skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The existing networks weren't initially built by governments, they were built by private entrepreneurs and then nationalized."

This is simply not true in many cases, and the Rural Electrification program is Exhibit A, isn't it? Exhibit B is the national freeway system. The takeover of the government-built Hetch Hetchey to CA power grid by PG&E is exhibit C, granted a complicated story:

https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/293699-a-hundred-years...

Certainly the private sector has a role to play, i.e. the production of water pipe itself is a competitive business, so is the production of fiber optic cable, and of tools and equipment - but the systems themselves should never be privately owned.
Yes, I remember gay people getting beaten to death just because they were gay. There was a lot more crime too, the peak being in the early 1990s. Now it's not so much criminals we have to worry about (we still do), but out of control cops and government.
Because it does computation, math is understanding the problem. Even with things like Wolfram Alpha to handle integration and derivation.

Without an understanding of math you can only cargo cult problems. You can get away with being lazy with computation with no real issur but only if you understand the underlying theory.
A Local Zone is not the same as an Availability Zone, a Local Zone is an edge computing location.
Notably, the Fed set the reserve ratio for banks to zero percent in 2020 which absolutely contributed to this latest banking crisis. I am a bit surprised this hasn’t been mentioned as a contributing risk in the media, well not that surprised. [0]

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
What is such a psychoactive substance doing in our brains? To start, there have been many theories about the role of DMT in naturally occurring altered states of consciousness, such as psychosis, creativity, dreams, imagination, spiritual phenomena, and near-death experiences.
GPT-3.5 vs. GPT-4 Code Generation Comparison
Agreed, there's a few instances of this sort of thing that come to mind. Sometimes you have a good thing, but it's not until some external thing changes that the right conditions for uptake are met. One such example is the game Among Us which was out for two years before covid hit and it found exponential growth after that.
Do you have any reference paper that details the difference between different headset and why one should chose over another for a given purpose?
Would you call South Asian laborers who are temporarily working in construction in Dubai expats? Seems to fit your definition exactly.
> Florian and the Federal Circuit were right. The Supreme Court ruling was pure legislating from the bench, and opens up a Pandora’s box that may undermine the meaningfulness of copyright itself. If the design of an API is not creative expression

The Supreme Court did not overrule the Federal Circuit on whether APIs are creative expression and thus subject to copyright, so why are you accusing them of legislating from the bench for doing so? They skipped over that issue, assumed (for the sake of other analysis) that the Federal Circuit got it right, concluded that Google’s use of the presumed-copyright-protected APIs was nonetheless Fair Use as a matter of law.

This was pretty deliberately an effort to preserve the broader copyright eligibility issue so as to allow it to be more fully developed by the lower courts; it is the kind of issue the Supreme Court generally wouldn’t take up without a circuit split or a case that was both important and required reaching that point to decide. Having another out in a case where there was no circuit split and not even a clear answer from the responsible circuit (the Federal Circuit was supposed to apply Ninth Circuit law as binding precedent in this case, and, being generous to the Federal Circuit, the question presented is distinct enough that it isn’t perfectly clear that they did that well) made it a prime case for kicking the can down the road. Which they did, leaving the Federal Circuit decision in place, but not actually binding on any other court the way it would have been if there hadn’t been patent issues and the Ninth Circuit had ruled on the issue.
I first heard about it at $250/btc, and I didn't invest then for the same reason I think it's bad now: the hype around it is exactly the same as every bubble I've heard about in history lessons, including the one in house prices and subprime mortgages leading up to the 2007 global financial crisis.
Most of my former Twitter followers/following in the Apple developer ecosystem have migrated to Mastodon and are very active there now. These are the people I joined Twitter for in the first place, back in the 2000s. Mastodon is definitely a Twitter alternative for us.

I personally don't care about "sports Twitter" or "political Twitter" or "weird Twitter", etc. They can all stay on Twitter as far I'm concerned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My own opinion is that Twitter itself was much better in the early days, before all of the celebrities invaded.
You’re stuck up because I called someone out for making statements about gender science and not citing their sources. Go shove your words up as far as your head~
Why is x an array in the softmax function?
Sorry if this sounds dumb, I'm new to ML. So basically, if the softmax function is "e ^ (x - max(x)) / sum(e^(x - max(x))", I understand what e is, but then what's x? I keep seeing people make x an array, but shouldn't it just be a single number or float? Isn't that what the output would be of the summation formula? Thanks.
Someone married an Asian whose family happened to be ethnic Chinese, which made you think "huh these people are everywhere". (With regards to the diaspora comment)

Then the comment, paraphrasing, "they think they're Chinese when they're not Chinese nationals at all". If their ancestors were from China, they don't "think" they're ethnic Chinese, they are ethnic Chinese. Unless you get into the nitty gritty clans and groups of the gigantic landmass. The use of "think ... although" indicates you disagree with how they identify their ethnicity. Thus I assumed you felt it was a problem.

Apologies if I read intentions that weren't there.
Do you think it's possible that knowing more information that is amenable to memorization will help you cultivate knowledge that isn't amenable to memorization better or faster?
He is not understanding the mechanics of it.

In America a degree is a piece of paper. I could go to my college and ask for a replacement and they'll give me one for $50-100.

A company could call my college and verify I earned a degree without ever seeing a piece of paper.

I know I've read something similar to what you are saying, so I don't think your comment was bad faith, but I forget the specific mechanics of the type of coercion you are talking about.

I suspect it might be China invalidating a Chinese citizens degree if they do the wrong thing or China invalidating the verification of a degree that's respected in China, leaving a person in China without credentials that are respected in China. Alternatively it might be about controlling people who earned a degree in China.

I couldn't find the type of coercion you were talking easily with google. A simple article explaining the mechanics of what you're talking about would likely clear everything up.
I believe it’s that the courts order is along the lines of “all written communications, notes, documents, [etc.] pertaining to the matter [xxx] at hand must be preserved.” In this case, chat communications would fall under that order, and therefore steps need to be taken to ensure their preservation…
Students or whoever can ask chatGPT to generate a response THEN then can insert their own bad words or whatever in between. This "tactic" would only work if someone is blindly copy and pasting generated responses without proofreading. And even if they are, how do you prove it?
This is the same as me. I switched from Twitter to Mastodon, use the platform less overall but am happier as a result.
Not making breaking changes every few years doesn't mean that the language is dead. It's still being developed and new versions of perl are still coming out.
It sounds like he enjoys what he does. Do people still hang around film sets to get picked for screentime, or has that sort of thing been outsourced to technology?

According to IMDB, Radio Man / Craig Costaldo had a part on 30 Rock. I'm pretty it was a speaking role, with him shouting "Give me your fingernails!"
It has the entire corpus of written human history to learn about predator prey environments, the only question is how self-aware it is.

I stongly suspect that the more we talk about LLMs, and the more LLM discussion ends up in the training data, the more self-aware it will become.
>A new study shows that for women, getting married is linked to significantly better physical and mental health

For Women, specifically.

This is very important and omitted from the HN headline.
Yeah. Go generics are quite crippled. I'm still very, very glad that they exist though - even crippled, they're a vast improvement.

I think they took a... rather extremely-conservative step towards what their generics will eventually be, at which point they'll probably be pretty reasonable. As it stands now they're kinda weird and and very incomplete, though thankfully simple (in behavior).

They did at least leave syntactic and semantic room to improve them though, so I think it'll happen eventually. It was cut off at a safe point. They just need to be brow-beaten further, hopefully this small success won't stop the pressure.
"identical enormous tower after identical enormous tower"

That's the drukkhar architecture (we'll get to hear this word more often in the future). They are only missing giant grey flat-top pyramids: jusy as cold, efficient and brutalistic.
Google employees created a [redacted] Chat with history on. The Google Play Operations Program Manager Lead quickly warned the group: “[redacted]” The Lead Project Manager for Google Photos asked: “[redacted]” The on-the-record portion of the Chat abruptly ended.
Outlook, you can adjust who can send you what and what times, all for free.
This isn't an argument. By this logic, you could just as easily say that in the future, people will look back and scoff at the amount of time and energy wasted chasing a form of decentralized currency rife with problems that would never be solved at scale. You can't presuppose a conclusion and then extrapolate from it.
I had never heard of this.

For anyone else interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle#Variants
As someone who has had both, the truck is A LOT more convenient and versatile. Especially in cases where 4wd is an advantage such as collecting trash or firewood from a beach. Hauling a ton of sand off the beach using a trailer behind my heavy SUV was harder than doing the same with a ute.
No pyramids, only huts.
We also inherently expect most people play by similar rules as we do. For example, we anticipate other people have a conscience and feel bad when others suffer. Our interactions with others are partly based on this. However, for example a psychopath doesn’t experience those things, and therefore can do things that catch us off guard with ease.

In short, rogue agents can have a natural leg up when they are able to effectively emulate a behavior model- except here it’s social, instead of military.
> Google Chat logs aren't direct p2p, they are most definitely logged records. Otherwise the messages wouldn't still be there when you log out and back in.

That's not how p2p works. Signal messages are not p2p but the server doesn't need to store them because the clients store what they've received. Same for pop3 email clients which talk to the email server (not p2p to the sender). Quite a few systems work this way that are not peer to peer. Not sure if you meant p2p literally or if it was a shorthand for systems that don't work like Telegram that store everything on the server forever (in which case I guess it must seem like I am just being pedantic, which I'm not trying to be).
I'm not all that surprised. CS didn't make one mistake, not even one really big mistake; it was involved in scandal after misstep after scandal after embarrassment, for a decade. It takes a lot to bring down an institution this old and big, but the CS management (mostly former) had what it took.

I think part of why the Swiss gov't wanted to do it this way, is that it was clear CS was going to continue to be a problem, if it was rescued in a way that kept it an independent bank. Not that the current top mgmt is really responsible for its current state, but there had to be a fair amount of institutional/cultural issues, for that many problems to hit the same bank, year after year.
I agree. The comment section is a wealth of knowledge and people don't get any type of revenue except "karma," and last I checked, I couldn't buy anything with it.
The evidence is that Assange emphatically said it wasn't Russia, flatly said it was someone internal to the DNC, and he's never been shown to be wrong or dishonest about Wikileaks business.

Additionally, Assange has implied it was Seth Rich as strongly as he can without actually confirming he was the source, because he's bound by journalistic ethics and his agreement with his source to not reveal them.

Lastly, the Mueller report tries to discredit this and states as fact that Seth Rich was not the source. But it provides absolutely zero reasoning or evidence for this, and there is literally no way they could know this for sure. It claims it as fact regardless, and so does the entire establishment corporate media.
You can ask it to summarize and write thoughtful responses. Based on how humans write other things based on their feelings, GPT spits out responses that read like a reflection
You’re quibbling over the use of “creation” while ignoring the fact that “CEO deletes chats” is a very misleading headline.
Sure by that metric things are better
A lot of economic migrants from the global South are not technically forced to leave: you can live a life of subsistence almost everywhere nowadays. They just think they'll have a better future elsewhere, exactly like expats.
Farewell, and you can just read this about Friedman: I had two courses from him. No PLATO.
> I tried to show that research suggest that indeed overly safe playgrounds can do that

But you didn't, your post is play vs no play. No one is arguing that no play has zero affect on children and their adulthood. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

Playgrounds for children are a relative new invention, especially for the unwashed masses. The notion that children require a dangerous feeling playground to become well rounded and mentally tough adults is silly.
I don't understand - if they weren't building a mobile phone, then there was no leak, right?
Banshees of Inisherin: The Game
Don't worry, nature compensated and you can instead work on engineering viruses or strong AI if you want to blow up the world.
It’s super easy to parse, I added types to a JavaScript parser I play around with in maybe a half an hour just to see if I liked it.

It probably helped that I just parse to an AST that’s generated so experiments like this are trivial.
Your statement does not falsify the quoted statement; both can be true that the ROC would not surrender and that China might inevitably absorb Taiwan. If we want to get really pedantic, no timeline was also stated, so this could also be 50 to 500 years from now.
Yeah all the countries with major fishing fleets need to agree. Otherwise you’re just outsourcing the fishing.
Sure they do, they can just make a new cryptocurrency, say BritCoin, and mandate it's use for paying taxes and getting paid and receiving pension.

You know, like they already do with this whole "fiat money" thing.
I don't think anyone (that I ever talked to about it) wondered why one would be dissatisfied with the traditional banking system. The skepticism about Bitcoin is that it might be even worse. Events of the past year in the cryptocurrency space have not been all that reassuring.
I guess I’m a sociopath
The Fed set the reserve ratio for banks to zero percent in 2020 which absolutely contributed to this latest banking crisis. I wonder why they haven’t reversed course as that would seem a prudent course of action to protect depositor funds from being used for leverage speculation. [0]

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
This diagram from a third party suggests that the traffic between different AZs in the same region is "No cost", but the written text suggests otherwise.

https://www.cloudbolt.io/guide-to-aws-cost-optimization/aws-...

Granted it is a third party website.

I wonder if something has changed with their pricing.
I'm definitely going to steal your initial prompt! Thank you for sharing!

This reminds me of The Little series of books. Set up in small chunks to help build up knowledge.
>Clearly it's a lot more than slow internet for farmers?

Again, I'm not sure if the intent of this is another shallow dismissal or if you're failing to make the connection I'm trying to communicate.

>the feudal system ended when serfs were allowed to enclose their communal land and were given it as private property.

Why do you think the nobility allowed this? History tells us it's rare that a consolidated power willingly gives up that power. Is it possible that the inequality of rights and taxation led to the nobility's hand being forced here?
Various protocols under CLRTAP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Long-Range_Tra...

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (the basis for modern high seas piracy law) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_for_the_Suppressi...

Wellington Convention (prohibition on long drift net fishing in the Pacific) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Convention

1990 Chemical Weapons Accord (bilateral between US and Russia) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Chemical_Weapons_Accord

UNFCCC (basis of UN climate negotiations) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Con...

Convention on Biological Diversity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Biological_Div...

Chemical Weapons Convention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention

Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_Protocol_on_Persisten...

Kyoto Protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (establishes the ICC) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute

... and then everything after 2000 too.

I know it's en vogue on HN to bash the UN/international diplomacy as useless, but it's illogical to expect a lot of smart folks, working hard for enough time, not to produce useful things. And there's a lot of tragedy-of-the-commons problems which the UN is an excellent forum to solve.
When describing the currency itself, bitcoin is strictly not deflationary as the supply of it is never reduced, it's actually inflationary for the next hundred years or so until the full 21 million is mined. It might create a deflationary economy in that everything gets cheaper over time, priced in bitcoin. What is so wrong with that? Why can't you expect to purchase more goods in the future than today with the same amount of bitcoin?

There never has been a fixed supply world reserve asset, even gold has always been inflationary. I think it will usher in a "Golden" age for humanity where goods and services consistently increase in quality and value, while constantly reducing in cost. I'm very excited to step into the bold orange world.

P.S. I'm a bitcoiner not a cryptocurrency advocate.
A bit of a logical inconsistency there:

> The duo was banned from consulting classified research but anything they produced—diagrams and notes—automatically became classified. [...] Finally, after a presentation at Livermore, a senior researcher named Jim Frank pulled them aside and told them that the experiment was a resounding success. Had it been constructed, Jim told them, it would have made a pretty impressive bang as large as Hiroshima."

This does not pass the smell test. People who work with classified information are absolutely paranoid. This Jim Frank guy was very likely not allowed to disclose the result of the experiment to anyone without a clearance, including the "duo".
> I can converse with super bright people of my chosing without the friction and limits of doing that in a college environment

Genuine question: how do you get those people to talk to you? (I am assuming you are not famous or wealthy enough to pay them to talk to you; I am neither.)
For those who use chat GPT to write their school work or work presentations or whatever, aren't you worried about your credibility if you got caught. Just because chat GPT doesn't plagiarize does't mean it's not highly frowned upon. OR is it? Im sure classroom instructors, HR reps, PR teams, etc use it too
This thread is a mess because it hits on one of the fundamental ideological divisions between left and right. The left much prefers the idea of wise justices who do whatever they feel yields the "fairest" outcome in any given situation, with written law being more like suggestions than rules. The right prefers the idea of a neutral judicial branch that simply applies the law as written, even if it appears to yield suboptimal outcomes in any given case.

For better or worse the USA implements the right wing view. There isn't any such thing as "spirit of the law", there's only law, and judges are relatively restrained when it comes to the creative invention of new law by (mis)reading existing law.

In some parts of the world that isn't the case. The EU is notorious for writing ultra-vague laws and then allowing the ECJ to "discover" interpretations nobody had even suggested might exist at all, even if it radically reshapes society overnight. Note that FOSS Patents is written by a German guy so his expectations are calibrated based on the more left wing European courts. But this case is being held in the USA, so it seems reasonable to expect that not to happen here and for the law to be applied as is conventionally understood.

Regardless of whether you like this or not, it's clearly untrue that it's "very difficult to imagine that Google will get away with what it's done" - that is hyperbole. Google's behavior was guided by lawyers who were implementing the standard understanding of litigation holds.
Not quite following what this achieves?

Is the purpose that people find the wikimedia image instead thus denying getty the revenue?
From the bio, otterley appears to be a lawyer.

What are your bona fides?
PRISM was a web portal that the NSA used to serve NSLs, FISA court orders, and other requests for information to tech firms.

It wasn't an all-seeing eye of Sauron that had full access to their backends.
That's like saying AWS's permissions system is a mess and depending on how you set it up you may get access to all of someone's S3 buckets ;)
If punching a policeman is a sin, we may as well just pack up and go home.
Uh, the deliberate choice to move from a text-based conversation that records history, to a text-based conversation that doesn’t record history seems like about as bright a line as you could cross.
It would not be a terrible idea for the pin to "expire" if tried more than "x" times unsuccessfully in a row, defaulting back to the master password.
Florian has a record as a shill going back twenty years to the old sco-vs-IBM lawsuit (EDIT: where preventing the us of copyrighted an API was also thrown as I recall).

He's not necessarily wrong or stupid on a given claim. It's just that if he says something, you can bet someone paid him to say it.

The name of his blog is kind of funny. Maybe it's short for "screwing Free and Open Source Software using PATENTS"