skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corruption is a bipartisan endeavor, particularly in New York and Chicago. But it must be said that it was made wholly legal by W Supreme Court appointees.
When "knowing a bit more" reverses the conclusion, and you can go several levels deep in the thought exercise, it's so satisfying.
The standard for infringement in trademark law is “likelihood of confusion”. Specifically, the question of infringement is whether a junior user’s use of the mark is likely to confuse a member of the public as to the origin of the goods or services.

After Steamboat Willie is out of copyright, anyone will be able to distribute copies of it. If distributors use the mouse image in a way that confuses consumers into thinking their copies came from Disney, however, then they may infringe Disney’s trademark.
That's an index of how many countries don't require a visa. But you might someday care much more about how hard your embassy will work to rescue you if you get kidnapped or falsely arrested in a less rule-of-law-oriented country. A US passport really comes in handy in an emergency.
I wouldn't call it bad writing. It is different from what I used to. It is non-linear, which is actually quite common (eg see Hyperion) and I would say not-character-focused. It is more about a concept itself. And even though latter I don't like much, the core idea of the book is very interesting.

For me it was harder to read, but still very enjoyable experience.

>And it ends abruptly before resolving anything
hmmm, I wonder what kind of books you usually read. Because this is very common approach, when authors don't do full LoTR ending, but end story at the point when reaching it would be rewarding, but won't everything to the last bit, so readers can still think about for a while.
With our infant using a digital thermometer in the ear, we routinely observe that the left ear is hotter than the right. We take 3 measurements in each ear, we see a similar variance as you mention per ear.
Have you observed a similar difference? As adults with the same device we don't see a difference in our own ears.
Oxford Brookes have a pretty cool space

https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/john-henry...
Well, yes, but new developers need to learn to always delve one layer beneath any abstraction they're using, and understand it. Usually they learn this the hard way by fighting with some abstraction until in a fit of insanity they dig beneath the surface (looking at the library source code or something) and realize that either (a) the docs were lying or (b) the code has a bug or (c) their understanding of what the abstraction was even capable of was wrong.
I can't help but wonder how we will ensure official government/legal->user communication is legitimate in the face of software that can dodge spam filters at a whim. Is it back to letters for us?
Everything what's wrong with the world in one single app. Congrats, I honestly believe you could be successful.
the problem with all techniques used to protect from prompt injection is that they are not explicitly asking the model. Always validate input before processing it.
The Android runtime does not really excel in performance.
>I get that you feel that but you have no idea how privileged that sounds...

And I don't think you understand how many times I've gone into detail why I feel this way and had folks react, aghast, that I didn't do it sooner.

Did you miss the part where I interviewed at two FFRDCs? To have folks refuse to interview me except for "defense" or precarious nonprofit positions after years of abuse is unacceptable. I'm working on a sequel to this essay[1] that will explain my reasoning, but there are people within this system who will never stop abusing their access until I am dead.

Keep in mind everyone is mentioning countries when I said due to the breakdown of the USA, I'm open to other states.

I am not going to tolerate a situation where the people who obstruct my career because they perceive me as extremist are the ones who run up on the capital, as some of the members of the Pittsburgh FBI and my local police did.

These people, who met me as a child, feel entitled to tell me I'm "privileged" when I've been nothing but precarious most of my life save for accident, not design - I have survived by luck, not hard work to get where I am.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2013/01/05/pedagogyofthedepressed.htm...
Do you believe we're at the peak of what will be capable?

As shown by this post, we're still discovering what's possible with the tools we have now.

Also, human programmers aren't amazing at writing defect free code.
Nah, this was an out of season April's fools joke. So just another four months. :-)
I never let it hit that high. I take something. By the time I hit 39.4, I'm at the point that I'm nearly hallucinating. I can't stay sitting upright in a doctor's office and simply cannot drive myself. I wouldn't trust myself not to get lost walking 2 blocks to the hospital.

I've had this happen as an adult: The doctors office had me take 800mg of children's ibuprofen and had me wait until the fever started coming down: If it didn't, they were going to call an ambulance. Sidenote: Children's liquid medicine tastes horrible.

40C (104F) isn't just a little fever, and is definitely in the danger zone for both children and adults. You should probably get to the doctor before that, in general - especially if you react as I do at a lower temperature.
Is "Carla Rossi" a real name?
I posted this thread of spooky NSA networking stories, supporting links, and old emails a few years ago to the "30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network" discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376750

At the University of Maryland, our network access was through the NSA's "secret" MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead. It was pretty obvious that UMD got their network access via NSA, because mimsy.umd.edu had a similar "*.57" IP address as dockmaster, tycho and coins.

https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/

HOST : 26.0.0.57 : TYCHO : PDP-11/70 : UNIX : TCP/TELNET,TCP/SMTP,TCP/FTP :
HOST : 26.0.0.57 : DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL,DOCKMASTER.DCA.MIL, DOCKMASTER.ARPA : HONEYWELL-DPS-8/70 : MULTICS : TCP/TELNET,TCP/FTP,TCP/SMTP,TCP/ECHO,TCP/DISCARD,ICMP :
HOST : 26.1.0.57 : COINS-GATEWAY,COINS : PLURIBUS : PLI ::
HOST : 26.2.0.57, 128.8.0.8 : MARYLAND,MIMSY,UMD-CSD,UMD8,UMCP-CS : VAX-11/780 : UNIX : TCP/TELNET,TCP/FTP,TCP/SMTP,UDP,TCP/ECHO,TCP/FINGER,ICMP :

https://multicians.org/site-dockmaster.html

Whenever the network went down (which was often), we had to call up a machine room at Fort Mead and ask them to please press the reset button on the box labeled "IMP 57". Sometimes the helpful person who answered the phone had no idea which box I meant, so I had describe to him which box to reset over the phone. ("Nope, that didn't work. Try the other one!" ;) They were even generous enough to issue us (CS department systems staff and undergrad students) our own MILNET TACACS card.

On mimsy, you could get a list of NSA employees by typing "grep contact /etc/passwd", because each of their courtesy accounts had "network contact" in the gecos field.

Before they rolled out TACACS cards, anyone could dial up an IMP and log in without a password, and connect to any host they wanted to, without even having to murder anyone like on TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVth6T3gMa0
ChatGPT is currently free, GPT-3 is not
This research compares implementation systems similar to Ethereum and analyzes the difficulties and possibilities of achieving parallel execution of transactions.
Been casually trying to increase my ELO on Wordfeud. When you know the dictionary by heart (Wordfeud has rather restricted dictionaries) and have the basics of bonus hunting and hooking down, Scrabble becomes a pure game of imperfect knowledge and strategy. The known information is the prior letter distribution, the played letters on the board and in your rack. The unknown information is your opponent's rack. However, you can compute exact letter probabilities for his rack and strategize accordingly.

Then the game comes down to managing your rack and your opponent's.
Here's are some common techniques/strats:

- Q-pinning: blocking bonus squares or hooks by using difficult letters so your opponent can't lay down a high scoring turn.

- Q-burning: the inverse, taking a hit on current turn score just to get rid of difficult letters.

- E-burning: sometimes having all-low score letters in your rack is worse than having Q-letters as this will hamper your ability to get high scores on good board positions. A well-balanced rank is key to winning.

- Q-swapping: late-game strategy, maintain a difficult letter in your rack to swap in one of the last turns so your opponent draws the impossible letters forcibly. Remember unused rack letters will be deducted from final score. This dirty trick has won me many close games.
Hard to imagine that there couldn't be any kind of trusted (perhaps encrypted, but not necessarily) communication online.

Text conversations are trivial to fake, and WhatsApp could trivially MITM a handful of conversations and tell me my friend said something different and I'd never know. But they have an incentive not to do this at a large scale, because there are benefits of running a worldwide trusted messaging service, and they would fear people would move to alternatives when millions of messages started being adulterated.
for vending machines enjoyers:
Eating at the Largest Vending Machine Park in the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOkMRCWPb4
What I'm curious about is what will happen when the internet becomes so saturated by AI posts that AI is trained off of an AI internet. Will the quality of AI content degrade?
https://scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary/parer

Someone who reads is a reader, viewer, writer, dancer, God loves a tryer, and someone who pares should be a parer.

Although I often try that pattern and have it denied, if you can shelve a project it suggests shelver which is in, if you can table a motion it suggests tabler which isn’t.
I give old iPhones and iPads to my family that can't afford them. They will continue using it for another few years.
>You don't sound like someone who has traveled a lot. I would encourage you to digital nomad in different countries for 2-3 months at a time

Never had enough to do that, and no amount of education or networking brought something that pays well enough, and I've suffered physical attacks that left me nearly dead in my current location.
- speakers

- chassis flex / build quality

- battery life

Just because a panel is oled and 4k doesn’t mean that it is a good panel. I have a 4k oled tv and its contrast ratios are garbage compared to the laptop.

The panel in the 16inch mbp has variable refresh rate, 10k dimming zones due to the 10k mini leds, 1600 nits peak brightness, 1000 sustained.
Now that the RasPi is only available at high prices, maybe Cisco will add it as a branded 1U product, at enterprise pricing. :)
While impressive, it would have been a lot easier to just use a SCSI connected Ethernet adapter. Correct SCSI termination would have required sacrificing a chicken and drawing a pentagram in blood, but still easier than this project.
Thanks I know it would take a long time hence thinking hard where I will end up.
> Microsoft is pushing in some of the areas it has been since he took over - accessibility being first and foremost

That's interesting to hear.

My eyes are getting older and I find the accessibility facilities in Windows 11 (and Mint as it happens) far more helpful than those on my M1 Air (little things like the ability to scale far more of the textual aspects of the OS in Windows).
> Truly Great Artists Ship, Listen, and Adapt.

Many great artists, think painters, couldn't care less whether other people liked their works or not.
Sometimes I think that if it weren't for heavy cryptography and graphical interfaces, I could do so many things online even with a computer as old as this one.

I could browse a textual version of HN, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram and even post and comment things!

Sending HTTP packets to an open API has been a kids game for decades, unfortunately companies just don't want you to hack together your own solution
> I am waiting for the ML-driven browser extension that can block a person's entire existence.

I don't know how pretending someone doesn't exist is going to help. Maybe re-evaluate what you're always viewing. I don't usually see references, comments, or anything related to Trump or Musk because I just simply don't use social media.

Stop letting them (whoever you want to block) live in your mind rent-free.
This is probably the biggest failure caused by software going into a bad state.
I spent three summers there and got zero offers, despite generating publications, a patent, and code. That's how I ended up at the Center for Democracy & Technology -- because I wanted to change law and policy so no one encounters the issues I ever had, but when you change things it severely angers people.

(The type who have or used to have more than one, and who I, a native Appalachian, cannot compete with unless I too become a literal spy for the Russians or Chinese)
> If it's a lesser form of intelligence, as you imply

Different != lesser

> Probably, but

Then why even continue speaking if you agree

> our concepts seem to be tied pretty closely to language.

Me: “ChatGPT, explain how an electron orbiting a hydrogen nucleus would behave if classical mechanics held true.”

ChatGPT: “In classical electromagnetism, an electron orbiting a hydrogen nucleus would behave in a similar way to the way a planet orbits the sun, as described in my previous response. The electron would follow an elliptical path around the nucleus, and the force of attraction between the electron and the nucleus would be given by Coulomb's Law.

According to Coulomb's Law, the force of attraction between two charged particles is given by:

F = k * (q1 * q2) / r^2

Where F is the force of attraction, k is the Coulomb constant, q1 and q2 are the charges of the two particles, and r is the distance between them.

In the case of an electron orbiting a hydrogen nucleus, the force of attraction would be the force that keeps the electron in orbit. The electron would be attracted towards the nucleus by this force, but at the same time, it would be moving with a certain velocity, which would cause it to follow a curved path. This path would be an elliptical orbit, with the nucleus at one of the foci of the ellipse.

The electron's orbit would be stable as long as the force of attraction between the electron and the nucleus was strong enough to keep the electron in orbit, but not so strong that it pulled the electron into the nucleus. This balance would be determined by the size of the ellipse and the velocity of the electron. If the ellipse were too small, the electron would be pulled into the nucleus. If the ellipse were too large, the electron would escape from the orbit.

However, we know that this is not actually how an electron behaves in an atom. In reality, electrons do not follow classical orbits around the nucleus. Instead, they follow a more complex pattern described by quantum mechanics. This is because the principles of quantum mechanics are needed to accurately describe the behavior of very small particles like electrons.”

On the surface this looks impressive. Except that the answer about stable orbits is flat out wrong. The electron would spiral into the nucleus, quite quickly, because of Maxwell’s equations: a moving electron radiates electromagnetic energy. This is part of the foundational defense of quantum mechanics. If as you claim, language and concept are so closely tied, surely a language model with billions (trillions?) of parameters is capable of encoding a relational understanding of this magnitude.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/413039/electron-...

> If it’s a lesser form of intelligence I almost find the results more impressive.

You get that you’re saying the least common denominator in conversational intelligence makes you go bzzzzz? That the one thing ChatGPT lacks, critical thinking, does not impress you?

You know, in the 90s, they had these things called tamagotchis… you might be interested.
We were talking on Reddit about how his behavior is much like a student who has a paper due and is just killing time on the web in order to "escape" the uncomfortable thoughts and the pressure.

Musk is showing all signs of "checking out". He wants to retire and be a MAGA troll more than he wants to run his companies - except that he is still running his companies.

I mean, he is destroying 10s of millions of dollars of his own wealth with every dumbass tweet - fine - but he has no consideration anymore for his fan individual investors, many of whom are wiped out.
> their voices get overwhelmed by the flood of (mostly low quality) content

I have the same issue. People place so much trust in their preferred sources of information and don't question anything they read. Because of this I have a hard time discussing anything beyond the most basic things with many friends, since they just repeat talking points and opinions of others.

It's so enlightening when I do find someone who's well read on a subject and can have an actual conversation about it. Even better if they have a different opinion and give you some new bit of information that makes you think about your opinions or perception of knowledge. Or, when you can agree to disagree because you have the similar understanding of a subject, but have different values or preferences. Moments like that can make me really happy sometimes.
The idea was that a Pi makes sense sometimes, and other times it doesn't. I know people using a Pi for one GPIO pin. This can be done just fine with an Arduino or an ESP8266.

I for one run a Pi with PiHole, Wireguard, Unifi controller, NVR, MQTT, etc. and a few more GPIO trinkets like Zwave. No ESP could practically handle all that, an x86 would be overkill in terms of size, noise, temperature, and power consumption.

On the other hand I use ESPs for things like "smartening up" my door intercom where even a Pi Zero would be overkill.
That's crazy, it's smooth as butter on my pixel 6.
Those games have always existed. Do yourself a favor and play them on your PC, too, where you can enjoy some of the classics on a 27" or 40" screen.
What no one tells you about heat pumps that work down to 10 degrees F, zero degrees, minus 10 degrees, is that you probably cannot get anywhere near enough BTUs out of your heat pump, at such an outside temperature, to keep your house above freezing. But it will draw a great deal of power getting what BTUs it can.

As outside temperature goes down, the amount of heat input, in BTUs per hour (or kilowatts, really) needed to maintain a comfortable temperature rises linearly with the difference. When the difference is greatest, the heat pump can deliver least.

So in practice, well above such temperature, your controller has turned it off, and is burning propane instead.

Of course, the better-insulated your house is, the fewer BTU/hr it takes to keep it warm. Spending a lot on a beefy heat pump without making sure your insulation is in good shape would be a mistake.
I can't eat wheat. I don't know if it's the gluten or if I'm celiac. Nobody diagnosed me.

Wheat bloats my stomach and clogs my intestines almost gas tight and sometimes the pain can be extreme because it feels like your intestines are being torn apart.

This makes you feel like your own body is conspiring against you because society has decided to put wheat everywhere and everyone else is fine and the doctors tell you it's not the wheat. From this perspective the "sane" choice against generic unexplainable suffering because of randomly occuring physical pain would be to get a different body but that isn't possible so suicide it is.

Except, my solution is peppermint tea and avoiding wheat at all costs.
I don't care how many people tell me that I don't have celiac disease or that I should be able to eat wheat. I can't, I know my body better than the doctor or you or the industrial complex that puts wheat everywhere.
Compare the cost of keeping one surplus pilot forever deadheading around the system to the cost & disruption of canceling (say) one flight a month because "a pilot got sick, it was not legal to fly short-handed".

Having a (relative) bunch of surplus critical-task workers, forever being shuffled to where they system guesses they're most likely suddenly be needed, makes perfect sense.

(Yes, you'd have to be a bit more sophisticated, so your surplus pilots got enough flying time to stay certified. And didn't get pissed and quit. Assume that I know why RAID 5 is better than RAID 4:)
Do you care about the quality of the typesetting? How well bound the book is? What paper was used? Etc.
Well, that seems to trump the belief or notion that DNA can't survive more than a million or so years without breaking down due to background radiation damage (cosmic rays, etc.).

My only knowledge of the subject rests on a few papers I've read. They suggest that DNA—even when stored under ideal conditions—couldn't survive the background radiation damage past this lenght of time. The argument goes that even though the radiation level may be miniscule it's the fact that it's incessant and persists for such a long time that the DNA ultimately succumbs.

Seems to me that now we have not only viable DNA but viable yeasts that have survived around 50 times those estimates and hints that DNA may even be 'recognizable' over double that time that we have a whole new ballgame—researching really ancient DNA may actually be a worthwhile exercise.

Anyone au fait with the latest research on this?

Wishful thought—perhaps some future researcher may actually find viable DNA from a dinosaur with an ichy back who scratched up a tree for relief and some of its skin rubbed up against some amber. :-)
- that scaling scenario (same factor on multiple displays) works perfectly in my experience. What admittedly could use more work is mixed scaling, which works fine on wayland and okayish on X.

- I thought that was a patents thing?

- Compared to what? The clipboard managers on windows seemed all pretty bad.

- yeah, better than windows (e.g. see the linus tech tips rant about it), but s3sleep is much better still. Luckily many higher priced ones offer that as an option in the UEFI settings.
I find it incredible that when I try out a project, it easily pulls in a GB of files. It's a space and bandwidth junkie. I long for a lo-fi version, fully UNoptimized but fast.

My doubt is if it'll work over a basic mobile phone connection, and that lots of folks in developing countries, as I also will be soon, will be left out because of this behavior.
My understanding is that absorption refrigerators fell out of favor because compressor refrigerators typically offer five times greater coefficient of performance. They can make sense if you have a good source of waste heat, but electricity is generally cheap in the home
Sometimes the ears differ, and we use the warmer of the temperatures as our final measurement, as per the instruction booklet of the thermometer. I have not stopped to consider whether this is a consistent chirality bias or just noise!
I agree. Four years ago I dove deeply into blockchain and token models for a marketplace project I was working on and failed to find any startups or initiatives that looked anything like a customer facing product or platform. Four years on and nothing has changed. Still no case studies, no success stories.

Here's an illuminating transcript from Molly White (crypto sceptic) around the idea that blockchain is a 'solution looking for a problem' https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain-solutionism-lecture/
Well, Amazon used to be ahead. I vividly remember using their "Find me this out-of-print book" service once and being very positively surprised that it actually worked. Signed up for the out-of-print book, got a message about 3 months later, and BANG, there it was, in my mailbox. That was one of the moment when I thought "well, they are really doing a great job" That has changed since, especially since the website design has been fucked up with ads everywhere.