skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can that possibly be true?

Reality is, only a court can decide, and that will only possibly happen after some copyright owner sues (mostly likely sues the corporation behind ChatGTP) for copyright infringement, and the case actually goes to trial instead of being settled.
At my college dorm I was able to receive mail sent to:

Room number
9-digit zip

Like

219
65432-9876

It may have helped that all mail to that 5-digit zip went to the school, and its mail room people might have had more time on their hands than the USPS.
"What’s fascinating to me is that as recently as a year ago, virtually nobody was talking about this risk. It wasn’t on anybody’s radar."

Like-minded people like Carl Malamud have worried about this in the context of legal knowledge for over a decade. When there is a monopoly (duopoly of West/Lexis(Thompson Reuters) on the "official" publication of statutes, regulations, codes, and other aspects of government, what protections are there that they won't introduce inaccuracies of their own?

What was really scary was that in order to contract for a new copy of say, a certain state's set of statutes, you used to (maybe you still do, I don't know) have to agree to either send back to the company or destroy your old copies. You couldn't be allowed to compare the version from the past if you thought "well this is weird, I always thought murder was illegal but this version says murder is legal." You don't know if that's a typo in this one version, a cosmic ray bitflip, or something more nefarious (and murder would probably be the least conspicious law to get that accomplished).

What if something that used to be punishable by a $10,000 or prison has a new version that suddenly states $100,000 or prison.

We have to have a way that preserves all old legal knowledge and all new legal knowledge - it will never be safe to just go all on digital infrastructure in this regard. There are so many times as a lawyer I want to see the oldest existing paper copy.

And now I have to worry about AI hallucinating an authentic-looking paper copy...
Not sure if it’s just me but I get an invalid SSL cert warning and can’t load the page (DDG mobile browser)
Florida bill to require bloggers writing about governor to register with state
This is why I wouldn't dare to use their services. And doubly so if one of the companies they shared with was Facebook.
These are Altair 8800s for those who are curious but not curiou enough to click. Have LED outputs push button inputs and a usb connection to load/unload backup programs.

I've been eyeing digirule for a while me er pulling the trigger.

I do have several PCB rulers, the random high frequency pads are interesting.
> Some SMSes sent by Google Messages already don't arrive at non-RCS clients

That's a problem worth solving. Apple Messages falls back from iMessage to SMS transparently; Google RCS should do the same.
Where I work we have a 10K a year server budget but used to just use free Heroku instance
Could it be that people don’t get much traction out of those posts and even if they have positions open they just don’t come back to post it there?
I use 8 fingers with two thumbs for carrying.

That can be interpreted mathematically or practically.
Reminds me of Yog-Sothoth, which would be a great name for an anthropomorphized statistical model...

> Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.
It's even more obvious for (good) 3D movies. I saw the most recent Avatar movie several times, in several different projection formats, and it was extremely clear to me that if you don't see it in Dolby Cinema 3D (high frame rate and all) you're barely seeing it at all. Even proper "real" IMAX 3D doesn't come anywhere close in terms of brightness, depth of 3D, lack of blurriness.

I'm a huge fan of both Avatar movies, not because they're great story or anything, but because they do 3D so well and the world so immersive and interesting. And I fear the fact that all but a slim minority of 3D theaters are so sub-par will be a huge setback for the format and discourage other filmmakers from investing in making 3D that's as good.
> Almost no attack surface

I guess you mean because SSI is just a very limited mechanism as opposed to full blown Turing complete PHP or similar. But actually if the fragments/partials you include via SSI are user-posted content (comments) or syndicated content then of course SSI can't fence against <script> or other injections. In that case, you could use more sophisticated SGML mechanisms (other than SGML processing instructions as used by PHP or magic SGML comments as used by SSI) such as entity reference expansion that come with full type checking and context-dependent validity assessment for filtering all kind of injections (script elements, event handler attributes, image or link href injections or whatever). But you should at least use content-security-policy headers to block inline script.
As a side note: it's nearly impossible to upgrade to a higher Sheets API rate limit.

We tried it all: options in Cloud Console, speaking with support, talking to sales reps. Google simply doesn't want that money and doesn't care if you are hitting limits and want to upgrade.
I like it because it means they will never be my competition for anything but incredibly niche/domain-specific boomer software people have no choice but to begrudgingly use.
Friendship across a lifespan
You still need all the stuff necessary to build a system. It just runs on the background instead of you initiating it.
what, secondary/solidarity striking is not allowed in the US?
I wonder how long this is viable, especially considering the ever increasing inequality in most western societies.
Oh. Cool. I learned something new.
A lot of the stuff you mentioned is quite recent OR doesn’t actually impact teenagers, and the really egregious politics didn’t kick off that badly until Trump got in. The graph shows a sharp rise in teen happiness starting about 2011.
> Works like Siri

you can also make it work _with_ siri. i get around this by proxying it through a sms service which is integrated with my bot via webhook. then use elevenlabs for TTS. sample siri query "hey siri tell leobgAi to check my finances"
Unleashing the Power of COBOL and Clean Code: Foward Pass in Legacy Languages
I've been working on a project that involves primarily developing a neural network in Cobol, and its been a real interesting experience. I'm hitting some roadblocks unfortunately but I have learned a lot about computation and life. My code is clean but my data is dirty.

I know Cobol is not the most cutting-edge language out there, but it has some serious advantages when it comes to reliability and security.
I've been able to get the backpropagation algorithm working pretty well, but I'm running into issues with the forward pass. Specifically, I'm struggling with the activation functions and how to implement them in Cobol. I'm using a sigmoid function, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly. I have tried using linked list for the weights but i'm still getting segfaults.
I've also been having trouble sleeping, because I'm so excited about the potential of using Cobol for neural nets.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experience working with neural networks in Cobol, and if so, what strategies you've used for the forward pass and activation functions. I'm also curious about any tips or tricks you have for writing clean code in Cobol.

I've reached out a ton to the PyTorch and jax devs to see if they might be interested in helping me develop a way to transpile it to Cobol so I can use more modern techniques, but they haven't responded to my emails.

Everyone on this site is on average much more polite, resourceful and ambitious compared to the other tech sites. I found this influential and I've been striving to demonstrate my skills by finishing a language model in COBOL, and I am almost finished I think.

I really thought the rigid and explcit nature of cobol would satisfy my craving for clean code. I'm the type of dev that writes 5 extra lines of python so that everyone knows what it does. But now I am getting confused with the level of verbosity, the level of explicitly has led to implicit complexity. I finally understand Turing completeness as a theoretic possibility not endless flexibility.

And has anyone else had success writing neural nets in Cobi? My code is getting wild out here. I'm starting to wonder if I'm in over my head here.
My develop experience and clean code is trending downward by the hour.
> So because he tricked people into paying fees while performing more or less what the market does, he's an "expert"?

Who do you think was tricked into investing with him?

His fund did well, not sure how you are imagining an investor is being tricked into investing in a successful hedge fund? Can you elaborate on that?

His returns according to wikipedia beat the market so again, I'm confused as to where you figure he did what the market did.
Republic of Moldova:“Romanian language” will replace “Moldovan language” in laws
About time to move in that direction!

Google translation: https://www-jurnal-md.translate.goog/ro/news/d62bd002b2c558d...
> I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't anything you or anyone else developed on company time at another company be owned by that company and thus proprietary?

In theory yes, in practice ... if that's true, why would anyone ever hire you for your experience? You wouldn't be allowed to use it.
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I haven't been to a cinema since COVID and hardly went before then (once or twice a year).

I spoke last year with a friend who runs theatre distribution for a major studio. He said this is common among Xers like me, but that older people and, surprisingly, genZ are enthusiastic cinema-goers. I would not have guessed the latter.

I think it's unlikely I'll ever go to a cinema again. I hear about films being released in cinemas these days and figure I'll just see it when it comes to streaming...or maybe not.
Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet
Most of the crappy proprietary apps on Flathub still have very broad permissions that make sandbox escape trivial.
Perhaps because rich people would pay more, so they tell their pet legislators that bill better not pass? It's always about the money.

I'm not saying this is actually true -- it's just my hypothesis.
Because the computer in this case is relying on a vast repository of human knowledge encoded in these languages to go from 1 to 3. Machine code was probably not in the training set.

Would be interesting if you could train a GPT-N model to be a compiler somehow.
Probably because the sheets team doesn't want to be in the database business and there are lots of other Google products that let you use them as a database on purpose?
why not just leaving it UTC? it's not like time zones make sense on Earth anymore so why start it? plus there are no Earth-like daylight patterns there that humans could possibly adapt their sleep to, lasting weeks at a time
This was my entire point - it's actually exceptionally easy to quantify, in an objective way. CRM stock price! If the distributed decision making system that is the market decides this was or was not worth it, based on all available information, then we will know!
Yeah, I’ve noticed that the quality is the same or better.

And it is so much faster as well!
Specifically regarding non-competes - No, a Union negotiating for no non-compete does nobody any good. The moment you go to a different company that is not serviced by that same Union (or perhaps the Union did not negotiate this), then you are back at square one - signing a non-compete or finding a different job.

The only solution to non-competes is at the State and Federal level. Anything less solves nothing, but sounds good...
FWIW, I agree with you (and I don't see where I dismissed it), but the point is that even a certain type of utilitarian-inclined programmer is wrong on their own terms.
This is not accurate. That's its main purpose, but it covers more than just that.

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/hipaa.html
Garbage in, garbage out. That paper assumes that the case data made available was a complete and unbiased sample of actual Covid cases in Wuhan as of Dec. 2019. There are many good reasons to suspect that wasn't the case.
The US has murdered more brown people in the name of gender equality than the CCP has in the name of communism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/...

Or if you want it summarized in one picture: https://i.redd.it/p2wqu0okn9371.png
in my lifetime, "illegal" workers went from What? to So What. I mean every State in the USA, most cities, many street corners.. How can anyone talk about labor economics without starting with this..
Alternatively, you could specify the type of the source code so the user agent could handle the syntax highlighting—just like every other source code viewer ever written aside from those with idiosyncrasies related to the fact that they that belong to a special class called "Web browsers".
I don't care about features aside from pictures, groups, emojis, reactions, editing and threading
Hmmm what could possibly fnordpiglet meant when he said what he said... but then again, each consecutive comment may or may not have been serious. Including this one.
Thank you! At the end of the day, you have to raise your children in a way that's comfortable to you. Even if there were a scientifically "correct" template for raising every child, your own discomfort will shine through if it just doesn't work for you personally, and they'll pick up on that.

I take comfort in knowing that humans have been raising humans for a million years, and it usually works out alright. That must mean our own instincts are mostly good enough.

Also want to point out what another commenter mentioned; technically anything that can break a bone can do more damage than that.
I get involved in social activities in the town I live in. I go to local developer meetups to spend time with other nerds, meetups related to non-technical interests (scifi, history, etc), local shows and events, and invite people I meet at those things to do things.
> Nobody thinks about the consequences of who they can text when they buy a phone, and why should they?

Many of my friends have made the choice to get an iPhone so that they can use iMessage (and FaceTime)
Personal anecdote: I recently looked at the Gitlab pricing / model, in particular for on-premise hosting, as we came across Gitlab booth at a show. I wasn't very happy with our solution so an alternative would have been really welcome. I was so confused by the many redirects and feature lists on the page that we decided to ask a representative there to explain it to us instead. If I remember correctly the outcome was that if we host it ourselves we pay 100$/person/month.

What surprised me was how surprised the representative was that there is absolutely no way I would be able to convince the CFO to go from 0 to 100$/person a month for a bit of convenience. Apparently, quote: There are many who are happy to pay that. - WHO AND WHY?
But then again isn't there a desirable thrill in solving those puzzles?

I'm sure it gives you the same dopamine boost it gives me everytime that apparent conflict between my assumptions and reality gets resolved.
> There is no bubble because literally everyone has whatshapp

Given how much Europeans bitch about America and American corporations, I continue to be dumbfounded by the tremendous love for Whatsapp. It's made by Facebook FFS. I am pretty amazed at the number of people who are happier with Facebook managing their private communications than they are Apple.

Or, it's just network effect and a lot of rationalization. That's the simpler answer.
> If a contract say "the payment must be received before March 1, 2123"

Then the contract is incompletely specified. March 1, 2123 according to whose time?
Either you're wrong, or you're a marketing genius who's perspective and ideas can change the industry. If it's the former, a lot of highly paid people aren't idiots. If it's the latter, you should probably go out there and change the world!
> There's no such thing as a progressive company

Patagonia.
Couldn't you package it up in a waterproof enclosure that is then glued inside the corrugations on the outside of a container? It might still be damaged, but it seems like it should usually survive. Power is definitely an issue, but you can pack a handful of D cells in there and run it in ultra-low power mode to stretch them out.

Of course if someone wants to do something nefarious they'll be able to just bash your device with a hammer to disable it, but that's true no matter where it is mounted.
I just saw a podcast about a startup that was working with Medicare/Medicaid to reduce costs by improving preventative care [1].

They look for people at risk, target them and take a cut of the overall reduced spend.

If Medicare is requiring the same outcomes and disbursing per-person based on the cost to Medicare, then the insurance company's profit would have to come from either selecting for healthier people on the input side, or keeping them healthier for longer. Selecting for healthier people might be hard if it's "all signups allowed".

That sounds like a good thing.

[1] https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/how-to-sa...
Science is based on chasing the gods out of natures. We talk about cold and warm fronts and circulatory patterns instead of Thor being angry.

Ascribing agency to inanimate things is a return to the pre-scientific past and an abandonment of science.

I rather happen to like my antibiotics and weather prediction more than sacrifices to the gods.
I'm not a constitutional lawyer but I don't believe that a reasonable person would have to be one to see the problem here.
Works just fine for me
Why did you always think that? Doesn’t seem true at all to me. Seems kind of wild that a country as rich and privileged as America struggles to provide healthcare to its citizens without going broke?
Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement [video]
https://archive.is/oH9QZ
One can buy large building air conditioners that use water to move heat around. There will still be refrigerant somewhere in the system, but there won’t be long refrigerant pipes anywhere.

I don’t know how popular these are. I have seen multiple condo buildings with a water source heat pump in each unit. The usual suspects (Mitsubishi, Daikin, etc) have hydronic systems with outdoor heat pumps on their websites. Chiltrix markets a small-building solution.
Pioneering Moses Lake flight uses hydrogen to power regional airplane
Interesting idea. The verifying correctness kind of seems like the most important part though, and entirely non trivial. Test driven development maybe?
Also, it does nothing to prevent bringing balance to the massive imbalance between employer and employee power in the US.

mind you, employers in the US are protected by a massive amount of governmental support, both legislative as well as financial. Workers have very little protection in comparison, and most of those got seriously reduced after the end of world war 2.
> Put simply, HIPAA only applies to insurance based transactions.

That’s not true.

(Following explanation has been edited significantly to accurately describe how HIPAA applies beyond insurance transactions; original was overly broad.)

HIPAA was centrally about insurance (it is the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”), and only covers providers who conduct certain insurance-related transactions electronically, but the privacy positions apply to conduct by those covered healthcare providers generally as well as the whole chain of insurance transactions connected to them (not just to the content of covered insurance transactions, or patients involved in those transactions), it was put in the bill to address concerns with the standardization and promotion of electronic transactions and standard identifiers for insurance transactions, which critics feared would result in a health care privacy apocalypse, but it applies beyond the scope of the insurance transactions.
How does Dynamic differ from ImmutableX's Passport^[0]? And why should someone use Dynamic over them?

[0]https://www.immutable.com/products/passport
Reminds me of this joke:

Moshe is an apprentice septic tank cleaner. When his shop gets an emergency call, he and his senior head out to the site.

The place is a mess. The experienced septic cleaner wastes no time, pulls up his shirt and dives right in, head first.

After a while, he pops back out and reaches with his hand: "I need the Channellock pliers". Moshe hands him the pliers, and the expert dives back in. Then, out he pops again: "Jumbo plunger, now!". Moshe hands him the plunger, and the old man disappears once more. Finally, he re-emerges and pulls himself up with a tired-but-content look on his face:

"See, Moshe, if you don't take it seriously and apply yourself to this job, you're going to carry that toolbox all your life."
Because we don't have a system that understands language and generates code. We have a token predictor trained on a huge corpus of code mixed with explanatory language. And the existing huge corpus of code mixed with explanatory language consists, necessarily, almost entirely of code written in human-oriented languages.
> If one were to have $100 million invested in the Speaker of the House's stock-picking abilities at the beginning of 2019, the same investment would compound to $192 million as of today, slightly off the November high, when the portfolio hit its peak of almost $309 million. Pelosi's strategy generated a negative year-to-date return of 36.04%, accompanied by a negative one-year return of 36.61%, both slightly underperforming the S&P 500 (SPY). - Q3 2022

I wanted to take a look at this because given stock trades are public you'd think there'd be an ETF to track trades for the speaker of the house, but in reality it seems like people wildly overstate the profitability of their winning trades and understate their losses because "slightly underperforming the S&P 500 (SPY)" doesn't make the same headlines. In the long term, they appear to be no better off than the average portfolio picker.