skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do you think it's questionable?

Because standing at the curb and hailing a nearby car on an app is much more like sticking out your hand and waiving down a cab than it is like calling up a limo company the day before and booking a ride. "We're using an app" is not a good excuse for flooding the market with unlicensed taxicabs.

> So examples would be nice here, at least in the U.S.

Uber was considered illegal in NYC, SF and LA, and I'm sure many other cities. They eventually came to agreements with Uber, and Uber's operations were legalized by new legislation across the US. However, the initial strategy appears to have been to just expand everywhere, regardless of what they local regulations were, and then to get permission afterwards.

This didn't always work out that well internationally, at least at first. For example, Uber executives were arrested in France for running an unlicensed taxicab operation.

Addendum: Uber was apparently aware that its operations were illegal in many places, according to leaked internal documents from the company: [0]. I wasn't aware of just how brazen they were.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak....
I wish AoC would just get rid of the global leaderboard. Not being on the west coast puts you at a severe disadvantage.

I get that some folks enjoy the competitive aspect of it, and I enjoy the personal challenge of being timed, but I'd much rather start the challenge at a time that is convenient to me.

Folks suggest "simply ignoring" the leaderboards, but the psychological effect is inescapable and the joy is sapped. At least for me.
Sounds like a ChatGPT response.
It is a variant of the US system, rather than the rich picking the candidates who can run, the priests do.

Sorry, I am teasing but I want to highlight that the problem with pre-selected candidates is a widespread problem undermining democracy in many places. Same applies to Hong Kong were China heavily influenced candidate selection.
It's really just a question of who controls the technology (echoes of Marxism and 'seize the means of production' I suppose). My favorite line when people bring up automation is to note that most corporate board members - and all the shareholders -could be replaced by AI bots with little or no effect on the corporation's daily business operations, and a significant savings (i.e. profits could be reinvested in R & D and production instead of distributed elsewhere).
Takenaka Carpentry Tool Museum in Kobe. Most exhibits are in Japanese only but if you know woodworking you can probably piece together what the tools do.
You are thinking of Hu Jintao.
It's only tedious work if what you enjoy is cranking out another CRUD feature.

Personally I prefer the thinking, reasoning, tracking down, supposed 'tedium' that comes with bug fixing.
Interesting. It’s giving me a better answer:

P vs. NP is a well-known problem in computer science and mathematical complexity theory. P is the class of problems that can be solved quickly by a computer, while NP is the class of problems for which a solution can be verified quickly by a computer. The question of whether P equals NP is one of the most important open problems in computer science. Many experts believe that P does not equal NP, but this remains unproven.

With your answer, I’d have asked it for an example of a problem that can be solved in polynomial time but cannot be solved in nondeterministic polynomial time.
right, there’s a huge difference between “difficult” in the sense of getting enough support from voters in the country to make a change in the system according to the previously agreed process, and “difficult” in the sense of the government/ system using force to prevent the change
> seems intent

They do nothing. Words have no bearing if they are not backed by actions. There was no excuse why they shouldn't ban short private jet trips too.
Seaweed. Apache license.

https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
This is very creative. Thing to note is that this is not free (or at least it is likely not to be, OpenAI is charging for APIs). We are talking about ~1c per search looking at current GPT pricing (2c per ~750 words in/out). It is also indiscriminate deployed in this way, triggering for every search, even those that chatgpt will show suboptimal responses for, like 'starbucks near me', navigational queries like 'twitter' or anything else chatgpt will be bad in the context of search (a lot of things!). And it is non-trivial to predict which searches GPT will be good for (especially within typical result latency requirements of modern search engines).

We are doing some experiments with this at Kagi, and the main trick is to manage cost, possibly through on-demand triggering mechanism (which also can help manage accuracy). One thing to keep in mind is that this is likely going to get better/faster/cheaper in the future.
"Immigrant waves" ... probably not. Reaching the Americas from Asia, Africa, Europe by sea is probably not impossible and likely happened more than we tend to imagine, but was still extremely challenging. There has probably not been a multitude of immigrant waves.

"Normal patterns of within-continent human migration" ... sure. My Hopi neighbor still (jokingly) calls the Dine (Navajo) "those Athabascans" (referring to the people of what is now British Columbia who migrated to what is now the US soutwest in the 1400s).
It's very different because it will answer the question you asked, rather than answering a question that matches a substring of the question you asked like Google will.
> The main issue to me seems to be sideloading apps

I think you could phrase that better. Sideloading apps is not an "issue", it's an incredibly important tool that developers can use to audit the behavior of apps.
Military stuff. While everyone sleeps in on lazy Sunday, watch officers in windowless rooms look at big computer monitors. Intelligence people do there [redacted] thing to feed those monitors. Aircrew and mechanics sit in old buildings on the edges of runways, checking and rechecking their aircraft every few hours. Weather people go out every hour to measure clouds. And deep in their bunkers are teams with fingers on nuclear triggers. Be it a Russian missile launch or a fisher in distress, a system of hundreds of people is out there 24/7 waiting for the red phone to ring. It might not be glamourous, but I'd rather work every Sunday morning than spend Thursday afternoons designing a better ringtone for that phone.

In practice, weekends and 24/7 operations are more relaxing than the normal workday. All you have to do is your core job. There are no admin headaches, no stupid memos to write or HR-mandated online courses to take. No teams meetings. Everyone can focus on being ready for the mission.
By who's authority should the word "who's" be spelled "whose" and not "who's"?

In all seriousness, it's interesting to see how the live language is diverging from the rules. The dual ending "-ayim" is supposed to be used with the singular stem: nekuda(-t) - giving nekudatayim "two dots", and likewise shnatayim "two years", dakatayim "two minutes", etc. But in practice, speakers classify dual as plural and use the form with both plural and dual endings: nekudotayim, dakotayim
Popular and extremist are, surprisingly, not mutually exclusive. I remember the Revolution pretty well and have talked to exiles of various stripes over the decades (including pre revolutionary exiles in France).

The royalist regime installed by the CIA in ‘53 replaced a popularly elected social democratic government. I won’t say the shah was ever popular, but there was not massive opposition at first. In part due to repression, and in part due to increased liberalization (e.g. rights for women), industrialization, and increased wealth (which I believe would have happened with the prior regime as well).

But those other factors don’t increase linearly or automatically and soon repression was the only way the Shah’s regime stayed in power.

To many people the Revolution seemed at first like a breath of fresh air. After all it overthrew the hated regime. This is the classic difficulty for all movements (from free software to regicide): different paths intersect and then diverge. Khomeini was indeed quite popular (though far from universally) but his followers were the largest (practically only iirc) organized opposition and so, like the Bolsheviks/Mensheviks (despite the name, the Bolsheviks were in the minority), they pushed the guys at the top of the hill off, and maintained their own balance up there.

Compare that to the French Revolution where there was no faction large enough to do this: they pushed out the Ancien Régime but then muddled around aimlessly and violently until someone was able to secure the high ground.

So Khomeini was “popular” in the sense that lots of people were favorable to his movement in the moment, but not “popular” in that the movement had a widespread base of support. Like the prior regime, after a short honeymoon they could not rule without repression.

Unfortunately there is no external opposition that could come in and restore democracy. So a complete overthrow of the current regime is quite unlikely.
So! Now you would give the Devil the benefit of law?
This model is weird. People keep telling me it can solve complicated problems, and yet one of the first few games I tried to play with it was a pretty bad failure, even though it's really easy:

My prompt:

Two people are playing a game.

The first player names an object. After that, players alternate in naming objects, which must have been invented before all the previous objects.

First person: Smartphone.

Second person: Car.

First person:

ChatGPT's answer:

> Sorry, but that is not a valid response in this game. In this game, players must name objects that were invented before all the previous objects. Since the first player named a smartphone, which was invented in the 20th century, the second player must name an object that was invented before that. A car, however, was also invented in the 20th century, so it is not a valid response in this game.

(End of ChatGPT text)

It doesn't understand that two events in the 20th century happened at different times, so I can hardly believe this thing is intelligent.
We actually force a few, and there certainly was an attempt for COVID. How many people lost their jobs for not taking the shot? Why didn’t we wait until the studies could be complete? Isolate until then?
GWB wasn't stupid, he was 'intellectually incurious'.
Nice to meet you. I enjoy nothing more than figuring out a really tricky bug. I like the puzzle.
A 5-year-old answers similarly to questions like "who broke the vase?".
The problem with the ribbon is that discoverability is extremely slow. If I'm looking for a piece of functionality, it's much faster to read through text menus looking for related words than to inspect a similar number of unfamiliar icons to figure out if they are related. Its keyboard usability is also not as consistent (e.g. alt+f, o to open a file from almost anywhere in the app)

Once you know where everything is and what the icons mean, it's probably better than nested menus for use with the mouse. Since that describes most of the person-hours in the software, this is an improvement on average. New users and those who lean heavily on the keyboard still aren't going to like it, though.
I'm convinced that it's not accessing the real Internet. All of this information would be in its training data.
The fallacy you’ve restated is called false equivalence.
> Lots of dictatorships make concessions

This is a strategic move by the Islamic Republic and they timed it carefully because there are calls for another round of protests just in a few days. The government hopes to mitigate public unrest by giving them false hope.

I'm Iranian and have witnessed the government killing and imprisoning children (e.g., a 9 year old boy who was in a car with his father, not even protesting). There's a reason the UN is now investigating human right violations by the regime. To this regime, people are just statistics—just a couple years ago, the government massacred more than 1500 people on the streets and didn't blink an eye. In fact, right after that, they continued the JCPOA negotiations with the West.

Many Iranians wish our country didn't have oil and gas so that other countries would leave us alone. The free and abundant resources of money only make the regime corruption worse. At least in a dictatorship that struggles with income, some attention would be paid to construction and manufacturing. But the (non)Iranian regime has just been stealing the nation's wealth for over 4 decades, essentially funneling it to Swiss banks. Maybe that's why the Switzerland refused to sanction the Islamic Republic just like Germany and Britain.
Yes, historically 50% or above of people in NI have wanted to be part of the uk and considered themselves British (often to the point of marching around waving Union Jacks etc). Over time that number has gone down relative to people who consider themselves Irish but the numbers are still fairly equal.
From personal experience, the drop off isn't due to difficulty, but rather "free" time as we get deeper into the holiday season -- travel, family, disconnecting, etc.
Does it? If you mean 'all things under the systemd umbrella' then sure, but if you think in terms of systemd (core), systemd-networkd, systemd-homed, etc. isn't it pretty much as 'one thing'(s) as it could reasonably be?

And the umbrella just seems arbitrary - GNU, Mozilla, X11, anything that's a package group, etc. are also failing.
Arguably, by the time they implemented, they tested, at that point you're just consuming.

So another way of handling this to contribute advancement at scale is "exercise left to the reader", and then we readers should publish too.

R&D in big tech should contribute as academia does.

We have our "Chief Scientists" and "Principal Engineers" titles that recognize, essentially, a tenure track, that should be on the merits of publishing code implementing new techniques.
Mass marketing emails are one thing. On the other hand if you believe that you sometimes rub people the wrong way despite having the best intentions, then you could be using it as a genuine attempt to communicate empathetically with the other person.
> "But scientific facts are a different story. Nobody has any incentive to claim that 1+2=4 or that some function in Python does X when it really does Y."

Incentive is irrelevant. What mattes is whether these things do happen, irrespective of intent -- and they do! I very, very frequently find incorrect answers to math questions, tech function questions, etc.

Incentive is an important part of the dynamic, but it's not important to consider if we're looking empirically at the integrity of the results.

> "So when you search for these kind of facts on Google you can pretty sure that you get correct answers, or at least someone trying to give you the best answer they can. But not so with GPT."

It is so with GPT. Both systems are "trying to give you the best answer."

I think what you're observing is that the Google search engine has two decades and billions of dollars behind it and ChatGPT is a research preview - not even a finished product.

I remember using search engines in the late 90s (in fact, I worked on one of the leading ones). I think you are extending far too much credit.
My best guess is that it's a deterrent for spammers.

It's not as easy to obtain a throwaway phone number that can receive SMS as it is a throwaway email address.
> The paradox of tolerance, as it is commonly argued, has to be one of the worst philosophical arguments actually taken seriously.

My understanding of the “paradox” was consistent with the long-form argument that you provided, and it always made perfect sense to me. In the face of a violent group who don’t respect the arguments and traditions of tolerant society, societies must defend themselves with means other than rational argument, or perish. You seem to be arguing not against Popper but rather against some nebulous “as it is commonly argued” (maybe on Reddit?) and you haven’t done a very good job of defining the position you’re critiquing.
> I don't think most people hate it any more.

Still hate it. Most apps did not follow Microsoft’s lead and add a ribbon to their app.
We're running Ceph with Rook and Minio in Kubernetes. I'm evaluating Garage as an alternative for some purposes such as application instance static files for Python or Javascript applications to avoid block volumes in deployments. Garage has a simpler high availability distribution story than Minio's erasure coding striping, but it works well for applications that don't require sub-second writes. It can do high availability with only three nodes versus four for Minio, which works well for smaller setups. It can also serve static websites straight from a bucket, which would work well for static sites like those made with static site generators.

Ceph has an S3 API gateway, but it's a more wholesome solution better suited for larger setups compared to Minio and Garage.
That is twice the work
The subway system is sprawling but, as someone who doesn't know any Japanese, I've never had any real trouble navigating it. Didn't know about woman-only cars but I assume most Japanese would take it as just another clueless foreigner and wouldn't think much else about it.
Cool so we shouldn’t try to go to Japan if we don’t speak the language is what I got from this. Aka gate keeping. You are worse than the people you are trying to admonish in the beginning of your comment.
The author is misusing the digital vs. analog dichotomy when he meant to say virtual vs. physical.
The article says that one reason is the source of manufacturing is shifting. If that's the case then it's better than a worsening recession.

"The global trading map is being rapidly redrawn, with EU-U.S. trade and investment in U.S. rising sharply as economic ties between the West and China are subjected to critical scrutiny. This year, the U.S. has imported more goods from Europe than China – a big shift from the 2010s, "
> If you believe that there's no opportunistic involvement of the various Western governments here,

Can you point to any? Knowing the expat Persian community where I live in Germany, the movement against the regime is very much coming from Iranians. It's Iranians on the streets in Tehran without headscarves, Iranians being shot and killed, Iranians marching and organizing demonstrations.
>> see a live music performance

Every industry can become a grind. Once you have say through a hundred Taylor Swift concerts you might be begging for that coalmine job. I met a piano tuner one who after twenty years of tuning Steinways grands in concert halls had developed a hatred for all classical music.
The line I’ve heard (Stephen Kotkin) “dictatorships just have to be good at one thing: defeating all political alternatives.” Shuffling around the police isn’t allowing for a political alternative to the regime.
Any chance for Bing support?
Wouldnt undefined instruction trap take care of that?
This post is so annoyingly long. Could have written the same in 1/4 the length. Do they get paid by the word?
> 2x expensive

That's not even close. Samsung,MI,Oppo and Vivo make almost all phones for India in India. If it was this expensive they will never make India
> the US does know how to split communities, they weren't stupid when they chose Okinawa

> i'm pretty sure in the future Okinawa will be the Taiwan of Japan

> i'd bet all my savings

Let me get this straight. You think that the US occupied Okinawa until 1972 and then returned it to Japan, only to then decide to play 12 dimensional chess by intentionally antagonizing okinawans and making them hate the us by all the problems they've caused with their military presence, so that Okinawa will some day split from japan and... do what?

Because they sure as hell aren't going to want to have anything to do with the US. Maybe they'll become a vassal state of China again like under the Ryukyu kingdom? I'm not sure that outcome would show that the US wasn't stupid.
“Minimum number of constructs you need to have complete control over your hardware” is a bit of a slippery slope when it’s known that one-instruction computers are Turing Complete (“subtract and branch if negative” being one I recall). There’s plenty of mind-bending stuff on esolangs.org
It seems to me this totally demolishes the argument that LLMs lack a world model. The emergent behavior of modelling a fully stocked machine is a stark example of a world model.
The author is Aristotle.[a] I prefer the translation hosted by MIT at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/athenian_const.1.1.html instead of the OP's translation, hosted by an organization that many people consider highly ideological and politically divisive.[b]

In the translation hosted by MIT, Aristotle starts with this:

> After this event there was contention for a long time between the upper classes and the populace. Not only was the constitution at this time oligarchical in every respect, but the poorer classes, men, women, and children, were the serfs of the rich. They were known as Pelatae and also as Hectemori, because they cultivated the lands of the rich at the rent thus indicated. The whole country was in the hands of a few persons, and if the tenants failed to pay their rent they were liable to be haled into slavery, and their children with them. All loans secured upon the debtor's person, a custom which prevailed until the time of Solon, who was the first to appear as the champion of the people. But the hardest and bitterest part of the constitution in the eyes of the masses was their state of serfdom. Not but what they were also discontented with every other feature of their lot; for, to speak generally, they had no part nor share in anything.

Aristotle wrote this 2372 years ago. Go read the whole thing. It will make you appreciate that many societal problems we have today are... not new.

--

[a] It may have been written by one of his pupils.

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Fund
I visited Japan for the first time a month ago, and basically followed this advice. Got lost in Tokyo. Well as lost as you can be considering Apple or Google Maps and SUICA are pretty much universal wherever I went. And cash.

Didn’t speak the language, didn’t try to make people speak English - asked for the Japanese menu and used Google translate to figure it out.

Kyoto was incredible.
Different problem earlier. The text would come up for just a split second and then disappear.
One of the best room I ever had was in Norway. It was at most 3 times as large as the queensized bed, had at least 5 different lighting options and a fantastic black-out curtain (this was needed above the Arctic circle) and tons of small storage places and hooks - and this includes a tiny bathroom. Everything you need, and super cozy.
> I am convinced

What evidence are you basing your conviction on?
Notes on the iPad recently added a fountain pen and it’s pretty amazing how good it makes hand writing look.
Another thing that is turning purple is the prose:

"The mystery of the purple lights appears to be both more mundane and more worrisome than anyone has realized — a mood-indigo check-engine light on the entire infrastructure of modernity. When LED streetlights start changing color for no apparent reason, it's a visual cue that we might need to rethink, just a bit, how we build the future."

Or maybe you're desperately stretching for a hook for a story about a quirk of LEDs.
This seems to be precisely what the crowd is doing