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> Resident Alien

Interesting. I thought the premise had potential, but found the writing unbearable. There were major plot holes in the universe they created withing the first 10 minutes. It just didn't make sense. The dialogues and acting was bad on top of that. Didn't even finish the first episode. That being said, the series has OK ratings and was renewed several times, so it might be me not giving it a fair chance.
Is there not a survey paper on RLHF equivalent to the "A Survey on Large Language Model based Autonomous Agents" paper?
Someone should get on that.
> In other words: "if you are extremely tall and/or extremely strong, you don't need be shredded to still be athletic". Who would have thought?

It's more than that. Being shredded is actively anti-athletic.

This isn't exactly a secret - pretty much anyone casually into bodybuilding or strength training knows that you lower body fat to look stronger, but raise body fat to actually be stronger, at least to some extent.
what you are saying has nothing to do at all with my comment.

the parents have a choice, but they choose not to take it (or pretend not to see it).
About 120 in the old days, and I type "wrong."
I've done the whole spaced repetition and Anki thing, realized that if it's boring, you won't learn as well, and you won't stick with it in the long term, once you miss a week and suddenly you have 863 reps to get through to catch up. Instead, read stuff you're interested, apply it in your work, learn mostly Just In Time for when you need it. Learn by doing.
I largely agree with these, except for #4:

Ship First, Refine Never

Write good enough code that solves a user’s problem and only optimise when metrics demand it.

Too often, we’re focused on perfectionism or premature optimisation, which prevents getting our code in the hands of users quickly.

- Identify the critical components of your feature.
- Deliver only those to the user.
- Users just want to click the button, do the thing, and move on—anything else is wasting time.

This only briefly touches on “only optimize when metrics demand it,” yet equally import is “collect the metrics and analyze them!”

Namely, talk to your customers, or use software to see how they are using your product. Often times, we don’t get something right the first time, so the idea that you’d aggressively deprioritizing refinement seems like a mistake.
They probably won't need the military: the police itself is already heavily militarized. But I have no illusion that Hegseth would even blink one eye before deploying soldiers domestically.
I 100% agree, this simulates a multimodal input and automatically handles the rest along with model selection by using a variation of techniques. It doesn't do this natively on the model level
YC partners own capital right? I mean the labor they actually do doesn’t translate into the income they receive which is astronomically more.

Take for an example: a yc partner can take everything they know and train someone to do the same work and pay that person a much lower fixed salary. That salary represents work contributed, but a yc partner earns more than this. The majority of wealth gained from the yc partner does not come from actual work contributed… it comes from capital gains from growth.

I mean you can already see a logistical issue with capitalism by looking at a fundamental problem. A 747 is the result of thousands of man years of labor. Not one single man can build that thing. Not one single man can create enough wealth to create a 747.

Yet if one man can’t create enough wealth to create or trade for a 747 how do people become rich enough to own a 747? Of course it comes from siphoning wealth off of human capital. It is fundamentally unfair but unfortunately unfairness is the ultimate driver that led to the creation of the 747 in the first place. The idea of having an unfair advantage must exist to drive people.
With no undue disrespect, you just got here. Might want to give it a bit of time so the working part makes more sense. You haven't as much as responded to anything written here beside repeating the same somewhat unclear and seemingly inaccurate thing (there is current events political discussion on HN right this second) over and over.
In capitalism, power correlates with wealth. So wealth inequality yields power inequality. Too much inequality, and a society can hardly feel just. If we only could somehow fix capitalism so that wealth doesn’t correlate with power.
> Who is this “nobody” you speak of?

That seemed clear? Meaning: there is a population of people who believe gender is abstracted from chromosomes by factors including psychology, and there isn’t a population who claim the believe that gender is 1:1 with chromosomes, but who handwave away the inconvenient < 1% who have a chromosome pattern not mapped to a gender.

Thus, nobody actually believes this. It’s just rhetoric to support an ideological position. There are 8B people on earth; no serious scientific or political position can be built on “if you ignore millions of people who don’t fit”
It's certainly true of the Republican party in the US. They proclaim to be defenders of freedom of speech, yet have passed the vast majority of bills censoring books in educational institutions.

https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/ this is from a few years ago but the trend continues
The comments are a huge downgrade. Far less clear in my opinion.
They’re sorting people according to the four tempers of Eagan - woe, frolic, dread and malice. The buttons are labelled accordingly, using two letters on the show but one letter here.
In Breaking Bad only the general idea, the main character turning from protagonist to antagonist was there from the beginning. They filled in the middle part as they went along.
remember, gender is a human concept. sex is gene based
If the POTUS were to determine the outcome of the midterm elections by decree, that act would be legal. The SCOTUS has already paved all the way to hell.
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System: It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.
User: Throw the rake into the lake
If that means a man can enter the women’s bathrooms, then I’m against it.
I find your lack of imagination disturbing.

Literally so.
> Spaced repetition is not meant for conceptual things or skills. It's meant for facts.

> It has little to no relevance in math, physics, and engineering.

That's one bit I disagree with. Engineering is full of facts/concepts, things you often need to know inherently to be able to apply them, or even to know to google them at the right time. So I think SRS can apply there too.
It's high endurance compared to TLC and QLC, which make up >99.9% of flash sold nowadays. Sure SLC is even better but it's all relative.
To add to what hiAndrewQuinn said:

It basically works by optimizing parameters of the "memory model" against your review history, thus fitting against your particular memory instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach.

It is described in (much) more detail here: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/The...
Scott Alexander writes very well, perhaps he is blinding me.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff...
> But if you you think there is no risk that the justice system can be misused for such political ends, then I suppose you have the same problems with Biden pardoning Hunter and half his family to protect them from politically motivated prosecution?

Well, Trump made his intentions of prosecuting Fauci, Hunter Biden and many many others more than abundantly clear. He can't whine about Biden protecting people from the threat he himself had announced. (Well, he obviously can and does, and half the population falls for it)
To your credit, this does indeed work, but I won't retract my point. It's super-kludgy to go through everything like this, and I definitely can't leave it on all the time. I'm spoiled by the innate tab, shift-tab options of other operating systems. Ironically, when I tried to turn on the accessibility feature just through keyboard nav of Settings, I failed to get to the checkbox (there is at least a global Accessibility shortcut...if it's switched on).

I'm at a loss to explain why this particular navigation issue shows up in the Settings app. Other, less critical parts of the OS actually work fine.
IMO Yours is much better in this case, it is more direct and clear (although I guess I’m looking for problems in Claude’s output). Yours starts by just giving us what you are trying to say. Then gives us your background succinctly.

Claude’s starts out with this circuitous “While I respect…” failing to drive the point in the interest of being… polite, I guess? But not actually polite because everybody who’s read anything knows that “While I respect” is almost always a preface to calling somebody wrong.

It also makes the argument worse. Yours is unambiguous, and does a better job of describing where your evidence comes from. You clearly describe yourself as doing something that is not exactly art, but it is like art, and so you bring it up as an good example of Claude doing an art-like thing better than a professional.

In the Claude sample, it isn’t clear until the dash what’s going on, which is more than halfway through the comment. What’s your experience? Up until that dash, you could be talking about your experience as a product manager managing artists (at a game studio for example). It’s like “oh, ok, he was just talking about a sort of… not exactly analogy it a less than completely exact experience of working with artists.”
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Or maybe it's an oligopoly where the incumbents have carved up the market and stopped competing, milking their customers instead.

Broadband is then extra special if you let the ISP also own the infrastructure as everyone has to reconnect their service to every house instead of one company (or forbid, the govt) owning the pipes and several companies competing for providing services over those shared pipes.

Imo the competition model doesn't necessarily (always) work that well for infra.
I think you're arguing in good faith, so my response is that I think the legal-piracy world would make it very easy to download things, on par with going to YouTube, something anyone could and would do. I don't think Netflix would be the same in that world. They might well have been the premiere free movie distributors!
I’m quite confident that I could step in fresh fish vomit and not recognize it. The fact that a palaeontologist could see a pile of fossilized “chalk bits” and draw the conclusion that it’s 66M year old fish vomit is mind boggling.
Read it briefly, and if it’s true, the European Union is regressing with these laws.
How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the election?
This is my thought exactly. If you are requiring re-working of papers to exclude certain words, that sounds like censorship to me.
Amazon back charges the vendor for every return --- which likely includes return shipping and handling. I can assure you, Amazon doesn't just "eat" these costs.

Remember, Amazon holds the cash for all sales. The cost of returns is extracted from vendor disbursements. A fake card sold for $10 may cost the vendor $20 if it gets returned.
Both your arguments here seem to boil down to preferring collective good over individual good even at the expense of individuals and even against the individuals' wishes. That's a totalitarian approach and I cannot and will not support it.

Totalitarian systems of ruling have always devolved into suffering on a massive scale and although we're seeing a dictatorship prosper, probably for the first time in history, in China, it's just on add case that goes against the trend. It does not disprove the trend, dictatorships have always devolved into abuse of power, China is already promising massive suffering externally by threatening to invade Taiwan (which is a continuation of the legitimate Chinese government which was illegally overthrown by communist rebels in mainland China). And I have no doubt, China will devolve into internal suffering once its current dictator dies and a new one takes his place.

The west is only throwing away its values (such as individual freedom) because it is afraid of China getting a short-term lead.

To reply point by point:

> they also can benefit from it

One person puts in work and everyone benefits equally, sounds good on the surface because it only uses positive words, yet when you look at the meaning, I could equally use it to justify taking your entire salary away from you and redistributing it to every person on the planet equally. Would you be OK with that, jst because you get your equal share?

You might be tempted to answer yes if everyone suffered the same treatment. Now consider if you were OK with it if only 1% of the population worked and was forced to feed the rest.

> I don't think this "tax" would be a problem

I describe theft and you call it a tax...

> Human beings can only survive in a collective after all.

That absolutely does not mean that you should be forced to become a part of a collective against your will or that you have no say who is in the collective with you.
Are there even any other options if you're running EPIC?
As far as I know, launching on new, unproven rockets tends to be a lot cheaper. E.g. the Escapade mission launching on New Glenn.
> no matter the reason never work with oracle

I wholeheartedly agree on this. I had the misfortune of working with an unholy combination of ODI [1], OBP [2], and Oracle Database several years ago. The amount of layers of abstraction and bureaucracy I had to wade through to get things done was enormous and life-draining. Since then, I have made sure to move teams away from Oracle wherever I could and not once have I regretted doing so.

[1]: https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/data-integrat...

[2]: https://www.oracle.com/financial-services/banking/banking-pl...
Well, in the AI space at least that's not really true. Google, NVIDIA and Meta have all made huge contributors. So has Microsoft, in their own way. It's a real mix of big old companies and smaller upstarts.
Yes, lume relies on Apple's Virtualization framework and can run BSD on a Mac with Apple silicon: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon

I'll definitely document the option in the README, thanks!

On Lima:

- Lima focuses on Linux VMs and doesn't support managing macOS VMs.

- It is more of a container-oriented way of spinning up Linux VMs. We're still debating whether to go in that direction with lume, but the good news is that it would mostly require tweaking the hooks to expose lume’s core to adopt the containerd standard. I’d love to hear your thoughts - would you find it useful to have a Docker-like interface for starting macOS workloads? Similarly to: https://github.com/qemus/qemu-docker

- Still many dependencies on QEMU, which doesn't play well with Apple silicon - while we opted to support only M chips (80-90% of the market cap today) by relying on the latest Apple Virtualization.Framework bits.

On Tart:

- We share some similarities when it comes to tart's command-line interface. We extend it and make it more accessible to different frameworks and languages with our local server option (lume serve). We have also an interface for python today: https://github.com/trycua/pylume

- Going forward, we'd like to focus more on creating tools around developers, creating tools for automation and extending the available images in our ghcr registry. Stay tuned for more updates next week!

- Lastly, lume is licensed under MIT, so you’re free to use it for commercial purposes. Tart, on the other hand, currently uses a Fair Source license.
No, my understanding is that Rust uses normal stacks, and it uses a classic threading model, so aside from async, calling C doesn't need to any runtime stuff.
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The only proof I see in the article is a picture of part of an email taken by a cellphone camera. Can anyone link to the official policy/order?
Maybe that is a PostgreSQL issue, or maybe it was a skill issue.

Cannot tell, I am more of an Oracle and SQL Server kid of person when it comes to deep RDMS knowledge.
I'd be very curious to see how causation may be found for most psychological conditions. I'm sure there are ways I haven't seen or considered, but it seems really difficult to structure a study that would lead towards potential causation.

Traumatic brain injuries are one standout, though even then I think its just correlative as no one is going to attempt a study that intentionally causes TBIs in the test group.
> I don't understand how you reach this conclusion given the fact that for >99% of the world's people, their gender matches their sex.

What is the significance of this in this context? 100% of the world's people are not lions, does that mean lions don't exist? Some people don't fit neatly into one of the two gender/sex categories. This is scientifically very clear. Why is it important to have hard categories, and why should we legislate that only two categories exist?
He’s basically a PR person for OpenAI and Anthropic, the latter of which is fucking deep in with these long-termer creeps.

He was writing fan fiction and creepy torture shit one for ages until there was big money in influencing public policy on AI.
I'm well aware of the words you've written. Are you waiting for me to say you're right, or that you make a good point? Do you think people think of the Nazis' economic programs before anything else?

You dodge the question that puts the lie to your high-minded concern about using words according to their precise definition, which is unreasonable and serves to inhibit discourse, as you must realize.

You need only actually read one of his executive orders - again, ILLEGALLY directing appropriated funds not be spent - to see that cutting government is not the only thing these ideologues are attempting to do.

You might, finally, look into what Godwin himself has said regarding his "law" and Trump.
Yes; they claim to also address this. I'm not an expert and so can't pass judgement on their claims, but here's what they write (which you would see if you clicked the link and scrolled a bit):

>> The intent is that plrust-trusted-pgrx can evolve independently of both pgrx and plrust. There are a few "unsafe" parts of pgrx exposed through plrust-trusted-pgrx, but PL/Rust's ability to block unsafe renders them useless by PL/Rust user functions.

>> What about Rust compiler bugs?
PL/Rust uses its own rustc driver which enables it to apply custom lints to the user's LANGUAGE plrust function. In general, these lints will fail compilation if the user's code uses certain code idioms or patterns which we know to have "I-Unsound" issues.

>> The "trusted" version of PL/Rust uses a unique fork of Rust's std entitled postgrestd when compiling LANGUAGE plrust user functions. postgrestd is a specialized Rust compilation target which disallows access to the filesystem and the host operating system.

etc.
How many years is there?
Does shell scripting really need to go hand in hand with the language flexibility ?
The irony of pure rationalists buying a castle, unable to see what every other market participant can.
I guess Snowden is like Luke Skywalker then. Saved the galaxy once, now mostly forgotten except a few followers on Twitter.
If enough people return the item which again, with microsd cards, is likely not nearly often enough on Amazon.

If “the system worked” i.e. companies get appropriately punished for selling bad products, then this issue wouldn’t still be so widespread. It’s basically a feature of Amazon now. People just assume they’re going to randomly get junk. It’s baked into our expectations at this point.
I want to say "thank you" for the careful research examining multiple original sources from a variety of viewpoints.
>Vance came from Venture Capital, not big tech.

There's a difference?

(I'm joking... but only half joking)
All this malice over bathroom use? How about we make bathrooms single stall and end this stupid hate
It didn't survive. It turned into rock.
If you can be concerned without it affecting your daily mood, I would answer yes. If your disposition doesn't allow for that kind of detachment, I'd say there's still plenty of time for concern later.
Sadly, I think you're being optimistic.

The Democrats are not fighters, the states will fall in line, and the people are not willing nor able to wage civil war.
You could also keep trademarks. So content might not be protected, but you couldn't release remixes under trademarked names.
You can just go to the CDC website. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is the most prominent US public health publication, hasn't been published since the inauguration. That has not happened in over 60 years. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
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You mean a simple reformat with fat? Or what’s in your opinion the best test when getting a new SD card?
It's better now in Germany.
My parents life in the country side and got fiber about one year ago.
600/300 MBit/s for 60€.
Not cheap but very stable and always delivers.

I use Vodafone Cable 250/50 MBit/s for around 25€ (discount for new customers).
Not very stable but good enough.
1000/50 MBit/s is available but costs 50€.

If you live together with someone you can always switch the contract taker and thus always get the "new" customer benefits to save some money.
Thanks for sharing Common Music! I haven't heard of it, it seems worth studying.

Speaking of use cases, I started this project with the idea of making a flexible parser for chord symbols. In the process of solving this problem, I wrote some general-purpose utilities, which eventually took form of this library. I'm making it public in the hope that it will be useful to others who use Lua for music and audio programming.

I haven't yet implemented the functions related to scales. I'm still thinking about their relation to chords and how to express it in the library's API.
The night shift crew at my job would go on poocoin, watch new contracts drop, and then try to get in and out with a profit. It was crazy. It did work sometimes. But then when they were up a few thousand dollars it was too much of a confidence boost and they'd try it again and end up losing.

Also, a correction, they were on Ethereum and then BSC, not Solana. This was before the Solana shitcoins took off
Is that even legal?
I always thought a land-line connection is mandatory.

I recommend to check the law here :)
> I'm not arguing for spaced repetition, but the whole point is you do some amount every day (or as needed) for the rest of your life (within reason). So it's not equivalent to get fit/slim quick at all, it's more about disciplined improvement of yourself. If that isn't effective for you don't do it, but based on your comment it seems like you're coming at it from the wrong angle.

Fair enough, I haven't looked into spaced repetition deeply.

I just always got this weird vibe from people talking about it, like they think memorizing all the world capitals was a way to improve your intelligence. It's not.

Same thing with, like, "memory palace" stuff: being able to memorize a deck of cards is probably fun, and it's a nice parlor trick, but it will not help you solve real-world problems, analyze situations, make discoveries or be a better engineer. The way to do that is to just read books, study, work hard in your chosen field and keep up with the latest developments. That is the only way anyone has ever gotten good at anything.
Needs a better minimap that moves as the map is zoomed in.
Lunny family readies for a final roundup
Yeah, but e.g. if the gov suspended Netflix copyright protection and had Crave load up Netflix's entire catalog... I don't know how many people would opt to still pay for Netflix just to avoid Crave's UI/UX.
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