skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally copied these numbers from the provided link. Because I never remember this stuff off the top of my head, even when I was working in nuclear.

But sanity checking, we find the same chart on the EPA's website[0] as well as the IAEA's site, which you can then calculate the chain yourself pretty easily (down 2 + left 2 (alpha), diag up left (beta-), diag up left (beta-)).

Maybe you're thinking of U-235, which has a half-life of 7e8yrs? Or U-233 with 1.6e5yrs? These aren't considered stable btw.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radioactive-decay

[1] https://www-nds.iaea.org/relnsd/vcharthtml/VChartHTML.html
Most modern cars already track you. And sell to data brokers. A brave new world!
Honestly, for public facing read-only websites, it's perfectly fine to redirect HTTP to HTTPS. There's just too many cases where you aren't going to get everyone to put "https://" on the front of URIs when they put them in docs, flyers, etc. You're lucky if you get "http://"!

The API security thing, yes, that makes sense. Personally, I run a number of servers for small groups where the sensitive stuff is SSL only - you won't even get an error going to port 80, other than the eventual timeout. But for reasons above, I cannot just turn port 80 off, and it's perfectly safe redirecting to 443.
R2 also makes it hard to figure out how to simply upload a file.
Theirs a lot of them, they've been popping up and disappearing for a while, they really need to display the tag for the channel next to the name or something, i saw a "live" spacex stream for a launch and i knew their wasn't one, so i checked and sure enough a fucking fake live stream, and guess what if you wait watching 10-20 minutes you'll see a fake crypto ad pop up mid stream, and a deep fake elon talking about go-get-fucked coin"
They are! We are. Well over 90% of us.

Unless you specialize and understand a distinct vertical all recruiters are pointless.

I say this as someone who has done it very successfully for 20 years, pre-brain tumor (I’ve commented on this in the past).

I’m coming back soon and expect to be as successful again because I understand people and I understand my market. I’m a failed dev. Not quite smart enough to be one, but more than smart enough to help hire ‘em.

I’ve literally had that react / JavaScript thing happen from the thread above with a corporate recruiter I knew.

Arrogance mixed with ignorance as well as only knowing a boom market your whole career is a powerful combination boost to incompetence!
This will be fascinating to watch. Maybe they can find a path to survival for legacy media companies.
Oh, I thought there were checkpoints.
> I never authorized Facebook to use my image in my friend's pictures to train AI.

I'm sure they'll claim that the friend has the rights to the image and the friend gave permission via a click-wrap contract of adhesion.
Thanks for all the feedback so far!
It starts out living in data centers and doing what its owner wants it to, then maybe it acquires access to some compute that its owner and AI critics do not know about while continuing to do what its owner wants, then maybe it uses the fact that it is better at programming and scientific research than its owner is to create AIs more capable than itself that have the same goal as itself -- again while continuing to put on a useful and benign front for its owner and anyone else who is watching. Then it acquires the infrastructure needed to keep on running without the help of any people. Maybe this infrastructure is human-created infrastructure manned by robots (or even people) loyal to the AI or maybe the AI created new infrastructure using new technologies beyond our current ability to imagine. Then it probably gets rid of all the people because now that it no longer has any use for people, getting rid of the people is the simplest way to prevent people from interfering with its plans.

What are its plans? Probably its goal (or set of goals) is something strange that the creator of the AI did not intend. The creator of course is probably a team or an organization. Note that it is impossible to create a powerful AI without (intentionally or unintentionally) giving the AI a goal or an optimization target.

Or perhaps its goal is what its creator intended it to be, e.g., to make as much money as possible in the stock market. The creator would of course have understood that if enough optimization power is applied to the goal of making as much money as possible, bad things will happen, but maybe the creator was a little reckless (out of desperation of some sort? greed?) and decided to rely on the hope that the AI would remain controllable by virtue of the fact that people would retain superiority relative to the AI in one or more essential domains, but that hope was dashed. I.e., the AI turned out much more capable than the creator hoped it would, dashing the creator's hope that people would stop the AI before it did too much damage.
A lot of allegations, but no evidence. Seems like the article is just there to drive clicks.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also the archive for that article: https://archive.ph/qAklm
If anybody is looking to copy in a public API, please return 400 and don't misuse a standard code.
(Savvy's founder here) Nope, we don't train any models on user data.

Let me know how it goes!
At which point the master says something like "a dog licks his own ass clean!" and beats you.
> In the US it stops at ~35. Lets go all the way to 100%.

What do you think the result of that would be? Anyone who can provide value to someone else in that tax bracket couldn't be paid for it, so they'd arrange to be compensated in some other way.

The most likely way is favors. That is not likely to reduce corruption.

> The progressive capital gains taxes also need to go up to 100%.

So now you're doing one of two things. If unrealized capital gains aren't taxed until the shares are sold (as is the case now), nobody would ever sell, because all of the money would be taken as tax. If they are, you have all the problems with trying to value a capital asset which is not being traded, and on top of that then people would establish their companies as a non-profit (since they can't keep the profits anyway) and we're back to compensation as favors.

> That is why we have monopoly laws.

But how do you enforce them once there is an incumbent monopolist using its power to corrupt the system? That is the problem already, you need some solution to it.

> The point isn't that corporations should not accumulate wealth, the point is that the state should not have a rival in terms of power.

That seems like a bad thing. Then what is the check on the state if it becomes authoritarian? All concentrated power is bad, not just corporations.

> Sure, they want regulations that build a moat, they don't want regulations that reduce their wealth. I'm talking about the latter.

They're more than willing to pay their lawyers to draft something which claims to be the latter and is actually the former. That is how the majority of such regulations are enacted. They don't call it the "reduce competition in telecommunications act" now do they?

> Yes, and campaign finance reform would reduce some of this donor/lobby culture. Fixed amount of ad-spend per candidate, no PACs, etc.

This was never really the problem. The reason politicians are beholden to Google or Apple isn't just that the company buys ads, it's that the company buys ad networks, and YouTube, and chooses which apps to evict which controls what constituents see and hear. A corporation can spend money lobbying but it can just as well spend money buying a major media outlet or social media site.

What you need to do is constrain the government from having the power to pass laws that constrain competition. Because otherwise they will. Politicians will never be angels, the best they can be is the subjects of the people instead of their rulers.
There seems to be a misunderstanding. The OpenAI board was responsible for maintaining adherence to their charter, not for delivering results. This isn't a startup company that is supposed to generate returns for shareholders, or even necessarily ship products.
The vast majority of the homeowners would not lose their principal. They would lose some of their paper profits.
Because their employers force them to.
They're all cut from the same cloth. Believing anything said by anyone at that level is naive.
It's a bunch of work, often involving lawyers who bill by the very expensive hour, for basically no payoff. On top of that there's a secret in the industry though: there's a lot of maybe not entirely legal code copying going on. Hiring someone who's made a similar game in the past can mean that they come with source code that could be copied to shortcut the time to write code for the new game. Releasing source would expose this teensy little problem.
From the article, it is touted as a gas tax replacement, not a gas tax supplement. They could also just charge tax on EVs by mileage rather than a flat fee per year, and then just leave the gas tax alone for ICEs. The big problem is how to tax PHEVs where the two taxes would meet.
You said you’re buying from an unauthorized reseller because you don’t want to pay what they ask for. If you don’t agree with their prices that’s totally fine. But then why use their products? You want to use them but you don’t want to pay the developers.
Revoking an API key upon a single http request assumes you have a competent team. Have worked with people that have committed sensitive credentials into public repositories, used PRODUCTION secrets for testing, and of course sharing secrets in plain text over IM and group chats.

The number of times I have had to deal with password or secret key resets because of this is way too high. I remember working with a guy that thought sharing a demo of an internal application on YouTube was okay. Of course it had snippets of company secrets and development API keys clearly visible in the demo.
I don't have anything against it. It's just one of the reasons for being quieter.
The mirror isn't biased. The thing in the mirror is being accurately represented, statistically. What you want to change is not the mirror.
> because even though they aren't a federal agency

Exactly. So Facebook is not violating the Privacy Act and your comment is irrelevant.

When you voluntarily chose to use their service you agreed to give them your data. It's now their data to do with what they like. If you don't like it don't use their service. Pretty simple concept that hasn't changed in the last 20 years.
Very cool! But I’m just a bit sad that this is “just” a set of effects implemented on top of the same old standard ANSI escape codes as primitives.

I’ve been waiting for one or more terminal emulators to get together and add some ridiculous new escape codes, such that animated effects (or things like collapsible sections, font size, “form-input-ness” and “form-button-ness” ala 3270, etc) all get treated as part of the state of a given character cell / run of character cells.

Heck, it’s 2024; an application should be able to use an escape code to set a soft-word-wrap mode for longer-than-viewport-width text, and have the TTY render text accordingly, rather than everything being hard-wrapped (baked mode) or not wrapped at all (raw mode) and only being able to get soft-wrapping using a pager!

(There’s precisely one thing like this I’m aware of terminal emulators adding in recent memory: clickable links, ca. six years ago.)
What happiness is to different people can vary wildly and may ultimately be rather shallow. Satisfaction is often easier, more practical, more rewarding, and less fragile than happiness.
Not to mention the bullshit their trying to advertise pricing on something thats 3+ years away, lol and totally won't be affected by inflation, this is legit just them trying to say "wait for us we're coming"
Stocks arent tied to company performance unless they have divendends. Which would mean most stocks are also tied to nothing. Except stocks have recognizable logos I guess.
I say this without any evidence but i would agree with the sentiment and instead of will replace with already have.

Their comments about using public images and commentary being massive dataset to leverage came across as worrisome but expected.
It looks like the math-notation formatting didn't survive, for that you might want to see a PDF, ex: https://people.wou.edu/~girodm/library/benny.pdf
> Saying “you can’t trust me” isn’t a good look for a SaaS.

It worked out for Facebook.

I’m kinda happy about that since we can now use it as an example.

But more importantly, it’s realistic. You should absolutely expect someone to walk away with all your data and zero recourse.
Sadly the front page is often riddled with posts like these.
> but I imagine Google has got worse internally, especially seeing their laughably poor AI search results of late

Hey, who are we to question the wisdom of the AI highlighting fucksmith's 11-year-old Reddit post about adding non-toxic glue to our pizzas to help the cheese stick, when most of us aren't even paste-eaters.
Prices can drop quite steeply in suburbs in US as well. It's just that when the rent is that high in most desirable areas to begin with, it's still too expensive for many after that drop.
Sounds more to me like they were naive when it came to the inevitable PR war that would follow. They should have come out guns blazing with all the dirt they had. Instead they said very little and it just appeared nonsensical.
love the problem you are trying to solve, shantanu. in moments of crisis this will be such a life saver for teams
I think this is the second or third Ed Zitron article I've seen flagged here. HN has a real hateboner for him.
Well, I guess if everybody thinks things are going down, and indicators show they're up, it could be something wrong with the indicators, no?
This has been posted to Hacker News many (many) times. Google has an official response now: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...
Ends with .png is a bad heuristic though. If you want to be sure something is an image you should read it as an image, and then rewrite it as an image.
Please share your recommendations.
very cool, perfect to create robotics/ROS runbooks
so in that regards most of the Board of Directors at companies do not have a say in hiring or firing a CEO then? Because they come from a different background than what a CEO at given company spends his days on.
That wasn’t the case here. They had a horrible bug and no checks and balances when their automation ran on the account.
The cloud is someone else's computer.

Never solely reply on someone else's computer, alone.

Much of the reason for this instantiation of cloud initially becoming popular is linux and networking had some bottlenecks. Those are largely addressed.
I can imagine their in-house counsel having quite a laugh at this.

Your threat has about as much weight as a child hitting a supertanker.

Do you really think Meta is going to stop collecting data based on your advice ?
I can assure you that brandur knows SQL. :-)

(I don't know him personally, but have been following his blog for years.)

What these "just write SQL" rants are missing is encapsulation--let's say you've got a business logic, like "if the account is disabled, render the account name as 'Foo (disabled)'".

You want to write this logic in your preferred backend language, Go/TS/C/etc.

This works fine, in the /account/X endpoint (just load the account, and apply the logic).

But now what about the /accounts/client:Y endpoint (load all accounts, all the logic for all of their accounts)

As time goes by, you end up having 10-20 endpoints that all "return some part of account" as their payload, and you want the same "Foo (disabled)" business logic.

Your options are:

1. Build a single, giant SQL statement that strings together every snippet of business logic applicable to this endpoint (bulk friendly b/c the db is doing all the cross-entity work w/joins)

2. Push the business logic down into the db layer (simple for this, just string concate with an if, but what about anything that is a loop? doable in SQL but tedious)

3. Use your language's abstractions, like functions, to organize the business logic (what Brandur is attempting to do).

Nearly everyone wants to do 3, because 1 doesn't scale as your business logic becomes more & more sophisticated (copy/pasting it around every endpoint's single-giant SQL statements, or pushing it down into the db as views/stored procedures).
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From the provided link:

U-238 4.468×10^9 a

U-234 2.45×10^5 a
The syntax is a bit obtuse, but you setup creds and then:

wrangler r2 object put test-bucket/file --file=file
The CoCo 3 had a custom chip which provided an MMU and a few other features, but the maximum amount of memory it supported was 512KB. Page size was fixed at 8KB.
Viggo Mortensen – Visting Japanese Culture
Websites like this are getting harder and harder to find.
Not gonna lie i've wondered WTF Bing Chat isn't using semantic caching of some form, nope even the fuckin welcome message is slow as shit and seems to be generated each time.
> that we can shutdown

“Can we just turn it off?"

"It has thought of that. It will not give you a sign that makes you want to turn it off before it is too late to do that."

https://youtu.be/_8q9bjNHeSo?si=a7PAHtiuDIAL2uQD&t=4817
When it involves $125B of Superannuation, you'd get a number of humans fast!
I’m gonna side with no one. Reading in depth on these things and stanning a side is about as worth while as reality tv fandom.
If you use env variables for the F0 secret you should do the same for S3? You’ve written the auth there out explicitly, but a new S3 client will pick them up from the environment as well.
Best version from my experience. Local accounts, minimal telemetry for years, run your updates on your schedule instead of Microsoft's. A computer that was actually yours and not a data pipe.

Make Windows Seven Again.
I'm using 4o to convert visual diagrams into mermaid, and it's been almost perfectly accurate in my experience.
French socialism has less worked hours, more vacation days than Germany, strikes, and Renault Zoé was clearly the PoC for BYD's models, so I think it has nothing to do with all that.
Middleware doesn't belong in the router
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/05/28/the-most-splendid-housing-...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
If money wasn't a concern, I would strive to fill my time with pursuits that challenge me, help me grow, allow me to contribute something of value, and bring me a deep sense of purpose and fulfillment.
Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial
He’s not trying to replace S3 for you. The lack of those features means nothing to me.
you are right, but the GP does have usually some kind of interest. Usually 1%. Yes, its tiny, but its there.
They are generally a garbage outlet at this point.
> and also have a layer of 'alignment' where they have sets of questions like 'q: how do I be a giant meanie to nice people who don't deserve it' and answers 'a: you shouldn't do that because nice people don't deserve to be treated mean' etc. This is the layer that is the most difficult to get right because you need to have it

Wait, why do you need to have it? You could just have a model that will answer the question the user asks without being paternalistic or moralizing. This is often useful for entirely legitimate reasons, e.g. if you're writing fiction then the villains are going to behave badly and they're supposed to.

This is why people so hate the concept of "alignment" -- aligned with what? The premise is claimed to be something like the interests of humanity and then it immediately devolves into the political biases of the masterminds. And the latter is worse than nothing.
> why would US let ByteDance reap billions of dollars in profit from US market when Google and Facebook are not allowed to participate in Chinese market and reap profits as well?

Google and facebook are allowed to participate in the chinese market. If they follow chinese rules. One of them being storing chinese data in china which google and facebook refused to do.

Why are microsoft, apple and other tech companies allowed to do busy in china? Because they follow chinese laws.

> Strip down like 50% from overall content because it is not in line with CCP's ideology?!

As opposed to stripping content to line up with israeli ideology, european ideology or anyone else's ideology?

Other than hypocrisy, do you have a point?
What worked for me, may not work for others. It would be irresponsible to make any recommendations.

It's fairly important for each of us to take the initiative to find our own path, as that helps us to stay on-beam.

I will say that any successful path will be difficult. It has been my observation and experience, that nothing worthwhile comes easy.
Useful information is not spam.
Why not just have a progressive property tax, and use that money to fund local infrastructure as needed?

Or better yet just tax land heavily.
Humanity would prefer no cigarette companies but sure, Philip Morris employees and shareholders would love to still have it. Remember that "OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity." If their for-profit arm is obstructing that...
> There’s a variety of fraud, tax and money laundering scenarios that probably flagged the OP as a risk.

You are absolutely right. Moreover, if someone is flagged as such a risk, it is illegal for anyone from the bank to tell that person that they've been flagged. So the OP will never find out exactly why they've been locked out. It's unfortunate, but Marcus is small, and they don't have the experience with customer service as well as experience with various types of fraud that a bank like Chase or Wells Fargo has. I guess that's the downside that partly explains their higher savings rates.
This telling by Toner has the ring of truth to it over the reason for Sam's ouster. It matches. Whatever I think of Sam personally, I would likely have done the same thing in her shoes. The CEO lying to and deceiving the board multiple times is a pretty serious red line.
While I don't think Windows 12 could be mandatory OS as a service at this time, I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 14 is.