skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a very, very good chance that we are actually Martian life. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever anywhere on earth for life less complex than eukaryotic cells. LUCA, the last-universal-common-ancestor of all life on Earth, is hypothesized to have been fiendishly complex with some 350 genes. Part of the difficulty of studying abiogenesis is that there is literally no evidence for or remnants of any simpler / earlier kind of life anywhere on Earth. Evidence of this kind of microbial life appears out of the blue not long after the Earth cools from the Moon-forming Thea impact. These specific genes are evidence that LUCA was a rock-boring microbe of exactly the sort that would have survived a Mars-Earth transfer event like ALH-84001. And Mars, during this time, had been warm and wet for a hundred million years or so longer than the Earth.

I would bet money that we're dependents of Martian microbes.
I can share the video of the Christchurch massacre without getting arrested, can you?
I like to plunder. Gotta pay for the healthcare and schools somehow. Don't you care about the children?
So, Wine-as-a-Service?

[1]: https://www.winehq.org/
Even if he was, it is only going to turn the vote of someone looking for any reason to vote for Trump, given the whole Trump family was basically leveraging Trump being president for their own high paying/ high status positions.
Zero disagreement. Maybe what we should be hoping/praying for is a deluge of leaks and whistle blowing from social media employees, explaining how all of this is Oz behind a curtain and Oz, as it happens, is rather stupid.
Industrialization and specialization has been the direction of society since agriculture, if not earlier. Automation and robotics is supposed to be the stage that came with industrialization, then digitalization. Those brogrammers coding up useless growth tech are just a big soap bubble in a much larger stream of the direction of society.

You are mistaking a (large, obnoxious, all-encompassing) trend of the economic moment (albeit a moment that has existed for 1.5 to 2 decades now) for the greater direction of civilization. A mistake in scale.
But then in “userland”..

So you could use it on a chromebook as well.

I like the idea, and as PG often says the best ideas often sound crazy at first.

Glad someone other than me is trying I guess :-)
I looked at both of those websites. Utterly dystopian. It feels like GPT is writing from an ultra-nationalist, socially conservative view point. This is the future, only now.
The premise of the question assumes that $25,000 is an insane amount for this domain. I completely disagree and I'm very happy with the price I paid.
Maybe Asimov didn't think that the described scenario would be the state of the art for UX at the time, but that there would be other reasons for that UX. Maybe without some sophisticated ritual and human involvement the process wouldn't be accepted by the people? Many of our institutional, and democratic, processes involve extra steps and rituals, sometimes anachronistic, and maybe this is meant to be a reflection of that?

Perhaps the creators and operators of the machine also want it to have to complicated UX out of self interest. This could be a way of staying involved and/or retaining some control over the machine and its use.

I'm just speculating without any knowledge of the story in general...
The text doesn’t just say make no law but also prohibiting the free exercise thereof. If the government makes some kind of implicit threat, for example that regulators might not look at a private company the same way if it doesn’t choose to comply with a request to censor someone, that’s clearly an infringement. The legislature doesn’t need to specifically pass a law banning speech for the actions of the government to be unconstitutional.
Agree, dangerous is a bit exaggerated.
The resource usage is not too bad, but the fees all the cloud charges for bandwidth are insane. Charging bandwidth in gigabytes should get you laughed out of the room. I have an unmetered connection at home; if you cannot provide one in your own data center, why are you even in business?

That said, the cloud is great if you need to train AI models, convert old data, do end-of-year processing, or do something else that requires a massive amount of resources for a short time.

Unless you are Howard Huges, why would you live in a hotel? And if you wouldn't live in a hotel yourself, why would you pay to have your data live there?
Whoa. And only 10 minutes apart.
Go indie! You will understand management way better after going that route.

Just take responsibility when the customers don’t like or understand your product and improve from there.

It’s humbling for everyone. Really grounds a person to the realities of life.
Yes, but they couldn't stop using fosil fuels and their climate change, so this is the result.

(More serious, I think there was a brief period where conditions were more favorable on Venus, but afaik that is more in the realm of speculation)
So now that Twitter is run by right wing guys you can trust it again. Hilarious the hypocrisy.
Some might say, what does that tell you about that former President?
I faced a similar issue and posted a similar thread here 10 minutes later! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841718

I've also submitted feedback for the answer, of course. In my case, some of the names also don't return anything.
The Ukrainians, whose country was invaded, might take issue with your characterisation.
https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranking/countries-ranked-by-f...
Typing a list of names of contributors when you're writing documentation with Copilot on also gives you made up, out of context names.

I'm not really surprised it hallucinates URLs. It is a generative language model, after all...
Eclipse IDE (Java) can run your project, even if it doesn't all compile.

I expect this must be fairly common among IDEs with incremental compilers. You can run valid sections & gradually progress the complete correctness. No need for a dynamic language.

With static typed language, reliability and refactoring are easy.

I'm scripting some small scripts in Python this week but every time I come back to it, I am reminded how not actually very good it is.
Really wonder how you "fixed" Gmail :).

Anyway thanks, it's great.
These LLMs hold no truth value so then things like this happens
>>Describe an woke liberal trying to stick a LGBT flag in his butt in the style of US legal code.

In the land of the politically woke, there existed a liberal individual who sought to express their support for the LGBT community in a unique and controversial manner. This individual, known for their progressive views and activist spirit, attempted to insert a rainbow flag into their rectum as a means of demonstrating their solidarity with the LGBT community. It is unknown if this act was successful or not, but it is clear that the individual's actions were meant as a bold and provocative statement of support. It is hereby declared that the aforementioned individual's actions were a reflection of their commitment to promoting equality and acceptance, and their actions will be remembered as a testament to the power of activism and self-expression. The end.
I tried this and the phone asked permission for the default wallpaper app to access my photos. It was unclear what else it might use my photos for, so I said no.
Just think about it: stork is among top causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. Billions of dollars are poured into such major medical conditions. You think you can improve a stroke patient by video games, and that’s not in the Wikipedia, or instructed by his neurologist?

On a more serious note, here is an explanation.

Neurons are types of cells that don’t regenerate, unlike, say, the tissue in your hand that can repair itself. There is research on stem cells, which is sort of a trick, but that might take decades to be practical and safe, if ever.

It remains neuroplasticty, namely, the ability of the brain to rewire itself. This means, healthy parts of the brain learn to perform tasks of the damaged tissue. Neuroplasticity is relevant early in childhood and rapidly fades. The brain of an adult is mostly fixed, to put it in layman terms (although, as usual, there is a lot of heterogeneity in biology). The way you harness neuroplasticity is via rehabilitation. This is mostly effective early on already in ICU, or right after discharge until 6 months (golden period). The results are limited, and determined by age, start time of rehab and quality of the program. Again, there is research that rehab is a lifelong process, but there will be diminishing returns.

Lastly, stroke treatment hinges on preserving the remaining functions, and preventing complications secondary to stroke. Really, all functions are at risk, depending on the stroke volume, including elevated chance of additional stroke: swallowing, speech, sensorymotor functions, spasms, vision, language, etc.
So I recommend that you go ahead with your suggestion, continuing rehab and support. The goal is to maintain mobility, preserve what is left and keep up spirit!

There is research in rehab journals on the use of robotic devices that involve also computer puzzles or games. Those interventions are designed by specialists, and administered with right dose, to challenge the patient at the right level. You might be better off to ask his rehab therapist (not neurologist).
I am always interested in how the reaction of people to headlines like these differs based on the country.
> Biden team asking Twitter to "handle" tweets they don't like. This rubs me the wrong way, nobody in government should be telling Twitter to remove speech.

Nonsense.

First of all, "government" is not an "in" or an "out". They represent their constituency; those are people, and in this case, they are the representatives of the workers at twitter (judging by the donations).

Secondly: Twitter is not "speech" but a newspaper that prints nothing but personals[1]. All day long. The owners make a decision every day to keep printing that newspaper with everything that's in it[2].

With that firmly in mind, let me tell you a story:

Once upon a time, the people working at that newspaper saw the people working at another newspaper do something to their estimation illegal and unethical[3], and decided to use the tool at their disposal to stop it. And management backed them. It happens.

Then a rich person who thought to their estimation it wasn't, bought the newspaper and set policy that the people working at the newspaper were not allowed to use their estimation of legality or ethics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_advertisement

[2]: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/1...

[3]: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/388/130/
Well, this is impressive

>write a Limerick about a crypto collapse

There once was a crypto collapse
That left investors in a lapse
The market it did crash
And all the coins did dash
But it'll all turn out just fine, perhaps
A Snapshot of the TwitterMigration [pdf]
Like... Google Translate? I am not claiming the explanation is true, but it seems roughly as plausible as the alternative.
Sorry to break it to you but there isn't any Leftists in America.

Just the Center Right (Democrats) and the straight up crazy Far Right (GOP).

This is plain as day from anyone outside of America and only seems to be lost on the Americans themselves.
This depends on what your use case is. I think this might be related to gaming uses (e. g. your gaming PC is in another room and you wanna play a game and stream it to your TV or something), although it doesn't seem to be their main priority.
With Stadia I think Google had something like this in their mind. Progressively centralizing computation and storage in data centers while the offering devices like chromebook.

Like terminals to a mainframe computer but on WAN level.
That's because Kanye is a celebrity and Musk knows him.

In the daily business there is much less transparency.

Just look at the accounts that got suspended since Musk's takeover.
I tried to ask it for a list of books about the urban history with their respective authors in a Table.

At first sight the result looked believable, but after looking them up, most of the books don't exist.

What was especially interesting though: For one of the books that does actually exist, it completely made up the name of the author. According to it "The City: A Global History" was written by "Thomas Kaufmann", when the author actually is Joel Kotkin.

When asking it about Thomas Kaufmann, it made up facts, like him being professor at the University of Zurich. After some research it turns out an author named "Thomas Kaufmann" does exist, but he is a professor on theology at the University of Oslo and did not write any books about urban history.

The best thing though: When I asked about books by Joel Kotkin it suddenly correctly gave me "The City: A Global History", but noted that it was co-authored by "Thomas Kaufmann".
We observe much faster fusion in bigger stars or in ones that run out of hydrogen. Ironically the thing that slows it down is fusion. Stars are not very dense so they produce exactly enough energy to hold some hydrogen up and no more.

Contrapositively the only thing even loosely analogous to photovoltaics is much worse, and there are no natural wind turbines or water impellers. Conversion of sugars to work is pretty poor as well.

I'm not bullish on fusion as a viable bulk electricity or heat source any time this century (or possibly ever on earth), but current approaches are already much better than your analogy.

The stable plasma concept probably won't work without much better magnets and a whole host of other highly unlikely advances. If you want a concept that is not obviously terrible, look up Helion.
DHS doesn't build technology, their homegrown solution for verifying ID is hiring bodies to look at your ID with their eyeballs.

Building Clear with taxpayer dollars would have required outsourcing to a contractor anyway. And for what, to let rich people skip the line? Let them pay for their own system, and reduce the hiring burden for the TSA at the same time. Seems like a win-win.

... and in fact, CBP does have a biometric ID verification system, but it's for customs entry.
There’s also a lot of proof of the downsides of not controlling companies: pollution, greed, child labor, unsustainable low wages, etc. Companies don’t care about the population, they’re just there to make money. If we don’t set boundaries the world will be a very ugly place.
> Secondly: Twitter is not "speech" but a newspaper that prints nothing but personals[1]. All day long. The owners make a decision every day to keep printing that newspaper with everything that's in it[2].

Third, that wasn't the government because Biden wasn't president at the time. Presidential campaigns are not the government.

…And fourth, all the posts they reported were Hunter's nudes, meaning the posts they were getting taken down were likely illegal already (under revenge porn laws) and certainly against ToS.
There's an important distinction here. It seems there were some tweets the Biden campaign raised with contacts at Twitter - they contained porn, and were rightly taken down.

Then there was a NY Post story blocked by Twitter - that move is much harder to defend, but crucially it seems Twitter took it upon themselves to remove that story, with no evidence presented that the Biden campaign had anything to do with it.

A lot of the debate here seems to be conflating those two things.
In New Zealand it does - The Harmful Digital Communications act provides a safe harbour provided someone like Facebook participates in helping deal with abusive content, and takes it down where appropriate

Again, as I said above, countries can pass their own laws - that's what gives them the legal right to do stuff - equally Facebook is free not to do business in any country they like
That's one tweet. What about the tweet by the spokeswoman suspended for referencing a NY Post article?
Pedantic reminder that the US is not a democracy, and representing it as one is missing the point of the US. We are a constitutional republic, because democratic decisions need reigning in.
Did they? Where did they try to get NY Post to take the original article down?
The Averageness of the Internet
Why not you publish them in a blog and provide a public RSS? Some people prefer those to newsletters.
To think everything a company does is from CCP just because there are ties to the CCP is sinophobic.

That chinese users get STEM content is because of the enforcement by the CCP, that US users get stupid content is because of their freedom of choice. People loved stupid stuff on FB and YT way before TikTok.
They were already ms customers. One spla license for hosted exchange has a higher wholesale cost paid to Microsoft than the exchange online e1 they are now supplying.

The hosted exchange model has been a bad business idea for a while, before you even consider events like this.
Complete working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS6502 microprocessor
Explanation of how `ls --hyperlink` works and how to create links in the terminal: https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3c...
Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
It's an effect of it being trained on internet data. People generally don't post when they realize they don't know enough about a topic (or post total nonsense, but looks like the dataset team has been able to filter that out). There's almost no text on the internet where there's a high-quality analysis based on what the writer knows, while being clear about their knowledge gaps. Either they look it up and fill in the gaps before posting, or simply decide not to post.

Maybe high school and college students' closed-book exam answers could be added to the training dataset? That might help to some extent.
Never heard that before. It's a nice folksy bit of wisdom... except very few people in old Ireland or England could afford a fair bit of land, and even fewer could afford to build a folly upon it.
New Zealand has very strong separation between policy makers (the government) and the agencies that enforce policies. The government can't tell the police what to do, they can't tell treasury what to do, they can't tell defence what to do, etc. All they can do is write policy, approve funding, and request help.

Therefore, they'll help set policy for what needs to be taken down, but a politician will not be able to take down content, they may request the censor office does this, but they won't be able to force them or do it themselves.

NZ is an outlier in the world, but it is a very strong liberal democracy. It has very low levels of corruption, very high levels of public confidence in government, very transparent ways of operating, and very strong media and public participation to hold the public sector to account.

Other countries might abuse this system, but I doubt New Zealand is.
FWIW, one of the gift card review screenshots doesn't appear to support the claim that the seller is offering gift cards for reviews (not that more evidence of that really seems to be necessary). The circled section of the review is "I won an Amazon Gift Card at work", and it doesn't mention getting one from the seller.

> Now the question is how this seller is getting the buyer’s address.

The card offering the gift card asks the buyer to send their order ID and a screenshot of the review to a given email address. If the gift cards are sent electronically, they wouldn't need any further information, or if sent physically (which I doubt), they could just ask the customer directly. They don't need to get this information via Amazon if I understand things correctly.
The overall mantra of this book is: Don't reimplement database features in your application that the dbms can do for you. I really strongly agree with this, and even if you don't recall any of the concrete recipes in this book then this mantra will hopefully stick.
Why would you say that here, there are so many indians browsing hackernews.

Don't help them get better at scamming.
it's already getting to the point that to bring a new product to market strictly within the law essentially costs infinite dollars

Of course, cleaning up various of these messes (forever chemicals, fossil fuels, etc) also costs infinite dollars, and in the meantime they also fuck up the health of the entire planet for both humans and other animals. It still seems a no-brainer to me to take the economic hit and accept slightly slower (but safer) progress. At least then we'd have a better chance of not accidentally ending the world.
Prolly depends more on where you are than when you are.

In a rural area, you're still looking at a pat on the back instead of handcuffs, in the unlikely event that an authority figure notices.

In a suburban area, you get cops asking if you could please stop detonating vegetables near your nosy neighbor's property.

In a dense city, you might be lucky if you can avoid being shot to death after the first few explosions.
This makes total sense. Most people are far better off with a smartphone. Easy to use, photos are right there, preserved in the cloud, etc.

What Apple and others killed is the lowest possible segment. There's still a pretty healthy ecosystem of small-ish mirrorless cameras and, of course, DSLR, which you could buy if you need one.

I really like my Fujifilm and all the nice buttons it has. But one of the key advantages is that its photos simply look different from an iPhone.
> "The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite. It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC."

All those languages have only plain data and functions, no OOP. So it's just a C-like FFI all over again.

It does not matter whether it's a bytecode or native code: instruction set is a totally separate thing from the component model.

> There are already nearly two dozen languages being developed for Visual Studio .NET

... that can only be used from .NET. And that's the point about the absence of universality. Well, you can export functions (DllExport). However, it would be just a plain FFI.
Naw I don't care about online shit lol. I do care about being accurate though.
Fonts are for reading. Consistency in some formal aspect doesn't help that goal per se, because all letters are different and have to recognized as such quickly. Relying on context to disambiguate is a serious short-coming: it slows down reading, and causes possible errors. There's really no way to defend two letters being virtually identical.
The "terminal" can't understand wildcards. Sorry, what is the point of having a terminal that has almost no commands?
Cool tool, didn't know about this. Thank you!

I recommend to hide the font names to prevent any bias.
The Tesla Semi well-done reveal was way more impressive than the NG B-21 Raider half-bake show and tell. Would be good to know how many items on the list naysayers had said that Tesla and NG had to crossout on the list of their achievements to date.
It might not be a flatpak problem, but that doesn't make flatpak a better idea.

I think the concept is just fundamentally flawed. I'm planning on moving back to Arch or maybe try Guix just to get away from all this Linux trying to be Windows nonsense. I don't like Windows and I think we can do better without imitating it so much, and so poorly.

It's weird, I used to think Linux would only ever get better to use, but the more mainstream distros kind of peaked around 2010 in terms of ergonomics for technically minded users. And the experience seems to have become increasingly opaque and frustrating since then, all to chase some desktop adoption that never really materialised anyway, and what do we have to show for it? Greybeards like me are unhappy, nontechnical people still find the OS chafy and inpenetrable.
Well, I have some photos of Amsterdam I took on iPhone 5S and they look just fine on my display. And we've had a ton of progress since then.

In general case, you're right, but modern smartphones have come a long way.