skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apparently ABC had this practice of wiping the tapes after the episodes aired. What could they have been possibly thinking.

Maintaining archives of material is actually a pretty complex and expensive process, especially when we're talking about physical analog media (that is sometimes literally a ticking time bomb, as is the case with old cellulose film stock). Also, such media is expensive to acquire, so reusing them wherever possible is useful to keep costs down.

Combine this with the fact that the value of such preservation is often not apparent. Reruns of old material don't provide a lot of value--especially in an era where there are very few available channels--and there's no practical means for making copies of them to even interested buyers, at least in any sort of economical way (see above about cost of media). It's not until around 1980 or so that the home video market is a viable way to make money on old productions, and it's around that time that the wiping of old broadcasts was stopped as a regular practice.
That is a political opinion. If an AI “held” this opinion, and actively made biased decisions based on it, how is that not dystopian?
I agree that we can find broad agreement on the facts if we replace "free will" with baggage-free terms, but this still leaves open the question of what people actually mean when they hold someone responsible for a freely made choice, and whether this is justified. Under Compatibilism it is, but otherwise it mostly isn't.

In my experience, everyone arguing about brains and the universe is trying to justify something like the Consequence Argument, in which I think my insistence on a Compatibilist definition of free will is justified.
Please tell me this is from chatGPT as a joke and you didn't write up a giant post about 'the singularity', 'ubi', future trillionaires, millennial politics and future environmental collapse on your own.
I think both you and parent are right to an extent. Both are, in fact, factor when it comes to a person staying within a certain distance of their birthplace. I did move and pretty far by most standards, but I did have both opportunity and some support to do just that. I am not entirely certain I would do the same without it. On the other hand, I was young and predictability was the least of my considerations. Come to think of it, I wanted to break free of the predictable pattern within my own familial social circle.

That said, I do value predictability and stability now, but being young has its own rights and values. I guess what I am saying is that we need to look at it as more than just x or y. There are multiple reasons for moving and lots of reason people choose to remain where they currently are. If pressed for one, I would argue convenience or maybe 'devil known'.
If you took this seriously after Silent But Deadly to come away with I'm trying to practice fear mongering, "well, boy, I don't know."

We have so many movie/book plots, that this is exactly how they start. Someone reads something, and then just plays with the idea. I'm not a writer, so it's not like I'm ever going to use the idea. But who knows, maybe somebody else reads and turns it into a good idea.

We can still have fun in this world even with deputy downers like you ruining for everyone "because it's not accurate".
I think you deeply underestimate how entrenched inauthentic rage porn is a focal point of far too many peoples lives.
This isn't a binary answer, no matter how much you try to cast it as one.

Software exploits are found regularly. But this is different, with the fact that Ubuntu is peddling knowingly vulnerable software, and then with the implicit threat of "Sure'd be ashame if you were hacked by our software we know is vulnerable... cause you didn't pay us for the fix".

I don't know the "best" course of action that applies everywhere. In some applications, you take the chance until the fix is out. Others, you take it down. And in others, you throw on extra detections and remediations to impede the attack. But you know this - you just wanted to get your one-liner quip in.

Ubuntu put crap in the MOTD. They could have just as easily made a RSS feed, and attach it to the security patches, and alert users of impending "bad stuff down the pipeline". But instead, they just SNAPify and shove more garbageware and terrible decisions down the pipeline. Basically, Ubuntu is the next case of Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" of software and goods.
> on Macs the CMD key is simply a poor man's CTRL key, except when you are in a terminal, where you have to use CTRL again...

Let me check.

Cmd-F in Notes.app, finds things in the current note.

Cmd-F in Terminal.app, finds things in the current terminal session's history.

Cmd-C in Calendar.app, copies an event.

Cmd-C in Terminal.app, copies the selected text.

Cmd-T in Finder.app, opens a tab.

Cmd-T in Terminal.app, opens a tab.

Cmd-W closes the current window/tab. Cmd-Q quits the app. Cmd-S saves. And so on, in any app, tracing back to 1984 or so.

Whereas Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-S, on Windows/Linux... all do wildly different things, depending whether you are in an xterm, cmd.exe, a game, Emacs, or some other app.

You know what else? Ctrl-C in Terminal.app does the same thing as Ctrl-C in an xterm. This sort of thing is consistent in every app. You're literally having your cake and eating it too.

Windows couldn't use Ctrl-W to mean "close the current tab" in every single application, because - indeed, in a game, holding down Ctrl could mean crouch/sneak, and W to move forward. Windows could've chosen to use Win-W for that, but ignored the opportunity.

> anyway, this is just a coincidence

One of these patterns visible here is deliberate design, the other is piled up coincidences. I don't think it's that easy to confuse one for the other?
You are cherry picking a dumb example. We don’t shit on paint when someone makes poop. What you should be cherry picking is examples of art that people would consider profound upon seeing it. Otherwise you’ll simply look like a dumbass when you’re implying that only trash will be generated and then beautiful stuff is generated. The fact that current ai has dumb interpretations on things is hardly a fundamental quality of generative algos.

My statement is simply that the algo’s are a tool. And tools can be used to make good art.
Well, yeah. This has always been the case, but now you can pay to not have this be the case. They're not taking anything away. If you had these concerns about the universe repo before Ubuntu Pro, you should not have been using it in the first place.
This is awesome! I've been trying ChatGPT in a macOS bar, but it felt too unwieldy. I see a lot of potential in having GPT directly in my day-to-day flow.
this happens so ridiculously frequently. look at wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...
Yes, they are adding fees to the currently free APIs, the OP is not the currently free API, it's a paid API that has been around since 2017 and has always been expensive. There has been no announcement of what the new cost structure will be because that would require Elon Musk to plan more than a few days ahead
It makes you wonder what the appropriate level of cynicism is though. I assume you mean N=1 in an order of magnitude sense. But one person saw these kids and phoned it in. A cop returns the kids home with a warning. 3 more cops show up the next day and arrests the man only (but both parents should be negligent should they not???) and then some social workers appear.

How many people heard about this and decided to waste time and resources either wilfully or unwittingly, and is that a reflection of the state law enforcement and social services?
Even if it doesn't, you now suddenly have the top 20+ results with the exact same info
I used it, it makes the process a lot easier but it's still not for the faint of heart.
It’s quite possible there’s more hateful speech against Democrats than Republicans.
What if we don’t limit to significant global powers and look at all countries on earth?
I have to say, I don't get the recent attribution of some sort of ethics into capitalism. Capitalism as a system provides methods to optimize whatever you want -- it just defines mechanisms of self-interested parties participating in markets.

It is absolutely fair to say that the things the US is optimizing for are not what one might like, but the issue is with the objective function, not the algorithm.

European social democracies are still absolutely capitalist, they just provide guardrails and regulations to focus markets more toward producing social output. See the recent US push to green energy -- the government points the optimization machine at a target, and the markets react.

We can and should complain when our government isn't steering investment to the areas we want. When that happens, though, capitalism as a system isn't the problem (and would be just as functional if you incentivized the things you liked instead.)

When I want to go to Canada but my driver takes me to Mexico, I don't blame the car.
A good example of the imbalanced and terminally arbitrary nature of existing text corpora.

Also, perhaps, a preview of the infinitely regressive, race-to-the-bottom nature of trying to hierarchically rank (privilege | vulnerability | harm | etc). That’s before considering change over time… eg- how has the perception of “Asian” category’s privilege changed between 1970 and 2020.
This API launched in 2017 with what appears to be the same pricing structure:

> Pricing for these elevated tiers of the Search Tweets API starts at $149/month

https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/i...
There is something unhealthy about publicly saying "I believe x because it's true" but privately thinking "I don't have to consider if x is false because everyone who disagrees with x didn't go to college" (or has some other undesirable group trait).
I think it's fair to point out that men commit most violent crimes. That's not good/normal/expected it's just a fact.

AI could be used to better understand these associations (e.g. why is there a correlation between Asians and academic performance) and maybe help social leverage advantages more equitably.
> or am I just in a very bad market?

Market is destroyed at the moment. Everyone is working around the absolute essential/core with less resources.

Market is also flooded by hi-tech professionals at the moment. Probably thousands or more of them.
This reminds me of Jay Bauman's rant about how VHS is a shit format when his Youtube team (RedLetterMedia) obliterated every VHS copy of Nukie they could find in a wood-chipper.

https://twitter.com/JayBauman1/status/1613910812632186881

Basically, old magnetic video tape is such a bad format that the only sane approach of "preservation" is to destroy it and digitize it.
It's a tough problem. An application like this is all about convenience. Having to vet the source and build it yourself brings a lot of inconvenience.

It's probably just an issue of the right target market. People like me aren't it, but people who are less concerned about such things may very well be. A zero-knowledge implementation is still a great idea to protect them, even if they don't really appreciate the protection they're getting.

By the way, I realize my comments have been critical, so let me say the other side: good work! I wish you all the success in the world. Building and releasing something is a major accomplishment, and anything you make won't be right for everyone. That's not a fault with your product. That's just the fact that different people have different needs.
Solar panels and just throwing the least expensive materia to space?
You appear to be conflating R&E expenses (Section 174) with the R&D credit (Section 41). They are related but not the same thing, and the original question was about the former not the latter.
Anyone having a good reference to a cheap radiation measurement instrument that would catch this?
National median plumber salary is $50,620/yr, national median police officer salary is $61,800/yr. Police officers are also much more likely than plumbers to have pensions.
Again, they already have an enterprise tier for business intelligence/market research, and have had for years. This is going to crush the providers of small bots, utilities, social science researchers etc, which are generally free or courtesy services.

Right now it looks as if they're proposing to start the pricing at $149/month which allows up to 100 search requests a month, going rapidly into the thousands for any sort of volume.
This is not how GPT works, and is not what is going on here.
The nice thing about a centralized scheduler is the code for scheduling only needs to run in one place. If each node 'bids' on the workload, you need to run scheduling fit on every node for every application. You also need to work out a way to decide who wins the bid.

Every time you want to change your scheduling logic, guess what? Gotta update all the nodes.

The k8s scheduler is battle-tested. Across all the different environments and CI pipelines, it has scheduled billions, if not trillions, of pods at this point. If you have a better way of scheduling workloads across nodes, I advise you to make it work for kubernetes and sell it as an enterprise scheduler, and you'll make tons of money. Even if it's not better for the general use case, and just better for some edge (pun intended) use case, it would do quite well.

IMO, all roads lead to k8s. You're just eventually going to have to solve the same set of problems.
Ask HN: How to start a risky space mining business with out capital?
So there was a post today about an asteroid worth 10 quintillion dollars. Give or take.

Given the hypothetical, starting a moon-shot business like the many that are researching fusion; how would a lay-person get funding to even start something like this, or is this only accessible to billionaires like Elon Musk, or those with Ivy League connections?

This could apply though to any moon-shot business, for example: Fusion, Space Elevators, Fixing Climate Change, etc.
Nice! Reminds me of iA writer - clean, distraction free and simple!

I hope it stays that way :+1:

Edit:

Small point: needs favicon, just added to home screen and it got the browser icon...
Shell reports highest profits in 115 years
Does this mean you do get support for these packages if you pay? Or are they still best effort?
I remain sad that Mesos never really took off, and then k8s ate the market. It had a lot of really clever ideas and could do stuff well that k8s still can't (although it has been catching up, ten years later). In particular, the scheduler architecture allowed it to work well for both batch workloads and service-like workloads within a single resource pool.
> I can understand being reasonably anti-Israel

Pretty much all "I'm only against Israel's policies" is shy Antisemitism. You can easily test this by asking them about other countries that have similar (or much harsher) policies as Israel and see whether the "no no, it's not about being Jewish, not at all" person is similarly upset about those and demands Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. 99% aren't and it really is only about the Jews - the Antizionism is just a cloak over the Antisemitism because the pure stuff doesn't fly in polite society, but if you pretend that it's not about the Jews then you can go at it.
> Malicious hackers don't need anything other than your current user permissions anyway; your API/ssh keys/crypto wallets are all stored in your home directory or other places a malicious program can get access to.

I mean, are you really running tcpdump on your local computer? I imagine you would be running it on the server you are trying to debug. So the security setup would plausibly be a bit different than that.

But generally i agree. Good practise not to run things as root, especially this type of tooling, but its not exactly putting your private key into a public git repo level of insecurity by any means.
Sooner or later all jobs will be gone: from the visual effects engineers to drivers, from strawberry pickers to programmers, project managers, and possible even politicians. It is the only possible end of a ruthless system ruthlessly optimized for increasing efficiency. We can blame, or thank, for that Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management: "in the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first." [1]. Although it could be argued he only took to conclusions the lessons learned by the Venetian Arsenal starting from 1104 [2]: it's easier to replace a bolt if you have another one just like that. The only question is what we are going to do then, as always, after the fact.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor#:~:te...

[2] "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Arsenal
Still, just a city wiped. Not exactly Earth's gone.

I think apocalyptic asteroids are that dangerous mostly because of high speeds. It's mv^2 after all.
The same could have been said about yahoo at one point, or cable TV, or landlines
Any reporting on this from a reputable source?

Googling Heinrich Bücker doesn't turn up much other than "World Socialist Web Site", and it appears Germany permits opposition to war just fine; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0PevmD6EI
Maybe :(
I've personally shipped some small cross-platform games for win+macos+linux, and it's rather trivial to produce the statically-linked versions for windows and macos even from within Linux.

When the experience you encounter attempting the same thing for the linux build is an actively developer-hostile environment the moment you attempt to shove -static in your LDFLAGS and --static in your pkg-config flags, the message seems rather loud and clear: "We don't want you easily shipping standalone proprietary binaries on our systems avoiding learning and using our package management machinery!"

It's rather desirable to hand out standalone executables for such simple isolated programs as games.

Your claim that games don't statically link when possible strikes me as rather odd. It's such a common practice that SDL added an escape hatch to divert SDL calls to another libSDL at runtime [0]. Because sometimes you want a newer SDL to fix/support some newfangled stuff, and not be stuck with the statically linked version. Do you really think the SDL devs would bother with such a thing if it weren't a common practice?

[0] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/release-2.26.2/src/dy...
I don't know that I'd blame them, but I would consider it an act of evil

This is a bit of a tangent, but that's something I never liked about referring to evil things as "inhumane". It seems to me that hurting others in order to help friends, family, or self is very human. In that case, morality is choosing to act against human nature by doing the right thing at the expense of self or loved ones.
The aim and movement mechanics of tf2 are certainly easier, though the gameplay rules are more complex and there are classes with different abilities and attributes.
Probably because differences in CPU architectures make that impossible. CS 1.6 won’t actually run on MacOS afaik.
In an e-mail update today, the Google Analytics team announced that as part of its operation to sunset Google Universal Analytics (GUA), it will provide an automatic migration (UA → GA4) for users who use Google Tag Manager and "gtag.js" for GA Universal to a new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) account come March 2023. Google Universal Analytics will sunset automatically on July 1, 2023.
First of all the change was made upstream in git, which is not controlled by GitHub (even though GitHub does have some developers who work on git). And the stated reason (not relying on third party tools/libraries) is compatible with many other changes made to git over its history, e.g. the conversion of many git commands from Perl to C.

Furthermore, gzip isn't even necessarily the best tool to produce gzip data. If you want multi-core parallelism there's pigz, and if you're willing to trade higher CPU usage to get a better compression ratio you can use zopfli. I don't know the details of the implementation in git and whether it tries to leverage multi-threading or zopfli-like techniques, but the point stands that gzip isn't the final word on producing gzip data.
Most accessible satellite launcher...
Well yeah, if a plumber screws up and hits a pipe the wrong way they could get sued.
>> Politics is hard. It's better than mass murder, though, which is the typical alternative.

Weird thing that politics does is convince you that it’s not in control of the mass murder. I promise you we have hundreds of thousands of state sanctioned or willfully negligent deaths annually in <country name of your choice>.

Modern politics isn’t about stopping the deaths, it’s just better at hiding how the sausage is made.
Or because the experience is just noticeably improved...

I could play tennis with a 30$ racket from ALDI but it would be a lot less fun.

I bet you use a high resolution monitor for work? You could argue that is blowing money on something for even a slight advantage, since you could do the same work on a 15" 1024x768 monitor too. Oh, but the experience sucks? Yeah exactly - that's why people want to improve their gaming experience even if those people are casual/only playing as a recreational hobby.
Class of '87 here.
Most valuable takeaway is that you can read almost _anything_ directly or in translation. You don't need to read a summary of Hegel, you can read Hegel. You don't need to read an article about a Supreme Court case like Marbury v. Madison, you can read the case itself.

When you go into technology, you're then willing to dive into the guts of the actual docs instead of waiting for a book or blog post about it.
Another way it prepares you for tech-- understanding philosophy is the skill of drawing incredibly fine distinctions between things. Designing software is also the skill of drawing incredibly fine distinctions between things. Having years of experience in arguing these incredibly fine distinctions was a huge leg up fr me when I was getting started, and remains useful to this day.

I think that the careers of my graduating class are primarily in software, law, academia, and medicine.

Funny things about it - there are a lot of places where your undergrad experience just doesn't overlap with that of people who didn't go there. Everyone studies the same thing at SJC, so if I meet a Johnny who went there years after me or years before, I can tell them what I did for my senior thesis and they'll have a similar reaction - why the hell did you do that?
It's also _extremely_ small, so if they went there during the same years I did, I almost certainly know them.

The original-works thing works gangbusters on philosophy, science, and literature, and breaks down a little in math. You spend a frustrating amount of time doing Ptolemaic astronomy, because it's an excellent classical treatment of trigonometry. You study Newton for calculus, but you don't actually learn anything that the modern world thinks of as calculus from Newton, so you study supplemental materials that teach you derivatives and integrals over algebraic expressions.

It's culturally pretty liberal on the inside, although it's bizarrely worshipped by some right-wingers who didn't go there because of the curriculum's focus on works from the European tradition.
What about the context of flying a commercial airliner into a skyscraper?

Moussaoui enrolled in a flight simulator training course at a Pan Am facility near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pan Am’s Minneapolis facility used flight simulators only, and the training there usually consisted of initial training for newly hired airline pilots or refresher training for active pilots.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/...
I'm curious: what's the function of the Social Security system in this worldview?
Exaggerating one aspect of argument into ridiculousness and ignoring the rest does not show "good faith".