skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lucky you. I live in France and police "misconduct", brutality, utter incompetence and systematic lies are a huge problem, compounded by the fact that all politicians refuse to even consider the possibility that not everything is perfectly fine.

Everything is relative. Hearing comments and watching investigations in police abuses in France is chilling (e.g. there was recently a video of a cop, without his number prominently shown on the uniform, which is illegal for them dragging away and beating a protester), until you look into comments and investigations about police abuses in the US, and you're downright reassured things aren't that bad. Yeah, reforms are needed, the IGPN (authority that surveils and investigates the French Police) needs to be redone from scratch, and the first steps for that are non-crazies running the Interior Ministry (the last two guys were... special and hardliners), but seeing that extreme care needs to be taken, I completely get why no active politician wants to touch this issue. Remember when police were protesting due to working way too many hours without pay (basically they have an overtime budget for the year, and due to multiple long running protests, the budget was blown through in the first couple of months of the year and they had to work weekends for free) and how tense the situation was, with the Gendarmerie having to police the police protest? Nobody wants to piss off the police forces, because they are necessary and powerful.
> The way I like to tell people this is, you know that thing where you want to take your kids or your students and make sure that they don't have to go through the same pain that you did to learn what you had learned? That feeling?

I am not yet convinced. Let me take the following example because I remember it well: I tried to learn about geometric optics and lenses. To do so, I downloaded multiple lecture PDFs from the internet and read them.

All of them started to explain lenses by describing how large the image of a real object is, defining focal length and such. Literally not a single one of them even defined what an image is. The whole talk about image size and focal length and magnification and what not was totally worthless because it was all based on the same fundamental word that had no meaning. In the end, I tried to make up my own definition that was consistent with all those PDFs, but it left me unsure if I got it right.

The "pain" was there, but there was no relief from it, and I am still convinced that that simple definition could have avoided it. If I were to teach optics, I would give such a definition, and I am still convinced that it would help with the pain.

The other example was one of those PDFs that showed a real object that was "wide" along the distance axis from the lens, and so by my understanding should have an image whose magnification changes along the distance axis, but the explanatory picture in the PDF showed equal magnification everywhere. Today I am convinced that this "explanatory picture" was simply wrong.

Again, there was "pain", no relief (because I could not be sure), and I am still convinced that a learner can be saved a lot of pain when you just exlucde factually wrong content from the learning material.
I suggest trying xsv as a first step:
https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Rappers rap about crime because crime is a big part of their culture and so it gets glorified in their music.
It is fourth largest and third most populated. It has the second largest prison population, but is almost tied for the first place here.
The graphs are interactive, so play around with them.

Pro tip: you can click "expand" to see a bigger view.
I thought github themselves did checks for credentials? Isn't that party of their offered services?
> Because there are no good cops?

Do people honestly believe this? Maybe in your country police force is completely broken, but it's still statistical impossibility. In my country, I believe, police is generally good and does their job reasonably. Of course they're not the most beloved job, because if you have to deal with them you probably have a problem, but given that situation they're OK. Maybe fix your police, fire the incompetent ones and replace your polititians that allow this instead of generalising.
dont underestimate how many of those parameters are actually necessary to support multiple languages.

If you focus on english only, this can easily reduce the paramters 5fold
> for personal use you can buy OEM keys off eBay or AliExpress for a few bucks.

Is it legal? If it's not, isn't it easier to just use crack? E.g. pirate KMS server.
The point is:

> documenting police abuses.

Whats not to understand? The police do not do a good job of policing themselves.

Citizens have a responsibility to ensure their police forces do not become tyrants.

>It’s pointless to do all this documenting without a way to turn it into accountability.

The light of public attention is the first step to accountability. Copwatchers gather the evidence that will eventually result in a conviction of those who abuse their position as police officers.

That is the point. How is this so hard to understand?

> there are never consequences

This is false. There are many, many cases of bad cops going to jail because a concerned citizen got them on camera, violating their position.

Unless you go looking for these cases, though, you won't see any. Policing in America has gotten too powerful. The only effective thing to do about it, is for citizens to turn their cameras on and start documenting the abuses, far and wide.
> If you're reading this and thinking "NUMA node locality", then you're operating two or three levels above where this org was in terms of optimization.

Talking about Ruby services and not hand optimized C kinds of give it away. And even with hand optimized C you would do a cost/benefit analysis of less optimal packing.
> tech itself was invented by MS

You could load to IFrame (but then have to rewrite it in IE for some reason, NS was fine with that - if knowing a way to avoid that layout flush bug after resize..) years before that, as I did.

In my opinion XMLHttpRequest made more damage than help by forcing JS as the only way of doing similar things instead of letting bugs that what was there already to be fixed - so now, you can not even imagine, I guess, how all that could be different - mostly without need of JS and browser able to handle it..
Framework’s first gaming laptop features upgradeable GPUs, swappable keyboards
alpaca lora is quite capable actually and is suddenly gaining a hell of a lot of traction in the corporate world
>When I overhear people having a conversation, almost always, I can see that the two people aren't really understanding each other, and neither of them realize it.

I have noticed exactly the same. But meanwhile, you and me are sitting there understanding what each of the two means, and how each misunderstands the other. So clearly it's possible for someone to understand what is said??
As far as I understand that's malt extract, which needs to be fermented
They forced me not to use a password to pull code before and only informed me of a password leak several months later. There must have been something serious happened this time as well.
I bought mine for like 4 bucks. Digital license linked to my account :>
> I find it hard to see how detecting and eliminating sarcasm requires a theory of mind. It requires some association between various stylistic elements and the concept of sarcasm.

I am quite certain that detecting sarcasm can't be done based on stylistic elements" and requires some (even if implicit) estimation of what the author is thinking that contrasts with what is being said.

E.g. a relevant example I have actually seen in doing sentiment analysis on tweets to evaluate how customers perceive a company is "#CompanyName Got my order delivered in just under three hours. Thank you for great service! thumbsup-emoji" - now is this a positive review or sarcasm? And the thing is, you can't tell from the message by itself, you need an understanding of the customers' expectation (guess you might call it "a theory of mind") that for a pizza chain this is obviously sarcasm, but for a web store that sells some electronics the same thing would actually mean a fast delivery and great service. IMHO sarcasm detection is mostly about 'world knowledge' about what the implied expectations are, and not about stylistic elements at all.
The leaked private key should be somewhere in this archive then no?
> a future where you either have to give up on confidentiality and privacy

are you a time traveller from the past?
"Mall" can refer to a pedestrian area within a city more generally; shops are optional, e.g.,

https://nps.gov/nama/index.htm

Also, sometimes cars,

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/st-jamess-park/things-to...
Lets take your Japan as an example. It has no indigenous oil, lng, or nuclear fuel. 60% of consumed food is imported[1]. Famed Japanese steel is almost completely relying on imported iron. Your minor inconvenience is more like rolling back industry 200 years and decimating the population.

[1] https://www.merlofarminggroup.com/agri-view-japan%E2%80%99s-...
Wait I fucked that up. There aren't 10 chaoses.
What? You don’t pipe HN to tail?
If We Don’t Master A.I., It Will Master Us
Because a conservative notion in a unstable, moving situation kills you? No sitting out the whole affair in a hut, when the situation is a mountain slide?

Which also makes a hostile AI a futile scenario. The worst AI has to do to take out the species, is lean back and do nothing. We are well under way on the way out by ourselves..
> The faster we build the future, the better.

lmao, 200 years of industrial revolution, we're on the verge of fucking the planet irremediably, and we should rush even faster

> So why the performative whinging about safety? Just let it rip!

Have you heard about DDT ? lead in paint ? leaded gas ? freon ? asbestos ? &c.

What's new isn't necessarily progress/future/desirable
Health Benefits of Browser Diversity
> Because once trained, those models provide values to millions of users.

Do they? Those of us in tech often take the positive value of technological progress as a given, but when looking at, e.g., the example in OpenAI's paper of GPT4 tricking a human into solving a CAPTCHA, I think it's quite clear there's possible negative value as well, and claims about "value to millions of users" probably need to be substantiated.
Immanentizing the Eschaton!
SEVEN years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XH_GD6TgTY
> That's the thing, the statement "there are no good cops" doesn't mean that no individual person that is police can be an ok person, it means that police as an institution will make people bad.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant -- thank you.
> Ever see anyone play GTA without shooting everyone on the street?

I disagree. The game is built to favor this behavior. If you wanted to, say, make a living in the game by selling pancakes, the scenario would not be supported to the same degree (in this case: not at all).

Look at flight simulators. Most people try to fly properly. Occasionally, people explore "what if" scenarios. But most certainly most people do not use it to practice or experience another 9/11.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273064
This is dangerous!

I have a hunch most people would be a lot less regarding of security vulnerabilities for tools that boast such as nice "packaging".

This has potential of bringing "free browser extension that sells your data" to a whole new level.
Gray market
No one cares about their party policy. This article is about how administration in universities are regularly harassing students. I france our uni look very much different, policy and structure-wise, and yet i can relate big time to this. I knew a lot of students who got harassed badly for tons of random reasons.
Ask HN: Will we see a license explicitly excluding AIs from scraping content?
In addition, should we make an equivalent to robots.txt or include some AI-related rules into robots.txt?
Charitable explanation is that they rotated they key without waiting for an analysis.
People like to drink alcohol.
I don't like this approach. One is being peddled a bucket of old shit that might have been okay in the 80's for portability reasons. This portability is usually not necessary for my one time tasks anyway. Today there are really cool and small tools to do everything with comfort, and if you want some kind of portability you can still put static linked tools quickly on the given system. But of course that is a personal opinion and depends on the situation.
Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A
I think this analysis of the "new Microsoft" strategy is pretty compelling:

> Instead of trying to be the main player in every single sector, Microsoft has switched their focus to simply helping the winner in each sector. With servers, they embraced Linux, with browsers, they embraced Google, and now with search engines, they’re embracing ChatGPT.

> While this background role isn’t nearly as lucrative as controlling the whole space itself, this strategy is likely way more sustainable. Not to mention, this approach is already reflecting in their market cap. In late 2021, Microsoft briefly overtook Apple to become the world’s largest company. Looking forward, Microsoft may end up holding this position for a much longer period of time.

https://youtu.be/9DrGcz0oKdo
> just make the electronic machine spit out a paper receipt

Now the person making the vote has to check the receipt matches their input, and they probably don't have a practical form of redress if it doesn't.
So if I buy a computer with Win 11 then I can claim €259 back as long as I wrote it and install Linux? Isn't that how things worked before with Windows-tax automatically applied to all retail computers in major chain stores?

That clearly won't work, as one could get free computers ... but what is the situation in getting reimbursements of Windows-tax?
Agreed, I'd kill for a modern version of the TouchStream LP. Comfiest and quietest keyboard I've ever used, with no elbow strain from reaching for a mouse/trackpad. They even had a product that could replace a MacBook keyboard. [1]

That being said, the company was acquired by Apple and turned into the iPhone and iPod Touch. The keyboards were effectively museum pieces at that point. I wonder if the patent situation would allow for third parties to revisit the design. It'd be interesting to see what could be done with by borrowing ideas from the programmable keyboard community and mobile touch hardware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
Honestly, when your xdg list gets huge, apps should just use xdg out of the box... my /etc/profile is 35 lines of just xdg junk.
This is honestly idiotic and disqualifies the entire article
GPT-4 is the best text adventure game ever
I don't think that's clear at all.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559 shows a LLM is doing gradient descent on the context window at inference time.

If it's learning relationships between concepts at runtime based on information in the context window then it seems about as useful to say it is a Markov chain as it is to say that a human is a Markov chain. Perhaps we are, but the "current state" is unmeasurably complex.
Define Wokeness Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps
Wow, I hadn't heard the name Afroman in what... 20 years? (when was "because I got high"?)
Note that we're just a week away from April Fool's day.
Years using the trackpoint gave me carpal tunnel. Try not to use it exclusively.
IIRC that's not true. Multiprocessing was switched half a year before WebExtensions, and most popular XUL-Extensions were refactored to work with multiprocessing at the time and worked fine with it. Back then it was even a big shitstorm that they had invest so much work, just to be killed some months later.
Basically it's because I don't think Duolingo wanted the product so much as they wanted me. No-one used the term acquihire at the time but I was under no illusions that that's what it was.

I did think that I might push to develop Readlang at Duolingo, but it never seemed like an attractive proposition for a bunch of reasons. I think it would have needed to grow at least 100X to start getting interesting within Duolingo. Not to say this was totally impossible but it seemed like a tough job. Also, some of the things that Readlang does, like browser extension and public sharing of texts, feel a bit "wild west" compared to the rest of Duolingo which is more curated and controlled, so it's not clear exactly how Readlang would have needed to change to fit in. I figured that if I tried this and integrated it tightly within Duolingo, and then failed to grow sufficiently, then the risk of it ultimately shutting down would have increased.

Also, I had other exciting projects to work on there which seemed more valuable for Duolingo, and therefore better for my reputation within the company, so I was happy to work on those!
> and even then ... you can't tell people anything

Didn't see this coming xD good luck with engineering...
I use Tcl for such workflows...
> and have already removed your authorization with the Bank directly

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

My banks don't offer me some way to revoke authorization from the bank's website. Does this mean calling customer service and giving them a business name to disallow future ach debits from?
I'm not the parent, but they've announced they've partnered with Cooler Master to release a case [0]. A while back they released drawings so you can 3D print one [1].

[0] https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case
[1] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard
This is where it all comes back to the old "good guy with a gun" argument.
I read the primary sources from the trial. Burroughs was notorious in the community as a serious wifebeater. People testified that he told them not to tell anyone if he accidentally killed his wife. His first wife did end up dying, although not overtly from that.

It made me suspect that maybe Burroughs was one of those people who was notorious for being awful and breaking the law, but which could never be proved legally. So when witchcraft fever started going around...there was a way to get rid of him.
> How can this be bad?

Guys, how can abestos be bad, it's just a stringy rock ehe

Bros, leaded paint ? bad ? really ? what, do you think kids will eat the flakes because they're sweet ? aha so funny

Come on freon can't be that bad, we just put a little bit in the system, it's like nothing happened

What do you mean we shouldn't spray whole beaches and school classes with DDT ? It just kills insects obviously it's safe for human organs
It is hard to interface with other libraries if you avoid libc, unless you reimplement the whole libc ABI (thread locals for example).

Still, this stuff is very cool and I would love to have time to play with it.
Pictures in journalism are information, just organized differently than text.
If you use a random generated image that “mimics” that information you are effectively doing misinformation or even disinformation.
No picture (or a generic picture of the monastery) would have been better in terms of information content.
This publication decided to go for a subpar solution because it’s what? Cool to some?.
Even worse: actual images were available.
In fairness that's a particularly egregious example. This one doesn't look so bad but still gets a lot of the lighting/shadows & colour balance very wrong, flipping between being oversaturated or too dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fscwp3RkEvM
Because the outside world is diverse and open source does not have the ressources to write bazel rules. Nor does it fit their history.

There is definitely a need for better (and Meson is the foss answer, as well as Shake). But Bazel need a context that OpenSource do not have. Time and a clean slate of dependencies cooperating.

Also noone fund tools for DX for OpenSource devs :) only for JS and even that...
Most role playing doesn't have orcs? I've had some therapy sessions where we did some role playing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing#Psychology), and if there were supposed to be orcs, I want my money back.
Ah, this takes me back. My first WiFi card, used for Napster (or similar) and playing Quake in class via the schools brand new wifi. Or all the adapters for USB 2.0, CF and SD cards. And of course the iomega Clik! drive they gave away as a promo, including one clik "disc" (40MB ircc) - that stayed true to its name and started to produce the "click of death" only weeks after I got it. fun times!

It would be nice to still have this level of expandability on new laptops but then again, apart from retro projects I never really needed anything like it for a long while now, so I guess its understandable they dropped it.
> It feels particularly acute in the US because of reverent attitudes to police force.

From what I can tell from the outside, people always accuse American police of being terrible. I don't see much of a reverent attitude.
What in the response indicates Turing or Cook reductions? I would say the answer does not go into nearly enough technical details to conclude anything like that, it does not even mention [polynomial time] reductions. Even among the people seeking some understanding of the P vs NP problem this is a level of technical detail essentially relevant to almost none of them. I studied computer science and if we ever discussed the distinction between different kinds of polynomial time reductions, then this got erased from my memory long ago. And if you really need this level of technical detail, then you can probably ask for it.
I mean, it's not hard to find: https://www.nature.com/search?q=earth%20has%20lost&journal=n...
Now I'm imagining that dragons are sadly misunderstood herbivores.
Espresso was first known as crema coffee. It was a sensation that people queued for rather than a mundane efficiency improvement or "fast foodification" of an existing product. The crema and intense flavour made it special.

I think it would be slower to prepare than pre-espresso cafes that batch brewed with multiple samovars.
I think the state of our planet indicates that we should try to avoid disposable things.
I second using ABRSM [1] material, particularly for classical music. It's graded and structured with workbooks (and even online theory exams if you want). ABRSM material and exams are for anyone and recognized for university/conservatoire entry at least in the UK. They start really gently at Grade I.

[1] https://gb.abrsm.org/en/our-exams/online-theory/
The fact that is possible usually indicates poor design...

It means they probably tried to do too little in each clock cycle. Some multi-cycle operations could have been made single cycle...

Or, they designed the part for one silicon process, but ended up changing path and manufacturing on a different one late in the design process.

Either way, the outcome is the users will be paying more per part than they needed to.
Way at the bottom they mention that members of the press are invited to come taste it, so you only need to make yourself some fake journalist credentials as a foreign correspondent of Random Backwater Tribune...
"Hard to enjoy my hobbies when I'm in debt to the bank and my mortgage isn't paid."

You are young and worried for a mortgage to complete... and that prevents you to enjoy what you like in life?

What will you say when you get older and have sick relatives, dying parents, troubled teenagers, health issues... and so on? Life is not about waiting for the end of the storm to be happy. It is about learning to danse in the rain.

Be sad when it is time, manage crises when you have to... And collect and share as much joy as you can the rest of the time. No matter what, don't wait and enjoy your life!
Ask HN: How do hackers search for a new job?
"Hackers" as in HN users.