skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this entire thread under the assumption that we are talking about long term partners here. Completely disregarding HIV, there are enough other STIs that say unprotected sex is a bad idea, so if we are talking about hookups, the person can tell me whatever they want, condom is mandatory.

Of course long term relationships don't magically shield you against STI, but I'd hope there is enough trust to share test results of any kind that are relevant to this matter if you are having the discussion about going fluid bond. And you probably know the person well enough to know if they are reliable with taking their meds on time.
> It seemed to me that you were downplaying this person's experience

I'm not.

> were suggesting that they were possibly given other substances.

I am. There are a lot of people buying mislabeled products thinking they are ingesting chocolate made out of mushrooms that, in fact, are not. There are also people who sell other mushrooms, such as amanita muscaria, as your garden variety magic mushrooms. (I'm not aware of anything that would cause this with it, either, but it's got significantly less study and anecdotal reports.)

> I am saying that there really isn't a large enough body of scientific evidence yet to conclude definitively that there are no possible mechanisms that could cause this effect, as you stated. Humans aren't uniform systems.

You're putting words in my mouth. I never said anything about there being definitively no possible mechanisms. I said there are, to my knowledge, not known pharmacological mechanisms. If you want to dispute that, you're going to need to find some known pharmacological mechanism.

> HPPD comes to mind, serotonin syndrome, all sorts of possibilities that do not necessitate it being caused by another substance.

HPPD can cause a variety of visual phenomenon. That is not the same thing as having a 3 week long headache. SS is a possibility but now you're into multi-drug interactions, and I'd argue the blame is more on the MAOI or SSRI - those things interact with everything. But even still, the majority of SS cases subside in <24 hours... and the literature isn't exactly favorable to the idea that psilocybin is even a good candidate for causing SS in these cases. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/assessing-risk-for-seroto... (Thomas has done several meta-analysis on this subject so he's about as informed on this topic as you can be.)

When something doesn't fit the current model of something, you ask questions about it - that's the starting point to pretty much any investigation. I'm unsure why you find this so egregious.
If properly funded, do you really want the USPS filtering your mail to only deliver what they think you want delivered?

Their job isn't to stop junk mail. Their job is to reliably deliver whatever mail has my address on it to my mailbox.
I have a feeling that China is very prepared to invade with extreme haste and their intelligence agencies would not let something like this go unnoticed.
i think it's true that, much of the time that you'd use a dict in python, you'd use a property in 01960s lisp, because it let you take advantage of the read-time implicit hashing of symbols; you probably only had one or two properties on most of your symbols, so getting from the interned symbol to the property was a matter of a handful of instructions---probably faster than a hash function. but conceptually i feel like they're pretty different ideas
> why would they even be companies?

Because that's what was asserted to be in this alternate timeline. An alternate-alternate timeline could have no companies, sure, but the discussion is centred around a specific alternate timeline.
3 months sounds about realistic for these kinds of changes IMO. Coincidentally, that's similar lead-time to what you seem to be giving yourselves here ;)
One of us has our geography confused, I think.
Its complicated. If you are on the very lowest rung of the industrial structure, you are probably in worst conditions that working on the family farm with the local village. Things will look better monetarily, but the overall life quality will be diminished.

There would be a point that as your wealth grows it does get better but that is depended on there being others to fill the lower rung to support that.

You aren't wrong but there is also additional nuance. Clothes for everyone on the planet is just so simple nowadays due to massive excess for instance.
Imperial wealth pumps, the drive engines of empire. There is a reason why the military is so heavily funded.
Good point; I missed that. On a second reading, I'm inclined to believe they intended the second interpretation.
The evidence pointing toward monopoly is IBM TJ Watson Research and Xerox Parc.
You and I agree fully, then. IMHO it's not too much work, at all, 400 LOC and someone else's models. Of course, as in that old saw, the art is knowing exactly those models, knowing what ONNX is, etc. etc., that's what makes it fast.

The non-sequitor is because I can't feel out what's going on from their perspective, the hedging left a huge range where they could have been saying "I saw the gpt4o demo and theres another way that lets you have more natural conversation" and "hey think like an LSTM model, like Silero, there are voice recognizers that let you magically get a state and current transcription out", or in between, "yeah in reality the models are f(audio bytes) => transcription", which appears to be closer to your position, given your "it's not a streaming model, though it can be adapted"
Is there a github?
How else do you want to define the modern GOP? Their policies and societal views are markedly different from Bush-era. It’s bewildering to think of Romney and Trump being in the same party.
An alternate-alternate timeline might have companies run by LLMs, but the alternate timeline under discussion states that the giant companies act on their own accord, with their own dollars – which, again, questions where the shareholders fit.
Enduring the misery is not even the impressive thing; that’s just the default condition of every animal on earth. What is extraordinary is that, despite their misery, somehow enough humans have managed to contribute to the incremental creation culture.
what distracts from my technical content is vacuous, aggressive replies to it by people who ask me to take responsibility for their behavior. no, thank you

to you too i ask: which of these two kinds of discourse are you engaging in right now?

if you're capable of the other one, i suggest you demonstrate that

your comment purports to be concerned with the objective qualities of mine: 'pointless', 'distracting', 'provocative'. but actually all of these terms are attempts to recast your subjective preferences as objective realities; all you're really writing about is how you feel when you read my comments. the implicit premise here is that other people ought to be writing their comments in order to satisfy your preferences

why? what makes you so admirable? what reason does anyone in the world have to value your opinion or consider your preferences important? if you want comments written to satisfy your preferences, write them yourself

as far as i can tell, like 38, gruturo, and spencerflem, you're just a person who harasses strangers on internet fora if you think they talk funny, then blames your own behavior on them

you want to know what i feel?

because it sure isn't admiration and eagerness to satisfy you

it's contempt
It’s not about gating the new feature behind a flight, but not wanting to push a new build out to the furthest deployment ring before you need to.
Because you can test the sparrows without having to raise an infant on the site. If you can demonstrate areas that are unsafe or illegal to raise children in, then perhaps people won't raise children there (or not, given we already know these mining towns are toxic and children raised in them will be victims of lead poisoning to various degrees). The reason they are testing children in the article is to confirm that the sparrow test is a valid proxy, and we will be able to test on a wider scale around the country.
We individual employees had little control over stock and I don't remember anybody being particularly delighted when Patrick left and Ruth took over, despite the stock going up up up. I don't think our GSUs were influencing work decisions on aggregate.

What was influencing decisions was just the same as always: ad revenue. I think people who worked outside of ads at Google probably didn't get the sense of it. I came into Google as part of a competition crushing, monopoly focused acquisition, so I started off cynical. I could see right away what Google was, just a money printing machine with everything else they did a way to flush some of the excess gravy away. And because of that it all lacked purpose or real motivation.

And into that void just crept more and more careerism and empire building.

Agree about the ADD thing, but I think it's more a product of Perf economy than stock price.

I lasted there 10 years for lack of anything else worthwhile to go to in my geo-region, and because the money was too good to pass up. But what a weird, weird, weird place. Wandering around the MTV campus was like being in a real life Elysium (movie) or something. I could never figure out what all those people were doing between free meals. I felt guilty taking the money, the whole time.
Sorry we all know the real inventor of the Ball point pen. From Black Adder Back & Forth. ;)

Blackadder: Well, this is the title page for Macbeth, signed by Shakespeare himself.

[The guests look at Blackadder like he's grown a second head]

Melchett: No, no, wait, you all remember Shakespeare. He's the fellow who invented the ballpoint pen!

Blackadder: Well, I might have affected one or two things,
Learning about the curse of lisp is always an eye opening point in one’s career
There has always been a lot of good research happening in MS, but what we see as end-users are Recall, and the latest Bing news in Edge. Seriously, who are the PMs that allow this cr*p?!?
The Constitution was never intended to spell out all laws of the country. It's a framework for how our government should work and a list of fundamental rights that should be protected at all costs.

The second amendment doesn't define "arms" because (a) at the time there wasn't much ambiguity there and (b) "arms" isn't actually the most important concept there. The second amendment enshrines the right for citizens to be able to stand up militias and defend themselves. The US didn't have a standing army until WW2, despite Alexander Hamilton's opinions on the matter. The second amendment was put in place because colonists lived under the thumb of a monarch and at the end of an army's barrel with nothing guaranteeing the people a right to defend themselves, their neighbors, or their fellow colonists (eventually countrymen).
It's actually the reverse, to my understanding. Serverless is great for low utilization projects. Then cloud servers like EC2. Then those old school hosts with cPanel. Then running everything from your own physical servers, setting up your own backup diesel generators, putting a server in Antarctica, etc, etc.

As tech progresses, it makes the abstraction levels better for those who need less power.
Frontier Airlines is dead in the water...

>Our systems are currently impacted by a Microsoft outage, which is also affecting other companies. During this time booking, check-in, access to your boarding pass, and some flights may be impacted. We appreciate your patience.
Because the point of cache is to save time, not waste it. Like most naïve delays in response to timing attacks, that also doesn’t solve the tracking problem – if there’s any detectable difference (consider a cross-site tracking server that serves the content with a controllable delay) under any circumstances (consider network and disk load and availability), the mitigation is defeated.

Sites don’t share that many resources byte-for-byte anyway. The current solution is fine.
This is meant in jest, of course.
yes, give it a try and try to get past the first few chapters. The first time I read it, the world building almost put me to sleep. Somehow I decided to give it another try on a long flight, and this time I grok'd the world building, and thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through to the end.
They intentionally shared data with "certain companies" that then shared it with meta etc. Let's be even more honest.
There seems to be some amnesia about the sort of company AT&T was. AT&T was first and foremost a profit maximizer. They were the poster child for abusive monopolies. Remember until the 1980s, literally no one owned a phone. All hardware that connected to a phone line was owned by ATT.
I also wish there were ways to publicly acknowledge (and hopefully support) those who spend years of their lives working towards PhDs they never finish. For many it is a deeply private loss, with so few people knowing what happened and even fewer understanding the biting sense of personal failure you can feel.

I never made any sort of announcement when I left, and so had very little closure. Graduate school just ended and just trying to survive demanded my full attention in other areas. All I have left now is my unfinished dissertation, complete with the acknowledgement section I wrote.

It reads like a eulogy to a life I never had, to the shattered dreams I left behind, and to the naivete of my younger self. Perhaps there is some poetic value in there, but no one but myself will ever read it now. When it finally disappears it will, appropriately, be in a manner similar to how my failed PhD ended, with no one noticing and no one mourning its passing.
In Australia, they are an invasive species. They are now endemic, out competing native species across the continent.
I usually tell the model that I will be testing its reasoning capabilities by describing a scenario and then asking questions about the evolving scenario.

I typically give it a description of a limited environment with objects in it, and say that “we “ are in this environment. I then describe actions that I take within the environment and ask questions about the updated world-state that must be inferred from the actions. This tests a lot of “common sense” reasoning skills, which I find to be more important for real world tasks than logic puzzle type reasoning.
Ah, well, if it's written in a FAQ, then the most naive interpretation of the sentence must be true. No way they'd just lie or pull off a "trickster genie" interpretation of that sentence.
Seg fault, I guess? It’s been a while.
Re: mic, alas, no, BigCo kinda sucked, I had to go way out of my way to get work on interesting stuff, it never mattered, and even when you did, you never got over the immediate wall of your own org, except for brief moments. i.e. never ever had anyone even close to knowing anything about the microphones we'd be using, they were shocked to hear what AEC was, even when what we were working on was a marketing tentpole for Pixel. Funny place.

I'm really glad you saw this. So, so, so much time and hope was wasted there on the Nth team of XX people saying "how hard can it be? given physics and a lil ML, we can do $X", and inevitably reality was far more complicated, and it's important to me to talk about it so other people get a sense it's not them, it's the problem. Even unlimited resources and your Nth fresh try can fail.

FWIW my mind's been grinding on how I'd get my little Silero x Whisper gAssistant on device replica pulling off something akin to the gpt4o demo. I keep coming back to speaker ID: replace Silero with some newer models I'm seeing hit ONNX. Super handwave-y, but I can't help thinking this does an end-around both AEC being shit on presumably most non-Apple devices, and poor interactions from trying to juggle two things operating differently (VAD and AEC). """Just""" detect when there's >= 2 simultaneous speakers with > 20% confidence --- of course, tons of bits missing from there, ideally you'd be resilient to ex. TV in background. Sigh. Tough problems.
This is very warming :)
Domain Modeling Made Functional [0] by Scott Wlaschin

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB1_e5wZmU
An engineer on the Search team at Google designed some novel way to serialize parts of the search index so that it could be updated more easily.
Q: is hallucination a milestone towards consciousness?

Given how inevitable it is, it seems to me that it might be.
Show HN: ChatGPT Chrome Extension to Keep Temporary Chat Enabled
I had some smartphone, I think a Motorola, with a plastic screen instead of glass. Never shattered on me, but took scratches very easily. I think it may have died when it was dropped in a toilet? IDK, been a while, I think it was before nearly universal IPS waterproofing on phones.
Robots. I think humanity needs that something will do non-intellectual work for us, like cleaning and etc. This I think will increase humanity happiness more than something doing intellectual work.
A Nostalgic Look at a Kid's Shortwave Receiver
I’ve written an in depth article about nonlinear least squares fitting from a Bayesian perspective. In there, I derive the best fit parameters, their covariance, and credible bands around the best fit model from scratch. I am using only elementary linear algebra and calculus. I also try to shine a light on the influence of priors.

None of this is rocket science or novel, but I still feel there’s value to this, since it helps to understand what the method of least squares means from a Bayesian POV.
The sheer logistics of a large scale mobilization means that its obvious weeks and even months in advance. Moving troops, equipment and ammunition to staging areas etc. Even just preparing transports shows up.

Think back to the weeks before the Ukrainian invasion. It's kinda hard to hide it.
Yes, if everyone isn't involved in arriving at the decision about what is fair, they won't feel that it's fair even if you come up with some brilliant objective measurement of contribution impact.
Ruby methods are colorless
Of course there are plenty of self-hosting options if you want that responsibility, but a very rare outage of CI/CD doesn't seem like something that's worth spending resources planning around. On the scale of possible disruptions, it's pretty minor.
Condo prices at SF's beleaguered Millennium Tower drop to as low as $649,000
> The truth is that every now has been the peak so far, so his words apply to all points in time.

That's a very strong statement and I have some doubts. There were periods of relative calm abd prosperity, then hit by plague (killed of one third of Europe's population in 2 decades), famines, little ice age, decades long wars etc. where it seems absurd to claim that now is better than before.
> Microsoft, Google or even OpenAI today.

Probably an unrelated question, but why the "or even" caveat for OpenAI? They claimed to be an open non-profit, cynicism seems warranted at a level even moreso than Microsoft and Google.
What’s a non-statistical language model?

And I think looking to the training data for sources is a little silly - that’s the training data for intuitive language use, not true statements about the world. If you haven’t checked it out yet, two terms you’d love are “RAG” and “Manuel De Landa”
> I know that prison is meant to be punishment

That’s one purpose, but for the many people not in for life, rehabilitation (or the less controversial: prepare for re-entry into society) has to be at least some component of their purpose, and on this metric the things they do seem to be massively counterproductive.
I doubt bananas have changed much in the last 15 months.
Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
So true about the endings! And he's actually aware of it.

Well, I'm reasonably happy with all of my endings, but I know that some people feel differently. But as you've noticed, they're different, it's not always the same thing. All I can say is different books end in different ways, and different people have different tastes in what they want to see. I'm well aware that there are certain people frustrated with the endings of some of my books. But I also think that it's one of these things where people's preconceived ideas sometimes drive the way they perceive things. ...

So I think that my experience is that once you've written a book with a controversial ending and that meme gets going of Stephenson can't write endings, then that gets slapped on to everything you do, no matter how elaborate the ending is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=654s
How would confidence scores work? Multiple passthroughs and a % attached to each statement according to how often it appeared in the generated result?

If so, building this could be quite complex depending on the domain. In the legal field even one simple word that is changed can have large consequences.
Yes, I know that `Gen` in QuickCheck is a Monad. What I am saying is `Arbitrary` isn't a Monad.

I know, Arbitrary technically can't be a Monad, because the kinds are wrong. But I mean 'morally': you can fmap the generation process, but you can't fmap the shrinking. Exactly because generation and shrinking are separated; and shrinking is driven purely by the value and type of the generated item, but has no access to any information about the generation process.

> But in general, I would be surprised if such ‘functional’ APIs (map, filter, reduce, bind, etc.) could not be ported to Haskell.

Yes, have a look at the Jack library I already linked to.
I rarely see EBS in use. Why do you think it is not more widely used?
Vegan brain fog?

What now?

https://animals.mom.com/kingdom-animalia-1131.html

So every year a quarter of all animals die?

Where are you getting your information?
Sure, but the answer they gave to this reporter was the same usual corporate garbage response that included "we need analytics to market our products" (???)

I think it's fucked up that any agency is "marketing products" at all, but inasmuch as this is necessary in some way, surely they don't need the kind of surveillance marketing that's questionably even worth it for corporate advertisers to use. It literally reads like a google or facebook lawyer wrote it
So, take some mushrooms from a guy, lie down on the couch, and tell him about your mother.
Looks like there is now a confirmation[0] that it was an Android phone.

0. https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/18/trump-shooter-android-phone-c...
Mathstral: 7B LLM designed for math reasoning and scientific discovery
That is RNNs. LLMs (usually transformers) are non-markovian.
To hijack this, I am with Koodo for $34 / 80 gb, calling and texting to the US and something like 18 other countries. You can get plans like this by watching the Red Flag Deals “Hot Deals” forum (RSS feed for the win), and waiting to Black Friday.
I read an interview with a prison warden. When asked what he wished the public knew better he said he wished people understood that almost all of his prisoners were going to be released at some point.

Ex-gf of mine was a clinical psychologist who deal with marginal people including prisoners. She said a lot of people in jail and prison have mental health problems. And jail and prison makes those worse.
There’s a non-zero risk in every action taken.

You may choke and die when swallowing a pill. Hit by a bus on your way to the doctor.

Every approved vaccine poses a much, much lower risk than the disease it prevents.

Warning about vaccine risks is at the very least a logical fallacy and most likely a hidden, eerie superstitious agenda.
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