skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software and coding are morally neutral.

Summoning mass false reporting brigades to destroy the livelihoods of innocent people is not.

I can't help that it's mostly one side doing it. Perhaps if it were less blatantly obvious, people would stop noticing it.
Lying isn't the same thing. In that moment, the man is just being dishonest. Later, if the wife brings up the incident and the man claims it both never happened and she constantly makes shit up like this, then yes he is gaslighting and is deeply unsafe.
But you see, listening to people would be politics.

Why do politics when you can just selfishly squeeze what you can before you get kicked out of office? After me, the flood.
Rust makes cents (Speed is a FEATURE)
According to owner's guide [1] it uses both a front camera and radar.

I can definitely imagine it relying on the camera for medium to long range collision avoidance.

[1] https://owners.honda.com/utility/download?path=/static/pdfs/...
This isn't true.

Using ffmpeg you can transcode one stream to HLS stream.

Example:
https://www.martin-riedl.de/2018/08/24/using-ffmpeg-as-a-hls...
The Open-Closed Principle is the second principle of SOLID. It is the hardest one to understand and follow. Do you agree?
Easy reverting is certainly not a bad thing, but IMHO, and not to suggest your comment implied anything either way, it should be a minority case and optimising for a minority case doesn't seem generally sensible. Maybe reverting has a use outside of 'uh oh' that I'm not conscious of (release management?) but if 'uh oh' reverting is not a minority case, sounds like there may be bigger problems at play. Do you come across many situations to use reverts day to day or week to week? I've probably only made a few in the last few years
The US is weird because they are far more open to immigrants than many other nations, and extremely lax about illegal immigration (encouraging it even) while at the same being outright inhuman in how they treat the people that do get caught up by border patrol. We should really be doing the opposite of that and be far more strict about controlling illegal immigration while also making sure that the people we deport or turn away at the border are treated with respect and dignity and are well cared for while in our custody.
Whenever you find someone in an unusual field for their demographics, chances are they are pretty good. People tend to go with the flow and those who don't tend to have particularly strong motivation. But my point is PhD is not the most obvious choice for someone with disadvantaged background. You will not be earning much and will be on the hook for tuition for a long time and even afterwards your salary in research is likely to be much lower than what you could earn in industry with same talent and similar amount of training. Obviously research has benefits to society and individuals may have dreams for things other than money. But I don't think they should be pushed in the direction that may not be best for them personally otherwise.
"The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects " - Orwell
Shall we play a game?

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Or the UK.

UK Extends Life of Third Coal Plant to Secure Winter Electricity
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-13/uniper-ex...
Isn't LTE spectrum licenced?
It's impossible to stop noticing the same perpetrators doing the same things over and over.

Also, as you're no doubt aware, calling someone "smug" and calling someone a Russian-backed Nazi science-denier (and then trying to get them fired and/or prosecuted) are very, very different.
If we trust our leaders. And our leaders feed us a bunch of bullshit. And then, motivated by that bullshit, we nazi up. Does that make us bad people?

This stuff has been researched deeply. Something like 96% of the population. Nice people. Not idiots. Will swallow absolutely anything that the leader feeds them.

It may be unfixable. Or maybe the only way to fix it is to destroy all forms of mass media.
Correct, if UN can’t directly punish or require punishment of a citizen for possession of cannabis, then it is moot, pragmatically speaking.

But yet, incorrect generalization of Article 6 of the US Constitution:

“Supreme Law of the Land … any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-6/

edit: may I remind you that approximately half or more of the states have legalized possession of cannabis, at this point
I think the link and title should be updated

Link to: https://old.reddit.com/r/bnbchainofficial/comments/xxjkpy/te...

Title to: Temporary Pause of BSC estimated funds taken off BSC are between $100M - $110M
I sold my crypto, there is no point of yet an another alt coin.
I met 2 guys while in prison that got hit on this. They worked in Federal Parks summer programs as teens and got busted with pot. Ruined their whole lives. They became repeat offenders because in their minds why not, they were never going to get a good job, never going to get ahead.
Both of which may or may not have some connection to the book What Color is Your Parachute: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Color_Is_Your_Parachute....
Links to the sources claiming his misinformation:

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/right-wing-vaccine-r...

From [1] he says "Unless we really have a compelling case, no one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccines." Hardly sounds unreasonable to me much less misinformation.

[2] https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/vaccines-are-a-safer-...

From [2] they do not give an actual quote of him but undoubtedly a bastardized paraphrasing.

[3] https://factcheck.afp.com/us-cardiologist-makes-false-claims...

From [3] they rebut his claims that healthy people under 50 years do not NEED the vaccine for their own benefit by claiming they were the primary spreaders in the summer of 2020 (prior to vaccine availability) which is quite the non-sequitur.

None of these factchecks are compelling. Even so, I'd argue doctors should be able to voice their opinions without reprisals and slanders. By cutting off the debate you stall out anyone already on the fence but open to discussion.
Your faraday cage may fail unless you are able to test it. Simple test you can try with a faraday cage. Put a phone in yours. Try to call the number on the phone. If it rings, you have a lot of studying to do.

Wrapping a phone a bit in aluminum foil didn't work for me. But if I was liberal with how much foil to use, I could eventually keep the phone off the hook.

Will that work to save an ssd from a signal millions of times more intense with a far sharper rise? I kind of doubt it. So that aluminum foil covering my lifes work or dreams is probably as good as 3 day old wheat bread toast after a dedicated electronic nuke is detonated.
It's been some time since I last read the memo. I think that criticism mischaracterizes his position?

Noting the differences in averages and more broadly the distribution is far from saying the differences are universal.
Something something fluoridation of water supplies . . . precious bodily fluids.
How did Canada and other countries manage to do it federally?
I agree with the gist, and I actually just started doing a course on AI today as a result of not wanting to get left behind

However, this bit reads as needlessly hyperbolic to me:

> The engineers of the future will, in a few keystrokes, fire up an instance of a four-quintillion-parameter model that already encodes the full extent of human knowledge (and them some), ready to be given any task required of the machine.

I mean okay, sure, eventually. But people were predicting hand-wavy everything-solutions like this sixty years ago in Star Trek. It's not very imaginative. Not to mention- this four-quintillion-parameter model will be hugely inefficient for simple tasks. I think it'll be a long time before we care that little about efficiency.

But here's a much more near-term scenario I'm imagining:

You need to stand up a new microservice. You have an off-the-shelf "learned microservice" web framework that you reach for. You write a small training set of example request/response JSON, not unlike unit-tests. Maybe the training set includes DB mutations too. You start testing out the service by hand, find corner-cases it doesn't handle correctly, add more training examples until it does everything you need.

Now, in addition to saved effort vs hand-coding (which may or may not be the case, depending on how simple the logic is), you've got what I've started to think of as a "squishy" system component.

Maybe, because AI is fuzzy, this service can handle malformed data. Maybe it won't choke on a missing JSON key, or a weird status code. Maybe it can be taught to detect fishy or malicious requests and reject them. Maybe it can tolerate typos. Maybe it can do reasonable things with unexpected upstream errors (log vs hard-fail vs etc).

This is the really compelling thing for me: so much of what makes software hard is its fragility. Things have to be just so or everything blows up. What if instead, the component pieces of our digital world were a little squishy? Like human beings?
Your comment made me realize a chemical reaction is an analog computer computing every parameter of the chemical reaction at once.
Please don’t confuse stupid political fights in media with real chemical weapons.

It’s insulting to people who were killed/disabled as a result of chemical weapons.
Much easier to understand from the voter perspective of the tallier perspective? From the voter perspective I find them fairly equivalent and both are frequently used in the everyday world (scoring might be even more considering 5 star reviews). But from a tallying perspective I think it is very hard to argue that RCV is substantially easier. Again, the score/approval algorithm is identical to the FPTP algorithm (which is trivial). It is simply argmax(sum(candidates)). Just sum the totals in an excel file and pick the largest number. I don't know a single person that has a hard time understanding this and I suspect if they did they would have an even harder time understanding how to tally RCV.
I also found the comment you replied to a little unconvincing. The remark concerning scale in particular did not hit home, as I would guess the vast majority of teams are <10 devs which I would hardly call 'scale'. I left my previous role for several reasons but one was the constant "Microsoft does x".. Microsoft has 100k devs, we had 5. Not the same.
The UK planned on using them if Germany ever tried landing on their shores in WWII. Basically just dumping chlorine and mustard gas off the top of cliffs and watching it sink down hill. Anyone on the beaches would've been trapped between that and the ocean.
https://twitter.com/brandonee916/status/1577448444112707585
I don't care if you share hollywood movies but I find it a bit appauling you just keep posting this crappy autotranslate of his in-print book.

This guy deserves some sales, he's legend.
Taiwan biggest trading partner is, by far, mainland China. And Hong-Kong is not far down the list [1]. Media might give you the impression that China and Taiwan are practically at war, and that might even be true in so far as China is contemplating invading Taiwan.

But if you look at the history between the Taiwan and China [2], there has been a lot of economical cooperation, after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 (many foreign companies left China at the time, leaving a void filled by Taiwan), and especially between 2008 and 2016. So it's not surprising at all that there are cables in the strait.

[1] https://www.worldstopexports.com/taiwans-top-import-partners...

[2] https://econreview.berkeley.edu/dancing-with-the-dragon-an-e...
“Intellectual property” is a propaganda phrase that deliberately confuses copyright, trademark, and patent law in order to create the illusion that ideas can or should have owners. (See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html)
I recommend specifically referring to the concept at hand, in this case copyright.

Personally I disagree, as the models themselves do not contain any material which can be considered a copyright violation, the value of scraping the open web is easily apparent, the ability to prevent scraping wholesale - even given the legal framework to disallow it - seems dubious, and lastly because the collective potential harm caused by restricting just one or a few of the more arguably more ethical nations from this technology pathway is a known unknown, and possibly a very large one at that.
Upgrade to ChromeOs. why bother with Linux. I converted an old windows laptop with a touchscreen to a chromeos using now google acquired neverware. love it.
Everyone Has the Wrong Idea About EV-Converted Classic Cars
Does anyone know how the cables get from Hillsboro (OR) to the ocean? It appears to be the most in-land landing point on the map. Along the right-of-way for US 26?
I have a solar radio-synchronized G-Shock and it's a great watch. Best I've owned to date.

The problem is I don't wear watches anymore.
There’s a difference between tear gas and sarin.
You can also build mountains made out of dogshit, but as it turns out the target market for that is zero. Zuck can’t make it.
Quoting the essay:

> Now, I want to leave aside, for the purpose of this essay, the use of lethal chemical agents in genocide, the use of non-lethal chemical agents entirely, as well as the use of things like defoliants that were not intended to cause casualties (even if they did). Those things are all important, but if we get into talking about them, we will never get anywhere. Instead, we’re focusing on the battlefield use of lethal chemical agents against either opposing combatants or civilian populations.
What was that bit about praying then?
Let's go back 30-odd years. It's late in the 1980s. The US and the Soviets have been competing heavily for the last 50 or so years. Both are spending money like there's no tomorrow. Both are heading rapidly towards bankruptcy.

It's the end of the Cold War. The Soviet Union runs out of money and goes broke and breaks up. The US goes broke but continues triumphantly on. (Or so goes the normally accepted story.)

The US is lucky at the end of the Cold War by having the advantage of having the World's Reserve Currency to use as a credit-card. That allows the US to continue serenely on, and being allowed to continue racking up debt after debt on that reserve currency credit-card. Because it is not forced to restructure its finances, by 2022 it is 31 TRILLION dollars deep in the shit.

The Soviets are lucky at the end of the Cold War by NOT having the World's Reserve Currency to use as a credit-card. That forces the Soviets/Russians into about ten years of difficult restructuring of their finances and then by 2022, after 20 years of positive cash-flows the Russians are the proud owners of roughly half a trillion dollars of reserves and negligible external debt.

Today's world is rapidly de-dollarizing. When that Reserve Currency credit-card is taken away, the US is in a huge world of hurt that will make the Yeltsin-era Russian decade of pain look like a picnic in comparison.
Similar here. It was a computer store sales guy telling preteen me not to bother with the MS-DOS book I had in hand because in a few years people will just verbally instruct their computers in plain language.
Anyone who is not directly involved in the various things like water supply doesn’t realize all the safety measures and such that in place to prevent accidental contamination- which also help detect and prevent intentional damage.

The total number of terrorists is small, and their ability is limited. But that may not always be the case.
Your example wasn't a good example. For starters, it's literally a binary decision to make (yes/no: is this jstx1 trying to unlock the phone?).

Most of the tough, interesting, challenging problems in this world don't boil down to binary decisions.

Second, facial recognition doesn't depend (inherently) on artificial intelligence. It's not a great example. It's not a truly interesting, tough problem. It's not in the realm of fuzzy logic, concurrency, periodic or aperiodic behavior, or nonlinear relationships.

Could a Neural Net do it faster? Yeah, sure, maybe. But so what? You have a quicker algorithm, a faster heuristic.
Hanford was for nuclear weapons, not nuclear power. It's a subtle difference, but very important. The mess created there was unnecessary for and not driven by nuclear power, and is like saying solar photovoltaic is bad because coal power plants also generate electricity.
The treaty isn't about prosecuting crimes its about adhering to international drug policy so drugs don't incubate in certain countries and end up in others. In this way, the UN does have regulatory input. It's all "voluntary"; we can always withdraw from the treaty or ignore it.

Yes, you are incorrectly generalizing Article 6. It's literally saying Treaties trump state laws and is directing judges to adhere to Federal laws and Treaties over the state laws and Constitutions which conflict with that.
As far as I’m aware the verdict is still out on the long term effects so I’m not sure “temporary” is accurate.

The fact that it seemed to be impacting women’s menstrual cycles in my city makes me concerned about long term issues related to exposure (fertility among them): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/period-tear-gas-study-...

Clearly this needs some study.

It’s certainly true that the people exposed to this gas are not currently dead, I’ll give you that.
Legal for police use but banned in warfare. I agree with your point though.

> The 1925 Geneva Protocol categorized tear gas as a chemical warfare agent and banned its use in war shortly after World War I.

> In 1993, nations could begin signing the U.N.'s Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) that outlawed the use of riot control agents in warfare.

> A database by the International Committee of the Red Cross shows the ban of riot control agents in war went into effect in 1997, but still made it legal for law enforcement use. The Senate approved the CWC in a 74-26 vote on April 25, 1997

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/06/fac...
The Steam Deck is basically this. IMO it runs games in Linux better than Windows (especially with gamescope and the instant sleep and resume feature) and has played every game I have thrown at it. I assume at the pace Valve is updating SteamOS and Proton it will play everything but the super long tail of games soon.
This sounds like they basically want to beta test in real life. I get training models but on a mass scale like this, with lives potentially at stake doesn’t seem right.
Targeting industrial facilities however seems likely to work though.
no, it isn't. WA is the industry standard. More features doesn't mean better
PaulHoule, on the other hand, gave a great example:

>For instance, where should a modern book on digital photography be filed in the library? Should it go in the 000's with computing? In the 700's under art? Or in the 600's with technology (an application of optics, electronics, etc.)
Wake me when they have a working prototype.

There are approximately a squillion conceptual designs floating around for next-generation nuclear reactors and a distinct shortage of actually existing examples of next-generation nuclear reactors.
Could I use something like this to train my own GPT that's obsessed with Wikipedia? :)
I think in principle there is a difference, or could be. They might prioritize neighborhoods with the greatest concentration of workers in strategic industries, rather than the neighborhoods with the largest populations.

But... is that really what they were doing?

> In the raid, major industrial areas in the suburbs, which stretched for miles, were not targeted.[10] According to historian Donald Miller, "the economic disruption would have been far greater had Bomber Command targeted the suburban areas where most of Dresden's manufacturing might was concentrated".[48]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_Wa...
The vast majority of nuclear power plants were built before three mile island[1] and the accompanying increases in regulation. The point is, even the supposedly "unsafe" nuclear plants are still vastly safer than most energy sources.

You're correct about the infrastructure needs to construct pressure vessels. That's a large part of why nuclear plants were cheaper when built at scale during the 1960s and 70s. It's a lot easier for heavy industry to recoup the investment of building a heavy press if they have an order of 40 pressure vessels instead of 4.

1. Which, by the way, resulted in no radiation exposures or lasting exclusion zone.
The future would continue like a nursery rhyme. Embedded in everyone that had English speaking ancestors had this inscribed in them:

ring around the rosy
pocket full of posy
ashes
ashes
we all fall down

The inscription date was 538 ad, the second year of the plague of Justinian and the installment of the Biship of Rome.
It's probably more because of the horrific effects it has mainly on non-military targets and the fact that people tend to be held accountable afterwards. As happened to e.g. Chemical Ali, a general in the Iraqi regime famous for his use of chemical weapons on civilians, who was hanged in 2010 for his actions. Likewise the mere hint of such weapons being used in Syria, caused them to be isolated further.

So, most modern military would be keenly aware that the use of such weapons might have long term consequences for them personally and hands the moral high ground to their opponent almost automatically almost immediately. This has mostly negative consequences short term and it's probably counter productive. If that was not the case, we'd be seeing those weapons used in e.g. the Ukraine right now by the Russians. And they seem to have no reservations about targeting civilians otherwise. But it's hard to spin gassing civilians as heroic or patriotic. Even in Russia. Kind of destroys their de-nazificaton pitch.

Even the Nazis did not go there during WWII. Aside of course from committing genocide as part of the holocaust. They did actually develop chemical weapons but they never deployed them on the battle field: https://www.history.com/news/the-nazis-developed-sarin-gas-b...
Sentient AI will fix it.
We might not like the fix though.
If you don't like sigmoids you might like ReLU

https://iq.opengenus.org/relu-activation/

For many learning tasks ReLU performs better than sigmoid.

My favorite use of sigmoid functions is

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/calibration.html

where they are very good at turning arbitrary scores (say from a full-text search engine) into probabilities. For IBM Watson they tried a lot of things and found logistic functions dominated. Turning scores into probabilities was how Watson could decide if and when hitting the button would help win the game.

The big trouble with probabilities is that, potentially, every event is contingent on every other event and the joint probability distribution of all possible inputs and outputs is a huge dimensional space. In principle you could learn any function by sampling the joint probability distribution exhaustively but practically you can't get that much data. The miracle of machine learning is that the methods we use can guess at the joint probability distribution of inputs and outputs with only a limited sample.

If there was one great unsolved problem of the "old AI" namely expert systems it was doing logical reasoning over probability functions. It's not good enough to estimate that A has a 80% probability of being true, in general you need to estimate what the probability of A is if B is true and C is false. If the problem cooperates you can use half-baked methods to reason about uncertainty (like the MYCIN medical diagnosis program) but general and correct methods are elusive.
White phosphorus is neither a war-zeppelin-bomber nor a chemical weapon.

Not sure which one you were under the misapprehension that it was. It's neither.
> The President is not God, or a king.

Keeping Presidents accountable doesn't mean expecting Godlike powers.