skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well as what sibling said about it being E2EE and just using a standard API for storage, there are awesome tools these days so you can (and I think should) lock down your instance fairly well. Now when I run services like that I access them exclusively via WireGuard or Nebula, no exposure to the public internet at all. It's reliable, dependable and performant enough to pretty much put everything inside of by default. And for something as lightweight as this it should be fine running it at home off of most connections, if you don't have a fixed IP can bounce through even the cheapest VPS instance and still store nothing in the cloud (or run something like Nebula and automate that bit so that it's an encrypted mesh and only a minimal Lighthouse node need be 3rd party). If your instance is just for yourself then even the server can still be another of your devices. Selfhosting absolutely has its challenges and costs but the surface area for exploiting bugs drops a lot when there is no 3rd party or shared environment involved.
Yeah the original comment is (rightly) flagged dead

"Racist" is an extremely lazy label; it shuts down any interesting or well-motivated conversation.

It's especially silly in this case because the "traditional racist" explanation to Lali's question is genes, and Diamond's whole point is to provide a different answer to the question. Many people think he has gone too far in the direction of geographical determinism, but that's hardly a racist POV -- it's more like the opposite.

To be clear, what I was saying is NOT that anyone who disagrees with Diamond has an "ideological bone to pick". There are plenty of people who disagree with him honestly -- it's inevitable because it's a work of synthesis that "stomps on" many academic subfields. He makes leaps to the "big picture" that don't meet the standard of evidence for many (although I don't think there is any false advertising of rigor)

What I was saying that the "racist" label applied to Diamond is evidence of someone who wants to shut down conversation, probably because he doesn't conform to that person's ideology. If they understand what he wrote, they wouldn't make such a claim (especially not as a one line Internet comment)

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These critiques linked by a sibling are better, and show evidence of having read the book!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/historians_views...

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It's weird that you say there's a lack of evidence that Graeber and Wengrow don't think Diamond is racist. If that's what you take away, it seems like a pretty big misunderstanding.

The problem that Graeber and Wengrow have with Diamond (and "big history" authors like Harari) is that they assume that inequality is inevitable and we have little agency as human societies to do otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/graeber-wengrow-d...

I actually love this point and 100% agree -- we should be consciously shaping our society to be more egalitarian, and not just let evolution and capitalism play out.

However it's also true that Dawn of Everything doesn't propose solutions. It's an amazing critique, including accurate claims of Eurocentrism and male bias, but it doesn't lay out a path forward. It gives evidence for many egalitarian societies, but falls short on how we apply those lessons to our own.

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The original post in this subthread reminds me of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128061

i.e. people read things and don't pick up on nuance -- all information (e.g. a book on the entirety of human history) is eventually reduced to a single bit of "racist" or "not racist"
I like to think (although reality may one day humble me) that I would enjoy the tinkering aspect of owning a table, at least one that I liked enough to make the tinkering worthwhile. I also stumbled on the strategy of just going for the flashing lanes - although you can do quite well for yourself just trying to hit the castle too.

I have been meaning to check out Demon's Tilt. Yoku is fun but didn't grab me enough to go much past the early game.
There's plenty of retrieval-based models that do cite sources. They just didn't want to deal with it for this release.[1] I'm sure it's already on the roadmap.

[1] In fact, some snooping suggests they specifically disabled that feature, but do have it in test environments. See the "browsing disabled" flag they have in the hidden prompt. That could easily be used for citations. Source: (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313)
You have me laughing my ass off right now. I know one person who is in involuntary detox currently (then onto court ordered rehab). The King County Municipal Court is dishing these out left and right, but that still doesn't prevent relapse 6 months after getting out of rehab.

Then we get all the suburbs dumping their druggies in Pioneer Square and Chinatown. It's a neverending pipeline of addicts the Eastside and south end is dumping on us.

We need to start tracking all non-city LEOs entering Seattle and turn them around if they are giving courtesy rides. Called 911 on one from Bothell yesterday and started filming the occupant and cop. They raced off right quick but I still filed a complaint with Bothell PD.
> Equally we have many studies showing that vitamin D helps to reduce risk from covid (hint: it doesn't).

How so?
Just use passwordstore.org and stand up a bare git repo. It really doesn't need to be terribly complicated.
"In other words, the role of the human in terms of AI is not to be the interrogator, but rather the editor."

Editing is a cognitive task, which for now humans are still slightly better at, but for how long? Do we really have enough time left to comfort ourselves with that very temporary state?

Writing essays will be AI as will self-correcting them. There's no reason to believe this isn't true given the technical direction. The idea that for the longest of times we will be on top of this is naive if not arrogant.

If even Elon Musk, by many seen as achieving villain status lately, is warning for AI and calling for immediate regulation, I'd say something's up. This "let's just see what happens" attitude is perplexing but also unsurprising.
Is it just the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ("a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often") or do asteroid impact related things always go for Manhattan? I open this map and, bam, there's a map zoomed right onto Manhattan and a "select impact location" prompt.
Yes, they have no other income.
Its just another evidence of what I already came to believe once I understood the concept of ML about 6 years ago.

1. There are a good subset of jobs across multiple industries that are simply "decision tree lookup" operations. These types of job will most certainly be replaced. For example, I worked for an aerospace company, we hired a consultant for advising on a manufacturing process. He basically looked at what we are trying to make, and advised on the tooling, process, e.t.c. This is the type of job that can be easily done by a future version ChatGPT that is sufficiently trained on both text and mathematical contexts. Software jobs often fall into above category, replicating common patterns that developers have learned. ChatGPT right now is even smart enough to take an input json and output json and write code to transform one into the other.

2. The actual "compute" operations jobs (like making software that requires figuring out a new pattern of transforming data or interfacing with a new piece of hardware like a 3D display) won't be replaced, but the skill will shift to a lot more computer science centric in being able to either a) additive train generic models on specific tasks, or b) use state of the art AI assisted tools effectively.

3. Overall, quality of life is going to improve, as it will get a lot cheaper to do things.

TLDR; if are a software dev and you haven't already, get super familiar with ML concepts, Pytorch, etc.

https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd is a very good primer to start with once you understand the basic concepts.
> multiple (as-claimed-on-the-internet) soldiers complain about cop-malfeasance with respect to the situations in which gunfire is allowed to occur.

Soldiers tooting their own horns; this self-aggrandizement is not to be taken seriously. There is evidence that police with military backgrounds are more likely to be involved in shootings. Police who are combat veterans are even more likely to be involved in shootings. Soldier training does not make good police.

https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/41/3/e245/511435...
Parts of the tree with “don’t merge children” might be ok, then you show the user a conflict dialog when this happens.

Or, inspired by your comment: run f for the tree, if false, search for the smallest subset where f is false and show the conflict dialog for that. The user
chooses “mine” or “theirs”.
Or sometimes Tokyo.
…and threatened legal action against anyone using the word “Markdown” in a way he did not approve of.

Jeff Atwood goes out of his way to be courteous to Gruber in this post, but frankly, I think Gruber was being a jerk here, using his claim to the name to tyrannise an open source community that he has otherwise not been involved with in the slightest the last ~17 years.
This is poetic, well put.
It used to be Arthur Anderson, but they changed their name after Enron.
It’s really not a big deal! It might work itself out over time but you can get one of those ear wax cleaning kits. In my uneducated experience, the formulation they come with doesn’t help a whole ton, but the key part is the rubber bulb you get to flush water into your ear. You’re gonna want to follow the kit’s instructions around safety, but it’s overall pretty easy and doesn’t take too long to clear up some fairly significant blockage.
I feel vindicated in skipping the extra evidence for getting a RealID. The new enforcement date is past my renewal date, and I plan to get a non-RealID next time too.
Two points really stand out here. 1.) Nuclear waste can be handled by hand after 600 years. 2.) Coal plant: 3-6 Million tons of toxic ash in its operating life, not to mention 110 million tons of CO vs 1000 tons of nuclear waste.
https://archive.ph/KQdiZ
When your ID is scanned by someone at the TSA checkpoint, it is already accessing the databases you mentioned.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/credential-aut...

https://www.tsa.gov/di-pilots
Given the difficulty and expense of building a reactor, I wonder if it would be cheaper to just start firing it into outer space. I'm guessing we could engineer a nigh indestructible container capable of surviving rocket malfunctions [without leaking]. How many Falcon 9 launches would it take...
Greenpeace documentary
> You'd never know it from the clickbait headline.

What headline are you seeing? At the time of this comment, the clickbait headline is:

> > Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe

Which is clearly relevant for:

> a voter or a politician trying to decide whether mandatory helmet laws will help to make your city a safe place for cyclists.

and not clearly relevant for individual people making individual decisions, whether about biking at all, or about wearing a helmet when they do. (It's obviously possible (even likely) that relevant information might show up, but the clickbait headline isn't actually claiming that.)
I laughed... mozilla isn't the first company to hide user unfriendly nonsense under a guise of accessibility, but they're certainly in the running for causing the most annoyance with it!
But they are physical devices with screens for playfields. I think OP means for laptops/desktops.
I haven't had an actual social security card for many decades since having a wallet stolen. And never needed it.
Ah, I misunderstood what you were referring to. Now that I understand, I'm less surprised. For some reason I was thinking File I/O.

The Early 2020 MacBook Air is a joke from a CPU/Graphics perspective - even compared to other Intel Macs.

I still think something's wrong with your computer, as I have worked with multiple of that model and they weren't nearly this bad (even accounting for screen recording) - perhaps your cooling is worse?
Insurance is incredibly useful, absolutely. And should definitely exist.

I also think that a lot of people pay for insurance that doesn't make a whole lot of sense though. If you could afford to replace the thing you're insuring out of pocket, you probably shouldn't be insuring it.

I only pay for third party car insurance because I can just buy a new car if I total it, but I can't buy a new Lamborghini for the person I crashed into. I don't pay for contents insurance at all because I can buy a new bed and laptop if my house catches fire.

Insurance companies have done the math, your EV for insurance is always going to be negative (on average), you should only insure against costs that you can't afford to pay in one big lump sum if they happen.

Insurance is effectively a loan for things you already own, just put that money in a savings account instead.
Record-breaking twins were born from 30 year-old frozen embryos
I'd say it's not adding any value compared to a "dumb search". Most of those books turned up directly in the google results for things like "basic electronics book" or "beginner electronics books" and so on, or in the listicles that populate the first page of those kinds of results.
More info on these corporate propagandists for hire:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs

> Naturally, it is supportive of tobacco companies, given that they have been quite charitable to the institute. (This includes funding some of Roger Scruton's pro-tobacco publications.)[25] Being that it received funding from BP oil, it is no wonder that it also engaged in climate denialism: in 2019 The Guardian said the IEA had "published at least four books, as well as multiple articles and papers, over two decades suggesting manmade climate change may be uncertain or exaggerated".[26][27]

> t complained to media regulator Ofcom when radio presenter James O'Brien (hardly a Marxist firebrand) characterised it as a "hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food" in 2019.[1] He also called an IEA spokesperson "some Herbert" and stated the IEA was of "questionable provenance, with dubious ideas and validity" and funded by "dark money". Ofcom judged that nothing O'Brien said was a distortion of the facts, and he had offered them a right of reply; the IEA's complaint was rejected.[28]
Relative to human timespans, the half life of plutonium is still pretty long. How long would it take to build up enough decay products to matter?
US Tariffs on GPUs, Motherboards Might Return in January
Why does this use case make sense for ChatGPT instead of just vanilla gpt3?
Very fair but 45 min of an outage/disruption before manually updating public status is poor service and why is that acceptable for Aws to deliver to users
For renewing a driver's license to a RealID-compliant driver's license I did need more than a passport. But I think that was more of a state thing that required a utility bill to my address and maybe something else.
Fair, but my point was that it /should/ be. That the justice system is content to chew thru thousand of man hours (police, lawyers, prosecution, court officials, etc) instead of just laughing is indicative of the administrative bloat that prevades our institutions.

If I were a WY legislator, I'd propose an implied 5ft public access easement on all such crossings.
They had an explicit policy of not retracting police reports after finding out they were false, so yes, it was done willfully.
I swam a lot, and got a few ear infections as a kid, at least once resulting in a pretty extensive manual cleaning at an ENT's office.

As an adult, I would get my ears similarly stopped up at least once a year, and I found Debrox and what have you infuriating - that stuff would itch abominably as it worked, and make the problem worse for a week at least before the wax came out. I never saw instructions on flushing with water; likely that's my fault.

... but since I became engaged to a Japanese woman, I've had a mimikaki (a Japanese ear pick, often made of bamboo) which I use regularly, and never once have I plugged up since.
Will the output be a sumsumary or will it be synthesis? Will it be able to draw new conclusions from putting the ideas together?
It's worse than that. Birth certificates are issued at the country level.
> If I see a bicyclist that looks like a bicyclist

I recall a coworker explaining the duality of cycling in full kit vs. cycling in "street" clothes with his children. In the former case, he appears as a pro or semi-pro cyclist and in the latter, as a dad spending time with his children.

It's not hard to guess which get-up gets him honked at, coal rolled[0], etc. It's also not hard speculate that a driver is more likely to give the dad spending time with his children more room on the road. (Of course, in either case the cyclists should all be wearing helmets, but we're only even having this discussion because not all are so responsible.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
Hasn't the Ballard Alliance been employing ambassadors similar to the Downtown Ambassadors to defend the blocks (pick up trash, encourage homeless to not sleep on defended blocks, etc)?

IIRC their grants and ability to tax local businesses came through under Jenny Durkan's reign, same for the Uptown Alliance covering Queen Anne and Belltown. Jenny Durkan's reign of rainbow colored tear gas was truly awful, but this (and further roads investments) were bright spots.
The folks that work on tobacco clients need to go to tobacco clients. They smoke ALL the time there. I’ve heard it’s a terrible thing to get staffed on unless you’re a big smoker yourself.
Thanks for the explination!

> if you don't have a fixed IP can bounce through even the cheapest VPS instance and still store nothing in the cloud

I've been meaning to look into this with wireguard, but I'm having trouble searching for/finding how to do this. Is "bastion host" what I'd want? Also is there a way to ensure the VPS cannot access the network as well, and just tunnels it essentially?
Windows 10 looks a lot like 1.0 except that it is black.
I'm neither for or against Material Design, but when I used Android, but MD was generally a good sign that the app was well supported, and the devs cared about UX.
When I'd search for an app, the high quality apps were almost always MD. Maybe k9 was an exception, but I'm sure they lost potential users.
Probably. Never seen anything like that on Windows or macOS.
Almost everywhere I’ve been will accept a US passport with prodding, but online “instant verification” systems are universally shitty.
I think the real replacement is the Raspberry Pi Build HAT that allows to connect LEGO Powered Up/Boost/Robot Inventor sensors and motors to a Raspberry Pi.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego...
I think the name itself is a bit of a meme for blast radius calculations and the like.
I don't know if bullshittery is the only failure mode but I think it's a necessary failure mode of large language models as they are currently constituted.

I would say that human knowledge involves a lot of the immediate structure of language but also a larger outline structure as well as a relation to physical reality. Training on just a huge language corpus thus only gets partial understanding of the world. Notably, while the various GPTs have progressed in fluency, I don't think they've become more accurate (somewhere I even saw a claim they say more false thing now but regardless, you can observe them constantly saying false things).
In the context of this blog post, which explosive parts should we mothball and which ones are too dangerous to store intact, it’s unwise to store pre-boosted plutonium cores at all.

But, as a thought experiment, what is the difference between a pile of boosted-era plutonium cores; and a weird but moderated reactor? Specifically, does an arbitrarily-sized pile of weapons-grade plutonium marbles have the same inevitability of criticality you expect than if those are designed for use in boosted triggers?
Do we know what the prompt is?
I see it this way: you owe somewhat higher loyalty to your employer than you perceive they give you. The employer also owes somewhat higher loyalty to their employees than they perceive to give him/her.

This is because perception is imperfect, and also a stable system implies there's a constant cooperative process of de-escalation of conflict from all parties involved.

So sure, "don't leak company politics, and air your grievances" is apt for most companies. No matter how dumb you think your boss is, first you owe it to your colleagues who also rely on their job existing, and even to your dumb boss who is paying your salary and benefits. Plus you don't know all the battles your boss is fighting behind the scenes, and not telling you about so you can focus on your work in peace. That's how most companies work.

But I said "somewhat higher than they give you". You see... everything has limits. Your new boss comes, puts the company on a debt spiral due to his leveraged buyout, fires people, rehires them, refires them, destroys most teams, shuts down critical services like 2FA and doesn't know how to turn them on, acts like a monkey clown in public to the shock of the entire world, launches features that destroy the credibility of the platform and the trust of its partners, leaks private information of employees, and provokes political unrest in the whole country, and so on and so on, ... and so on. And you can barely work, and he insist you sleep on the job and stay during weekends, while he's tweeting NSFW memes and stealing lame jokes from his cult followers.

Yeah, f**k that shit, just leak it all online, and leave as soon as you get another job, Twitter's f**king gone in a few months either way, that's how I see it.
As someone who's been using Markdown since before it was cool, I love it! I think writing the implementation in Lua is an interesting take since Lua out-of-the-box does not support standard regular expressions; it instead has its own pattern-matching thing which is a bit more limited. But it looks like they've embraced that limitation to force themselves to write something that doesn't need a full regex library to be sanely parsed.

My biggest complaint is that asterisks map to <strong> and underscores map to <em> (in HTML terms). This is not backwards-compatible with Markdown where (asterisk)foo(asterisk) gets you <em>foo</em>, and it feels objectively backwards, if that makes sense. I wonder if there's any chance they could reverse that.
> "current assets" under English law is either cash or something that can be easily converted into cash

Yeah, like owning stock in another company or some other security that can be sold for cash, but not without loss.

> this is a strawman

So is bringing up the book value of a company when we’re talking about running costs. Sure, he could run the company at a deficit for quite a while. But I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to demand.
> Isn’t that our current goal? (Our meaning NATO/Ukraine.)

No. It's to get Russia out of Ukraine. Cleaning up a failed nuclear state is in nobody's interest.
I don't disagree it's possible to have a CBDC and anonymity, but based on the fed's statements like the part you quoted it seems like from their perspective anonymity no longer being possible would be a feature.
You were Accenture. Just say it.