skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, so much this. It's a library superpower that shockingly few people are aware of. At any US public library, you can borrow books from every other public library in the nation -- even including the Library of Congress.
It's related because the point of warrants is to minimise this sort of activity. But having already maxed out the amount of activity (recording all that data from everyone all the time), the warrants become pointless. The moment the data is being collected, the risk is there. Paperwork is useful ONLY to the extent it stops collection, it's not a end in itself. It's just a means to minimisation.

That is about 90% of my point. Everything ELSE is tangental. What I have written is basically the key point on mass surveillance. Everything else is at best extra and at worst irrelevant to the actual points.
His "anecdotal joke" is fact and was in the German speaking news, just like the "anecdote" about the activists who blocked the street to protest cars after arriving in, you guessed it, a car of their own!

They are hypocrites who make life hard for others by preaching water and drinking heavily wine, as it were.
"The only programming languages that people don't hate on are the ones nobody uses." - someone online

Negative indexes might actually be useful.

At some point I actually need to read the actual language specs, I guess.
The law would also need a provision that the right to use someone else's personal information could only ever be licensed, and that license could be revoked at any time. Otherwise the surveillance industry would just do the usual American dance of nullifying rights through contracts of adhesion.

The FBI here is merely a symptom and the tip of the iceberg. The US sorely needs something akin to the GDPR, to prohibit this unaccountable shadow government that is the surveillance industry. I personally think passing the GDPR verbatim and letting the courts sort it out would be a decent approach given how our legislative process otherwise undermines regulation by letting corporate lobbyists buy exceptions that destroy the intent of the law while leaving only the bureaucratic red tape intact as an anticompetitive warning. But I do think that if the GDPR were to be translated into the US legal concepts, it would take the shape you've started to lay out.
> all scientific theories are “models.”

That's correct. They are. As the saying goes, all models are wrong but some are useful.

> And we are just very advanced “computers.”

To a physicalist, yes, this is true.
As the saying goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
I use service A for domains, service B for DNS and service C for emails.
You can measure the duration, key, BPM etc and publish that which are all facts.

A recording of a song (even if it falls under fair use) is not a “fact”, it’s information that took creativity to produce, multiple people working independently would not produce the same exact song - unlike going around and measuring the height of bridges where if multiple people did it they would arrive at the same measurement
Basically everywhere in Latin America you practically could not survive without using WhatsApp, it is that prevalent. It is used for everything from personal communication to business communication.
Dope. Thanks for sharing.
> "organization that condemns them"

Catholic Church is not condemning homosexuals. Why it should? According to Bible they were created by God, so they are good by definition. CC is condemning homosexual sex, in the same way as it condemns pre-marriage sex or killing other people. All those acts are done by people created by God, but given a free will to do the things that are wrong from the Church perspective. And that can be forgiven thanks do a deal that Jesus made with God.

As far as priests are concerned it does not matter much if they are gay or not as they should not maintain sexual relationships anyway.
We have that in the US too, it's called "The Projects". Not as good as it sounds.
what's really funny is that I worked in DNA sequence analysis at a time when the chomsky hierarchy was primal and literally all my work was applying "probability of a sequence" concepts (specifically, everything from regular grammars to stochastic context free grammars). It's a remarkably powerful paradigm that has proven, time and time again, to be useful to scientists and engineers, much more so than rule systems constructed by humans.

The probability of a sentence is vector-valued, not a scalar, and the probability can be expanded to include all sorts of details which address nearly all of Chomsky's complaints.
'Third World' was coined - I believe, by Alfred Sauvy in 1952 (following Pascal Boniface) - as an expression to literally mean "non aligned in the dichotomy of NATO vs Warsaw pact affiliance".

Stereotypes about qualities frequent in Countries of such /political/ quality (such as said alleged "need for development", following the poster) are not implied.

'Third' is proper for "non-aligned"; 'developing' when noting such state makes sense (special sense, since growth seems to be a shared goal); some other term for other cases - such as "rich in raw materials", etc.
Looks like fraud to me.
What does it mean for Signal to "pull out" of the UK? How can the UK government enforce this law against an app whose makers have no physical presence inside the country? Force phone makers to ban the app from app stores?
but what about things with probability zero that nonetheless happen all the time?

I'm not very clear on some technicalities around probability, but I remember a 3blue1brown video: something along the lines of the probability of randomly choosing an integers out of the real number line being a probability zero event; in spite of there being infinitely many integers to "randomly pick"
I've always found it interesting that there are politicians that claim to be pro-union and pro-environment, but then also claim to be free trade. Outsourcing means you lose union jobs and they typically end up in countries with worse environmental protections. I've always found it wild how contradictory those positions have been.
That is pretty cool. Although, it seems like a fairly inefficient way of connecting to the grid.
This is about people who act on it though
I spent many hot summer nights staring at a ceiling for ~8 hours because I couldn't sleep. Or laying in bed due to migraines. The only thing I would do was get up to use the bathroom.

When I caught H1N1, I was too sick to leave my room for several days and no one was around for ~10 hours at a time.
Ha! I worked on this at a small company called STNC, who were acquired by Microsoft in July 1999. We provided the software.

Random recollections.

The codename at Atari was BSI which IIRC stood for Bob's Stupid Idea

The screen was a disaster. There was a mismatch between the lcd and it's controller, so it could only be persuaded to provide three distinguishable shades. I had to bastardize our Floyd Steinberg ditherer into working with this.

There was a production crunch deadline which lead to them being shipped from manufacturing (in China?) with a bad image. Every box then had to be opened and every device reflashed (no OTA updates back then)

I'll see if anyone else has any good recollections...
I think there may be a significant advantage to running your own server: you can controll how long you want to keep the data. For example, you can keep data from cameras recording the street/yard for longer and delete footage from inside the house daily (or choose to not even record when you are at home).
"For instance, a young child acquiring a language is developing — unconsciously, automatically and speedily from minuscule data — a grammar, a stupendously sophisticated system of logical principles and parameters. "

LOL, this seems completely wrong to me. I think Chomsky's idea is that humans have some kind of 'grammar engine' that just needs configuring from 'miniscule data' aka many years of listening and practice speaking.

No doubt humans have some optimized areas for language, but I doubt it's anything so formal.
You're just using different words to say the same thing. The word "theory" doesn't have the significance you are attributing to it.
What is the Davidsonian sense, then, if you can help explain?
(The original essay/primary source is probably too dense for me as a hobbyist to read.)
> GoodRx is, on balance, a GOOD actor.

I suspect that this is a point that we will never agree on.
For sure. Hence "typically". In the usual case, the coop is designed to be operated by the tenants, who are not operating it as a profit seeking venture and it's run democratically. It's not impossible that what you say is also true -- I'm sure there are housing coops that are run as you describe.
A million examples, but I'll offer just one:

Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement.

Slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbTVZMJ9Z2I

Faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrqBw4eELOM

Same could be said for compositions recorded on different instruments. Moonlight Sonata doesn't have to be played on piano. There are lots of recordings of it on other instruments.
This tells me you've NEVER driven an SUV and therefore have ZERO insight into the many reasons why one would chose to drive a SUV.

However, I do agree there are far more limited uses cases for an SUV in a dense city.
Damn, I was really hoping to find the prompt that generated the story in the page source -- be entertained and learn something simultaneously
I would not write an operator to do any of these things. To me an "operator" strongly implies the existence of a CRD and the need to manage it. So for autoscaling, HPA/VPA are built into k8s. Backups should be an application-level feature; when the "take a backup" RPC or time arrives, take a backup and dump it in configured object storage. Automating stuff based on cluster events also doesn't require an operator; call client.V1().Whatever().Watch and do what you need to do.

The only moderately justifiable operator I've ever seen is cert-manager. Even then, one wonders what it would be like if it just updated a Secret every 3 months based on a hard-coded config passed to it, and skipped the CRDs.
ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service
Small anecdote. I have a gay friend who lives in Maynooth (where the seminary in the article exists, alongside a regular university). Right after moving there a few years back he noted, not without some amusement, that few of the hundreds of grinder profiles in the area contained pictures with faces. Virtually all the pictures were of torsos.
HBM was a bit of the opposite. That was off-chip DRAM being brought very close to the GPU.
Do they have better invoices? Namecheap (~20 domains there) is a pain when it comes to invoices (they don't send them to you, it's not clear where to find them in the UI, they mix it with transaction receipts, the name of the PDF is off etc.)
It’s a valid criticism.

What today’s “language” models do is that they have been able to scale up the implementation of the Mechanical Turk problem. They have done that quite well, give or take a few errors.

The issue is that there’s a whole another world outside of the “answers” provided by Mechanicak Turk-like solutions, this is what guys like Chomsky allude to.
Ah, I jumped to the obvious conclusion and landed badly. Sorry!
Thanks but I feel like that didn't answer my question? I was asking if all forms of rent control allow increases when a tenant moves out, which seemed to be the claim and the reason cited in the comment.
I think you're coming at this from a dogmatic interpretation and it's making it hard for you to see the alternate perspective.

All scientific theories are models; that's generally considered true by nearly all scientists. What would a theory be if it's not a model?
Thanks for doing this! I found this post very helpful to get exposed to recent changes from the last couple years.
Will the breathing apparatus work indefinitely? No, but 30, 40 minutes sure. More than enough time
Discord testing ChatGPT powered bot
As a side note, this video has a great variety of historical footage of cars/cities/life.
Yeah, I feel similarly. It comes across as if Norvig just doesn’t understand the perspective. He’s translating it to his terms and making strawmen by doing so.
No its very different. Politicians gain considerable power and individual benefits from lying and being hypocritical.

Its hard to argue the same for gay priests who only occasionally get laid as a result of their choices.
I think that part of Chomsky's argument would be that language primarily is a tool for thinking and reasoning, and that the externalization and use for communication came later (I remember this from a lecture of his). In that view "language" of an AI is not the same as human language, while flight is flight regardless if it's mechanical or biological.
Seems like “local API” would help here: just something that duplicates the official API while running locally
This is my favorite: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S47VXGY
I don't think AI can ever learn the many dialects and slang words with quaternary meanings, since statistical methods are quite unreliable on the long tail. I once tried using Google Translate for a word known only in a specific region of a foreign country and got zero results. It's going to be quite complex, esp for non-English languages.
Stop virtue signaling
What is the difference between this solution and other tools like Render, Fly.io and Heroku?
I bought forestland that is uninhabitable and remote. I am restoring it to healthy forest. When I die, I want to ensure that it continues to be forest land.

The best way to do that is via a conservation trust. I appreciate your sentiment, but I worry it edges out cases like mine.
I think a major feature of celibacy is that it is just as hard to give up homosexual sex as it is to give up heterosexual sex.

The difference is that these “monitor” groups don’t care about the priests on Tindr because their biases.
I haven't seen anything from them yet - do they say anything about forwarding addresses?
Thank you for pointing this out. I had to really wrestle with my initial reaction to my first read of this article.
I have a lot of hype because of how capable these systems are with what is essentially a naive and simple approach. (granted with TONS of data thrown at it).

Adding in layers of complexity is going to happen next, and I expect it is going to get wild.
Gen Z's New Relationship Trend: Ditching Online Apps, Dating Friends
IMO either write pure POSIX shell (no BASHisms or assuming external programs not guaranteed by POSIX exist, no assuming FHS paths are in use, etc) or require a specific shell and set of dependencies. Check for that at the start, exit with error if things aren't found.

Scripts and programs will always get run in unsupported (broken) environments. If your program can't exit with a clear error in such a situation, it's not very portable.

Personally I tend to use the multi-line nix-shell shebang:

#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -i SHELL -p DEPENDENCIES
#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=NIXPKGS_TARBALL_URL

If you want `bash` as your shell, then `bash` goes in the SHELL location and as one of the DEPENDENCIES. If you want GNU coreutils that goes in DEPENDENCIES. Etc. The last line is optional, it pins the versions of all the dependencies you want. This also works for Python scripts.
Let us know when you find one.
What's illegal about anything? If you think there's some sort of legal essentialism in objects and actions, then we're coming at this from very different places. Natural law theory is, how to put this, naive. Legal realism too, while we're at it, in the sense that legal scientism is equally hallucinogenic.
The Big City; Aftermath of 40 Hours in an Elevator (1999)
Even last week they were saying nothing would change, that Gandi remained independent inside Your.online.

That may be a new record.
> the unique physics ignored in favour of using the tragedy for political purposes.

A new study attempting to explain a previously noticed phenomenon in the ozone layer is "for political purposes", seriously?
I don't think they were trying to solve anything, per se. Rather it was an information-gathering experiment: "I wanted to see if I had the willpower to cut off all stimulation for an extended period of time." How bad is my addiction?

They conclude: "Either way, I’m glad I did it. I guess I’m not so hopelessly addicted to short term stimulation that I can’t deprive myself of it for a longish period of time."

And set up a plan for the next experiment: "I’m pretty tired of sitting in rooms doing nothing, so my next experiments will be more exciting. I promise."

Going from one extreme (everything allowed) to another (nothing allowed), to try to find some happy medium that makes them happy with themselves. No one was hurt, nothing bad happened, they're just playing around with the idea and reporting what happened.
Thanks for linking this. I needed a good chuckle this morning.

On a more serious note. I'm gay and if you want to know why Pride parades, Pride month, and being out is so important, it's this sort of rhetoric. Calls for "biblical morality" and "homosexual crimes" to be punished are coded calls for our destruction. This sort of thinking is always absolutist and apocalyptic. There is nothing I can do to "tone it down" that will make them happy. They simply want us dead. Being out is the only real defense we have because we then go from a demonized other to just your friend, coworker, or family member.

We're here, we're queer - fuck off.
Maps are always imperfect. But this one puts the ocean in the center
She complains about what Texas is doing like it's a bad thing.
> there isn't enough evidence to say they are lying compared to making a mistake

You're right, of course. I would not be jumping to conclusions if I had actual authority over the consideration of their work; I would be much more measured. But here in my armchair, I'm free to express my strong gut feeling that these guys are obvious liars -- but that's just, like, my opinion, man. This is one of those cases where I'd be very happy to be proven wrong.
Gonna drive a schism in America if they do that (well, another one—we already host at least one anti-pope that I know of—but others haven't been as big as I expect this one to be). American conservative Catholic media have been propagandizing against liberalizing the church for decades, especially around sexual morality issues.

I gotta say, I kinda agree with them on the Latin mass thing. I'm not Catholic (or religious at all, in fact) but the magic and gravitas and historical continuity of the service sounding like something out of Indiana Jones or The Exorcist or what (one imagines) a tenth-century mass would have sounded like, would be one of the bigger draws for me, if I were looking to convert.

[EDIT] OTOH I know at least one formerly-atheist gay guy who decided to pick up religion years and years ago, and definitely, for-sure would have become Catholic (see above about the pomp and circumstance being a big draw)—if not for their stance on homosexuality. IIRC he went Episcopalian instead. Maybe there's a vast untapped reserve of converts there?
France effectively banned encryption in the 90s and had to backtrack, I can't see this being enacted for any length of time before even the most stupid of politicians realise it's a bad idea.
People will deforest their surroundings and burn wood to keep warm.
Didn't even notice that. I would change it now, but we're outside the edit window.
Perhaps it's specific to my area of suburbia but a) road trips are by far the most common way to take vacations and b) many of those road-trips have portions going over snow or sand or mountain backroads.

So you want some sort of all or 4 wheel drive and you need a lot of cargo space. There's tents and bikes and hiking or skiing or climbing equipment.

It's possible to brainstorm about other solutions but none are perfect. Years ago we tried to rent a 4x4 for a desert trip and it was a nightmare. We got there, they didn't have any 4x4s, they ended up sending us to another location, and of course you have to sign a dozen waivers that promise to pay huge amounts of money for any scratch or dent.
These two cultures played out very early in neural networks, see Rumelhart and McClelland, for example [1]. For the language nativists like Chomsky the engineering will never appreciate all of the intricacies of language learning and uses. It’s a fair criticism that both forces the engineering to be better and misses the point. Engineering doesn’t need to replicate how the natural phenomenon “works” in order to provide a compelling set of uses for humanity. Choose a modality of sensing the world - vision, hearing, language, etc. If the engineering replicates and even improves upon the natural basis, we can continue to focus on improving the engineered solution. Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration but why be bound to its instantiation? The brain doesn’t record memories verbatim. Recording devices are better for that reason.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680530/parallel-distributed-...
I think their view tends to be that the 2nd amendment alone prevents that. I rarely hear them talk about the 4th. However, I am 100% certain that if they stop viewing the 2nd as being so protective, they would become very vocal about the 4th instead.
Some theorize that gay men historically found themselves pursuing the priesthood because this was a way to not have a romantic life with women without raising eyebrows. There’s also an element of repressed homosexuality that’s sort of difficult to communicate but it’s likely that these gay priests spend a lot of time with thoughts of self hatred, self-doubt, confusion. maybe god can save me from these thoughts?, it’s terribly complex and as much as I generally don’t tolerate Catholicism and what comes with it I truly feel for these priests
How do you prove to service B that you own the domain?
Indeed 'created in His image' would seem to be at odds with 'intrinsically bad'.
The big split between flowering plants is between monocots (grass, palm trees) and dicots (say a Rose bush and a Apple Tree.)

You can find non-trees and trees that are monocots and dicots and also non-flowering trees and non-trees for that matter. The main issue is that when plants get big they get woody and take on the characteristics of trees.

I like the irony of that title that a "tree" (in the computer science sense) is the basic unit of phylogeny with the caveat that it is broken at the top because the three operating systems for a cell are described here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_(biology)

they do show a tree on that page based on a particular set of genes but if you picked a different set of genes you would get a different tree because complex cells have a mixture of Archaea and Bacteria because they merged in some horizontal gene transfer event long ago.
Yea because your “fact” is literally a reproduction of the creative work with superfluous additions. Instead, if you publish a list of books and their unique word count it would be a collection of facts - and someone can copy your list (including mistakes) because your list isnt covered by copyright.
I guess it depends on on why you are doing the clustering, right?

If you want to cluster animals that sort of fuzzily behave similarly together — if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably acts like a duck, haha.
You don't need to redraw the entire framebuffer with GPU rendering, either. It's perfectly possible to do small, partial updates.

See for example
https://registry.khronos.org/EGL/extensions/EXT/EGL_EXT_buff...

And https://registry.khronos.org/EGL/extensions/KHR/EGL_KHR_part...
Of course it's propaganda, as is everything which uses "woke" as a pejorative that it doesn't bother to define.