skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lawyers in Germany are cheap (compared to US lawyers). Normally they charge a percentage of the value of stake which is quite small since its regulated by the law and not negotiated.
Also, in Germany, loser pays all, i.e. own lawyer, court costs, your lawyer.
> In the US it is an arrestable offense for your kids to go play in the park on their own

No, that is definitely just an urban legend. First, the law would depend on the state, and second, most states don’t have restrictions for kids once they are 7-8 years old, which I consider way too young to be by themselves but I wouldn’t get arrested over it.
i do remember from back then. many games came with fun packaging/etc. DRM, I remember. Infocom games - early iterations had great packaging.

This SimEarth manual is just on a different level, imo. Perhaps SimCity had something similar - I would see copies of it around school, but never saw a manual for it.

I do remember some 'larger' games. Populous was one... that was rather complex, and had a 'tutorial' IIRC, but no manual anywhere near the size of that SimEarth one.
I suggest thinking more about it. What would you do if anything you wanted you could effortlessly and instantly have?

It'd be hell.
> When it comes to things like FLoC (now Topics) [1] the privacy implications of having an agile standards board are more important than ever, and may actually have significant impacts on people's physical safety.

This sounds like needless fear-mongering. Is there anything to backup any concerns about people's physical safety?
Couldn't it just use conversation history, where it already stores the responses, and search within that?
Yeah it’s useless currently and will become more useless quickly, because people will scramble AI generated text, mix in human edits and people who use AI generators a lot will mimic their writing style. In short, the SNR will be abysmal outside of controlled environments.

Im pretty sure the smart people at OpenAI know this. I think this is a PR move signaling that they are “doing something”, looking concerned, yet insisting that everything is under control. In reality, nobody can predict the societal rift that this will cause, so this corporate playbook messaging is dishonest in spirit and muddies the waters. This is bad, both long term for OpenAI’s trust, but also because muddy waters makes it harder to have fruitful discussions about safeguards in commercial deployments of this tech.

That said, they’re incorrectly getting blamed for controlling the use of this tech, they’re no more than a prolific and representative champion of it. But the cat is out of the bag, and they absolutely cannot stop this train, and so they shouldn’t be blamed for not trying.
Interesting. The current administration is proud of its low unemployment numbers while pulling this move.

The hypocrisy writes itself, hehe.
> Well it's been like this since the dawn of humanity.

I mean - hunter gatherer societies usually had all their food gathering and chores done in just a few hours a day. Spending the rest of their time doing all those things humans like to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Social_and_eco...

We could probably figure out how to remove inefficiencies from the markets and have 20 hour workweeks, if enough of us wanted to.
Everyone, upon entering the workforce, should be required to read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” before they start at any job.
It's not trading
We aren't going to force anyone to sell their property. But realistically, Atherton has many property owners (including many that are far less rich than the ones you mentioned). The chance that none of them ever agree to sell is zero.
Regarding cipher problems, it's easy to load or build PuTTY on most platforms, up to the 0.76 release when it ditched autoconf. At a minimum, it will build psftp, pscp and plink. These are handy on an older server.

The tinysshd server also has rigorous security, and can be compiled on older systems. One problem with it is that root cannot be locked out.

There is a legacy page maintained by OpenSSH, with guidance on a few deprecated features:

https://www.openssh.com/legacy.html

And nobody should ever be using protocol 1, as it's been completely compromised. If absolutely necessary, then isolate it as much as possible.
I think what’s being observed here is a sort of whiplash, not dissimilar to how a teenager whose upbringing has been extremely restrictive will likely go hog wild the second they’re no longer subject to their parents’ rules.

If one were born into a Star Trek utopia and never had most of their spark of creativity/curiosity extinguished by a school system designed to pump out worker drones and never had the majority of their waking hours sold off just to exist, I believe they’d be a lot less likely to be a couch potato. There’s no reason the go nuts with burning personal time with “junk food” recreation when personal time has never been at a shortage.
Microsoft 365 Licensing
> The issue is when JSON has to be parsed on the server using Java/C#. How do you know whether to parse it as a Dog or as a Cat (both of which inherits from Animal)?

I mean how MS does it, yeah, you have a tagged union, look at the tag to determine what it is.

Heck even networking packets work this way, UDP or TCP, look at the Protocol Field on the IP packet to see which it is.
Since the dawn of Agrarian society anyways.
...or don't have time
ObXkcd: 386

"Debate" and "listen" are not the only two options.

Debate, specifically, comes from a mode of communication called rhetoric, or persuasive argument.

There are other forms of communicating, including simply narrating or relating an event or position, entertainment, and others, one of which is dialectic.

As I've commented a few times over the years here, confusing dilectic and rhetorical conversation is one of the oldest confounding points of conversations in the book --- it's what Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote on at length (particularly Plato railing against the Sophists, that is, rhetoriticians, and Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations, a/k/a "bullshit arguments that must die" to put a contemporary spin on it.

Derek's entire premise strikes me as ... extraordinarily blinkered here. If you find you want to impart your own wisdom, it's possible to do so other than through raw debate. In particular, the mode of simple discussion or Socratic Method, in which you ask questions which (might) lead your interlocutor to reach the conclusion you're suggesting on their own seems especially valid.

"Had you considered X" or "How would you address Y" being possible entry points for that.
That's one of the reasons I like my low level system programming job (maybe you could call it "embedded"). Of course it has problems of its own, but this particular area is at least a little bit better.
Is AM a genre of radio or a transmission method, or both?

This kitchen radio is common too in the UK but the radio would be FM at the least, more likely DAB these days. BBC Radio 4 or '5 Live' nationally and the BBC have dozens of local radio stations all over the country. All talk, no music.
> that’s perhaps because they retired when they simply could not continue working.

Odd how that magically coincides with turning 65.
It's also entirely possible to just do things you enjoy and not die, too.
You are doing it correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union
Exactly IMHO it is irresponsible to release such classifier with a title that touts the desired feature and totally do not spell its limitations. At least precede such title with experimental or something.
Tests can show what code is expected to do from the point of view of the tests author. They usually have no information why code works this way. Also I've seen more than a few times tests which ossify wrong behavior. Tests need comments too.
You can get all the necessary log probabilities from the GPT-3 API.
Intermediate Points on a Great Circle
That is surprisingly close to what I used as a good-enough error in fallback route estimator in our TSP/VRP solver. I came up with that essentially by curve-fitting great-circle WGS84 distances and really traveled distances between my favorite pubs and it seems to work (bear in mind that it is the last fallback and there is A* on map data and ML-ish thing before that)
I'd rather try to empower students to use ChatGPT as a tool or incorporate it into class work than worry about cheating. This is a pretty unique time for teachers to step up and give their students a nice edge in life by teaching them how to become early adopters for these kinds of things.
Are they linking to any images on your site? Ones you can change?
For sure, advanced driver safety systems can become a crutch. I don’t think driving a Tesla has made me a worse driver… but I am very aware of the lack of 360 cameras and collision avoidance when I drive a different car. Back to the OP though, I’m glad that the DOJ keeps Tesla on their toes. Just hope they don’t stifle innovation. I feel much safer in the Tesla than I do in other (even more expensive/luxury) cars.
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf
Hilarious. Yeah, it definitely inferred the wrong thing there. I checked the original code, there is no length define at all. Thus it just inferred the wrong thing.
Show HN: LidLayer – Preserving Laptop Stickers on MacBooks
I tried having jobs that I was interested in when I was young, but making it my job made me hate it. So I've spent the last 20 years working in IT because I dislike computers, and always have, except a few years when I was 13-15. There is no loss if working makes me hate something I already dislike--but if it was something I love, and work made me hate it, then it would be tragic.

The point (for me) is its the moment you make it a job, it becomes drudgery. so the "job" part is what I would need to avoid.
$5 is way too high of a price to use regularly. In any case, if it's only available to education institutions, teachers and grad students are poor enough to sell access to it to people on the dark web for the right price.
To be honest, I just went for a small business subscription of Office 365 for personal use, which also gives you mail with a custom domain. SharePoint is decent enough when accessed from the mobile OneDrive App and offers out of the box indexing + OCR of images and pdfs. Also their document scanner is good enough to quickly get rid of all paper coming in...
Declassified nuclear test videos are utterly mesmerizing, terrifying (2017)
> Where should I live?

If you just want less human noise, somewhere with a large lot. On my 9 acre lot I can still hear human noise, but usually only big things, which tends to be daytime, and not a lot of it. Oh, and backyard roosters; they're everywhere around here, but only noisy when the sun is up. Vehicle noises carry a long way when people have more horsepower than brains, though; gunshots and fireworks too. Not sure how to avoid those noises. I don't get a lot of artificial light from the neighbors, but there's some; more forest or a larger lot would help.

On the other hand, there's a lot of noise from local wildlife, and wind and rain and hail and other natural phenomenon that creates noise. And sometimes the moon is pretty bright at night. I guess you could live somewhere with caves and avoid some of that, but critters are everywhere.
So Powell’s theory is: if we can limit the middle class’s purchasing power by restricting extreme wage growth, the price of consumer goods will eventually plateau or only increase at a fixed 2%.

Otherwise, if wages are allowed to increase at the actual inflation rate or higher (10%+) from a competitive job market, the price of goods will continue to increase without any levers for the Fed to stop it.
I'm glad that's the case for you. I also am aiming for that.

But we also have to acknowledge that simply is not true for a sizeable portion of the population.
Article makes one error that is mostly correct but can trip someone up in corner cases. In section 2.5, article makes the assertion `(the τ e) ≈ (or (check-type e τ) e)`

This may be true in some implementations, but the actual defintion of the `(the)` special operator is that if e is not type τ, the behavior of `(the τ e)` is undefined! Crashing when the type is determined to mismatch is one allowed result, but `the` is also the language's "escape hatch" to permit implementations to improve performance by throwing away runtime type information, at which point abusing types will crash in surprising ways.
There's also Mayan EDMS [1]. I have no experience with it, but looks sensible from the outside.

[1] https://www.mayan-edms.com/
Flagged.

"The Daily Sceptic is a blog created by British journalist Toby Young. It has published misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and climate change denial."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Sceptic

In addition, the cited professor seems to work in data science, not in medicine - so he's not exactly what I would call an expert in mRNA vaccines.
The northeast of India still has a population replacement level above 2.1, due to highly fertile land there. So at least in that area, the population is still growing while the rest is shrinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-OI7HcCeU
And the Tories have done nothing to turn the ship around after being power more than a decade.

Under Tory management the decline continues.

The malaise in UK goes much deeper than tweedle dumb and tweedle dee political parties.
How is there an entire lengthy page discussing it that doesn’t provide any screenshots?
To me there are two cases (and I could be wrong I'm only recently reading up on Category Theory and I'm not nearly as versed as I should be in PL theory). One for generics whether you generate different copies for each type (monomorphization I believe?) and other cases where that doesn't necessarily make sense, although maybe you could just use generics to handle the problem in question. Hm.

I have to say I'm glad I started this thread because your reply and others have given me a lot to chew on.
Google is the new Xerox - tons of cool tech that nobody gets to see besides white papers and articles. And the only real product that makes money is the search engine that may get disrupted very soon by newcomers using tech based on Google's own research.
> But a fundamental issue is

Is it? Is it really though?
NoSQL: The Baby and the Bathwater
> What is a programming language for at this point?... AI could just flip the bits in theory and write machine code.

I think the wrong question is being asked. Instead of asking "how will a programming language apply," the question should be "how many layers of abstraction are tolerated?"

The amount of abstraction is a kind of cost-benefit analysis. In one scenario, it may be more attractive to forego tooling at a more abstract layer, in favor of using under-girding tooling at a less abstract layer. For example, if a software dev is two or more layers deep in plugins/frameworks/libraries and realizes that working with the stdlib would actually take less time. Or, in your scenario, a company using an AI system to write high-level scripts realizes that working with the high-level scripts directly would actually take less time.

However in another scenario a software dev may realize that abstraction tooling actually saves time versus working "close to the metal." Or, in your scenario, a company may realize that an AI system actually saves time versus having a human write out boilerplate.

> Will a code-writing AI in 2070 be writing assembly...
If we're looking into crystal balls for the answer, mine says ~ 50 years is long enough time for drastic changes that don't fit into this conversation at all. But ignoring all that for a minute, the cost-benefit analysis indicates to me that there is plenty of room for bounces and whiplashes. Meaning, a period of lots of AI abstraction, followed by a period of abstraction consolidation/standardization and death.
As an American, the "down" slang sound weird.

The most I've heard in the wild is a short "I'm down.", you wouldn't say "I'm up." (unless you're saying you woke up, or you're high, or your gambling is going well)

Other than that, your versions are more common in the US as well, from my experience.

edit: Thinking more on it... "I'm up for that" would be used if you were slightly hesitant. "I'm down for that" implies a lot more confidence.
Sounds like Mitchel got distracted. I get it, internal company wiki entropy is a hard problem.
I understand the point of these laws to be that cities were given the opportunity to have "increased density without high rise developments," the cities failed to use those opportunities, and so now that control is being taken away and the cities are being forced to accept whatever is sent their way.
I'm curious, how are you defining amounts that were below thresholds of caring and what scientific basis you have for the selection of those thresholds. Per the mesothelioma folks "no amount of asbestos exposure is considered safe" https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/

It's a statistical thing. It's not like they test every single package of talc that goes out. The fact that asbestos is present in some samples means that asbestos is present in the rock formations from which the talc is mined. That means that one day the mining equipment could scoop up 99.9999% talc and a tiny amount of asbestos and package it. The next day the mining machines could hit a big vein of asbestos and the talc packages going out that day could be a very high percentage. It's random, only having to do with the geology of the area of the earth they were digging up that day. With no testing, with no process control this is certain to have happened.
Why do this on the client? Why not pass it to the server and run it on Python there?
Odd indeed, almost like they needed the money of a full retirement.
> This theory is a false god, because employers do not care how long or hard you work, they only care about the value produced.

But they don't pay for "value produced" either and instead pocket as much of the surplus value as possible. The game is rigged.
A cryptographic hash function on stochastically generated variable-length natural language? That sounds.. not very effective.
a lot of the skills that one needs for a job that we're arguing is beyond the AIs, like software architect or writing anything with real thought in it, implies that we humans are smarter and we can just do the more interesting writing. How does one become a good writer? By writing a lot of stuff at a lower level. I am concerned that by putting all of the grunt work on the AIs will remove the training opportunities that the humans need to actually do the higher level stuff. Removing a few rungs at the bottom of the ladder of becoming better at your career.

I became concerned at this after reading an article a while back that talked about how some sports writing has been automated for years (how hard is it to write that this team won, the other lost and the score was blah) but that work was needed for writers to get to the next level.

A similar thing could be said about technical support folks. The AI can handle the easy ones, but without the easy ones, how do we bring up a new tech to level 2 if level 1 doesnt exist any more? Also, there are a lot more level 1 techs than level 2.
> That said I think many agree that the old "why should I do anything when all these people are flying .." is a tedious lazy arguement.

It's not an argument against doing anything - we should definitely take action, but that's just not going to happen on a meaningful scale until it's too late. And that's because it's next to impossible to persuade people to make sacrifices when the person(s) asking/telling are themselves unwilling to make said sacrifices.
I they need them always on so that they can gather up data from Amazon smart TVs that were never connected to the internet (project Sidewalk).
It’s tractable, sure, but it doesn’t solve the inherent problem of human nature and tribal dynamics.

Put an impartial AI in charge and it will make the right decisions — and people will riot over the injustice. Ultimately, you’d have to go machine the whole way and the humans can all go bake bread and have wars over that or something.
If you write a literal illegal index in Rust the compiler will attempt to evaluate it as constant, conclude it's impossible and reject the program (whereas note that Clang only emits a warning for this scenario even though it's clearly bogus)

And so the runtime Panic will occur in Rust only for the dynamic case.

Notice that in WUFFS the user argument code is still a compile time error. WUFFS wants to know why you thought it would be OK to put arbitrary numbers in idx, a variable you are using to index into an array of size 10, and thus which should only have values between 0 and 9 inclusive. It won't be happy until you write logic to ensure this can't happen.
Yep, thus "unrealistic and naive."
I once tried to make its DE work on another distro and it wasn't great, but it wasn't a full effort. Wish that could be easier, because as you say, the no upgrades thing bugs.
More traditionally phrased as technology alone can't solve social problems.
Arlington and Watertown are higher density than Lowellor Quincy. Newton and Waltham are not far behind. You're relying on intuition rather than data and it's showing.

I would really only categorize Lincoln and Wellesley "low density suburb". The rest certainly have car centric qualities but they're too built up to be called the exception to the rule.

http://www.usa.com/rank/massachusetts-state--population-dens...

https://www.towncharts.com/Massachusetts/Top-25-Cities-in-Ma...
> XHTML 1.x was well implemented in most browsers and was highly used by a subset of web developers.

Well, the XML part wasn’t. Serve your XHTML as text/html and it was “supported” by virtue of being treated like HTML with some minor syntax errors. Serve your XHTML as application/xhtml+xml, as required to get any XML features, and it wouldn’t display in Internet Explorer at all.

XHTML 1.0 was allowed to be served with text/html for compatibility reasons, if you were careful to not make it too different from HTML (don’t self‐close an empty <textarea>, for example, and add a space before every “/>”). XHTML 1.1 didn’t allow the text/html MIME type at all, and so basically nobody used it.

That’s not even getting into XML’s unpopularly draconic error handling for pages that did get served as XML…
I guess that's fair. I just personally don't think the additional gain is worth taking away your child's privacy.
> they should be allowed to comment (…) People are allowed to have discussions.

My comment doesn’t contradict that. On the contrary, I do think their particular experience adds value to the thread.

> it's not like the person is spamming the same message over and over again.

After reading the three comments multiple times, I disagree. The comments were (they’ve since been deleted) superficially different but none added to the conversation over the others. I would even say the repetition detracted from the point, since it made it seem like a personal gripe instead of a legitimate technical complaint.
Haha.

Out of curiosity have you seen the youtube channel Fast f#? He's doing a good job of talking about f# at several levels from simple to deep optimization work.
Would be surprised if that was this case - vanilla GSuite setup.
> People kept coming. People kept leaving. Decision making moved into the shadows. Consensus disappeared. People with no remote experience were hired into significant positions. Middle management sought “fix-all” workflow tooling before understanding open source Ethos or Logos.

Sounds like management was broken just like in every other failed startup.
This statement is at best grossly incomplete. There is plenty of research to suggest that hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than civilized people. E.g: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6

> There was not time in which a common person did not have to do drudgery to get on with life.

Is hunting drudgery? Are epic food-gathering missions? Creating new towns and villages?
because man pages don't have screenshots.