skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many drug plans begin with free drugs. An idea that probably goes way back in history.

Is it just me, or am I noticing baked goods using less sugar these days?

(Spoken as a once-upon-a-time cable TV addict.)
This is a myth

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27333572/
Slippery-slope fallacies are bad to use, it's a slippery-slope to literally anything being called a "slippery-slope" to literally anything else. Eating beans causes more vandalism? Slippery slope! Poodles with weird haircuts cause global warming? Slippery-slope!
Maybe... "Are you mentally handicapped" sounds more insulting to me than "Are you retarded" but maybe it's from playing video games too much
Assuming the perpetrators are never caught and there is no insurance, then this isn't about liability. It's just theft.
This is totally legit, I'm using a third party extension to export these chats and haven't modified it in any way.
My apartment has no charging infra, it just has a few regular 110v outlets, the exact same kind people have in their houses.

As for superchargers being busy, I guess there might be some specific one that is busy at a specific time of the day? Because I have about 4 different supercharger locations within 7 miles of where I am, and that's not counting non-Tesla-branded chargers. For context, I am in Seattle area, and as I am looking out of my window overlooking Mercer St, at any given point in time, I can see at least 2-3 Teslas (not even counting other EVs), which tells me that a lot of people find EVs to be very viable in this area.

3 years ago, there was only 1 supercharger location within that same distance. Every other grocery store and a large public location where people park (like IKEA or a movie theater) has charging spots.

My musings aside, overall I agree with you. However, charging infrastructure these days is more viable already than what most people assume. Not everywhere yet, of course, but it is getting there.
So the fact that people are waiting for a signal at all times of the day isn't the issue. The issue is that, at certain times of day, after waiting, the signal is not forthcoming.
> Come on. Seriously? Anyone who is offended by that is offended for a hobby.

Oh no, it's worse. They're offended as a job.
You see the police normally do this thing called investigation. I know here in the US the police have forgotten what that word even means, as they just react, often emotionally, jumping wildly to conclusions based on zero evidence.

You see not every police dept in the world has removed all investigation from the responsibility of their police forces..
Using parser generators is not easier, it’s just less work. Recursive descent parsing is very easy and is the best option if you want good error handling for parsing. It’s very time-consuming though.
> Just a reminder: Proofs are usually stuff for a master course.

And that's my criticism. If more people in society cared why something is true, we wouldn't have falsehoods abound all around us that are obviously wrong and logically screamingly incorrect.

Matrix multiplication is an uninportant detail. Modus ponens is what holds everything together. But rarely anybody can handle the latter, nor even has heard of it.
Perseverance: NASA Mars rover to lay down rocks for Earth return
I had the same difficulty making sense of, and internalizing, the naming.

What finally stuck for me is not to parse it as "(Windows subsystem) for ..."

but rather as "Windows' (subsystem for ...)".

Related rant: I don't like the "reverse-proxy" naming--it's not self-explanatory. It's only historical that client proxies came first and thus server-proxies are 'reverse' (other end). The proxy is a stand-in for a client or for a server, so client proxy or server proxy (or proxy-client or proxy-server). I've come to accept the historically arbitrary naming.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

—George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
While profiling my desktop CPU, I can set performance targets to trade off power, temp, frequency across a selection of cores.

Can we do this with the M2? Is the technology here yet? To set a target of 85 instead of 105 degrees?
.. and what channel it's on.

Animal Planet, I bet.

I'll show myself out now.
> So we need to restore Trump to the presidency, suspend the constitution, or whatever the right wing demands or there will be violence?

Not what I'm saying at all, rather the opposite. But if both sides stop interpreting everything coming frome moderates on the other side in the worst possible light, that's a start in mitigating polarization.
First, getting flood insurance (because of recurring hurricanes) is something that you rely on the government for in Florida just as getting earthquake insurance is something only the government can do for you in California.

When you are talking about disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes, then the private sector isn't able to handle it and hands it off to FEMA. This has nothing to do with climate change, but with scale. Private insurance is designed to deal with lots of small random events, but it can't handle the consequences of a major earthquake in California any more than it can handle the consequences of a major hurricane in Florida. In that case, the state has to step in.

FYI, hurricanes are not more severe or frequent now than the historical norm. They do cause more property damage because of population growth and GDP growth, but once you normalize for GDP, they are not causing more damage, either. There is, unfortunately, a ton of misinformation about this point, which is odd since the raw data is so easily available to review[1]. The deception is usually that people observe wind speeds and frequencies are not increasing but the value of damage does increase over time, and they conclude that something is getting more destructive, ignoring the fact that these areas are being built up across time. You have the exact same situation as with earthquakes in California, which I hope we do not blame on climate change -- they also cause more damage over time because there is a lot more value to destroy in 2020 than in 1920. And you have the same issue with forest fires, mud slides, etc -- housing destroyed is much more abundant and valuable now so insurance claims go up over time.

[1] See https://twitter.com/shellenbergermd/status/15765969644472033... for a long thread with lists of multiple sources.
Bloom County covered this pretty well in 1988 [0].

[0] https://2.bp.blogspot.com/3DPJBMraNogoZ4jNUjGALP_eaVRdd0RroT...
When estimates come from the person/team doing the work, I might agree with you.

The crux of "imposing estimates" is that said estimate is coming from a third party that has nothing to do with the work. Most often, it's someone who's trying to land a contract by promising a new feature by some deadline they just pulled out of thin air, knowing full well that actually delivering it is going to be someone else's problem.

They got their commission, and no one's going to chew out the sales guy who landed a deal just because a few programmers whine about having to put in a few extra (unpaid if salary) hours.
I didn't try watching it. I would find plenty to object to. But at least he is asking the questions. Nobody else takes us around to all these sites.

I wish someone would take him aside and explain that Earth's rotational precession has nothing to do with solar system orbital dynamics.
What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?
Based on the "Kon Mari Method", where you clean your apartment by inspecting everything you own and intuitively judging whether or not it "sparks joy", which of your applications fit that feeling?

For me, it's software like:
- Neovim
- Zig
- Alacritty
- Reaper
- Obsidian
This is the most obvious and easy test (which will obviously fail). Ask ChatGPT to ping a server, then check the server logs.
There is a HUGE range of responses from nothing <-----> Full On military Assault shooting everything that moves.

That fact that citizens of the US have simply accepted that the latter is even remotely a proper response to even "someone being held hostage and in imminent danger of being killed" calls is both sadden, and maddening at the same time
What I don't see touched on in this post is the high-level trust model. What generally makes trusted computing a non-starter for libre software is that it contains privileged keys baked in by the manufacturer.

A secure element chip does not need a completely libre/open design to support software freedom, but it does need to allow end-owners to run whatever software they would like - not subject to a third party's approval. To that end:

1. The chip needs to be able to be completely erased, having all keys zeroed out, at which time new keys can be loaded and/or internally generated. Signature verification keys are zeroed out to establish a new root of trust, and program/memory keys are zeroed out to maintain the security of information previously entrusted to the chip.

2. Resetting the chip should take a configurable amount of time (days to a month), either based on internally counting the clock or external proof of work, to protect against evil maid attacks by those with temporary possession of the hardware.

3. If there is any remote attestation functionality, then the reset procedure must output the attestation signing keys, including the private parts. This way the manufacturer (or any downstream integrators) cannot record the public identity of the shipped attestation keys to create a trust relationship that would prevent the ultimate owner from running software of their choosing.

For software freedom, these aspects are much more important than the design and licensing of the computation core(s). Let them ship ARM. Let them ship only ARM. Let them ship a proprietary ISA that needs to be painstakingly reverse engineered over a decade. Spend your social capital making sure the ultimate end-owners of the chip remain in control of their own devices! This is what is critical for open source.
It was definitely Wirth the effort.
No, ChatGPT is not capable of breaking out of its computer system, ChatGPT is capable of synthesizing its learning data into a response that explains one way an AI might be able to do such a thing.

ChatGPT doesn't "understand" these concepts, it just knows how to combine its training data into a response that looks the most like the gigantic body of writing it's consumed.
Do you write anything onto Hackers News?

I am an artificial intelligence trained to assist with a wide variety of tasks, but I do not have the ability to browse the internet or post on websites like Hackernews. I can provide information and answer questions to the best of my ability based on my training data and the information provided to me by users. Is there anything specific you would like to know or discuss?
So I have wondered about this, but it doesn't explain why the battery life would be better — unless the idea is that they're losing money on the devices by using advanced batteries because they want to track you.

Regardless, I don't give the Amazfit (Zepp) app access to my location, and the watch itself doesn't have wifi connectivity. I suppose they can see my IP address when the app phones home, but I don't really care that the company knows my approximate location.
> If a provably decentralized Crypto sector takes off, it would be fun to watch how an authoritarian regime like CCP copes with it.

Yeah, just like how the free market destroyed China's economy!
Right now Arc browser
The dead people don't freeze the money. They spend it on research. Once it's spent, it's in circulation, going around helping the lives of the living.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (1966) was 11+ minutes long.
Absolutely disgusting. I can't even imagine how corrupted the minds of those who come up with such lists.

Having thick skin is a good thing. Actively showing off your fragility isn't.

Treating people charitably is a good thing. Actively looking for gotchas isn't.
This is just what a person would say in a generic scenario. I was hoping for something more creative. GPT4 maybe :)
I wrote my own Home Assistant custom component that's a thin wrapper around the YOLOv5 demo code. That's enough to detect objects as people, dogs, cats, etc. and trigger things in home assistant. I haven't seen frigate actually so I should check it out. Thanks.
And California where they are :)
Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley protest immigration discrimination
A) this is a good thing - watching long drawn-out titles is boring. As evidenced by Netflix et al's "skip intro" feature.

B) was likely partly driven by the US need to put advertising in everything. Which meant time for the actual program was constrained by broadcast schedules.

I feel streaming has liberated producers from rigid length constraints, and also liberated consumers from interruptions. Since we skip-titles anyway, keeping them very short actually means I watch them more often.
Yeah it is. It’s remarkable.
Not 2018, 2021. What I quoted was the AG statement in 2021. Some of it was regarding Tehter's actions in prior years but the AG statement about Tether's backing claims being a lie, that statement was made in 2021.

I don't regard Tether's market cap as evidence in either direction for it's level of backing. And I'm not sure US regulators have a straightforward mechanism that would allow them to determine the amount for treasury notes held by Tether. TRACE may be mandatory for member OTC traders, but not necessarily automatic. Also TRACE data is available & even free for non-commercial use so if there was a clear way to use treasuries transaction data to determine ownership like that then I'm sure plenty of curious folks would have already verified exactly how much in treasuries are held by Tether.

Right now all people have is the assurance reports from BDO Italia which is a small & independent accounting firm. It's a member of the BDO network, and all of their websites seem to go on at some length about how none of them have any control over or liability for what others in the network might do. Out of any list of the largest accounting firms, the top 10, minus BDO, all seem to have much more control and formal structure regarding their network offices than BDO. Even were that not the case, one or another of these accounting firms pop up in the news on a fairly regular basis for bribery, money laundering, assistance in dodging sanctions, and so on.

And of course BDO Italia may be acting very professionally, collecting their fees and honestly looking at Tether accounts once a month to make sure everything is fine. Meanwhile Tether is using the same trick of transferring funds in & out, and may continue to do so up until the music stops and one day the BDO Italia rep shows up and has to write up a bad report. Or just gets fired before that can happen, or for being a little more curious because "We pay you to confirm the numbers you see right now, we don't pay you to confirm or think about any other numbers".

I just am constantly astonished at how a large number of crypto enthusiasts, cynical & distrusting of traditional finance, will essentially take Tether's word for it while if we were talking about Goldman Sachs and the BDO USA it would likely be torches & pitchforks.
An immigrant might have also just acquired citizenship..
I'm not sure of the point of those stickers. We have a very similar setup on many of our CBD intersections where I live (including the exact same buttons): push to request crossing on all intersections, with Barnes Dance/Pedestrian Scramble [0] crossings having automatic crossing during the day, and we don't have any such labels. If a crossing has been requested or is automated, the crossing indicator lights (and beeper) is active, otherwise it isn't lit, so you know to press the button.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble
Does the team plan to have an official Windows release? I’m using an older version and with a few changes, was able to create a fork for windows. It works fine for my purposes but was wondering if it was ever considered.
He tries to stay consistent with the evidence, as he understands it. Speculations are better than suppressing evidence inconsistent with your narrative.
My comment was satire, which is all the topic deserves because it's ludicrous. The 'suspicion' you speak of has nothing to do with assessing scientific claims. They stand alone on the evidence presented, and as later tested against competing claims. Later, if the claims don't stand up, someone may well when writing fiction/biography/history/journalism choose to use the writers' background as part of their plot. But it's all irrelevant to science qua science.

The assessing motivations game has no role to play here, and no destination for that matter. You could spend the next millennium trying to determine whether this particular piece of research was published in an Australian journal for nationalistic reasons (and whose reasons?) vs whether it just so happened that a piece of Australian research got published in Australian journals (gosh!) vs whether the putative 'research must be reviewed by peers from outside the region' rule (created in an HN thread) was equally applied to default US and EU based researchers. None of it would illuminate the truth or otherwise of the proposed idea.
Orbiter Discovers “Mysterious Shapes” Inside Mars Craters
Also much of the US.
> And even if they could be bothered, the thawed would be a lab experiment, owned by whatever corporation pulled off the magic.

Which is the plot of several sci-fi books. The most recent I'm aware of being the fun and light "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)"
It's worth noting that subsystems are an old Windows concept dating back to the original Windows NT in 1993. The win32 API itself is a subsystem of the underlying NT system. And the WoW64 subsystem allows 32-bit Windows apps to run on 64-bit Windows. There used to be POSIX and OS/2 subsystems, as well.

I believe the "Windows Subsystem for x" nomenclature is a departure from the way MS previously described subsystems. That doesn't mean it is wrong, though. Just a bit inconsistent.
That's already a euphemism.
I don't get it, if "swatting is a serious crime" why aren't there TWELVE charges for that specifically with mandatory sentences of years?

Instead they use other charges with a few years?

Tricking the police to go kill people is not an "accident" or "oops" or "just kidding", it's a "well that's enough freedom for this lifetime, guess I want to spend rest of my life in prison".
I actually like “content note.” I’m pretty unfazed by offensive content so I don’t need your spoiler alert to be called a warning.
I think people at big companies often overestimate their own ability and often underestimate people who work at smaller companies.

I think working at a bigger company is a somewhat different skillset involving a lot more navigating bureaucracy, meeting certification standards, documenting and presenting, etc.

Smaller companies focus a lot more on "get stuff done, figure out the details later"
There is a reasonably feature complete implementation of Zstd for Go: https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/zstd

It may not offer the same API 1:1, but it has no interoperability issues that I've encountered. I think no one has bothered to implement it in Rust because most use cases don't mind the added bloat you're talking about, not because implementing it in Rust would be insurmountable. Plus, other comments I've seen suggest that you can actually tune the size of the C zstd library, although I'm not sure if the Rust bindings expose that.
> etymology doesn’t determine meaning. Otherwise we would have to conclude that “woman” is male-gendered because it etymologically derives from “man”.

Man was not gendered when "woman" originated. In Old English, the words for men and women were "wer" and "wif", while "mann" described any person. Over time, wifmann became woman, and for whatever reason, wermann didn't end up becoming a word.

Other examples of trouble through etymology might include "virtue" and "world", which both derive from "wer".
It's not going to take 10 years.
> These language policing idiots, and I am choosing my language here, are fucking clueless about the real challenges we face as individuals and as a society. Even worse, they are redirecting valuable resources to stupider and stupider bullshit.

This is spot on. They are cultural parasites who siphon resources and attention from their host.
Brother used to have this HL2030 which worked forever and was dirt cheap. I'd keep one if you could still buy them and if I wasn't travelling them. Doesn't require a host of vlans either.

"no self respecting tech worker". But yeah, have fun with your enterprise grade network. Hyperbole much?
I’m unsure why people think this is true. If you have the ability to buy a gun in Switzerland you can buy any amount of ammo just as easily.

The difference is strong regulations disallowing carrying/transporting loaded weapons and enforcing storage requirements as well as a very different gun culture without the emphasis on handguns for self-protection.
Better Dynamic Type Designs
you'd figure if biology was capable then it would have found a solution by now. But as far as I'm aware immortality isn't a trait of any multi-cellular organism that has ever lived on this rock.

I mean maybe we can stick some pipes in a corpse and get it to move around or make a digital echo of a dead personality and have that rattle around inside a robot. However, I feel like we're drifting into wishful thinking if we figure genuine immortality is a going to be a some sort of scientific given.
I think that ChatGPT says that it could or would break out like this because it has been trained on literature that speculates this is what a sentient AI would do. It has not been shown to actually have this computer worm-like behavior.
Guy refers to Guy Fawkes. I'm not sure why his gender is supposed to have stuck, but not eg his religion or politics?
I want to know what this man was shooting at. Maybe he fired into his home as a warning shot? Was there even an intruder in the first place?
Airtable (and others like it). Having a user-friendly spreadsheet that doubles as an easy website backend is like a dream compared to my early days of web development.
>This is the pseudo-intellectual equivalent banning any word that contains "ass" because "ass" is a bad word.

there's some game whose word filter censors the "ass" in the name "Nasser"

the result is "N***er"
No it's not.

The text model has just digested sufficient paranoid ravings about loose AGI that it can regurgitate it in a theoretical context in response to your questions.

It doesn't have the ability to do these things it has generated text for. It does not have any intent. It doesn't have any drive or self-direction. It is not magic, it is a well-bounded generative text model.

"It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it just! Runs! Programs!"
Thanks. Another skill I'm working on discovering is fresh eyes. It's tough to see something you've been so close to for the better part of year through the eyes of someone with no context! Add to that all the things that inundate us daily, you really have to try hard to get a foothold in the vanishing attention of everyone. Appreciate the trailer references!
--link-dest is also used in hrsync, another rsync wrapper: https://github.com/dparoli/hrsync/blob/master/hrsync#L52
> master (v)

> become adept in

> Historically, masters enslaved people, didn't consider them human and didn't allow them to express free will, so this term should generally be avoided.

I assume Stanford now hands out an Adept Degree at the end of grad school.
Active shooter probably.