skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this. I appreciate it.

The NYTimes article only says something more vague in its headline, but the body is talking about the need for Jews to be more active in social justice work, and that communism is incompatible with Judaism. I’ve read what I could find of the report and all it talks about is social justice work. I’d love to learn more about this.

Whatever the context was, we know that a huge amount of jewish soldiers died in WWII as linked by another commenter, so in my mind as a seeming non-sequitor it followed a common anti-Semitic trope that American Jews are more loyal to Judaism and Israel than to the U.S. Of course this has also been the trope for many other immigrants as well.

I cannot guess about the ADL other than it being involved a huge amount of other stuff clearly not related to the FBI. Remember that in 1935 Harvard had an official Jewish quota of 15%, and Israel largely exists because the U.S./UK/France didn’t want to take the Eastern European Jewish diaspora — discrimination was widespread at the levels of power. The population was also small, so its hard to imagine it had much value other than perhaps keeping tabs on intellectuals who were friendly to communism.
Kis are 9 and 10.
For the past few years, they are allowed 1hour of screen time on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. They are required to eat and do their homeworks before playing.
Screen time can be anything, so they either watch series, play games, create spreadsheets, etc. Since they have discovered Minecraft, they play a lot together, it's great to see!

They are expected to control their screen time by themselves and globally they respect it. The younger one does sometimes "forget" for how long he's been playing, in that case we make him immediately stop, that's effective but heart breaking.

We also watch movies on :
- Tuesdays nights can be anything they want, especially re-watch. They decide by voting, or random choice, or negotiate
- Fridays nights: it must be a movie they haven't seen yet
We've discovered quite a lot of great movies that way!

Computers and switch are on free access, but they are forbidden to sleep with it. Our first born started watch it at nights during a few weeks, so we now control more closely where the computers are...

For now it's enough!
Yes there is nothing wrong with it. Almost looks like a new movie released in 2023. However it is a re-release of an old film so if your not keen on watching an old film then there isn't a point.

Keep in mind in the US they are showing the 2.39:1 AR Scope version. In 2012 when they did the remaster, they supposedly showed the better 1.78:1 version so thats a bummer seeing the original 2.39:1 version and not the version that Cameron (I think) prefers.

However, this time around you get HDR and HFR (in addition to the 4K and 3D you got in 2012) so thats nice. On the downside, when I went to see it, the HFR scenes were very limited and oddly chosen seconds here and there so i'm not sure if it adds anything. Frankly I feel the same about the 3D. While this film is a pretty good implementation of the technology, was anyone really asking to add 3D to this movie?

I missed the 2012 remaster for the 100th anniversary of the sinking. I feel fortunate to see it in theaters this time for the film's 25th anniversary.

For the record I have seen in AMC's Dolby 3D and Cinemark's XD implementations. I think they both use dual laser projection. I have skipped the standard 2K version.
Ender's Game had a fun take on this. Literally naming the different directions was all that he did on first seeing the battlefield, but that is literally orienting yourself.

So, for example, if you can enumerate the possible transitions, do so.
This is a great line:

We acknowledge the overlap between culinary and medicinal applications of these plants.

The piece talks about spices bring luxury items and status symbols, but spices were originally used primarily to help preserve food. As such, most kill microbes to some degree and many are potential antibiotic substitutes, though it's typically controversial to state the obvious on such topics.
I didn't see it in person, but the lights over Phoenix were witnessed by many people.

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

Kurt Russell has a story about it.
https://youtu.be/RVffyAF3wz8?t=85
> way passed unsigned small ints

I think bfloat would be a much more appropriate format for fines. Or a similar decimal float.
I am going to write a lament about being a machine learning PhD (near) graduate. Whenever I see these very successful new PhD's, I just have an overwhelming sense of unfairness and sadness. Many of my papers were borderline rejects, delaying me months every time until there's no way for me to catch up with the likes of the author. I am attending a top 25 US school for machine learning (but not better than 25), and the magnitude of difference for the quality of PhD students is staggering. Rarely does anyone at my school graduate with 3 first author papers, let alone 5 (with so many orals!!). It consistently blows my mind how much better these top 10 schools are then the rest at producing papers: the only metric that matters. I've thought about applying to OpenAI as an engineer, which to me would be an amazing opportunity and very prestigious, but I don't want to waste my time: I only have 2 papers done (and God willing a 3rd one for CVPR in 3 weeks). Naturally the skill ratio between me and the author is at least 5:2 (probably worse, since I don't have any oral papers), but this doesn't stop me from feeling that I could contribute to OpenAI as effectively as any new PhD. I know if I were a hiring manager, I'd always go with the more proven candidate, but as the applicant I wish I could prove that my lack of publications should not be held against me. Perhaps this is a common occurrence for any engineer, hitting a ceiling for jobs in this manner, but that doesn't stop me from wishing differently.
It hasn't been stagnant. E.g. most African-Americans have left the city since the era you mention.
We measure them differently because of lower volume and a self service model - they are more like phones to us. Anecdotally, M1s so far are like iPads.
You should probably start with the FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#combining

Swapping out one library for another compatible one is a modification of the program.
My heat pump has a CoP of 3 and paid for itself in 10 years. New heat pumps have a CoP of 4 or higher and might pay for themselves in less.

How much material in a heat pump is recyclable and how much isn't, compared to a furnace?

We are trying to reduce CO2 and methane in the atmosphere. Throwing away the non-recyclable parts of heat pumps isn't as big of a concern. Polluting the ground and water isn't even as big a concern. Certainly they are concerns, but they pale in comparison.
Zooming isn't working for me in Firefox with a trackpad. Any idea what's going on? It doesn't work even in the hosted version someone shared below:https://wideboard.stjo.dev/
No one has the right to dicate to women what to do with their body; that lack of understanding is one of the primary reasons that women are raped and abused. They have every right to have a baby or abort it, it's none of anyone else's business. I'm cool with any mother who wants to carry to birth and then remand the baby to the stand because of her beliefs, but I also feel the basic human right to do what they will with their body. No amount of religion will ever suffice to convince me of anything else, and I will continue the fight to protect women from authoritarians from the far right who don't care how many lives they harm to push their beliefs on others.
They may be useless to you, but you are most likely not the target market for these ads.

Celebrity/influencer marketing is one of the few marketing strategies that actually works consistently.
Yes, that's what I was saying when I was noting it would probably be not as fun when I'd have to encounter it in real life. There's some analogy to some other areas where things that are terrible are hilarious or extremely entertaining until one is thrust in that scenario, and then it is simply cruel irony (as best originally defined in "The Emperor's New Groove", IMO).
My opinion, to be taken with a grain of salt:

Social fragmentation in the USA -along political lines, Trumpism, Qanon, Covid response, social media disinformation campaigns - has reached a point where it is no longer only extremists that think a civil war is becoming possible.[1]

There is always some percentage of the population that engages in conspiracism, but in 2020s the kinds of conspiracism we see are are spreading more rapidly and are nearly entirely politically charged- ie along partisan lines, and enough people are angry that it has already resulted in an actual attempted coup.

If this conspiracism were to evolve more towards less partisan areas (UFOs/aliens/ghosts/near-death-experiences), then the risk of a coup goes down. Facilitating this transition in conspiracist focus could be one of the lowest cost & highest payoff "social programs" ever undertaken by the intelligence services.

Attempts by intelligence services at intentionally steering the culture towards more acceptible, less politically charged subject matter are not new, and there have been accusations[2] that Abstract Expressionism was intentionally promoted by the CIA to undermine more leftist and political art movements.

If the CIA nurtures propaganda campaigns in foreign countries, we can imagine them looking at the near-coup of January 6th and asking some hard questions about whether propaganda campaigns would be far more benefit if redirected to focus on the US domestic citizen.

[1] A journalist who has spent the last few years researching this widening social fracturing is Jeff Sharlet, whose forthcoming book is called "The Undertow: Scenes from a slow civil war"

[2] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-...
It will be interesting to see how the SEC makes the case that these stable coins are securities when their whole purpose should make them fail the "expectation of profit" prong of the Howey test.
I remember my mother telling me a story of how she was dragged for interrogation after undercover cops overheard her and her friend talking about political situation in communist Poland.

It's a dangerous territory you're trying to propose.
Pentagon briefing after fourth unidentified object shot down [video][conf call]
ChatGPT is already gaining traction despite being in beta. I view ChatGPT as the next evolution of Siri. Now Siri can sound intelligent even if she/he/it is nothing more than parrot. A parrot that can recite the entire internet.

I believe VR is way too early and will only be a toy. I believe what people really want is R2D2's ability to project Princess Leia's 3D image in space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display
Somewhere, Eliezer Yudkowsky just got goosebumps
>The bigger question to think about is the fear itself that led you to this question, the fear, the vulnerability and the anxiety you are feeling. Perhaps if americans weren't so frightened all the time there would be less wars?

I'm not sure what anxiety it is that you're talking about.

As an American, I'm not anxious or afraid "all the time." In fact, I'm generally relaxed and happy.

Sure, some folks have anxiety issues. But that's not limited to Americans, is it?

While more people in developed countries are prescribed anti-anxiety meds[0] than elsewhere, such folks are a small fraction (~5%) of the global population.

And so I'll ask you, of what exactly, do you think that Americans are "so frightened all the time?"

Listening to politicians blather on about "keeping Americans safe" and the like, which is pure theater that's designed to generate votes, is a poor idea if you want to understand how Americans actually think and feel.

These recent shoot downs are an excellent example. No one complained when similar balloons flew over the US before. Why? Because our military deemed them not to be a threat. And no one cared.

The Chinese surveillance balloon was deemed not to be a threat (as was alluded to in this week's public briefing of Congress) and even when it passed over "sensitive installations," countermeasures were put in place to mitigate any intelligence gathering.

That one group made a big deal about it (even though when this happened previously, they were (in closed session) briefed on the matter, and the public was none the wiser.

The difference now is that the public is aware of this stuff and rather than focusing on maintaining and strengthening national security, some folks are attempting to use this to win political points.

Shooting down the Chinese balloon was probably a good idea in order to better understand Chinese technology in this space, and knowing what the Chinese wanted to look at gives us even more information.

As such, jamming/restricting encrypted comms/camouflaging such sites (again as was alluded to by DoD representatives in an open committee hearing, with promises of more detail about that in closed session) and then taking the vehicle down in an area where civilians aren't at risk was smart.

Shooting down those other objects was a direct response (and serves the same purpose) to the political posturing about the Chinese balloon. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

[0] https://www.ihealthcareanalyst.com/global-anxiety-disorders-...
Please share three. It must be clear that they're unable to differentiate between a TV show and reality, and also that they're not joking.
If you can see someone’s eyes long enough to hit them with a laser then you could just kill them instead with a bullet.

Imagine being outflanked because your vehicles are out of fuel because you used it all powering the generators for your lasers that can’t touch infantry inside a blacked out Landcruiser.
A built in command line interface for exporting BOMs/netlists/gerbers is incredible. It's probably not going to be as powerful as Ki-Bot at first, but I'm going to try and integrate it into my GitHub actions asap.

And, the new dragging behavior is obviously what we should have had from the start. Going to make doing quick drawings much easier.
Honestly if that's what this is its pretty weak. Most people are not going to want to go to war over a few balloons. Especially with China. That's a war that impacts the US mainland. No once comes out of this close to whole. Plus it we are already in a proxy war with Russia. I don't think anyone wants to fight Russia and China at the same time, regardless of how bruised Russia is currently.
Sounds like it dropped its payload
Seems like an interesting problem to deal with, and one which will only get tougher as our skies get more populated with things.
Wow, I actually talk to adult human beings like this. They completely get a basic trivial fact wrong, and then attempt to gas light me on repeat. I've tried to convince them, but seeing it in robot form makes me think maybe I've been wasting my time, as they've perhaps been too deeply braintrained to be open to reality.
This sounds hand wavy. :)

My stab is specific to understanding the full picture is how you can move in it. How many movement choices do you have? Can you get back to a position? Does your moving cause others to move? Can you see places that are safe to experiment in?

For prior information, look for familiar analogs. Defensive positions. Offensive outposts. Well troden paths, etc.
For anyone new to the term "flow" as they seem to use it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Yeah, I was kind of wondering what they need that nitrogen there for. Maybe ALON is easier to manufacture in bulk or something...
Wouldn't shooting down presumably publicly undisclosed surveillance on civilians something they want to keep quiet and the public unawares of? Shooting them down does the opposite of hiding something --these new objects are small enough to go undetected by people on the ground.
> Lies have existed since the dawn of civilization, so the difference doesn't seem significant, at all.

Russia and other authoritarian regimes currently employee thousands of people around the world to produce realistic lies on the internet. This is not an insignificant expense.

With a tool like ChatGPT, they could scale this to seem like millions of people instead of just thousands. The web could be 99% bots and most of its users would have a hard time telling.

The near-term effect is that sites like reddit and HN are going to get a lot worse in terms of quality content.
Fair enough, it's an elitist attitude!
Surprisingly little news coverage of the massive cloud of that shit headed east.
Presumably it either already does or can be made to have the equivalent of the linguistic concept of register.

“Acting as a customer service agent, enquire about how you can assist a customer” kind of prompt. There should be plenty of training data for how customer service agents interact and the kinds of words they use and attitudes they affect, and easy fine tuning for what is and is not appropriate.

This kind of statistical context seems like exactly what these language models are good at: sounding like what is expected. You lean on your customer service robot to interact a certain way and it will.
I don't think the bill requires the server side to be open source. I think it is sufficient as long as the client side can use libre software to interact with the government. (But this is not explicitly stated in any of the links I followed.)

Another comment mentions fillable PDFs not working in non-Adobe software. This seems like the most likely culprit to me. And in general, if someone has to go back over the entire surface area of an application and re-test everything to find all the quirks like this, I can start to understand how that huge cost estimate might make sense.
It would be quite sensible.

If a private company tricked your school into training you on their stack... that's not an education, it's an ad (and corruption to boot). If you job wants to use MATLAB, they can train you on MATLAB. Your python/octave/whatever skills will transfer.
The money offered was good but when compared to the cost of living of having to relocate and my then company’s benefits and pay (although less) the delta/net benefit was not enough to make me move.

This was 12 years ago and the salary plus stock was nothing to sneeze at. I have zero regrets.
People don’t doubt the balloon exists though
> For every bad use there are plethora of things, even just technically, where its miraclous

What's one example?

A bullshit generator is only valuable to people who want to scale bullshit. Maybe it could replace TV writers one day, but why would I want them? I don't want a bunch of creative people to be unemployed so that the owners of ChatGPT can make a profit.

For non-users of the tool, there is no conceivable upside to any of this. All we get is:

- less believable digital/social media

- far, far more SEO spam

- more companies trying to push their customer service to bots instead of humans
I get it, but you do realize that Intuit does exist because taxes are so damn complicated in the US?

If taxes were simple, their predatory business model really would stop existing. There is no business justification in favor of Intuit to NOT sue the IRS if the IRS tries to make taxes simple.
I don’t think this is correct… a thousand cubic feet of hydrogen is 68lbs of buoyancy at sea level.

A cylinder that was 20’ long, and 5’ in radius (which is a lot bigger than my minivan - would be about 1570 cubic feet.

That could lift about 100lbs at sea level… at flight level 400… that’s going to have to be a huge balloon to lift 100 lbs or the payload has to be tiny tiny - which is possible but I don’t think something the size of a car is adequate.
I think the standard for marine radars on oil installations around here (norsok) was to be able to detect a large steel target at 25 nm.

It is now 8 years since I worked with it last time and 1000m2 sounds very large to me but that is the only number that pops into my head.

So yes, if you are in a small boat, use a radar reflector and also be alert.
if someone bids 10000000 shares for mid, and I hit their bid, who provided the liquidity?
This reminds me of the Verizon debacle where the user couldn't convince the customer service reps that 0.002 cents is not the same as 0.002 dollars. It was hilarious to hear the phone calls, but would have been maddening to experience. Arguing with an AI about the year is funny, until it's you arguing with it after you were billed for an extra 10 months of service.
I would be sincerely surprised if there were any treaties, since I don't think any space lasers have ever been used.
If this is real it's hilarious
Think of a bell curve, more or less. It's much, much, much more likely for the asteroid to come down near the center of the predicted range than some place 5 standard deviations away.
It's fine if you only have a few separate concerns to separate (similarly you can also use multiple browser profiles) but it's not really scalable if you want to separate 10s of sites, clients, etc.
What's hand wavy about it? It's just not concrete because the idea itself is abstract, not concrete. To orient, you have to combine information (synthesis) from your observations and your priors (what you previously observed and what you know). You can give concrete examples but then people still have to figure out the abstraction to connect one concrete example to another, and if they spend time thinking about it end up with the simple concept I described.
Never, wish I could see someday. One of my friends did see a ball lighting which is fancy enough.
I think it’s more or less the same idea, quant trading typically refers to people doing quantitative analysis as part of a larger strategy, and algorithmic trading is all about actually executing trades automatically. Definitely significant overlap
- Nothing out of the ordinary, but attention placed on it after the highly visible balloon incident. In another couple of weeks we will go back to not caring and reports will fade away in kind.
I’m curious to know how fog/clouds affect performance. I would expect a large drop off due to scattering.
I declined a position at Meta / Facebook, for ethical reasons. Much like I would feel icky to work in (and have to tell others I work in) a tobacco or firearms company.
Exactly, it's in a loop and it's self-reinforcing it's own shitty attitude. The user accidentally goaded it into the smarmy attitude and it amplified it via self-prompting.

I think it could be reasoned back on track, or you can just talk long enough it forgets, but it's way easier to start a new chat.