skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a dream where a person coming from a good family and heritage, as long as they put in a decent effort in any sufficiently developed country of this world, could afford to buy a house in a major city, could raise a family in a safe environment, could ensure that they and their children received excellent education and could take advantage of a world-class universal healthcare system.

The cost of living is extraordinarily high. The housing market exploded.

What is there going on for the lives of teenagers exactly?
I can gauge that the smarter ones will be locked inside a claustrophobic concrete prison figuring out how to pirate literature, movies, software, music, etc ... produced in a time where humanity was flourishing culturally. For example, classical literature from the 20th century and earlier periods is far more seducing for a teenager trying to create a soul for himself, because they explored societal and existential problems in a much deeper and romanticized way. This high culture still exists, but you have to scavenge through the wasteland that the internet has become.

I say this from brazil: this place is completely dead, culturally dead.
The educational system here is broken and suffers from the ideological indoctrination. One selects a path at a very early stage in life. If that goes wrong, it is extremely difficult to switch to another job or career path. Almost every industry requires three to five year education degrees. Any alternative career path means having to go back to school and redoing everything. A degree in Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry is completely devalued, leaving only Medicine, Finance, and Technology as sane career options, so choose your poison.
Medicine is bizarrely competitive. Medicine is viewed as a way to make money and the life of the students literally depends on their exam proficiency. Medical school is not a real academic course, it is an over glorified professional polytechnic factory for the mass-production of medical slaves.

Not to mention that we have belgium levels of corruption and the society is not homogenous, but some kind of abomination miscegenated. Shared norms and social trust are almost non-existent, replaced with hostility and individualism. Governance is basically impossible. A country where a bunch of people with radically different beliefs, ideologies, religions, and ways of life were shoved into a room and told by the government: Be Nice. Or Else.

Does this sound like a happy country who will breed healthy and strong young girls and lads for the future of the nation?

The 'High Cultute' here meant you were middle-class reading European literature and watching Hollywood movies fantasizing that the world was going to be one hell of a ride based on the American Dream lifestyle with a mixture of LSD-driven Science-Fiction, Drugs, Sex, and Rock n Roll.

Summation: Existentialism; Culture; Educational System; Technological Addiction.
Exactly my thoughts, the AI shields all responsibility from the humans.
Ahhhh Amazon weirdness...all good, i managed to sort it out, paperback on its way!
This “ban” would only apply if both the employer and employee agree to the terms.

Seems like a reasonable position.

This issue can be discussed at the time of recruiting / hiring. Reasonable working hours and “off limit” hours can be agreed upon and should be respected.
I very rarely use the App Store, but the one day I actually want to re-download Instagram it's down. And apparently has been for about twenty minutes. I almost feel like I somehow caused it.

It looks like Books, TV, Music, Podcasts, Arcade, Sports and Fitness+ are all down too.
Could We Build AGI That Listens to Us?
To answer this question I think it would be best to build an AI system that acts as a useful agent for a human, and at the same time as a part of a central governance process for developing the very system.

* *Decentralized Systems:
* The system would combine the awareness of cypherpunk and blockchain with the idealism of open source AI communities.

* *Human-AI Collaboration:* Having a human in the loop could guide the AI's development and prevent biases.
* *Democratic AI Development:* A collaborative judging system could promote ethical and responsible AI creation.

Here's a breakdown of your concept and some potential challenges:

*The Three-Part System:*

1. *Human:* Provides guidance, sets goals, and judges outputs.
2. *AI:* Learns, processes information, and suggests solutions.
3. *Agent (Democratic Judging System):* This is the most intriguing part. It could be:

* **A voting system:** Humans and AIs within the system vote on the best path forward for the AI's development.
* **Multi-agent Collaboration:** Multiple AIs could analyze the human's input and the current AI's state, proposing different improvement paths, then the system chooses the best option.
* **Weighted Consensus:** Combine human votes with AI analysis, giving more weight to experienced humans or high-performing AIs.
Thanks :). It's just a lot of prompting and string parsing. There are models like "Hermes-2-Pro-Mistral" (the one from the video) which are trained to work with function signatures and outputting structured text. But at the end it's just strings in > strings out, haha. But its fun (and sometimes frustrating) to use LLMs for flow control (conditions, loops...) inside your programs.
What if you swam in a nuclear storage pool? [xkcd's What If?] [video]
I love Tonal.js, have used it for many personal projects including https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS
I wonder if there are similar opportunities closer to Europe and less remote.
App Store Connect Is Down
> women do not shoot up tanks

There’s quite a bit of literature, history, statistics on women terrorists as well as soldiers.
My parents have finished grafting this year's round of trees. Some 600 new grafts onto root stock. Most of the space on their property is planted out now, so these will be for selling in the next one to five years.

I have to say, I enjoy eating lunch in the orchard. Nothing is quite like sun ripened apples, pears, or plums.
A monarchy is also a nation governed by laws.

I’ve answered your question in another response.
Commoditize your complements, baby.
> There’s a ton of terrible startups right now, but some of them will become whales. You can’t predict which ones ahead of time, so you invest in everything.

For what value of “you”?
Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)
Apple services down are (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)
They should do XZli next :D

And write it in Rust
This podcast interview with Brooke Harrington gave me some good insights into how people manage offshore wealth: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-...
tl;dr: Food prices are growing due to material shortages (war, drought), price stickiness, wage growth, and higher profit margins on substitute goods that weren't affected by the other causes.

This translates into higher prices at the cash register, both at the grocery, and at the restaurant.

Nothing all that interesting.
as it turns out, there's a better way.

already the AI detects criticism of itself. except its response it's to shadowban you meaning you can continue to post but nobody sees your opinion online.

eventually, you're "bubbled" by AIs.. all your interactions online are surrounded by an AI and you'd think you're interacting with other people when you're just AI-bubbled so to not disrupt the rest of the workers.

you'll still see likes, and other interactions with the social media posts you leave behind, but as a flagged critic of the system, all these interactions are merely faked to keep you calm. as the AI advances you'll even see responses, retweets and other interactions.... all AI driven in order to keep you busy while IBM keeps a calm overwatch over all. the end.
I’m curious of the history. Presumably people used SMS when it was the only option, and stopped at some point and installed message apps (but they never stopped in the US).
What if a threat actor embedded secret listening devices into staplers? What if wool socks specifically designed to maximize ESD discharge were used to disable sensitive equipment?

Organizations that are concerned with outlandish risks like these implement their own policies and procedures to safeguard against them. They might x-ray office supplies before allowing their use in secure facilities; they might maintain a short list of approved fabrics in an ESD-sensitive environment. The point is that organizations that have exceptional security requirements apply their own policies and procedures to mitigate risk, and don't expect parties upstream of them do so for them.
The Palestinians have a well documented history of using children in combat. See for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b...
While saying "we want more efficiency" is great there is a trade off between size and accuracy here.

It is possible that compressing and using all of human knowledge takes a lot of memory and in some cases the accuracy is more important than reducing memory usage.

For example [1] shows how Gemma 2B using AVX512 instructions could solve problems it couldn't solve using AVX2 because of rounding issues with the lower-memory instructions. It's likely that most quantization (and other memory reduction schemes) have similar problems.

As we develop more multi-modal models that can do things like understand 3D video in better than real time it's likely memory requirements will increase, not decrease.

[1] https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp/issues/23
also cant wait for the 'ai that doesnt actually work' cleanup driving more jobs
Ok, so we only allow the government the privilege of knowing who owns what… then we worry about the government abusing this information for political gain?
This data appears to be 2021 top 100 companies. Lisa Su is solely listed as a board member of Cisco for example, since AMD had yet (I think?) to eclipse Cisco's market cap at the time.
See marketing in action, a few days later it reads “up to 99% biofilm
is removed from your teeth, more than any conventional toothbrush on the market”
Those services are down for me in HK
“Like our machines, our website looks awful on a phone.”

Someone could’ve spent literally 5 minutes making this look reasonable on the world’s most popular web browsing device form facto, whilst still retaining the site’s retro virtue signalling aesthetic, AND it wouldn’t have taken away from their ‘core mission’ or whatever.

If you don’t care, don’t have a website at all.
I turn off assistant - this will just be another thing to disable. I don't even use Google search anymore.

I want to bring all my data home again off cloud and when I do that I'll stop using all their services entirely.
It's quite possible that the people involved did their time and the island is moving on from the events of the past. It seems uncharitable to paint an entire island with the brush of a single, very bad event that happened years ago. Imagine if every country had to be judged by the worst thing that happened in the country's history.
Surprised it doesn’t account for tempering given it is so comprehensive.
Some of these people are investors or represent investor groups. As such, the group they represent will own stakes in multiple companies, and often have board seats on many of the companies.

Others will be an top executive at one company, and also serve on the board as an advisor of a few other, non-competing companies (usually non-competing).

Those are probably the most common scenarios where some one would serve on multiple boards.
> Sure, fine, maybe the UN report is all wrong -- even though everybody seems to use it.

It's not wrong, you're wrong. You called it an estimate of casualties. The UN calls it a list of verified casualties and say that they estimate the number is "far higher".

I don't have a problem with citing those numbers if you call them what they are - the hard minimum that can be independently verified. "at least" 10,000 dead civilians, as opposed to "only" 10,000 dead civilians. That is a significant distinction. "everyone" uses those numbers to make Israel look worse at the expense of whitewashing Russia, which is appalling to me.

An actual estimate is extremely hard to find. It appears that Ukraine estimated in February 2023 that the number of civilians killed was around 100,000. The UN themselves won't say what they think the number is other than that it's "likely far higher" than the confirmed number in one statement, "tip of the iceberg" in another, etc.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-war-...

Mark Milley estimated around 40k civilian casualties in November 2022

https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/10/ukraine-war-100000-russi...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/civilian-deaths-ukraine-acc...

In any case, the highest the UN was ever able to count in Mariupol was around 2000, whereas there's more than 10,000 fresh graves, many of which are big enough for several bodies, alongside some mass graves. And that was over a year ago, in one city. Dunno what more to tell you.

If you want to compare apples to apples, then Hamas' claims of ~25,000 dead civilians should be compared against the Ukrainian government's claims of tens of thousands of civilian dead. Otherwise don't compare claims against numbers that have been independently verified to be correct (minimums).

And also, oh my god, don't say

> civilians and aid workers are generally moved away from the front, and they're more rarely treated with the wanton disregard and disdain that Gazans suffer.

or

>To all appearances, what's happening in Ukraine is a war, fought by and large by the accepted rules of war. In contrast, I don't think that Israel is fighting a war; they're marauding and taking shots at a densely populated civilian enclave that refuses to surrender to them unconditionally.

Because that's such utter horseshit. Everything the Israelis have ever been accused of doing, the Russians have done in Ukraine. Don't claim otherwise just because those pictures / videos don't get as much traction on TikTok
> but only use it if the market fails. It hasn’t failed yet.

First of all, regulators should at a minimum have enough investigatory power to monitor for and uncover abusive market failure situations. But your assertion that the market hasn't failed yet only seems to hold up if you set a pretty high bar for what kind of malfeasance qualifies as a market failure. Do you honestly believe that none of the instances on record in the US and elsewhere are individually or collectively sufficient justification for preventive measures? Just how much abuse has to pile up before regulation stops being a waste of time?
Nothing a few rounds of war crimes trials, complete with gallows, in the Hague won't sort out, especially if the court decided (oh I can dream) that the execs and major investors of the company that implemented the system are culpable.
No one offered an alternative, either.
Age of consent in Japan wasn’t 13. That was the national age of consent, but literally every prefecture had a higher age specified in local law, and the higher number is what mattered.

Changing the national age was largely symbolic, although it did have the beneficial effect of enabling national police instead of just local police to go after these cases.
The weird thing is, I’ve seen this author post factually incorrect things about early Islamic history. I just wish he was more careful about things outside his area of expertise.
Someone please build a service that combines Big Tech’s system status info in once place.
Runs like shit, and keeps stalling as things load in, does WASM not have async loading?

Anyway nobody would play this because it took minutes to get to a playable state, and kept freezing, then eventually it just froze permanently.

I don't get the point of porting this kind of thing to the web, the web is a terrible platform for it.
There is no way Jenner would have been in a position to apply that hard work to such a profit without the inheritance.

The myth of America is that anyone can be a billionaire, if they are talented and put in the work. This is not true.
I mean, what's the takeaway in your mind? If there was 1 person in the whole world that owned half its wealth, would you find it un-damning because it's just 1 person?
I live on an old farm in Australia with several unknown apple varieties. The original trees were planted here in the 1850s to 1860s by French settlers.

One of the most interesting ones is a small purple-ish apple that fizzes when you bite into it. (It is also exceptionally productive, bearing 2-3 times more than any of the others, and makes a very nice cider.)
Do you have any examples post 2020, when net neutrality was revoked?

The internet has changed dramatically in the 10+ years since most of your examples and removal of net neutrality regulation has not seemed to cause any of those issues to resurface.
> His plea felt like a microcosm of the pain experienced by restaurant owners across the US as food prices remain stubbornly high despite cooling inflation.

This is like being surprised total data at AWS isn't dropping even though they've halved their customer intake. "Cooling inflation" -> The prices are increasing more slowly. They aren't going to go down, the policymakers are explicit that they think prices dropping would be a problem to be solved.

This is a simple result of policy. All the factors in the article are transient - wars end, droughts break, competition forces companies to reduce their profit margins. But the price of goods is not expected to come down, because if it does then money will be printed until it goes back up.
You had me until the end. This is of great interest!
Here's the OED's press release with more detail:

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.idmgroup.oed100.sound...

In Japanese:

https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.idmgroup.oed100.sound...

And a list of all the new words in this update, not just Japanese

https://www.oed.com/information/updates/march-2024/new-word-...
But not to all the other forms of transportation that don't involve roads.
The thing about inflation like this is that even if their costs did go down in the future, their prices won't.
I can buy some of your claims, but how do you adulterate a coffee bean?
Expanding on that for the benefit of those who may find joy in trifling:

- Noun: 関係 [kankei] -- A noun which roughly means relations/involvement

- Component Kanji

--- 関: Semantically equates to "connection"

--- 係: Semantically equates to "participation"

- Verb: ない [nai] -- A foundational verb which inverts ある [aru]. ある is how you concretely indicate that something exists in a specific way. ない is how you concretely indicate that something exists NOT in that specific way.

So... putting it all together; the phrase is a grammatically complete utterance that more or less says "this is anything but material to that". Something which this rough translation fails to convey is the flexibility of the saying -- depending on context it can be used to communicate anything from "that's irrelevant" to... "none of my business" or even... "none of your concern"
Net neutrality isn't about the raw speeds and prices; it's about discrimination for or against certain ways of using the service.
Would really be a less bullshit article if they gave the weights and per burrito amounts/costs. Telling us a bushel of onions went from 15$ to 40$ for instance is bullshit when the burrito only has 0.05$ worth of the onions and now has maybe 0.12$ of burrito.

But no they won't say that because then people will see even with increased costs the fucking burrito shouldn't be 22$.
I mean, there's no singular smoking gun. It's all of these factors at once, and as such, there's no simple remedy for it.

We could outlaw war and drought, I suppose.

We could have more labour done by indentures and slaves, that might drive the wage part of the equation down.

We could tax or seize the profit margins and redistribute them to the people buying $22 burritos.

Or we could just live with the understanding that this is a Premium Burrito (tm) that should only be eaten for weddings or birthdays, and it's not supposed to be affordable.

---

(I make Premium Burritos at home for a lot less than $22, but I also don't have to pay myself - or shovel money into rent for a hip storefront... Or raise prices by $5 because my ingredient and labor costs went up by $2...)
So, use mouthwash?

>> Antibacterial efficacy of a cetylpyridinium chloride-based mouthrinse against Fusobacterium nucleatum and in vitro plaques

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26591620/
I never understood why the argument that only war can bring hostages back, or that it is the most reliable way, was allowed to be propagated in public for so long.

> but I imagine the residents of kibbutz be'eri and the 100+ hostages still held in Gaza would disagree that Isreal is fighting for "basically no reason."

On the contrary, I think that those exact people would agree the most.
Do you think that they do not wish that Israel did a hostage exchange instead of starving and bombing them together with their captors?
To bring the "low hanging fruit" example, do you think that the three hostages who were waving white flags nearly entirely naked, and who were subsequently murdered by the IDF; do you think that they or their families prefer(preferred) this devastation that lead to their deaths instead of a simple hostage exchange?

What do you think would happen if IDF killed most of Hamas and had their last few forces cornered with no escape, and were getting close to them? Do you think the hostages would not be killed by either their captors or by IDF as collateral damage in such a scenario?

Claims that the systematic destruction of Gaza and genocide(-lite?) serves the goal of bringing back the hostages is such an obvious cover for bloodthirst that it is honestly intellectually-insulting to keep reading it over and over again.
You have to pick some number, if you take an age limit too high it becomes 'less' of a story.
In general, most json/bson parsers like libbson have a rather shallow depth restriction (xerces also constrains this if I recall.)

And yeah, recursion is avoided in some shops for good reasons.
I think 90 percent accuracy in this case means 10 percent of "suggested terrorists" were overturned with detailed human review. There's no way the Israelis were actually able to reliably question the Gazans about whether they really were terrorists.

So the issue isn't that there's errors, it's that the army knows there are errors and expect humans to pick them out in 20 seconds- which they know realistically won't happen. The human only has two realistic choices- approve every target, or disapprove every target (which gets you reassigned to another role).

It's the classic statistics case of two medical diagnostics for an underlying value that isn't directly observable.
It's actually been fixed. I didn't, and neither did OP, read far enough through the SO thread linked in the GitHub issue.

Fix was previously included in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/june-27-2017-kb402....

> Addressed issue (Error 0x7F) with Windows Forms (WinForms) that causes the system to crash after upgrading to the Creators Update.
That’s because it’s by far the most popular form. No one is going to call pai gow just poker.
I bought some saffron once and made risotto with it, it was ok. Now I have some of the spice leftover, and it's too special and delicate for me to use it for anything, so it just sits in my cabinet.