skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty much what the new Bing is. Currently waitlisted. Stability AI is also working to get LAION to this capability but who knows how far away. Maybe some other ones too?
But was it negligence? This is the difference between "a mistake" and "manslaughter".

Without knowing, and a proper investigation, we can't decide. If it was negligence, punishment is used for a variety of reasons. Often, it is the only way to get people to push back against employers.

And fines, are often the only way to get companies to care.
> we have our own coin, too.

Doesn't it use Lightning, i.e. Bitcoin? So no new coin, no app-specific token.
There are other Chinese government behaviours also. If it wasn't a lab leak why not publish the Wuhan labs database which was public until the outbreak? I know they say hacking but they could just make a copy and upload it somewhere. Also after Xi's first speech on covid his civil servants put out instructions to improve biosecurity at the virus labs. And lots of little things that seem a bit odd.
>Joseph Goebbels, 1935

So be like the Nazis (because that worked so well for them).
I really feel for those women, having a partner transition is hard on any relationship. The person you fall in love with is your own perception of who the other person is and all that gets shattered in an instant because of a burden they’ve carrying for their whole lives finally becomes too heavy to bear and it changes their relationship forever. Some people are able to make it through that, others aren’t, and it’s okay either way. But when the relationship ends right after they start transitioning they don’t see their partner work through all their feelings, traumas, and see the other side.

You’re right, that lots of trans women lean into the stereotypes of womanhood right after they come out. And that’s because they’re going through all the awkward cringy phases that teenagers go through. Turns out those phases are more to do with the process of self-discovery than it does age. Because lord knows when I was 15 I wore skirts too short, way too much makeup, and was past the girly phase and already on the “reject pink” phase. They’re learning how to be women just like we all did. It is a source of endless fun teasing one of the women I volunteer with who’s currently going through an emo phase. So maybe it’s cringy but I choose to see the good in that someone is able to be so sincere and authentic and I would feel bad ruining her innocent fun. And just like all other women they figure themselves out and mellow.
I totally agree with this, but my love of Lisps wasn't instantaneous. When it clicked though — which required some effort — and I could appreciate the elegance of the language, I didn't want to use anything else.

Regarding Python, I've always disliked its functional whitespace and OO inclination. Given its popularity, though, I'm clearly a minority!

TL;DR — to each their own.
On the upside, we advanced mRNA vaccine technology faster than it ever could have been done under the normal overly cautious test protocols.

This technology is going to save countless lives and healtcare dollars in the future, so it was for the best, even if it was an accident.
Headphone jack isn't even a niche. Every phone should have it, and they did, and would still had phonemakers not realized they can make a lot more money selling wireless earbuds. The flagship smartphone market is in a state of reduced competition and vertical integration, and if that ever ends, the jack will come back.
The point of responding to internet questions is to teach yourself something new, not to impress others by flexing your knowledge.

Also, one of the best ways to gain new knowledge is to throw something up on the internet and wait for others to explain why you're wrong.

I'm rather disappointed in your response, mostly for the latter reason.

(I think the perturbation business implies some kind of Feynman diagram, perhaps?)
100% agree! I have a mud with no developers left - I guess that is the way of life eh?
HoTs failed miserably at both the fun part and the skill based match making.

Sometimes I had more fun losing but those were exceedingly rare cases that generally involved a friend or two in the group.

I still played the game chasing those rare highs where I actually enjoyed the experience. After losing 30something games in row spread out over a week of nightly playing I just rage quit. Even today years later the game's MM still pisses me off. Mostly because I found the game play mechanics to be fun and I miss the experience of the good games.
This is absurd. I am only comparing the two main options (more or less) for symmetric encryption: 128 or 256.

Edited as not AES but you get the point taking into account that AES256 is the standard.
What client would yoi use with this?
I am 33 yet feel mentally like an 80 year old dementia patient. Physically I'm fine, I can do kip ups all day long, but I feel like I have forgotten more than I can ever hope to relearn.
> as they can reason about any other relation

They can't reason about most other relations, though. They are pretty good at reasoning about the subset of causation that humans talk about a lot; but the stuff that's so obvious we don't write about it, half the time they can't do even when hand-held through the process.

Step 1: cover your table in blue paint. Step 2: empty a bag of confetti on the table, spreading it evenly in a thin layer, one confetto thick. Step 3: dip a bowling ball in neon green glue. Step 4: roll the bowling ball over the confetti until it is fully covered. Step 5: leave to dry. Step 6: coat with a layer of varnish. Step 7: leave to dry. Step 8: visit a 10-pin bowling alley with white bowling pins. Step 9: use your confetti-coated bowling ball to get a strike. Question: what colour are the first, fifth and ninth bowling pins after you have got a strike?

Pretty simple scenario. Doesn't require complex reasoning. Go on, write out the answer. Now see what a GPT-style system says. (Pick whichever you like: I didn't engineer this for any particular one. They're universally bad at this.)

These systems cannot reason.
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Why do you hate the freedom of speech? It seems odd that "free speech absolutists" only seem to care about the speech of right wing trolls and even want to curtail other people's freedom of speech and association in doing so.
Having read a number of Trump administration Executive Orders and not understanding what you mean, could you elaborate?
Even the 12/13 mini is bigger than the iPhone 5, which was considered the biggest phone a regular person could use comfortably with one hand.
And maintaining 0% property tax, interest deductions and lowered taxes on income from work.

Policies that are extremely popular with the average Swede who has a stable income, mortgage etc. But the left and right have both been shafting low income earners for quite a while now.
Structure of FTS5 Index in SQLite
Mapped: The Price of Starbucks Coffee, by Country
Some fashionable variants on that maxim these days:

* I disapprove of what you say and will label you a terrorist / communist / traitor / Putin-puppet / etc. regardless of whether those epithets actually have anything to do with it.

* I disapprove of what you say and will demand you be silenced or canceled in the name of creating a safe friendly environment.

* I disapprove of what you say and use my social media company connections to make sure the algorithm suppresses you. Eh, why even bother? They probably do it automatically already anyway and just direct everybody to safe vetted opinions.
If you're steeped in C and its quirks, have good coding patterns that allow for it, I say knock yourself out.

I'm absolutely coding in C again — writing some old-school games using SDL. After working for decades with various retain/release, garbage-collected, magic-memory™ languages, going back to C feels like programming again. I like it.
I don’t get free speech absolutism. In particular, there’s the old obvious conflict: most conversation takes place online nowadays, on privately owned platforms, like this one. In ideal free-speech land, these platforms are relaying our speech, and the decision to do so or not is part of their freedom of speech.

It isn’t obvious to me that there is an absolute direction. It seems like an interplay of the speech interests of various entities which may push against each other.
I don't think the server is conclusive evidence of anything, but your representation seems misleading to me. The date when the information became publicly unavailable seems like the relevant one to me, even if the server remained connected to the Internet for a few months afterward.

And you seriously believe their claim that it was taken down due to "hacking attempts"? Given the international importance of the subject, is there really no one anywhere in China who can keep a simple database-backed website running? Or could they not share the information in a form that obviously presents no information security risk, like a dump on a flash drive?
You can use Thunderbird or Gnus
At the time trump and his people were first pushing lab leak/bio-weapon conspiracies it was without evidence (and Occam's Razor isn't evidence), and worse the actual evidence we did have at the time suggested it wasn't leaked from a lab. That didn't stop the "crazies" from insisting it was true though.

Anyone can have their own theory of things, but what separates Trump and the "crazies" from the rest of us (including many of those who suspected the lab leak theory was true) is that one group accepted the possibility and investigated that, while the others were running around calling for "china to pay" and beating up random Asian people in the streets at a time when the evidence we had for the the lab leak theory was weaker than the evidence we had for other theories.

Even today, while the evidence is inconclusive, what changed was that we have additional evidence that has raised the level of credibility of the lab leak theory.

"Crazies" went all in regardless of evidence or reason, and for that the pejorative is well earned.
> Jews are not “white”

In classical racial theory terms, Jewish people, as a (sub)racial group are, actually, White (the subcategory hierarchy running, from the top, Caucasian -> Mediterranean -> Semitic -> Jewish.)

Now, its true that despite classic racial theory being intimately connected to various forms of White supremacy, most actual forms of White supremacy include bigotry that operates on different levels than classic races, and treats lots fo White subgroups as either non-White or inferior within the broader White race, but that’s a side issue. “People of color” has never been intended to mean “every group marginalized by the particular people adhering to White supremacy in the immediate social context”; it is fairly inclusive, but its not intended as a catchall, and exclusion of people from that label is not discrimination against them.

> My go to theory, is that some people, who are not quite clear of racial biases, wanted to have a name for specifically and strictly for black people, but without ever using word “black”.

Actually, he term was one of many used during the period of de jure discrimination to refer to people of black ancestry (in some times and places, like “mulatto”, with precise legal definitions which distinguished it from “black”.)

From there it was one of many terms adopted to varying degrees within the community of black ancestry (sometimes, as equivalent to “black”, and sometimes, within some corners of the community that use “black” more narrowly, with a broader definition.)

It faded as an identity label within that community, and was recycle for broader use fairly recently (“black and brown” has been used in a fairly similar sense for a longer time, and still has considerable currency; a lot of activists will use “black and brown people” as the general collective term, but something like “woman of color” when referring to an individual – actual or hypothetical – person.)
networks of pubnixes, servers on which you can have shell access and host webpages at URLs like example.com/~alice

https://tildeverse.org/
HoTs used to do that when I played. You would sometimes get a survey asking you to rank the cooperation of teammates, communication etc. Looking back I sure felt a lot less salty after a loss when I got one of those surveys. Unfortunately Blizzard did absolutely nothing with it.

Another lost opportunity due to a corporation being more concerned about the next quarterly reports than anything else..
Not the person you asked, but I would not prohibit even that. It's not that I like this, but I do not see any way to prohibit the hate speech in a way that is practical and will not be broadened and misused.

We should stop and punish actions, but the state should not punish the speech. My 2c.
The only real concern is with children who transition early - it's unclear to what extent they can consent, and just how much counseling can affect their decision beyond what they genuinely feel (bearing in mind past examples, such as therapists implanting false memories of abuse in children during the Satanic Panic). Pushing someone into puberty blockers etc when they don't actually have gender dysphoria is also causing significant suffering for them later in life. Safeguards shouldn't preclude those who need therapy and surgery from having access to it, but we don't need more of this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Gender_Identity_Developmen...
Already happening.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/25/tech/cnet-ai-tool-news-st...
>> I don't think there's any speech, including hate speech, that I would ban

How many times do we have to experience a charismatic (or just populist) leader using hate speech to compel great evil though? I don't want to wait until after the act to try and hold them accountable.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9

It took years to discover the location for the SARS bats. China is large, undeveloped and has lots and lots of bats.
then why even propose any theory ? why not let it remain a mystery.
> But what he didn't do was suppress the press, jail the reporters, etc.

See "Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest"[1]. PEN America, Protect Democracy and the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Clinic also sued the government because of press suppression[2][3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-ch...

[2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/16/trumps-at...

[3] https://pen.org/pen-america-v-trump/
Garbage in, Garbage out
I'm 38 I'd say I began to feel I was getting older in the last 5 years or so.

I used to go out every Friday night and carry on into the long hours of the night. Nowadays by the time Friday comes around I'm completely exhausted.

I've noticed it with sleep as well - these days if I stay up later than usual or I have a poor night of sleep I really feel it at work the next day.

Lastly my metabolism has changed I've never really struggled with my weight but last 2 years or so I have begun putting on weight and for the first time in my life I am starting to develop a gut. I suspect some of it was due to pandemic and being less active than usual during that time but I really started to notice it towards the end of last year.
https://tilde.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
Anybody that dogmatically avoids something like a cult probably doesn't practice the holistic thinking necessarily to design large systems.

People mocking the use of goto is a bozo bit switch for me. It can switch back, but offering pithy out of context absolutisms and trying to pass it off as wisdom is a hard point to recover from.

It's almost always in one's interest to play dumb and not be sure of anything. That's what I see the smart people do.
Pessimistic take -- it's entirely possible the woman in this story doesn't really want a realistic and happy relationship. Perhaps she's subconsciously choosing serial monogamy with attractive players because of her own attitudes of what an ideal man looks like.

Maybe that's too harsh. Or maybe once a person talked to her there would be dozens of more layers and tests and games involved.
Well thanks to ChatGPT which that was the so-called 'supposed' revolution that will change everything, hailed by the media and on HN, without advanced detectors it will be even worse.

I guess it is useful to creative liars, bull-shitters and people who are masters of manipulation.
Typescript as its own thing, with real types, not compiling to JS or being limited to its semantics, I could get behind as a language for game scripting.
I understand your point. I mixed background, long term tendancies with on-the-field daily feelings.

I should have more emphasized on the long-term tendancy : almost all lights are now red in France (and not so better in the UK) :

- Educational system is in shambles. Not enough manpower, not enough funds, too many kids per classroom. Level is steadily dropping. France's PISA ranking is getting worse and worse.

- Health system is on his knees, and the decision to fire (without pay) the unvaccinated health staff put a additional strain upon it. Thousands of them left for Quebec.

- National debt is higher than ever.

- A great portion of the French GDP is in fact born from the pensions spendings (legal age for retirement was 62 till now, and 26% of the total population is 60 yo and more) and public workforce (12,4% of total GDP, very similar to northern europe).

- We lost most of our nuclear workforce and engineering because the plan was to phase out nuke power plants for renewables... until two years ago. I Have a part of my relatives directly involved in nuclear power production field, now retired and they lament the loss of the once respected french "expertise" (well, mainly bought from Westinghouse but cough).

- Big compagnies still perform well (especially luxury companies - thanks China), but the other industrial ones are outsourcing/offshoring production at an alarming rate (the plan was to relocate and reindustrialize, but this was also before the energy crisis). Not much hope here.

Consequently, spendings being high, labour costs are also high (too much, if you ask me). Even if 26% are 60 yo or more, we still "benefit" from a quite high immigration, but we aren't quite able anymore to make the better of it because of the failing public education system.

Forecast are not particulary good, hence the pressure from the EU commission to reform the French pension system and target 65 or 64 yo as legal retirement age.

In fact, very similar to the UK, with more socialism ?

For the "young ones" (I'm 40), I fear that they won't be able to acquire the skills they need if they don't have the basic knowledge (numeracy and literacy foremost) and softskills layer they are currently losing.
> On the upside, we advanced mRNA vaccine technology faster than it ever could have been done under the normal overly cautious test protocols.

that's not quite true. they didn't change anything fundamental in the test protocols they just compressed them a bit and cut out some red tape by submitting some things early instead of at the end of the trials like it would normally be done. it also reached the endpoints faster because they could get significant data because the virus was so contagious; it's not like some other virus that spreads much slower like say aids.
Current techniques can sometimes get causation right. What's it going to take to get it right as reliably as a person?

I predict that the "Transformers Plus Scale" formula will not magically deliver reliability. Other ideas will be needed.

Many people seem to be so impressed at these models ever getting something right, they assume that always getting it right will be trivial. Well, mark this page and come back in five years. All the crowing about The Bitter Lesson will look quaint and everything I said here will be vindicated.

Exponential improvement on benchmarks is an iron law... until it isn't.
Puberty blockers are not a wild or experimental new drug. They have been to children for decades, for a completely different reason: early puberty.
No. Low confidence means they have a bunch of crap theories. The lab leak theory is simply the least crappy theory.

That's the nuance.
I'm sorry you have a problem with people exercising their right to free speech.
Rendering a platform native GUI and what you render it on are two different things. In the case of Zed, its a combination of
- metal is quite easy to work with
- apple has clear design guidelines and nice toolkits

The Xi editor team quickly found out how much of a mess "native" gui's were on windows. Zed will hopefully add support for vulkan and linux/windows later, but it makes sense to start off on macOS
> On each visit, vendors were asked what species they had sold over the preceding month and in what numbers, along with the prices (US$1:RMB¥6.759) and origin of these goods (wild caught or captive bred/ farmed).

It might be true that no bats were sold in Wuhan wet markets, but this methodology doesn't seem the slightest bit credible.

Imagine if you were selling bats (is that legal in China?) from a likely illegal source (probably illegal in China?). Would you give honest information about the animals you were selling, particularly knowing how criminals can be treated in China?

You might as well ask suspected drug dealers how much crack they're selling in schools: you'll get the same quality of answer.
Yeah I had a whole slew of servers saved that I would regularly play on. If I was in a serious try hard mood I had a selection of servers I'd check. If I was in a half as I'm drunk and want to play I had a group of servers for that. If I wanted to play the warcraft 3 mod I had servers for that too. Even had servers for off the wall stuff talked about above.

Now I dunno...
These stories about not being able to hire developers sound like the software industry's version of "No one wants to work [here] anymore." I have real difficulty believing that these positions are as hard to fill they are made to sound. Comments about how it takes "months before [new hires] can be productive" certainly don't help in that regard.
Looks like the link is rickrolling when you come in via HN referrer if anyone's confused. Also might explain the downvotes on the parent comment if you know the URL to be legit.

Copy paste the link to save a minor annoyance. It's a bit persistent as they used a 301 permo redirect, open incognito if you've already clicked it.
CACB
I don't agree with your assertion on upfront purchases. If you sell a product people get good value from, you need to meaningfully improve that product to sell it again to the same user after improving it.

Many people are perfectly happy with old versions of software - they don't need the new improvement, so they don't buy it. If anything, subscriptions somewhat disconnect the feedback of improvements, right? Users have to subscribe to use your software, and most of the time they'll do it whether you make your software better or not, unless there is a direct competitor that is easy to switch to (or becomes so superior they overcome inertia).

I agree that in theory, a subscription is not necessarily bad - but most of the time people are happy with some set of features, and do not necessarily need a continuously improved product. In that sense, subscriptions are forcing people to spend more money on software improvements they may not need. I guess this is probably good for software developers, but bad for people in general (This applies more to tools than a continuous service that requires significant maintenance to keep up to date anyway, I suppose). The problem is companies attempting to turn almost everything into a subscription, even those that don't need significant regular updates or maintenance.