skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet they're arguing with themselves.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/further

"Farther and further have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history,"

"""
A polarizing process appears to be taking place in their adjective use. Farther is taking over the meaning of distance
the farther shore

and further the meaning of addition.
needed no further invitation
"""

That, of course, means all of this is new and in no way "correct" by any current modern standard. It's just something quasi-literate internauts like to quip in the comments. Oh, and university style guide authors and editors who consider themselves authoritative, but to whom no-one except community college English teachers defer.

Maybe I'm a little bit of a linguistic anarchist, I don't know.
Netcast seems appropriate
>The crypto scammer paid a huge bail and got out on his private jet.

Locally, it's a somewhat significant problem that people are getting caught for violent crimes and getting released immediately and reoffending.
It's great that Mexico is stepping up and protect the atmosphere, which indeed impacts not just Mexico but everybody, but you're absolutely right that international waters are still a massive loophole in the laws of the world. Almost anything goes, there. Many ships still burn incredibly dirty fuel in international waters, simply because they can and it's cheaper. We really need better international regulation of these sort of commons.
Abstract:

Benchmark datasets play a central role in the organization of machine learning research. They coordinate researchers around shared research problems and serve as a measure of progress towards shared goals. Despite the foundational role of benchmarking practices in this field, relatively little attention has been paid to the dynamics of benchmark dataset use and reuse, within or across machine learning subcommunities.

In this paper, we dig into these dynamics. We study how dataset usage patterns differ across machine learning subcommunities and across time from 2015-2020. We find increasing concentration on fewer and fewer datasets within task communities, significant adoption of datasets from other tasks, and concentration across the field on datasets that have been introduced by researchers situated within a small number of elite institutions.

Our results have implications for scientific evaluation, AI ethics, and equity/access within the field.
> the fact that if AI starts to consume the low-end (starting with traffic tickets), actual lawyers for trials will become even more expensive

That should only happen if lawyers become very niche or if those low end cases are subsidizing trials.

I doubt the former, and the latter means the situation is already bad and mainly just the type of unfairness would change.
My favorite Nostr client (web or non-web) is Damus for iOS by jb55:

https://damus.io

It looks great, works well, the code well-written and super easy to hack on.
I've been to prague every few years for decades now, and the whole city center has become just a giant tourist trap. Sadly the same is happening to many other old european capitals to the point where they all look and feel the same... some old buildings, a river and tourist traps and scams.
I would love for the hacker crowd to start looking into repurposing old scanner technology.

I am waiting EAGERLY for the first open source scanner made for negatives. It's so sorely missed, and so far i'm on my third flatbed and not happy at all. It's silly when the line-scanner is the same for all of them more or less.

Someone should really do a reverse engineering on some of it.
The Other Cleopatra
The problem is that ChatGPT makes up convincing sounding case law, reference court rules that either don't exist or don't say what the summary says, reference the same issues with legislation, and do so with 100% confidence of the truth of these statements. ChatGPT is good for discovering potential arguments, and summarizing existing ones, but it's not there yet for the fidelity necessary for legal practice.

It's not all gloom. ChatGPT is pretty decent at writing pleadings and legal argument when you feed it the necessary bits though.
Yes, weather (and climate more generally) is not a static phenomenon, it never has been one. "More intense" compared to what? To the last 100 years? (meaning the period for which they have accurate meteorological data) Who says the last 100 years were the norm?
Then how about using the pulses of a distant pulsar to measure time? That should get us through to the next few centuries at least.

The fine article mentions that Lunar atomic clocks could be placed in Lunar orbit. However, there are very few stable lunar orbits due to the numerous mascons near the surface. And station-keeping would affect the clocks' accuracy - not to mention that the tidal variations on the Earth side and far side will affect the clocks as well.

And any Lunar-specific solution would be unlikely to scale to Mars, Mars' moons, asteroids, and interplanetary spacecraft. Thus reinforcing the distant pulsars' signal as the optimum solution for the time being that humans remain in the solar system.
Interestingly, PHP's PSR family specifically does _not_ take a stance on naming conventions for locally-scoped variables.
>I don’t think we should be messing around with the earth until we can actually say that all parties are working towards the same thing.

"Unattainable perfection of human nature must be achieved before we can even try fixing something."

Xkcd already debunked this type of argument.

https://xkcd.com/1232/
If I live in the country for 10 years, then it is my country too. Perhaps it is in my interest to learn the language, and perhaps it isn't. There are plenty of countries in the world where people get by perfectly fine without even having a unifying language.

Do you guys know how every language came to be? It was through the interaction of people from different cultures, and it is an ongoing process. Germany was not even a country not so long ago. I reject the normative notion that learning a language is central to being a positive member of a community.
Is there any survival bias here?

I don't want to be too presumptuous here but my understanding is there are a lot of desperate broke African immigrants finding their way into Italy.

In such a situation you would be forced to rapidly acquire the language to survive, move on somewhere else, or possibly resort to crime because you are unable to communicate to secure a job (which <should> rapidly leads to expulsion from the country). Bad learners get tossed into the last 2 bins, and thus unseen.

Comparatively if white American hacker guy shows up flush with tech cash there's really not much chance I'm going to find myself on police radar or starve not learning the language, even if I'm there for an extended period and even if there illegally.
Its too bad they didn’t have a competent AI lawyer they could hace used to review their plan for gaping holes like violating the state unauthorized practice of law statute and local courtroom rules.

If they had, they could have saved thrmselves a lot of trouble, or designed a less-illegal publicity stunt.
Except this aint it.

"The person challenging a speeding ticket would wear smart glasses that both record court proceedings and dictate responses into the defendant's ear from a small speaker. The system relied on a few leading AI text generators, including ChatGPT and DaVinci."

I.e its equivalent of a person effectively studying the actual law and then representing themselves in court, just in a more optimal manner.

Even if it fails, it was supposed to be something trivial like a speeding ticket, because after all, this is a test.

And funny enough, the answer of will it work has already been answered. If law firms believed it was bullshit, they would just put a very good attorney on that case and disprove it. Barring it from entry with threat of jailtime pretty much proves that they are full of shit and they know it.
Yes but if this were legal, it would set a precedent, and soon these companies would be trying to use it in divorce cases and eventually criminal law.

Money only stops when forced to by regulators.
Being an Introverted Leader
I will start with some (overly simplified) concepts because people sometimes mix shyness and introversion.

Shy: A shy person is frightened of public exposure. There is a component of fear involved. They don't necessarily want or like to be alone. Being shy, so they say (at least my therapist does), is something you can change

Introvert: Introverted people get drained after spending much time with others. They usually enjoy other people a lot but also love and need time alone after many interactions. I will reinforce: they need some time alone to recharge

Extroverts: On the other hand, lack of social interaction may make extroverts feel depleted and fatigued

To end this short concept alignment, not all introverted people are shy, and not all shy people are introverted. And to be clear, an extrovert can be shy.

I am shy and introverted at high levels. The way I cope with each of those characteristics is very different. This text from now on is about learning to be an introverted leader.
Which part? The caveat?
This is bad. This feels like something that could be used as a pumped up Cambridge analytics scheme.
> I don't see the problem as long as the actual lawyer can intervene when necessary.

I don't believe there was an actual lawyer here:

> The person challenging a speeding ticket would wear smart glasses that both record court proceedings and dictate responses into the defendant's ear from a small speaker.
It does indeed.

It's now cold in Kiev and the sound of russian missile explosion just an hour ago was the loudest I've heard so far despite not being outside.
Previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158033
Do you have any reference for this ? The article says nothing about that.
It says that sound travels further in a channel of cold air between warmer air and ground (it could be water even better).

I think it's the opposite: in lower temperature the air density is bigger and it's mass so energy to move the same mass shall exhaust (heat) at shorter distance..
Is this using chatGPT or gpt3 though? There's a big difference, a fine-tuned llm can do leaps and bounds better than chatGPT.

I'm thinking a good SaaS might just be train localized llm's for every city, state, county law and partition the lm based on where it can seek info, then just use it as one big search engine, and of course work in citations, etc.
Unless state boundaries suddenly become convex it's definitely impossible. Ignoring state boundaries you have the issue that you need approximately equal numbers of population. It's possible that you can still tile the plane with convex shapes, but I'm not quite sure how to approach a proof (or disproof).
Biotech CEO pays $2  million a year to decrease age by 5 years
Or perhaps engaging with this topic so practically - understanding their native language's counting system and then devising a notation - sparked an interest in what is often perceived as a useless and boring topic.

I had a few "ooh, this is not only useful, but intellectually fun" experiences with math in school. Positional number systems was one of them. Distinct aha moment. So much of what had not made sense before suddenly did, including why we had just spent weeks on logarithms. Without at least a few experiences like that, I am sure I would have been even more tuned out in class, destined to hate math for life. I found the way it was taught most of the time to be a form of low-grade torture.
Nice, does it support JSON/JSONB fields for psql?

Edit after RTFM: it apparently does. https://rest-go.com/docs/guides/api#query-json-columns
This whole "build in the open" stuff has gone too far.
Real lawyers can do these things too.

The issue is that we cannot punish or disbar ChatGPT for misbehavior like this.
I suggest that we should use a universal date system, and a local clock system simultaneously. The computers can change between them. Other solutions (using a universal time for local things, or using local time but adding leap microseconds here and there) all seem bad to me.
This is just positivity insane :)
My wife and I lived almost eight years in Belgium. I learned enough French that I could get in trouble with cab drivers. And trust me, I really tried. But French is a language that just goes in one ear and out the other for me. Unlike Spanish or Italian.

My wife learned enough business French that she was able to survive, but never became fluent.

There are just some people who cannot learn the local language, no matter how hard you may want to force them to do so or how long they've been living in that country. And I think it's a huge mistake to try to force them, or to judge them poorly for being unable to warp their mind around something that is a fundamentally alien concept for them.
But you don't need a lot more than those absolute basics to do day-to-day stuff in that foreign countries, and i despise people who cannot even learn that despite living there for years. If someone lived there for 5, 10, ... years, and cannot order beer, ask for a bag in a store or buy a bus ticket in the native language, that seems really disrespectful to the locals, who are expected to know and use a foreign language all the time to deal with them.
Vietnam and Korea have mostly dispensed with Chinese characters and are doing fine
Yes and then maybe expats will go contribute their skills elsewhere, in a clear loss to the arrogant locals who think speaking language X is more important than living peacefully and contributing to the social welfare that depends on a young workforce that Europe can no longer produce.
Sorry, but I'm not willing to discuss if "the last 100 years were the norm" for climate-wise.
Moving towards pluralism would be the number one way in which the US could rejuvenate their democracy.
If nations don't have national sovereignty over their slice of the atmosphere, then are we saying all air pollution is an international crime?

[For clarity I don't particularly disagree with this stance, but my mostly-overlooked point is that:]

If people really think this, why is it that (on HN in particular) we overwhelmingly hear this point made in the context of geoengineering, and not for regular old pollution? Isn't that a double standard?

The general debate has become extremely irrational, to the point that your intent is all that matters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34529944
Locally Adapted Projections to Reduce Panorama Distortions (2009)
Your kid's printer dilemma isn't the same. For starters, he knew it ran out of paper - he identified the problem. The AI robot might conclude the printer is broken. It would give up without anxiety, declaring "I have no data about this printer".

Your kid got angry, which is fuel for human scrutiny and problem solving. If you weren't there to guide him, he would have tried different approaches and most likely worked it out.

For you to say your kid is exactly the same as data-driven AI is perplexing to me. Humans don't need to have hidden in a box themselves to understand "hiding in things for the purposes of play". Whether it's a box, or special one of a kind plastic tub, humans don't need training about hiding in plastic tubs. AI needs to be told that plastic tubs might be something people hide in.
Thank you for this post.

I’m helping my dad with a SciTex scanner – I think it’s a SciTex EverSmart Supreme? It’s a similar proposition in many ways as far as I know. High-end professional equipment from the golden age of digital prepress. Firewire is involved. Will essentially only run on old Macs. With the SciTex scanners I believe a PowerPC Mac is a requirement in practice.

From reading the post, the biggest issue with these Hasselblad scanners is of course the scanner mainboard, and I assume the same is true of the Scitexes.

A smaller problem is needing to have old Macs around. Regarding that, I am now curious if SCSI/Firewire controller passthrough into a VM can help. In the same way that recent PC hardware can pass a PCI-Express GPU into a virtualized macOS guest. MacOS VMs in qemu-kvm on recent Linux kernels running on IOMMU-enabled hardware affords a lot of control and compatibility – the guest OS gets direct control of a physical PCI-Express device, and it works.

Doesn’t solve the mainboard problem on the Hasselblad side of course. And doesn’t completely solve the old-mac-hardware problem on the other side either. But it might reduce the hardware dependency on the Mac side into just a SCSI or Firewire controller card instead of a whole old Mac.

Have you had the chance to look into this side of it enough to give any hints about it?

And/or can I be useful in any way? Have set up macOS VMs with physical GPU passthrough and have working prepress experience with Macs ranging back to a Macintosh Plus :)

The post as it is is already immensely valuable insight into the whole ancient-prehistoric-digital-prepress world my father and I sometimes burrow a little into – many thanks!
That's not a "debunking". That's just people having different priorities, some want to work towards sustaining humanity on Earth right now, and some don't want to solve problems on Earth and are just excited with the next new thing. Maybe the latter are firmly believing that they are doing something beneficial for humanity, and that's OK. I don't believe so, but I don't claim to be right, and so should you.
Is the need to use an expert the issue or rather the price point? Why would it be wrong to avail yourself of someone else's expertise (and people use lawyers in non-case law jurisdictions, too)?

Not sure anyone really would want to operate on themselves (because the need for a surgeon in an important event in their life is somehow "wrong").
Isn't that kind of SO2 release the cause of acid rain? Because that's not good.

If we're going to release those millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere anyway, maybe it makes sense to release it into the stratosphere instead, to duplicate the cooling effect of the volcano. Although that's not so easily done.

Also, apart from a cooling effect, what other effects did that volcanic release of SO2 have?
If pumping SO2 into the atmosphere becomes profitable via cooling offsets, we might struggle to get people to stop doing it.

Industrial scale CO2 and SO2 production might be how you get to Venus.
Asteroid to pass closer than some satellites
It is not just about AppStore fees but also about the fact that you are forbidden to use any other store to buy/download apps from and you are forbidden use any 3rd-partty payment processor for payments inside your app. They force you to use their systems with 30% cut. That feels anti-competitive quite a lot!
I see that as a tool, I'm not sure why it's presented as "AI being the lawyer".

You're allowed to represent yourself in court, most of the time (and for parking ticket I'm pretty sure) you have no obligation to have a lawyer. Now if you want to pay for a tool that helps you represent yourself better, why not?
Some of the problems with ChatGPT are not mere “gotcha”s but rather problems inherent to how LLMs work and their philosophy. The biggest issue I’ve seen some other scientists [1] who don’t have a stake in OpenAI bring up is that: “LLMs make sh*t up”.

Maybe LLMs are not the final answer. For now, it looks like they are not.

[1] Yann LeCun: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1617254676428111872?s=46&t...
Unpaid traffic tickets are probably many people's gateway to their first arrest warrant. Then once in the system it is hard to escape. It is a real thing.

https://brunolaw.com/resources/general-criminal-law/what-to-...

Then once this process starts you automatically get

* Suspended driver’s license
* Ineligible to renew your driver’s license
* Ineligible to register your vehicle
* Vehicle being towed and impounded
* Increased insurance premiums

Interactions with the state are serious business
Why is it a problem?

Do they get bail a second time?

Do you think they wouldn't reoffend if they weren't released until after they are punished?

If they do two crimes and get two sentences, does it matter if that's AABB or ABAB?
It's perfectly in line with my position the whole discussion. Laws are arbitrary. Mexico is a soverign country and have the right to have whatever laws they want.
Every time I see this "traffic ticket" thing, it usually looks like

1) The driver was actually speeding

and

2) The driver is trying to get off on a technicality

Is that the case?

In the US do you get "points" on your driving license so that if you are caught speeding several times in the space of a couple of years you get banned?

In the UK being caught mildly speeding (say doing 60 in a 50), in the course of 3 years it's typically

1st time: 3 hour course and £100

2nd, 3rd, 4th time: 3 points and £100

5th time: Driving ban and £100 (or more)
Is this the future OSS enthusiasts want?! * shakes fist *
I meant real software. Not web anything.
Yeah, sure, you're able to get by without learning anything in some places... but you are a foreigner who came to their country, and instead of you adapting to the local culture (..well language), you expect literally everyone around you to adapt to your culture (..language) and use a non-native language to interact with you.

Imagine a brit going to france, driving his car on the "wrong" side of the road and saying "it doesn't matter, people just drive around me, it's not an issue".
This. If an individual's mistake can take out your business you have a process control problem and that is owned by management.
The Ai robot lost the argument to be permitted to argue in court.
You're coping. It wasn't "my first thought". I read the whole article and came away thinking "pretty sad and strange man". You can't take it with you, and his solution is apparently to try and escape death. It's sad. I don't find many very very rich people sad, but I do find this one to be.
> Ask any multilingual person and they'll tell you their personality changes from language to language.

I disagree with this, I'm same person whether I communicate in English or my mother tongue, you could ask what people speaking English think of me, people speaking my mother tongue think of me and you would get pretty consistent decription.

> if they don't learn A they'll never be able to fully culturally connect with country A either.

I'm fine with that since A) they are not living there anyway, B) language of country B is actually very similar to country A, so much that people from these countries can talk to each other in their own local languages, C) I don't have really high opinion about culture of any of these countries or some "country culture" per se.

I am beyond some stupid lines on map or languages, although it may be difficult to comprehend for children when their school books are intended for kids born here, so they read there nonsense such as "Our mother country is A" and I have to correct it at home, that this is not our mother country, this is country where we live.

As mixed race/country kids living in country of neither of their parents it will be a bit confusing, but not necessarily bad, at least they won't be tied by concept of single home and some single country, which I find limiting when I look at others being proud about country they were born in as if it were some of their accomplishments. I have same attitude about people being happy about some athlete from same country winning some medal as if country had anything to do with that, great for the athlete, but it has nothing to do with you.
I mean, not even a bad idea. I would honestly prefer operators to be more explicit like a-variableanother-varsomething-else. (EDIT: HN removed my emojis, but imagine a plus/minus emoji inbetween ids :( )

With a good font it would basically look similar to what a good IDE with syntax highlighting already does (different color for operators).