skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law firm was notified ahead of time, twice. Lawyers expect others to abide by such notifications, do they not? They act like this was a crime against humanity, when they were told ahead of time that they were not allowed in their venues during the ongoing litigation.

Does the law firm have 100,000 employees? According to their website, they have about 29 attorneys in the firm. Bringing up companies the size of cities compared to that is completely ridiculous and irrelevant. And companies like Meta, Google, Apple, etc. will absolutely enact draconian policies when IP and other litigations are going on. The secrecy and policies those companies put in place likely go well beyond simply not letting a lawyer part of a law firm that is suing one of your businesses into your building.

Why does it matter where she's licensed? It's irrelevant.

Lawyers play these little games all the time. I'm not necessarily for the policy or the use of facial recognition to enact it, but they were told ahead of time. They should know better. If they wanted to argue the points ahead of time and get approval, they could and should have.
The funny thing is that the replacement word inevitably becomes insulting. For example, when you say to your friend that he's very "special", we all know what's up.
>The only question is not why we didn't "see" any aliens so far. It's why we wasted so much money on SETI. Was Carl Sagan not able to do the back of the envelope calculation I just did here?

Sagan was perfectly capable of doing these calculations. However, SETI was a nice way to divert funds to radioastronomy.

Not the first time Sagan was 'creative' - per his Nuclear Winter model, if sometimes lights a match in the poles the entire planet will burn.
Yes, but the parent means we are 13.7B years late to the party. Other civs should have been spawned before Earth was formed.
Wasn't there a variation of that done for some property taxes: you could assess your own property, but they reserved the right to buy it at the assessed price, discouraging lowballing?

Right now, especially without registration required anymore, there is no burden to owning copyrights "passively". If they had to enumerate and price them, that alone may make it worth shedding some of them.
> Curious that the same face-saving mechanism is common in other parts of the world.

In many cases, it is just preserving language describing the act given the prior assumption that the woman was property of the male head of household until disposed of by them in marriage, devoid of her own agency, while the man attempting to marry her without that consent was fully possessed of moral agency and thus had stolen her from her appropriate custodian.
> There are a few bits that aren't playable on the fretted clavichords of Bach's day

Is that because of the nature of the placement of the frets that makes certain combinations silent on one or more notes?
I'm reminded of the story of an old man who the neighborhood kids would harass by calling him names so one day he offers to pay them some amount for each offensive name. The next time they show up he says he can only afford to pay them a smaller amount. This goes on for a bit until one day he says he can't pay them anymore so, not wanting to swear at him for free, the kids stop. Paying the kids not to wash windows however, would seem to have the opposite effect.
AIUI, yes.
Wonder if something like a one year lock in period would work.

The fundamental change seems to have been circa 1960’or so, when stocks went from being things that earned a dividend - and the dividend is where most of the return came from, to most companies reducing and then stopping dividends altogether.
Ok this is a long article, and I don't have time to read the whole thing. But it is reminding me of several very dark things she said. One was how women do not refuse sex, and yes women get beat if they burn the food. Yikes.

So yes there are some serious problems there, but do take it with a grain of salt. Some people are lucky.
it will, very frequently, make up citations with real looking but completely bogus urls.

it is NOT a research tool. It is a creative text generation tool. It is not programmed to provide accurate data. It's programmed to provide accurate sounding text.
"Bullshit", as I use the term, is misrepresentation of the state of your knowledge by confident assertions you can't back up with evidence. The statement is precisely that, bullshit.
It will be you one day, for a reason you don't agree with.
I guess it's too late for you to see this, but the latest Twitter Files show that Twitter did, in fact, feel pressured and coerced.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/16048884298162094...

In fact, most of the comments in support of Twitter and the FBI throughout these threads are pretty decisively debunked in the continued reports.
Running a business doesn't magically turn your place of business into public property. I run a home business. Does that mean the general public are free to enter and roam around my home office?

In the USA at least, you can kick out or ban anyone you want from your business for any reason, unless it is one of a very small enumerated list of disallowed reasons including race, religion and so on. If I don't want people wearing green shirts in my store I can kick/keep them out. I'd be an asshole, but I am 100% allowed to do that.
> Trade is a bigger issue than purely military.

Hard disagree there. Trade has only taken priority because we've had such a long period of peace. Logistics fuel military power, but it turns out trade only happens when the more powerful party assents to it, if they do not then the weaker state may decide to inflict it's own trade relations on the weaker nation.

Many people in 1913 that trade was the most important factor in determining politics, that the global trade networks would prevent a truly large and terrible war, and that money was mightier than the musket.

It turns out that when the lights start to go out, when things start to go bad, and it becomes a matter of survival the power that matters is not trade but your ability to feed the pitiless war machine, and at that point your trade agreements mean squat if you don't have the ability to enforce those trade agreements with the barrel of gun.

It's not polite, it's not civilized, it's not fair, but just like the people raised in the Victorian era were given a rude awakening in the trenches of the Somme and the fields of Verdun about how circumstantial civilized behaviors are; so to will we be find our own base natures soon brought to the fore if we continue to pray to the false god of economic progress, and give offerings upon the altar of money in hopes of forestalling the looming crises we face.
>> The distribution over outputs conditioned on the input prompt is a different distribution, hence a different (random) function.

As I say in another comment (and if I understand what you mean correctly) that is not supported by observations.

>> It's not important that there are no weight updates. The new function, the model conditioned on a few example input-output pairs, is good at
producing new outputs for unseen inputs.

To be blunt, I've seen as much evidence for that as I've seen evidence for the existence of the Sasquatch. The people who train those models don't even know what's in their datasets, let alone anyone being able to say that an "example" (i.e. a prompt) is "unseen".
The difference between his first recording of the Goldberg variations and his last is a story all by itself, such difference in interpretation. Also have a look at the runlength.
Because the definition seems like it would apply. "person's birthplace, ancestry, culture or language" [0]

It'll come down to a judge, but it doesn't seem like a stretch to put a caste group under that umbrella.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/crt/federal-protections-against-nati...
Same, America and the West are significantly different from places like China or Russia. It's not even close.
All policies are bad, then?

Can you think of any policy anywhere that never results in unfair outcomes?
That's a pretty selfish perspective yourself. Should the trauma, pain, and sorrow of others not factor into this decision?

If jumping in front of a train isn't clear enough for you, should we be allowed to swerve headlong into traffic?
I don’t think it is 100% society as much as it is biology that has shaped that ideology
Your calculation is likely wrong. See, you can build a laser in a spectrum not generally emitted by stars, and point directly to another star system. You dont need much power, yes, perhaps some terawatts, but it can be pulsed, total energy would be low.

And getting a low power signal doesnt means its impossible to detect, but that the bandwidth is short. Instead of 200 bits per second, you would get 1 bit per hour. But that´s enough.
> solve aging and no one dies

I believe this may be an HN bubble thing. Fusion energy will be commercialized hundreds if not thousands of years before that will be reality.
Indeed, but those claims don’t really reflect any on-the-ground reality, and the majority of countries don’t recognize them.
I really like this concise consolidation of these ideas. In my opinion, both Deep Work and Essentialism — like so many books in that genre — could've been pamphlets. It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work was pretty jam-packed with different ideas, though.
Maybe because the USPS ist paying their employees a living wage and giving them a delivery schedule that is actually going to work out over the day?

You get what you pay for.
Or you don't see the potential, or you're not comfortable, or you don't have energy for this. If you did get the hang of it (vim for example), you would probably use it in some kind of way.
So simple, they combine the best of all eras: local first, open, published formats and pluggable/byo multi-device sync/backup – Cloud if you wish, but not required. It gives me hope for the future, I wish more software these days followed this model.

Caveat: not an obsidian user (although I am a big step closer after this)
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/12/19/biden-harris-admin...
Apple patent a future MacBook with unique aluminum keys with special features
Vote for what, exactly?
That's just counting the visible universe. We have no idea how much farther it extends!

That said, most of the visible universe is now unreachable due to the ongoing expansion of the universe. And life somewhere unreachable, even in theory, is not of that much interest to me.
I completely agree that most developers will pick architectures and tools that are completely wrong for the problems they are supposed to solve. I have seen it so many times that it greatly surprises me when it isn’t true. Micro-services is a perfect example of this. It inherently complicates everything.
This feels like thinly veiled advocacy for censorship and breaking the internet. And soliciting federal grants to research how to do it.

There is already a practically infinite amount of misinformation on the internet. The misinformation problem is not currently constrained by lack of supply, so doubling or 10x'ing or 1000x'ing the amount of misinformation that can be produced doesn't seem significantly concerning to me.

Misinformation is a problem rooted in the powerful having having a net economic incentive to deceive and the populace's lack of media literacy. We already have 'trusted news sources' repeating falsehoods they heard 'off the record' from the state department. Credibility of the institutions that used to be easy to trust has fallen for both justified and unjustified reasons. The people who already choose 'fake news' sources will only be affected by AI fake news to the extent that those who control the AI have different goals than the people who control those channels today.

If people apply AI to the problem, I think AI could help us a lot with understanding how we should adapt our systems of trust to account for this. Humans are bad at remembering the most important betrayals of people who are notionally part of our tribe, so credibility reverts to mean without consequences too easily. It's also very hard for us to identify "this person has stuck to their word for 20 years" without it being lost in punditry noise.

I think its important for people to think about how the populace can hold politicians and media more responsible, but AI language generation is almost entirely tangential to that (and stopping AI does nothing to solve the root issue).
There isnt a shroud of silence around it. The foreign office even has a forced marriage unit.

There's plenty of help and support for it.
How about it's because kids buy most of the tickets, so lets cater to them.
I use Microsoft Word’s multi-editing feature at work. The sync is essentially real-time (setting aside other opinions in Microsoft Office). You can see every change that your co-editors make as they make it. You can work on one file on two different devices at the same time. That is the kind of sync that I’d like.

More realistically, I used to use a custom sync setup with a WebDAV server I set up and Goodsync software. You can set it to sync in file change, and it was fast, with changes replicating in a few seconds.

As it is, the Obsidian sync takes a few minutes. And if you edit the file on another device before sync goes through, you’ll lose the changes from one device or the other.
i bought a remarkable tablet for that purpose but still failed to adopt it.
I don't think there's anything wrong with arranged marriages, just forced marriages. I know that sometimes it is both, however arranged-but-unforced marriages are more common.
If you are an advanced civ that fears new competition, you don't wait for hearing random radio transmissions.

You build replicating factories to build relativistic kill missiles and preemptively destroy all the planets in the galaxy.
Since 2010? Welcome new vi user. :-)
If you're comparing to Steve Jobs' Apple, that was a much smaller company with fewer customers.

I think people confuse Steve's simplicity with Apple's previous need to pare down product lines to cut costs and avoid bankruptcy.

There are a zillion iPhone models at every possible price point because more than half of the USA buys iPhones.
Ahh your comment triggered me! And you forgot the “content note”!
Treating the "homelessness" as a single problem is naive. I live near homeless encampments and near people who have been quietly living out of their vehicles for 5+ years. Some percentage of the homeless population can be fixed with cheaper housing. Some percentage of people can avoid being homeless altogether with cheaper housing. And some percentage will be homeless regardless of how cheap the housing is (i guess unless it's free and they agree to not break whatever rules/laws apply to them).

Meanwhile both sides just shout at each other and funnel millions of dollars into groups that don't make any real progress and have no accountability. It's the same useless polarization that exists in politics except I'm not even sure it's a political issue at this point given how 1-party the place i live in is.
Manufacturing Giant 3M Says It Will Stop Making PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' by 2026
Not quite following why MariaDB is even a listed company? It's a solid database sure but traditional relational DB isn't exactly a bleeding edge killer feature these days

What was the intended differentiating hook?
Look at the asm code of rust. You would see that most of the code there is the libraries (and yeah, also because of the semantics, which are powerful).
It's never humane, those who suffer mental illness rarely prefer treatment. But pit bull terriers who kill kids are put down.
It was a common practice in many traditional societies of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
For the "f/8 and be there" philosophy of getting a usable shot at all, I agree with the simplicity of having a sensible default, and of course with the importance of being where the story is. In the digital era, and as a student/amateur who often kept the strobe in the bag, I'd modify that to "f/4 and be there".

f/4 with autofocus, aperture-priority automatic exposure, ISO 400 gave great images, with faster exposure (less likely to have motion blur when I didn't want it, and faster bursts, more forgiving of lower light) and shallower depth-of-field (for making the subject pop).

(I think of f/8 as being near hyperfocal distance for having anything in field of view in focus, and probably near an image quality sweet spot of the lens, but also often being slow for non-studio use unless you were using a strobe.)
You can do cool stuff with s(CASP).

See https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/non-monotonic_ilp.swinb

For an example. The potential hypothesis here are pre generated, but you can imagine an algorithm or adapt an existing one with a tight generalise/specialise loop.

But the scasp finds the two potential rules that cover both positive examples but not the negative example.

i.e.

flies(X,h8):-not penguin(X).

and

flies(X,h17):-bird(X),not penguin(X).

Which is cool.
Ok, how?
You could paint this as "rewarding good students", but it's also just as likely to punish students in situations beyond their control, or in situations which aren't ideal.

As someone who had to juggle a full-time job, in high school, and occasionally overslept and missed classes, I can't imagine the frustration I'd have felt at, despite good faith attempt to make my life work, being punished monetarily for not doing better.

One of the reasons I dropped out was that, despite my 3.7 GPA, my attendance record was a constant source of friction with the administration. It was exhausting having to jump through hoops, get lectured, and be treated like a poor performer all because, in my opinion, I didn't have a family that could support me while I focused solely on school.
I have that link bookmarked as my "YouTube bookmark". I have never since visited the homepage. Don't really understand what the fuss is about.
You misread every line of my reply so I'm not going to take the time to reply to you in detail, have a nice day.
Yup, information theory says that Gaussian signalling is optimal in term of bandwidth utilization in many cases. And we've spent decades trying to achieve this by various techniques in coding and modulation. And yes encryption/secrecy adds another layer of randomization. I believe a radio signal eavesdropped from a US military base is not much different than some random noise.

That being said, the question is to tell if a signal is man-made or not, which is much easier than to discover what information it conveys. Based on modulation carrier frequency and the transmit (on/off) pattern you can still very much tell if that signal is man-made or not.
Midi also laid the groundwork for firmata which I'm grateful for getting me into electronics. https://github.com/firmata/protocol
I often hear whimpering when I fly too close to Lanai.
>I don't see why cities should have to resort to paying them off.

you're always paying someone. You can enact punitive and harsh measures and put kids and teenagers into the justice system where they'll cost 10x as much if not more including in their adulthood, or you can draw a baseline in and simply pay them enough money to not resort to this quasi-begging. Couple this with an attendance requirement to go to school and you're probably saving yourself countless of dollars so I don't really see the issue.

It's basically analogous to war on drugs type policies. Instead of just providing addicts with clean needles and drugs you spent ten times as much and wasting police resources on chasing harmless people around. It's moralizing instead of effective policy
Just wait for political strategists to get hold of this.
Thanks, I was not aware this practice had precedent, sounds like the
way I'd like to teach, I'll dial up some old contacts. As professors
we get mostly stick and precious few carrots in British universities.
Anybody knows what’s that laptop in the picture?
Demo of MIDI audio gear from the eighties hooked to an Apple ][e playing Ultima V...

It's mindboggling to think that you could have been playing that game in 1988 with such a soundtrack (skip at 6:40 if you're impatient):

https://youtu.be/aJMwspc-5wk

I certainly didn't have that great of a soundtrack when playing Ultima V back then on my my C64 (AFAIK there was no MIDI support in C64 games and no MIDI add-on for the C64? Although I may be wrong on that)
It’s not the reason. They’re SPACing because they’d never pass the scrutiny to IPO
The cool part is, you get to try again.
Yes, I'm interested what those taxes on ICEs are that don't apply on EVs.
I agree - I didn't realise it was a listed company. Does it compete with Oracle or SQL Server in terms of features?
I have started a number of businesses, even what I considered the unsuccessful ones still made me more money than I would have made at any 9-5 I could have had at the time. You just have to be willing to do something boring and compete against businesses that aren’t currently being run well. Starting the 7,000th craft beer company is gonna be really hard but (for example) being the #1 powerwashing company in your town is boring but way more lucrative
Is this changing with the free WiFi rollout? I was on a flight very recently with updated Viasat Wifi and was able to stream YouTube.
Wait until you hear about early sesame street
There's an important part in that documentary

https://youtu.be/DKAusMNTNnk?t=1597
Before we besmirch the economists’ good name, worth knowing that the org only publishes under anon authors usually.
The story cites statistics from the government itself:

"In a Kyrgyz government survey conducted in 2016 and funded by the UN, some 22% of the country’s women reported that their marriage had begun with an abduction, known as ala-kachuu, or “grab and run”. The researchers broke this figure down into those abducted “without consent” (6%) and those “with consent” (16%)."

6% is not routine, but I don't think it would be fair to call it "rare and extreme", either.
Not sure what you mean by colour space but you should be able to tell it the type of instrument to play.
I dunno, it still looks like human bodies will be useful for a while yet, if only because of the massive investment in legacy infrastructure designed for humans. So knowing the trajectory of AI better might help you determine whether to say retool as say a drill rig operator; the crossover point of extractable income in sw eng vs. petrochem could be meaningfully impacted by tech on the horizon. Of course you have to sacrifice your body but that's an expected tradeoff... could always try to pack into one of the gov/admin lifeboats I suppose.

Speaking of children though, what the hell are we supposed to teach them?
casting aside a debate of whether its true every job is 80k/yr...lets say it is. What then? the market...the free market would supposedly adjust for all required goods
>Now flip it back... would the current SETI pick up this signal if this were happening somewhere close in the Milky Way? If not, then yeah maybe SETI should be wound down :(

The problem is the other way around. An unintentional or broad signal is extremely unlikely to be picked up. However, it would be trivial to send out an intentional signal to a candidate planet that can be picked up without the locals having an equivalent of SETI, and there's no rational* reason not to do it if you decided to send. SETI's useless either way.

* The moment you get to irrational aliens, is the moment you need to consider the option they exterminate anyone who replies, so SETI for listening to irrational signals is also a bad idea.
The only thing it makes sense for them to care about is their iPhone business. It's been that way for a long time. The iPhone business makes more money than wearables, services, Mac, and iPad combined.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/382136/quarterly-segment...