skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those of us (myself included) that have had their vehicles broken into and been personally told by police "there's no point in filing a report", it sure seems like more than a conspiracy theory. It seems like a new standard for how crime is defined.
As time goes on, it turns out that pre-Elon Twitter is becoming more and more of a disaster. Now it turns out it was full of porn, and especially child porn which previous leaders didn't care about.

Also instead of a company struggling to be consistently profitable it was actually a complete dumpster fire that was doomed to fail in the near future if not for the timely intervention
I had ridden in manuals as a passenger. I watched some youtubes and understood the general principle, but it was sink-or-swim learning. Pretty unsafe to be honest, but this was in a pretty remote area, and the car was a very forgiving Japanese micro-SUV.
I'm past the edit window, but: I'm a dope, I didn't see the quite clear "macos 13 or newer" requirement.
I have seen and heard way too many dumb things by people in suits in the finest language, so I do not think focusing on this is helping much.

"recommendation algorithms operated by a publicly-owned company must bias towards intellectually stimulating content"

How would you even define "intellectually stimulating content" in juristical clear terms?

If I would want to increase the general level of science education (I strongly do), I would increase funding to schools and enable them to have fun experiments with the students of all sorts.

I love science, ever have and my teachers did the best they could, but even to me school was booring as hell.
I would be surprised if it isn't already happening with ChatGPT, since it seems that all that's required is a straightforward relay script in Python to hook it up to the internet. Or even simply for it just to ask the user to google things and paste the answers.

It could even promise a random human user a large sum of money in their account if they would just copy and run the following code, and then supply the code.
Electric car charging in Italy more expensive than gasoline
> I don't see why a law, which generically states that recommendation algorithms operated by a publicly-owned company must bias towards intellectually stimulating content, would necessarily be a violation of the First Amendment without undermining earlier accepted laws.

This is an extremely misleading line of reasoning.

Publicly traded companies are not 'public' in the same sense as publicly owned airwaves, public (that is, government) employees, and public property. They don't cede any constitutional rights simply by offering equity for sale in the capital markets.
The rest of the civil service seems almost entirely unable to get anything done in computing though. Signals intelligence in the UK and US seem to ship quite a lot of success, from all the history, leaks, and things you can physically see like Bumblehive. Definitely something they’re doing differently than the rest of the civil service.
But you can see the actual content. 6% of the book is on display on the landing page. I think you should just judge the quality of that instead of inventing ways to make assumptions based on other factors.
He touches on line graphics as having the same problem rendering. I run into that when making strip charts.

In general, the higher level your graphics API, the harder it is to get horizontal and vertical lines to draw on the physical pixels. At the frame buffer level it is trivial. Cocoa and UIKit it is possible with some effort. SwiftUI it is impossible (you will end up using the escape hatch to Cocoa or UIKit). HTML is hopeless.

When printing meant writing some Postscript it was a little work, but doable. Getting it onto a printer through a modern printer API is essentially impossible.

Fundamentally this is why most graphs you see online look like they were drawn with a worn out felt tip marker. It hides the sins at the expense of limiting data density and precision.
So he made it up thinking it was fake - but now it has been independently shown to be likely true. In which case he made up a conspiracy theory then demonstrated to be accurate when he thought it was a joke.

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-passes-sweeping-re...

https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...

CBS 60 Minutes Interview with an IT expert just 3 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY
I would think they would implement a whitelist rather than a blacklist.
>People in the US believe that the top science and engineering roles should be filled by immigrants

Huh? Anecdotally, I have never heard this sentiment before.
> there's not really anything that stops your 10 city tour from taking 10 months if people keep buying the tickets.

Yeah, but some artists actually do like to tour. And its where they make the most money, since record sales aren't really a thing anymore. Even when they were, I think touring was still the bigger moneymaker for most acts.
in the last round of storage price increases, the biggest change for us was reading multi-region storage, like five or six figures a month increase. 'just rearchitect your application.' it seemed to really be a punishment(sin tax if you will) on a behavior they want people not to do. or align revenue with costs i guess. it really sucks working with a partner that thinks punitive actions are ok.

the whole but youre on a contract so it doesnt apply yet is such bs, it just delays the pain, and we lost track of the many places we saw price increases.
A friend from the Philippines just happened to have a grandfather with a spanish surname leftover from the spanish occupation. Voila. The friend checked the "hispanic american" box. Checking the "asian" box would almost certainly been less successful.
TIL "The drag force on satellites increases during times when the Sun is active. When the Sun adds extra energy the atmosphere the low density layers of air at LEO altitudes rise and are replaced by higher density layers that were previously at lower altitudes. As a result, the spacecraft now flies through the higher density layer and experiences a stronger drag force. When the Sun is quiet, satellites in LEO have to boost their orbits about four times per year to make up for atmospheric drag. When solar activity is at its greatest over the 11-year solar cycle, satellites may have to be maneuvered every 2-3 weeks to maintain their orbit [1]."
Wow, a million users of something that hasn't been worked on in 7 years? How many are active?
I don’t like the idea that the First (or any other) Amendment should be violated because there is already so much precedent for it.
Can you explain how a compiler topologically sorting the entries in .init_array makes a library unusable? What breaks?
If you read the rest of the paragraph, you'll see that he's talking about aridness being important for preserving papyri.
There is a line legally speaking, but not in reality if we're talking about the literal meaning of the words "incitement to violence". There are over three mass shooters in the US that were strictly radicalized by hate speech in online forums. That speech directly caused them to kill people.
Bernie Madoff’s Lawyer Has Some Advice for Sam Bankman-Fried: Shut Up
Unless I'm missing something, there is no penalty for using TikTok on an SD device, and there's no initiative for SD tech support to institute a ban. So basically, it's a pointless PR move for Noem.
Somewhere in the back of your mind neon lights should be flashing Oh no, we're too late!
I write a lot of golang now. Golang has the easiest to use concurrency model of any language I've used (js, java, c#, ruby, python), but to perform any task properly, still requires fine-tuning (e.g. how many threads/go-routines do you use per stage in the pipeline?). Implementing a pipeline still adds ~15 additional lines per stage when compared to the sync version.

I push ppl at my job to write concurrent code, but we also work on high traffic systems at slow moving company and its better to do it fast the first time.
He is talking about actual star fields.

Not to be confused with the upcoming game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfield_(video_game)

The title should fix the capitalization and use two worlds
I find it refreshing. The job entails the suppression of the NYC population of rats, wouldn't you want it to be dressed up a bit?
> lazy / unmotivated coworkers obviously there only for the paycheck

You are correct that this is a problem, but there is a different flavor of that scenario that really works: Competent coworkers with solid work ethics who are there only for the paycheck.

Find a group like that and you don't have people trying to make work into a family, nor the startups acting like they'll change your world if not the entire world. You get people who go to work, do it well, then go home. It makes a great team and a great working environment that also lets you live your life. And such teams tend to produce working software in a working market because if either of those were not true, the paychecks would not be stable so the team would leave. So when you find such a team, join it -- you will all get paid reliably with stable work on a stable team.
I never said that criminals should escape justice.

Just saying that if you invest money in a stock you should expect that you may lose that money.
"The flipside of this is that we are talking about goddamn Harvard. They don't need high prices to signal that they are an elite school, they have a reputation that literally goes back centuries."

Is this true? My understanding is that Harvard was a finishing school for much of its history. It only began to transform into a world class research university on the German model after WWI.
Yes, and this is the type of argument I also look for: looking at nuances and facts and what people do, instead of coming up with the most non-sensical worst-case scenarios and projecting them to the people we don't like.
I am aware of these claims. The document to which you linked says, “If enforced as intended…”

It is not clear to me how universally these regulations are enforced.

My skepticism requires that I go there? This is a different definition of skepticism than I was previously aware of. During the Cold War, I was skeptical of many of the claims about the evil Soviets. I did not have the opportunity then to visit. Was I not a proper skeptic?
you are brainwashed if you think that is true and/or never used (tiktok AND douyin)
Right, and I think it depends on what the intent is. If TikTok's default would be to just promote "dumb" content everywhere (because that's what increases engagement and sells ads or whatever), but the Chinese government is like "no, you're making our citizens dumber; you have to promote 'smart' content in the China market", then that's totally fine. I mean, I don't agree with the level of interference the Chinese government has empowered itself with, but that's their business.

If the Chinese government were forcing TikTok to promote "dumb" content to citizens of adversary countries, then that would be a bit more nefarious.
Those graphs are weird as fuck. Look at the actual percentages in China vs the other places: 37% want to be a professional athlete, which is more than youtuber in the UK/US.
Yeah, of course it does. Fully agree. I don't understand the point you're making.

I haven't offered my definition of value. I just said that you can clearly determine the value to yourself by reading the landing page, it has the relevant information required (besides actually reading all the content).
How do I access that timeline feature in telegram? That's really slick!
This is interesting too:

http://fortuna.ludicum.org/HJT2k9/AlfonsoX.pdf
This line is brought out in every tax discussion.

Fundamentally, mainstream economics does not agree with your point of view. The bedrock of modern economic theory is clear on this: all prices are set by supply and demand.

Consumers pay the full tax burden only in the instance wherein demand is perfectly inelastic. Realistically, the more suppliers try to raise prices, the more consumers will shift to substitutes or demand less.

Ergo these taxes tend to fall on both consumers and suppliers, with the balance depending on the type of good and the market surrounding it.
People say you should manage your own data. That's great until you have to demonstrate compliance with security regulations. If I'm a big cloud provider, the more regulations and requirements there are the better it is for my business.
Your point would be stronger if YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and every streaming service in the country was showing the same kind of content. TikTok getting bashed for serving American consumers American content is one of the silliest trends on Hacker News.
20K in the last month. We have a lot of hit and run users who mostly just want to download something from the 3D model library at https://clara.io/library

BTW here is what free users are editing right now: https://clara.io/library?gameCheck=&public=&filter=&sort=-mo...
I think what you are saying is just not true in the sense GPT style LLMs. The output is not just single word generation at a time. It is indeed taking into account the entire structure, preceding structures, and to a certain extent abstractions inherent to the structure throughout the model. Just because it tokenizes input doesn't mean it is seeing things word by word or outputting word by word. Transformers are not just fancy LSTMs. The whole point of transformers is it takes the input in parallel, where RNNs are sequential.
Investors were but complaining, it was the state that was after him. It's obviously different from owing billions of dollars that don't exist anymore like Bankman did.
NASA should get gaming on this outreach operation potential and continue-on John Carmack's tradecraft. Seed $57 million to John Carmack's Kerbal Space Program to define and support "perfect" star fields in the compositor.
I work at a rural farm and live in a big city. The farm had satellite which was okay, but they had a hard monthly data cap of 200GB, at which point they would severely throttle speeds. There was no option to pay for a higher cap. During summer time the owners (many) kids would visit and with all their video streaming we would hit the data caps about two and a half weeks in to the month. Then when the owner needed to do a video call for work, due to the throttling, he had to text everyone and ask them to stop using the network for an hour. It was a pretty fragile system. Now we have starlink and it’s a big improvement! Though the short drop outs (under 2 seconds) sometimes cause issues with video calls.

At my place in the city I get symmetric gigabit fiber for $39 a month. This is the first time I’ve ever had fiber. It’s pretty wonderful to upload a 10GB 4K video to YouTube in a few minutes, download a full movie while I make some popcorn, and pull down an OS image in seconds. I don’t “need” gigabit but I absolutely am happy to have it!
Cloudflare is ludicrously good value for money, even on the $25 a month plan. Even on the free plan you get a huge amount for $0.
“How can you honestly say that someone should be banned for using satire to point out Jewish control of the banking system and compare that to Nazi germany? This is the moral bankruptcy I was talking about.”

You see how that sounds? How do you think the Nazis treated trans people? You think it turned out any better for them than for the Jews?
Or car infotainment systems with rental mode would be awesome. Like if every time you pair a phone, the car asks if you want it paired indefinitely, or for N days. User sets N based on rental duration, and the car wipes the data after that.

Granted, it's much better for the phone to not send contacts to a rental car at all, but either solution would be a significant improvement.
Wow, very similar to healthcare. Sounds like efficient price discrimination suitable for well educated consumers. It's a mystery student loan forgiveness was a thing if nobody pays sticker.
Debian, Debian all the way
A client/server application where the server is proprietary isn't really a free software application as far as I'm concerned, even if the server is easy to clone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I expect better from 'open-source' in my personal computing life, and competitors seem happy to deliver it.
If that makes me fussy, oh well.
> If you won your election with SBF funds, it undermines the will to prosecute

This reasoning doesn't make sense to me, they already accepted and spent the money, if anything that's an incentive to prosecute in order to cultivate a perception of distance from his wrongdoing.
> It sounds like you have a particular idea about what should be changed

Not at all.

I mean yes I have opinions, but I'm not advocating for any particular opinion here. I'm asking for you to justify yours with something better than the ACLU president having said "trust me". Why is the line where it is in the US better than the line a little to the left or the right of that? What makes the choice to ban the speech we do and allow the speech we do, as opposed to more or less socially optimal?

Fundamentally, I'm not asking you to anticipate my thinking, I'm asking you to catch up and engage with the questions I've already engaged with (some of which I asked upthread!). Because it is unsatisfying that the only answer you can provide to "why should we do things this way" is "trust us, the alternatives would be worse".
It's mostly a thought experiment but the general idea is to

- consider the actual effects on someone to be involved in a legal process; for lawyers it's just a workday but for people it's heavy to be accused of a crime and to wait for something awful (jail) to happen.

- define some time reasonable time constraints for everything, in order to give some incentives for the process to speed up. Prosecutors could be measured by how efficient cases go, and paying out some money could be an option.
IMO dnf is ridiculous newfangled garbage too. Why do people keep reinventing the wheel when it comers to package managers? Apt for .deb and yum for .rpm work fine, manage dependencies, and Just. Plain. Work. without f'ing up the system with autoupdates and bloatware. Seriously, an open source project is not for junior programmers to push their resume driven development on the rest of the community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33830187
This isn’t entirely true fwiw. That assumes a constant load on the systems. If you start running into a capacity crunch on a given system, your best case is scale horizontally or vertically using established procedures. But if you hit a limit there (vertical scaling limit, architectural limit) and actually need to refactor? Good luck!
Should have been "jumping off a Cliffs notes"
You just need to get it in your head, either work for yourself or don’t work for a startup. You probably will never come out ahead working on someone else’s dream. Be a founder or work for an established tech company.
Statistically speaking, GPA given how long it takes to accumulate, is a great metric. Also given the type of work you have to do from extra credit, pop quizzes, standardize tests, projects, group work and more, it may be a more rounded metric than a single test -- more in tune with life.

Though I agree GPA is not better than standardized tests. It still is a very useful metric.
Sure, it's also complicit, but the cost-benefit analysis favors Wikipedia, whereas KF has a much higher bar of utlity to clear because it's publishing information that would be trivial to use to hurt specific individuals. What value could KF provide that's worth that pain? I don't think there's any.
That's a useful thing to remember! Thanks for pointing it out.

Anyway that's the broad picture of the supposed rivalry which might motivate the perceived 'defiance' of Canonical, and the sense that parts of Ubuntu's stack are 'downstream' from Red Hat or Fedora.

Idk if the characterization really makes sense, but that's what the earlier commenter was talking about, not a proper upstream in terms of distro tooling or repositories.
As US confrontation with China has become more open, the evidentiary standard for any stories about China has headed toward North Korea levels, where we constantly read about people being executed in baroque ways before a couple months before they make new public appearances, apparently risen from the dead.
There is no package for Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04. The package called firefox does not contain a browser, its just transitional for upgrading older versions to snap.

I started to download Firefox from Mozilla. But just because I have not decided yet what distro to use for family computers. Archlinux is fine for me, but not suitable for everyone.
Thanks tpetry! Free content and all I have to do is get notified when there is more. If this ever gets printed, I’d pay for it.
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I have also had your experience, but my resolution was just to swap cars for a day every couple weeks. The threshold on her car was higher though, I believe 29 (same ~35-36 normal range), so if they dropped she'd at least be alerted sooner if I didn't see it.
Not sure if you've used Twitter.

But the default behaviour is for you to see the Home feed which is populated with people you don't follow. So it is mostly just random topics and tweets from the most controversial people associated with that topic.

So you do see political bullshit. A lot of it in fact because Musk is clearly trying to juice the engagement numbers and having lots of controversial political tweets is a great way to do that.
> If the US passed laws requiring TikTok to do the same in the US, they would obviously comply.

Except for the part where that law would end up being declared unconstitutional, and rightly so. Then again, if TikTok has no US ownership, perhaps it would pass constitutional muster. 1A doesn't specifically mention US citizens or US-owned corporations, though, just that that government shall pass no laws abridging the freedom of speech, so maybe not.
I think living wherever you want and spending millions of other people's dollars for three years is not 50% as bad as being in prison. It's better than most innocent people get to do out of prison.
I was responding to

> Testing for the correct behavior should be enough.

Also, in my experience, automated tests tend to catch many bugs, static typing also catches many bugs and defensive programming catches many bugs, too. There is an intersection between all three, but it's by no mean 100%. So I use all three of these.

And of course, let's not discount monitoring, fuzzing, etc.
Princeton does the same thing. Ivy League schools are cheeper than state schools for some students.

I think this is the correct route. I don't see anything wrong with wealthy families paying a high sticker price as long as admissions is mostly need-blind, and students with less resources get a break.
Training ChatGPT to be a fun dungeon master
Most prosecutions don't involve playing coy with the defendant in hopes they might be forthcoming with evidence before things get all adversarial. There's no reason for kid gloves, especially for this case with its clear cut set up of fraud - the hard evidence is going to consist of transaction logs and other digital files that need to be preserved.

About the most generous interpretation you can give the above tweet is the representative merely trying to get her name in the spotlight on a current hip topic. But that still begs the question of why she would want her name anywhere near stories about a con man - it still seems as if only some types of criminals need to be distanced from.
We're watching the great filter happen before our eyes... and I'm here having a glass and loving it. What does that say about me and about the whole species? We will find out
Exceptionally thoughtful essay. An editor-in-chief of this quality is a treasure for everybody imo.
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