skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> High population growth is associated with poverty, not prosperity

nope. the us for example had a much higher population growth than eastern europe. every western country continues to experience population growth. the population growth pre 1990 in eastern europe was at a healthy 1%. stagnation and negative rates started in the 90s, which was hardly a period of prosperity in eastern europe

> Countries that stagnated for 50 years went through a 10x growth in 30 years after the Soviet grip disappeared

tell that to everyone that dreams about leaving and working in western europe
Though it does sound like Steam would still remove your access if you actually did inherent the account (even if OOP is lying about that). I think that’s a pretty shitty policy, especially since it’s not like more than one person can use the account simultaneously.
Welcome to Immortality. Your Body Can’t Come with You
Apnic backed off naming naughty nominees after injunction threat
Seems you are right. More context here: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13077
D's null statement is `{ }` which nobody is going to type by accident, whereas ';' is just a twitch of your pinky.

`null` has another meaning in D, that of a null pointer.

D also does not allow the syntax `a < b < c`. C does, to the eternal damnation of anyone who tries it.
I don't have a horse in this race, but that website just says "username you passed in query string is a scammer as of some recent date" and provides no sources or proof. It's libel as a service?
Last week Google released Bard, its long-awaited ChatGPT competitor, in a limited beta to users in the US and the UK. I was lucky to be one of the first beta testers of the product and wanted to understand how these two AI systems compare to each other.
Except one way tickets are often exorbitant.
Steam is doing well cracking down on these losers.
Problem is you will have to heavily advertise it in your org because people will not understand why, where etc.

They will go to OpenAI directly and do stuff because "they want it now" and they don't understand why not.

Microsoft is already building it into Office 365 with the same enterprise-grade agreements so it might get easier that way.
Georgetown from Steam wrote "... since you mentioned you do not originally created the account...[sic]

That's a non-native construction. Unusual, for it to be coming from official support.
Huh, couldn't that be construed as
a price-fixing conspiracy?
90% of all "I got banned" posts are from scammers. They just want to social engineer their way out of it.
Eugenia Kuyda addressing feedback about changes to personalized AI, Replika
Couldn’t the price difference be due to booking so far in advance?
No. ChatGPT or any other LLM model requires to be trained on curated input in order to demonstrate anything useful. If you would train it on a stream of hallucinations, you would end up no better than hallucinatory noise. Already fooling some, though.
> Then what do you want me to say? It's the truth. There are always exceptions. Always.

It’s disingenuous to make an overly general statement and then immediately dismiss any counterexample to that overgeneralization by saying “there are always exceptions”. I could just as easily say the United States is chronically overregulated and your list of examples are the exceptions.

Where did you get that by the way? I can’t find any exact phrase matches online, and the writing style and overall glib superficiality reminds me of ChatGPT output. I’m not going to waste my time rebutting machine-generated garbage point by point, especially when half of it is meaningless weasel language about what “critics argue”.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter because if there are exceptions either way, then it’s still possible AI will be regulated.

> You kidding? Scandinavia is more or less a collection of countries closest to socialism.

A common misconception. In reality, they are market economies that combine a dynamic free market economy with a generous welfare state. Wikipedia even specifically lists as a characteristic of the “Nordic model”, “Little product market regulation. Nordic countries rank very high in product market freedom according to OECD rankings”(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model). It also mentions this quote:

In a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the centre-right Danish prime minister from the conservative-liberal Venstre party, addressed the American misconception that the Nordic model is a form of socialism, which is conflated with any form of planned economy, stating: "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."

The Heritage Foundation publishes an “Economic Freedom Index” that ranks countries by “economic freedom”, according to their own conservative, pro-free-market point of view, and they rank Denmark and Sweden as more economically free than the United States, both in the general index and in the more specific index of “business freedom”, which seems to be the measure relevant to regulatory burden in particular (https://www.heritage.org/index/)

> Given the sheer amount of counter examples of lack of regulation. It's pretty much safe to say that it's highly unlikely AI will be regulated in any meaningful way.

So then how do you explain the regulatory crippling of nuclear power?
It is indeed a country of far more liberty than China. The simple fact that the uniparty government can rewrite the Chinese constitution at will says everything you need to know.
Your blog just has a bunch of charts showing that high interest rates are correlated with high inflation and gets the direction of causality wrong. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the correlation exists because governments respond to high inflation with high interest rates? Not because the latter causes the former?

Is there a name for this general type of fallacy where defect A results in mitigating response B, but people see the correlation and wrongly conclude that B causes A instead? Examples:

1. Building more apartments "causes" higher rents

2. Covid lockdowns "cause" more excess deaths

3. Higher incarceration rates "cause" higher crime
werkzeug3 source code https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public/tree/master/werkkzeu...

Source release announcement can be seen on an old copy of their main page https://web.archive.org/web/20210126032752/http://farbrausch...

> Excerpt from the README:

> This is it. Pretty much a history of Farbrausch tools 2001-2011. We've been meaning to release all this for ages, in various forms, and always ended up not doing it because "we'd just have to clean it up a bit first...".

> No more. This is not cleaned up. This is the raw deal, some from old hard drives, some fresh from various SVN repositories. This is code written for a bunch of different versions of Visual Studio. Some of it is really tricky to compile, some really easy. There's some nice clean stuff there, other parts are just a complete mess.

> All of this is released either under a BSD license or put in the public domain (stated per project). Not that you're likely to want to use most of this code, but if you want to, we see no reason to keep you.

And they also point out:

> There's still some stuff missing (most prominently Werkkzeug 4) but we'll add this in the near future.

Here are some screenshots of werkzeug4 from some 2010 blogposts of theirs:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160327151958/http://farbrausch...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053110/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053104/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053104/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053100/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053058/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815053113/http://www.farbra...

You can see more pictures, and accompanying texts in the blog posts at https://web.archive.org/web/20140815050229/http://www.farbra...

Tangentially, from their FAQ:

> why does this website look so familiar?

> we want to thank the pouet team for allowing us to rip their web design and graphics.

> shaping our groups homepage in the style of pouet is surely confusing and a little bold, but we could not resist the temptation

https://web.archive.org/web/20140815045911/http://www.farbra...
> I think that’s a pretty shitty policy

Agreed.

> Though it does sound like Steam would still remove your access if you actually did inherent the account

I found this to be a good article that expands on the whole "What happens to your Steam account when you die" question:

https://www.eurogamer.net/what-happens-to-your-steam-account...

> "Your Account, including any information pertaining to it (e.g.: contact information, billing information, Account history and Subscriptions, etc.), is strictly personal. You may therefore not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise transfer your Account, nor may you sell, charge others for the right to use, or transfer any Subscriptions other than if and as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including any Subscription Terms or Rules of Use) or as otherwise specifically permitted by Valve."

> "In the simplest terms, this means that without express permission from Valve, you can't just give your Steam account to another person. Even if you were to write it into your will that you wanted this to happen, without that permission, it wouldn't hold up upon your death. Earlier this week, I spoke to a lawyer who specialises in the video game industry to confirm that this is, in fact, the case."

Seems like the answer is "It's gone"
You don't understand American history if you're making those claims. I'm a minority, whose ancestors came to this country as indentured servants, owned by a company, so kindly sit the fuck down. In any case the US actively seeks to reduce these things while china actively ramps up its human rights abuses in 2023. Your whataboutism is transparent and hamfisted. You are an apologist for an ongoing genocide. Don't ever forget that for the rest of your life.
Can confirm, my workflow for booking hotels now is find something on booking.com/hotels.com/kayak, then google search for the exact same hotel and follow links quoting lower prices to booking.com/hotels.com/kayak.
Sure, but they can have several copies of the index per datacenter, retry your query multiple times posibly even in a diffrent datacenter. New code and even updated indexes can be tried and then fall back to yesterday's version.
> Mostly because you don't have to buy any of this.

Maybe nobody has to buy an airline ticket, but I'm not convinced that's true. Worse, is that while you can look at the places where we know this pricing model is being used right now and think it won't impact you, the goal for many years has been to push this to everything you buy everywhere.

The only thing holding them back is that most consumers feel that this is abusive and discriminatory. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00224-3

Still, it's being tested all the time, including in grocery stores. They want to use your personal income level, your personal buying habits, all of the information they can get about you, and use it to set a different price for you than the next person, but also to offer some goods and services only for certain people, hold certain policies only for certain people etc.

Right now, you might be able to dismiss this when it comes to airline tickets or hotel bookings, but what we're heading toward is a caste system, several really, where "you don't have to buy any of this" will need to apply to food and toilet paper and "your kind aren't allowed to buy this" is right around the corner.
My apologies, this was a misquote. Actually instead of saying "Filtered out by 9%", the article says "Filtered out 9%". So Hispanic men in this age and height bracket created height filters that reduced the size of the overall candidates available to them by 9% of the population. It is NOT that they are rejected by 9% of the population.
Honestly that doesn't surprise me too much. Reddit coms seem to have that ethos in general. Reposts and general low quality for reputation whoring.
>Look at Germany, it's pretty stable if you are a wage earner, especially if you have an engineering diploma. They don't make more kids even though they are safe, and they have generous paternity leave.

Even for those stable engineers, it's hard to afford a home. Also you start earning money late at 25, because you needed those pesky degrees. Now you are 30, have a modicum of money, and want to live a little first. So you have fun until 35. Now you're looking for a life partner, you find them at 40. But you need to be financially stable, so you save up for a downpayment, you wait a few years until 45 to start a family.

You now notice you can't have kids because you're too old. The end.
The IPCC being blocked from making scientific recommendations by moneyed interests (the meat industry) is . . . communism?
Reader View: https://web0.cc/a/qZf8fwrzmR
What were his view on drugs though? I think this is more like banning drugs in some sense. Not to mention the propaganda/spying angle.

edit: Looks like he thought they should be legal.
If you increase volume on the center channel while reducing overall volume the dialogue usually gets much clearer.
Firefox for Android still supports Android 5.0, which came out in 2014.

Many devices released prior to that were upgradeable to Android 5.0, including 2013's Samsung Galaxy S4.

Apple may have a good track record in terms of device upgrades, but a 10 year old Android device can still run the latest browser.

Apple's policies make that an impossibility for iOS.
Awesome to hear that, thanks for sharing!
It really does feel like we’re living in bizzaro world. If you want to make recommendations based on evidence, make sure it doesn’t impact the profits of powerful groups.

Many negative things we see in public policy stem from this fact. Lack of right to repair, lack of broadband in America, lack of cyber security in corporations, US tax law.

Maybe you like your meat. That’s fine. You can make decisions for your self, but we should at least be able to acknowledge the impacts of those decisions.

I think the solution is to blanket ban corporate speech. It really is different than individuals speaking and we need to acknowledge that.
The person is asking Steam support to tell them which e-mail is associated with the account. If someone gave you their account, why would it be on their e-mail so many years later? And why wouldn't you know what e-mail it was?

I mean, it could be that the person is actually being honest, but if so, then the person has put themselves in a situation where they will never be able to convince anyone they aren't trying to steal an account.
It's a useful way to not address the merits of what I'm saying. That's too bad; we could have talked about something important.
NIST list of safer languages for systems programming
cuneiform is just the method, like pen and paper. i am sure there existed characters before but we cannot know that, nor how they wrote before that, because the clay tablets are the oldest written records humanity has available that survived all this time.
Windows too with NTFS attributes. The answer is baseline FAT compatibility.

But at the very least, they could set the FAT hidden attribute on this stuff. It must be some mentality like "Well, I'm not littering in my own yard?"
You make interesting points but I would disagree about global cooperation.

Every day we cooperate in an intricate dance with people all over the world, from different ideologies and legal systems, to operate our supply chains and information networks.

All we need is for the green option to be in everyone’s self-interest and the system will rapidly self-optimize.

We’re already getting there with green laws being globally popular, carbon taxes, and clean tech getting cheaper.
For all we know, it was put there by Steam!
Travel Agents are still a thing, although there are quite a lot fewer of them than there were in the 90's.

If you know where you are going, where you are staying, when, how, etc then you can pretty much do all that yourself online, no need for an agent [1].

But if you want advice, then agents can be useful. Say for example I want to visit Barcelona, a place I've never been. An agent can help me plan that (when to go, where to stay, what can/should I do etc.) They're like an intelligent Google. They'll also likely know some hacks to make it cheaper if I'm flexible enough. They can do a lot more than just purchase tickets for me.

[1] I needed an agent once. I was flying from the UK to USA on United. I live (and my CC is based in a country United doesn't fly to directly.) United _requires_ me to use the "web site of the country matching my credit card". Except they don't fly to my country, so no web site. I could book online, but no way to complete the purchase. I ended up using a travel agent in London (which is where I _was_) to make the booking for me...
Exactly! Therapist would never push something like that onto mentally ill person with schizophrenia or autism! And child can give fully informed consent, just like with circumcision!
> Messages on Wavelength are completely private and secure, using state of the art end-to-end encryption.

All of the state of the art end-to-end encryption in products I know of is free software.

Much more difficult to verify these claims otherwise.

Furthermore, the app privacy label on the App Store claims that this service collects your contacts. So much for privacy, then.

Any conversation that includes OpenAI's GPT also necessarily can't be "completely private" or end to end encrypted as the service must have a plaintext of the messages to proxy them (in cleartext from their view) to their OpenAI APIs. It also then, you know, uploads your messages to OpenAI.

What's the point of e2ee messaging if the service provider and OpenAI can read it all the moment you loop in the headline feature (GPT in your groupchat)?

Ultimately, threaded e2ee groupchat is a feature (ideally a feature added to Signal), not an app/company.
Who decides that it's wrong, that I in particular am guilty, and that the punishment is murder? You?
> To this day, when you switch to/from icon/list view in the Finder, more windows than just the current one switch

And there's almost no way to make this behavior stick because... it's different if you click through folders and if you click on pinned folders in Finder sidebar.

I mean... How?!
> Machine translation is hilarious at best and dangerously wrong at worst.

I picked a random passage from a novel in French I am currently reading. ChatGPT translated the three paragraphs I ran it on correctly; there are no major quibbles to be had. It is good, coherent English, a correct translation, which closely follows the French original, even capturing some of the poetic imagery effectively.

I'm sure after another paragraph or two there will be a weird screw-up. And there's no consistency in a running translation of any length. Etc. Yes, it's not perfect. Not fully human-equivalent.

Still. I remember when machine translation like I just did was the realm of science fiction. And I thought it would remain science fiction for a long time. The fact that such a thing isn't mind-blowing shows how far things have come, hasn't it?

> Speech recognition - Siri still have major issues undestanding me.

I am using speech-to-text AI transcription every day. It's been revolutionary for me. I am hard of hearing. The cutting edge is Whisper, and it is leaps and bounds over the state-of-the-art just a year ago: https://github.com/openai/whisper
I was in Vietnam once and buying a flight between Dalat and Da Nang.
First searched on there .com and it was $3-400 AUD. Searched again on the Vietnamese domain - $75 AUD. Wild.
Not sure why you are being sarcastic. No one wants to reduce their emissions (maybe a small number do or perhaps only in the abstract. Most like their steak and international travel. I know I do) so how do we make it fair? I cannot see any way that is fair that isn’t based around some per capita distribution. Of course this will be impossible to do exactly, but we should aim for an approximation.
Populate open world videogames with real living characters that evolve to your way of gaming.

Apparently somebody tested chatgpt 4 as a d&d DM and worked really well, so this coupled with AI voice acting could lead to exceptional results in the game industry.
What is your daily news source?
The root is you. The root is people believing they can change things. The far right believed it and has (unforunately) achieved inconceivable successes based only on utter bullshit and madness.
How do you feed sensitive data to ChatGPT? I've got no account, therefore no idea. I thought you just ask it questions, or task it to write some code. How does the sensitive data get there?
Isn't beef bad because cows release methane, but feeding cows seaweed can mitigate that?
> I honestly have no idea how Obama's reputation survived this. Taking executive action that completely undermines an individual's constitutional rights is monstrous. It's really sad that it was a total non-issue.

I'm "conservative" (although I abhor Trump) but I will say in defense of Obama that there clearly are exceptions from constitutional rights. For example, police are clearly allowed to use lethal force to stop an armed and dangerous person.

I cannot speak on the finer parts of US law, but it seems obvious to me that it isn't as clear cut at some people portray it.
The smalltalk interface is really one of the cleanest interfaces ever created. Too bad the software stack hasn't been put together in a complete desktop even like a simple one such as TempleOS
> Even if you try to describe precise and scientific facts in Sanskrit, the nature of the language would enable multiple interpretations of it.

Sanskrit's high polysemy is restricted to a rather bounded set of words (see the नानार्थवर्गः in the अमरकोशः).

Stepping back, this claim and the others you have made in this thread are strange and at odds with my experience reading and speaking and teaching the language, specfically the claims that:

- "Sanskrit semantics is intentionally loosely defined"

- the Rigveda contains "words and idioms made up when the situation called for it" in some way that is different from the ordinary suffixation that is a standard part of Sanskrit grammar;

- the ISKCON interpretation of the Gita is "technically as valid as the literal interpretation" in some manner that is unique to Sanskrit.

I consider these claims extraordinary and request evidence that any of these problems are (a) real and (b) unique to Sanskrit.

> That is amazing if you want to have intellectual debates, but useless if you are trying to follow directions to build ..say.. a bridge.

We have the various Shilpa Shastras [1] as a clear example of this kind of instruction, so I eagerly await a concrete example of what you mean.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilpa_Shastras
What is the solution here though? They forced normalization in HFS+ and everyone hated that even more since it changed your file names when you copied over files. And they can't be normalization-sensitive because then you can't type in a file name.
Drag to your rightmost home screen and then drag one more time
I dont read the news.

Can you give me an example? If Americans are consuming so much anti-China propaganda surely an example will be easy to produce.
> Furthermore, once you leave the Amish community, you are forever renounced by your family and friends

This is not true. Watch Devil's Playground for counter-examples.