skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Killing another human IS never justified. You’re not a judge, jury or executioner. It should never, ever be up to one person to decide if someone else should live or die. Especially not in the heat of the moment."

The courts find justifiable homicides often. Statute, code, and case law even define specific instances when it is justified. That's not one person, but many creating those. The only person who can make a decision in the moment is the person who is there. They have to live with that decision, but nobody else can make it for them.

"In your remote area hypothetical, a rifle would be the appropriate tool."

Not really. Handguns are the prevailing tool of choice due to the ease of carrying them while performing other tasks. Sure, rifles and shotguns are better choices for hunting, but get burdensome if fishing, foraging, working, etc.

"I was very specifically talking about handguns, which are most frequently used to kill the person holding it[0][1], and it’s getting worse[2], hence the Red Flag laws that started this entire thread."

They might be the tool of choice for suicides, and that suicides are more common than homicides. However, that has nothing to do with their "most frequent use". There are plenty of uses that don't result in death. If you only focus on the negatives, then your perspective will be skewed and you can come to a valid value proposition. The numbers have been trending down and have only ticked up slightly. Your argument also assumes that suicide is always wrong. Most of the people I know who committed suicide did so because they had terminal dementias. Perhaps it's not as big of a problem as the gross numbers suggest if we dive into it deeper. There are also stats out there that show defensive gun use us more common that firearm injuries.

Finally, red flag laws are not primarily about preventing suicide. Existing laws about involuntary commitment better handle it because they offer actual help whereas red flag laws take away only one of many methods of suicide and don't offer any real help. They were primarily created to prevent mass shootings by creating a a version of existing protection from abuse orders that didn't require domestic or family relations.
Yes, you’re absolutely correct.
I guess you have a hard time making friends, don't you?
FWIW, if you happen to be based in the U.S., you might find that your local public library provides 3-day NYT subscriptions free of charge, which whilst annoying is probably easier than fighting the paywall. Of course this only applies to the NYT.
I don't think this will work reliably as other commenters pointed out. A better solution could be to pass the URL through an archiver, such as archive.today:

https://archive.is/20240719082825/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Not if we have grid scale batteries. Solar shuts off, oh no. Sometime in the next four hours we need to get that fixed or something else up. Also flattens out the demand curve and allows arbitrage between the peak and valley.
> That particular right to flexible mistakes applies only to him.

Not true.

Source: worked for Zuck.
Typo: “meats the eye”
Cs2-skinchanger：change the Counter-Strike 2 weapons and equipment with a click
> But if the content is worth your time and energy to consume, pay the "price" of admission.

This assumes that the "time and energy to consume" is equivalent to the "price". What if it is worth the time to install 12ft or whatever, but not worth the price they want to charge?
Lessons Learned from 2 Decades of Building Data Infra Products [video]
How much ricing have you done of the default config? Lazy loading of plugins is enabled by default— you shouldn't have to do anything. LazyVim handles lazy loading automatically; you don't need to manually configure anything. It should look like this:

-- lazy.nvim configuration example
require('lazy').setup({
defaults = {
lazy = true, -- default to lazy loading
-- other default options
},
plugins = {
{ 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig' },
{ 'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp' },
-- ... other plugins
}
})
Analyzing the Stock Market: Add up-to-date market data to LLMs
> Killing another human IS never justified.

The logical conclusion from this is that if someone is going to kill you, and you have the option to stop them via possible-fatal means, you have to let them kill you. I don't think most people agree with this ideology, or that it's compatible with...any of the common systems of morality.

> It should never, ever be up to one person to decide if someone else should live or die.

This is inconsistent with reality. Criminals don't adhere to this belief, and so it doesn't work for anyone who might be attacked by a criminal, either.
I look at my own music tastes as roughly two levels. One level is whether I objectively like the music. The other level is what I'm in the mood to listen to. I can definitely not be in the mood to listen to some music I really enjoy. But there is also music I will never enjoy no matter the mood. I don't think a recommendation system will work very well if it conflates those two levels.
But it’s now spread across many, many more missions. People sometimes forget that human exploration is just one of multiple directorates within NASA.
When I see “AI” in the product description of something I’m almost immediately turned off. It’s plastered everywhere for most tech companies now and doesn’t mean anything practically, despite trying to sound like a differentiator.
I’m seeing a lot of meh products that take like 4 units of effort to integrate. I think multiple LLMs, deeply integrated into a cohesive product with 100+ effort units, that can be great. An AI that’s familiar with the use of every settings menu on windows would be awesome
I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

The one part of your comment though I do have further questions about is:

> I want other professors to find the book useful for courses they teach, and providing problems without solutions that can be graded for credit is also important.

I would imagine if a professor could answer the problems in your book correctly without needing the solutions, then I would imagine said professors are also perfectly capable of creating their own problems with solutions. I imagine many professors probably do use the problems in back of the book for assignments, and I feel like that says a lot about the state of mathematical education.

However, I do appreciate all the effort you have put in to this textbook. I will most definitely be using it in the very near future, and I think your book is the one I am going to start with. It takes a pretty selfless person to release something of this value for free, so thank you very much.
I take issue with these because they're really just doing an endrun around labor law:

- you're going to be treated like an employee, because that's the plan, and I'd wager many Contract-to-Hire setups would fail the government's "20 Factor Test"[1]: Level of instruction, degree of integration, demands for full-time work...

- I've yet to see a non-VP+ level contract with severability clauses that require contractual compensation, i.e. most contracts are "severable without notice", no different to "At Will"

Indeed, the practical side effect of this is "We're going to hire you and we get to avoid paying you benefits for an extended period of time (the contract duration)."

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/oda/shared/Documents/Publications/Nat...
Antitrust kicks in exactly in cases like this: using your moat in one market (search) to win another market (AI)
I had already forgotten about the blockchain
But this is like companies forcing self-checkout at retail. Companies get to cheap out on their customer support by paying a monthly fee instead of paying a person to do it. It doesn't matter if it's worse for you, as every business is getting sold on using this technology.

You misery and wasted time is their improved stock price and bonus package.
Ever since Windows 98, Internet Explorer being deeply integrated into the OS itself leading to antitrust law. What if someone strips that "cancer" from the best version of Windows.

Yes, I'm not joking. It just an experimental mod I made out of boredom, and it's not just an Internet Explorer core removal ISO made (it still uses some IE stuff).
It does some stuff such as using few features from NT 4.0 with Windows XP resources like icons, and keeps Windows XP features. Windows XP explorer.exe is replaced with Windows NT 4.0 counterpart but uses shell32.dll from Windows NT 4.0 but with icons from Windows XP.
I'm very thrown by the "hidden Buy box" argument. I thought Amazon did that on purpose to hide overpriced items from the wild west that is Amazon's marketplace/sellers. So a t-shirt for $100 gets no Buy box because it's overpriced.

The video argues that this creates a monopoly.
All personal property should have adequate protections from seizures. We shouldn't be side stepping protections by moving things to the civil system to avoid the protections in the criminal system. It shouldn't be easier to side step the protections guaranteed as rights just because something seems scary. You've admitted it's fine to strip innocent people of their rights to protect society, and the numbers show that most red flag laws have not been successful and overwhelmingly impact people who pose no threat.

If believing in basic protections and rights is too narrow a view, I'm happy to say that I support that narrow view.
The article just rips into the deep details without even telling me what the design code is. Great.
hi! i used the average accuracy over the entire dataset made originally made by the llm
> general killing or potential killing is the purpose

I'd like to emphasize the "potential" here even more - one of the greatest uses of guns is as as a deterrent, and this is worth differentiating from actually killing.

People who claim that the only use for a gun is to kill are factually wrong, and you can point this out.
What mess, exactly? Like the parent said, contractor or FTE, you're almost certainly at the mercy of "the company may terminate the agreement with immediate effect for any or no disclosed reason".

More accurate: "They can hire you a contractor for 3-12 months and not have to pay you benefits for that period."
I guess he was not a regular employee. If you see the opportunity and growth potential, why not try to put in work if your life circumstances allow it.
Today it is the same thing (part of an 811 call). In the distant past, it was a separate call.

Around 2000 land owners are affected, and anecdoctally it seems to add a few days to a 811 response (~a week instead of 2-3 days).
Never used fractions or ChainMap. Good to know they're there for when I need to chain map stuff.
> I've never seen any place with these kinds of deviant methods and process end up be a remotely successful company or an actual good employer.

What other employer do you know what does this?
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is today.
Be super hilarious, and a heck of an eye opener, if he got in and there was major improvement in the city. Also he should rebase on Llama 3.1 so nobody can shut him down. Really love to see this pan out as it's definitely in our future IMO.
I tried netboot once, and lost interest when it took minutes to download an ISO over cable internet (DSL would be even worse) every singe time I tried booting into a live distro while debugging things. It's faster to download the ISOs I need ahead of time, save them on a Ventoy drive, and boot (and reboot) into each one in seconds.
I think he was arguing that if programming consists of symbol manipulation and proofs, the task of writing proofs for large programs consists of a lot more symbol manipulation (although probably a lot more tedious in nature) than many proofs written by mathematicians in the past, something made worse by the need to precisely describe each step so that a machine could conceivably execute it instead of being able to skip over proof steps considered “obvious” to a human mathematician.

I think he was especially thinking of mathematical logic - he referred to programming as Very Large Scale Application of Logic several times in his writing.
I have tried NAM but with limited success in modeling some time-based effects (e.g. octave shifting). However, I have not tried to model reverb effects.
The missile silos and control facilities are connected in a sort of semi-mesh topology, so any one cable break is unlikely to cause a communications failure. There are backup launch control interfaces available via airborne platforms (specifically the E-6 today) as well.

Digging into one of the cables is going to get you a prompt and unpleasant visit from base security.
On my personal laptop (Mac), I used AU Lab to apply effects to the music I listened to, and discovered that I like the ambience provided by adding a little reverb.

I'm interested in doing the same at work, but the office PCs run Windows and I'm somewhat limited in what I can install.

The Arduino Audio Tools library seemed like it would work, but it only applies effects on one channel.

https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/wiki/Audi...

I discovered the Wishing Well stereo reverb pedal, and am wondering whether building one will allow me to apply the effect to music from an iPod, rather than a guitar.

https://scientificguitarist.wixsite.com/home/wishing-well

If anybody would like to group-buy the Wishing Well, please let me know - if I order PCBs and parts, I'll have spares.
How do you think the 'instantaneous time-of-flight' computation is done?

There's a lot of math that phrase is hiding. It's not a magic black box. It just often seems that way.
Works well in Arc and Chrome in OSX. Arc is a lovely browser BTW.
A probationary period (which is what we have in Europe) is very different to an extended paid interview as described by the trial period.

With a probationary period, your default state is “employed”. Typically what happens even if you fail the probationary period, is that probationary period is extended before any new hire dismissed.

Plus even in the UK, it’s actually not that hard to fire someone outside of their probationary period but inside of 2 years.

It’s also worth noting that generally employers still hold all the power even with the stronger employment laws. For example, unless you’ve got a very clear case for unfair dismissal, the cost of fighting a dispute isn’t generally worth the trouble - and in many cases the (ex)employee isnt even financially secure enough to hire a solicitor to begin with. So it’s easier to part ways and focus that energy on the opportunity.
Do you have any support that he misrepresents mountains of evidence? Did you dig into the mountain and find a bunch of places where he misrepresented data? Or did you just go with your gut?

When I hear statements like this, I usually take it to mean "I don't like the conclusions he is drawing with the evidence"
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41284114
u-he weren't the only ones either:

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2021/11/17/baby-audio-magic...

And while it's not a one-button random reverb, MCharmVerb also heavily relies on randomizing:

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MCharmVerb
It seems easy enough to reconcile. A good enough algorithm to excellence is the old three-phase:

Do it.

Do it right.

Do it fast.

So in this case, Move Fast and Break Things means that when an aspect of the work is in phase 1, there should be evidence of things breaking so you know that progress is happening at the maximum possible speed. Then because things are moving fast, work quickly moves into phase 2 of taking the breakages and fixing them to a high standard. Although I make no claim as to how it actually worked at Facebook.
Who cares. I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day. It answers incredibly complex queries along with citations I can verify. Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old? There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project and account for the volume of concrete required for it (while taking into consideration the actual available volume available in a cinder block and settling) with a few quick sentences I speak to it. I can think of literally thousands of things I have asked that would have taken hours of googling that I can get an answer for in minutes.

I think the problem is you haven’t shifted your mindset to using AI correctly yet.

Edit: More everyday examples from just the last 3 days

- Use carbide bits to drill into rocks. Googling “best bits for drilling rocks” doesn’t bring up anything obvious about carbide but it was the main thing chatGPT suggested.

- gave it dimensions for a barn I’m building and asked it how many gallons of paint I would need of a particular type. I could probably work that out myself but it’s a bunch of lookups (what’s the total sq footage, how many sq ft per gallon, what type of paint stands up to a lot of scuffing etc.)

- coarse threaded inserts for softwood when I asked it for threaded insert recommendations. I would have probably ended up not caring and fine threaded slips right out of pine.

- lookup ingredients in a face cream and list out any harms (with citations) for any of them.

- speeds and feeds for acrylic cutting for my particular CNC. Don’t use a downcut bit because it might cause a fire, something I didn’t consider.

- an explanation of relevant NEMA outlets. Something that’s very hard to figure out if you’re just dropped into it via googling.
My employer just went through a reorganization that was intended to improve the experience for students (a college).

Suspiciously, the only individuals impacted by the reorganization were director level, and were replaced by people the new president knew from prior employers.

I took it hard until the pattern emerged. That's when I realized:

Most times it's not about you. It's about someone else, you're just collateral damage.
Sure, that's one option, and I don't have any insight into what nyt actually does with regards to it's handling of googlebot traffic.

But if I were implementing filtering, I might prefer a solution that doesn't require keeping a whitelist up to date.
From the article: 'In the discrete world of computing, there is no meaningful metric in which "small" changes and "small" effects go hand in hand, and there never will be.'

As brilliantly composed as the piece may be, it exhibits the same resistance to radical novelty that it condemns. Here we are not 40 years later, and small changes to big networks produce small effects. At sufficient scale, the digital reapproximates the analog.
And yet the commercial property developers in my town (a state capital) are perennially among the richest people in the town, and are all best friends with the planning commissioners that supposedly oversee them (as in regularly on Facebook at social and school events and hanging out and vacationing together).

You make it sound like they're barely scraping by and so the reason there's no amenities is that the local planners give them no option but to use every square foot for "maximizing value".
Why is it important to be seen as not a tyrant? Past generations prioritized discipline over being liked and ultimately received more respect.
As soon as you get a cert for that domain, you will start getting requests to it because of certificate transparency reports. Everyone will know immediately the site exists.
I work in a white collar union position in the US with a rather long probationary period, but nobody here would describe it as a "trial period." The expectation is very much that you will pass through the trial period barring something very extreme. It's more to weed out the totally, entirely unqualified than a "trial" that you might or might not pass.
It gives amazing medical advice and answers, way better than webmd or frankly even most primary care physicians ive seen.
>Movies used to be either in a theatre or a grainy home screen. The home screen is no longer grainy.

Yes, and it's actually better than going to a theater in most ways:

1) You can pause and go to the bathroom when you need to, instead of holding it and being miserable and then rushing to the crowded bathroom when the credits roll, or going during the movie and missing important plot points.

2) You can rewind it if you missed some important dialog.

3) You can turn on subtitling so you can understand all the dialog, in case your hearing isn't great, or the actors are mumbling as is common these days.

4) You can eat/drink whatever you want, and it costs only whatever your grocery store charges.

5) You can pause the movie and talk to your friend/SO about it.

6) You can put your feet all the way up with your recliner.

7) You can adjust the volume to whatever you like, so you don't have to listen to it deafeningly-loud as is common in theaters now.

8) You don't have to deal with some stupid stranger using their phone or talking loudly to their friends, or having their head block your view.

9) You don't have to worry about a retired cop shooting you.
Deadlift ETF with only companies with CEOs that lift weights or do fight sports
Sorry I phrased it poorly maybe and yes, it was a rate of between 20 and 25 or so per 100 people (not 1000). As you mention, I guessed that much of that also applied to a smaller percentage owning the majority of guns. Those things aside, I don't think this takes away from my main argument.
I know one website it works well on, so I still use it, but yes, most others fail.
I don't see why NASA would need to manage any "Overton window." NASA loses very little if they decide to send the astronauts back on SpaceX. At worst, and this is very possible, Boeing uses this as an excuse to just ax Starliner, and NASA would be left without a secondary crew vehicle, but they won't lose funding, and their image would probably only go up since they would have made a choice in the interest of safety.

Boeing, on the other hand, stands to suffer a lot of PR and financial damage should NASA make that decision. They have an interest in managing this window. They've been lobbying NASA and tweeted something about how confident they are in Starliner, but they appear to really be on the backfoot.

The whole point is that NASA isn't "letting people get used to the idea." It's really no skin off NASA's back if they send them home on Starliner.
Depends on the team. I almost prefer juniors to make some mistakes and spend some time trying to figure it out on their own. There's a good chance they won't figure it out, but the journey they go on is a lot of time worth it.
Not at the moment, but it's in our plans :)
The ribosome lowers the entropic penalty of protein folding
Ah yes, the old “we’re really looking for people who know how to game the metrics rather than wasting time on long term value to the company and our customers” conversation. Sorry to hear it, but wow do I know just what you mean.
Excellent Phrack edition; recommend reading.
>The original poster said "spend a ton of money" (those places you spend money but not a "ton")

Then why'd you put gyms in your list? You DO have to spend a ton of money to get a gym membership. And you can't cancel it because you have to sign a ridiculous contract and basically file a lawsuit to end the membership (not really, but it seems almost this bad).
This year's summer Covid wave is big; FDA may green-light Covid shots early
Thanks for the reply!

Re question #3: I'm not sure I understand why you need to vary the base model or how doing so would allow LSR to take advantage? Isn't your LSR technique used on the activations of the evaluator model?

As a note of feedback, I found the original article a bit hard to understand even with multiple reads. I would have really benefited from a traditional "methodology" section like in an ML paper! The graphs upfront don't make sense to someone who isn't familiar with the problem setting, and even now I'm not sure if the x-axis in the HaluEval Benchmark bar chart refers to the base model or the evaluator model. Maybe it's just me.
> Pre-ChatGPT, very few people wanted a (more or less) general purpose chatbot.

And post-ChatGPT, very few people want to have to deal with "a (more or less) general purpose chatbot."