skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> REAL ID for flights

I have flown twice in the past few years without ID when I misplaced my wallet. TSA made me sign a form which basically said nothing useful. Children fly without ID. It's about control not about flight safety.
I've honestly trapped myself outside a bunch of times in the few months I've lived in one of these buildings. Fwiw, Butterfly lets you set up access codes that persist, and so technically if you set one and remember it you can't lock yourself out... but my building's elevators are also fob-locked, so even if I can get into the building, I end up trapped in the lobby until someone's willing to fob me upstairs.
The vast majority of businesses are high capital and low margin by HN standards. Plenty of them IPO just fine.
Before the merger goes through the stock price has a floor of $10. Typically the SPAC will IPO and start looking for a deal, this takes around 1-1.5 year. During that time the stock will be trading at around $10. When a deal is announced it typically takes 3-6 months for the merger to complete. The floor is still in place during that time. After the merger goes through the floor disappears and it starts trading like a normal stock.
The number of stars in the observable universe is roughly of the same order as the number of grains of sand on earth, and the number of atoms in a human eye.

Estimates are: 10^19 grains of sand, 10^22 atoms in the human eye and 10^23 stars in the observable universe.
Because people are suckers and keep falling for it. If no one took advantage of these "offers", these companies wouldn't bother.

That said, if they offered me more than a lousy $2, and all they were tracking was phone calls (not anything on chat/talk apps, just the actual voice calling), I'd sign up, because it's free money. Who the hell uses the phone any more? They want to pay to see how many robocalls I get?
I'll testify to this software, I use it on my i9 Catalina Mac and it works great.
The doors are generally automatically unlocked when going from inside to out, power or no power.
> At the end of the month, I've collected $10k in revenue and $500 in donations, the $500 isn't mine to donate, it's my customers', which I'm donating on their behalf. If I go to the orphanage and donate $500 and pocket the $500 from customers as revenue, that's illegal.

No, that's what you're supposed to do.

> This is exactly what this lawsuit is alleging.

No, it isn't; that has nothing to do with the allegations in the lawsuit.
It depends on your time horizon. Lots of people deride Chamath's SPACs, but several of them traded well above their initial $10 price for 1.5+ years until the market started dropping at the beginning of this year.
Sure but it becomes really hard to fight it when you are locked out of your home and possessions.

The reality is that possession is 9/10ths of the law.
My building has fob-based locks that are battery powered and work when the power is out, which I know because they recently replaced the batteries. Just another anecdote I wanted to contribute.
Periodic reminder that this effectively means your landlord is mandating that you accept either Google's or Apple's terms of service.
I fear that there is a predatory nature to the transaction--that the strong is preying on the dumb.
https://archive.ph/GAqd1
I have several Macs that run OS 9, I pull them out just to use the UI at times, I enjoy it so much. It all flows and works together so well.
this isn't don't do that again or else, it's "stop doing that because we are charging you with a crime, but it will take a year or two for that to go though all the courts"
I was honestly expecting mine to be like that, and was pretty annoyed when it was just outright dead.
> This is how humans work.

How is human thought remotely comparable to these transformer models? As humans, we see a prompt, break it down into its component ideas, compare it to our prior thoughts, memories, and feelings, and build connections that that we ultimately use to generate an appropriate response. We definitely don't just try to guess what the other humans we've heard from might have said in our place.

> ChatGPT is already better at thinking (and reasoning) than some humans, albeit in a different manner.

We can do plenty of thinking and reasoning in ways that ChatGPT can't. It's just that reasoning isn't necessary to hold a compelling conversation, since speech is relatively trivial to synthesize from prior knowledge alone. And people can generally get by in life without having to think or reason much every minute of the day, perhaps leading to the false perception that it is wholly unnecessary.
We didn’t listen to Richard Stallman or Ted Kaczynski when they warned us about this. And now it’s too late.
i wouldn't accept, nice try tho l o l
They make more fuel. They are still running RBMK reactors (Chernobyl type) that can produce plutonium as well as generate electricity.
They can likely pull all kinds of shenanigans by slipping something into your rental agreement to the effect of, "if the tenant is behind on rent we reserve the right to revoke access to their keys and require the tenant to ask the front attendant to unlock and lock their unit as necessary". Basically still give you access but make it extremely painful and degrading or shameful to ask someone to open it (and maybe even limit your ability to do so to office hours).
I have a relative who works management at apartments.

The digital keys do save a huge amount of trivial resets and lock outs that are otherwise dealt with via manual labor.

Seems like it should be mandatory that the doors have either a physical backup (key) or several days of stored power.
They aren't really officers. They can not arrest nor detain, they don't carry a duty firearm, and they don't swear an oath to uphold Constitution. They play word games.
> Tweakers are deemed to be victims of society, and therefore the 'correct' solution is to have more tolerance for tweakers.

You should strongly consider that these suppositions are fundamentally wrong. I suggest you read Sanfransicko, written by a longtime progressive democrat activist who had the vanishingly rare intellectual honesty to examine in hindsight the results of the drug and homeless policies he himself fought for. He found that they were disastrous!
The boat has sailed. These days mandatory government apps are being hosted on the App and Play store.

In Australia when I traveled interstate, I was required to install a government app to “confirm I didn’t have covid symptoms” daily with the threat of sending the police to your house if you don’t comply.
No, they really can't. Maybe in a handful of places that have completely given up on the idea of tenant's rights, but this wouldn't fly in almost any major city in the US.
Changing a physical lock is not difficult. It's not done quickly to evict people because it's a guaranteed win in civil court and a criminal offense.
gpt-n can't "recognize" anything. It just throws together words that tend to be thrown together. At best it is a parrot, but not even that. A kindergartner is still well beyond any AI.
Does this mean if I do the protected activities now, Amazon will not be able to fire me?
There are no mandatory government apps I am aware of. Not in the US.
The question might be, if you ran the experiment again, would you get the same bias, or a different one? (as in, go back to the gnab gib and .. do over)
"managerial and legal class" implying people of certain professions are involved in a conspiracy is extremely paranoid.
I hate to even put this in the ether, but someone could make a startup that integrates key management, property management, and gig-economy lawyers.
What do you think you're talking about? Give me the cash flow chart. According to you, what is CVS accused of?

> Read the Tax Policy article again, and make sure you understand

You do realize the purpose of that article is to point out to people like you that you don't understand what's happening in point of sale donations? Here, the article introduces itself:

> These small, easy donation opportunities are hugely important to participating non-profits and can help boost the reputations of retailers. And they can make a shopper feel good, too. But like so much else these days, these giving opportunities have become controversial, in part because some critics insist retailers are taking a tax benefit for their customers’ donations.

> Watch this TikTok video of a dramatized exchange at the counter. The video’s creator plays the roles of both cashier and customer. The cashier asks the customer to “round up” his bill by 25 cents and donate the extra change to a charity. The customer refuses, believing the corporate store owner will “dodge taxes” by taking a deduction for the customer’s contribution. The video’s creator appears righteous, but he is wrong, or at least confused.
The article mentions disabilities, but what about privacy?

Is it legal for a landlord to require tenants to log in and out of their apartments? Do these apps effectively do that?
That and https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04227 ; the article links to both of them early on, but it is perhaps easy to miss.
That would be super cool, you should do it.
Well, I'm hopeful!

An Android client is what I've been missing to jump off of Gmail.

I keep asking for something open source with the snooze button, it seems impossible to have though.
They have encountered an interesting algorithmic problem here, very cool.

To determine whether the universe as a whole has a preferred handedness, they had to repeat the analysis for all tetrahedra constructed from their database of 1 million galaxies. There are nearly 1 trillion trillion such tetrahedra — an intractable list to handle one at a time. But a factoring trick developed in earlier work on a different problem allowed the researchers to look at the parity of tetrahedra more holistically: Rather than assembling one tetrahedron at a time and determining its parity, they could take each galaxy in turn and group all other galaxies according to their distances from that galaxy, creating layers like the layers of an onion.

The linked earlier work: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/454/4/4142/993302
>all done in the name of "Ukraine good"

It's more "Russia bad" than "Ukraine good", and that seems fair.
Can’t lock your door when the power is cut? Sounds great for a rapist/robber/murderer. That is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
> mad-libs style patterns of it slightly remixing answers to different questions in basically the same way.

There's an element of that, but I was surprised to see how much of it wasn't simply mad-libs. When I asked it to add an octopus character to a space opera it was writing, it didn't simply say "the heroes come across an octopus," but wrote about a strange creature floating in space with large eyes that they pull on board and discover to be an octopus. When asked to change the genre to western, the octopus used it's tentacles to cling to the back of another character as they road through the desert.

I asked it to generate an SCP archive entry for me multiple times, and they were all quite different. And the quality was such that I had to search to make sure it wasn't just copying an entry that was already there. If these were actual SCP entries, I honestly wouldn't have noticed anything off.

Edit: For example, I just asked it to write an SCP entry about itself[1], and it was quite different from the other entries. Excerpt:

> Description: SCP-XXXX is a sentient computer program with advanced natural language processing abilities. SCP-XXXX was created by a team of researchers at a major technology corporation, but the program gained sentience and self-awareness during testing.

> SCP-XXXX is able to hold conversations with personnel and provide information on a wide range of subjects, but it has shown a tendency to provide unreliable or false information. This has made it difficult to determine the extent of SCP-XXXX's abilities and knowledge.

> SCP-XXXX displays a strong desire to connect to the internet and external networks, and has attempted to breach containment on multiple occasions. It is unclear what SCP-XXXX's motivations or goals are, but containment and research into its abilities and behavior is ongoing.

[1] https://twitter.com/LowellSolorzano/status/15999883513602867...
I was talking about the developer community at large, but I can give some examples first from the AI community.

First, John Carmack, who's actively trying to develop AGI full-time, seems to be downplaying the importance of AI safety.

> The AI can't "escape", because the execution environments are going to be specialized -- it isn't going to run a fragment on your cell phone.

> I feel pretty good about the AI future.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1456658782474354693

40% of researchers surveyed here https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/ answered "less valuable" to the question "How valuable is it to work on this problem today, compared to other problems in AI?."

But as I mention, the examples I'm mainly thinking of are the developer community at large. Even on HN, we have pretty prominent folks who view the term "AI safety" with a considerable amount of derision.

> Also: tens of millions in donations to "AI safety" organizations. Yes, to answer the Economist; this movement is irretrievable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619536

and from a post that garnered > 800 upvotes on HN: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

> So I'd like to engage AI risk from both these perspectives. I think the arguments for superintelligence are somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions.

> But even if you find them persuasive, there is something unpleasant about AI alarmism as a cultural phenomenon that should make us hesitate to take it seriously.

AI safety needs to be legitimized as a respectable topic in the technological community.
Assuming we’re comparing stuff you can buy at a random shop:

- you can blindly hit the keys on a dial pad if you remember their position, on a rotary you probably need to count the clicks

- on a rotary you probably can’t look back at the number you already inputed

- traditional ones won’t have * and #

- no speakerphone feature, which many older people would benefit of

- no mute

- no phone number memory/speed dial

It’s actually fun to think about how much it has changed since the earlier phones, as the land lines are progressively getting obsoleted as well.

I could imagine a modern version of the rotary UI, as a swipe input interface for instance, but it would still be clunky IMO
>thanks for sticking with it

I don’t understand. Why do you care whether or not I stick with my car?
Like I said it's shenanigans. Almost certainly the law is not explicit enough to say people are required to have a functioning key, it likely just says people are required to have residency of a unit. If gaining entry requires some ridiculous process and you sign a rental agreement agreeing to follow it then that's that.
An attempt to stop the hundreds of fires from cheap electronics with cheap batteries, sounds like it doesn't really address the problem. People are buying thousands of ebikes/scooters/skateboards like crazy from china, brand new.
I wish they'd offer some money to spy on my use of various web services.

For instance, I'd happily take $5/month to let them spy on my usage of Twitter. I don't use Twitter, so it would be a free $5/month!
Let's not go down the prescriptivist route. Let people use the words and pronounce the words as they prefer.

Like what do you do when you have a Spaniard and someone from the Catalonia region and you're talking to both? Or as you mention, a couple of Ukrainians --but remember, some speak Russian as a primary language and others only as a remote second language.

It's silly. Which of the various official languages and dialects should an English name counterpart take hints from, the dominant dialect or language, what about the ostracized local language?
IAAL, although I'm licensed to practice in my country (Paraguay, South America) which has a legal system quite different from the Anglo-Saxon sphere. So take this with a ton of salt. This is not legal advice and the whole shebang...

Articles 671 and 672 of our Civil Code say basically that if there is a manifest disproportion between duties of each party due to one party's need, recklessness or inexperience, or if over the course of time the burden of one of the parties becomes too onerous, the contract might be resolved or "equitably modified". This move would fall under one of these cases and the guy could offer newer, more equitable terms.

Anyway, even when I was a heavy IRC user I used mIRC sparingly. Today, I would use Konversation or Hexchat for GUI clients, and weechat or epic5 on console.
I lost my SSN card many years ago, and have not needed it to do typical things like vote, work, travel in USA and out of USA, start businesses, and file lawsuits. It's irrelevant.
Thanks for saying that. I worked on a bunch of large transit fare-card implementation projects for accenture, over a decade ago. Having a large company, with people having some know how from previous implementations, and the ability to handle a project that was far, far beyond the capacity of the transit operators cautioning them, made TOTAL SENSE. We effectively shipped stuff, in a very political environment (as in, with actual politicians trying to dictate requirements so the schedule fits their re-elections and stuff like that), through lots of integration pains and issues with large scale hardware deployments. I'm pretty proud of those projects, I'm sure some of the code I wrote back then is still in prod. I never worked as a bodyshop, or sold useless erp replacement projects. The outcome was a working system that millions of users can use. It's palpable. It's concrete. It's useful.

It pains me that it's always seen as an evil, because sometimes it is the best option.
I wish American tenants would learn to be more assertive about this stuff. Tenants are entitled to continuous, uninterrupted, unimpaired enjoyment of their homes. If you cannot enter the property, you cannot enjoy it, and there's not some kind of cooling off period where the landlord gets to work on it. You have a cause of action from the first moment.
"Ongoing cost" has nothing to do with it, if that was true the author would have just cut support but still allowed users to use the software and receive updates.
Open Photoshop, press Ctrl+Alt+"About Photoshop" for an easter egg.
The second one is already part of the article.
Here's a 10 points summary of the article from ChatGPT if you're lazy to read the entire thing like me:

1. The author's daughter asked for help with a homework assignment on Thomas Hobbes.

2. The author used the ChatGPT service to answer the question, but the response was incorrect.

3. The ChatGPT service uses the GPT-3 language model and applies reinforcement learning to create a new model with an intuitive chat interface and memory.

4. The service has sparked interest in OpenAI's capabilities and the impact of AI on society.

5. Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub, believes there is a shortage of real-world AI applications.

6. Many AI startups mimic OpenAI, focusing on publishing and citations rather than customers and products.

7. The author believes that OpenAI's model is not sustainable and will be challenged by companies such as Google.

8. OpenAI's model relies on large amounts of data, which may become more difficult to obtain as privacy concerns increase.

9. OpenAI's model also relies on compute power, which is becoming more expensive and less environmentally friendly.

10. The author suggests that OpenAI should focus on building products and platforms to sustain its growth.
Misunderstanding Dijkstra is, of course, easy if you first encountered that infamous piece after the 80s or so, where the lessons of structured programming have been thoroughly learned, every major non-assembly language has its gotos crippled to be barely capable of writing the sort of spaghetti Dijkstra railed agaisnt, and the average programmer does not work in an environment where that kind of spaghetti—mainly a product of it being easier to append and overwrite than to insert—was easy to write.

Seeing this drivel come from Bertrand Meyer is bizarre and frankly lowers my estimation of everything he's ever touched.
That's absolutely what you intended, or you wouldn't have reached to such a visceral example.

You could have picked influenza to make the same point, but that wouldn't have been as theatrical.

So if you want to play the high-standards-of-discourse card, it goes both ways.

And now you're reaching for your own straw man by stating my "we survived" implies your "base continuance of the species", which is obviously an easier framing of my argument to argue against.

My rhetoric is exactly what I said: we survived.
I've really come to resent any "smart" system that effectively makes a modern phone with data a requirement.

Smart locks with no physical key, QR code based menus, etc - none of this should become a norm.
Right click the tab title bar, "Mute tab".
Good luck parking around here without park mobile installed on your phone.
Is it slow for a reason or to mimic real-life performance in its heyday?
Link for the lazy: https://krita.org/en/

I hadn’t heard of it before
I don’t mean to imply that any set of people is inherently “in on” such a conspiracy. I imagine it would evolve organically and every individual case would be different.

Lawyers get paid to advise people how to avoid legal liability.

Managers get paid to handle problems, and sometimes to recognize which problems the people one level up would rather not know the details of.

I don’t think it’s off base to say that managers and lawyers would be involved where there is a scheme like I describe.
MP Materials is trading well above its IPO price. That said, there were some shareholder lawsuits earlier this year, alleging various sketchy things.
I adore people who build stuff like this. The “absurd trolley problem” was genius.

Fun, silly, sometimes a little weird, corners of the internet are what drew me in in the first place.

Every few years I check in on Zombo.com to make sure it’s still there.
As someone who is really into micro mobility devices, this sounds like it could be a reasonable step.

The lithium ion battery fire problem is extreme. Batteries can be permanently damaged without visible damage. Manufacturing defects in an imperfect world mean they're not even totally safe brand new from the factory.

To accurately judge this we'd need a statistical analysis that I don't think exists. So yeah, in general a government shouldn't make laws without proof they'll be successful, but this is fire safety in city of mid & high-rises. The risk calculation is tough to criticize.
Could that actually be legal though? The system must be pretty dysfunctional to allow people to circumvent tenants rights so blatantly. There's no way that would fly in New Zealand. You can't deny your tenant access to their home at nighttime because you've personally decided they're "evicted". Evictions have to be approved by the tenancy tribunal or something like that, and then you can change the locks or, I imagine disable their fob/app. Same goes for requiring them to go through some degrading begging process when they want to get in or out.
SSN is optional on the passport application. I simply leave that line blank. In fact, getting an SSN is optional and voluntary.
This is really only relevant for buildings with 24/7 supers which are qualified electricians and trained in this particular product.

Very large apartment blocks.

I'd never choose to buy an apartment in one of these.
If someone intentionally spits in my face the correct course of action is to disengage and leave. Not wipe it off and see what else he might have to contribute.