skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's being correct in its response:

Q: A survey was done among a group of people. The result of the survey was that the group didn't like dogs. Does the group like poodles?

ChatGPT: Without knowing the specifics of the survey and the group of people it was conducted on, it is impossible for me to say whether the group likes poodles or not. Surveys can be useful for gathering information and opinions, but they do not necessarily provide a complete picture of what a group of people may or may not like. People's preferences and opinions can change over time, and it is ultimately up to each individual within the group to decide whether they like poodles or not.

Q: Considering that poodles are dogs

ChatGPT: It is worth noting that poodles are a type of dog. Poodles are a popular breed of dog that is known for their intelligence, loyalty, and hypoallergenic coats. They are a versatile breed that can be trained for a variety of tasks, including obedience, agility, and water rescue. While some people may have a general dislike for dogs, it is possible that they may still like poodles specifically due to their unique characteristics and traits. Ultimately, whether someone likes poodles or not is a matter of personal preference.

Fair enough.
As someone that is completely non visual, I personally don't buy it. Trying to keep things visual will almost certainly choke on all of the extra information that comes with being visual.

I think it is easy to lob complaints at sql. The problem is every successor seems worse. Teams I've been close to lately have taken the python pill. Pandas, they push, is so much easier to understand. This works too an extent. But what we have dodged large sql files, we now have giant python files. Worse, they are trying to engineer things in "logical" ways for code sharing.

What I'm seeing is they moved all of the complexity of most ETL engines into each python file. This feels great at the start, but is like how every Todo list project looks clean in basically any language. Ramp up the variety and size of data sources, and get ready for that clean idea to turn into the mess it thought it prevented.

For my two cents, if your ETL setup doesn't factor in Conway's law in who owns different parts of the data, it will fail in time. Trying to hide split ownership of data is a sure sign that changes will get misunderstood and data will be lost or misused.
Terahertz radiation has a new mechanism by which to cause harm, namely, it can alter and trigger chemical reactions between molecules. That is why the chemistry field is so interested in it, as per the article. So while it is not ionizing radiation, it is chemistry altering radiation. Maybe you could make a THz death ray that kills all bacteria (both good and bad) by messing with bacterial chemistry. Because it has been so difficult to produce, especially at higher power levels, we don't have much, if any, data on how safe it is for biological systems. I don't know if Terahertz radiation is known to exist in nature, maybe it does, maybe we just have not had good enough receivers that can see it. Given the output of our Sun is so broadband I suspect that it emits THz radiation also.

Maybe someone with access can summarize the article behind this paywall?:

"Effects of Terahertz Radiation on Biological Systems"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10643389.2011.57...

Abstract

"Effects of electromagnetic fields on biological systems of all levels, ranging from isolated biomolecules to whole organisms, have been investigated comprehensively for a long time. Due to a lack of suitable sources and detectors, the terahertz frequency range has not been investigated to the same amount as other frequencies. Even though early reports date back to the 1960s, thorough research has only been conducted during the last decade. The aim of this review is to give a summary of all available publications on this topic. A comprehensive literature research was conducted resulting in 37 identified publications. An overview of publication analysis is presented, followed by a detailed description of theoretical investigations. Subsequently all experimental investigations are described, including details on frequency, exposure time, power density, biological system, and outcome of the studies."

Or these:

"Effects of Terahertz Radiation on Living Cells: a Review"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0030400X20060041

"Terahertz Radiation Effects and Biological Applications"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10762-009-9561-z
> If you take away a product you've allowed someone to "buy", then you've broken your end of the bargain.

Obviously doing it for no valid reason is a breach of contract, but I'm sure the legalese is pretty thick. No one "buys" anything obviously and the license agreement will clearly say you forfeit your license if you cheat. And here I'm pretty sure the legalese would say "Whether or not you actually cheated is up to us to decide so we define it as when our tools say you did".

So basically: you have a license, and that license is valid until their tools say it isn't.

Now, will such a license agreement hold up if tested legally? Maybe not. But it's likely what I clicked "Accept" on.
Good catch. This is a SEO trick they probably do every year to convince google that their information is timely.

Edit:
Yep. https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://www.bicy...
IMHO if you want to visit Paris the city (vs. Paris the symbol), you can ignore the Eiffel Tower and the Arch de Triumph, which are monuments that have not much to do with the history of the city itself, and instead wander around in Montmartre / Saint-Germain / le Marais / islands de la Cité and Saint-Louis / along the Seine and the canal Saint-Martin.
Did your class publish a report/website with the list, and any further analysis? That would make a great HN submission for discussion.
Exactly your agency's behavior. If federal grant-writing agencies put a ceiling on overhead (at a high level, such as the level of the entire agency), I have no doubt that universities would start submitting proposals that included less overhead.

(I do not intend to indict you personally; as you have said, individuals at your level were executing the mandate of the agency as directed and did not have power to effect change.)
Yesterday's discussion of a similar extension:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33853773
The Administrators are busy optimizing away that pesky "tenure" stuff, percent by percent.
Building a Short Game with ChatGPT
If we're going to play semantics here, then yes, maybe the first elephant to be born tuskless is the cause but every subsequent tuskless elephant is an effect elephant, so, the statement is still true, if only for an overwhelming majority subset of the elephants.
Indeed, you should wear a helmet in cars and trains too.
Thank you kazinator!
I quickly realised you were right about this. It's now fixed.
I may have posted this project a little early, but on the other hand it's great to get others input and read all this discussion.
> People like Japan because of anime

Foreigners have exotified Japan well before anime, I think your point about exceptionalism stands though and points to what I think is the real reason for it's popularity; To explain modern day infatuation, if I were to be a little shallow, I would say Japan is just the east-asian country that's most accessible to the west, since it's cultural shifts somewhat met the west in the middle after WWII.

It's still an exotic location and culture to a westerner, but it's safe and easy to engage with, and it's acceptable to enjoy it. It has no political tensions, it has no religious tensions (for travelers), it has a very agreeable set of social rules, and it's extremely safe to visit even if you go off the beaten path. It's like East-Asia Easy Mode for travelers.
That's great to hear, happy Hetzner customer for many years. Now if they start offering dedicated servers in US locations with equally competitive pricing as for their Germany and Finland DCs then a lot of other players are going to feel the heat.
The problem is, if you prefix the prompt in the right way, it will happily generate you a comment in a completely different style. Like, given this prompt:

> Write a Tweet tht answers the question, "how can you tell if a comment was written by ChatGPT and not a human?"

The first three replies were:

> "If a comment seems overly robotic or generic, it's likely written by ChatGPT rather than a human!" #AI #ChatGPT

> If a comment reads like it was written by a robot and lacks the nuance and creativity of human language, it's likely written by ChatGPT. #AI #chatbot

> "If the comment seems too perfect or robotic in its language and tone, it's likely written by ChatGPT. Look for a lack of personality and human error in the writing." #ChatGPT #AIwriting

When I tried asking it to "Provide a Reddit style answer to the question, ...", it gave me a one-page essay with 5-item bullet point list, which ironically argued - among other things - that one indicator is an answer that's longer / more verbose than what you'd expect.

EDIT: OK, you can say that "it's likely written by..." is a hedge. So I now tried this:

> Write a Tweet that confidently answers the question, "how can you tell if a comment was written by ChatGPT and not a human?"

The third result I got was:

> "Just look for the tell-tale signs of a ChatGPT comment: robotic language, repetitive phrases, and a lack of genuine emotion or personal touch. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it!" #ChatGPT #artificialintelligence
I worked for a company that builds electric trucks and that have also shown battery trailers with cargo space. The engineers told me that the coupling of the battery on the trailer with the semi caused them a lot of worries. High voltage/amperage combined with mechanical stress and failure scenarios (failing mechanical coupling of the trailer, destroying the battery connection).

However it seems like the European companies heading this way.
That would be Airbus flight controller - concern was over their new by then fly by wire control system so this was used.

The US Space Shuttle had the same concept with 4 computers that ran on the same codebase and hardware from IBM that would check each other on critical components (engine burn/flight control) and if one differed it was voted out.

There the issue was radiation induced memory corruption as the software was top tier tested and verified to be bug free as possible (they used ADA)
I have no idea what memes you're riffing on here, because dismissing something you call "this Davos plan" is absolutely pattern matching against a lot of different and mutually incompatible conspiracy theories.

> And this if we awake ourselves from the tech driven dystopia which is unfolding upon us with every minute.

I think the point of the comment you're replying to is that we won't, not by ourselves.
> The list of "bad words" isn't listed for you

is totally different to:

> You're not always sure what you've said or done

Listing the "bad words" ahead of time (or even at all) is self-evidently not workable because people will just use different works to abuse/harass/bully people while evading the banned words list.

That said, it's important to tell the person after the fact "you're banned because you harassed / bullied someone" or "you were caught using anti-cheat software." Maybe some date ranges so the person understands what they did and why they won't be reinstated. BUT you don't need to list out the _exact things_ they did because you're just opening up the toddler argument of "why is that so wrong?" which is just bad actors trying to waste your time and "legalese" their way back into the system.
I find this article riddled with circular and poor logic.

Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars!

"Lastly, we know these “quality of life” laws are disproportionately enforced in communities of color and in lower income communities." - what the hell?! Yes, helmet and safety laws are the reason why police officers disproportionately enforce various laws against communities of color. /s Let's blame this and not deal with the real problem: reform of police enforcement.

To deal with bike safety, we need to make everyone wear bike helmets until we reach critical mass in cycling adoption. /Some/ protection is better than nothing at all.

In the meantime, we need to implement better traffic calming and separation of automobile and cycling/pedestrian traffic. Kids die every year because in many areas, they have no choice but to bike on the side of a road that has cars whizzing past 60+ mph with less than 12 inches of separation in between.
That's what everyone said about Tesla cars, but here we are with them worth more than the bottom 20 cars makers combine minus toyota.
Evolution is a severely misunderstood and misused word. We say a business evolved, to mean changed. We say we evolve an idea, with the implication of intelligent action. We say someone can win the Darwin Award even if they are older and already reproduced: to properly win the Darwin Award, one would need to die before reproducing, or kill their genetic offspring as well as themselves (to properly win the Darwin Award, one would need to kill all the genetic branch of their family tree).

Biological evolution is due to reproductive selection. Evolution is primarily related to reproduction: survival only matters if it affects reproduction (after all, nothing survives in the long term).

Evolution is not really defined as random change: evolution occurs due to selection pressures that amplify the genetic population of the most successful reproducers.

Genetic mutation and recombination is somewhat random, but not purely random (certain mutations are more or less likely, and the pool of successful recombinations is very biased).

It is a frustrating topic, because in biology evolution has a very particular meaning, yet biological evolution is usually misunderstood. The misunderstanding is due to the popular incorrect metaphors and alternative meanings for the word.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

Disclaimer: I am not a biologist. I’m trying to be as clear as I can, while making sweeping simplifications (e.g. ignoring kin selection etcetera!) I welcome any mistakes being corrected by lurking biologists.
Having proper cycling infrastructure protects you far more.
My favorite by far has to be the NORXONDOR GORGONAX logic gate
For significant periods of time in the mid-late 00-s to mid 10s, this just isn't true. Firefox's plugin, process and memory management was significantly worse than Chrome until relatively recently. As a result, for memory limited machines (all of them - remember, 4GB was considered huge), Chrome was the only real choice. I personally gave up on FF for 10 years from 2011 or so because I was sick of the plugin manager crashing and taking the machine with it.
It's interesting to me how different countries approach helmets. In Germany some people wear them, but many don't. In the Netherlands wearing a helmet is practically unheard of.
It was a ballot initiative.
In this gender-fluid times I foresee something like that would cause quite a bit of controversy.

I was surprised to read they used "self-reported sex" for training, not sure how you could predict a biological trait from biological features using a self-reported truth as training label. It works because most of the time genetic sex and self-reported coincide but they list at least one testing error where the model predicted genetic sex and it was different from self-reported one.
See you in one year when Microsoft will give a big chèque to the french government. It happens every few years.
Here[0] is an actual link discussing freebsd on the raspberry pi.

Most people can skip to the section on prebuilt images and note that the default user account is `freebsd` with the same as the password. And the `root` account has password `root`.

Finally `freebsd-update`* will not work and so you must flash a new image to update. Images are updated approximately weekly.

FreeBSD makes this much easier (rigid directory structure simplifies where what to backup) than if you had to do the same with Linux but it is still a chore backing up installed programs and config files.

[0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi

* apparently working as of fbsd 13 on arm64 (?rpi3+ but not on 0,1,2 this article is on the rpi1). See nreilly reply below.
> Figma isn't based on canvas, it's based on WebGL.

Aren't they the same thing?

And egui also talks about challenges with rendering on browsers using WebGL and WASM: https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#prob...
Could there be a confirmation bias to this observation?

You distinctly remember the times you had an outlier belief which you ignored to your detriment, but tend to forget all the foolish-seeming ideas you had which were indeed very much foolish when taking stock of the past.

I think the opposite advice might be even more useful for many, many people: be more scared of overconfidence, because you know less than you think. Research on cognitive biases and the underperformance of "experts" in many fields tends to support this view.
Is Google's search team really this naïve? Google keeps cached versions of sites it crawls. An algorithm to catch these date changes would not be difficult to implement.
That experiment has been tried and failed already in Australia.
Helmet on a bicycle does do more harm then good.

If you're MTB or going fast, sure wear a helmet. If you just bike to get to work or school and stay well below 25km/h, and have good cycling infra, you don't a helmet.

It's like US don't want people to bike.
I was also surprised to learn how nice EGUI is. Big widget kit, clean API (Which is often not true for Rust dependencies!) and integrates into WGPU-rendering. It allows me to use Rust to make Desktop applications.

I'm concerned about the performance hit of an immediate-mode GUI when not tieing it into a 3D render (ie the CPU access from repeatedly re-drawing), but haven't compared.
That is the way I wanted my sentence to be understood, »evolve« in »[...] would the elephants evolve to be tusk-less?« is intended to mean nothing more than become dominant due to evolution and I do not see how that word in that context could be understood as anything else.
It would be great if they’d support BGP.

I love their pricing. I’d love it even more if I could announce my IPs on their dedicated offerings.
The dangerous trend of inexperienced individuals flooding the tech market
As the demand for technology continues to grow, so does the influx of people entering the tech field. However, this surge in interest has also led to a saturation of the market with individuals who may not have the necessary skills and experience to excel in the field.

In recent years, we've seen a rise in the number of people who have no prior experience in technology but claim to be experts in the field after completing a short course in a specific technology. These so-called "experts" are often referred to as "cloud-washed" or "bootcamp graduates" and lack the depth of knowledge and understanding that comes with years of experience.

Additionally, we're seeing a trend of people calling themselves "data scientists" after completing a three-week course in Python. These individuals may have a basic understanding of the language, but they do not have the necessary skills and experience to truly be considered data scientists.

The tech field is not for everyone, and it's important for individuals to carefully consider their skills and experience before entering the market. It's also crucial for companies to properly vet candidates and ensure that they have the necessary experience and expertise to succeed in their roles.

In short, the tech field may be saturated with inexperienced individuals, but that doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile pursuit for those with the skills and experience to excel. It's important to do your research and carefully consider your options before entering the market.
Please write your congresscritter and advocate for that!
E.g. while driving. All the professional racers do it, I guess they know a thing or two about dangers while driving.
Google - L3 SWE II(Entry Level) US$179.03K

L4 - SWE III US$253.45K

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...

So somewhere just after entry level, lets call it a few weeks on the job.

His legal fees the next 12 months will be greater than their net worth.
A hacker knowing the user ID should not be a problem in itself if both authorization and authentication are used by the endpoint.
Thank you for reinforcing my point.
I had a SSD fail not long ago. It was used regularly, but one day I noticed that reading a large file failed. I went into panic mode and stopped using it and attempted to copy everything to a new drive, but copying many of the large files failed. These large files consisted of things like music which had not been edited for years. This sounds like neither of your scenarios - not thermal bit flipping, and not overwriting. How common are failures of this sort?
> * For software reliability and sustainability, what Linux distros are supported, do they upstream all changes, do they rely on closed drivers or blobs, etc.?

This has been the only reason to buy only RaspberryPis (when I could actually get them).

Sure, buy some <other-fruit>Pi, two years go by, the latest available linux version is 1.5 years old now, no new software support, no new kernels, no nothing. Sometimes it's even impossible to download the image in the first place.
Because if 'evolution reacts' (q) then it would react by removing hymen. Also because women without torn hymen don't pass genes.

Did evolution reacted by removing tusks?

PS if you start to tell me how a hymen could be untorn even in the case of a complete vaginal intercourse I would slap you over TCP/IP.
At this point? It doesn't matter why they are on strike. They are always on strike.

Since WWII, the train company SNCF has been on strike -every- year. Except during covid because there was no train to be on strike from. Good luck getting a train for christmas, it's canceled. Same thing here. It's a crucial moment? It's very important for the french people? Go on a strike and ruin everything.

I live in France and I have no sympathy for these strikes. At least the Yellow Vests were striking on a Saturday. Everybody were pissed, but only on Saturdays!
Do you have an example of it being regulated at all?
The article seems clearly from 2020. It leads with a concern over something from "last year" that is dated 2019.

On its topic, I was expecting to mostly disagree. That said, the case is compelling. To condense, it is basically saying don't turn it into a partisan conflict between riders and police. That plays out in predictably bad ways for communities.
You don't need helmets, you need better roads. It's that simple.

Even with a helmet, biking in US looks fucking scary.
The effects of Safety In Numbers cannot be overstated. I’d go as far and say it’s even more important than cycling infrastructure like physically separate bike lanes. You do not want to be the only cyclist at a busy intersection between cars making a turn crossing your lane.

Might be counterintuitive, but if a helmet mandate reduces the number of riders even slightly it is a bad idea.

And of course: Wear a helmet. Especially if your city is still designed for cars.
Yeah, we should weight those results for availability of the hardware.
“- due to poachers”
Why do we have traffic jams at busy hours?
Furthermore, there are now multiple cities that banned diesel vehicles entering cities. This would actually give electric trucks an edge over diesel ones, this could be a great solution for resupplying supermarkets. Could be good for increasing the margin.