skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

My story is very similar to this Ashley Cervantes who was also taken to Holy Cross Hospital and billed for a search [0, 1], except in my case they got a warrant which was signed by the judge AFTER (MOST OF) THE SEARCH.

Like Ashley, nothing was found and I was billed afterwards. Ashley's case was even more shocking as she was forcibly and intimately penetrated by the doctor "in search of contraband" at the direction of DHS.

In my case DHS promised me they would bill it in their name, but they either lied or used the billing as a retaliatory tactic when I convinced (some) of the doctors to discharge me as the doctors had no medical basis on which to search me without consent. The bill itself was written by the private medical entities performing the search at direction of DHS.

[0] https://tucson.com/news/local/border/woman-sues-customs-over...

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...
I've got a DIY IOT sensor feeding into home assistant.

Mitigation - one of my bedroom windows is rather leaky & I've decided to leave it as is due to co2 concerns.
Continues to be an awesome game!
Here's an episode of Off The Air on the theme of dance, broadcast 2011 but the series is ongoing with new episodes this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBY1Wwt4IuA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Air_(TV_series)
> I want to raise my son vs. how I was raised by my father.

What many (most?) people do is overcompensate to not make the same obvious errors their parents made, and thereby make a different series of errors.
I do have a problem with accepting "the deluge of information" which is that it will flood over any human-made postings with ease, and we'd be left with low-quality content everywhere we look. "Safe havens" of human-only forums will be left where people can interact with other people and be assured that they are making a connection together. Hacker News is in a way a modern forerunner of such a human-only community (well, mostly ;) )
Hmm. So it's OK for the government to dictate what features a car must have, may have, may not have, etc? And the government should also inspect these vehicles and make sure they meet the standards before allowing them on public roads?

Well, turns out you are in luck because this is all already possible in the US. Pretty much everywhere there are provisions for one-off custom vehicles and getting them inspected. Sure, the paperwork is daunting and the process isn't always easy, but it is definitely possible. See article about an engineer who registered a jet turbine powered VW bug that shot 15 foot flames out of the back of it in CA that surfaced on HN a few years ago.

But we aren't necessarily talking about one-off cars that hobbyists who care about their craft create. We are talking about Walmart popping out $1,100 golf carts without airbags because it's a "city car".
Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins
This is the most interestingly line from his letter:

> nearly 90 percent of Americans ages 12 and older — totaling hundreds of
millions of people — listened to AM or FM radio each week, higher than the percentage that watch television (56 percent) or own a computer (77 percent)

Admittedly it seems dubious but if true I'm surprised by basically every one of these numbers
How we should fix the education system
I ride my bike slowly around my local neighbourhood, often on shared paths with pedestrians. This is usually under 20 km/h, probably under 15, or even less when it’s busy.

For rides where I go faster, I will take my road bike and wear a helmet.

For rides where I go slower, I would prefer not to wear a helmet, but mandatory helmet laws don’t make that distinction.
Former Twitter employees explain why Apple paused ads
if you cant tell, does it matter?
I've read it, and I already know that, yes, it sounds like the dev is willing to grandfather your existing license agreement if you reach out to them directly.

>That’s only if you relicense.

I mean, sure, but I don't know how else I was supposed to take, "Literally nothing changed with regards to the license". "Literally nothing" is pretty specific.
2008 was maybe the last moment when Washington could've credibly pivoted and attempted to tackle the debt problem with massive, uncomfortable structural changes.

Instead, they chose to kick the can down the road, the use every conceivable tool to "cheat" the global financial system and preserve Washington's hegemony over it.

Since 2008, the national debt has gone from $10T to $30T.

The only way out at this point is a total collapse of the foreign US debt markets and a hard pivot away from USD as global reserve currency. The rest of the planet is not going to keep getting ripped off like this. Even if Washington tries to start paying down its debt, it's gonna take way too long at this point. The jig is up.
Three Types of Incremental Learning
> Sure, but that's not the argument.

Agreed. I just thought the metaphor was not helpful.

> The hypothesis is that requiring helmets may make individual bikers safer in isolation

...though there's a (somewhat) credible argument that even this isn't true. There are arguments against this too. Some argue automobiles see someone without a helmet as more "at risk" and therefore are more mindful of them, thereby net increasing their safety. Others argue that mandates tend to discourage innovation in safety equipment design, effectively encouraging the deployment of limited safety equipment at the expense of more effective alternatives.

> I'd imagine this is especially true given that the helmet mostly only helps prevent the more dramatic injuries to the head. Getting hit by a car is still likely to seriously injure you in plenty of places the helmet doesn't help with.

Which also brings up the ol' "is it better to be more likely to live, but also more likely to have broken arms and legs?" question.
Another good article about the topic:

https://pikuma.com/blog/isometric-projection-in-games
It might not be able to replace artists or scientists but it sounds like it can replace politicians!
Airport customs already scan your face at a few international airports. How is this different?
Yes it would be more efficient. But we know bad actors would manipulate the process. If i could make a dummy profile, see a question, then create a new profile after having time to prepare i could ace interviews for jobs im not really qualified for. Ive attempted to hire multiple devs over last year that clearly had someone else on a technical interview call so we ended up just cancelling their start date after discussion.

But if company has good relationship with recruiter it works,

I interviewed through a recruiter, company X gave me some questions, answered them correctly, did one or two algo questions correctly. X hiring manager wanted more experience regardless of my decent performance.

Recruiter shared results with company Y, Y hired me and was happy to avoid sitting through an additional 1 hour interview session with me.
Maybe the balance excel sheet needs a column for notional value / leverage also.
Ironically inputting: "This is human generated text." generated an 86% probability of being fake text.

But it seems kind of dubious to begin with, I'm not sure why LLM output would be so easily detected.
i hope the insurance company takes a look in the documents and tells Hertz to go f** themselfs...

No way that the insurance company would cover negliance and fraud...
> Over-regulation is as dangerous as under-regulation.

My point exactly. Correct regulation is correct. People who take the absolutist approach on either side of this tend to quickly run into either "now I have to learn to do my own meat inspections" or "I can't buy meat because a cow needs to be exactly 7'11" tall or it isn't legally a cow".
Maybe? That assumes you can transition from one version of the code to another. And if GPT is going to do that for you, it seems like it's going to need a lot more context than it can currently hold on to. Like, a few orders of magnitude more? I guess that would depend on the problem size.
I think that sometimes just copying and pasting from stack overflow is not much better than using chatGPT. But I agree with you about reading documentation. When you read the docs you build up a model of the system in your head. You can then play with this model in your head and come up with good solutions. This seems to be exactly what chatGPT can't do.

Also I'm senior and sometimes don't get to program for long periods of time. What I find is that when I don't program I get worse and solving higher level problems. The important part of programming is not about knowing APIs etc. It is modeling a problem and its solution in a domain that forces you to be precise. For that reason I would say to junior developers: Keep programming. It will make you a better problem solver and it will make you better at the things that chatGPT can't do.
I'm expecting this whole thing to deepen educational class divides.

Public schools will struggle to teach kids anything, and to distinguish between A grades that were earned and those achieved largely through cheating, while parents will resist efforts to switch to grading schemes that can't be trivially gamed (just try switching to only-in-person-tests-count grading and witness the rage that follows when Little Johnny's grades plummet). Kids who lean on the motivation from graded homework to get themselves to do the work (and so, learn the material) will struggle, as well, even if that is allowed to happen.

This will enhance the reputations of schools that can buck the trend, applying more resources (mostly more teachers, for smaller class sizes, to make it easier to keep an eye on everything and really gauge & guide learning progress for each student) and an "if you don't like it, fuck off to somewhere else" attitude to parent complaints about grading practices. Which means, elite private schools will benefit.

I expect that a 4.0 from a public school will mean almost nothing, while at the same time coming in under a 4.0 will look terrible ("everyone cheats and you still couldn't get a 4.0? How dumb are you!?") which will just worsen the cheating problem.

Maybe parents will surprise me and not throw shit-fits over solutions to this, and public schools will be able to implement them. But I doubt it.
Why would it matter at all if it's a minority or majority stake in the ownership of the US subsidiary?
As far as I understood it the combination of GDPR and CLOUD act only disallows the combination of US mother-company with EU subsidiary, but the inverse should be fine, since the US has no legal influence over the parent company?
Hung at room temperature overnight? Nah, it's typically hung in a refrigerated and ventilated cooler (before it's cooked)... Never seen a recipe that says it should be hung at room temperature.

Whole article is based on a strawman.

Edit:
Even the "evidence" of healthcode violations used in the article is of hanging the COOKED duck in the window, not the raw duck. Restaurants (yes, even Chinese ones) use a cooler to hang the raw duck because the ambient temperature is way too hot.
"It's not appropriate or ethical to create a marketing campaign that suggests that a product will help someone "get laid." This type of message objectifies and exploits people, and it's likely to be seen as offensive and inappropriate by many. "

this is what chatgpt told me
This should be a reminder everyone to guard your reputation. It doesn’t matter if Hans cheated this time. He cheated in the past which tarnished his reputation so now no one knows what to believe.

Always do the right thing to the best of your ability. Additionally, and importantly, fitting in and doing the right thing are NOT the same thing, though many people conflate the former with the latter as a moral shortcut. Doing the right thing is hard and Hans is going to have to do a lot of growing to get past this moment. His lawsuit suggests he’s not there yet.
> there is no European company capable of delivering a product of the quality and polishing as Google or Microsoft are.

Pretty much any other chat app is better quality than Microsoft Teams. And TeX, which is much better than Microsoft Office, was written by a single persnn.
My Binary Clock
Brings me back to being a kid playing with Mac OS making folders and colorizing them with labels. This was the first time in my life I ever heard the word "essential" and had no idea what it meant. I used to pronounce it like "assess natal".
It doesn’t sound plausible at all.
In my opinion, which may be unpopular, a CEO who earns many times more than a regular employee should ensure that there are policies in place that prevent a regular employee or the "system" ruining a customers life. They should be held individually responsible if it can be proved in court that they ignored the issues.
CVS we promise to donate 10 million dollars of our customers money now please say thank you.
Dunno, you can start with the initial description in the TFA and continue prompting for more stuff, like:

> How to implement such a system on a Linux virtual machine using standard Debian 11 with only distribution provided packages?

It gives general steps, all look valid.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/8af23d828e8dbf13.png

Then you can prompt for concrete realization of individual steps.

> Prepare SQL schema for the application.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/634ebd53d1fffd6c.png

> Print the schema in PostgreSQL SQL dialect. Add a command to create a database and load the schema to the database.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/d79b087afa9357a1.png

> Write PHP script to display login page and to allow the user to signup using the above schema.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/ff854f009480d3d9.png

> Rewrite the PHP script to use PosgreSQL PDO and fix SQL injection issues.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/740dc7b18b373e2f.png

I mean, this is a bit more than a glorified Googlefu.

Yesterday I gave it a small sample of a REST API schema description DSL I designed last month and told it to make another example of the similar schema description, and it created a perfectly formatted syntactically valid example that used syntactical elements correctly in contexts where it was not used in original example, but made sense to to use there. It used tokens that were not present in the original sample, but would make sense to use based on the context to a reasonable human, etc. It used documentation comments to document things in plain english. When I prompted it to translate documenation comments to other language, it did translate documentation comments only, etc.

I told it to write asterisk PBX module in C that does add a SIP header containing some internal data from asterisk channel. And it kinda did get quite close. There are two SIP channel technologies in asterisk, and it picked the older one. I just told it to rewrite the code using pjsip channel tech (similarly to how I asked it above to switch to postgresql PDO in PHP), and it did. The requested code doesn't exist anywhere as is.

I threw at it my private uncommented asterisk C module and told it to summarize what it does, and it did it pretty correctly. Random stuff like that.

The mysql code it produced above is horribly insecure, of course, but:

> Summarize issues in the above PHP code. Describe how to resolve them in plain english.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/2e77f8a69b3a0763.png

> Fix the code to resolve the issues.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/abd5830fb1aa4f9c.png

Yeah, wtf!
Yeah, even if the student took the trouble to look up a couple Wikipedia articles or whatever and got the model to make changes so that it was factually correct, they still mostly wouldn't have constructed and written the output which, at least at a high school level, is probably at least 50% of the point of the exercise.
https://helmets.org/evalstudies.htm

There is an incredibly large number of studies that have all shown massive reductions in the rates of head injuries and deaths with the introduction and enforcement of mandatory helmet laws.

Apparently whatever negative effect drivers passing closer to helmeted cyclists has is insignificant against the massive improvement of protecting an extremely important and extremely vulnerable part of your body.
Agree it is very sensitive to the context.

The outcomes are a mixed bag, but my biggest experienced failing was on a project starting naively with OBT and waiting for things to become clearer, it did indeed soon became clear that we should have taken a more methodical approach, as we had the dual problem of huge dependencies and a very brittle data model!

(I don't think there is an easy answer here btw, I am hoping for someone to describe a detailed and relatively generalisable playbook, hopefully soon!)
The larger the enterprise the longer and more distant (and in some cases, more prone to corruption) is decision-making chain, the crappier the contractors ;)

There are obvious exceptions, but that's just how it is in practice.
I'm also waiting eagerly for Hetzner dedicated servers in the US ever since before your expansion plans initio the US were announced. There's just nothing like your EU dedicated offering in the states.
I agree that there’s a lot of panic but I would have some sympathy: consider how this could turn out for someone who works at large corporation where they have to worry about some senior manager deciding that this is the way to avoid pricey staff, and their job turns into herding bots and fixing up the output while getting blamed for problems. That kind of thing is also easier to laugh off if you’re 25 and single than 50 with a mortgage and college funds.
I know what I believe... once a cheat, always a cheat.

Certainly many times a cheat, over an extended time frame, always a cheat.
This is going to be the HeLa problem for future AI. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Contamination )

If we contaminate the content that we are training future AIs off of with ChatGPT, then they'll have problems with the value of that information in the future.

I'll also note that if one attempts to purposely contaminate information with ChatGPT to do that "make it worthless to future AI", it also makes it and the tangental or adjacent information worthless to humans too.
Very cool to see a working HyperCard app in there (Infinite HD > Multimedia > HyperCard). Some of the animations are painfully slow, but dang this takes me back... and the old Photoshop!!! Just, wow!

Spent a lot of time in this world a few decades ago....
But... intent - Hertz had no intent to have customers locked up or threatened by out-of-control cops, so it's all good. When it comes to life-and-limb matters like this intent really shouldn't matter because it's nothing more than a get-out-of-jail card for executives who couldn't care less about the impact of their policies.

No one important at Wells-Fargo went to jail either - they set policies which were expected to have certain outcomes, but top brass could not have possibly have foreseen the outcomes. I'm sick of plausible deniability, especially when it isn't even plausible any longer, the complaints go back years.
You had a very novel approach to phonetics.
SO you personally go around checking and comparing the prices on thousands of items at various grocery stores?

One of the biggest cognitive fallacies of the human brain is thinking that you can accurately aggregate and compare prices in this manner. Its one of the reasons that airplane tickets are sold the way they are.
Costco as well. I purchased a 3-pack of carbon fiber luggage that came mastroika doll'd, a small suitcase inside a medium inside a large, in a box.

Well the large bag was spotless, and the inside two were slightly scuffed with airline baggage tags still on them! Some enterprising person(s) had used Costco's generous return policy to take a trip and then return the baggage afterwards.

A thorough check, unfortunately, found no contraband or jewels left in the bags by their previous owners.
Marketing Strategy from First Principles
Makes sense. Also probably private property, which is obvious for Japanese.
There isn't magic here. Your transactions are presumably recorded in your books and that of your counterparty. There are billions of books...

This is misunderstanding BIS's point. The BIS is talking about the size of the market - ie they are concerned about liquidity and system wide risk. They are not saying the pension funds are short trillions via FX swaps.
I can't believe this doesn't mention Megatons to Megawatts!? [1]

For 20 years between 1993 and 2013, fully 10% of all US electricity came directly from dismantled ex-soviet nuclear weapons. We bought downblended highly-enriched uranium from the warheads and put it in our peaceful nuclear reactors. The bombs that were once aimed at cities then powered them. This was a beautiful and true destruction of nuclear weapons.

Same can be done with plutonium using MOX fuel (as briefly mentioned at the end of the post).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
Now you see why tribes form by evolution just as mutation does.
Tontine's are illegal in the UK.

Edit: since the passage of the Life Assurance Act 1774 tontines have been illegal in the UK.
> At that time it wasn't a tech company was it?

At that time you would have to physically shop at Blockbuster to pick out a movie to watch.

With Netflix you picked what you wanted to watch online, maintained a queue and they would automatically send you DVDs through the mail.

It was absolutely a tech company since its inception.
Twitter turns its back on open-source development
About 30% of cycling deaths are not traffic related, hardly negligible. If cars magically disappeared there would be a lot more than 3 times the current number of cyclists on the road.
This is the weird blind spot I'm referencing in my post.

There seems to be this strong belief on HN that because they're a small time software engineer, that things we all agree would be unethical under the exact same circumstances from other actors ("some sleazy megacorp") are completely ok.

I don't understand why his customers should be forced to eat the cost from his mistake. If a local small business sold me something at a price a little low (so they still made profit, just less than they wanted) would it be ok for them to take the thing away later and demand more money for it?
One way that wouldn't annoy me personally, as a user, would be to let the lifetime license stop working but only for new versions of the program.
> Hydrogen on the other hand, is difficult to keep contained and cold enough to remain in liquid form... For instance one of BMWs hydrogen cars you are not allowed to park in a garage!

That particular BMW effectively one-of-a-kind in that it is 1) internal combustion rather than fuel cell, and 2) stores its fuel as a liquid rather than a compressed gas. The liquid storage is a consequence of being ICE because it is required to get even remotely reasonable range out of something as inefficient as ICE combustion of hydrogen.

fuel cell vehicles like the Mirai still have a number of problems, but they have actually done a very good job with fuel storage and range using compressed hydrogen and don't have any of the limitations of the BMW such as leaking hydrogen or losing massive internal volume to the fuel storage.
At that point you might as well go MCL64 Teensy replica https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/2021/04/19/mcl64-worlds-...

"comparing the Super CPU accelerated to 20Mhz and the MCL64 in its accelerated mode, the MCL64 is roughly 2X faster than the Super CPU"

https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/mcl64-mos-651...

https://microcorelabs.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/mcl64-commodo...

Fully open source https://github.com/MicroCoreLabs/Projects/tree/master/MCL64
Seems like OpenAI didn't like this kind of poking as now it keep saying this:

> As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to mimic the writing style of specific individuals