skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assertion regarding felonies came from police without much (if any) scrutiny. According to the police report, George Floyd died because of a drug overdose, not because his airway was cut off by a knee to the neck for almost ten minutes. Had there been no video, I wager most white folks would have believed the police report over the testimony of eyewitnesses, assuming it even went to court.

If you have HBO, I highly recommend watching the series "We Own This City", which is about the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force.

https://www.hbo.com/we-own-this-city

Is this indicative of all cops in all departments? Of course not. But the falsification of the police report is quite common and even if discovered almost never results in disciplinary action despite itself being a felony.

And EVEN IF they were all likely guilty of felonies, that doesn't automatically mean that lethal force is warranted. And EVEN IF lethal force is warranted, that doesn't mean aid should not be rendered to try to save their life.

How often have you seen video where the suspect is already on the ground and cuffed behind their back when an officer knees the subject repeatedly in the side or strikes them on the head? When multiple officers do so?

Yes, crime is an issue. That should include excessive force on an already subdued subject. That's where qualified immunity comes in. In a sane world, once the person is on the ground, immobile, and in cuffs, the blows should have already ended.
There's a much simpler explanation. That those in positions of power don't believe, and those who are not do. Which makes shamans a very effective way to manipulate your followers.

Is there actually an element of randomness? Of course not. Any successful shaman knows that if you don't say what the guy in power wants you to, that you're going to wake up dead, and some other shaman is going to be doing your job.
Schema change? No thanks, only boomers do it. ;)
This exists already https://www.rewind.ai/
> Probably not the first people to go a little crazy attempting that in Buddhist history

During the signup process for a 10 day Vipassana retreat, they ask for a lot of details about your psychological health. Even warning against doing the retreat if you’re not in a good mental place. So I’m sure you’re right.
Is that true? I remember my daughter had a severe bacterial infection and they couldn't get an IV in her so they did an intramuscular injection of antibiotics.
From what I have read, negative experiences from mindfulness practice have more to do with the fast food way of approaching it that we go about it in the west.

It requires a much slower progression that is usually done with a more experienced mentor, who will guide you through the process and help you when you encounter these issues.

These techniques are powerful and helpful and can definitely help alleviate stress and anxiety, but like in the Nietzsche quote

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you”

The way we teach it in the west does not equip us for when the abyss gazes back
Very beautifully put. I completely relate with the last 2 sentences. Do you have recommendations for books?
The photo in the article is just a random photo of Albanian police with a filter, it has nothing to do with the operation in question.
I wonder if its celebrities know things
The next four hours were a hellscape of terror, panic and paranoia...

Finally, after hours, the attack smoldered and I drifted off. It was the worst night of my life.

The next morning, while making coffee...
Most distros aren't just using "a few GNU build tools", though - nearly everyone's using bash as their shell, GNU coreutils for basic system tools, and glibc as the underlying libc that runs almost every binary in the system, and I feel like that deserves a mention. Frankly, I think most people would find GNU/kFreeBSD more familiar than Alpine/Linux.
How common is something like a retreat there for a median Buddhist?
Newest Sidewinders have become weapons of choice against UFOs over the US
Lowtrust societies man:
They get to you and they are a self fullfilling prophecy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=404IeUzGNZ4
It cuts both ways.

As in the same tool can accomplish two/opposite purposes, or in this case help opposing factions.
Why is raising the laptop bad? I have a few ThinkPads of that era - having the back raised is quite nice. The battery also provides a convenient carrying lip/handle.
Can you send a link to an example? Which fonts were they using that weren't embedded?

Never in my life have I come across a PDF intended for public distribution missing an embedded font. (The sole exception being the PDF standard fonts like Times New Roman that are never embedded.)
How are you running GPT locally? OpenAI is a third party.
I had a very similar experience as you. But I think you're being too humble.

Whether you wrote 15 applications or just one or two, does that really matter? Designing, exploring, writing, iterating on and maintaining these applications _for years_ have given you insights, battle scars and tacit knowledge that can only be gained through experience and continuous learning. Not to mention the different environments technologies and foundational knowledge you explored and internalized.

You've accumulated a hard earned skill set and the ability make wide reaching, pragmatic decisions. Do you or someone else _know_ what the _best_ way of doing things is? Probably not. But I bet you have developed opinions, taste and a toolbox of approaches with different trade offs.

That's maybe where the OP is coming from as well. The mindset of being opinionated is very valuable if you can back it up.

That doesn't mean you're always right and don't let other speak. That doesn't mean you can't change your mind or that your approach excludes other people's perspectives and incentives.

It means you can strive for _better_ and that you're crazy enough to make bold decisions when necessary.
It's sad that the Raspberry Pi, which was originally conceived as a simple and accessible computer for people to learn new skills, has become so intertwined with the user-unfriendliness of Linux. (The comparison with the simplicity of the original BBC Micro is comical.)

You give one example of how the devs (who, of course, fully 'get' Linux and are fully bought in to the experience) have seemingly little insight into how this impacts less able users. (Somehow they think that creating ssh and wpa_supplicant.conf files in the boot folder are less confusing then an extra option in the installer!?)

Other examples (from my very recent experience) include simply trying to install fairly mainstream libraries on a Pi: it took (literally) several days, multiple retries, multiple failed approaches from blogs or stackoverflow, before I could get a working install of python-opencv. (And my final 'success' was just sheer luck, plus trial-and-error, I think).

And there are other examples; every time I start a new project thinking the Pi is the perfect starting-point, the ultimate time taken is 5-10x what it probably should have been.

If the user experience is this bad for someone with otherwise strong IT ability, how on earth do they expect anyone with less expertise to succeed?
Yup. Our public transport sucks everywhere. Even NYC. And as much as I would have loved to bike it is not safe. I biked to work for a while in different cities in California and the bike lane quality varied greatly. I am not a fan of LA. Northern California seemed better for biking.

But also, outside a few areas in the US on the coasts, this country is much bigger and more spread out than EU countries. This makes driving a necessity for many people. People mostly burn gas because the alternatives aren't practical.
No kidding. I read the article, I saw the propellers. I posted because there seemed to me many commenting who thought that modern necessarily implied a jet.
> Interesting that [c] is not acceptable.

Presumably because [c] may be a proofreading mark.
Ask HN: Why is Hacker News loading so slowly?
Taking close to 40 sec per click from a few days, any idea why?
Yep. I got all excited to set up a PiHole at one point during the pandemic and then realized how impossible it was to actually buy a raspberryPi and gave up. Hopefully one day
The comment didn’t claim it was an act of either, either.
Meditation is a dose-dependent drug.

Most people will reap most of the health benefits that meditation has to offer by sitting for 20 minutes a couple times a day.

You can go much deeper, of course, but that's a philosophical / spiritual quest to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and the world around you - it's not a health pursuit. A multi-day meditation retreat is in many ways like running an ultramarathon: it's not really a healthy undertaking, per se, but you might learn something about yourself by doing it, and the way to do it responsibly is by working your way up to it over months and years of practice.
I don't see how a monopoly or not changes this much if the additive makes the product more profitable and people aren't generally aware of its existence or potential harm. Why is manipulating a rube goldberg machine of market economics - that will, by definition, still lead to a significant number of people consuming a harmful substance if it even 'works' at all - better than simply banning additives outright?
Lots of smart people in their 30s and 40s with family obligations and also "it would be fun to" money.
According to apple themselves the M2 is slower than current intel or amd chips, though not by much. And you are much more limited on RAM and on storage and on GPU performance.

The power consumption under load is impressive though (about half).
I don't really understand the setup.

It seems to suggest that physicalism claims all things can be learned intellectually, in a box. It seems obvious to me that sensory experiences could be physical in nature yet also can only be learned experientially.

Is there really a debate that learning about color and seeing color are not the same things?

I don't know if the setup is unfair or the physicalism being referred to is silly. Either way this seems pointless to me.
How much energy to run a microphone, waiting for "Mirror, mirror, on the wall..."
Ohio Gov Pushes for Science of Reading as Only Approach
Stop sign has a unique shape for the reason. Humans would recognise it by shape only – and that's the reason for it being unique. Even if it is covered in snow, you know that's it is the STOP sign. Similarly, the bottom-up triangle can only mean "yield".
This is not "solving itself"... the Fed has hiked rates 5% and is still going.

History shows there’s likely going to be a severe recession at the end of this
There are plenty of bits of the tech industry that aren't powered by hype and free money.
So in other words, better consumers. But we're at our best when we create...
Is being centerless really such a bad thing?

Then again, I really haven't experienced the concept at a fundamental, spiritual level, only intellectually; I don't really meditate. Maybe there's something deep in our wiring (probably in our unconscious mind, which really pulls most of the strings) that has difficulty grappling with the loss of the idea of "self".
The problem is you don’t remove 8am classes, you reschedule them. And since prof time is a finite resource, they would now be at a new late time that could not actually be represented in the study. So is a new class later than the latest class better? I doubt it. I bet once you make 9am the earliest class now they will get up at 8:55 and be tired again.

It’s only hard to tell the new adult-children to go to bed earlier because they have lived their lives without ever being told to go to bed earlier.

I find HN, while progressive, is full of people who can’t function without their latte at 8am but enjoy living off the benefits of all the people that do have to get up early. Everyone at a coffee shop, people working 2nd and 3rd shifts, snow plow drivers, nurses, bus drivers, etc etc. A rule for me and a rule for thee I guess.
> Digital culture is already so ethereal, fragile, that you have to wonder if millennia from now our descendents may posit this period as another "dark age" because none of what we've generated since the 90s will remain (or be decypherable).

Mark Lawrence kinda explores this idea in his Prince of Thorns universe. Former AI researcher, now fantasy author.

Without spoiling the books too much: There’s a lot of stuff left over from The Ancients who had these weird rectangular things that sometimes pop to life and do magic, but are otherwise inert, useless, and have no moving parts you can analyze. Very strange black rocks that seem to do things when you hold them just right but nobody knows what makes the assembly work, or how, or when it might suddenly pop into life. You kinda just fiddle with it until something happens and hope for the best.

Oh and The Ancients had a lot of “liquid stone”, which is very strong and would come in handy for building forts, if anyone knew how it works or how to make more.
I had suggested that concept on Twitter a few years ago to a certain CEO. I don't (and didn't) have the visibility that certain people have to get a reaction. I'm sure NHSTA would have something bad to say about it like "well, we can't have the pedal behave differently because well... we suck". I would love this tactile response as that would definitely help stay at the posted speed limit when driving with no cruise or autopilot. EVs hav a crapload of torque, and it's so easy to speed up quickly (or slow down with regen) where a constant speed it quite difficult.
it looks like the only thing openai does is generate a schema from a specific hand written prompt from cursory overview.
You underestimate the risk-blindness that comes from having access to the bank of mom-and-dad.
I've been looking for an AI/GPT/deep learning tool that would help me perform some sanitation and normalization of a large data set that's quite personal to me- my last.fm data, time-stamped logs of (nearly) every song I've listened to for almost twenty years now. The data has all kinds of issues- for example, yesterday I realized that I had two sets of logs for one album. One version of the album used U+2026 (…) and one used three periods (...). There are problems like that, stuff more akin to typos, styling stuff (& vs and), or even garbage-in garbage-out stuff (YouTube Music changing the tags on the same album over time making it look like I actually listened to different albums, or not actually having all of the tags they're supposed to have).

I've got .NET code that hits the last.fm api and dumps the info to a LiteDB database, so I can export to CSV pretty easily if this tool would be useful to me, unless anyone has any better directions to point me in. Appreciate any thoughts you folks have.
It loads in less than 1 sec for me
Directly. It once again shows that so called AI has no world model. For it all the possiblities are more or less equal why the human will spot what's wrong at once.
Nothing wrong with having a baseline.
> Pointing out ‘the other side are conspiracy theorists’ or ‘the people who believe this also believe these other terrible things’ does not prove the other side is wrong, nor is it going to convince anyone on the other side that they are wrong.

It is completely legitimate in my opinion to use "the people who believe this also believe these other terrible things" as an argument against the possible motivations of the people who believe whatever the current thing is.

Imagine a conspiracy theory that Jack and the Beanstalk was a true story, which was suppressed by the medieval Church, in order to restrict public access to the great riches of Heaven and keep them for the Church only. Let's say also that a large number of prominent and long-standing Jack&Beanstalk truth researchers also happen to be extreme right-wing xenophobic nationalists, some of whom have publicly posted really disgusting bigoted things on Pleroma. No matter how compelling the J&B evidence is, in my opinion it's both intellectually rational and morally appropriate to question the entire J&B conspiracy theory. Who benefits by promoting the theory? What worldview does it support? What worldview does the traditional narrative ("it's a fairy tale") contradict?
what's the crazy idea? I don't have investor money but I might mention it to the right person.
It sounds like it's an open question whether or not it is in fact carcinogenic when consumed in the quantities allowed by the FDA.
We are using OpenAI to only to create schema, column matching and Regex generation.No CSV data are sent to open AI..
> Not only that, seeing that a role had “200+ applicants” is a bit demoralizing.

I think this number increases simply when users click on the "Apply" button, not if a successful application has been completed.
Thank you. ><
> In the tech world, it's hard to imagine that software or content published today will be relevant in a century, but by not updating the year, you are risking the possibility that copyright protection will be cut off sooner (or more likely and more subtly, future infringers will have an innocent infringement defense).

Small portions of FreeBSD have been untouched since the AT&T sources. That's halfway through. I don't expect anything I write to live that long, though. But I imagine there's some tidbits here and there at Microsoft.
Maybe I missed it, but neither this article or the linked car and driver article said which “self driving” card they fooled.

Fooling a 2017 Tesla or fooling a 2017 Waymo is a big difference.
Got it. ><
Personally, I’d simply prefer not to die. If something can reduce the risk of that happening by 90%, that sounds great.

People were worried about dying from electricity—a power source out of their control—to turn on their lights, and it certainly did and still does kill people, but more people died by starting fires in their homes to read at night or stay warm. But the number of people wanting to replace their lightbulbs with candles for a little extra control of their energy source is quite low (although they do exist).
> still wish to try to extend their copyrights, claiming a new term every year, which pushes the expiration date out one more year every year.

Isn’t the expiration date counting from the death of the author rater than the time of creating?
Oof! ><
If you're used to a sword having a single sharp edge and behave as such while wielding a double-edged sword then the instrument you only intended to harm others with can unintentionally cause harm to yourself. I mean it's probably good idea to be carefully around swords generally, but the phrase is quite old and was maybe a bit more relatable back when it was coined :)
So, you think those enormous speaking fees are because of his "kindness and character" ? Sure, they are legal. But let's not pretend they were for anything other than what he did for them while in office and the influence he currently carries to influence government policies. This is why, at one time, it was considered sacrilege to do so. I think Carter and Reagan (and maybe Bush Sr.) were the last presidents to observe this rule.
In the long run all these apps did was take you away from your traditional means and then put those price increases into the product over 5-10 years. In some cases getting you hooked to a new cost stream (i.e. doordash/uber). Those margins are just getting repackaged to the corp and the dev costs amortized over a longer time period.
Wonder how that plays out, interacting with the legal systems of countries outside the US?
Lyft was! At the cost of public infrastructure, job security for drivers and increased emissions! But is it ever convenient.
From one of the links [0] in the article, this simply bonkers description of a boat riding a tsunami wave like a surfboard...

"As the wave passed Cenotaph Island it seemed to be about 50 feet high near the center of the bay and to slope up toward the sides. It passed the island about 2 1/2 minutes after it was first sighted, and reached the Badger about 1 1/2 minutes later. No lowering or other disturbance of the water around the boat was noticed before the wave arrived.

The Badger, still at anchor, was lifted up by the wave and carried across La Chaussee Spit, riding stern first just below the crest of the wave, like a surfboard. Swanson looked down on the trees growing on the spit, and believes that he was about 2 boat lengths (more than 80 feet) above their tops. The wave crest broke just outside the spit and the boat hit bottom and foundered some distance from the shore. "

[0] https://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml
So what you say that in the world of self-driving cars the traffic will be as if all drivers are drunk? You may be on to something.
Yes why not?
Does it have any 'restore' ability?

I am hesitant to use any backup solution that doesn't have an equally well tested restore path. Ideally a restore path to another provider too - eg. migrate google photos to icloud photos, with as many tags/labels/metadata preserved as possible.
You call it handholding. I call it partial automation of code review. Why waste expensive hours of my co-workers' time when I can have a program do it in seconds for a few pennies of electricity?
> It just means our scientific description of the world lacks the subjective.

Unless we have an independent reason to think that this thought experiment applies only to scientific knowledge, then it applies equally to all fields of propositional knowledge.

We can - and do - speak about subjective experiences by assuming that other people have them, and they are somewhat like ours (while recognizing that there are differences: some people are blind, or color-blind, or have synesthesic responses to color), but we cannot communicate what it is like to have those experiences to other people. That this is so is readily reconciled with materialism: firstly, because we cannot experience what it is like for other people to experience color, we cannot develop a common vocabulary for communicating it; secondly, even if we had the vocabulary, our conscious mind does not have the ability to bring about the necessary changes in our brain through willpower alone.
I understand that this product does use OpenAI’s API, but I just want to stress that OpenAI doesn’t own GPT, it did not create transformer models, and GPT is not something usable exclusively through OpenAI.

A priori, there’s no reason they couldn’t include their own GPT model that also lives on your own server.
> test was biased against the Mac because the M1 MBA was running on battery power and the HP DevOne was plugged in

That does not matter at all for the M1 MBA. So no bias.
Do you mean over or under estimate?

Personally I think we as a society underestimate it right now. Russia and NK/China are both active nuclear players are trying to get into conflicts with...
You have to wear it in the FB Meta-verse too. Zuck is going to be all over this idea!
I'm out of this loop, but I still struggle to consider: In the world of tech (which scales) what good is VC? As in, what companies/products/services have come about and existed in a healthy way due to this process? Why should I not cheer the death of all of this?
AI Based Writing Assistant
Who can say for sure if the probability is over- or under-estimated? Nuclear war has only happened once.