skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It provides more than they ever had in the past.
But how about if you project it into health economics? If you use it to calculate something like QALY cost?
Changed to that one now. Thanks!
Where credit is due: Elon hyped things like self-driving, and that gave Tesla access to cheap capital. It's possible, even likely that Tesla would just be a niche luxury car maker without elon's reality distortion field giving it access to capital to build big factories all over the planet.

You could even say it succeeded too well. Even with the decline in Tesla stock price, it's still valued at something like 2 times the valuation of Toyota. That is still preposterous. Just like beyond meat is a food company, Tesla is a car company. You might value it more like Porsche than Toyota per unit built and sold. But it's still just a car company.
You are acting contrarian with no evidence, no discussion of any particular component of the revealed data, nothing specific even to debate regarding the original comment. Yet the conspiracy is the downplaying of it!

I've seen a lot of hyperbole about the twitter files that, when I read it for myself, is not nearly what was claimed by the hyperbolist. For example, someone said "The FBI bribed Twitter with $3.4M to remove content!" - I looked into it, and the FBI compensated Twitter for work done over time to research and then take action on suspicious accounts. Now, that may be shady to work with the FBI on takedowns without a warrant or court order. But do I call that a bribe? Not really.

I am open to discussing what is wrong and suspicious in the files, but there is quite a correlation between "people raising hell about the Twitter files" and "people who have no problem with hate speech or adversary nation-state propaganda on social networks".

For example, I believe that actions taken by social networks (or any organization ever) on behalf of the government should be documented and released to the public after some period of time, even on the order of years. If the government believes a twitter account, facebook account or email address is a threat to national security, it should be documented. If the account is not a singular "threat" but is known to the IC to be a nation-state troll, that should be documented as the reason. I'm not convinced it should happen over email.

That said, I acknowledge that nation-state trolling and disinformation campaigns absolutely exist on Twitter and elsewhere, and need dealt with.
By your theory, auditors should be put into jail on a much higher rate as they have WAY MORE insider information, yet they don’t.

Also, there is a law prohibiting senators from trading on insider information, which kinda goes against your whole point.

https://www.congress.gov/112/plaws/publ105/PLAW-112publ105.h...
We've since changed the URL. I don't know if the current article is still shallow but hopefully it is less annoying.
I have been using a .email TLD with protonmail and haven't had any issues.
He's saying that there is a group of people who are stuck on a platform they don't like because of a feature missing from Mastodon that the users who can't switch called out themselves. The only racists here are the people who think he shouldn't help just because he's a different race.
Nonguix is new to me. I may give it a look at some point but I’m already over the pain threshold on nix.

Any idea if nonguix will allow an install on macOS? I really want a system like this that I can use on my work MacBook and remote Linux servers.
>Sites like reddit/4chan/hn become less popular due to generative AI spam.

I am rather hopeful that it will be an incentive for such sites evolving to combat the problem.

I believe it all goes down to the ranking problem across the attention economy. What content do people see? Once we agree that we would prefer more high quality content instead of stuff triggering cognitive biases and dopamine output for tribalism it becomes a technical problem of how to identify high/low quality content. After all, what does it matter if a bot is writing something as long as it is actually good?
With the current length of copyright, there is no possible way to build it otherwise. Saying that AI needs to only train on public-domain works, is equivalent to saying that it shouldn't exist.

Of course, if it didn't exist, I wouldn't be buying art from artists instead. I'd simply go back to my stories not being illustrated at all. So from my perspective, this story is all about artists wanting to tear the ability out of my hands.
This alone doesn't fill me with much confidence. Such a basic opsec error.
"A well-armed and informed populace governing itself" is a pipe dream by indigenous uncontacted people and certain very intelligent dissenters. The majority of "civilized" people in the world are very happy to live in an authoritarian information-sanitized nation so long as the people in power cater to their own in-group.
This is indeed wildly stupid, but it’s stated as a form of activism.

And there are many benefits that have been explored in the modelling community that are local and produce direct benefits to humans. Local reduction of the solar radiation above Greenland or Antarctic areas could reduce ice melt, or above cities during the hottest days of the year to counter the heat island effect. Then there’s large parts of the ocean that we could reduce to lower tyfoon strength. just to name a few.

The question is always when-where-by how much, and how wide spread. There are obvious questions of drift because of climate and weather, of the clouds but I’m not an expert in these kind of systems.

ideally this sulfer(compound) has a lifetime of just 24 hours and can be locally distributed, appropriately monitored, and has no other detrimental effects on the environment.

This might just be one of the things we need in our tool box.
Who knows, although there are 1.5M reservations. No idea how many have cancelled, but it's still probably at least 1M.
Are there any other features I don’t need and tradeoffs I would not like to make you feel like mandating in the products I need while you’re at it?
Great visualization. I’ve always found it very unsatisfying to depict the lanthanides and actinides as just nebulously floating out there like Alaska and Hawaii on terrible maps of the US. Those elements are part of chemistry/physics too, and they have periodic properties. Finally a practical visual that promotes them to full citizens!
Isn’t selling milk powder to China feeding the world?
You can't describe everything every time, at some point you need to use more concise naming for better communication. While it would be nice to improve things for beginners, this one seems pretty good already. Searching for "nix standard directory layout" brings up relevant blogs along with a Wikipedia page for FHS. Not bad.
“Perhaps couples that meet through friends and family feel more pressure to stay together”

My first thought. When your support networks/social networks are intertwined there’s a big disincentive to split up, knowing it’s going to have a big and possibly damaging impact well beyond just splitting with a partner.

Also - bringing your families and friends together may add more friction if you wouldn’t have met offline.
> The distinction between the government "asking nicely" and "making demands" is not strong enough. In theory could Twitter could have resisted but the costs would have been quite high.

Really? Companies do this all of the time. For example, how many billions did Apple lose for resisting the FBI’s requests with the San Bernardino shooter?

> It's also apparent that regarding the Hunter Biden story the FBI outright lied in order to make web platforms censor the story.

Can you be specific about this? The “Twitter Files” and all extent accounts say the opposite – and that was the best the right-wing media could find – and if you’re thinking about Zuckerberg’s interview, he specifically said the FBI did not make a request in this case.
I have a really old account (pretty sure I started using it ~2010) and I use lastpass essentially daily. I've never looked at that setting and I see that mine is set to 100,100. So it's migrated sometime. But I do also have some vague memory of a lastpass incident years ago where there was a prompt that they wanted to re-encrypt everything preemptively.
Birkenstocks one of most purchased fashion items of 2022
If the FBI sends such an email, there is a tacit threat of criminal liability.
Seems my information is out of date. https://news.ucar.edu/132755/scientists-nail-down-average-te... claims it's more like 5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels (6 compared to now). Still though. If 5 degrees is the difference between the early 1800s and an ice age, that we've already done ~1 degree seems enormously alarming.
> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

That's the Constitutional definition of treason in the United States.

Who's levying war against the United States here?
I'm sure it's technically possible to build a phone where the battery is easily replaceable and is highly water resistant. Difficult? Sure, but possible. If this regulation really does lead phone manufacturers to go back to the days of hand-removable backs or slide-out batteries then I'm sure they'll be investigating in R&D to get their IPwhatever ratings back.
Sendstr – an ad hoc e2ee channel using Nostr
"They could simply add a statement at the footer saying EU visitors do so in agreement of US-based rules regarding data collection."

They could, but are you 100% sure this would comply with the law and eliminate the risk of penalties?

I don't know which entity runs the site, whether it has assets or operations in EU countries etc.

I'm also not a lawyer.

I can't say for sure what is the right business decision for them.

I'm curious (as I'm not in the EU and don't notice) roughly what proportion of HN front page stories are unavailable in the EU?
>How do you defend this?

From this thread, it seems by just going "pfft... no big deal."

As long as there's a layer of abstraction ("I didn't kill him. The bullets and the fall did") and it's applying to speech we generally don't care for (misinformation, "hate speech", etc..), then I guess we're cool with it?

It's tough not to be cynical at times. A decade after PRISM, the government controlling speech indirectly via "polite suggestions" mostly just fills me with similar feelings of "no big deal." Not because it isn't, but because it's expected.
The conspiracy is defining UX narrowly enough that trivial matters trump vital ones
Therefore, logic tells us that the following things are not technology:

- Programming a 1980's VCR

- Getting serial ports (RS-232) to work correctly

- The MS Windows Registry

- Malware

- Etc...
Agree, one easy additional control would be for whether someone has ever used an online dating platform (may be a meaningful difference within the non-online couples group).
Do you have an alternative explanation? It was #2 when I first viewed this thread (with far less points and comments), and a few minutes later it was off the front page entirely.

But this question is exactly why I would like illumination. The mods could respond to my post and explain.
Schrodinger's conspiracy: in superposition of being a dangerous conspiracy theory and well known fact everyone knew and nothing interesting.

Of course, the status of a Schrodinger's conspiracy is only known when the truth is revealed and the conspiracy is measured.

When the truth becomes known, it is retconned to have always been known.
well, “we had to lay off the trust & safety team” could be construed to mean that we don’t think t&s is important - whereas in practice it’s one of the core pillars of the whole project. so instead we positioned it as a reset, which it effectively is.
That's really not how criminal liability works.
Related:

Pitch Drop Experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22255308 - Feb 2020 (30 comments)

Pitch Drop Experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529597 - March 2019 (12 comments)

Pretty sure there have been other threads too, if anyone can find them.
jumping in here, but what makes me worried is a strong power being used without proper controls, auditing, and system design.

From a system perspective it looks like the US Gov had elevated access to ban people, and had opportunity and reason to misuse it.

The initial rationale for the US Gov already admits this as a legit reason to ban foreign agents - "undue power/misleading influence". I hold that same view, but also consider that malicious elements in the US Government are also something to worry about, so I'd like their own power to shape the discussion to be limited and tracked, too.
Not necessarily. The FBI doesn't change much from administration to administration, no?
Just like driving a manual-transmission car, part of fun is in the doing. Further, though, part of the doing makes it practical: engagement while driving is a good thing.

How, if one has no experience with the command line, can convincing errors in GPT's responses be detected? If the details of the command line are automated away, and engagement diminishes, will we arrive at a point where people are more limited because the knowledge that made the command line powerful is gone? Sure, it might make it easier to eat a sandwich in rush hour traffic, but eventually will we find ourselves cringing while dragging the brakes down a mountain because we've lost the ability to simply downshift? How often have you seen someone hesitate to do something on a computer because they don't fully understand what's going on and 'don't want to break anything'?

I think this project is awesome, and could even expand my knowledge of the CLI, but have some reservations about applying it as a categorical imperative.
Actually by using something like GPT3 you are kind of doing copy-and-paste in a way, because you are given pre-defined set of commands without ability to modify its arguments. It looks to me like typing in terminal at random and hoping for the best results. This is especially bad for newbies, because they won't know how this commands work and what all this arguments mean. This is my two cents anyway.
> I guess this is an important skill but I wonder if it really has to be this way.

What is the alternative? Only learning from curated, well crafted sources?

It would be great to raise the floor of educational material. Ultimately though people will need to grow beyond well trodden paths, so they'll probably need to work through some noise to find the signal.
A 2013 study found the opposite. (N=19,131)

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1222447110
Bayesian stats are only “contrarian” from a historical or undergrad perspective… It’s pretty mainstream and not really that controversial.

Lisps are very different than non-lisps, but… what’s contrarian about that?
> Is that useful? I'm sure to somebody who already knows what they want out of nix it is, but the first thing I'm told is that shell environments exist and are useful to "use the tool without having to install the software.". Ok, but what if I want to install the software?

Why would you go to https://nixos.org/learn.html, click on an introductory example titled "Ad-hoc developer environments" and complain that it doesn't explain how to permanently install software?

> but there's no real explanation to give me knowledge to expand upon

Again, you're pointing to a page containing TLDR examples. That's not the right place for an in-depth explanation.

> There's not just a step missing here, there's an entire floor, possibly building. It's like the nix community saw how git is taught and went "we can do worse".

No surprise because you missed the entire manual.
It happened for a few hours when the story was flagged as hacked materials (just like they’d do for, say, someone’s non-consensual nudes). Twitter did that on their own and removed it shortly later after their internal discussion agreed that it wasn’t a violation (they took down the tweets reposting actual nudes, not the media coverage).
You don't. In cases like OP you can choose to make a gamble. If you don't have a family to support there's no real reason to not take big unlikely payoff risks in order to try and make crazy outcomes happen. The only caveat would be if by trying to become a farmer you'd be exposed to organized violence, but I'm not sure what that's like in Madagascar.
It's a display of power. "Yeah, we're censoring you, so what? Everyone knew this already, and it's a good thing". I'm not sure what the people who decided to publish this were expecting. Who knows though, maybe in the long run it will have some consequences.
for most americans it is not treason if the governement is siding with their political views.
Any tips on navigating that? I’m always worried because I value the friendship so much and don’t want to ruin it… but if feelings develop they’re pretty undeniable. It’s high stakes when you don’t know if the feelings are reciprocated.
It looks to me like he's using a product by WolfVision that markets itself as a Visualizer[1].

[1](https://wolfvision.com/en/products/vz-8uhd)
People who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most
Wow! I'm a Ruby on Rails developer and I always thought how Python language is more advanced because it's way more popular programming language than Ruby. Thank you for proving me wrong. :)
Honestly I think that's an absurd pipedream, OpenAI can't keep their servers stable due to the massive demand and Unstable Diffusion has over 100 000 users in their Discord.

To hope that they shut down due to a lack of users is just a thought process that is only guaranteed to cause unhappiness.
The irony is we can now look forward to ChatGPT repeating the "Slashdot for CLI folks" line. The future has truly arrived.
Why are you trotting out this false idea that replaceable batteries somehow exclude water resistance?

Why the dishonest weasel phrasing?
Sorry! I've moved your comment back now.

Btw, please don't editorialize titles - that's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.") If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Trump dismissed the FBI Director and picked the new one in 2017. That's a fairly significant change.
AFAIR "no". Humans interact with both the AIs and the "dogs", and both groups of humans end up in contact with each other, but unless I'm missing something, the "dogs" don't directly interact with the AIs in any significant way (or the two threads end up interfering with each other, but more in a "they distract some of the characters" in both cases).
15-metric ton meteorite crashed in Africa; 2 new minerals have been found in it
One piece of advice I keep coming across over and over is to publicize it and get feedback as much as possible.
Definitely not.

I'm more looking for a gesture towards respecting our values, and a more open negotiation process for developing safe use for this kind of powerful control system. The fact that the administrators of the process on the twitter side were quite polarized politically makes people doubt its fairness, as does the fact that it was mostly done in secret.

i.e. it was more of a China-style "the state doesn't like you and bad things will happen to you and your family" style of punishment where you don't know what has actually happened (limitation of tweet reach, weird glitches in your tweet's spread with no acknowledgement) than a clear "you are charged with X and have received this penalty Y for time Z."
Everybody just latches on to Musk, because they're not thinking neutrally, they hate him, for whatever amalgamation of reasons, assume he is a jackass and idiot - and then find their proof for it.

I specifically said that I was responding to this paragraph. This paragraph appears to be a general statement that is not limited in scope to only be about Brown.
If that was true, the transit situation in SF and NYC would not be as bad as it is — and the crime in NYC in particular has been increasing noticeably, despite that city being one of the wealthiest in the world. And yes, in NYC people of all social classes take the subway.

You also betray your true intentions with words like “force”. You want to force an urban transit-based lifestyle on everyone. You don’t want people to have a choice. It’s like you want to prove all the suburban NIMBYS right in their suspicions that new housing is an intentional attempt to destroy suburbs…
I'm not arguing that China wouldn't wreck its economy by invading Taiwan. It would, and economic disaster would not be an overstatement.

But it would be able to wage its war. For food it's fine, although people would certainly be eating much less pork for a long time. Oil is the critical limiting resource; China consumes around 15 million barrels a day. But it domestically produces 4 million barrels a day (it once was doing around 5, but shut down some as they became uneconomic), can scale up to around a million barrels per day of imports from Russia and Central Asia, and has a stockpile of around a billion barrels. Most manufacturing except for militarily relevant industries would be shut down, and it would impose domestic rationing to decrease its baseline consumption by a couple million barrels. Depending on how you model things, China could maintain its wartime footing for at least a year and potentially indefinitely.

Painful for China, yes, but also economically horrendous for the rest of the world. As soon as the war starts, all of East Asia would be thrown into an immediate depression, as at a minimum 10% of economic activity is shut down overnight. Oil prices fall, putting severe pressure on oil producers whose economies themselves collapse. The EU and the USA themselves tumble into recession, as supply chains are destroyed. Domestic politics would react negatively to the new reality, and there'd be no Pearl Harbor event to motivate Western voters to prosecute a war for an island most can't even locate on a map.

Everyone would be in for a world of pain, and everyone would want a resolution of the crisis as quickly as possible. If China starts a war, it will be because it believes it can maintain itself in an economic calamity longer than the US and its allies can.
Where are you where power is at its lowest rates?
> Mastadon is... tofu dogs. Mastadon is an attempt to feed healthy, protocol-based internet food to people who have been subsisting on bad, algorithmically-manipulated corporate internet food (the aforementioned user-hostile platforms) in a way that feels familiar to them while they get used to the idea of not consuming the internet equivalent of Twinkies and Pork Rinds and Liquor for the rest of their lives.

Mastadon is hand-rolling cigarettes instead of buying them at the gas station. Brewing gin in your bathtub, instead of going to a liquor store.
> The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter

Being the primary domestic component of the intelligence community is overtly part of the FBI role, so that would be expected to be true with any domestic actor in the place of “Twitter”.

Similarly, “major international public and private communication platform with a history of being used to recruit and organize insurrections and other acts of violence, execute international influence operations, single out targets for violent reprisals, etc., attracts lots of attention from intelligence, counterintelligence, and law enforcement agencies, of which the FBI is the lead federal domestic agency for all three purposes” is... not surprising.