skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this is amazing:

Could you write me a poem that uses every letter of the alphabet and features a rhino?

A rhino, big and strong,
Charging through the jungle all day long.
Determined and fierce, with a horn so grand,
Every animal knows to stay out of its land.
Fiercely defending its territory and mate,
Great power and speed, it's hard to relate.
Highly intelligent, with a memory to match,
It's a formidable beast, and no simple catch.
Just a single glance, and you'll see its might,
Keen senses alert, ready for a fight.
Lumbering and massive, yet graceful and fair,
Mother Nature's masterpiece, beyond compare.
Nimble and quick, when it needs to be,
On the hunt for food, it's as fast as can be.
Perfectly adapted, to its environment and place,
Quietly moving, with stealth and grace.
Rare and majestic, a treasure to behold,
Strong and resilient, a sight to behold.
Truly magnificent, in every way,
Unforgettable and awe-inspiring, it's hard to say.
Venerable and wise, with a history to tell,
Worth protecting, and loving as well.
eXtraordinary and unique, a marvel to see,
Year after year, it's a true mystery.
Zealous and proud, it roams free.
A rhino, a wonder of the natural world, for all to see.
I mean in a different sense, in the sense that it is insincere. That's the problem with trolling right there. If you're sincere, it's obviously not trolling.

Argueing that something is trolling because it solicits a reaction, or that because it's disruptive it counts as trolling, doesn't make sense. You can't distinguish trolling without knowing someone's motivations. Posts that could be trolling could just as easily be venting, or bringing up a genuine concern that just happens to be contentious, or etc.

Otherwise, flaming people in general is obviously trolling. That's not the way the word trolling has been used historically.
Tech changed global labor struggles for better and worse
Stagger Charts to Build Predictability into a Startup
> So, if you really think these things are somehow such a theft of money, go compete, do it vastly cheaper, hire your friends and other do-gooders, and see how it goes.

Do you sincerely believe this is how it works? Just make your own software consultancy team and lobby the government to build their new campsite reservation system?
> Even apps like iTerm can be updated and restarted in-place, retaining all the sessions.

iTerm doesn't retain sessions at all. It just presents a facade resembling preserved sessions. Close iTerm2 while you have a tmux session open, or some SSH connections, or any long-running command. Those sessions and their processes die when you close iTerm.

Maybe iTerm can approximate some of those things if iTerm is actually running the whole show, i.e., iTerm mediates launching your tmux sessions and your SSH connections. But imo those features are underwhelming and oversold.
Hmm... Shouldn't they have already done this? Why would you allow garbage apps on state-owned devices?
Debian stable users who did want latest Firefox could download the binaries from Mozilla. Just unpack and run from e.g. home directory or perhaps copy to /opt/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/#product-desktop-r...
To be entirely fair it was in twitter TOS before acquisition that comedy account should be clearly marked and that putting that info in the bio is not enough.

Just that Twitter didn't exactly consistently enforce it.

So sure the bans were just sad rich man being offended but they were still technically breaking TOS
> It had a left-bias

I don't know what it will take for this lie to die. It has absolutely zero supporting evidence. The data suggests just the opposite.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtu...

> "There is no evidence to support the claim that the major social media companies are suppressing, censoring or otherwise discriminating against conservatives on their platforms,” Barrett said. “In fact, it is often conservatives who gain the most in terms of engagement and online attention, thanks to the platforms’ systems of algorithmic promotion of content."
Microsoft’s self updating desktop apps (Teams etc) switch silently on restart.
Unsure about their store apps but I imagine it’s the same thing.

With older windows desktop apps which install to privileged locations like %programfiles% it’s more complex.

But that’s the point: snap is a new system. It should be well designed because of it, and be on par with “modern” install systems. It feels strange if they restart for no reason. And it feels equally strange if they have a design that requires it.
> It's fascinating how Elon Musk supporters on Twitter cheered, almost like a sports team, when the Twitter employees got fired in such inhumane ways by Elon Musk

Do you have any examples? Did they identify as Musk supporters? One or two tweets with a sufficiently high amount of replies and 'likes' should be enough. Otherwise, I'd wonder if you are painting a narrative.
Also curious... I spent a while trying to get system to tell me directly, but no dice: https://twitter.com/nickmvincent/status/1598478685019189248?...

It gives a generic answer that it's some proprietary combinations of "books, articles and websites". I'd guess Wikipedia is in there for sure (English and maybe other editions as well), something like "BookCorpus" (https://huggingface.co/datasets/bookcorpus), probably a large scrape of news articles up to 2021. And definitely a full scrape of pretty much the entire academic/scientific literature (just based on poking around). Overall, probably very similar to GPT-3 (which is also a bit mysterious still!)

The official post (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/) also describes that some pretty rich human feedback data was collected as well, for the reinforcement learning component. I think this probably the real secret sauce for why this feels so qualitatively different than a lot of the LLMs that came before.
> "We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution" - Tim Cook

This applies to literally every single company that "just earns the same money doing nothing, or very little".

> Apple executives worried that the iPod would lose market share once cellphone manufacturers figured out how to put MP3 players on their phones.

Again, this applies to every single company in the same space

And yet somehow Apple spent those billions of dollars on R&D and others didn't. And on hardware side they keep doing it while the rest of the industry sort of just watches, doing nothing.

As an example: Samsung is entirely dependent on Google for software and on Qualcomm for chips. Unlike Apple, their entire product lines are literally under continuous existensial threat from multiple sides. Tell me, what exactly have they done to fix that?

Whereas Apple, the richest company in the world, either takes risks introducing completely new categories of products (new for them as a company) and wiping the floor with competition (see Apple Watch, 40% market share with Samsung a distant 10%), or managing seamless CPU transition for a two-decade old OS while again wiping the floor with the competition (see the entire M1 saga of the past few years).
Sentencing recommendations? Do you mean what the prosecutor asks the judge for or are judges using this software?
Great to see these kinds of intro articles!

Worth noting that the 2-phase split isn’t really there in JITs that have been optimized to the limit because they tend to do some amount of self-modifying code and to make that great, they interleave the compiler IR with runtime data structures. Not saying it has to be that way, only that it often is, for good reasons.
A Cerebras CS-2 Engine Block Bare on the SC22 Show Floor
I had a WTF moment while reading that and then I reread your intro. We’ll done!
“This article talks about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important in today's world and why it is one of the most important stories of the year. It explains how AI has helped with tasks like creating virtual assistants, driving cars, and even helping diagnose diseases. The article also looks at some of the potential risks associated with AI, such as job displacement and privacy concerns. Finally, it discusses the potential benefits that AI could bring to society if used responsibly.”

— summary by GPT-3
Don't forget device drivers back in the day before all the chips got thrown directly into the motherboard. You might buy a nice soundcard, but the software that came with it (drivers and utilities both) were quite a mess.

I think a big part of Apple's success was getting both hardware and software right.
Last time I tried synapse, it was very very resource hungry. I can give it another try, but I found no matrix client with the features I'd like.
AIUI junior folks are leaving and the turnover is ridiculous. Folks with seniority are stuck in large part because of unvested pensions and because certifications often don't transfer to other industries even if the job skills seem like they ought to.
That’s not at all how that works. At 95%, they can lend 95 cents for every dollar on deposit.
Because this is educational institution

So I'm using fair and transparent metrics proxying for learning capabilities, knowledge (in topics related to degrees) , etc, etc?
So I requested a quote from GeoLinks (bay area). They responded with a quote for business, to which I replied:

> Residential quote, please. [EOM]

They concluded:

> Thank you for contacting GeoLinks! We have received your inquiry regarding GeoLinks’ service in your area. Unfortunately, due to some data errors, the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection map does not accurately reflect GeoLinks’ service footprint. We are in the process of correcting the data provided to the FCC but it will take time for the map to be revised.

> We apologize for any confusion this may have caused and hope that you will consider GeoLinks in the future when service is available in your area.

Nice. Nowhere did I mention FCC; they must've felt the barrage of HN this AM it seems.
Isn't there a statute of limitations for these types of crimes?
(Not sure for the US here, but...)

If all the data is spread to the winds, if everyone hits ground, can they even file charges? I suppose so, but if there is no evidence pointing to wrongdoing...

To be honest, I'm not even sure what he supposedly did wrong. He took investments, in an unregulated sector, and backed those investments and lost?

If he were a bank, that's 100% legit. No bank I know of, has 100% of investor funds backed by anything. Even in Canada, land of give-a-fuck-sorta, there used to be a requirement for banks to have hard currency (gold, cash) in a vault somewhere, 5% worth of account holder's value, which was inspected annually by the government. Yet the last time I read the bank act, it was removed as a requirement.

If banks don't need any sort of banking for account holders in CAD, why would an unregulated exchange need that?

(Again, I can imagine there are all sorts of things I'm missing... but?!)
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>Anyone who has ever moderated knows that allowing a free-speech-for-all, while seemingly a noble ideal, turns into something that nobody needs nor wants. Communication becomes noisy, the topics tend to favour a lowest denominator of quality, and more akin to a soapbox arena then a place of pure speech.

That was the case before acquisition. Just the lowest common denominator biased towards whatever political views twitter mods held
I mean that seeing someone's grades over the course of several years is more useful then test scores.
One of my core values is encouraging people to make their own choices in how they spend their life.
I'm sure software being slower than molasses wastes much more computer resources than unused outdated phones.

Plus, if computing power isn't strictly necessary to achieve a task, but makes the experience smoother, is it really wasted? Nobody wants their web browser to look like a power point (which it kinda does on my pinebook pro, a $200 arm laptop). Most people could daily it, but stuff running smoother is worth something.
Could a different technology, one perhaps with a higher weight per Wh but a higher Wh capacity per volume, make more sense in a semi-trailer-truck? Since on some routes they cruise for up to 11 hours, the weight could be less significant that a car doing city driving.
That was impressive, the less-impressive part was watching them completely fail to document the filesystem and (still) have yet to release the open source spec they promised. Par for the course with Apple, but still bothersome enough to mention.
Yeah, and their financial aid goes pretty far. I remember when I applied maybe 10 years ago or so, it would have cost around $5k/yr or even less. Coming from a middle-class family in the Midwest.

They seem to make it possible for anyone to afford to go there. (They’re just very selective about who can.) So I would never say they’re overpriced or expensive. Maybe it costs a lot if you come from a rich family, but for them, the price doesn’t matter. And for those of us who aren’t rich, it wouldn’t be expensive.

This is very abnormal for non-elite private schools. If I’d gotten in to any of the elite schools, I think they would have been the cheapest options by far… even compared to state schools.
I believe he's changed it based on whatever he is feeling at the moment is the best choice, which could change tomorrow. I honestly don't think he has a clue what he is doing or what free speech actually is.

The picture Ye posted is not illegal in the United States and so therefore it appears he no longer supports free speech.
Just for reference I believe that the "more speech" idea originated with Louis Brandeis, who was a brilliant thinker and one of the important liberal Supreme Court justices of the 20th century. The actual quote is:

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."[0]

Louis Brandeis did believe that context and specifics are important, so I think the technology of the online platform is significant especially with respect to the first part of that quote.

[0] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep...
Almost there! Are you in macOS m1/m2 by any chance?
I'm not certain - assuming their goals are consistent with other depictions they'll probably come armed with pre-wireless technology spoofing devices and a serial or parallel port so they can actually interact with and take over missile control systems.

Some day we might find an uneasy peace with the machines when we desperately admit we need their advanced technological capabilities to bridge PS/2 to USB-c so we can keep using our clicky IBM Model-M keyboards.
> I don’t know that the two situations are comparable as a result.

Why or why not? Should the amount of publicity matter for the justice system? What distinguishes a "humanitarian disaster" from a bunch of rich kids having to sleep rough on a beach near a resort town for a few days?
Ah, sorry, I think I didn't catch the sarcasm.
I get the frustration about the email, but that aside, I do wonder whether requiring the email before getting the book is the most effective mechanism for your end goal. What do you want to achieve? Do you want to maximize the number of people subscribed? Do you want to create a community? Why do you want these things? Do you want to share your knowledge?

Having no email-wall would probably result in fewer registrations. But I do wonder if you had all the pages available -- meaning they would be indexed by Google and show up in search results -- with a subscribe to my newsletter button, if that would have a comparable number of registrations because you would have more people seeing the button? And they might be potentially higher quality registrations, too, if you want a community.

If your end goal is to share your knowledge then making the entire book public is probably the better option.

In short I'm just confused what the goal of the email-wall is!
It's obviously true, unless Twitter employees were regularly using work e-mail for personal data. You don't need a tool to download a few performance evaluations.

They haven't disabled the "download email button" because there are legitimate reasons for employees to download data (e.g. opening files in local apps), but trying to retain access after being laid off is not one of them.
Florida state tax website bug exposed filers’ data
Applying to College, and Trying to Appear ‘Less Asian’
That is, as the article implies, one of those weird, fuzzy areas where:

Yes, you are exposing yourself to some liability.

But no, if you try to avoid that liability, you will run off all of your users.

How many memes have you seen today that are based on an image from a recent movie?
> I am unhappy with this description. An overloaded truck is a safety issue, and also a long term road-wear issue.

Sure, except this fundraising didn't stop the activity. It just took a cut from the profits, and the vehicles drove off AIUI. This was Illinois in the late 80s-early 90s I'm talking about...
This is a simple explanation: https://twitter.com/compound248/status/1598446656634191872
Because of the monopoly of ticketmaster, it is literally impossible for artists to sell their own tickets in any sizable venues. They have locked up basically all of the sizeable places in the us.
It wouldn't matter. I still would not buy an i386, compile my programs in 32-bit mode instead of 64-bit, nor use the i386 ISA as a model when designing a new ISA.

Same thing with 6502, Z80, Vax, etc.

What matters is performance, and i386 code does not give as good performance as x86_64 code or modern RISC code (it doesn't have as many GPRs etc so it can't).
So it would seem safe to say that financial crimes can take a very long time to bring charges. Why is the smoking gun so buried?
Well, some traders are selling on the news, which is what causes the dip. Most investors don't really have a deep technical grasp of the situation and don't fully realize how common software vulns are, don't understand their impact, or don't understand the effort to remediate them.
It's not hard to maintain a frozen codebase with a skeleton crew. This is practiced routinely at many organizations during end-of-year holidays when many people take PTO.

However, not many companies can survive with a permanent code-freeze, which is why companies don't just fire the "excess" folk who take PTO between December 25 and January 1, even though "things were fine" in that timeframe
Yeah still not seeing it as something worth banning people over or having any actual harm. I didn't boycott the shop where cashier called me a girl either.
I've been using Starlink as my primary internet provider for the past year. I'm just outside of Eugene, OR and prior to Starlink my only internet options were Viasat or dial-up.

I definitely notice the variability of Starlink. My download speed ranges from ~40mbps to ~200mbps, and my upload speed ranges from ~5mbps to ~50mbps. This doesn't really seem to be connected to time of day or what I would expect to be typical use patterns. My internet is never unusable for Zoom, streaming video, or other average use cases.

A lot of people complain about decreased speeds, my personal experience hasn't really shown this to be true. What I have noticed:

* Over the past year, I've seen a huge improvement in latency and packet loss. I used to have latency in excess of 130ms, and I would typically see a few dropouts lasting ~30 seconds per hour. My latency now is rarely more than 60ms, and I never have dropouts.

* Being behind an IPv4 CGNAT is annoying. I get a lot more captchas and fraud prevention techniques being applied in my browsing.

* Geolocation is way off. I wish SpaceX did a little bit more effort to dedicate IP geodata to specific cells in their network - everything defaults to their Seattle POP for me.

* The adoption of Starlink out here is astonishing. Virtually every house near me has gotten it in the past 2-3 months. It's a huge game-changer for people. It's pretty amazing what the Starlink team has built out in a relatively short amount of time.
"If you build more nuclear" can be done without cap and trade, and thus the positive spillovers also happen without cap and trade.

But what doesn't happen, is that cap and trade doesn't result in building more nuclear.
Fantastic! Thank you.
There’s a larger point about institutionalized unfairness, though. Sure, it may have been an isolated incident of some students pretending to be athletes, but the larger question is why are athletes being given preferential admission to Harvard in the first place?

And whatever the answer to that question is, it’s going to require a bloated admissions department to make it happen.
This is not related to radio hacks, it is just a poorly secured web API.
What was the "inhumane" manner?

From https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588671155766194176

"Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required."

Seems reasonably generous. Certainly not "inhumane."
> Madoff was arrested after he confessed privately to his own family

Including stating his imminent intent to surrender to authorities, he also admitted to massive fraud when interviewed by the FBI immediately after that, and before the arrest.

SBF ain't in the same place as Madoff.
You've never worked for a gov office have you? Getting any kind of new policies or tools added or updated when it comes to infra and IT can take years, if not decades. I would not be surprised if the one I volunteered at 10 years ago when I got my start is still on Lotus Notes.
I mean - no offense... - but if you still think corporate entities have any real loyalty you've clearly not been paying attention for a long time.

I've never seen that attitude last beyond the initial 50 or so employees at a startup, and it sure as fuck doesn't last past the "we're installing monitoring software on all your machines" stage.

Work is what you do to get paid - it's not your family. It's not your friend. Don't treat it like it is.

That doesn't mean don't take it seriously, or respect it - just understand that work is your family like a hooker is your girlfriend - it's only true until the money runs out.
I think that is a fair line of reasoning.

Most online forums have rules against doxing. Then again, most online forums have problems with anonymous users making false claims.

Is wikipedia likewise complicit for publishing articles on nefarious topics? How about linking to macdonalds.com, who is surely complicit in more deaths than kiwifarms?
Both the CAT D9 and the Tesla Model 3 Performance advertise 450 HP.
>This is almost off-topic. Skip if that bugs you

No, you're completely on topic : the phenomenon you describe of privatised systematic perpetrator defensive hurdles is called self regulation, which is precisely what SBF was most avidly lobbying for.
Who said anything about flooding the dispatchers? They aren't getting a flood of false 911 alerts. Where do you see that they are?
My daughter and five year old grandson are homeless near Philadelphia. She refuses help from me. I think she likes being unemployed, and enjoys her situation. Do you think this is possible?
> customer deposit that are legally off-limits

Where did you get this impression? Even that part is potentially up for debate. FTX isn't a bank or anything like that and they say that FTX USA is actually still solvent and will payout. I have my doubts about the last one but if he actually pays all US customers back he might get away with this.
And I'm sure all four of your users will enjoy your system.

I'm exaggerating, but there is a reason that HN is not the most popular social media site in the world.