skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Travelling here in winter can be quite dangerous. Just this winter I left my car on a turn off on the main road from Keflavik to Reykjavik picking up my parents from the airport because there was an insanely icy section. The rear tyres were at the end of their life and it just wasn’t safe to drive. We got picked up by my father in law and drove passed five separate crashes in the space of 1km. I rolled a Nissan Patrol off the side of route one exiting Reykjavik towards the south hitting a patch of ice with good, studded tyres on, narrowly missing traffic going both ways. Driving back from a weekend away, my wife and I were driving to the back route up onto the same mountain pass. It’d been very sunny so the south facing road was clear of snow and we narrowly avoided getting hit by a driver coming down it who hadn’t noticed the snow drift on the road and was coming way too fast. They shot off into a field and after an extremely bumpy few seconds managed to steer back. And that’s just the highlights of the last ten years. I ski tour quite a bit so travel often in the winter and have seen unending stupidity and dumb decision making that wasn’t quite as terrifying. In particular common tourist routes like the Golden Circle can become impassable or dangerous to attempt if you don’t have a proper vehicle.

The trick is choosing when to travel and as a tourist you’re often uniquely compelled to try to drive in dangerous conditions. Coming here in winter is very much an exercise in adjusting plans to the conditions, taking note of the road condition information and driving very carefully.
That obviously did not make a difference now because it wouldn't be in use and the issue seems to be refining more than oil supply.
He is a Christian mystic and has written previously about having realtime conversations with God.

Take that as you will.
I recall OS 8 crashing often and loosing lots of work. Back then I was doing graphic design work and just getting into web programming. Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress all day with those apps crashing unexpectedly. MS Word for Mac was awful back then too. OS 9 was much better and Windows 2000 was actually really good. It's great that that sort of instability is a thing of the past!
How to get published: "Other authors are wrong."

How not to get published: "The general consensus is right."

So although individuals may not flip-flop constantly, fields as a whole do. Pick almost any topic in almost any field (especially humanities) and read papers 10-20 years apart. There's a constant cycle.

The cycle becomes self reinforcing too, because now you can interact with previous criticisms (Dr. A said this, but Dr. B said he was wrong. In fact, A was correct because B neglected to consider...).
At least 6 million people died worldwide so far, including more than 1 million in the US. In what universe would letting even more people die improve the economy? Dead people don’t work or spend.
> The primary responsibility of any first responder -- police, fire, or EMS -- is to preserve their own lives.

Over the lives of children, though? Putting your life in danger to save a random guy's life is heroic, but not expected. You're both adults, your safety isn't guaranteed, and it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to save him. But it's quite different when, instead of a random guy, it's a group of children.

I think that's the striking difference with Uvalde. It's really, really hard for me to imagine firefighters not rushing into a burning elementary school to get the kids to safety. Societally, we expect them to, and they know we expect them to.

Society also expects the same from police (laying down your life to save a child), but I'm not sure these police fully understood this societal expectation at the time of the incident, or else they would have acted differently.
In fact, you can now scope API tokens per-gem as well: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/2944
You can defeat this law by detailing everything you're giving away for free including parking, ketchup packets, napkins, EV charging, etc..

Then it will become just some extra government-mandated printing that nobody reads, like the stuff they print on the receipt asking you to go online and fill out a survey.
Has anyone tried to run their own push server for firefox?

https://autopush.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
> Sometimes people say that “Well, how will the company get any better?” I suggest that that’s no longer your concern, and that the time for that has passed anyway. If you’re unhappy enough with the company to leave, then they’ve been doing things wrong for the duration of your employment.

And if we all do this, companies will blindly keep doing things poorly making it increasingly hard to find places worth working at. I would say that if you're in the position where any negative consequences from being candid at an exit interview are inconsequential, then by all means share.
The major costs of getting chickens are a coop, and if you're in a place with bears, an electric fence to keep the bears from destroying your coop and eating the chickens contained therein.

You might get lucky for a couple of years (we did), but now we have two fewer chickens and a cock-a-doodle-gulag around our coop.

If you don't already own a hatchet, you may as well get one up front. At some point you're bound to have to put one out of its misery. You may as well not make it wait while you make a trip to the hardware store.

The principle of "buy once, cry once" definitely applies to chicken feeders and waterers. The feeders that hold around 30 pounds of feed are vastly superior to the smaller ones and are worth the investment. The waterers that hold a 5 of gallons and fill via a screw top are similarly superior.

Also: chickens shit everywhere. Forget about carefree gambols through your yard once you have chickens.
Inflation seems really spotty to me. Like, dunno, some brands got very expansive while some not. Some restaurants raise prices alot while others lag. It is strange.
You appear to have only read up to the first comma of #1. I very explicitly said that it needed to be constantly receiving input. The kind of discrete input we give it now is qualitatively different, even if it's "on" in the same sense that an Apache server is always "on", waiting for requests.
Yeah it does take the shine off it doesn't it?
I share your concerns. Imagine what effect a sympathetic AI would have on 4chan incels. We've already seen Twitter bots manipulated to repeat alt-right rhetoric [0]. An adversary could find building such bots a cheap and a very hard to trace way of causing damage.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
i genuinely cannot comprehend the logic behind this statement. nobody is forcing you to use these systems, so you seem to have some emotional discomfort with other people having the ability to protect themselves. what is your alternative? forced trust, dependence on third party authorities?
Exactly, this would actually be history repeating itself. The original "gas stations" were pharmacies that added a gas pump to bring in customers, sold at a price that didn't bring in much profit but got customers in the door.
Crêpe is a thin type of pancake
Foster care training is not too challenging, and includes fairly normal inspection of the house for safety purposes. It also comes with a lot of help for setting up food benefits, Healthcare, and so on. It's no more arduous than parenting a child with a minor health problem, and I've done both now. And it protects the child from exploitation.

Also the in-home care and coaching that social workers give to at risk parents before they consider placing a child in foster care is quite extensive.

Foster parents are regularly told that they are a last resort, and any family member do over them. Unfortunately, many parents who lose custody of their children exhaust their support structure long before the state intervenes, so they aren't likely to find help from family.
I think the idea is that the entire gradient is sentient to varying degrees. Two neurons interacting could be sentient, but is not enough to us as humans to have any meaningful interaction with. A cpu with two gates is way less useful than a cpu with a billion gates because one can perform more useful calculations to us more quickly.

A creature with a brain that has 10 times as many neurons as a human probably isn't 10 times as sentient, but it might enable than to perceive reality in a way that a human never could imagine.

I think the problem might be that we are wanting to define sentience in a too human centric way. Just because something like an insect can never perceive reality like we do as people doesn't necessarily mean it is not a simpler form of sentience. An insects brain probably doesn't dedicate any neurons to allow it to perceive suffering or itself, but it clearly perceives something.

I don't know though. Just rambling here.
Cooperative Game Theory is one field that has been studying dividing payoff among cooperating players in proportion to how much they contributed to achieving the goal.
I know you are probably kidding about the 50 neurons, but Red Junglefowl (what chickens are derived from) are working with 221 million neurons. Which isn't that much in the grand scheme of things, but more than double the amount compared to a quail and about the same as a parrotlet or a brown rat.
I do, I even remember correcting that but it looks like I didn't.
"protect and serve" is a motto that originated from a contest in a magazine. It's not a quote from a legal text.

We vote by wallet for our cell service and we vote by ballot for our police budgets. If you can only afford a house in a neighborhood with a Cricket Wireless tax base, then you get Cricket Wireless quality police.
The difference is huge, for example, if we measure density there is 5x difference.
Don’t (virtually) all crystal “glasses” also contain lead?
Side-by-side of China’s Tiangong space station vs. the ISS
Inflation was wack in January too.
>Don't blame the vet for charging $5000 for a surgery. Blame owners who can't afford to raise a pet but have one anyway.

What an utterly callous statement. We're mostly well paid professionals here on HN, but to suggest that the average american should be able to come up with $500, much less 5k, on a moments notice is laughably out of touch with most people's financial situation.
That's not my take-away from the chart, especially if you normalize by performance share. "Other" is the clear winner, and AMD has slightly more performance share than NVIDIA.
Echo Suppression and Cancellation
Culture shifts are real. That doesn't mean they're justified. It's certainly not a topic without nuance, but I will say that if and when I have children I will do my best to ensure that they are capable, aware, and that their autonomy is respected within my local community.
I treat engineering opinions from Gitlab with the same serious consideration as financial planning advice from a 6 year old.
Learn from our mistake and maybe don't put the coop on the same side of your house as your bedroom windows even if you only have hens.

They make plenty of noise if you're a light sleeper and they want to be let out for the day.
> effective use of words alone doesn't constitute sentience

I'm pretty sure it's not even necessary.

> Searle

It's the silliest argument ever and when I first heard it I thought surely no one will ever actually take that seriously, but here we are over 20 years later still discussing it as if it were a cogent argument that had something to say. The sentience is in the rule set. The understanding of the Searle-neuron-human is irrelevant even if she speaks every last dialect of Chinese.

> I have a lot of reason to suspect...

You do indeed, as do we all. Still, those who confidently assert that LaMDA has zero sentience whatever, so far aren't arguing convincingly. They're nibbling and quibbling around the pie if they're biting at all.

I'll grant this: LaMDA almost certainly does not feel like I do, and I wouldn't trust it to wash and fold my laundry. If those are necessary for sentience LaMDA ain't it
Japan still managed to keep a lot of their culture and demographics intact. When the US enters the decline it's going to be much much more serious.
https://archive.ph/WZiZf
archive.is - might redirect but it's fine.

Look for archived in second field but if not, use the first field which will process all the resources and assemble them.

https://archive.ph/WZiZf
> And I'd bet a lot more on the crash safety of aerospace cerrified batteries than those of the automotive sector.

Why? Aircraft are optimized for weight far more than automobiles. Making airplane batteries safer than car batteries would make them even less energy dense than they already are. Add to that fact that cars have a crumple zone built into them, while an airplane AFAIK does not -- at least not one that matters when it crashes into my house at 100mph.

Furthermore, some Tesla crashing on the freeway on the way to Tahoe is unlikely to start a forest fire. But what about some rich yahoo making the same trip while flying their personal electric plane who crashes in the Oakland hills?

These problems are non trivial particularly because every personal electric plane company wants to scale into the millions.
This is currently a hot potato in Norway. The local government wants to force malls to charge for their parking at rates to be decided by the government, but aren't allowed due to national regulation.

So there is a political battle to determine whether the law will be changed to allow it. The malls aren't at all happy about it, of course.
You won't end up with many senior engineers using their initiative if you beat it out of them before they get to being senior engineers.
Its price is 0 because there are vast quantities of it.

Price is a function of both supply/demand, with intrinsic value creating the rationale for the demand. I bet air would sell for a lot more out in Space or at the bottom of the ocean

There is no rationale to the demand for Bitcoin beyond a greater fool, or edge use cases like illicit transactions. It's obvious that 95%+ of people buying Bitcoin are doing it to make USD returns.
I'm not against centralization. At least for smaller purchases, I do like some of the privacy elements of some digital cash solutions. It sometimes feels like the temptation with centralized solutions given storage is cheap and the fraud and other arguments are strong is to avoid any privacy elements at all.
I genuinely can't tell if you're being serious or just taking the piss.

If you're taking the piss: lol, pretty funny.

If you're serious: lol, pretty funny.
> we have reached the point where we have models that can fool the average person.

And do we have models today that will fool the eventual average sentient AI?

Humanity has a chronic myopia at considering consequences of actions today in the context of tomorrow.

We may have a different relationship to these sorts of stories than an AI will. Something we should keep in mind.
We've not had a big problem getting candidate streams of people who want to work with Ruby. In a way I don't mind having an implicit filter against people who only want to work with shiny new things, as we don't really want our platform filled with everyone's favorite shiny technologies any more than we need a shiny language to write a good-sized e-commerce web app.
Pretty funny, I was going to order a balance board that I had been eyeing for a bit. Went to Amazon but it was not loading the page correctly, so I went to company's website to look up specs and found out they had 10% off coupon & no taxes. So I purchased it from them.

Wondering how much Amazon outages can actually increase revenues for smaller companies.
How Plates Made from Sugarcane Could Help India's Plastic Problem
IME fast software doesn't actually use this "waterfall" model. There needs to be feedback from performance considerations into semantics.
I am attempting to become a foster parent in Texas and have had a similar experience. Placing with kin and even "fictive kin" (effectively, anyone the child already knows whether related or not) is always the first priority over placement with licensed foster families. I wouldn't even say this is entirely because of foster family shortages. It's just what they'd prefer to do even if every option is open.

And yes, the system does treat us like crap. I don't even really want to foster, let alone try to get rich exploiting state payments for caring for kids. One, you can't. The expenses will always exceed whatever they pay you. I've already spent upwards of $80k on house modifications and buying a new car to comply with everything the licensing agencies said I had to do and that's before getting a single placement and spending anything on the actual kid (it does include pre-furnishing a child's bedroom, though). What I'm really trying to do is adopt, and since I've worked in the foster care system before (in California 15 years ago), I figured I'd give it a shot there as a I know kids who emancipate from the system without ever being adopted have absolutely terrible outcomes, even compared to other kids who have been in foster care. But, at least in Texas, there is no way to become licensed to adopt without also being licensed to foster, and because they privatized the entire system, you can only get licensed through a placement agency, and their own priority is placing kids in foster care. They don't seem to give a crap about the kids who are already legally free, and have even gone so far as to discourage being open about looking to adopt because apparently the state is reluctant to even place kids with you at all since their priority is the exact opposite, to reunite with the birth parents.

It's honestly getting to the point that it's enough to just give up and go for private adoption instead, which we were initially reluctant to do because 1) I actually want to help the most vulnerable, worst-off kids if I can, and 2) it is very hard to tell who and what is remotely legitimate in the world of private adoption and who is just bullying teenage girls into not getting abortions and then extorting people like me who have money but are not biologically able to have their own kids. Who'd have thought the foster care system would manage to be even worse than that?
Stop! I'm starting to miss Funtoo... And I now have all these Ryzen cores idling, longing for a world update... Must... Resist...
It'd be nice if it could split and support escapes and quoted strings. I often run into issues with things like csv where fields might be quoted or quoted strings where quotes are escaped
There’s a lot of people who seem to think an ev charging area will look basically like a gas station with the pumps switched. That is not going to happen.

A ev charging area will be a coffee shop or lounge, something that will be nice to hang around for 20 minutes. Gambling states should be ecstatic at the prospect.

Gas stations as they look today are not going to exist except to service legacy ice vehicles
Sure, that'd be a reasonable point, if you had started with that kind of information in your post. Instead you started with a hyperbolic 99.999% number and nothing to back it. Given that one would hope we'd be more careful about wrongful convictions with death penalty cases than a random bar brawl or possession charge I'm going to assert that the information I already provided is sufficient to refute the point.
Next question: how do we explain the sentience of this magic pair of dice?
Nuclear Lightbulb
Politicians love the people until they get their first lobbying check. This phenomenon isn't isolated to any particular ideology.
Wear from bikes and pedestrians is too small to be worth metering. You'd spend more on tracking and enforcement than it costs.

It's true that automobile use-in-terms-of-road-wear taxes would look very different from what they are now. A compact ICE car's total tax burden would drop to almost nothing. Ditto motorcycles. Truck and large SUV taxes would increase significantly. 18-wheelers would see enormous tax increases (road shipping is effectively heavily subsidized, now).
Inflation doesn't "run its course". It picks up speed until it is stopped. Eventually you end up in hyperinflation, when nobody wants to hold cash for any longer than necessary.

As a side effect, the government loses the ability to issue bonds, as there will be no new buyers.

The only way to prevent this is to make sure interest rates do not stay too low below inflation for too long, and in the end, iterest rates may have to go above inflation to actually get it back down.
I'm very sorry to hear that. It breaks my heart when this happens. (it's why we got into foster care!)

Luckily, we bought and were gifted so many clothes for our foster kid that our own bio kids are now wearing them after they left.
I'm guessing that the "Amazon lawyer" in those circumstances would probably be outside counsel.
The federal government alone already spends 920 billion on health care for people under 65 [1] plus 667 billion for people over 65. [2] That's 1.5 trillion for the federal government alone: the states all contribute to their Medicaid programs, and a lot of hospitals and hospital systems throughout the US are actually government-owned, usually at the county/city level. The problem with US health care costs is definitely not "the USG doesn't have a big enough stake." It's one of, if not the single biggest US government expenditure already.

I support single-payer, but it's not going to solve the US health care cost problem - and "solutions" to it are likely not going to be pleasant. Likely, in the practical world, whatever cost control ultimately ends up being imposed on whatever system we have 20 years from now is going to make health care worse. Indeed, what makes US health care so bad right now is in part ineffective cost control measures.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56571
[2] https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/medicare#:~:text=Medicare....
It's not bonkers at all. Presumably the Kremlin didn't want the brain drain, and labor drain, of these folks leaving. Surely you can agree that it was in the Soviet state interest to retain its slaves for exploitation?
Bravery is why you give people medals, it makes no sense to give Police Officers privileges on the guess that maybe some of them will be brave.

In the Commonwealth a police officer would likely get a George Cross for extraordinary bravery (the Victoria Cross is the medal for extraordinary bravery in the face of the enemy and so accordingly it is awarded to the military). New Zealand police officer Stewart Guthrie was awarded (posthumously) in 1990 for confronting a gunman who'd killed a dozen people. Guthrie warned him, "Stop or I shoot" but the gunman shot him first.

But of course such awards are rare because such events are rare in Commonwealth countries.
What confuses me in all this is just that when I pay with a chip + signature, I have to insert my card AND LEAVE IT IN for something like 10-20 seconds until the beep beep beep of death.

With my apple device, I touch the terminal, and its basically instant.

In other words, the bandwidth sticking my card INTO the device (plus whatever time it takes to do some calcs on device) is something like 2,000 times slower over a wired connection then my iphone does over wireless.

There is some failure in the current CVM implementation in the US because this makes no logical sense at all.

About half the chip terminals have to put big stickers on about LEAVING card inserted until told to remove. We've gone backwards from mag stripe here which despite being supposedly inferior was definitely a lot faster.
To me, that would certainly be less irritating than the artificially friendly, helpful, engaging tone of the current product.