skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't think Chomsky's NYT piece was very strongly argued (it seems a mish-mash of different points, some somewhat convincing and others quite unconvincing), but this is at least as bad.

It starts off with a complete mischaracterization of Chomsky's research program (to imply that he is a disgruntled sore loser in the race to build machine intelligence) and then continues with a bogus analogy to imply Chomsky is a kind of deluded religious fanatic.

Then it concludes with a note complaining that people don't trust the objectivity of the author's opinions now that he's employed by the entity he's defending - well, yes, of course they don't, that's the compromise you made when you decided to take Open AI's money.
All the American TikTok users' speech.

The government doesn't get to ban speech in the park just because they allow it at the beach.
Take home lesson, start wearing sun hoodies.
What registrars has HN been using lately?

I've been super lazy and use Route53 for everything right now.
Fast software rasterizers are not slow at drawing text in the first place.
Url Manipulation on Gambling Websites
This url had atleast one other url that has been manipulated to always win and siphon all the money from the actual users. I need a web scraper for iOS to find the rest of the hidden and dead urls
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654#28207594

> https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui https://github.com/xou816/spot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654&p=2#28206619

> macOs … https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
This has been posted many times before, but I thought of it yesterday when I saw this essay by Chomsky in the New York Times, "The False Promise of ChatGPT."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...
Poverty is cyclical. It continues because it's expensive to be poor, and one road block multiplies to many roadblocks.

You're upset about the SF homelessness budget and homelessness activists, but what is your solution? break up homeless camps and throw all their earthly possessions into a dumpster, then tell them to "elevate themselves" at the shelter where they're more likely to be assaulted and stolen from?

Or maybe send as many to prison as you can to "teach them a lesson"?

Can you point to a study where safe injection sites make drug problems worse?

Can you point to anything where its physically possible to "pull oneself up by their bootstraps"?

Look, I get it, you don't like looking at them, they make you feel bad, you don't want to see them as human. But you can't just solve poverty by telling the diseffected masses to become an entrepreneur.
Maybe they'll get yelled at. I would bet against any of their houses having been burned.
Not true. Swift uses value semantics for structs and enums, arc for classes. The arc optimizer afaik is able to remove atomics when it can determine code is not used for multi threading too.
> Road transport related emissions are just 12% of total emissions

If you split everything far enough they all are a single digit % of the total. It's a good way to rationalise the idea of not doing anything

Also, looking at your own graph, road transport is the largest sector in the third layer
Sometimes you want or feel compelled to one thing, but also really, really want another thing that's in (ideological) conflict with the first thing. Also, spending years as priest and then giving it up sounds harsh, they probably have no marketable skills.
It doesn't follow here. PRISM did not censor anything.
Yeah, most of the 90s home console ports were to systems that had less than 4MB RAM. Jaguar, 3DO, PlayStation, SNES, 32X. The GBA also has less than 512KB RAM and a 16MHz ARM and had Doom and Doom II ports. Some cutbacks might be necessary but probably doable.
I think you completely missed the point of the piece.

Unless, that is, you intended for your comment to be a very bland summary of the piece, and not some kind of insightful counter-argument.

You may also find this referenced blog post interesting: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-ma...
What UVs would you use for full-screen effects? Typically you are only interested on the screen position to sample relevant buffers, i.e. gl_FragCoord or interpolated vertex positions depending on what scale you want.
Many SUVs aren't even made to go off-road. Even the mighty Electric Hummer was just recalled because it's not water tight enough[1]

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/investing/gmc-hummer-ev-recalled-o...
https://dontbuyayeti.com/
I usually don't block adds on my work computer. As I'm not really assaulted by retail adds on the regular work sites.
Taking the modern definition of inflation as measured from the purchasing power of currency within the economy, you'll find house price increases are actually a major driver of inflation. If you allowed construction and more supply, house prices would stabilize and inflation would go down. If you want to hedge inflation just buy Series I bonds instead. There's other ways.

Really though, I would argue that housing in aggregate is not a good hedge against inflation because while it is true that the price of an average square foot of housing in the United States has gone up almost zero percent adjusted for inflation over the last 50 years, you have had to do 50 years of maintenance on it, 50 years of insurance premiums, 50 years of paint, siding, roofing, etc. And a 5% realtor commission. By definition, it has therefore, on average, trailed inflation.

If you are looking at specific houses, in specific areas, that's not "housing is a good hedge against inflation" it's "if we look at the winners in a speculative market, we find that they have won" which isn't so much an investment philosophy as a tautology.

That said a mortgage may be a good hedge against inflation but only by virtue of it being a long-duration fixed-interest debt facility with preferential interest treatment at income tax time. And 5X leverage.
Why not a minivan?
I think your idea of what Pythonic Rust might be goes against one of Rusts goals: not having hidden, costly abstractions, and instead giving the developer explicit control.

If you don't feel you need control over when data is copied, when there should be a mutex, atomic reference counting, and so on, you're probably reaching for the wrong language. IMO giving us explicit control of low level behavior is not a detriment to ergonomics as much as it is a benefit. Add in the package manager and great compiler and it feels like first class dev experience to me.
Well as the OP I would like to thank you for writing out an insightful reply.
You are speaking about the topic in a way that I also feel captures some of the nuance and frustration about communication and free-ness these days…
Much seems to be aligned with shutting people up as opposed to having a moral standard.
> Dish said its patents covered adaptive bitrate streaming technology that lets users stream content from around the world in real time "at the highest possible quality".

Appears this may be the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407564B2/en
> Last week we had to ford a 20' wide, 3' deep creek.

Then you're in a tiny minority of SUV owners, most of whom drive SUVs that can't handle that scenario and most of those never see anything but paved roads.

> I also haul 10,000lbs of livestock on a regular basis.

An even rarer need. If you feel you need an SUV, fine. Some people need other kinds of assistive devices too. But the point here is that there are millions of SUVs out there that are actually less practical for their owners' usage patterns than other kinds of vehicles, with harmful effects on both pedestrian safety and the environment. Focusing on the exceptions is distraction at best.
I went to Catholic school. The indoctrination is non-stop. Seminary I would gander is doubly worse. I don't know how true it is but I've long heard that many gay priests discover that fact in Seminary after they've taken a vow of celibacy. I can imagine that's a very tough place to be mentally, especially after making such a commitment.
A new barrier at the border: The U.S. government’s terrible app
The Future Is Quantum
To be fair, now that almost all professionally-written passes through a rewriting compiler, Javascript actually has evolved to a ecosystem that _can_ handle rapid (non-breaking) changes to a language spec.

I'd also argue that the majority of these changes are to the standard library (new methods on String, Array, RegExp, etc). Not really core language changes. I don't know how often the go libs update but surely faster than the language spec?
What's the real world client experience of developing UIs to render @ 120FPS - is it like once you have tried it going back is really hard?
Starling Bank would be a better example than Revolut.
Hardware Virtualization Support in the RISC-V CVA6 Core
Presumably they want to discourage these activists from deflating their tires. Because they want inflated tires. And there isn't any other obvious recourse at the time.
Viable superconducting material created in Rochester lab
Route53 is Gandi under the covers
I drive my family around in an SUV with no shame. I'll sell it when all the yuppies, crying about my SUV stop globe trotting around in polluting aircraft everytime they feel they need more Instagram karma or they miss their "bestie" who lives across the country.
Ask HN: What is a way someone demonstrates value in your opinion?
Specifically outside of a money or economic context.

What creates value behind money? Can you name anything?
Most people drive SUV now, they're safer when it snows and winter, built sturdier, and pack more.
As a Canadian more global warming please! This country some of the worse weather in world
At least MS doesn't demand an active cell phone number through which they can physically track you everywhere you go (not just where you are right now), like ChatGPT (VOIP and landlines not accepted, only cell).
I went to a catholic school and the indoctrination wasn't that bad. The school would accept non-catholic pupils as well and never really pushed it on them.
I personally use Namecheap and Name.com for a few other domains. My rule of thumb is domain registrars only get to manage my domains. Registrars love to upsell you on email and hosting but in my experience that's where all the bullshit starts. If you just buy a domain, you could go to place like GoDaddy and probably have a decent experience.

EDIT: Just like I said, in the original thread they are talking about Ghandi screwing customers on email inboxes. Follows my rule of "anything outside of domains and the bs starts".
Have you heard of Vipassana meditation? They do something similar, but you are allowed to eat. It isn't for 1 day though, but for 10. Link here - https://www.dhamma.org/en/
Microfocus is a name I've not heard in a good few years - the last time I heard of them was for their COBOL compilers, on SCO Unixware.
The same thing we've always done: pattern matching based on characteristics with fuzzy boundaries. Cladistics is useful as a way of classifying things for biologists, but not very useful in day-to-day life. e.g. if someone says "let's go sit under those trees", or "let's chop down some trees for firewood", replying that there is no such thing is a tree is not a very useful response.
Canadian airlines are not special. Air Canada has a negative operating income. They don't make shit.

Since you seem to be missing the point, let me make it simple for you. If you have 100 passengers and two plane types, one can seat 100 passengers in a economy configuration, and another can seat 50 passengers in a business configuration with more room, and all 100 passengers must fly, which is the more efficient one? Which one is going to be double the price? Which one makes the airline more money (hint: neither)?

Aching knees? You poor thing. Fly business class then, it's available to you, but don't pretend like you care about the environment.
Actually, Hannah Ritchie of Our World In Data just tweeted today that „negligible emitters“ can matter. She gave the example of countries that are emitting less than 2% each but combined they emit more than China does. It’s many drops that fill the bucket.

https://mobile.twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/16338023707...
Shreebs.
Then we should relocalise everything back to US and EU ;)

https://www.productivity.govt.nz/assets/BlogImages/2835c5ad2...
This goes for any type of product development. Speed is a requirement for innovation (you need to try lots of things to see what sticks, and if you can only try things slowly then not many things will be tried), and good tooling is a requirement for speed.

Best, of course, is if you find ways to use off-the-shelf tooling (maybe with some exaltation) so you can spend more time on the thing you're supposed to be doing. Either way, you should have a toolmaker in the team.
Extra-extra challenge: drive a different track in real life as in the game.
In addition to magit being awesome, it's sometimes very useful that since macros work everywhere I can use them in magit buffers.

Or in grep buffers to apply some change to a known pattern for refactoring if it's too difficult for tooling.

Relating back to the article, it's the text-based nature that easily allows for something like macros to work everywhere.
They used to be, got greedier and here we are.
I was about to be mean about how this was basically a waste of time, but as I read the results I was reminded of how my Quaker school would sit in utter silence for for 30 minutes every Thursday. This "quiet reflection" was seen to open our heads to all the thoughts we run from, or never have time for, and it seems OP experienced this with his slightly extra 24hr version.

Whilst I think 24hr is a ridiculous amount of life to waste doing nothing, I think I'd now agree that the Quaker's were onto something when they simply stopped once a week to think about life.
How accurate are photo-based plant identification apps? (2022)
Many of us have achieved this unintentionally when we have fallen ill.
I have also done this many days (mid-20s), when saddled with crippling depression.
> Pledge is a goddamn toy and it's hilarious you think otherwise. Pledge isn't going to do ANYTHING to protect, say, a complex database server or any number of third party programs that need all kinds of access, and require being able to make all types of syscalls.

Here's a program that will run an arbitrary command under the same
restrictions as Chrome. Presumably, Chrome counts as a complex third
party program.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <err.h>

#define CHROME_MAIN_CONTENT_PLEDGE \
"rpath wpath cpath stdio tmppath dns inet flock "
"unix proc prot_exec tty sendfd recvfd exec mcast "
"ps drm fattr route getpw vminfo video"

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if(argc < 2)
errx(1, "usage: %s cmd\n", argv[0]);
if(pledge(CHROME_MAIN_CONTENT_PLEDGE, CHROME_MAIN_CONTENT_PLEDGE) == -1)
err(1, "pledge");
if(unveil("/var/empty", "r") == -1)
err(1, "unveil");
if(unveil(NULL, NULL) == -1)
err(1, "unveil");
execv(argv[1], &argv[1]);
err(1, "exec");
}

compile as:

cc -o asroot asroot.c

run as:

doas ./asroot your-exploit-command

What exploit command you do use to break out?
For many SUVs there’s no real difference. A honda pilot weighs less than an Odyssey, though probably with some small amount of added drag. Usually an SUV is more likely to have AWD

I bought a tiguan because I needed the occasional added seats (and it was impossible to find a Ford Transit Connect - which frankly is the only true mini van)
> At the Brains, Minds, and Machines symposium held during MIT's 150th birthday party

So 12 years ago. (The page doesn't have dates, and the links are broken.)
Sunak’s EU Reset
I would assume that video and audio are the next frontier. Talking about Google, training on the entirety of YouTube would probably be next, if they haven't yet used it.

And the frontier after is probably having a fleet of actual robots capture additional information, as per this paper.
Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement
Christopher Hitchens famously (and rather politically incorrectly) said:

> Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

I don't understand the psychology either, but people compartmentalize and rationalize. One line of thinking might be that everyone is a fallen sinner, even priests, and so long as they repent and guide their flock in the right direction, they will be forgiven.
New Proof Distinguishes Mysterious and Powerful ‘Modular Forms’
He is very smart and obviously an authority in his chosen field, but I am not sure he is right here, because he misunderstands the promise in place ( possibly because he only used it for text generation ).

edit: By that I mean the following:

"Note, for all the seemingly sophisticated thought and language, the moral indifference born of unintelligence. Here, ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil: plagiarism and apathy and obviation. "

He does not seem to understand it is a feature of the system.

He is absolutely correct about the level of hype though.
Steven Spielberg on AI creating art: ‘That terrifies me’
Charge per view is simply not feasible with the way payment systems work today. Card processors charge at a minimum 25c per transaction, so you'd have to sell your views for 50c each at least. And all the hassle with signing up is still there.

I'm in marketing and in my experience online ads pay a misery to website creators, maybe except casinos and other unethical ads. If you produce online content you are much better off also selling whatever you produce, combining information with marketing. This suits well for many subjects, but not for all. Journalism cannot be combined with this for one.

That's why I'd like to see somebody making huge subscription bundles, where you'd get access to let's say hundreds or thousands of high quality websites within a specific or broad interest for a fair monthly fee. This money could then be distributed to content creators according to popularity of their content.

If creators started thinking rationally and put their own economic sustainability before their quest for fame, they would flock to these kind of subscription platforms. I honestly think it's the future of the internet. But people are stuck in the mindset of comparing prices of completely unrelated things, just because they access them with a computer. They think it's outrageous to pay $10 a month for access to a website when their internet subscription is $15 and Netflix is $15. But those are completely different things. It's like if I take the bus to town and go to the movies and then go to a store to buy something that costs $100. Would I be sensible to demand a smaller price because the bus was just $5 and the movie ticket was just $10?
They say that 98% of users are outside the UK (and those users very likely won't want reduced encryption), so whatsapp would probably just exit the UK.
Don't worry Alvy, those who really know Pixar, really know you were there right from the get go.

My whole fascination for computer graphics came from a 1987 BBC documentary that included a section about Pixar, Alvy, Bill Reeves and Loren Carpenter (part of it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zlQ1kVK1k&t=375s)
https://www.iqair.com/earth?nav=
I guess plants are awfully good at finding niches, but with the sun up there and ready lignin, they always come back to growing tall and strong.
For me it's because SUV drivers see less and are more dangerous to unprotected traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter riders, motorbike riders).
As long as you don't bring this vehicle to cities it's fine in my book though.
The reality is that it's just a fancy name for people/things that sound annoying, and if you're forced to hear it for long periods of time, one day you might find it extremely more annoying to the point where you have to say something or walk away, usually coinciding with some other stress.

Remember the Simpsons episode where Homer's nose whistling was what finally made Flanders snap?

Whether it's a serious AND common AND acute disorder is up for debate. In the early/mid-2000's a fire started smoldering on the Internet regarding wanting to find a clinical jargony label for every aspect of life, and Wikipedia turned it into a wildfire.
Netherlands moves to restrict some tech exports
Humans care about wood, so they made tree (thing which produces wood) a category, as it can be used to build bridges, ships and other structures. Wood being dense also made it a better feedstock for charcoal (one can use grass, however).

As far as why trees don't seem to evolve into grasses, (or grasses into trees), it might be all about C3 vs C4 carbon metabolism, the latter being a complex structural system that pre-concentrates atmospheric CO2 before feeding it into the photosynthetic biochemistry (which is the right way to do artificial photosynthesis as well). This is apparently difficult to do in trees?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32409834/

> "Since C4 photosynthesis was first discovered >50 years ago, researchers have sought to understand how this complex trait evolved from the ancestral C3 photosynthetic machinery on >60 occasions. Despite its repeated emergence across the plant kingdom, C4 photosynthesis is notably rare in trees, with true C4 trees only existing in Euphorbia."

And here we have the world's largest Euphorbia:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5851367
This was an interesting read - thanks for sharing!

I wonder how much of this is actually being discussed by VC's versus a few folks just trying to chase the hottest companies
I never got a reply to my E-mail, sadly. :-(
Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like
> when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.

And understatement for anyone who has kids.
I wrote about that idea a few months ago, and covered the solar gameboy too: https://iotmote.substack.com/p/remaking-the-nokia-6110-and-p...

In 2011, Intel demonstrated a solar powered Pentium chip- they remade the 1994 Pentium it on 32nm. But it was a demo only. The reason it's been so "demo" for over 10 years is because no one thinks solar is possible to run anything portable, but no one questions why so much investment is focused on the latest graphics cards and AI chips like the A100. If there was more consumer demand, you'd see it released yesterday. The solar calculator in 1978 was far more advanced for its time, but now you have most people laughing at such an idea for a few hundred thousand more transistors. Sad.
Interesting. That article from 2018 speculates on the Fed's motivation, but seems upfront that nobody is certain why they gave TNB such a hard time. Has the story developed since then? Did the suit go to trial?

EDIT: In 2020 the Southern District of New York court dismissed TNB's complaint[1], finding the 18 month wait did not construe a denial (despite the application form saying a decision "may take 5-7 days"). I guess there was no appeal?

[1] https://justmoney.org/the-narrow-bank/
We aren't upset that the FBI "did what anyone else would do". We're upset that the FBI used this to do an end-run around the federal laws.
They were awesome. I have been with them over 15 years. But I fear it's time to move on. Still looking for an EU registrar that has modern 2FA (FIDO2) and is large enough to not be a target for takeover anytime soon.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for AI regulation
"Trees are not a clade" is a much more accurate description. Same as ravens, fish, and frankly most categories of thing.