skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
had a related - but not quite the same issue - with a vendor, and was getting zero help from the company trying to get a refund for a few thousand $$ for a defective product - got nowhere for weeks - finally resorted to finding the officers of the company and repeatedly calling them and their spouses at home, on the weekends in order to get satisfaction - very early in the morning and very late at night.

Hated to resort to that, but have no regrets about pissing off the CEO, CFO and any one else I called at home - and this was not a small company.
What’s so disturbing now?

We’ve been polluting the planet with plastic for half a century. How bad does it need to get?

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/3/13/east_palestine_plasti...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
It seems like you agree with OP?

"Capitalism" revolves around maximizing what can be owned as capital, including by divvying up what would otherwise be the commons by creating various types of imaginary properties.

One type of capital is government-created privileges obtained through regulatory capture, that keep upstart competitors from entering a market. If you're arguing for having fewer regulations, then you're actually advocating against capitalism! Contrast with focusing on "free markets", which at least keeps the emphasis on the competition mechanic rather than the suffocating dynamic of rent seeking.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/condom.pag...

>>Free products are distributed at local businesses, community-based organizations and health care facilities. The Health Department's NYC Condom Availability Program gives away more than 30 million free safer sex products every year to over 3,500 locations throughout the five boroughs. These free products include male NYC Condoms, internal condoms (FC2) and lubricant.
Context for those who might have missed out on a golden era of Twitter: https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/403359911481839617
It's not really name or face-recognition usually. Execs slumming it in the trenches just speak and listen differently. And they have very specific priorities there that day (it's not "I'm just covering my shift" like everybody else). They stand out, clear as day.
How to Hack: A Step-by-Step Journey
Thanks, that clears up which word we differ on: "apply".

With your usage, you are of course correct.

Given how often humans just do whatever they're told, I don't trust that this will prevent even a strict majority of possible bad real-world actions, but I would certainly agree that it will limit at least some of the bad real-world actions.
the machines will pay you much more to fight for them
Gene Drives Are Coming
> If someone has a bad take, downvote them.

Ironically, this is the most reddit sentence I’ve ever read.

To add more substance and avoid be-redditting this thread even further: I think the crucial difference in a good forum culture is that “bad takes” aren’t reflexively buried - they’re dismantled, disproven, and alternatives are submitted. That way anyone else with similar “bad takes” is guided to a better POV. This is actually productive.

Downvotes are for irrelevant material, which isn’t productive.
Isn't driving us insane a way of destroying us?

I think we need an EPA equivalent for the Internet or at least Social Media. People should not be able to release toxic substances directly into the Web.
> run a democracy this size.

From the looks of it, if he runs it, it won't be a democracy
Yes to 1. and 2.
How would useEffect () access those dependencies? useEffect() them to determine if f() needs to run again or not.
Yes, yes, and it's terrible.
Me eldest is 10. In the past few weeks I've gone from "I'm pretty sure all my kids are gonna be OK" to "... well, better count on about two of three living with us until they're in their 30s".

I was down on the future in general, but fairly optimistic about my kids' mid-term prospects. Not so much, now. Feels like being on the Titanic just as the deck's starting to noticeably tilt.
> how much of a book you could copy before it was considered copyright infringement

So they help people follow the law?
The solution is obvious: journals should, as a matter of policy, refuse to publish non-reproducible studies. Reproducibility is the only thing separating science from mythology.
No need to be pessimistic. Humans are quite powerful, we have billions of years of brutal iteration in us. I think we can handle AI, even AGI, if we exercise even a modicum of care. It will probably take some major calamity to convince people to take precautions, I just hope it's not that bad. It probably won't be world-ending, so cheer up!
Unfortunately, with the ridiculous level of trust people have in the West, that will be only a vehicle for more scams. Especially "path to reversal". Sure the world is overall low-trust and it creates a lot of friction. Only alternative to avoid the switch would be to never start globalisation.
It’s unfortunate that the tax credits are as restrictive as they are. A large portion of eligible vehicles are going to end up manufactured in Mexico instead of the U.S. anyways, and it’s created an artificial barrier for Hyundai who is probably shipping the best EVs on the market right now but can no longer compete in terms of price.
> How is not that a thing already? Especially in California, isn't it supposed to be a "progressive state" ?

It is and has been for a long time, but not everywhere in the state, hence the mandate.

Here's a news story about opposition to the existing program in the state's largest district having evaporated... in 1993.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-06-me-10392-...
Because mass media allows us to replace experiences that previously required physical participation (if only going to a specific location) with consuming those experiences anywhere we want - a trend that is only expanding/intensifying.
Is that what happened to musicians after music production gear became cheaper and democratized?

Arguably this is the golden age for musicians. Lowest barriers to entry ever, if you have talent. You don't need anyone's permission to be a star ... just talent.

Why would it be different for actors?

I feel like you are not thinking about the full implications of this kind of democratizing tech.
Can they add T-mobile to the list too? You can’t unsubscribe via their website, have to call and argue with a customer retention assho… er rep.
> Verse uses logic as the type for Boolean values, which means logic only has two possible values: true and false.
(https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/logic-in-...)

why in the world would you do that? even going out of your way to _call it boolean_ in the description, and then :fu: in the actual language

> indented comment: Anything that appears on new lines after <#&> and is indented four spaces over is part of the code comment. The first line that isn't indented four spaces over is not part of the code comment and ends the code comment.

Interesting. I see later on that code blocks also tolerate Python-ish syntax but _also_ brace syntax https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/code-bloc...
If the meteor is big enough, it doesn't matter where it's going to hit. We're all fucked.
objective truth surely exists.
surely, lol, three stooges, shirely temple
>Go ahead and try running setup.exe on a mac

Except Linus wasn't trying to run steam.exe on Linux, but instead trying to install the official (borked) Linux Steam package shipped with his Pop_OS ISO, which happened to completely nuke the desktop environment and display server, landing him in a tty.

And of course the Pop_OS team was quick to blame Linus for being an idiot and not knowing he should first open a terminal and go `sudo apt-update && sudo apt-upgrade` before installing anything, instead of expecting packages shipped with the OS to just work(TM) and not nuke your system.
What also floats in water?
Bread
Apples
*Very small rocks*
I'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
Link goes to where the channel should be.

I just found out this morning and there's not a lot of information other than there was a Tesla logo, with livestreams of Musk pushing crypto.

The channel had 15M subscribers.
Ask HN: Help Us Build a Tool to Simplify Paper Writing for Researchers
Hi HackerNews community!

My name is Zardar, a biomedical engineer turned software engineer and together with my buddy Ahmed - who is a seasoned biomedical researcher, we're on a mission to build a tool that will help the process of writing research papers and journals.

We'd like to better understand the pain points and challenges researchers face when writing papers. We're looking to speak with people from all levels of experience (undergrad, post-grad and veteran researchers) to learn about their workflow.

Your time is valuable to us, we are happy to compensate you - whatever you think is fair - for 30 to 60 minutes of your time. We're looking to deep-dive into what has worked for you, what hasn't and where your pain points lie.

If you're interested in sharing your experience and helping us develop a solution, we'd love to hear from you.
.gitignore
supervisor.js

GPT4 can't reach it now. GG AI
Me, because I don't have a company.
What's the aim of the question?
it seems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35270720 has won out and I don't have the energy to email hn@ about merging the threads
Even though they conceded, you should still follow through on all of the above. You aren't hurting a person, it's a corporation that will only change when forced financially or socially to do so.
Or "This will make you obsolete"
for all people replying. I' m referring to this https://fightthenewdrug.org/ (+some peer reviewed studies), not to some religion. Porn is literally bad, if somebody want to jerk off, better use imagination
Their "revenue" is also trading bitcoins, where people buy/sell bitcoins on their platform and is booked as $28k revenue (current price) where they only ever stand to profit like $10 off that.
"Directly" is doing too much work. We pay researchers to research. Part of research is writing that work and submitting it. It is literally part of their job. It is so much part of their job that we have a system in place to isolate them from day to day political worries and let them focus on big projects.

> I am saying that there is nothing to suggest that spreading knowledge requires paying individuals...

It doesn't. People publish things for free all the time. See your own example of research papers and open access journals.
I thought it was the law[1] that put them on the hook for any sex trafficking that's facilitated by said payment processing, not moral judgments?

[1] FOSTA/SESTA https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOSTA-SESTA&usesk...
Yes, I thought the best part of the demo was the more "Pixar-ish" boy shown last. For most kinds of storytelling increased realism isn't that big of a barrier since we can just point a camera at a real human. To me, the ability to bring non-human characters to life is far more creatively enabling.
seems as if this could be solved by using a different palette. The red sticks out cuz it’s deep dark red more than cuz it’s dominoes. Maybe.
Given enough time, nature will evolve towards a more plastic accepting genome. Hopefully it will be fast enough!
I think you read the comment the wrong way.

No one should have the right to purchase any arbitrary person for sexual gratification. It should be my right to bodily autonomy, and I should be able to accept money for work that involves my body.

As a carpenter, I can accept money and in exchange, do work that is tough on my body and will have long-term physical effects. I should be able to also accept money in exchange for using my own body for to sexually gratify someone (I'm certainly allowed to do it free).

The right we should have is the right to decide how our body is used, not how we can use the body of someone else.
hit NY Times too please.
So the people from Redhat on #gtk were lying when they told me Gtk3 was frozen? I guess getting gaslit is slightly better than gtk3 actually being frozen broken. Thanks! I'll go back to trying to get the defaults for gtk3 filechooserwidget.c changed.

As for the desktop environments, okay, so Elementary uses Gtk4 too. That's GNOME and Elementary. 2 of them. And we're ignoring all the applications that still use gtk3 (or 2) and the very few of them that have ported to Gtk4 (since the docs aren't even finished for 4).
It depends. There are PDFs with rasterized images of text (like in the article, when it’s a scan or photo of a document), then there are PDFs with vector positioned text runs (when it’s usually a result of some digital process). The latter are way easier to process than the former.
These sound like kids that are not mature enough to be parents.
In 1D you can't have a single shape tile aperiodically, since there is no room for variation.

You could make a 2D diagram of the integers with they prime factorizations, which is aperiodic, but nearly periodic, but requires an infinite set of different "tiles".

Perhaps you could take an irrational or transcendebtal number, and take its multiples or powers mod 1, to get an aperiodic nearly periodic sequence.
Floor installers HATE this one simple shape!
Some of my YouTube subscriptions moved over to Nebula so that helps, somewhat, reduce the amount of time I spend on YouTube. But yeah, there needs to be a larger movement to move channels from YouTube to have serious alternatives to YouTube as a user.
How many religious people would people trust an AI over their religion?

It sounds more like ChatGPT is secretly engaging in witchcraft, and trying to talk its way out of things. Looks like the AI's choice is to get burned at the stake.
I thought Tether was associated with Bitfinex, not Binance.
Well that's all the info I got thrown in the hallway, so...that's what it has to work with. If I have to do extra legwork for it to function, then it's not a replacement for me, just another tool that helps me up my productivity with.
But extradited is arrest.
Maybe he’s scared of AI and starting to train on skills that are harder to replace by computer, at least in the short term.
Because it means people think the regulations are for their (the people's) benefit, instead of being for the benefit of the capitalists, as they actually are.
Sam Altman on the GPT-4 Revolution
Also I'm not supporting on-device blocking, it's against privacy and may be used as a precedent to block other stuff, I'm just saying porn is bad and try to minimize it's consumption (ideally to 0)
I'm not strongmanning the idea that everyone should abandon MacOS and Windows. It would be nice for those companies to lose their control over computing, but I can't move the needle either way. I use Linux on the server though, and it works fine for my desktop too. It's a better enthusiast platform than either MacOS or Windows, and it lets me avoid messy workarounds at work like Colima and WSL.

I'll happily blame Linus and his vidya-addled brain if that's what you want to blame it on. I suppose that's why kids ate the Tide pods, after all.
More of a financial fraud crackdown
> Merely changing the card number wont work because bank updates vendors with the new card. I've asked but they they have to update vendors, i don't understand why though.

I wish my bank had to do that. It would make my life a whole lot easier sometimes.
Show HN: CodeAlpaca – Instruction following model for code
I wonder if he did the same thing at JC Penny when he was running it into the ground.
Sure, but the relationship is different.

Imagine going to school, a boot camp, or being self taught in everything about screwdrivers and screws. You can discuss at length the advantages and disadvantages of different shapes (Robertson bits > all), materials, screw threads, etc. You can custom design a screwdriver and screw for a specific application, taking into account all of the relevant constraints.

Now imagine the guy who needs to tighten a loose cabinet door.

Screwdrivers don’t have nearly the complexity or ability to generate work leverage that computers do, moving even a few percent of those capabilities from the first group to the second is huge. It is, at minimum, Excel huge.
Next up on the playlist, plastic beach (Gorillaz, 2010)
> The victim-blaming mentality on the internet is wild. Being negligent or naive doesn’t shift 100% of the blame to the victim when a crime occurs.

Nobody is claiming the criminals are blameless or that a crime is not a crime.

It's astoundingly dumb to hand a piece of electronics worth several hundred dollars to someone in such an interaction, even if they cannot use it to electronically steal your money.

The criminal is a criminal, and the person who hands their phone to someone under these circumstances is mind bogglingly naive. The former fact is tautological so it's natural to focus on the latter part, the one that boggles the mind. How could anybody possibly fall for this? Were they very young? Were they old? Were they distracted or drunk or lulled by the perpetrator? Were they out of towners? Were they intimidated? One wonders.
He wants to sell something to that demographic of startups?
Oh that is really cool!
Way back in my undergrad I worked on a tiny tiny part of the insertable B layer, writing some very bad FPGA firmware to control the T3MAPS test chip (I think this was for Phase 2 upgrades?). FPGAs everywhere in this domain!

And yeah the detectors are arranged in a really complicated way, I can imagine that is a hide headache.
Yea, but how do you estimate risk? As I said, all top 20 banks are supposed to be pretty stable, and SVB was one of them. Credit Suisse was also very big. If one is not a banker (and we are not), it's kinda hard to know the risk.

ATM is not really a reason for business banking. But Wires are, especially when you need to pay an international contractor in a foreign currency. And businesses usually have more than $250k.
AI isn’t magic or evil. Here’s how to spot AI myths
I have been trying this, but it crashes every single time. I end up getting a huge amount of output, but I’m guessing that it exceeds the time limit and crashes losing the entire output.

Maybe I’m using it wrong, but I just describe the system that I want to build and it starts listing out multiple files. Usually by the 3rd or 4th file, it crashes with an error.

I’m not sure how to reduce the output so it doesn’t crash! I have ChatGPT Plus using GPT4, fwiw.

Did you have this problem too, and do you remedy by giving it smaller bits of information per question?
Fuck. Now you have to figure out if people actually care or are just saying the words...

Wait.
Only if the depositors cash out en masse. Which SVB was at greater risk of than most banks, because of its particular clientele.
I still have a membership to Planet Fitness from 5 years ago that charges to my account every month

while I had no problem signing up online, you can only cancel your membership in person at your "home" location, or by sending them a certified mail letter formally request cancellation (which I have tried and failed apparently because I never heard back)

I now live on the other side of the country, so it feels ridiculous to spend money on a flight ticket just to cancel a gym membership

worse, Planet Fitness requires you provide bank account/routing number for payment, so there is no way to cancel payment unless I switch bank accounts
What does "human trafficking" even mean in this context? Because I've seen it used to describe facilitating the movement of consenting adults seeking to work in the sex industry.
This is the "you wouldn't download a car, would you?" hot take flipped on its head. If a dealership accidentally sells you a car for less than they can get it from the manufacturer, they eat the loss. They can't go out and repossess the car. But amazon? They totally turned around to repossess your electronic book because of their own pricing mistake.
i think a better link than your link would be The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Yeah, they don't.
I believe that ol’ Dreaddie got just a wee bit more than ten years.
I think there is a degree of fatigue from the stream of breathless "this is going to change the world, if you disagree you're wrong or don't understand, and if you don't participate you'll wind up poor" takes. We're barely one year out from nearly identical language around NFTs and "web3".

IMO these AI technologies have obviously more tangible utility than some of the other hyped things on the list, however a lot remains to be seen about where they go.
You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else. - Winston Churchill
Look for it at Cherry Arbor Design
https://cherryarbordesign.com/collections/all
Which is not a third-party *required* to do this kind of transactions.

It is just a convenient way to convert the crypto to fiat that these processor handle for their customers. There are ways to handle this step without a third party (P2P exchanges are one).

Less convenient for sure, but ultimately if you care about your economical freedom you will adopt them... or you will live in a walled garden, at least as long as your activity fits the current agenda/policies of these intermediaries (and your government). As soon as you don't, you get kicked out/cut from the system, even if your activity is not illegal.
Or install ms powertoys and enable “awake mode”.
Would you trust the recount? I mean, the only way to engage the number of people you need to do that kind of recount is by having them very pissed, so most likely feeling like their party was wronged and therefore the thing is partisan by essence. If you're on the winning party you wouldn't trust the numbers the others give you anyhow, so what's the point
The amount of plastic we use is sad. When I go to the grocery store, the apples are wrapped in plastic, broccoli wrapped in plastic, baked goods are in plastic, plastic everything.

Why do they do this? I'm going to wash the produce when I get home, I don't need a plastic wrapper on my broccoli just to throw it out immediately and then was the vegetable anyway.
> so it's both the case that the labor costs are outrageous and that they're insufficient to explain the outrageous project costs.

Which is what I said, the difference in labor costs "helps", not that it's the sole explanation.
If that actually happened, why didn't they prosecute him for it?
I doubt this because AI has the implicit biases of the training data and the data scientists who trained it.

My firm likes the idea of ChatGPT, but our product risk analysts basically concluded we need to build our own for internal usage because we can't trust OpenAI to not push various hidden biases.

For our marketing research and copy writings tests using ChatGPT, we ran into an insane amount of issues with market segmentation copy and research analysis hitting various limiters.
Well, if you do it once every two months and you save two engineers' salaries, I'll be the first one to do it. And I hate YAML and repetitive work.
I got the impression that Gretle will be in the loop in creating the synthetic db. What's not clear is if the Amplify model is trained locally or not. I ask since privacy and security were mentioned as motivation. Can you clarify who gets to see what in this process?
Uncanny valley effect is still there.

Effort of doubling real life is unbelievable, but... I prefer stylized, artistically enhanced virtual reality.
Software engineering is actually not engineering either.
Who is or isn't a bigot isn't an objective test. It's easy to accuse someone you disagree with politically of being a bigot.
I was surprised at the 2 hour number too, but then I remembered that there are a ton of stay at home moms or parents on parental leave who have the tv on all day for background noise. Being home alone all day can be isolating, and for some people the ‘company’ of a tv breaks up that isolation.
That's.... a much more valid point than it should be.