AI would be of help. :-)

What was just important for me was to able to convince the my counterpart that whether AIs are helpful or not for programming depends a lot on your kind of thinking about programming and your programming style. :-)
Yes. The exchange operators form a group that is non-abelian.
As well as the artificially increased valuations for every company with the .ai TLD for their landing page.
Yes. They all have possible withdrawal symptoms. I'm glad you don't experience them! However, I think we can all agree that it's beneficial if everybody knows they exist.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/methylphenidate...
For LOTR fans, the hussar charge at the Siege of Vienna was the inspiration for Tolkien’s epic cavalry charge of the Rohirrim that lifted the Siege of Minas Tirith.
Nope!

It states you opened a door and then Monty opened a door.

It does not state that Monty would have opened a door if you had picked a different one.

If this is not communicated you don’t gain any knowledge from his reveal.

The typical proper Monty hall formula states this assumption clearly that he will always open a goat door. The original one does not state this.
Even LaserDiscs, which are probably the format most prone to "laser rot" are mostly fine.

Laser rot is kind of a non-issue: it's generally down to manufacturing defects.
Outsource important work to AI? Research shows we forget how to do it ourselves
I'm lost here. Can anyone explain why the speculation of risk resounding around a 'bubble' of LLM and other emerging technologies (TinyLM, VLM, ALM, etc) is rounding a bubble?

Meaning, the dot-com bubble showed a misappropriation of revenue by leading technology companies alongside the capital investorship, mainly VC's and private equity. Basically, everyone spent without producing a product; which lead to the mergers still the basis for many of the largest corporations today (and subsequently the 2008 crash, which further merged companies in the aftermath).

So, for me the difference is the money being spent here in this 'bubble' isn't like parking new mall shops on various websites, then spending the capital to entice buyers to purchase (either for store products or the store itself) - rather - it seems to me that both private and public sentiment is that the future is bright with the right application of these tools, in the right systems, to promote applicable use cases for things we (humans) can leave up to code/machines.

For instance, one of the most impressive applications of TinyLM uses is setting up several (or dozens) of tiny sensors in say a greenhouse. Each sensor can be linked to a central data repository for active monitoring to deploy active controls - be it barometric pressure, moisture content (soil, air), etc. Linking a bunch of these devices and letting it automatically run, along with linking this sensors as the data-providers to machines that may in turn plant, cull, trim, essentially a fully automated greenhouse.

I'm not greenthumb and I lack in-depth knowledge around how greenhouses (modern or old) work. However, it's without understanding the details I do understand it still takes a (or more) human to maintain the greenhouse.

Consider making these kinds of greenhouses (as is standard in some places now with vertical in-door growing farms) completely autonomous.

That's pretty technologically feasible it would seem with the newest applications of (quote) AI. And it's likely very profitable as well.

If I were to take the same ideology and apply to other industries, I find several applications like the one I mention that would absolutely change how we (humans) live in this (soon to be, IMHO) post-human industrialized world.

So where is all of the doom and gloom from - monopoly, errant comprehension of the technologies, or simply dogma?
Where should I then ask such questions?
Interesting bet.
From now on no one in their right mind will BEGIN using VMware.
Whatever new companies will be founded, none of them will choose VMware, neither will growing companies switch to VMware.
> You can only measure acceleration using an accelerometer. A gyroscope is technically still useful here for removing the gravity vector from the data accelerometer is reporting.

You can combine accelerometer and gyroscope data to give you a (position, orientation) signal that is more precise than either, using a Kalman filter. (You can add other sensors in like magnetometer too)

Unfortunately even with this technique there is still drift that over time accumulates without bounds (the error gets so larger you become completely lost). If you can navigate from known landmarks you can eliminate this drift however. Such landmarks include the stars (if you can see the night sky), buildings and topographic features like in this post, or GPS
Raises an interesting question of who's laws apply on the Moon in such a case. no country has a unique ownership in the Moon due to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, but that just means no country owns the Moon. In the case of a camera crew back on Earth, or even on the Moon, would any union contracts apply?
Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought (The Crew)
I've always found it to be a bit of a stretch when they say they've demonstrated a new phase of matter when the phase is being simulated by a quantum computer. They've simulated the phase -- but then you get into the same argument of "what is and isn't a simulation of a phase of matter" which is really tiresome.
That is what I expect how things will be done. High orbit saves you not just from the fine dust, but also all the Δv you'd need to land people and get them up later.
I have mild asthma, a host of other "mild" (aka. non-life threating) seasonal allergies and oral antihistamines are becoming less effective as I get older. I will be talking to my doctor about this medication.
I'm interested in your experience if you don't mind sharing more? Any improvements to contact allergies?
Reminds me of the old slogan for Kix cereal.

"Kid Tested. Mother Approved."

Kids tested it but we don't know if they approved it.
We don't know if mothers tested it; we only know they approved it.