skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are selectively leaving out the part where Trump claims he declassified the documents

That’s immaterial. Neither the crimes that DOJ has identified as potentially at issue nor the terms of the grand jury subpoena with which Trump’s noncomploance motivated the application for the search warrant turn on the classification status of the documents.

> If he did, then the raid was unquestionably wrong.

No, as long as the documents had classification markings, both the seizure in the raid and the raid itself, premised on seeking evidence of, inter alia, Trump’s noncompliance with the grand jury subpoena calling for production of all documents he had at MAL with classification markings, was clearly not only justified by the evidence available to DOJ when they applied for the warrant, but also based on suspicions proven out by the results.
That was my thought too; but if we average over a woman’s childbearing lifespan it makes more sense.
> The very idea of "my car needs to go 300 miles on one charge/tank" just isn't a thing there.

Citation needed. No, you don't need to go 300 miles on one charge/tank if you live in a big Japanese city, in fact you don't even need a car in that case. However, if you live in rural areas or need to travel long distances, 300 mi is not a lot to ask for: the main island of Honshu is >800 mi long and 300 won't even get you from Tokyo to Osaka.
Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy
Trying to learn about this conversation. What is it that is being proved true?
> the effects of covid/prolonged lockdowns on missed screening.

This ignores that lockdown was a 'side-effect' of covid that affected the health-service, whereas covid itself had the exact same effect on healthcare, with or without lockdown. This can be seen in Sweden, for instance. Not only were death-rates during the height of the pandemic much higher in Sweden than its Nordic neighbors, the healthcare system was crippled by the workload and stress.

People were not getting health-checks here — just the same as in countries with lockdowns - so the effects of late screening on cancers are just as great.

The system is still overloaded, so there are constant stories in the news where people who need treatment urgently, are needing to wait a year or 18 months or more for treatment that might save their lives.

In addition, the stress that was caused by having totally overloaded emergency wards for 3 years has meant that nurses and doctors are leaving in unprecedented numbers, leaving the service woefully under-staffed.

A recent survey of all the country’s hospitals by an oversight authority found every single one of them under the minimum standard that they should maintain, with long waiting lists, people dying unattended in corridors and on floors, and staff-levels that are way too low.

Sure you could have a coffee in town during the pandemic in Sweden. But getting decent healthcare wasn’t (and still isn’t) an option.
Yes and no. It seems like employees are paying for the mistakes of the CEOs. Take Google- Pichai hired too many people, so he made some vague threat about underperformers knowing who they are and needing to resign, then announced layoffs.

So lack of profits might be snapping something back into focus, but I think we can safely say Pichai still has a direct line from his ass to his nose and an ego to match.
I used to have high expectations for podcasts and YT. Though I've come to appreciate having any content in niches that will never sustain full time production values. And even the quirky and awkward hosts have grown on me.

Think of it like replacing niche, once local-only radio programs. Those too aren't very high production because of resource and time constraints. It won't please everyone and doesn't have to.
Picolibc: C Libraries for Smaller Embedded Systems
What you describe is quite different: humans may well mislead themselves or others when there is a reason to do so. But most of the time, if there is no cost or benefit associated with an explanation, a human is fairly good (with great variability in both person and context) at assessing why they did something or said something, or why they reached a conclusion - and they can get better at doing so with practice.

The fact the brain reaches decisions before we are consciously aware of them does not mean the brain does not tag decisioms with motives and other information necessary to explain them, though obviously we have to trust this information, and it may sometimes be wrong, but it has a pretty good track record and there’s no equivalent facility for AI today.

This holds especially true for the kinds of actions taken by AI today which are usually deliberated thought processes for humans.

This isn’t the same thing is saying all actions are explainable, but it is quite different to being a black box. In general, one only needs to question the explanations of a person if there is a good objective reason to do so.

> It is well known with experimental evidence that when people justify their decisions with the reasoning leading to it, it does not necessarily have anything to do with the actual reasons for the decision

Out of interest, what’s the highest quality evidence you are aware of in this area?
The Hemingway Story You Didn't Know You Knew
In December 1922, a trunk filled with Hemingway's manuscripts disappeared en route from Paris to Lausanne, Switzerland. This is a story about the historic details Hemingway left out in "A Moveable Feast."
Keep in mind that "pieces" might not mean the same thing you think of it as meaning.
So -9 months old?
thanks i still hate it
Seemingly everywhere? When i search an existing podcast or even just a subject in my podcast app it typically suggests no less than 30 podcasts to me, most of which i have never heard of. I have found new ones that are quite good, as well as some stinkers and duds. Hard to believe it is that hard to find something vaguely interesting if you have used a modicum of effort.
indeed. Sundar has said that he takes responsibility for the mismanagement of the company's resources over the last few years, but it's not clear what that actually means.

I have some faith in Ruth Porat but they need a c-suite member who has an equivalent eye for product.
Indeed, you can see between 2011 and 2012 (for example) that Apple's PR site changed from calling it "Mac OS X" to simply calling it "OS X".

2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20111130104524/http://www.apple....

2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120222083925/http://www.apple....

Interestingly Lion was called "Mac OS X Lion" upon release[0], but then their website[1] called it "OS X Lion" predominantly.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Avail...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110705041542/http://www.apple....
So what you're saying is, they should have laid off Sting too.
>I'm looking to show HN my project next month and would love to know a good strategy to avoid the hug of death.

Cloudflare. There's no reason for a landing page to ever hit an app server.
I created http://www.bithacker.io during the pandemic. It’s a live interviewing platform but for RTL design candidates. It supports Verilog simulation with an interactive waveform viewer as well. We’re also working on enabling synthesis soon. So far we’re getting some early traction and excited to grow it more in 2023 :)
My favorite EVE Online issue isn't a RCE/CVE, but rather just a general fuckup, where they, in an update, accidentally deleted the Windows boot.ini file off people's computers, rendering them unable to boot. https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/about-the-boot.ini-issue
Only mistake was thinking here is different
And the rest of the world? And when extra energy is needed because of a cold/heat-wave, new project, or just an event in a forest?

These scenarios, both large and small, are covered currently by fossil fuels, and are not answered by permanent grid solutions like HVDC.

The generation price of solar energy is ~$0.02/kwh. Even with 33% overall efficiency hydrogen could be very competitive at $0.06/kwh electricity. , But overall efficiency is a red-herring. The important thing is COST. With solar, the cost of energy itself is the smallest part - providing it at the desired time and place are the more expensive parts.

Fossil fuels are very inefficient, yet for hundreds of years they have been a cheap option (and thus widespread). The same argument applies to hydrogen - if it's cheaper, in terms of money, time and pollution, efficiency doesn't matter a bit.
i think it's arrogant and selfish to assume that everybody has a stake in AI research. i want the license that the software i create (which has nothing to do with AI) to be obeyed.

anyways, there's a lot of ways that AI researchers could engage with IP owners to come up with a fair way to use their work, but nobody's making that effort. If my content is part of an AI's training set (and especially if that AI has a tendency to output excerpts of its own training set verbatim, as github's copilot has been shown to do) then it's not unreasonable to set terms and conditions, which could restrict how the content is used for training and what sort of compensation (if any) I deserve.

I'm of the opinion that it's time for new versions of GPL and CC licenses to be created which will enumerate how content can be used for AI training.
Amazon pulling out of downtown Seattle office tower near HQ
I didn't expect kindness in a comment to hit me as it did. Thank you.
As a thought that's an approximation of what we think we're experiencing as we express.
It would be intersting to see what the average value is for primate species. When a female is able to conceive does it happen asap?
Most podcasts I listen to these days consist of someone interviewing someone interesting. Since the supply of interesting people is limited, Pareto distributions start to dominate.
Methane is a greenhouse gas. It's more polluting than c02. Removing it from the environment is a good thing but creating more is not a good thing for global warming. I suspect for it to be an alternative to oil, an such, we would need to create it not just remove it from landfills.

Compressed natural gas is mostly methane but we are trying to move away from fossil fuels so it's not a long term solution.

Here's a link that gives some info on it:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gas-climatebox-explai...
The thing is, we weren’t really overflying in mammography for example. Completely different staff and don’t need beds. So it’s easy to separate the two in this case.

COVID protocols meant we were booking less to cleaning times (fair enough) but people were also too scared to come, and it seems we’ve forgotten how many people used to die before colonoscopies and screening mammograms.
Thank you.

If you need recursive/iterative queries then watch this space. That's ok the roadmap!
Unfortunately it is extremely hard to explain and for people to understand the way of Buddha...so easy to get mislead
The sun is apparently 4.6 billion years old, but the Milky Way is 3x that. Hominids for 6 million years? It’s not just about looking back in time, which our telescopes are pretty great at, but observing the place at the right slice of time which becomes much harder. We see proxima b as it was ~4 years ago. That star system might be 6 billion years old. What if their extinction event was 50 million years ago? Or 500 million? Or 3 billion?
This is correct, and yet Git is an embarrassment to our profession. That's how bad it is.
Agreed. Walking and listening to audio books and podcasts is magic. Great for the body and mind.
Ontario has had multiple waves of lockdowns and government restrictions on elective care. We also have been pushing the questionably evidence based COVID narrative way more than we have been reminding people to get strongly evidence based screening.
Unless you get yourself a “desktop” Ryzen that is just a rebranded APU with graphics parts shutoff, e.g Ryzen 5500.

Admittedly, AMD does list ECC as unsupported on that one, but most motherboard vendors will only warn you about APUs not supporting ECC RAM.
Do not do free work for "testimonials" rather do it for a discount. I do not give sh-t who it is, I am not devoting my time for free to anyone. Your sidekick should be ChatGPT or any AI assistance you can get your hands on (if you are starting solo) It will help you tremendously. Do not be scared to reach out to organization. Buy some add space on google and target regions. You are going to kill it. I believe in you (random internet stranger). Good luck.
I was like this until I found the NPR Planet Money podcast. I am not 100% sure why I found this so engaging but here are my guesses:

1. They cover a subject I was interested in (economics), but knew basically nothing about. This made it easier to listen to as I found I didn't space out when they were talking about things I already knew.
2. Nice, tight editing and good production. No hosts blathering on for hours - they keep it short and to the point. Most episodes are 20 minutes and easy to get through.
One question not asked is: how many podcasts can there be? If regular years recently have seen ~250K new podcasts, and 2020 saw a million, that means that there might be as many as 5 million podcasts created throughout history.

Do that many people have that much to say?

Or looking at it from the other side: are there that many people who listen to podcasts? If you take 500 listeners as a bound of "podcasts with such low listenership that they are at risk of ending" and suppose that the average person listens to 5 podcasts regularly, then you need 100 million podcast listeners just to sustain 1 million podcasts. Again, are that many people listening?

Slicing it yet another way, if the average podcast lasts for 3 years, then at present rates that means there are ~600K active podcasts at any one time.

There should obviously be a flow of old podcasts ending and new ones springing up to take their place. But it seems unlikely that 600K individual podcasts is sustainable.
And HackerNews broke my Custom Portfolio Analyzer module! LOL :) Fixing it.
Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
How does this work on a technical level? What stops an app bypassing the firewall?
Sorry, appeal to authority don't impress me. Science is science, and this is weak science. Feel free to suspend your own judgement based on brand values.
Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, is hard to parse because English is very expressive. And you kinda have to know words have different meaning in different context. If I explain buffalo is another word for bison, and also buffalo means coerce, I can rephrase this

Bison from Buffalo coerce other Bison from Buffalo.

Generally, making a language more expressive makes it harder to parse. You have to know a lot more stuff. Computer languages often have a formal spec. I think java does, but I don't think perl does. Regardless, you just have to remember that footnote on page 26 of the manual that the construct X is an option.

I haven't touched java in a while, but I do remember some difficulty with parent class constructors calling methods implemented in the children, that relied on member variables that hadn't been initialized yet. I wish I could point at a concrete example, but I think it was something deep in the heart of swing (part of the jre so not changeable).

I can't imagine a way this makes it easier to parse in my head as I'm reading through code, or communicate failure. but there probably are libraries that become more usable with this new syntax.

It sucks because you're guaranteed super is called, the parent class can implement stuff that _has_ to happen. there's no way for me to force a subclass to call, something like pleaseInitializeAfterSuper(). and there's no way for me to do anything before super, right now.

Regardless, there's no easy way out. Making the language more expressive is a damn big hammer to use though. you'd think you could use a builder to guarantee initialization, But sometimes you can't.

To answer your question, no. I don't think this makes it easy to communicate why a program was rejected. it makes more programs possible though. At the cost of having to remember that footnote on page 26.
Podcasts are not a good format for consuming serious information, at least in my experience. Neither are audiobooks. The problem with podcasts is they are light on real content and if it's on a technical topic and the format is having a guest be interviewed on it, the quality of information depends on the quality of questions and most people are not good at coming up interesting questions on unfamiliar topics on the spot. So you get very superficial questions and equally superficial answers. But podcasts are great for entertainment and zoning out. And for lonely people it's great to hear people talking. Darknet diaries is a good one though I don't listen consistently
There are u-pick orchards and farmers markets in California too.
One tip to speed up how you're finding the closest matches -- openai's embedding vectors are normalized and all fall upon a sphere. So, the cosine similarity is equal to the dot product. Might speed things up a bit to use only the dot product.
This is a post from Simon Wilson's blog. I suspect some meaning is lost on you since you are not familiar with Simon's past projects and the lack of any sort of introduction is jarring.

Reconsider this article as more of a brain dump that communicates what he is working on, than an article for the whole population.
Which can be promptly rehired for even less money? Or did they also froze hiring completely?
I just wrote a quick regex vba function when I was last in a job on Office.
My friend Jerry and I explored this topic in detail using Xerox PARC as an example [1]

I think Walter is right that spin-off is the right strategy, and (not very well known) Xerox actually did do that with a lot of PARC innovations. Just not with computers.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight
There's going to be a lot of surplus elites shaking their heads at low 6 figure offers from non-FAANGs. I'm guessing we'll see a ex-google/ex-Facebook multi-millionaire tech lead influencer boom on YouTube and Tiktok.
An essay without a thesis? The topic seems interesting, but I am not sure what the author wanted me to get out of this.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I installed the font, started the program, typed in:

2 ENTER
3 ENTER
+

and it spat out

6.0000

Have I misconfigured it somehow?

Similarly

2 ENTER
5 ENTER
+

spits out

10.0000
Wow, that looks less like a side project with such enterprise customers. What's the background to this, may I ask? Typically such tools tend to get built when faced with problems on the ground and tend to be specific to some niche. But as a side project, how do you know who your customers are, what they want and how they run their business?
To my understanding, if one mother birthed 3 children at ages 15, 20, and 25, then her age of conception would be 20. So it could be the case that women did become mothers in their teens if they also continued bearing children into their late 20s.
While I do think the hype is somewhat warranted, it's still ultimately hype. GPT is useful but not as revolutionary as people think.

Even as GPT continues to improve, mistakes will never be completely unavoidable. In fact, mistakes can be quite insidious because GPT is so often right, lulling users into a false sense of intelligence. (Especially the current iteration, which can be quite stubborn and confidently wrong even when confronted about mistakes, although this might improve in future models.)

I suspect that much like machines in the field of translation, GPT will help improve and speed up many processes, but still require human oversight.
That is not at all what Hollywood guilds are like, though.

As someone who lives in LA, and is very close with people who work in the industry, the unions should be held up as a model for high skilled labor. It’s also something tech and (and especially the gaming industry) can learn from

The WGA, for example, allows the lowest-rung writers of tv shows to make $70-80k/year as a minimum floor for 6-8 months of work, twice that if it’s the full year, and guarantees you healthcare for when you’re unemployed between shows/gigs.
That helps push up the wage ladder for everyone else, too— many established, but not famous, writers on regular shows that have decent size followings but are not phenomenons are able to earn $400/500k year base salaries this way, and provide a ladder to a really fortunate life for them and their families.

There’s many different guilds, from writing, to acting, to production, to lighting, to animation/vfx, to crew, to assistants, but they all more or less provide a baseline coverage to their members. IATSE, which is the guild that represents assistants and crew, went on strike last year and secured a minimum $25/hr wage and mandatory breaks last year.

The guilds explicitly foster creativity, because it allows even entry-level members to jump from company to company and project to project without worrying about day-to-day logistics.

Imagine if software engineers could hop from project to project at different companies working on just things they were interested in?
I've used both but only in a fairly limited capacity, and they both seemed easy enough to me.
I haven't looked to see if Rails has something similar but Django has an out of the box admin system that allows you to do CRUD stuff for database entries behind the scenes which is great, because it's one less thing I need to build myself.
> automoderators, slur filters, or recommendation algorithms

These are nothing if not editorial decisions
I mean, the fact that Bret Victor has himself been working on the problem for ten years
(without popular success, yet) should count as an attempt at reifying his vision. I would guess that lack of attempts isn't the problem.

Reactivity has certainly become more popular, and is a standard part of web development now. And ipywidgets are an example of creating manipulatable abstractions in data science.
On a more personal note, how much money did you save to feel comfortable doing this?
Apply the "How to remedy" steps where you see the ceremony going too far?
Having used both, and having developed on both I agree. Also Hazeltines, and Heathkits HAD cursors, but the computers they were hooked to, did not have the ram to support it, in basic. VI was just around the corner, but for UNIX.
Also, and I'm not sure if I remember that correctly, I think during "Mac OS X" times they said it is pronounced as "mac OS ten", because X is the roman numeral for 10.

Wikipedia has references about it where Apple themselves even back then used either pronunciation, though. Also a reference that says while it stands for 10 it also references the X commonly found in many Unix things because of the Unix roots of Mac OS X.
If I understand the method correctly, they are actually determining the age that the sample's parents generated dna material that went on to create them.

So everyone who has a parent is included - which is everyone who ever lived.
Adding more IRs isn't necessarily a problem. Clang goes through AST -> LLVM IR -> SelectionDAG -> MachineInstr -> assembly already.
I suppose but it's a scientific community. @briffle commented they had a small nuclear reactor in the 1960's. @l- commented geothermal is no longer banned. If a 1000 strong group of hardy scientists surviving at Antarctica need diesel fuel to provide heating and power then is there realistic hope of human exploration of other planets any time in the near future?
I don't know if any science that takes this as a tenet. In fact, since our population is growing so much, it's likely that the rate of human evolution has accelerated quite a bit.
isn't "evaluating sources" the exact problem of web search that Google has been throwing billions of dollars at for many years, with an equivalently dedicated and motivated horde of SEO specialists on the other side? How is chatgpt going to easily solve that overnight?