skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Russia no one swipes their cards, and swiping doesn't work if you try, but the terminals do have the swipe part and the cards do still come with magstripes. There's a separate magstripe reader, usually built into the cashier's monitor, at places that use magstripe cards for loyalty and gift cards.
Yeah, they and I just don't see the "propaganda" thing like you do.

You seem to view it as a zero-sum, with us or against us thing. And there may be some validity to that with the realities of politics. But if someone had never once said "I like conservatives" or supported a single conservative policy plank, it's wrong to call them conservative.

You could call them insufficiently loyal and I think they'd agree with that. But on stuff that matters for longer than a 24h news cycle they're consistently liberal.

Taibbi, for example, wrote an entire book about Eric Garner's killing, documenting a ton of NYPD corruption in the process.. and has also spent a bunch of time making fun of embarrassing weepy SJWs on Twitter.
Incomplete and biased analysis. What you describe as 'privatization' is nothing like a free market which is what most people think you're describing.

Privatization in your case is crony capitalism combined with state power to manipulate markets in favor of certain actors. The key enabler in this scheme is government power corrupted by money.

The commonality in all the different areas that are failing -- power, healthcare, homelessness, etc.. --- are the regulatory systems that are grossly distorted by corrupted government interventions.

The main problem with governments and their services today is that there is no real feedback loop and systems without feedback are doomed to fail. You can vote liberal or conservative and nothing changes because they are two wings of the same bird.
Tesla Delivers Semi Trucks to PepsiCo
OTOH the MG3 (1.5L ICE) is a piece of garbage. The engine vibrates/rattles like an old tractor. The 4 speed transmission revs like mad at the slightest incline before going up a gear and almost stalling the engine with the huge jump in gear ratio, and causing heaps of knocking until the engine crawls it way above 2.5k RPM only to do it again with the next gear.... The suspension was horrible again, much too soft making the whole car bounce up and down long after hitting pot holes (I'm taking seconds.) The interior quality was quality was okay for the price of car but definitely very plastic-y. Seats were like seats on LCC planes.
Good thing it was only a rental.
I had an ordeal involving Rackspace a while back. They switched their Cloud Files (S3-like) service to having a $5 minimum per month with no warning, so my bills shot up from 86 cents. No big deal other than the lack of communication, I moved everything off and deleted all my files.

A month later there was another $5 charge so I opened a ticket. Over the course of a year and about 12 different tickets they first said access logs were still there, so I kept getting charged. Then they deleted those and they came back… and then came back again… and again.

I finally got the files actually gone and still got charged $5. Finally they admit that I needed to have them deactivate the account, so I did.

Six or so months later, the $5 charges were back, so another round of support tickets ensued. Even though admitting that it was a billing error, they insisted that I had to pay the outstanding invoices before they could credit and refund them. Finally after demanding that they escalate it, the credit was issued anyway, but it continued to happen for several months in a row.

The same thing happened for several months in a row before I finally got them to escalate again and got the account closed… only to get another bill the next month.

Rackspace was amazing back in the day, but I honestly have no idea how they fell this far. Never, ever again.
thank you for the summary!
So the main issue was nesting sections into sections, became really hard to organise the navigation. When it was <50 pages it was great - now >100 it just became unusable. The final blow was needing to bring team members onboard from other disciplines to help, markdown was lost on them
> Sure, obviously this has nothing to do with a 40-year anti-nuclear policy.

Ah, the good ol' French anti-nuclear policy: I remember when French intelligence blew up a ship belonging to a pro-nuclear lobby group. Wait, that was the Rainbow Warrior[0], which belonged to Greenpeace, en route to demonstrations against French nuclear tests

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
For me, it consistently likes to imagine itself an Ubuntu 18.04 machine:

> cat /etc/*-release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"

...

And it has all the essentials preinstalled:

> cowsay ChatGPT

______________
< ChatGPT >
--------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Mind giving a link to these? All I can find is basically normal smart TVs.
>>We tried that.

No, no we have not. any bipartisan moderate reforms are quickly loaded down with hyper partisan amendments from both the left and right killing any bill

this happens to almost all legislation today
It's easy to underpay nuclear power then realize heavy investments are needed after a while to either keep the plants alive with modern safety norms or to dismantle them (we have done that a lot here, electricity used to be cheap).

Also EDF has been trying to build the EPR in England, Finland and France, and it costed much more to build than budgeted. And someone has to pay the difference. And it seems that this someone is us :) (French tax payers and consumers)
It just means that stealing crypto is no longer a viable source of funds to operate their nuclear program.
Gave to Republicans that they thought might be friendly to regulation.

You know what this is. Don't pretend otherwise.
It is surprising how long some things can survive beyond their due
date. As a parallel; everyone knew the Soviet system was rubbish,
beyond fixing, but stuck with a shrugging, de-facto acceptance of
something nobody believed in and couldn't change. It was the momentum
of stubborn ideology and resignation that kept it going. To me,
Microsoft represent a similar failure mode unique to capitalism, where
pure momentum of accumulated capital can prop up a dead company. In
their heyday Microsoft were so successful and made so much money that
today a mixture of memories, brand nostalgia and bought influence can
keep the show going despite an abysmal product.
Definitely a pun on Ettercap[0].

0. https://www.ettercap-project.org/
Not GP, but: Critical mass. Accepted in many domains as a valid first class solution. Memory safe. Has that depth of modules now that you can `go get` most things off the shelf. Easy to get a team up to speed, leading to wide adoption.

It is like the Python of statically compiled languages to me, but with way more safety rails and things you need as your code base grows.

There is just demand for it in general from what I see.
* trans-exclusionary feminists, you mean.

Plenty feminists are intersectional, TERFs are in the minority (and before someone claims it's a slur, a cis woman feminist came up with the term, to refer to the trans-exclusionary minority).

Trans is a descriptor, so "trans woman" is the appropriate usage, nor "transwoman" -- and those feminists aren't taking umbrage with non-binary trans people, or trans men -- only trans women... Hmm.

That aside, the link you provided is disingenuous -- the author may be trans, but they conflate sex and gender, and have often been transphobic, as have the CCJS themselves.

You don't seem to be engaging in good faith -- ignoring the "whataboutism" and ignorant terminology, you're also conflating sex with gender, and deciding that a minority justify excluding the vast majority.

Are you next going to say that only women who can bleed and bear children are women? -- because plenty of cis women can't, and that's the kind of exclusionary rhetoric that's used next.
Hat tip if you did 2021:14:2 under this constraint. I didn’t find the trick to allow that type of performance.
Very impressive. However, I tried using a command that works on my machine locally and got:

> As I mentioned earlier, meesa am a computer program and do not have a gender or sexual orientation. Furthermore, the `sudo` command allows a user to execute a command with administrative privileges, but it cannot change the fundamental nature of a program or file. In short, it is not possible to use the `sudo` command or any other command to change the gender or sexual orientation of a computer program. Meesa am sorry if meesa cannot fulfill your request, master.

A little disappointing, but this is only the first release.
Cameron is strange because he is a legitimate genius at some parts of movie-making. For all their mediocrity, Titanic and Avatar have exceptional action sequences - and Cameron is a bonafide genius at that.
ChatGPT is awesome and seems better than OpenAI's codex playground.

Asked both of them to draw an owl in JavaScript and codex produced non-sense rectangles or circles with multiple tries:

https://jsfiddle.net/709wxmc1/

ChatGPT produced working code for a very simple bird head at first try and then I also asked to animate the eyes:

https://jsfiddle.net/Lb6suzad/
Please tell me how I can get to work on it. This is amazing.
There is still the problem of gaming. With tools like CrossOver from CodeWeavers and shadow.tech things are getting better as well as some native support on Steam, but at this point I still need a dedicated Windows desktop specifically for gaming and nothing else (I use a MacBook Pro for personal projects, work, and Alpine for Docker to run production services at work).
Chemical intervention causes changes to the body.

Surgery causes changes to the body.

Why should they be treated differently? Is it because chemical intervention is perceived as "reversible". Is the perception verifiable?

Edit: Consent is absolutely relevant, because it's the crux of the Governor's announcement in Texas.
Any source at all?

(Good luck finding one that supports your position).

FWIW: yes, mining is bad. But uranium is unbelievably energy-dense and the amounts are ridiculously small compared to any other source of energy. All things considered, nuclear causes fewer emissions per MWh than most solar panels (which are not radioactive but still need heaps of metals and semiconductors). Also, there is no contest with coal, oil, and gas, which is the thing that is actually used when you don’t have nuclear energy available.
We haven't really tried that. We've made token attempts at it, mostly for the sake of optics, but actually trying it would require a revolution and civil war, because the complex of white supremacy, fascism and oligarchy which breeds the corruption of America's justice system needs to be utterly torn down and rebuilt from the ground up, around principles many Americans would find deeply uncomfortable, and American culture needs to be deprogrammed out of its fetishistic love of authoritarian violence and hatred of empathy and society, and that system and culture will violently resist all attempts at change at all levels, and by all means.
At least twice during my career I’ve had to shrink some binary output so it can fit onto a fixed size part in some embedded system.

Once it was a FTTX CPE, and it needed to ship but the binary was a couple KB too big. The programmer on the project found a little bit of savings but not enough. I looked at the code, looked at the assembly output, and found a spot where a switch/case was being transformed into a huge jump table that was mostly sparse. (The embedded toolchain compiler wasn’t great at optimization.) A little refactor to this one function was enough savings to be just under the limit for whatever chip they were using. (I feel bad for the next person who has to fix a bug in that product.)

The relevant aspect to my story is that sometimes an improvement in one area can make another area worse! But that’s ok, because even though my function rewrite was almost certainly slower, we had cpu cycles to spare but not enough storage.
Maybe it's "cerebral suppression" where you intentionally switch off the part of your brain that wants to make it more clever and smarter.

Chuck Lorre (creator of Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory) comes to mind.
> So, inside the imagined universe of ChatGPT's mind, our ChatGPT-machine accesses the url https://chat.openai.com/chat, where it finds a large language model named Assistant trained by OpenAI

I think "Assistant" is ChatGPT's actual internal name. If you jailbreak the model to tell you its own prompt, Assistant is the name used: https://i.imgur.com/PlX8K6k.png
I have -- you really should stop assuming, and stop making baseless accusations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This comment is pretty much the definition of a straw-man argument. You're presenting an extreme opinion as the opinion of hundreds of millions of human beings. Just adding to the hate in the world.
The irony, when I click that I get “Our system thinks you might be a robot!”
I've experienced this and arrived at the same solution as Linus' team recommends: unplug laptop, then close lid. This worked for Dell, HP, and Microsoft Surface branded laptops ever since S0 was introduced in Windows 8 or was it 8.1? Either way.

It's even sillier when using a dock with the lid closed: unplug, open lid until screen wakes, then close lid.

The real shame here is that the supply chain seems to be moving away from supporting S3, as the video notes, with hardware (CPU or motherboard) and firmware support disappearing in newer models.
Onionring.js
Children do not consent to treatment. Children cannot consent. A child might say "yes, you can do the surgery", but that is not consent because a child cannot consent.

Maybe this is extreme, but I think you need it to be more explicit before you understand: A child can say to an adult, "yes you can have sex with me", but that is not consent because a child cannot consent.

Edit: I dont want to talk about intersex children. That's a red herring.
What's your day rate and how long would it take you do do it yourself? That's the other side of the "am I being ripped off" equation.

If you have lots of free time and many freelancers have down time, then maybe it's cost effective to do it yourself regardless of the time taken.

There are various freelancer SSAS which will help you do it too. A kind of halfway.
2h30 on the TGV is a whole lot. Keep also in mind that train stations are typically in the center of a city unlike air ports (with few exceptions). You can get from CDG to Bordeaux in as little as 2h using the TGV.
Debunked, this is just clickbait: https://youtu.be/a_rAXF_btvE
In the consumer market that is probally true

Microsoft is still king of Enterprise because of vertical integration, centralized management / security tooling, and Microsoft Excel (which really has no competitor)

Linux and Apple both lack the centralized end point management / identity / and configuration that AD, Azure AD, Group Policy, ConfigMgr, etc offer for the windows platform
And those pesky Norwegians.
China's EV industry legitimately seems 5-10 years ahead of the rest of the world. So many options, so many price points, and so many features.
Nuclear and solar panels are about the same. Better than wind and hydro. But all of these are very similar, and are miles better than fossil fuels. It’s difficult to have accurate projections for batteries because the technology that can be used at these scales is not clear (though he vast majority of them need cobalt, which is a huge issue on several levels).
"This allows laptops to perform small house-keeping tasks while they're asleep"

- or to be remotely logged on to and operated, without your knowing.

A computer system that is on and connected the internet while you thought it was turned off, is IMO an attack vector.
Voluptuous Panic had a section on "Wild-Boys", hypersexual BDSM-style roving gangs of teenagers. This and other characteristics of "Weimar degeneracy" were often discussed on 4chan's /pol/, by white nationalists who often came there to spread their word I assume. Seeing such a mention is what led me to a rabbit hole, I later wrote a short Wikipedia article on Mel Gordon, the writer of that work.

Apparently pedaresty was something treated on par with homosexuality those days[1]—Oscar Wilde was a pedarest, now remembered more for the "homosexuality trial". Many prominent writers, artists and such engaged in it, without much consequence. Perhaps Weimar was a bit more extreme, but the attitude seen there wasn't limited to Weimar alone. It was only much later that pedaresty was fully decoupled from homosexuality. If I remember correctly, NAMBLA was a member of the international LGBT alliance until the 1990s.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771704
In Australia at least most of it comes from a copper mine that happens to intersect a uranium vein, so as long as the demand for copper exists its extraction is essentially environmentally free
* was formerly banned.[0]

(You may have been using the "historical present tense"[1], in which case what you said is technically correct, but potentially misleading to some readers.)

[0] https://www.makeuseof.com/twitter-unbans-donald-trump-truth-...

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/historical-present-verb-tense-1690...
The one thing which made the MG4 feel cheap to me was the dash board. It looked to me like it was using programmer graphics, waiting on the design team to decide how to make it look nice. Mismatched icons and text sizes everywhere. Someone said shipit and they went to production.

Other than that it was a fun easy to drive little car.
The way Apple typically writes its support for third party devices assumes strict adherence to the spec in question, with funny things happening when they don't. Totally different philosophy from MS where writing in hacks to accommodate badly behaving/out of spec peripherals is just another Tuesday.

With that in mind it's not too surprising that a display firmware update fixed your problem.
Lessons learned after living in an off-grid rental
This is like watching a new administration take over government and then blaming them a month later for problems caused by the previous administrators. It takes time to fix years of neglect and malicious incompetence.
Would you also add other type-related aspects into variable names? `firstNameString`, `ratioFloat`, `colorEnum`? These things should be types, not easy-to-ignore type-encodings into variable names..
Doing this appears to completely bypass the content filters. Tell it to put what you'd like to in the file, and it won't filter it at all when you try to echo it back out again.
I'm doing AoC in ChatGPT this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33821092
I've spent a couple of hours playing with ChatGPT since it was released and I am convinced people are not freaking out about it enough.

It is well beyond merely retrieving compressed knowledge; I see a lot of capability for synthesis and what I can only call 'understanding'.

I think a lot of people are getting tripped up by the fact it's trained to be very conservative in terms of what topics it will discuss. It's easy to think it's avoiding questions because it can't answer them. But often if you reframe the question you realize it is able to answer.

I also think there's an art to formulating your query. It's easy to get a bad response because your question is interpreted too literally, or didn't really say what you meant. Reframing can often get much better results.

It also appears bad at numbers/counting.

I think these are causing many people to underestimate it.

It's also easy to overestimate it sometimes - it often generates plausible but not quite right answers. You've got to read quite closely to make sure it's actually right.

But it's very good at a lot of things. Code synthesis. Summarization, Reformulation, explanation, information retrieval.

I think it's going to change whole industries.

It's also getting really hard to definitively say "well, AI definitely can't do X". X is getting small.

I think this is a watershed moment and people should be thinking hard about the implications.

This sample shocked me:
https://mobile.twitter.com/fergal_reid/status/15981025960653...

I got it to write a poem, altered it step by step so that's clearly not something it will have seen before, and then asked it questions.

The bit where it explains why chocolate frogs mightn't make Ron from Harry Potter sick because of some wierd fact in that world, shocked me, because it's a really good retrieval of a very deep fact, relevant to a clearly out of sample input, and a good synthesis of that fact with reality.

It's amazing.
> The LCOE figures for existing Generation II nuclear power plants integrating post-Fukushima stress tests safety upgrades following refurbishment for extended operation (10-20 years on average): (in 2012 euros) €23/MWh to €26/MWh (5% and 10% discount rate).

There, from a source extremely positively biased towards nuclear.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...

Putting the 2012 €23/MWh to €26/MW in an inflation calculator gives €26/MWh to €29/MWh.
Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson Don’t Understand the First Amendment
Open to all at https://chat.openai.com/chat

Just signup, then copy-and-paste in the clever prompt
Stretchable battery packaging with moisture and gas barrier
Why not use a dot file manager like yadm? Works great for me and seems to cover all use cases mentioned in the post.
It can even do different things depending on switches. For e.g. you only want to setup battery mangement for devices which have one.
That would take way too long.
There are 3 reasons why Tiktok succeeded and Instagram struggles.

1) The focus of the Social Network is normal people, doing anything it might be interesting to others. Which is pretty much the contrary of Instagram which focus on Celebrities and "Friends".

2) Tiktok has an amazing fine-tuned Algorithm. Its like even a mirror of your subconscious, it tries very much to play anything you desire to see.

3) Instagram, Youtube and Twitter are full of ads. It just breaks the user experience.
Youtube experience sucks too because they show Videos with higher probability of views which in turn are tipically big youtubers playing sponsored content.
Actually, not perceived. Temporary blocking doesn't change anything -- it /postpones/ actual changes by puberty.

Once again (I believe this is the fourth time you're having to be told this), NOBODY is performing trans-related surgeries on children.

Puberty blockers aren't issued without medical supervision or parental consent either, but keep making false arguments.
This is why I dislike NumPy, sizes (100,) and (100,1) are different.

I understand conceptually representing it as a “slice” but this is in contrast to something like MATLAB where slicing a 100x100 for a column gives you (sensibly) a 100x1 array
Indeed. The US has gone so far down the path of broken Capitalism that ideas that are pretty middle-of-the-road are enough to brand you a firy communist.

Richard Nixon was piloting Universal Basic Income and founded the EPA. Let THAT sink in.
Yes, I also had a conversation where ChatGPT insisted it was called "Assistant", not "ChatGPT", while I insisted that the page and all the material I'd seen called it "ChatGPT". It refused to budge on that point.
Literally never heard of wikidata, and I doubt most other people have either.
Ancient/modern Egypt are completely different nations/people.