skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who are skeptical that it can be easier to verify correctness than to produce a correct work might as well try to prove P=NP (which is the theoretical and formal statement of such).

They also probably never asked people to work on a task either (hint: people can get things wildly wrong, even generally competent ones)
> the lamps don't need to be hacked to control the entropy, just the camera, possibly by simply covering it

Hm, I wonder if that would be sufficient. You wouldn't be able to achieve "perfect blackness" as in the resulting image coming from the camera being pitch-perfect black (or rather, all pixels returning exactly rbg(0,0,0)) as everything analog in the camera have small but vital imperfections.

I'd posit taking a camera and putting it in a perfectly dark room / covering the lens with a totally black sheet would still be able to generate some sort of entropy to be used.
Very astute! The First! Lab escape happened in 2021. CRISPr was invented in 2000-2005ish. CRISPr cas9 around 2014.

BSL-4 labs have gone from 40 to 60ish in the last 25 years with another coming online almost every year.

BSL-3 labs are virtually uncountable and are in the 13000ish range in the USA alone (sorry, can't Remeber source)

Put it all together, and only an idiot STARTS with natural origin.

Also, there will be many many more.
Because Amazon is not (yet) the sole employer in our nation ?
And opt-out or even mandatory data is without doubt quite bad to start with. And the interpretation of the data is rarely flawless or even pretends to be objective.

So if someone says that opt-in data is useless, I'd say that out-out data is just as useless.

And then we have to pretend that implementation, collection and analysis and then further actions would make it worthwhile.
‘This is Nokia’ – Nokia launches new logo and branding
>it's not for Emacs, it's for anyone

Thanks - this is exactly the info I was looking for when opening this thread.

I am going to try out Magit on Monday and, if its good (it probably is) will pass it along to some colleagues. I am very comfortable with the git CLI but many of the engineers at my work are not. Anything that can help me shed my "git guy" title will be a win for all involved.
This has always been my view of speech. I believe that every human being has The right to speak their mind without fear of government reprisal.

I wish it also meant a right to speak your mind free from the judgment of your employer, or university, but that is a slippery slope. Just because I will defend a person's right to speak their mind no matter what, does not mean I have to listen to it, or agree with it.

I wrestle with this, because if I had an opinion, pick any social issue, I don't think an employer should be allowed to fire me because of that.

However, we have freedom of association, and a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own.
I hope there is one for more advanced ones such as PS (which already have great doc) and GBA (again good doc already) and such.

Sadly computing has advanced so much that making games on console is far from the older days when programmers need to be smart to think out of box to do stuffs. I guess maybe Switch is closer?
The Amish suffer from genetic disorders due to inbreeding. From the Wikipedia article someone linked to:

Some of these disorders are quite rare, or unique, and are serious enough to increase the mortality rate among Amish children.

I criticized the practice of inbreeding in my first comment.
Action! for the Atari 8 bit series was very well suited to the 6502.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action!_(programming_languag...
Not unless you were using it for leverage ?
> they have basically invented practical stemming for Russian

Living in Ukraine does not make you less factually wrong. They stood on the shoulders of Sergei Starostin and Andrey Zaliznyak. The whole field of Russian Computational Linguistics owes to these two people and their faceless students. Not just Yandex Search.
The only reason to not say it was a lab leak is to avoid embarrassing those responsible, China first and America second.

But little by little people will start accepting that.

What should the consequences be? At the very least a tightening of the controls around labs doing bio research. Of course, this amounts to nothing if someone is allowed to outsource research to labs in countries that don't follow the stringent procedures. So, anybody who does such outsourcing shares the full responsibility if things go wrong.

What about Covid itself? China and America need to provide reparations. How much? Clearly in the trillions, maybe double digit trillions.

How about those who obstructed the investigations? I think they should face justice, and it's not unreasonable to expect that some would go to prison for their obstructions.

Both in China and America? For sure in America, where the arm of justice has a long reach. In China, if Xi wants a well functioning Party, yes, he should sent those who obstructed to jail, for if he tolerates that, his Party will go in decay.
I don't think it's satire or him becoming especially unhinged. It's more that he's against racial hate in general including black on which hate as well as the other way around.
>In this case, the cost to society of people not being able to live close to where they work, or having to pay more to live notably outweights the benefit of people getting to pay a bit less for a vacation. However, because that cost is paid by others and not the people putting the home up or staying there this misallocation still occurs.

I don't think the standard economics characterization of "externalities" includes the opportunity costs of people not being able to use a resource. Even then, I don't see how your argument that vacationers are creating an externality for long term renters is more convincing than the opposite (ie. long term renters are creating an externality for vactioners). Instead, what you seem to be doing is ignoring price signals (ie. the fact that vacationers are willing to pay more for the same unit than "actual" renters), substituting in your own value judgement, and then concluding that there's an externality because the market behavior isn't aligned with your value judgement.
It's simpler. Tools x labs x pathogens and funding x risk of escape = risk.

ALL categories are going up. Ergo, risk is going up exponentially.

No need for conspiracies. Just a proper parsing of the words "lab leak"
Swiss Referendum Likely to Guard Against Digital Currency
AFIAK He was already dropped last year from the papers for other similar incidents, now his video channel was dropped. His young trophy wife left him, and he announced his suicide for this year.
While I agree that going with what the users want is the correct approach, but "a few digits less of accuracy" really undersells how much the data quality will suffer.

It will pretty much become useless (how many people are going to opt-in, realistically?) - and that's fine if it's what the community wants.
That package recommends using a ChatGPT proxy. This proxy has the ability to access ChatGPT in a way that OpenAI hasn’t been able to stop, but it requires a configuration file that is not open source.

Everyone using this proxy needs to provide an OpenAI ChatGPT access token to the server. Let me break this down:

Using the ChatGPT npm package enables an opaque third party access to your credentials to use ChatGPT — or exactly what a botnet / social media manipulation operation would need / want for a convincing bot. They just have to distribute load among all the active access tokens they’ve collected from users.

DO NOT use this library.

DO NOT trust code from authors who either don’t see this obvious vector or are in on it.

To recommend using an opaque third party proxy with no encryption is not acceptable. This lets someone peep into your conversations with the bot on top of the other malicious uses with credential hijacking. And while OpenAI is peeping as well, they are at least using the data to advance AI and most researchers have a deep relationship with the ethics of their field.

Here is the repo in question:
https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/chatgpt-api
Those are still consequences. If people of color are given more slack for racist comments it could be because they're perceived as punching up, whereas white people would be considered punching down. Whites are the majority and certainly control more money and political power in the US.
Windows is not free on new computers. OEMs pay Microsoft for each copy and pass the cost on to you. It is bundled, not free.

My understanding is that Mathematica is truly free on Pi; Raspberry doesn’t pay Wolfram and it does not increase end user price.
What percentage of those “reused” shoes end up in landfill?
The US agency making the assertion is the department of energy. Obviously the foremost thought leaders in virology and epidemiology.
I think you have a skewed views of 'kids these days' if you think they're getting beer a soon as they can.

Data will tell you that alcohol consumption in Europe is down compared to my generation (millennial). They are also more engaged than previous generation, especially compared to the silent generation who basically let their elders kill popular education (I hear a lot of 'OK boomer', but let it be said that boomers fought to conserve our rights in my country, at least in their youth).

Anyway.
Anyone taking reishi to improve sleep?
Congratulations, really great news for independent search engines landscape!
What the take up rate among Millennials and Gen-Z? I thought Evangelicals are declining with each new generation?
What can we read to get a fair overview of Swedish culture with regards to intellectual curiousity, education, conformism (I've seen this claimed but have no firsthand experience), and so on?

Here is one starting point: "Small Facts and Large Issues: The Anthropology of Contemporary Scandinavian Society" : https://www.jstor.org/stable/2155886 ... I haven't read it yet. I like the anthropological point of view though.
Oral Argument Date Set for March 20 in Internet Archive Copyright Case
TIL: A tech unicorn spends a minimum of $5M on just software infra costs
How much visibility do CTOs have into their own tech instrumentation and what kind of neglected savings is one not forseeing with poor tech infra
Why do A.I. chatbots tell lies and act weird? Look in the mirror
The animals get a lot of supplements. And not only the B12, but a lot of other stuff too ... like tons of antibiotics (approximately 80% of all the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for use in animal agriculture.). That's not insanity?

To see what minerals & vitamins we supplement, see https://www.hobbyfarms.com/livestock-nutrition-basics-vitami...
(I'm no expert at this, this was the first page I've found).

Veganism is not a fad diet. It's an upgrade.
> However, I understand we have freedom of association, and a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own.

That's really the heart of it, isn't it? Forget employer for a moment - if you said something really offensive to one of your friends, and they decided to stop being your friend, you'd be upset, but should they be allowed to no longer be your friend? Of course they should. People get to choose with whom they associate, and companies (who are not people, but that's a different post) get to choose who they hire, because those people are a reflection of them. Freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences.
“ If the theory of your publication is to herald the formation of a United States for white people only (or whatever is on the Breitbart masthead), that is not analogous to if you were, as Jacobin, explicitly socialist.”

Both ideologies result in death camps, so they have that in common. Rabid left wing is only more tolerable than rabid right wing if you are an ideologue.
Unless you plan on migrating to the paid tier of Wolfram for professional use, it makes more sense to just use sagemath + mathics:

https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/interfaces/sage/i...

If you're more interested in learning programming, the underlying python libraries like sympy are of more value for algebraic solving, plus numpy and matplotlib for evaluating and visualizing.
The comment you replied to talked about regular uses, things like installing using and removing apps.

A regular user wouldn’t even understand the things you just said let alone how to do them.

Disabling telemetry also seems like a wildly different problem that I’m not even sure regular users would care about.
> Why can a "theme" editor edit application code? Why do I need a developer in order to change what it looks like?

Because CSS, because HTML tags are rendered server side and that H1 should be a H2 or that tailwind div soup is funky, or the company team member pages needs ACF to keep tracks of member profiles because editing the page by hand takes too much time,etc.. webdev :/

The other option is things like Elementor or Divi which aim to give content team the ability to modify layouts (and even links to dynamic elements in db) but it's a whole another mess (but it wouldn't be your, yeah !).

Someone at WP is aware of it though, hence all the work on gutenberg and front-side editing (FSE) which ultimately should turn WP into a complete headless CMS.

> Why is plug-in code not sandboxed? These are WordPress problems.

Definitely ! Wait until you have a plugin breaking wp-cli so you can't deactivate it... rm wp-content/plugins/foobar-plugin -rf to the rescue.

> At the end of the day, if you tell me that WordPress is an application framework, that themes are code and plugins are dependencies, then okay -- devs own it and there's code reviews and staging environments and deployments and migrations and all the rest.

> But if you tell me it's a CMS so marketing people can have a blog, I just ... thought it would be simpler.

Yeah, if marketing just wanted a blog and no forms to collect resumes, polls etc. I'd have given them a ghost or a very reduced/amputated WP and signed binding agreements that no plugins or themes would ever be installed on it.
For me every kind of telemetry, data harvesting and so on should be opt-in.
I was brought up on the GOTO statement in Fortran before the GOTO police outlawed it, so I'm quite familiar with its operation.

Nowadays there's more consideration given to structured programming and that's a good thing but that doesn't necessarily mean that GOTO should never be used—and if it is then it doesn't mean the whole structure of one's program ought to be called into question.

No doubt GOTO can be dangerous and can lead one into bad habits but in certain instances it can simplify code and make it less prone to introduced bugs. Modern coding practice teaches us to recognize and avoid spaghetti code so with those constraints in a programmer's mind he/she should be able to use GOTO effectively and with safety.

The key issue is to know when it's appropriate to use it and when not to.
Women got no benefit after 40. Healthier lifestyle as cause would had them having this benefit at that age range too. It is exactly that age when men started to have benefits. In case of women you have slight benefit at the age range when men are dying more.

69 years old women are not in the long term facilities for that matter eitminor Nor are men. In UK, 66 years old is retirement age. This is age when strength and health declines, but nowhere near the level necessary to be in some kind of facility. These are self sufficient people, able to care about themselves, able to care about relatives or animals.

None of that are numbers that overall superior healthier lifestyle. Just a minor shifts around.
> keep making the damn tool however you want. The thing never would have existed in the first place if they had started with an industry survey. It was created to address a perceived need, by the people with the need, for themselves. This model is perfectly fine moving forward.

I disagree, doing what you feel like is a great approach when you have no users, your building a tool that solves your needs and basically saying "Try this it, it works great for me, maybe it'll be good for you too!"

Once you have millions of users and billions of lines of code you need to think about how your changes affect those users. If you get it wrong there's a huge cost to that (c.f. early forays in to go packaging and dependency management). This is why go's comparability promise is such a big deal and a big part of why go is a very popular language.
The donors should be able to preallocate a proportion to a list of preferred projects, and the distribution within those preferred projects may or may not be based on usage.

Then the remainder can be distributed purely on usage.
In a multi core world concurrency and parallelism are no longer pet use cases.

Unfortunately The slowness of python, gil and really bad design choices of Asyncio in python 3 relative to how elegant parallelism and concurrent programming is in Racket, haskell, elixir and erlang make python a non starter for many basic use cases
It's just an analogy, to show the vast scale of modern multi-national corporations. It's like when they say "If you lined up all of [X] in a row, it would encircle the Earth [N] times." Nothing more than an analogy. [X] never actually encircles the Earth. Some people are taking this analogy a bit too seriously.

The point is that these corporations have an unprecedented amount of market power, and as a result, political power too. Which makes it even more problematic that corporations are inherently non-democratic and don't answer to anything except profit: "By design, the corporation is not a democratic enterprise. Its management is hierarchical..."

Corporations are not exactly like authoritarian countries. Nobody is dumb enough to think that. It's just that there are some troubling similarities.
Reanimation of rats from body temperatures 0/1°C by microwave diathermy(1955)
QI isn't a law, though, that's the thing. SCOTUS just made it up in 1967.

I mean, actually there already is a law. A common sense reading of "No State shall [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" would be interpreted to mean that cops and non-cops can be liable for the same things in the same ways.

But no, cops are special, and not because congress legislated a particular regulation regime, but just because the civil rights era court thought it was unfair to cops to hold them liable for arresting black protesters without cause.

[1] Too lazy to cite the actual law. Finding it is left as an exercise for the reader.
Man I switched from Windows and Android to all Apple recently and it’s a pretty good improvements overall. Competition isn’t caught up, they’re falling behind.

One thing though, software quality has been falling down a lot, including Apple’s
Yeah all too often people forget the first amendment applies to the government not to companies or ordinary people.
The walrus operator did not exist before 3.8, there was no real alternative before. The backlash was from people who dislike the idea and would prefer Python didn't add it.
BYD, China’s Leading Electric Carmaker, Has Arrived in Germany
there was a guy from Kentucky / Tennessee area that moved to California with his long, blonde hair and beard, and studied that carpentry. He had a long wood working tradition at home, and was skilled enough - in the 1970s, when Yoko and John were an item. This guy eventually did visit Japan, but the trip did not go well. Whatever happened, it did not go well.

Later, besides doing occasional museum demonstrations and other high-skill one-off things, you know because he just was not skilled enough for the natives or something .. he got a job rebuilding one of Larry Ellison's mansions, who had a fetish for Japanese wealth. OK actually, he was plenty skilled he was just not the right race apparently.
In that vein, wouldn’t WSL then allow Linux software to run on Windows?
It was a troll campaign racists glommed on to, so now it's a dogwhistle.

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white

Rasmussen Reports is known for its slight average conservative bias. Given the poor design of the poll, this is an outlier where it's worse than slight. This veers off into what I have to assume is intentional red meat for an increasingly radical base.
Per the article, it looks like a supporting report came out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is funded by the DoE.

While LLNL is primarily known for nuclear research, biosecurity is also apparently part of its mission: https://www.llnl.gov/missions/biosecurity
The only thing that actually showed something asymmetric was, afaik, the image showing cosmic rays coming towards you with a certain magnetic polarization of muons. So if cosmic rays themselves would have had the other polarity (coming with N towards you and S away from you), then instead left handed would have been more advantageous? But, then, what's the reason why we don't have any cosmic rays with inverted polarization?

Also, I think that even if the cosmic rays were not an issue and there was no advantage between left and right, only one of them would eventually survive: if there were both lifeforms with the left and the right orientation, they'd be competing for the same resources (while only being able to mutate/copy/evolve within their own type). Eventually one branch is bound to die out while the other remains, even if due to sheer luck rather than large advantage, and from then on the opposite orientation can't really appear/evolve anymore since it can't compete against the existing much more complex life for those resources.
I think part of it is that it feels uncomfortably audacious to apply for something like this. Doesn't come natural for my modest ass. Of course, you won't get any grants you don't apply for.

To be real, it's a doubly great thing I did. Not just for the project, but me. This comes at a time when kinda exhausted from working what is essentially two jobs. It's worn on my relationships, my physical and mental health. I absolutely love the work, but the way I've been juggling things is an unsustainable one-way ticket to burnout city and I'm fully aware of the fact.
https://archive.ph/1CgRI
There have been studies on it. Whether its harmful or not I do not know. [1]

"To address this question, Feinberg, et al. (1975) compared the sleep patterns of experienced marijuana users on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and a placebo. Feinberg, et al. (1975) reported reduced eye movement activity and less REM sleep in the THC condition. They also reported a REM rebound effect, which is more REM activity, on withdrawal from THC. So, there exists some scientific evidence that marijuana interferes with REM sleep." [1]

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-teenage-mind/200...
The Watt steam engine is roughly contemporaneous with the Battle of Plassey and the British ascendency over Bengal, but the Watt steam engine is not the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It built upon cultural and technical innovations from 50 years prior. The British had been engaged in a radical period of industrialization since the start of the 16th century.
So maybe someday we could do rust for the c64?
> By telephone and online, the group surveyed a thousand American adults, with this question: "Do you agree or disagree with this statement, 'It's OK to be white'?" The report found that 72% of the respondents agreed, including 53% who are Black

I have to be honest and say this unsettles me a little.

The rebuttal I’ve seen is that “it’s okay to be white” is a racist meme from 4chan, which invalidates the results.

But that seems to suggests that all the respondents were aware that it’s a racist catchphrase. I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I wasn’t aware.

Further, 72% of the total respondents responded in the affirmative- is the theory that these respondents were not aware of the racist connotation?
I mostly agree. Still, project / owner names (as written in licenses) can change. So the entity in control makes the call, I would think.
Love the one from OC :)