dantheman0207

Have you looked at finetuning GPT3,5? I’ve heard anecdotally that it can significantly improve its ability to handle correctly formatting outputs like JSON, and the increased speed and significantly reduced cost would make it much more appealing.

Also I hope you consider posting more about your home setup as I’d love to see more.

My hearing is not particularly bad, and my tinnitus tends to come and go depending on the environment. Still, I would love to resolve it once and for all. It's a pretty common condition too.

I have tinnitus, which is pretty annoying. Very excited to see the possibility of treatment for this.

Any references or links on AHI and bad sleep? Seems like that is the gold standard for measuring severity of sleep apnea but I haven’t found it a very good measure for my own experiences.

It’s certainly an intriguing idea worth investigating. But for me, the process of creating the cards and being forced to distill what I read was critical to the success of using SRS.

People always identify them with America because they see them in movies. They used to be really hard to find in Europe when I moved here 10 years ago. We tried getting them for an American themed party but the only places were online specialty shops that sold them for more than 1€/cup.

Now however they can be bought in the grocery store. Still overpriced but reasonable enough.

What's the other one?

According to the Amazon description they fixed the flickering issue with a firmware update.

You’re right! https://youtu.be/lXzD_oTL4XA

You should try adding everyone to lists. Then instead of checking your feed you check the individual lists. It’s a nice experience.

Nomad

I had a similar story. I set up a home pc for recording tv and hooked it up to the main entertainment system. I built it on a budget so it did it’s job but later on as we switched to more HD content it struggled occasionally.

I went off to college. My mom noticed the fan noise was increasing and found it distracting. She wrapped the pc in a couple of blankets to cut down on the noise. When I came home the thing was in danger of burning down the house and the video card had failed.

Yes, and Facebook already has agreements in place with CC companies to get that data. They’ve had access to that data for a while. This isn’t a new data source, this is horizontal integration.

This is a good policy, and the Apple App Store has done the same thing for a while.

iPad OS includes mouse support.

Might be true. Certainly it’s true that Apple represents a smaller user base then, say, Google or Facebook.

But Apple users represent a disproportionately large subset of the users that spend money.

I highly recommend David Simon’s talks on policing (he is the creator of The Wire).

He talks at length about how the skill sets necessary to investigative work and community policing have largely been lost as a result of the focus on meeting drug war quotas.

> So while they might make a show of being upset, after the way they snubbed Iran they have nowhere to go if they want to pivot from the Saudis to a different potential regional ally

The answer to that is Turkey; it's the last remaining regional power that has a chance of being seen as the de facto leader of the muslim middle east. For anyone who has been watching closely, the hidden story here is the way Erdogan has masterfully handled both the press in order to drive public opinion. A couple weeks ago every major Turkish and U.S. newspaper ran almost the exact same story (as far as the facts) and it was straight off of Erdogan's desk. Turkey has been very effective at driving the news cycle and painting the Kingdom of S.A. into a corner.

The Turks have also been trying very hard to create a close relationship with the Trump White House - the very first scandal of the administration was when it was revealed that Michael Flynn had taken >$500K from a Dutch company run by a prominent Turkish businessman with close ties to Erdogan.

> There are supposed to be all sorts of other GDPR protections, about rights to be forgotten, about being able to access and selectively remove personal data from an online profile, that I have no idea how to activate.

You don’t have to do anything to “activate” these rights under GDPR. You can just email the website in question and ask them to send an accessible copy of your data, or remove some or all of it from their servers. GDPR simply requires companies to adhere to certain consumer demands about my own data and respond within reasonable time frames.

Also I disagree with your analogy. Companies are allowed to track users for internal purposes Uber GDPR. But they are not allowed to sell your data to third parties without consent. The reason all these pop ups and consent forms are so complicated have nothing to do with GDPR, and everything to do with the fact that companies are trying to nudge you into making a choice against your own best interests.

Awesome, looked it up on Wikipedia. Strike was actually three separate strikes, just over one year in total duration. Dates as follow:

May 7 – July 30, 1966

May 1 – November 17, 1970

June 28 – September 6, 1976

According to Wikipedia[1], the banking strikes had little affect on the preexisting economic woes, namely both high unemployment and inflation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_%281966%E2%...

This is probably pretty close to how the roster originally came to be, except organically and without any computers.

Buckley did serve in the army during WWII, as did Vidal. Both of them served stateside and never saw any action.

During the debate, after the infamous “queer” remark, Buckley said that he “served in the infantry during WWII,” implying that he had fought in battle, which he never had.

Most people here use it as a test of whether you are from Amsterdam. You can tell the locals because they're the ones weaving their bike through the crowd at zebra crossings. I am definitely guilty of this but I use my discretion - because I know the area I have a good idea of how busy it is at which times at which lights. That's why locals do it but tourists shouldn't.

Amsterdam is ~1000 years old. Parts of it are very unfriendly to cars simply because they were never built to be accessible.

In contrast, Rotterdam was mostly rebuilt after WWII. This gave them the opportunity to make the city more accessible for cars. Still you can get around Rotterdam by metro quite easily, and you are a first class citizen on a bike or on foot. i know lots of people living in Rotterdam who don’t own a car.

Actually, in 1972 the Netherlands did have a rapidly growing car industry on their own soil. Three years later it sold a majority stake to Volví after growth dropped off, but up until 1973 it was growing at a rapid pace. It was a significant source of jobs in the south, where it was based. They employed >80k people and were building a new factory.

I used to live in housing designed for factory workers of DAF. The company didn’t succeed because of other issues. But it is typically Dutch that they chose to design their cities for people instead of giving away what amounts to a subsidy paid for by lower quality of life.

N. N. Taleb always says you shouldn’t read any books that are less than 200 years old. If a book survives for 200 years it must have something genuinely valuable to say.

I think this is good advice. I try to follow it for the most part, but obviously I don’t apply that to technical material. Still, I bet if you read Euclid instead of O’Reilly you’d end up a pretty good programmer.

Apple takes security (and privacy, it’s natural extension) very seriously. It’s not an open source process unfortunately, but they’ve shown a clear financial and strategic commitment to hardware and software level security. They also done an excellent job communicating this to users in the way that they ask for permissions, etc.

A lot of consumers explicitly choose this option, but it’s all wrapped up in “quality”. When I buy a MacBook I know they won’t cheap out on the casing, or the user experience, or the security, and I pay a premium for that.

Meditation is the best thing for this. I also like to use a heart monitor to measure my HRV when meditating - it gives me an idea of my physical & mental performance today compared to my baseline.

A physical workout can also be good. Lifting weights (consistently!) makes a difference long term in my mental performance, but the biggest difference for me is going for a run. The runner's high is real, once you get to a place where you're comfortable with the distance you're doing.

There's scientific research that keeping a journal has a positive effect on your mood. Especially if you explicitly try to write about gratitude.

It seems like the startup was still pretty small, but the plaintiff was hardly the only employee there. If you're working in an environment like this, I think you have a very real responsibility to speak up. If that doesn't work you should leave. Anyone working in tech, especially in SV, has alternatives. You have a moral responsibility to squash out this kind of behavior by making it clear it's not an acceptable workplace - even (especially) if you're not the target of harassment.

Debit cards in The Netherlands are almost exclusively MaestroCard, which is why it's so difficult to find a place that accepts credit card. It's also why The Netherlands developed it's own national online payment system - people didn't have a lot of existing options.