skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's common for updates to contain a mix of security-fixes and other stuff. Sometimes that "other stuff" breaks things and/or needs vetting for deployed systems.

So you have no experience with unattended-upgrades. They really don't contain new features, that's not how Debian's model works - they backport security fixes to keep features the same.

> Sometimes a forced restart of the system or a program is worse than a delayed update. For example, when giving a presentation, or when firefighting a production issue.

Again, you have no clue how Debian/APT updates work. Things don't just get forcefully restarted.

> It's absolutely an attractive attack vector. I want time to hear about problems before installing updates.

Unpatched software is significantly more so than attacking your distribution.

> e) It's my system. Nobody else gets to override my choices for how it runs. Full stop. I refuse to cede my agency in this area of computing.

Sure, feel free to do with yours as you please, but don't recommend terrible things to others, especially those not as proficient.

It's bad advice for most end-users and sysadmins to get rid of unattended-upgrades especially for the FUD reasons listed above.
Hopefully his Tor investment does better than his NFTs.
I consider, and have read online, that the E Hummer and R1S are pickup trucks.
I set (and forgot) a Twitter bot a while ago that generates a randomized image and posts it,via GCP with a cron trigger twice a day. It hasn't cost me anything.
They also have obvious downsides, so I don't think there's any harm in attempting to create alternatives.
The alternative is they wouldn't be allowed to live there. America allows people to get into situations that may result in harm to them if they are not careful. We do the same thing with healthcare and our nutrition. We still allow tons of processed and sugary food even though we know it will result in slamming our healthcare system but hopefully you have insurance.
We are fucked way sooner than we anticipate. Either transformers level out somewhere right around here to give humans a few years (really a decade would be nice) to prepare, or we are going to slam into an event horizon that's impossible to see the other side of. It's unknowable how humanity will react to be pounced on by commoditized intelligence.

ChatGPT feels like something that is ahead of schedule. Years ahead of schedule.
> Adults also know that collective agreements to provide the means to help those who are in trouble through no fault of their own are called "charity", and are best done by private institutions

While your other arguments are subjective, this one is just plain factually wrong. It will always be far less efficient to depend on a few individuals to shoulder large expenses or for disparate organizations (each with their own overhead expenses) to find and collect smaller contributions than it is for everyone to pay just a small amount automatically to collectively cover an expense through a single origination.

In addition to the massive inefficiencies of charity, and the fact that many charities are really little more than scams, there are still several other problems with them. See for example:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/charity/against_1.shtml

https://harvardpolitics.com/charity-band-aid/

Some of these problems are even seen by some people as benefits. For example, federal or state aid to victims of a natural disaster would go to help everyone impacted, but a charity to help them can allow someone to only support certain people while discriminating against others. Some people actually find it extremely preferable to restrict all their charitable giving to only people with a certain religion, or skin color, or political alignment, but the freedom that gives a person to leave "the wrong kind of people" to suffer is still a massive problem when your goal is to help everyone impacted.

Charity is great, when it's not a total scam, and it's equitable, and the origination is lucky enough to find enough people willing to take the time to research them and give them enough donations to accomplish what needs to be done, but it's still no substitute for government programs.

Government programs can have their problems too certainly. They can be run poorly, they can not do enough to help people, and the help they provide can be less than equitable, but you're entitled to a much higher level of control and transparency over government programs and you always have the ability to vote for improvements and hold the government accountable when they fail to deliver.
That's not the way the system works. You spend a semester or a year going deep about Calculus, Geometry, AP Euro, or whatever. These are all things most people don't need to know unless they specialize..

Perhaps instead, we should have a semester or year classes through 8-12 + college discuss the nature of manias, like analyzing the tulip bubble, crypto bubble, 2008 mortgage bubble, etc. These are all common things that happen over and over again. Lessons which can permanently (and frequently) be called upon.

You can measure and grade people with these topics that aren't officially taught. We just decide to teach less important things
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Reforming exclusionary real-estate zoning laws would be a lot easier.
« Axiomatic » sci-fi short stories by Greg Egan. I think it’s the first time fiction has clicked for me. It’s hard sci-fi so the science is accurate and that helps a lot. And the fact that they’re short stories helps because of my modern day short term attention span…
For all models smaller than 62B, direct prompting outperforms CoT.
The first model where CoT outperforms direct prompting is Flan-cont-PaLM 62B on BBH. For 540B models, there are more settings where CoT outperforms direct prompting, but not all of them. Also, the number can be smaller than 540B. In Suzgun et. al. 2022, the authors show that the 175B InstructGPT and 175B Codex also have better CoT performance than direct prompting. Combining all the results, we get the two numbers 62B and 175B. So yes indeed, to enter the game of scale you do need a ticket to larger models than average.

However, there are also other large models like OPT, BLOOM, and the first version of GPT-3. They all have 175B, yet their CoT performance is significantly worse, or even cannot do CoT.

source: https://yaofu.notion.site/A-Closer-Look-at-Large-Language-Mo...
Funnily enough I recently released 0.1.0 of "less-avc" a pure Rust H.264 (AVC) video encoder: https://github.com/strawlab/less-avc/ . For now it only implements a lossless I PCM encoder but supports a few features I need such as high bit depth. If anyone has a codec-writing itch they want to scratch, I would welcome work towards the compression algorithms H.264 supports: context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) and context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). Also I'm happy for constructive criticism or questions on this library. I think it is fairly idiomatic, and no `unsafe`, rust. While H.264 is an older codec now, as far as I can tell, this also means any patents on it are about to run out and it is very widely supported.
Are you worried about wearing out cartilage in your knees?
Top 3 for this year:

1. Criminal - https://thisiscriminal.com/

2. Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/

3. Other Peoples Lives - https://oplshow.com/
They have. Hive, Post News, Cohost, etc. But most people don't care about whether a system is centralised or decentralised, so Mastodon seems to be doing best stats wise.
I was 'web socialized' in the 90's. IRC, web forums, and so on. Before that we had BBS. This is nothing new. And nothing prevents a major player to enter the fediverse btw.
Americans would probably do a far better job at reducing gasoline consumption by driving reasonably sized cars.
there's a company now that's laying them flat reducing the cost significantly.
The fact that it's possible for someone to repeat what you say back to you is not a strong argument. Which of those two countries you mentioned has better health outcomes?
The trains in Xinjiang compare very favourably with those in the US. The media paints a very one-sided picture of what life is like there; not to defend the CCP's awful actions, but if the way certain communities in St Louis get treated were reported the same way...
It sounds like there's some confusion here.

I was talking about Snap, not APT.
Well, right, because most other advanced-economy states require you to carry insurance (more-or-less the solution we were going for, before the penalty for failing to have insurance was eliminated) or cover everyone under a government-provided healthcare scheme of one sort or another.

If your point is just that the US healthcare system is far more-broken than most, and in some unique ways, all for no good reason—sure, yeah, of course that's true.
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It’s just a fundamental naïveté about how the world works. If I’m dodging taxes or hiding profits then I’ll just enter false numbers on the blockchain. Now what good is the blockchain? Unless the whole world runs on the super inefficient blockchain system then there is always a potential for gigantic drift between the actual state of the world and the blockchain.
That's not how unattended-upgrades works at all. It's not Snap.
Yes, but the point of school is to train you to be able to work on these things. If you fail to see value in that, then why are you going to school in the first place?
They define it quite clearly, though it's of course always possible to argue at the margin, but "password sharing" implies that the person knows they are not supposed to use the service, anyway.

I'm thinking the most common case is giving access to a friend a family member who does not live with you.

It's the act of knowingly 'cheating' that potentially brings you into fraud territory, IMHO.
None of those were a constitutional crisis except mass enslavement and the Constitution in that case was on the side of the slavers. Joe Biden is the worst President in American history no hyperbole. Hacker News mods are clearly on the side of censorship.
There is a similar project for rabbit deterrence that might give some helpful ideas on the approach: https://blog.roboflow.com/rabbit-deterrence-system/
Good point.

What would be nice is if it had a low-quality stream with more keyframes so it could switch quickly and then go to the higher quality stream when that gets to a keyframe.

But I can see why that kind of complexity wouldn't be added just so you can switch quickly to 3 seconds of low quality video.
Exactly. I think the unrealistic expectation regarding media accessibility comes from many places but one I want to explicitly mention: torrents.

I'm from the Netherlands where for about 20 years, it wasn't even illegal (today it is). We'd pay a "media tax" on empty discs (like 0.10$) and this would clear you to make "home copies". Of anything, without paying for the original.

Anyway, this legal anomaly has created a culture where media that costs a shit ton to produce (movies, series) is valued at: nothing. zero. Not by some dark tech-savvy internet lord, it's valued at zero by society as whole. People are even proud to showcase the many ways in which they dodge paying for content.

Now people project this learned behavior (have it all for near-zero costs) on the entire streaming market.
The article talks about solving that exact issue by wrapping all of those different exceptions so that you don't have to deal with them. Much easier to catch a single ThirdPartyInternalFailure exception than catch all the internal exceptions that could have caused an internal failure.
Many of the focused niche discussions around the globe still happen in forums (and subreddits).
https://visualping.io
I believe the term is reasonably appropriate here.

The abilities being described here are "emergent" in the sense that the model was not specifically trained for them, but they show up anyway. Your example is about modeling a specific function and having its accuracy increase with model complexity, which is classical ML formulation, but this is not what is happening here.

LLMs are trained on a very simple task: given a natural text, predict the next word. But as model complexity and training set sizes increase, they start exhibiting more sophisticated abilities, such as basic forms of reasoning, and contextual memory.

In your definition, the parts of the whole are "lots of statistics about text" and the emergent property is "semantic reasoning".

Scale is inevitably a part of this: somewhere else in the thread you mention that "liquidity" is an emergent property of H2O, but if you take a handful of H2O molecules they don't behave as a liquid.
I question whether the daily flouting of laws like the speed limit on the highways has a measurable impact on the "legitimacy of the state".
LaTeX has, like Org Mode, this mythical aura of being super hard. However, replicating the functionality of Word is trivial and takes an hour or two for a savvy computer user to grasp.

There's always Overleaf, Pandoc or LyX to make things even simpler. LyX in particular deserves to be better known.

Complex things, like TikZ, are of course difficult and time consuming. But those are impossible using Word.

IMHO, the biggest advantages of LaTeX are reproducibility and reference management. Big Word documents are quite fragile. And reference management is a mess.
This is really dangerous.

People used to not using the buttons during the day may not remember to use them at night. They may not even be able to see the labels at night, since (unlike any actual road sign, at least in the US) they aren't even retroreflective. This is likely to cause confusion, leading people to cross without a walk signal.

So this will disproportionately endanger people walking at night--which is already the peak time for driver-inflicted fatalities.
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Maxeon extended their warranty this year in select markets to 40 years, which is pretty cool: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/04/maxeon-40-year-solar-...
Exploit human psychology?
Where does this fit in the chart and with what symbol(s)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency

(The top is 47.1%)
Bitcoin Addresses Tied to Defunct Canadian Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Wake Up
I've always thought of it more as a way to conserve the calories that food represent, rather than a delicious dish in its own right
Like most of these try hard scandals, they fall apart if you apply even a small amount of critical thinking to them
There is strong evidence that a lot of bird evolution occurred in Gondwana as well. A good book for that is Tim Low's "Where Song Began".
That's not a little bit.
> This lacks malicious intent

How does this lack malicious intent? They deliberately pointed a gun at a person, put their finger on the trigger, and pulled. The intent was to kill, and killing is a malicious action.

The action was not otherwise justified because the victim holding a firearm was not illegal. Even if the victim had been pointing the gun at someone else, it would be unknown whether the victim was themselves only acting in self defense.

> In order for manslaughter to be permissible, there has to be an imminent threat or death or great bodily harm that a reasonable person with the knowledge at the time of the manslaughter would believe to be probable

This is obviously not the whole story. By your framing, someone who breaks into a house would be legally justified killing an occupant who appears to be defending themselves. For the original scenario, a reasonable person would not insert themselves into a situation and then shoot the first person they saw with a weapon.

The Rittenhouse verdict was a sham motivated by politics, and doesn't change the shape of what ought to be. And what ought to be is that if you create/escalate a situation by adding yourself with a firearm, you had better be absolutely sure that your use of it is justified. And that goes regardless of whether or not you're being paid to insert yourself into situations.
Right down to the test product. That to me was incredibly interesting and I've never really seen such a concept on an online shop before, GPT-3 was very adamant that the best online shop will have a means to let users place test orders to illustrate the process.
Buses are pretty bad in absolute terms, but they’re much cleaner on per-person basis (even taking into account they have low occupancy at times.)

Anyway, still it’d be nice to electrify them all, at least for air quality and noise.
Mounting large enough batteries for bus EVs is a challenge. Batteries are already a challenge on consumer EVs, but buses are an order of magnitude larger, and generally energy required to propel a vehicle forward is more than linear in the weight of a vehicle. Right now most implementations are in trolley buses that use batteries to compensate for portions of the line that don't have power. I imagine this will change soon but currently most buses that are not powered by gas are using hydrogen fuel cells due to energy requirements.
The WHO has data on mental health workers relative to population in various countries around the world. The median number of mental health workers per 100,000 population across 156 countries, is 8. In the US its about 100. China is at the median. India is one of the lowest, at around 1 mental health worker per 100,000 population.
For starters, you didn't "get GOSUB if you were lucky". It dates back to the very first version of Dartmouth BASIC.

That aside, most of the limitations that you describe are applicable to BASIC as it was in 1970s (and some, like numeric-only labels and single-letter identifiers, are straight from the 60s). For example, GW-BASIC that you mention already had 40 significant characters in identifiers, WHILE loops, and single-expression user-defined functions.

I also don't recall anyone writing any serious amount of BASIC code while catering to the lowest common denominator for the sake of portability, simply because the dialects were different enough that it wasn't really feasible. Even on a single platform like DOS, going from e.g. Turbo BASIC to QBASIC required substantial changes.
While running transactions on a distributed blockchain would provide some additional resilience here, I'm unsure if I can picture any situation where the added protection provided over current contract and civil law would outweigh the issue of having your financial transactions publicly available for review by all other actors to most businesses.

It also doesn't really do much for most real world transactions because of the oracle problem. Unless both businesses only care about entities that exist on that blockchain as well having the transactions there doesn't provide any additional benefit since the blockchain cannot verify nor enforce anything outside of it. Regardless of whether the transaction of you sending me money is immutable I can still just not send you what you paid me for.
Assuming you have sunny days could you leave the (river? rain?) water all day in clear containers for the UV? You might need to do a lot at once to save for non sunny days.

Assuming no industrial pollution.

Probably want some resorts before
this last resort though.
Sibling comments aside, flight data recorders are (by design) not black, so the name really doesn’t make any sense.
I read Quicksilver and started on The Confusion this year but still haven’t felt like it’s grabbed me. When did it start getting more exciting for you?
Computer science, and academia in general, has always adapted to technical progress, although slowly.

In the case of ChatGPT and similar LLMs, these should become part of the toolbox that students are being taught. I.e., how does it work, what can it do, what are its limits, how can it be used to help solve a problem or complete a task.

An exam question could then be e.g. to ask ChatGPT for an essay on a topic, critically discuss its shortcomings, and improve the essay e.g. by adding references and deeper discussion, which will be graded.

Alternatively, use ChatGPT to iteratively discuss and improve the essay. The whole chat transcript should be included and will be graded.
The one having media will have the real power.

The power is centered, isn't it? They have manipulated what we reach.
Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE
There is a progression though.

For students, the objective is to write what to an adult would be mediocre essays, because they are on a path to writing adult level essays.

The AI can write mediocre essays, but not adult level essays.

Assuming that a student must write a bunch of mediocre essays in order to progress past the AI to write adult level essays, then they need to be evaluated on writing a bunch of mediocre essays.

If the teacher cannot distinguish between AI output and the student's output, and the result is that we give up on evaluating mediocre student essays, then the students are ultimately inhibited from progression to adult level essays, which, currently, are superior to the AI's output.
Is your web app open source?

Maybe this is just me, but I take an issue with projects that use GitHub's community features but don't publish their source code. Feels somewhat unfair.
Don't forget about cleaner air from regenerative breaking vs normal break pads.
Nature hasn’t provided glyphosate, accessible nitrogen by the megaton, and millions of square miles of artificially drained soil. Vertical farming isn’t much more of an aberration than the average row crop operation in America.
why would they listen if you don't even differentiate between federated and peer to peer solutions? The costs could be made thrivial by sharing in a p2p network.
> With socialism there’s only one choice and power is much more concentrated

What makes you think that? I'm pretty sure socialism is an economic system not a political one
Ancient Apocalpse is quite entertaining horrific pseudoscience nonsense. You just have to come at it from the right perspective.

For me, it’s fodder for modern TTRPG campaigns and a Sailor Moon prequel fanfic, as well as letting me know of the existence of ancient sites I never knew about.
We live in a multi-device reality. People expect their notes to sync. If you don't need sync, you might as well use notepad and store .txt files on local disk. Fine by me, but then there's nothing to discuss.
Aside from the truth or falsity of this theory:

Why is it a matter of regional pride whether mammals (or humans) originated in your region?

Usually there was no nation or culture there at the time, and in this case, not even any humans.
Based on the my reading of the situation, this is an accurate representation. Compounding this is that the older population in China is hesitant to get additional vaccination doses, so the CCP is stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can either slog along with their zero COVID policy (which reached a boiling over point with the citizenry) or they can rip the bandaid off and tolerate any loss of life that occurs. No good options, just different bad ones.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/09/1140830...

> The problem of under-vaccination is most acute among the elderly. The government announced a little over a week ago that around 30% of people aged 60 and up — or roughly 80 million people — were not vaccinated and boosted as of Nov. 11. Among those 80 or older, the ratio was closer to 60%.
I think the simpler answer is that regardless of platform, gccrs can't yet compile core or std libraries, so println! won't work (https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/1389).

I don't think it's about what tier is supported in rustc, as that's compiled by LLVM in that case.
You can get a VPS for $1/month: https://www.lowendstock.com/ (I host Wordpress on one of them)
The fact that it's published as HTML means that you can choose your own font if you so desire. A PDF wouldn't let you do that.
Ha ha you youngsters and your time dimension and causality