skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this analysis is misguided.

Even considering a historic bias for counter-intuitive results in social science, this has no bearing on the results of the paper being discussed. Most of the survey experiments that the researchers used in their analyses came from TESS, an NSF-funded program that collects well-powered nationally representative samples for researchers. A key thing to note here is that not every study from TESS gets published. Of course, some do, but the researchers find that GPT4 can predict the results of both published and unpublished studies at a similar rate of accuracy (r = 0.85 for published studies and r = 0.90 for unpublished studies). Also, given that the majority of these studies 1) were pre-registered (even pre-registering sample size), 2) had their data collected through TESS (an independent survey vendor), and 3) well-powered + nationally-representative, makes it extremely unlikely for them to have been p-hacked. Therefore, regardless of what the researchers hypothesized, TESS still collected the data and the data is of the highest quality within social science.

Moreover, the researchers don't just look at psychology or sociology studies, there are studies from other fields like political science and social policy, for example, so your critiques about psychology don't apply to all the survey experiments.

Lastly, the study also includes a number of large-scale behavioral field experiments and finds that GPT4 can accurately predict the results of these field experiments, even when the dependent variable is a behavioral metric and not just a text-based response (e.g., figuring out which text messages encourage greater gym attendance). It's hard for me to see how your critique works in light of this fact also.
> these "human interest" pieces casually begin to appear, surreptitiously stoking anti-immigrant sentiments

You don't usually see complaints about the right-wing bias of The Atlantic...
There’s no reason pharma research should be for profit. The researchers aren’t doing it for profit, they would do it either way, the only thing private pharma brings to the table is price gouging.
Does everyone in that supermajority have equal influence on their respective representatives?
A world without death would be the worst nightmare I can imagine.
Yes, there is HTTP Encrypted Content-Encoding (RFC 8188) which is used for Web Push that solves this exact problem.
Awesome. I checked it out and forwarded it to my team. However their feedback back that since we already use chargebee for subscription management, this might add little value for our usecase. This requires the management of when to start the cycle, when to subtract credits, how much of credits to subtract at our end itself. Added info if required to be extracted will need to be passed on via apis - which might add more work to implement this. Thought i'll share the feedback so that you can think in this direction in the future. All the best!
that's cool. All the best
Yes it does.

That ircd servers in the example above can still be used with a bot as an automation tool (at that point as the only survivor the security would be the least of your concerns), as a way to invent imaginary friends to pretend your life is less miserable, whatever.

Or say you have a mastodon or pixelfed instance. Sure no other instance will ever connect and no other user will ever be able to see your posts...but you. Which could include some fond memories you want to keep.
What's Putin got to do with the Americans going all ballistic against Chavez back in the day? It's all on them, on the Americans, and on the Monroe doctrine.
Codename for the project: Wrecks.

Good dog. Now stop chasing the mechas before you get hurt.
It was useful during WebGPU development [1] given that some topics were very nuanced in debate.

[1] https://github.com/kvark/webgpu-debate
You’re saying this ironically but yes, I would. If there was an accepted living standard and every job paid according to that that would be amazing.
The only reason I no longer use my craptops from 2010, is that they died.

For the kind of stuff I do at home outside work, even programming, there were perfectly fine, and had they not died, I would still be using them.
Tax exempt non-profit is what i meant. It insinuates to exist for public interest, not profit.
Usually a foundation.
Why would dangerous activities be discouraged more then they already are?
It's fascinating to learn that bacteria can thrive in such an extreme environment, but it also raises concerns about potential health risks, especially in shared spaces where microwave cleaning is often neglected.

How often do you think microwaves should be cleaned to effectively minimize bacterial growth, and what cleaning methods do you find most effective in ensuring they stay hygienic?
An engineer is just a distinction to separate practitioners from people who develop the actual science that engineers depend on. For example, do American engineers who work on food or cosmetics have safety or quality mechanisms? Food and cosmetics are things applied to the body, and thus have a more direct relationship to biological safety or harm. Using science is not the reason why people should face regulations. Some engineers work on legos. Other engineers work for the armed forces.

The Crowdstrike incident is worth billions and people may have died. If you look to the engineer you won't be able to recover billions. Hospitals must absolutely be on the hook as they are the direct interface to their customers; hospitals in turn can sue Crowdstrike.

An event worth billions must have billions in liability in order to prevent perverse incentives. Otherwise hospitals will just say "well McKinsey said it was a good bet, so what gives?"
I think it's a management strategy to keep developers under constant pressure with feet close to the fire. There is always something to do, report, meet, discuss in a formalized way, damn everything else. Even if you didn't do much this week you still have to report something. Do this two weeks in a row and your already on the naughty list. Doesn't matter if your tenure was stellar so far.

In my experience the only ones loving it are of course management, and highly vocal and relatively young developers who seek refuge in arbitrary procedures and fake structure.

As others said, it's also a way to try to treat developers as assembly line workers, which can be replaced at any time. Doctors or lawyers have no such thing. Nor any other engineering profession that I know of.

Software development is a realm of snake oil salesman, move fast - break things philosophy, and no unions. So no wonder we get this kind of crap shoved down our throats. And just like with any mass of people, a certain percentage will absolutely adore it.
> “GPT said people would hate buses, so we halved their number and slashed transportation budget… Wow, do our people actually hate buses with passion!”

You jest, but if you don't mind me going off on a tangent, this reminds me how in the summer 2020 post-lockdown-period the local authorities of Barcelona decided that to reduce the spread of COVID they had to discourage out-of-town people going to the city for nightlife... so they halved the number of night buses connecting Barcelona with nearby towns. Because, of course, making twice the number of people congregate at bus stops and making night buses even more crammed was a great way to reduce contagion. Also, as everybody knows, people's decision whether or not to party in town on a Friday night is naturally contingent on the purely rational analysis as to the number of available buses to get home afterwards.
That's the idea behind marketing campaigns like "healthspan". It's a trade-off. It's very easy to get dragged into a pivot that focuses on one specific condition rather than mortality and age-related degeneration in general.
The returned craft is going to be hard to reassemble from the pieces scattered across the surface of the planet, whether there were people in it or not.
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10,000 years could be good, especially if you still get to choose to get out if you change mind.
Their "consensus" protocol is an http call to their severs to download a json file of "trusted" servers?

That's two layers of "trust us"!
Speak for yourself. I prefer to live forever (assuming healthy), thank you.
This comment thread is about gun violence
Can anybody explain why an IBM server can be affected by a Microsoft Windows crash? Why did the IBM server need restoring from backup?

Also, wouldn't that contractually be IBM's issue to solve?
There is also a risk with Dragon, just estimated to be lower. But both are still space capsules, there is a risk involved with both.
> In some ways, Starliner is being held to a higher standard than Dragon Crew-2

Maybe. I don't believe that's true, but let's assume it is.

They SHOULD be held to a higher standard. Of the 16 US astronauts that have died in the space program, 14 died on the shuttle which was Boeing. That, coupled with Boeings recent deterioration and demonstrated disregard for human life, makes it clear that Boeing needs to be kept on a short leash.
Or just use the reader mode in Safari.
Languages having discrete barriers is a more-or-less modern concept. If you go back in time, basically every town will have a slightly different accent then their neighbor, but if you travel through enough towns eventually you'll find the language completely unintelligible. Like a spatial ship-of-theseus.
Linux is great as long as you aren't expecting it to be "Free Windows" (as so many folks do; It's not by a long-shot; It's an entirely different animal altogether). Embrace the idea that it's gonna be somewhat different, as a fair few of those differences are actually significant improvements over the way Windows often does things. I ditched Windows back in the Win7 days, and haven't regretted it one little bit. Microsoft doesn't own my computer. I do. ;)
Careful doing this as there's a risk of falling in love, as per this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/style/modern-love-to-fall...
There are some browsers that support multiple rendering engines out of the box, like Maxthon (Blink + Trident) and Lunascape (Blink + Gecko + Trident).
It would have taken me twice as long to build in JS and had a lot more bugs.

I still build things in JS but I probably wouldn't build a substantial app using it today.
Just to make a small note: most martial arts are not in any way dangerous. I think crossfit has more chances to mess someone up than practicing a martial art.
The rules are designed as such so that "well meaning" and well-thinking individuals such as yourself can provide an aura of protection over their actions, and "technically" be right. But in practice, the debate is definitely stifled in one direction.

Just look at the list of "notable Twitter bans", and you'll see a pattern. Among the clear "incitement of violence" and bot-accounts, there is a huge pattern of "we got banned and we don't know why, but we're vocal about X,Y,Z". One has to read between the lines. I'd be all for your argument and with you if we could have a clean-room look at the Twitter data to confirm, but we don't have that. Where is the twitter ban dataset that we can all have a look at?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

Unfortunately, your beliefs align with that of the oppressor's side, so you don't see these and it'll be uncomfortable for you to go out on a limb. You think the system is "working as expected" and "they're only banning you if you target specific people".
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I did not address environmentalism in my comment. I agree this is worse for the environment, at least, on it's own.

However, I am somebody who rides a bike 20x as much as I use a car, when in Europe. That's what happens when your commute, supermarket, gym are all enroute. I mean that's more the vision I care about than this device. But I know just as this device is disliked for greenwashing, car users in the US admonish that I cycle and dare to try so in the US.

I just do believe it is possible. The reason people in europe do not let go of cars, is in a major part because of the need for journeys of 50-150 miles, like this vechile would do. You see, under 50, you can just about afford an uber. Over 50, not really. Without a car you are limited to cities with trains for the most part in most of europe. Maybe this could displace that. Those 50-150 mile journeys are very rare. But because of them, people own cars and use them for shorter journeys.

I flat out disagree with your argument on transportation. I think you imagine several spots in distant disconnected areas of Arizona or Nevada - that's not what I mean. I mean more the east and west coast, the northern states. Transportation does not increase with more equal distribution of people at different locations, because they would become hubs as people moved to them and decreasing (car) populations of current cities could actually decrease transport times there alongside with pollution. Yes it would potentially be bad for the biosphere and natural diversity. But for the human experience. For Quality of life. To create more self-sustaining locations, with their own beauty spots. To be healthier most of the time we use transport. I know the argument can be made as you have that concentration is an economy of scale, well it is to a point, but such level off before 100k people don't they?(besides arguably economic capital reasons). And that's what I'm advocating for, more places with 100k people, less with 10 million.

I don't know. I've lived in a tight small city with insane rent and people there were not happy. Great if you are college age or to get into the corporate world. Horrible for people. Nearby Attractions 3x as busy as they were 10 years ago, while others, as beautiful, remain largely unknown. More pollution and cars.

Then I have lived in small european cities where everybody cycles and uses trains for distance by and large. It seemed a lot happier. It seemed a lot cleaner.
https://kialo.com also works this way
Studied and found to be non-damaging, or just studied and sucks to be them?
> In machine learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a technique to align an intelligent agent to human preferences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_...
It's unlikely to actually fail, just not unlikely enough to send the astronauts in.
Is this assuming, that Covid was lab made? Since I have not seen or read about proof of that theory, this comes across a bit like conspiracy theory.
> I am so incredibly envious of the future humans that will live in a world without death.

There will never be a world without death. Not, unless you have a way to reverse the laws of thermodynamics, on a universe scale. Only world where people die later.

Also, keep in mind, your most disliked people will probably remain in power for longer. Next, Putin or Xi will remain in power for centuries.
Citation needed on "the researchers aren't doing it for profit". All drug companies have a bunch of them, more than wall street types running around. Most of them enrich themselves with biotech stock bets, insider trading, regulatory capture of national agencies etc. Why do you think somehow people that go into pharma research are different from people in any other industry?

Look, random example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10370755/ - explain why if they are not motivated by profit, how is it possible that the outcome of this paper happens?

If you speak to anyone in the field, their goal to get to a point where you having a patent or two giving you a passive income stream. You can't do it if you just public domain your work.
the jury is still out on whether COVID originated from a lab. it seems very possible, but there is still little evidence that proves it was created in a lab.
What's the pathway you're thinking in this effort? I had a similar plan I envisioned in my early 20s, which led me to become an engineer. I'll be ready to go down the same path pretty soon, would love to chat with more people in a similar mindset. Email in the profile if anyone wants to talk more about this.
You understand that those "lessons" are nothing but texts invented by someone just like ourselves?

Most people try in their own way to achieve immortality by being nice to others, staying active and healthy and trying to die as late as possible.
It would be much nicer if screen recording permissions does not need the application to be restarted. Then they could even ask the screen recording permissions for every specific instance if they wanted.
> One scammer operating a monetary ponzi scheme is suing another scammer for taking advantage of the ponzi to scam other people

That's an old argument, best summarized as "when it comes to milking the masses, the government does not like competition"
As a gigantic blender fan: Its video editor is not nearly user-friendly enough. Most of blender these days is a real treat to use, but the video editor is still somewhat rudimentary.
My free account has memory. Do most not?
DisplayLink (that allows to add more external displays than what Apple allows) relies on the screen recording feature. I think it creates virtual displays, captures and pipe them to the connected monitors.

It's going to be very annoying if I have to grant it permission on a weekly basis
Boeing didn't make the space shuttle.
You have two choices, one has a risk of 15 units, one has a risk of 3 units.

The outcome is the same.

You go for the risk of 3 units.

As Kirk says, "risk is our business". Doesn't mean you don't need to minimise the risk to achieve the goal. The goal here is

1) Return the crew

2) Return the capsule and gather more data

If those goals can be achieved with less by bringing the crew back on dragon, then that's a sensible move.
The name took me back to a video chat programme I remember using with my friends in the very early 2000s called Eyeball Chat.
In the press conference, they said the collision risk can be avoided by undocking the Starliner and then letting it float away to a safe distance before starting up the thrusters.
Thanks for showing me the light. Your thorough and convincing argument made me see the error of my ways.
Holler if you want some help, lol. I like that.
I did, too. And it haunted me until my fourties.

And still I'm fine with it today.
I was going to add that when my father, from Fife on the east coast to Scotland, went to Iceland he was very interested to find out that he could understand many of the place names.

He didn't speak a different language, but had quite a strong accent and also quite a lot of different words. [edit to clarify compared to me born & bred in England]

The main example he used was Kirkjubæjarklaustur which translates as "church farm cloister".

However looking it up this morning adds more depth to the history of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkjub%C3%A6jarklaustur#

> Even before the time of the first Norse settlement in Iceland, Irish monks are thought to have lived here. Since 1186, a well known convent of Benedictine nuns, Kirkjubæjar Abbey, was located in Kirkjubæjarklaustur, until the Reformation in 1550.
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International Space Station so why not charter a Soyuz?
> In 2021 Russian state-owned news service TASS published accusations from an anonymous source

Ah yes, because TASS has a very long track record of being a reliable and objective source
yes, And this is why it's so frustrating the police don't just setup a few honeypots and catch those 50 people. Sooooooo many citizens would be helped, neighborhoods too, ...
the good: lots of trees and lakes. the bad: depressive winters
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It's like "angle of attack" in a wing (funnily enough, given the topic).

Increasing it works up to a point (increasing lift) but at the cost of increased drag and, at a certain point, a stall. I've found myself, at different points, "coasting" (gliding) and "stalling" (pulling up too hard when I'm not in the right conditions). Long-term burnout is like being "behind the power curve" and gradually losing energy.
You know, someone can also capture your face while you just walking on the street?

Given, the different people require different levels of privacy.
They would end up landing in Russia; with tensions between Russia and the west rising (i.e. the US supplying weapons to the country Russia is at war with at the moment), this isn't ideal.

I mean it's an option for sure and in case of emergency it won't really matter whose return pods they use, but it seems they prefer not to.
But then what name would they use for tuples, which are distinct from records?
While I don't disagree with you, I think it's important to point out that 3 american astronauts died during the Apollo 1 ground test.
Real life accounts always say otherwise. Death is a limited liability card that people can use to commit anything.

People who commit injustices, even today, are often confident enough that they will be in a position to kill themselves before suffering at hands of others.
Or just a small wind turbine with resistive heating; it's not like Scotland lacks wind. I imagine they didn't use PV because

1) Scotland doesn't get much sun,

2) it'd get nicked by the first viking that came along, and

3) if they put it on the roof then it'd be a nightmare replacing the thatch.

=p
Proper type aliases would be nice, but I have to say I really enjoy coding C# these days.
Consider this, those that command most resources will be able to get this tech, not you. This isn't everyone gets an iPhone. It's the richest get the best health insurance.
I’ve tried using Linux for my office job. The distro itself isn’t even relevant. They all work nice.

The one thing however that ruins it is the lack of a fully compatible office suite.

Compatible wit MS office that is.

I’ve tried a few creations but they always fall short.
And in all fairness that’s mostly due to MS and not the others but it’s an issue…

The apple office suit is even worse then the foss things i must add.
If you saturate the submission queue with CPU-bottlenecked tasks, it defeats the value-add of io_uring - at that point, you might as well replace your kernel-space thread pool with a user-space one.
Somehow using Terry Davis as the top-end of your scale is quite funny, but I suppose accurate.
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"Stuff" can happen in the unlikeliest places if it can make a difference, see e.g. the NYT's treatment of Hillary's campaign.
No, no, oh God please nooooo.
People will use this tool for their listings on real-estate classifieds portals like Zillow.

The real estate listed there is never a bespoke design for you and your family. In some locations, there are plenty of affordable homes so you actually can choose one with the layout nearest to your goals.

In the most cases though, affordable homes are rare so people don't really care about the current layout: they will buy any home and remodel it in according to their tastes.

To estimate the remodeling costs, it is better to work with the bare, empty layout plans, not cluttered with furniture and 3D effects, and having all measures specified.