skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. They are 'corrupt'. And the US billionaires that regularly get their sunken business ventures, banks and investments bailed out by the American taxpayer are not corrupt.

...

The ability in some Angloamerican and 'Western' segments to publicly talk with this kind of double standard is amazing. You have billonaires. They have corrupt oligarchs. All is well in the world and all that...
The US exports military vehicles all over the world, and often is fighting against forces using them, in actual wars (as opposed to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which is between Russia and Ukraine). We gave $18 billion in military equipment to the Taliban last year. That Ukraine has US military equipment means very little.

The US is providing security assistance to Ukraine, and condemns Russia's advance, but the US is not fighting a war in Ukraine
What’ll that do? The concern is about data being siphoned off to CCP data centers in China.
Why Carriers Are Powering Telecom Cloud Services with Open Ethernet with SONiC
First of all, I'm sorry this happened to you. Here are my thoughts on your question and my feedback to you.

> How can I stay positive and avoid falling into a funk?
Remind yourself that you did not fail. You weren't fired because you didn't work hard enough or do well enough. Being laid off doesn't mean you're less valuable or can't find a great job in the future. You can still use others from your previous job as references and put them on your resume. You don't have to worry about recruiters and managers asking why you're no longer with the company.

> How can I justify the high cost of COBRA health insurance with limited funds so my high school teacher wife isn't burdened by my potential medical debt while being our sole provider?'
Three words, "Qualifying life event". Because you're losing your current existing health coverage from your employer. Your wife's insurance can open a special enrollment period for her to sign up your family. You don't have much time, so you should start looking into that right away.

> How do I fall asleep at night?
This one I can't help much with this. The stress of all of this is high, and that's valid. But being tired the next day won't help you make the right decisions, and at 10pm, there's little you can do. Get some sleep, get up, and enjoy the time with your kids or go for a walk. Find an outlet. It could be returning to college, working on your degree, or collecting rocks. Just something to take your mind off everything.
> Regarding Living In Rural Indiana and trying to find remote work.
There are still quite a few remote jobs out there. Update your resume, and start applying through the myriad of job search sites. Reach out to your network and see if there's anyone hiring. I've found some of my favorite jobs through previous co-workers who have made it into hiring roles. I landed a job working remotely as a developer with only an associate's degree. Some of the smartest, most successful people have no degree. Our industry does favor a newly minted college student over a person who's maybe a year into their career with no degree but I feel with 20+ years of experience you're not going to be beat out by a brand new college student for a lot of jobs. Also, don't sell yourself short. Apply for the jobs you deserve, or might want to try. This is an opportunity for you to try something new, and if your options are make $15/hr at Taco Bell or $40/hr in a technical job that you might have otherwise not gone for because you were comfortable, this is a good opportunity. In the meantime look into unemployment to help cushion the financial blow.

Good Luck!
A new technology boom is at hand
Stallman doesn't use Google: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html.

> Pick your poison

Alternatively, you could use a GNU/Linux on PC and phone.
100% agree. That first season is so rough though. It's made it hard to introduce to friends.
I can't explain authoritatively, but my thought is that perhaps this is the only way congress has to affect the change, and they're the ones wanting to make it happen.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21204648/zoom-macos-instal...
This is a great issue to think about. Note the kinds of interactions we do not have (yet) with GPT and similar models:

GPT (as a Bot on a Discord channel) "Hey all, I just had a revelation. I'm creating a new channel to discuss this idea." Up until now, and even with GPT so far, it never initiates anything. Come to think of it, it's like a REST API -- no state, no persistent context (other than the training, which is like the database).

What I want is a WebRTC/RTSP 2-way stream with GPTx, where either of us can initiate a connection.

Also, I want GPTx to be curious, to ask me questions about myself, or even about the world, rather than just relying on the (admittedly impressive) mass of data and connections that were painfully trained into the model.
Thousands Access Fake DDoS-for-Hire Websites Set Up by UK Police
That's a lot of words to say authoritarianism.
I mean that's it. Is it even something based in reality to expect a simple person to scroll through unknown and almost endless legalese and then expect to go to court because I broke the EULA and the judge would look at my life and tell me that I broke clause 44.24? It's never going to happen.
Time for another three years of lockdowns. (I hope not)
GPT-4 can write queries if you give it a schema, but I definitely wouldn't rely on it to generate any actual data.
> The UK doesn't even have a constitution

It doesn't have a single written document titled “the Constitution”; but it has a constitution.
What we shouldn't is anthropomorphise it too much. While LLMs can express themselves and interact with us in natural language, their minds are very different from ours - they never learned by having an embodied self, and they can't continuously learn and adapt the way we do - once the conversation is over, it's like it never existed unless it's captured for a future training cycle.

Right now, their ability to learn is severely limited. And, yet, they outcompete us quite easily in a lot of different tasks.
The do it intentionally. Don’t feel bad for them, they get paid hundreds of thousands each to fuck up your user experience and waste your time and that of a million other people.
The trouble with the very first render is that the author is wrong about why the bike wouldn't work. The head tube isn't braced well enough to allow the front brake to be used, and would twist when cornering to a degree that would unsettle most riders. The missing chainstay would only be an issue for powerful cyclists or people standing up to pedal. But the bicycle shown could definitely be built and ridden. Probably more practical than Saul Griffith's plexiglass bicycle (that was also built and ridden).

At one stage Klein had a problem with the chainstays separating at the bottom bracket and a number of people rode those bikes after breaking them... almost exactly the "missing chainstay" problem above.

I've built some very weird bicycles and broken both those and conventional bicycles. I have at least some idea of what works... I'd be willing to build as many of those renders as someone was willing to pay for.
At least you don't have cancer.

I worked for Atlassian, and my wife was fighting cancer. She had one of the two very important surgeries when she wasn't even able to move. They fired me the next day after the first surgery. I remember I was running at home like crazy, making soups and preparing food, and attending meeting with Atlassian where they said - "you are fired".
there has been some media coverage on this already (e.g. [1]). an emerging concern among mental healthcare professionals is that a sufficiently-convincing simulation could interfere with the progression of the stages of grief, prolonging the 'denial' stage and potentially heightening the intensity of the stages that follow.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...
Lawmakers obviously need the assistance of outside expertise. The problem with lobbying is that most of the assistance comes from the people with most of the money. Lawmakers could (and in some jurisdictions do) seek out assistance rather than relying on moneyed interests to offer it.
In the general case yes, however their active shooter data through 2021 should be published.

2020 was zero school fatalities from active shooters (average is 5). I don't know about 2021 I didn't look at it.
This is how it's supposed to work, Congress makes laws and the President enforces them.

The reverse, where government agencies ban things without Congress, is the unusual thing from a Constitutional perspective.
How Marbles Are Made!
This seems backward to me. Wouldn’t you be less impressed by ChatGPT if you thought that thought that human intelligence worked the same way as LLMs?

If humans have some special sauce different from the computer, then it’s crazy that ChatGPT can emulate human writing so well. If humans are also just statistical models, then of course you can throw a big training set at some GPUs and it’ll do the same thing. Why should we be surprised or impressed by idioms?
I have never heard this before, can you give an example other than 357/38?
Since people sometimes ask, here is the nonfree url that taints openbsd.

In the ports tree, there was a makefile. http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/devel/jdk/1.3-linux/Attic/Ma...

If you open that makefile, there is a url. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

If you open that url in a browser, you will be presented with the opportunity to download nonfree software.
Most people are extremely irresponsible with their money, which means that they don't have much disposable cash. So you will lose sales if you can't offer financing to them. No individual will want to have more than 1 Iphone, so once you've sold to those who can afford it or have the discipline to save up for it, you'll have to find a way to sell to those who can't afford and don't have the discipline. Prepare for all consumer goods in America and Europe to be offered on Buy-Now-Pay-Later plans as standard within 3 years.
Through the arched window, as they used to say in Playschool.
The number of things Google Play Protect can do on apps that are not from the Play Store is substantially reduced, however.
Show HN: Use Alexa as a voice interface to ChatGPT
I built an Alexa skill to interact with ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo). After enabling it, you can simply say "Alexa, open MyGPT" and start a long-threaded conversation. It will even remember the previous conversation when it happened within the last 5 minutes. Quite honestly, this feels like the Star Trek computer.
Who said anything about the US? Russia did, and we in the EU are feeling the effects of this 2022 war on our doorstep.

And most millennials were a bit too young to be directly affected by toe 2001 crash but the older gen definitely felt it.
First and foremost, realize it has nothing to do with _you_. It's a job and nothing more.

Focus on what you _can_ control. Mainly, your skill set, interview preparation and networking.

Take a couple days off and get in a good mindset. Spend time with our spouse, children, family, etc.

Then hit it hard-- get up to speed on your skills. Prepare for interviews like it's the Olympics. Network. Polish your resume. Polish your portfolio/public presence.

You were accepted at a YC company, there's no reason you can't work remotely elsewhere.
A user has the right to use non-free software if they want. A company should not force anyone to use non-free software: it's unethical.
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Probably works or doesn't. I was part of whatever small percent gets banned by mistake, whereas most people would end up using it and generate enough confidence in their algos to not get banned later.

Whatever, I can live without the ability to purchase random crafts from Etsy.
Both work for me
Okay to put it another way the constitution is uncodified and weak - parliament can change constitutional laws at a whim due to no separation of powers and no-one could sit down and write it out anyway. So it's a pretty weird constitution if you can call it that, and many legal scholars argue it isn't one.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688
> Together with React-DOM it is about 100 KB

That's a surprisingly high amount. I had to check again, and yep, it's true...

Not that you would have to change how you code if you prefer React.

Pretty clear why Fresh defaults to Preact. https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/introduction
Lifetimes are getting longer.
Prices do not inflate in lockstep.
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> One of these improvements is updating our web platform for faster performance (reducing load time by 2 seconds — more behind the scenes details soon!) and consistent web experience across devices. So whether you’re viewing reddit.com on the go via your mobile device or at home via a web browser, it’ll be the same familiar Reddit.

Such obvious doublespeak.

Compact always loaded quickly already because it wasn't loaded down with ads and shitty javascript.

They just want to serve more ads to mobile users because some have been "avoiding" it via the compact site. I wish they would at least just own that instead of making up dumb excuses like "consistent web experience".
According to their admissions website they have strict GPA minimums but there is no guarantee (which is how I interpreted the statement "Got top scores, you are in!")

Additionally they don't require the SATs at although prior to COVID they also had a minimum score for that.
I think you confused personal development with career development. A job is a means to an end and should not be a huge concentration of your personal development.
People often forget that the first seasons of Star Trek TNG and DS9 were ... not good.

Actors and writers seem to need about a season to marinate. Straczynski knew what he wanted, and even he still took a season to dial stuff in.
I've not suggested one could be Amish without being Christian. I've started that 63% of the US population are already some type of Christian and that some of that number are as adherent as Amish; therefore, that many people would not have to convert to Christianity if they were to attempt to integrate with an Amish community.
A tangential question: I wonder what, as chiplets become increasingly more common, will Cerebras do to keep their technological advantage of wafer-scale integration. What is the bandwidth and latency of the connections between the tiles? Is there such a thing as bandwidth per frontier length?
Does AI output constitute derivative work of the AI? Would be interesting…
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> By creating these massive overcomplicated bills, they make sure only a handful of individuals are capable of reading them and the rest of us

Of course it is by design, not necessarily for evil purposes though.

First of all, the fact that laws are written in a "natural language" doesn't imply they can be fully understood by everyone, they are more like a math formula, it's only less obvious that laws need to be crafted in a way that requires an extensive knowledge of the subject. They're readable, but not always intelligible.

Natural languages are ambiguous, laws try to avoid it as much as they can, changing a word can often change the law intentions completely.

Secondly, exactly like scientific papers, if they have some kind of impact in the community, experts are gonna look at them, you can bet on it (also don't forget the army of lawyers companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, etc. have on their payroll).

And they will cover the entire spectrum from the most complacent to the biggest opponents and everything in between, so it's not actually like they will pass unnoticed. There's too much to gain in exposing your political opponents (and sometimes allies) to not take advantage from it. No professional politician would miss the opportunity.

It's no secret that many politicians have a training in law and the reason is obvious.

For example in the US of the 535 members who make up Congress, 40% had attended law school. For senators, nearly 54% have obtained a law degree. The House contains 37% law degree holders

> We should assume that they are trying to hide something

To assume this we should also assume that they - whoever they are, it's not clear to me - are all on board with the "evil plan" which is arguably very far from the facts we can prove.

In the game of assuming bad faith, we could equally assume that the opposition to this particular proposal is paid by the big tech corporations to avoid investing a lot of money to update their systems and losing the vendor lock in (WhatsApp messages are readable only by WhatsApp, Instagram messages only by Instagram, and so on...)
Baseline models are going to be commoditized for sure. But when you need to tune it on your specific demands, it will needs more data and expertise. That's going to be luxury that only those wealthy people can enjoy.
Furthermore the man on the scale is faced the other way and wouldn’t know someone is stepping on the scale. There’s an element of theory of mind there. You would have to understand that the man on the scale is unaware of Obama’s action.
Sadly, this is not false.

Here's a paper on "gender-affirming" mastectomies from researchers in the US. The cohort studied includes girls as young as 12 years old at the time of surgery: https://journals.lww.com/annalsplasticsurgery/Abstract/2022/...

Also here's a piece from Reuters about rates of "gender-affirming treatment" in children, taken from health insurance data - the section for "top surgery" includes girls as young as 13: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...
I can't speak to iPhones, but people have been complaining about preinstalled apps that you can't uninstall on Android phones for a very, very long time.

> I see MS getting flak for something every other company has already been doing for a long time.

Yes, but every other company gets flak for it, too. They're just not the topic of this particular thread.
> mucous membranes

Depends on which membranes. I think I remember reading that the reason these can transfer bird-to-human but not human-to-human is that they can only infect us if it gets so deep into the lungs we can't actually expel it from breathing or coughing.
This is the first (and probably the last) Guardian post I will upvote. Eat yourself, go ahead! Eventually the Guardian will realize who ran the slave trade, not report on it, and keep shooting themselves in the proverbial foot.
Note: this is the 3rd case since 2022. Doesn't appear to be spreading that fast...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Do you know by first-hand experience if these public consultations actually make any difference? I once attended one from the local gov, and everything was already predetermined and the debate was just a dance.
Most likely there is SOME technical job you can do for more money than a non-technical job, and I would lean toward doing something that's still career relevant if possible.
I seriously doubt this will make any difference to the average consumer. Every iPhone that has been dropped from api updates is so old that people have worked out how to completely bypass the security on them. You can install full Linux on most of these old iPhones. But absolutely no one has time to maintain an alternate OS for 7+ year old phones.

And even if they did, no commercial apps would be ported to it. I'm all for mandating ability to flash custom firmware and OSs, but I'm under no delusion that some free labor will spring up and an alternate mobile ecosystem will flourish based on users with 7+ year old iphones.

Android also has this issue but there are so many android phones that no one is really paying attention. Try using a 7+ year old Android and you'll notice many apps don't show up in the Play store. Sometimes it's because they only target the newer Android API versions, sometimes it's because your SoC doesn't have some instruction available, etc.

Windows is probably the worst offender of the lot. My brand new gaming desktop is currently flagged as not supported by Windows 11. Apple does 7 years support while Microsoft does as little as 0.
You omitted a piece of the definition:

> Malware is software that is installed on a computer without the user's consent and that performs malicious actions.

https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/antivirus/malware.html#:~:text=....
But even when it was brand new, I thought most episodes of TNG weren’t good and you knew the big reset button was going to happen every episode.
In effect, an action by the "FTC, FCC etc." is the same thing.

Those bodies were created by congress to delegate the duties of congress to the Executive branch.

They work for the Executive but are given authority by the Legislature.

The thing you may be conflating as the reverse is executive orders.
Is there a website that compiles all dark patterns Microsuck has ever applied?
Nice.

I really wanted the article to close its opening statement that "There is something delightful about riding a bicycle", by closing with the initial simulation, but with the rider embedded in an infinite procedurally generated landscape of rolling green hills and small villages.
We should compel these companies to comply.

There should be fine a 1% of annual revenue for every day these companies are in non compliance with prison for the ceo if they are non compliant for over thirty days.
What's your point? There are no guarantees in life. Those other paths are no more risky or less straightforward than going to college and then trying to get a professional-managerial corporate job.

Starting a small contracting business is hardly a big risk. Capital requirements are fairly low to start picking up small jobs. In my area the ones who show up on time and do quality work are constantly busy. When those businesses fail it's usually because the owner had some kind of personal problem (substance abuse), or because they gamble on real estate development and overextend their credit.

As for the military, anyone who stays in 20 years and follows orders without screwing up too badly will earn promotion to at least E-6. They can also take college courses along the way, and will get pretty good retirement benefits.

Adults have a moral responsibility to tell kids that there are options other than going to college. Make it obvious. There's certainly nothing wrong with going to college for many kids, but it shouldn't be the default path just because they don't know what else to do.
Last Night an AI Saved My Life (Figuratively)
I did, you apparently didn't because you missed the huge increase in fatalities from the mid 60s to mid 70s.

Look up when "Unsafe At Any Speed" was written and think about what might've reversed that trend.
Nyet
I heard on a podcast yesterday a suggestion that the reason the intelligence community doesn't like TikTok is that, unlike with Twitter, Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc, they can't just hand a warrant over to ByteDance get the data they want. If there's one thing the intelligence community hates, it's not getting the data they want.

Back in the previous administration, I figured this was all a temper-tantrum being thrown by an executive who got embarrassed when outsmarted by a bunch of kids. It may have started like that, but somehow in D.C. everyone's been convinced of the danger a foreign-owned social-media network poses. I'm still not sure I get it...
I am fine with banning what is, effectively, a Chinese psyop marketed as a social media app. I don’t really think we should be competing to make the most addictive doomscroller possible.

However, I do agree about point 3, wholeheartedly. This makes it seem like envy, where our government is salivating at the prospect of doing this themselves under the guise of protecting us from foreign powers.
Yeah, no slight on recumbents! I want one.

Oh, and the other demo is 100% of them are wearing 'Gardening hats' (A hat you tend to see people gardening in...)