skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your perspective, because it's one that I've so often found confounding.

> I think I lie towards giving up more if it gives me a comfortable society in return

It seems like you are very practical minded, which I appreciate.

I think the fundamental skepticism that those of us who tend to be more "libertarian" minded is whether you're actually getting value in return for giving up liberties.

> I am willing to mask up if it means that fewer people in my vicinity may "possibly" get sick less.

I think this was the mentality of the majority of people who supported universal masking, and I think it came from a genuinely good place. The issue that I had with it was the lack of evidence to support universal masking, and the draconian implementation without regard to potential negative consequences. It struck me at the time as being the TSA of pandemic response, more theater than effective intervention. Time and research seem to have borne this out.

> I am okay with video cameras in public places if it means less crime in my neighborhood.

Except they don't on their own [1], but they are an incredible weapon and boost in power granted to the surveillance state.

> I am willing to pay more taxes if it means public infrastructure can be improved and schools can get better teachers.

The relationship between taxes and education outcomes is complex (at best) [2], and you need only live in the North East for a short period of time, pay those exorbitant taxes and drive 95 and the Jersey Turnpike to understand that higher taxes don't necessarily translate to better infrastructure.

Drive from New Mexico, through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama to Florida sometime and compare the roads and bridges.

I've lived all over the U.S. and experienced the difference between many states. They each have unique challenges, but I can tell you one rule that's held true in all my travels: granting more power and money to the government past a certain point doesn't translate into a better quality of life for the people.

[1] https://www.mtas.tennessee.edu/knowledgebase/there-empirical...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/01/21/a-connec...
I'm an American, and this is what my mother calls it, though I call it the electric bill.
The LLM does not know what a word or a context are. It doesn't have that kind of categorization in its model or anywhere else.

Tokens don't even match word boundaries: they are intentionally misaligned to better accommodate contractions.

> In the process they learn a map that may be the equivalent of what we humans call "syntax", and they apply it to completely different contexts and inputs.

Exactly. Alongside those patterns, they model all of the other patterns that are present in the text. There is no categorization between these patterns: the word "syntax" has no bearing on the model whatsoever, except where it literally exists in the text being modeled.

LLMs do not parse. They tokenize, but not to match any predefined grammar.

It's not the LLM itself "being creative". It's the content of the text: the patterns that are modeled. Those patterns exist independent of the LLM. They come from the complex human behavior that is, "writing".
The phenom is called "Paper Parks", Costa Rica for instance leads the world in eco washing / fisheries corruption.

https://octogroup.org/news/paper-parks-why-they-happen-and-w...

https://www.cremacr.org/en/new-report-finds-costa-rica-is-fa...
I think he is an expat, because he is writing from the perspective of the west.
Also an expat left because he/she wanted to, not forced to.
Not ubiquitous, but certainly common in Australia.
Solzhenitsyn was famously full of shit, according to most historians and his own wife.

Not exactly a good comparison, the only similarity is the reaction of the US press.
I'm hoping for mind uploading... my body sucks, I crave the power of bits
It's more or less inertia. At some point the legal situation for each practice was evaluated and established and here we are.

Chats probably got rolled into rules established for email.
If you think those rich people are spoiled people you have no idea how more than 50% of people on earth behave as soon as they have just a little bit of money.
Fun fact: the latest version of Linux still supports CPUs that are almost this old (the Intel 486 from 1989).
In addition to what others have said, in the places where the water is and the energy is needed, there is no sun. So you need to first go to a place where there is sun, then beam energy into a crator.
I agree. Abagnale never outputted anything for the public, but he has outputted tremendous good for himself at the expense of others. Him and Jobs both achieved feats that no average man could have achieved.
> Yeah, as long as they aren't threatening legal action for the image…

They would never do that…

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-getty...
That is certainly not what is happening and I think that argument is even more dangerous because it means that It is storing copies of potentially copyrighted material. In fact it is precisly this conjecture that is the bases of the latest lawsuit.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/23557098/generative-ai-ar...
They need to show that they are not keeping any form of copy or original content compressed or not.
It's kind of the swiss cheese model. People will slip up--it's very hard to conduct business in entirely off-the-record chats.

I like the recent example of a junior BP trader. He had an opportunity to meet a vice president of the company, and was trying to impress the VP with what the trader's team was doing. The VP responded along the lines of "Gosh, it's funny, what you're describing almost sounds like market manipulation, but it can't be, because I'm sure we wouldn't be doing that."

The junior BP trader then immediately called the senior trader on their office phone. All calls to the office phone are recorded. Throughout the call, the junior trader is persistently trying to ask if what they're doing is market manipulation, and the senior trader keeps cutting him off before he can complete a sentence.

Then the penny drops, the junior trader says, "Hey, I just remembered, I need to run," hangs up, and immediately calls the senior trader on his (unrecorded) cell phone.

_That_ call wasn't recorded, and when asked in court, neither the junior trader nor the senior trader could recall what they discussed.

The judge didn't seem to believe them. BP had to pay a bunch of $, and the junior trader now works somewhere else. :)
> Research presented in this section indicates that removing play from early childhood classrooms may actually undermine intended achievement-oriented outcomes.

That is absolutely not the same as having an overly safe or "soft" playgrounds.
Earlier this year I was curious if I could live life as a single male for the rest of my life in a capitalistic Western society that tends to frame many issues from a partisan-listic perspective.

I'm no sociologist and did not apply any critical analysis to these works, but most of the literature and surveys I found on this topic suggested that men fare worse than women on health outcomes when it comes to marital/romantic singlehood. The speculative cause was that these women possessed deeper friendships than those men, who tended to be more isolated, especially in later stages of life.
Probably the least interesting piece of equipment he has. Anyways, at his latest video he has pretty pedestrian scope (~$2k) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_EHceV9sk so any fancy scopes might have been just loaners from $work.
Completely orthogonal to a business's employees' internal communication about that business.
You don’t need to. They’re public domain.
thank you!!! great comment
The world is fraught with fraud, which is why we should encourage replication in academia.
I fully agree with the enums thing—that’s by far my biggest gripe with the language. But even still, I can be a lot more productive in Go than I can in any other mainstream language, including languages that have sum types (Rust, OCaml, etc) which isn’t to say sum types make me less productive but rather that those languages have other productivity issues that outweigh the benefits afforded by sum types. Basically, Go gets a whole lot of little things right that most languages miss, but everyone fixates on “generics” and “sum types” which are, overall, quite small things IMHO.
> Chats probably got rolled into rules established for email.

And emails I think in turn got rolled into the rules established for "documents"?
>dense cities, affordable housing in the city center, great public infrastructure and a modicum of agreement among the citizens

...

>China fits the bill

All those things may exist but sheer concentration of population = QoL / "dynamism" still gets very uncomfortable and cut throat. PRC pace = good cities with livable QoL mix rapidly develop until they're not. Hence you get expat commends like Chongqing reminds me of Shanghai in 2000s. On the otherhand, plenty of big cities at varying degrees of development to bounce around, but that's a very different life style.
I don’t think you can expect the HN crown to be anything but western chauvinists. It’s who we are.
Private companies paid by who?

CrowdStrike - paid for by the DNC

Fidelis Cybersecurity - paid for by the DNC

FireEye's Mandiant - CEO at the time was Kevin Mandia, who's a known associate of Hillary Clinton and also publicly a democratic financial supporter.

SecureWorks - owned by Michael Dell, a known donator to the Clinton Foundation

ThreatConnect - not much info, but also explicitly only said "likely"

Trend Micro - Hillary and DNC are customers of Trend Micro, and they also did not actually say anything at all about a connection to Russia.

Additionally, the reports don't say it was Russian. They say the tools are ones that Russians have been thought to use, with no context into whether everyone uses these tools, to what confidence level they believe that Russians actually use these tools, no context as to whether someone would deliberately use these tools to make it look Russian, or virtually anything at all that substantiates this argument. They also almost universally use phrases like "likely" or "points to". Trying to characterize this situation as confirmed is just outright wrong.

Anyway, this is exhausting. Hyperbole becomes fact and I'm tired of having to disprove hyperbole.
The 24h limit is quite the contrast to what happens when you, as a customer, use their products:

Around every corner there is a dialog which asks for permission to store extremely personal data, such as your GPS location or browsing history, indefinitely.

See how much Google values its users safety vs. its own safety...
Even without defaults the value of those loans falls as rates rise because of the change in net present value
just so you understand what the basic rules are; as an individual you cannot be forced to provide testimony against yourself (edit:) in a criminal case, but you can in a civil proceeding.

But your written records are fair game as evidence, including your personal diary.* The right not to testify is really more about "so there's no incentive to torture you" more than it is a civilized notion that "we are gentlemen, let's have a level playing field, my secrets against yours". Then in addition to that, there are also document retention laws for documents that seem like they will be pertinent in the future, court orders during litigation that are even more restrictive, and corporations held to higher standards (there isn't generally going to be evidence of a person lying to himself, but corporations inducing employees to lie is more directly in the crosshairs)

*from a quick search "Even if a diary doesn't contain relevant evidence, courts will usually allow the side requesting to see it to make that determination for themselves. Particularly in cases where a party is alleging physical or emotional injuries, diaries are rather helpful in understanding what a person has experienced due to their injury. If a party kept a diary before the injury occurred, it can also help to show the contrast between life prior to and after the injury."
Fertility rates are dropping across Africa too, and while the growth will continue for a few more decades, maybe until the end of the century, labour will increasingly be scarce where we need it. There'll be significant political and social upheaval while countries deal with figuring out how to compete for immigrants.
"As a sidenote, the author says he does not like his kids playing "war" in Chinese playgrounds - I wonder how he will feel about the active shooter drills that are now part of every kids life in the US. Note: I'm not Chinese."

Well obviously, since if you were Chinese you'd know that kids in China are doing drills to protect themselves against psychos with knives who attack schools. Like actual grownups with machetes randomly killing children. Those attacks are happening all the time by the way.
Leaks happen because the personnel conveying the information believe it to be an indication of bad intent. This means that ill intent on the part of leadership was assumed.

An atmosphere of lack of trust is built. It can be through neglect, or through evidence, but it doesn't occur spontaneously. It is a failure of upper management.
You seem to be assuming Google will lose. Seems more likely that they will win and the article author is wrong when he says

"From the outside it appears very, very difficult to imagine that Google will get away with what it's done."

There is no law compelling you to write down every word, thought or discussion that takes place in the office. Google was subject to litigation holds. That means you can't destroy evidence if it might be relevant, it doesn't imply some sort of unlimited obligation to create endless documents containing every word uttered by every employee 24/7. How would that even work? The author's inability to imagine Google's lawyers successfully making this argument reflects poorly on their imaginative skills, not Google.
If you spent 20+ years with Emacs, you should probably know to not compare it with VS Code. Emacs is more comparable to Bash than IDEs.
You still have the write the code, write the report, etc, after looking at google. Now you won't need to.
If the magnet was really so big, I doubt that the Columbia football team would have been able to move it.
Did they ever find the person?
They provide some resilience, assuming their fallback usage includes multiple formats. Which isn’t a safe assumption, but even granting it, there are other problems with removing a codec. The most obvious being abruptly increasing the bandwidth requirements for all users of the removed codec.

Even if that bandwidth is “free”, it can be significant enough to prevent access by end users with slow/spotty connections. Depending on the use case, that can have the consequence of also basically obsoleting the site serving those users. Just as some innovations enable whole new use cases, reverting the innovation can have the opposite effect.
We're not talking here about being overly critical in a code review, or even criticizing someone who pushed bugs to prod. This is someone who intentionally violated company policy in a way that harms everyone who works there. It is not business as usual. Getting mad about this sort of thing is like getting mad about somebody keying your car or spreading false rumors about you: entirely reasonable and justified and not an interaction where professionalism is expected.
Lawyers, legislators, and courts are all old or old-fashioned people who use phones and in-person meetings a lot. So, conveniently, there is a special historical exemption for phone calls and in-person meetings.
No, there’s no obligation to memorialize everything in writing. But it’s a two way street. If a conversation is important enough, the parties also have incentives to write it down (to avoid recanting or conveniently forgetting or misunderstanding important terms).

In court, testimonial evidence is usually presented under oath, under penalty of perjury. If a company is subverting recording information by only discussing sensitive items in person, a good lawyer will put multiple witnesses on the stand, ask them all the same questions about the sensitive topic, then poke holes in the inconsistencies and see who cracks first on the witness stand. It might be hard to get someone to disclose the sensitive subject, but it’s rather easy to catch someone in a lie or a cover up. That’s usually good enough.
Similar experience here. “Trade Wars” was amazing for the time and place. I’ve often wondered what happened to it and why someone hasn’t ported it (has it been?!)
Prague here, happy to have this:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eEcKTe5rfNxr7he77

Was I scared a bit climbing this with my kids? Yes.
Was it an awesome day? Hell, yeah, and returning there soon!
Could you link anything that gives a quick rundown on the difference between 'QM entanglement' and 'normal' entanglement?
Interoffice memoranda!
Florian Mueller (“FOSSPatents”) prominently shilled for Oracle, back during the Google v Oracle case days. That's when Oracle were trying to destroy the right to create an open source, clean room reimplementation of an API. He doesn't give a shit about FOSS.

Do not trust.
And I don't even have a business phone at this point. Nor does pretty much anyone I talk to. So any conversation (and a lot of texts) is over personal devices.

Perhaps it would be different at a financial firm.
It was supported with updates from 1986-1996 which is pretty impressive.
I'm not defending all of Getty's business practices, obviously. But my understanding of what Getty is selling is both convenience and a degree of legal protection for media buyers. If you buy an image from them, they will, in writing, guarantee you that it is legally permissible to use, provided you follow the terms of the agreement.

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/eula [Australian terms], Section 9 reads in part:

Representations and Warranties. Getty Images makes the following representations and warranties:

Warranty of Non-Infringement. For all licensed content (excluding content marked “access only”), Getty Images warrants that your use of such content in accordance with this agreement and in the form delivered by Getty Images (that is, excluding any modifications, overlays or refocusing done by you) will not infringe on any copyrights or moral rights of the content owner/creator.
Additional Warranties for Certain Content.

RF: For licensed royalty-free content (excluding content marked “editorial” or “intended for editorial”), Getty Images warrants that your use of such content in accordance with this agreement and in the form delivered by Getty Images (that is, excluding any modifications, overlays or refocusing done by you) will not infringe on any trademark or other intellectual property right, and will not violate any right of privacy or right of publicity.

RM/RR: For licensed rights-managed and rights-ready content where Getty Images specifically notifies you that a model and/or property release has been obtained, Getty Images warrants that your use of such content in accordance with this agreement and in the form delivered by Getty Images (that is, excluding any modifications, overlays or refocusing done by you) will not, where a property release has been obtained, infringe on any trademark or other intellectual property right and/or will not, where a model release has been obtained, violate any right of privacy or right of publicity.
My guess is the exposure is directly related to the 100b/200b (seeing the later now being reported) in backing on the deal should things go south. The real question is, will that be enough if the (swaps) are as bad as /r/superstonk and other believe them to be?

I'm going to pop some popcorn and watch it play out either way.
An expat is not an immigrant. It would be incorrect to call the author - who is an expat - an immigrant.
Taiwan is everything that is good about Chinese culture, with very little of what is bad.

The drawback of Taiwan is that there isn't nearly the level of "white monkey" opportunities and you aren't as exotic.

China is also more extreme. You will have more extreme positive experiences and more extreme negative experiences.
I see comment chains touching on this topic in nearly every post even tangentially related to China, and it's rarely ever that the main issue is mentioned. So I'll write this for the benefit of any passing reader with similar thoughts.

In a country of 1.x billions, it shouldn't be surprising that there would be at least a few tens of millions of hardcore, actual socialists, who genuinely believe in some distant future communist utopia.

Even if the entire rest of the population were the most perfect paragons of virtue imaginable, it's still likely going to be the hardcore folks willing to fight to the death en bloc that end up with the actual power. That's just how the cookie crumbles in every country.

Whether it's ultra-Maoists in China, or ultra-Hindus in India, or ultra-muslims in Islamic countries, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, etc..

The real question is whether or not the bulk of the hardcore group can be enticed with enough potential rewards to moderate their views.

Wealth works if there's a lot to go around, like in the U.S., EU, etc., but otherwise the hardcore group needs to be paid in some form of power, geopolitical, cultural, etc.
Is the “you” the person who was previously a skilled laborer but is now an unskilled laborer?
Noether’s lack of recognition has nothing to do with her gender. Her symmetry theorem is known to any undergrad student in physics.

The general public simply doesn’t know about physicists (beyond Einstein and Newton). In fact the general public is more likely to know of Neil deGrasse Tyson than far more influential physicists in the 20th century. Most people aren’t aware of Dirac, von Neumann, Schrödinger, Bohr, Wigner, etc…
I don’t know what PROT_READ is, but as far as I know, Go doesn’t allow you to convert a string into a byte slice apart from ‘unsafe’ (and presumably you’re free to modify that without panicking, but even if not, you used unsafe so the onus is on you to know what you’re doing). There’s syntax support for creating a byte slice by copying a string’s data, but that won’t panic on mutation.
The Ukrainian state has been breaking the Minsk accords for almost as long as they’ve each been in place, most blatantly by bombing the Donbas. Not that this would justify invasion of Ukraine proper, but let’s not pretend this has ever been one-sided.

Wars end through peace agreements. Deliberately preventing them is what war mongers do.
Being alone sucks especially as one ages and faces declining health.