skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edited an article citing a published source.

My edit was reversed by a troll with some axe to grind on the article.

I attempted to discuss in the talk page and the troll basically said "you are wrong and the source is wrong", but cited no source supporting the claim, no policy stating there was something wrong with the specific source, and I cited policies supporting my use of the source.

Another editor showed up and agreed with me, and undid the troll's reversal, which the troll then restored the article to its state prior to my edit.

I undid the troll's restoration. Shortly thereafter I received a notice that I had been reported for some category of malicious editing. The troll reported me and the other editor for being sock-puppet accounts, and within 20 minutes my account and the other editor's accounts were deleted, my IP address banned from editing, and the edits to the article were deleted from record.

I received a notice that I can appeal the decision by sending an email to whatever the final governing board for all of Wikipedia is, which is a publicly published email address. I assumed this a "talk to the hand" step that results in nothing but wasting my time, since there is no way for me to disprove the sock-puppet claim (other than to state the fact that it is a lie) and all the evidence of the changes were vaporized.

(I did attempt to post a rebuttal to the claims, but when I clicked the post button, my account had already been deleted so the post was never posted.)

I had been editor of Wikipedia since shortly after they migrated to the new format (e.g., MediaWiki).

Wikipedia is not anything like what it originally started as.
Oh right, the hypothetical aspect went over my head.
Yes, probably not the best headline, but I wanted to keep the original.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a hospital would seek to help its donors, but the fact it was put on probation by an accreditor of residencies speaks for itself. NYU seems to have directly interfered with doctors’ professional independence to prioritize non-urgent donor care.
I can read the sentence with both versions and it still makes sense…
I have no idea. will solve a couple of programming tasks from advent of code (my job doesn't involve much programming so I do it to preserve the skill)
> However what they all did have in common was that they knew their limitations and always deferred to the relevant experts when faced with technical decisions that they didn't have insight into. You need a lot of skills to be a good manager

Can I ask you (sincere question, I'm investigating the topic) what kind of value did your manager provide if he had zero ideas about how your job was done?

I mean: if he trusts you, and does what you ask, that's great. But I'd find very difficult to manage a team without understand their jobs. How can I help them in their job, and help them improve? What's my role?
> the rewards earned (whatever token on offer) can be traded outside of the game ecosystem.

This is vaporware though, real game companies will never create content for tokens they've already sold. The only game I know of that had anything like this was GW Hall of Monuments giving some kind of bonus in GW2, and that obviously didn't require a blockchain, because the company running the game has your account data in a database. And obviously no third party company would ever develop content for a token they didn't sell.

It seems like a lot of the blockchain stuff is like "You give me USD and I give you this stupid dream", instead of looking at it from the other side "why do you want my USD?"
> One third of incarcerated folks in the US are there for possession charges.

This is a wildly inaccurate stat, where on earth did you get it? The number of people sentenced on just a simple possession charge is minuscule. Almost always, it's because the underlying crime was violating their parole/probation from a different charge in the course of the arrest.
What would be a good term that defines 'politics as discussion topic' as you clarified above, but excludes 'poltics as partisan bickering' as apparantly the author of the article defines it? Wouldn't it be useful to have a word we can use for this?
>Questions like…

>> Do we focus too much on classic books/music/movies/plays/art/ideas, or too little?
>require critical thinking, in the moment, to form an opinion (as do most other examples on the list).

Do they? Maybe it's my superpower but I can form opinions on these things without any thought at all. Whether the opinion is defensible is a different question.
That sounds like a perfectly good argument unless you are challenging the premise that it's less likely to kill someone than a human driver?
Mr. Kirsch got his coffee and pastry and we got some food for thought.

Turned out pretty well in the end.
> The First Order showed that it was serious business by blowing up Coruscant, capital of the New Republic (as well as the Old Republic and the Galactic Empire).

No, it's just comically bad writing. A city-planet that has existed for thousands of years is blown up by the remnants of the "evil empire" which was anihillated 20 years before?

Star Wars in general is pretty poorly written and always has been. It made sense for the first film to be so successful, it was pretty nice for 1977. But I don't get how people can become immersed in this as an extended universe; the worldbuilding is atrocious.
You stole my comment! I fly my Cessna 206 about 200 hours a year.

If there's bad weather ... I just wait it out or schedule my event the tail end of the trip. I won't fly commercial unless it's international now.
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https://open-ui.org/prototypes/selectmenu
Conditional probability doesn’t work like that.

If you always have a bomb with you, then the probability of you sitting on a plane with a bomb is 1, and thus the probability of you sitting on a plane with another bomb is again 10^-4.
Temperature is presumably referring to sampling the output probabilities. With a temperature of 0 it'll be giving you the very highest probability continuation, while with increasingly higher temperatures it'll be sampling from the possible continuations to provide more variety.

In other words, the temperature is controlling the variety of output, but of course doesn't affect what was fed into it in the first place. As the saying goes, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out .. even with a temperature of zero it's still going to be bullshitting since "predict next word" (language model) is fundamentally a bullshitting technology - just keep on spewing out words regardless of meaning.
As a simple resource, it's imperative it remains free of corporates with their own agendas, and to a lesser extent, advertising. The best way to fail is not have sufficient funds for emergencies.

Wikipedia is certainly more worthwhile for someone who is likely to use it regularly, than say an online newspaper that actually refuses to share the article content with an infrequent visitor that might be directed to that particular site a handful of times during the year. Often wikipedia asks for much less.

I'd probably donate, if not for the hundred plus hours I worked expanding their knowledge base in the early 00s ... it was all deleted as far as I can tell - most of that data wasn't ever going to be covered in a "must be in an existing ISBN book / ISSN publication" policy that was brought in sometime later on.
They shall turn them upside-down. It's written "Made in China" /s
What was your motivation to build it?

What are your future plans with it?
> https://developmentalsystems.org/sensorimotor-lenia/

Thanks for this link, this is amazing!

Coupling artificial life with machine learning seems to produce mindblowing results. I encourage interested viewers to watch the Youtube video at the top of that page, it's really great.
CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 4 – 18 ports
what is with all the food allergies lately? Why so many people unlock them.

I doubt that you will find 13 people allergic to sesame in whole of Asia, North Africa and the Mediterranean. And 1.3 million in the US.
"such statements are voluntary, not required, according to the FDA, and they do not absolve the company of requirements to prevent cross-contamination."
>Even if you are leftwing and watch the “movies” for their propagandistic value

In all seriousness, you should consider spending less time on the internet. Life is short.
> It’s a fallacy to think that there must be poor people.

If it's a fallacy, then why has it always proven to be true, 100% of the time?
Farming experience since 2014-15. My advice would be to immediately contact a coffee contract farming company in your area. Work out the minutest details in terms of work and costs, something similar to WBS in project management.

Next sign a 3-5 year contract with the contract farming company (WBS was to make sure you're not getting a raw deal). Get them to provide you technical help. The way this works is, they recommend and you execute.

All the best!
We had a rotary phone when I was young.

What would be really cool is to see some version of “Minority Report” actually work in my lifetime.

https://youtu.be/PJqbivkm0Ms

Sort of like people who lived during the invention of the airplane and got to see humans land on the moon
Being unable to prove there was not a breach is correct because you are unable to prove there was a breach, meaning there is no useful evidence in the post.

As I demonstrated in what might be called talking past the sale, there are other attacks that have nothing to do with the security of the technologies used.

I don't know the person who originally stated this, but as the popular refrain goes: "security is a process, not a technology."
I think the difference is that humans have underlying model of reality while Chat GPT, stable diffusion and such don't have any.

When you are an novice artist it's usually bad thing to rely on your mental model of reality. Children draw like that. Instead it's better to just observe patterns of light and darkness on the model and reproduce them. But at some point of that, when you start being creative with your art it really pays off to actually know how many fingers humans do have.

It doesn't mean neural networks are completely incapable of creating the model of reality, AlphaGo creates models of Go reality that's better than human players, they just can't do that through language alone.
With current software and hardware RAID solutions, we also have massive up-front cost. We can't buy drives as needed and add them to the system one at a time.

I wish it was easier to incrementally expand capacity of RAID setups. ZFS promises RAID-Z expansion but it still hasn't been released. Btrfs has a flexible block allocator that supports incremental expansion as well as heterogeneous drive pools but unfortunately the parity support cannot be relied upon to this day.
Cheating with ChatGPT: Can OpenAI’s Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1606631724922056704
I was wondering the same. At some point it appeared atom was going to take over the feed space, but when I started blogging again last year it appeared we had more or less standardized again on RSS 2.

I have no idea why or what happened.
I would ultimately say he is top one hundred (probably top 20 for me), but that's a personal opinion. If we look at the impact his ideas, beliefs and teachings had on the first half of the 20th century then he was a giant. Anarchism, and specifically how he taught it grabbed hold of much of the disparate political movements that occurred in that part of time. Anarchist movement's and mutual aid, take a grip in many parts of the third world even today.

Perhaps that's because I have taken note of these movements that I see him as one of the most famous, perhaps you see it differently which is fair. I see him as a contemporary to arguably the most famous political mind of all time, Karl Marx, and was regarded along similar lines for his impact.

Sure there are a range of people on the left and right of political ideological thought who could be considered famous, but not many who have produced what he has.
I’ll forward this to my friends at Google if you promise that you stop using Google products.
...and post-muslim persian poetry is about the love of allah, cleverly disguised inside a metaphor of the joys of wine, so Ms Ciccone was neither as novel nor as blasphemous as she was portrayed in the late twentieth century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFIRdlMuGY
Discourse on the Method
English isn't the indigenous language of Ireland so, probably, not a good idea.
Not only will I be buying that t-shirt, but I'll also be wearing it the next time I get asked to interview someone. That'll teach them.
Unfortunate that we're doing so little to stop the massive increase in food allergy rates that has occurred over the past few decades. Labeling is good, but we should invest in prevention also.
There is of course one thing here that isn’t 15th century technology! Aluminum, which was unavailable before the early 20th century. Brass or silver are better choices (or silver plate on brass)
You missed the point. The core issue is not the button being inhibited, but being silently inhibited. The pilots were not aware that power did not increase when they expected it to do so.

Just show a bright red warning or a voice alert when the inhibition activates.
Did you follow the steps at https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/2402620 ?
Twitter server costs around $1.5B/year
I love Taipei :)
When I started programming as an intern 7 years ago, I asked simple questions around the office and they told me to just google it. My approach was to understand every single bit that goes on, but it seemed like nobody truly knew what they were doing.

Fast forward to today, the new programmers I meet don't truly understand what the code does. If a problem pops up, the first action is googling it for hours. Very few people have this high level structured thinking ability to filter out the noise to distill a problem.

I believe Ai will accelerate this, where programmers will know even less about what goes on in the program and struggle more when stuff doesn't go as expected. Over the years, google became less useful as all the SEO spam took over. I noticed how people couldn't come up with solutions on their own, as a google search yielded no results.

Now I read these articles every other month about another tool, framework or article announcing the end of programming as we know it. Nothing ever happened and truly experienced developers became even more valuable.

If we cross this fine line between aiding and replacing developers, we set ourselves and the next generation up for a bad time in my opinion...
The Lisa had a custom MMU, if I recall. There were other 68000 based systems that were similar.

My key point is around the operating system. They had a system in LisaOS that had multitasking, memory protection, proper dynamic allocation, etc. It was a better OS than what was shipped on the Mac. It was unfortunate they threw it away. Likely due to personal & organizational politics more than technical and cost reasons (Jobs hated the Lisa). A few years later they were running Mac OS on old Lisa hardware.
That'd be great, then I could claim all my partisan talking points where this new word and denigrate all my opposing partisans as undermining the foundational principles of the new word.

The article is a call to polite and interesting political debate. It is a good idea. But it is, nonetheless, politics around the dinner table. Can't escape it, learn to enjoy it. Practice some tolerance, learn some respect and be polite. Learn that you don't have to have the last word, I more or less everyone on HN knows that trick.

The options are politics or unimportant trivia. Can't talk about something important without running in to people's principles and risking a heartfelt argument.
Death to the death of poetry (2001)
What does this have to do with raytracing or lack thereof on a iphone GPU?
Sure, depending on what you ask and how that aligns with the content it was trained on and the word statistics it has learned, it can give correct answers.

OTOH I've also asked it what day of the week a given date was and received two different wrong answers depending on the exact phrasing of the question. I've also seen it confidently "explain" why taking 90% of a number and adding 10% of that back will get you to the original number...

The trouble is the output is a mix of truth and lies, and GPT has no way to distinguish between the two.
Quoting:

We are curating the components, depending directly on Lima and nerdctl, and packaging them together with their dependencies into a simple installer...

Finch provides a simple client which is integrated with nerdctl. For the core build/run/push/pull commands, Finch depends upon nerdctl to handle the heavy lifting. It works with containerd for container management, and with BuildKit to handle Open Container Initiative (OCI) image builds. These components are all pulled together and run within a virtual machine managed by Lima.

With Finch, you can leverage these existing projects without chasing down all the details.
Yes, the post you’re replying to was recounting a joke :)
> It says a lot about how confused political discourse gets that the author considers these things "not politics".

Another pro tip for argues over the holidays: don't be that nit-picky... even if you are right on some level, I'm not sure who would call such topics current political discourse topics (:

Best tip though: keep the discussions away, delve in the happy shared past, dream about a better future, or just enjoy the moment! Merry christmas!
Probably some combination of lack of exposure in early age, sterility hypothesis in the west and something in the way the food industry makes highly processed foods.
Configuration files are code files. It's just that the code is at a much higher level of abstraction, and, usually, domain-specific.

Now, what would be the cost of maintaining a domain-specific compiler and its tooling on top of the configuration files?

That's true for most abstractions, btw. When you abstract something, you now need to maintain both the abstraction and the code using the abstraction.
> The programs do more: they crunch more data, paint more pixels, and animate the display in more whimsical ways.

More data, i agree. Painting pixels seems to be harder than 30 years ago. And animation hasn't evolved from 20 years.

But, the same programs needs now 20 libraries instead of 10, needs 3 build systems to build and 10 daemons to run to be able to start.
Interesting how all those frame it as the user’s fault.
Yikes! good luck, hope it works out. This is scary. Gmail is still, by far, the best email app. Something like this could happen to me and, I suspect, a lot of other people.
Bitwarden caches Web urls as well on its browser extensions.
Sometimes it knows that you have saved login for the specific web page before you have logged in. Certainly LastPass had urls unencrypted for this specific reason - to show users that you have saved login for this page, would you like to login?
It is the endless usablity vs. security battle. Of course, there are better ways to implement this than LastPass has done.
> 4) Has compulsory education made the world a better place?

Not sure what is there to debate on that one? Compulsory education has been a vehicle for giving children time away from child labour and abusive parenting.

For that reason alone it is a net positive specially in developing economies where child labour is accepted.
Go fix it then :p
A lot of people have family that can't handle discussions adjacent to politics without moving into politics.

The point of the list is not to generate interesting discussion. It is to generate interesting enough discussion while minimizing the chance of the discussion blowing up at a family gathering.
Custom Themes for Leetcode
An extension to customize themes of the code editor in Leetcode. Works with both old and new version of Leetcode
Interesting, this is the first time I saw this, maybe Google finally "enabled" the feature for me.

Sadly I didn't find a way to turn it off, in setting or elsewhere. That said, this feature is not as annoying as I first thought, after all I rarely need to hit page 3.
I love how the HN front page is the only way to reach a human at Google. No amount of money can get you a support ticket opened with an actual person in a situation like this
I've been locked out of 17 year old gmail account for awhile now because I refuse to sync my phone to it. I only want to login to delete the contents and deactivate the account. It still forwards to my Thunderbird which is how I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something). So, they want me to go away, and I want to go away, but they won't let me go away.
California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD
I inherited a farm as well as a listed manor attached to it. I'm in the process of selling the manor and much of the fields after 10+ years of looking for a buyer. Here's my .02:

1. You should not feel obliged to continue your father's work. You're a different person and I'm sure your father would prefer you to be happy above the farm staying in the family. If you think selling the land is a better option, do it. If you built your own career, don't sacrifice it for the farm.

2. Consider leasing it. I'm in the EU so I get subsidies (even if there's nothing there but grass), plus a lease from people who want to actually grow something there.
You don't matter for Google and creating HN spam threads won't change that. At worst, it will solve your particular problem and invite similar spam threads from other victims of faceless corporations.
Corporations are evil. Do worse for the consumer to cover their own butts.
>You can't discuss anything important and uncertain without running in to politics.

I do understand your exact point. This wide umbrella of "everything is politics" is akin to "all roads lead to philosophy" : https://www.xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia

That said, I can also what understand what people mean when a dinner host says, "let's not discuss politics". (Previous comment about that interpretation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473441)

Even though I perfectly understand what roenxi means by "You can't discuss anything important and uncertain without running in to politics.", I'm still able to grasp what the dinner host means by "no politics".

Likewise, the HN moderator dang tried the experiment of "no politics for a week". However, people didn't want to use the "dinner host" meaning and would rather litigate on the "but all roads lead to politics" meaning to make dang look naive in his social civility experiment.
My strategy is to only use GMail and no other Google service at all (cloud, ads, ...)

This way there is little possibility of somehow being labeled as fraudulent.
I will contact them, thanks for the link.
This extraordinary claim seems like it needs more to back it up than an offhand comment by Elon Musk.
> I'm not "bashing" tapes

Oh, this wasn't pointed at you at all, sorry for the misunderstanding.

> Given the massive expense of tape drives and the fact you need to keep replacing them and the tapes just to keep up with new LTO standards

Well, you don't need to keep replacing them. The rolling upgrade (gradually replacing the tapes and drives for a new generation) makes sense only if you have tens to hundreds of drives and thousands and thousands of tapes - ie for those insane enterprise libraries. For everything else, be it a small enterprise or a "mere mortals" it would be always cheaper to just buy a whole new library/autoloader.

And if the cost of initial buyout is too much then of course tapes aren't for you... along with the compatibility woes.
WASM comes with no standard library which is bad enough for replacing JS but a killer for CSS.