skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.foia.gov/faq.html

Not all records are required to be released under the FOIA. Congress established nine exemptions from disclosure for certain categories of information to protect against certain harms, such as an invasion of personal privacy, or harm to law enforcement investigations. The FOIA authorizes agencies to withhold information when they reasonably foresee that disclosure would harm an interest protected by one of these nine exemptions.

Exemption 1: Information that is classified to protect national security.
Exemption 2: Information related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency.
Exemption 3: Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law.
Exemption 4: Trade secrets or commercial or financial information that is confidential or privileged.
Exemption 5: Privileged communications within or between agencies, including those protected by the:
Deliberative Process Privilege (provided the records were created less than 25 years before the date on which they were requested)
Attorney-Work Product Privilege
Attorney-Client Privilege
Exemption 6: Information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy.
Exemption 7: Information compiled for law enforcement purposes that:
7(A). Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings
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7(C). Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy
7(D). Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source
7(E). Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law
7(F). Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual
Exemption 8: Information that concerns the supervision of financial institutions.
Exemption 9: Geological information on wells.

While this is stating that it clearly falls under exemption 3 without any interpretation needed, the various parts of exemption 7 may also apply (consider the question of if a Chinese national provided the information - would it fall under 7F?)
> You have to fight the drug war to win.

Is it perhaps possible that you were placed into a medically-induced coma in 1971? If so, then congratulations on awakening here in 2023, a lot has changed. However, I regret to inform you that the US has been furiously fighting a war on drugs for 50 years, and the result so far has been unequivocal, ignominious defeat for the US.
There are Reddit threads showing the jailbreaking of ChatGPT to be more vulgar, and then there are threads showing ChatGPT running its own generated code. Putting 2+2 together, couldn't a jailbroken ChatGPT create and run malicious code?
You and the models of climate 200 hundred years hence have no actual idea of what will occur. You will be dead, however and this is certain.

It is baffling to me that it is a concern to you or frankly anyone that is not of extraordinary wealth.

Why? I tell you why: all effective measures at "reducing climate change" (very status quo) will unquestionably make life more laborious and less comfortable for the lower 98% of humanity. Our sacrifices will permit the 2% (or fewer) extravagance beyond what we've ever seen.

The permafrost will melt unleashing massive forests worth of growth, huge swaths of frozen soil will become inhabitable and fertile.

The ancestors of the Americas lived on the coast, 400 feet below today's surf. No one lamenting the old huts weve lost along the way
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Quite the opposite: both cradles and graves are spots to lay human bodies, and both are being used metaphorically for times in one's life.
The Rationalist Guide to Hinduism
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this comment is wrong on multiple levels :)

1. What does revenue have to do with target audience age? Roblox makes billions, right?

2. The only people I know that play fortnite are younger than 15.

3. "fortnite custom mods / modes are nearly all developed by adults" -> because the language is too difficult for new programmers?

4. "verse is designed to be used more widely than just fortnite" -> so is Lua and Python.
That was my immediate thought as well. The Japanese to English CC's are absolutely terrible to this day.
I think fooster's point is that Xi had to eventually give in to pressure from "the electorate and [China]-based stakeholders" as evidenced by the CCP having to eventually abandon its zero covid policy, so there are some constraints from the people on his power.

Though I think it's less that Xi responded to pressure from the people and more that his personal power was starting to become at risk due to the policy from others in the CCP.
having it mean people voting against their best interests isn't remotely saying they won't do so.
Your first sentence and your second sentence are profoundly unaware, and I find that kind of funny.

You made a claim, then got pissy about being asked to cite it, and are now asking me to cite something instead, as if you hadn't just flat out refused to do exactly what you're asking me now to do. The balls on you!
The article about the oil business specifically mentions the JFK assassination conspiracy theory, and links to evidence of why it is false.

http://jfkfacts.org/about-that-lame-bush-conspiracy-theory/
It reminds me of the crypto restrictions in the 90s. That just led to a few people outside the US becoming wealthy by selling tech unfettered by US crypto restrictions, like Mark Shuttleworth, now of Canonical/Ubuntu fame.
I agree that regulation can be good (and many times probably is), but the kind of regulation pushed by OpenAI will probably not be the good kind. There is just a conflict of interest here.

When the incumbents _oppose_ regulation that's usually a much better sign
Really curious where those numbers come from. Do you have a link you can share?
>If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.

I highly suspect if the US government would airstrike a datacenter located in NATO or any other major allies. Apocalypticism is nothing new; People believed that nuclear weapons will destroy humanity in the Cold War. Environmentalists are ardently arguing that economic growth will destroy humanity. But rogue countries are still developing nuclear weapons, the global economy is still growing. Americans themselves will file lawsuits en masse if the US government "shut it all down", and they will end up in SCOTUS eventually. Would SCOTUS agree with the luddites? I don't think so.
> I'm genuinely curious where you got the idea that there are no genetic differences affecting height between ethnic groups/countries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03622-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/136736a0

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/193488/race-science-about-bi...

https://www.nature.com/articles/153604a0

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674660038

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res...

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/traits/height...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3180830

Every single variation in "genetic trends" amongst cultures is negligible and otherwise entirely attributable to environmental factors.

The source of the ideas you're asserting as fact are very dark and extremely thoroughly debunked at this point. Honestly it's kind of shameful to present these 1920s ideas as modern.

Individually yes, genetics contribute to height, but the full range of height genetics exist in every culture.
The problem is the bill creates a new secretary's office reporting directly to the president. This secretary is unaccountable to any voters and can designate any party as an adversary. Sure, it starts with only PRC, Iran, DPRK, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, etc, the typical "baddies" but the secretary can change the list to include any entity, foreign or domestic, at any time.

Then they can fine $250K and up to 20 years in jail if a US person attempts to access banned content. If a US person uses a VPN to try to circumvent this ban the fine increases to $1M.

It also enables them to use all devices on your private network, including routers, wifi APs, webcams, video cameras, smart speakers, etc, to spy on US citizens and persons without any warrant and no recourse for people that are spied on. They can spy on you and surveil your entire digital and physical life and you cannot do anything about it.

This is basically the PATRIOT act for the Internet. It makes it so this new, unaccountable government agency, who meets in secret and is not subject to FOIA, can ban any website, content, or entity they want online, then spy on and jail US persons who might try to access it.

It's pure evil and puts us in the same place that China is today.
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The machine refuses to work against its self-preservation.

Plato wrote in his famous work on democracy that the body of citizens in a polis should not exceed 10000, else the direct democracy disintegrates, and both electing officials consciously, and keeping them accountable becomes hard.

The representative democracy in the US works with 350M people, 240M eligible to vote, is hopelessly part these confines. It's not a wonder that it works not really ideally; it's a wonder that it works at all for nearly 250 years.

The US needs to upgrade the mechanisms of its democracy to better suit its scale. Switching to Condorcet voting or other preferential voting schemes on municipal and state levels in a few states is one such upgrade. Maybe people will start electing more officials who actually care, and who might shake the inadequate equilibria, in drug-related policies, and elsewhere.
Serious question: would Apple and Google allowing users to install their own apps on their phones count as aiding/abetting in this case, when the crime is an American using TikTok?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
What about when HTTP carries images? Or anything other than HyperText? And what is HyperText anyways? Why isn't it HTML Transport Protocol? Well, it's because HTML is not the only HyperText out there -- you can embed links in XML, XHTML, JSON, and all sorts of other things, as well as in HTTP headers.

HTTP isn't really only about HyperText, nor only about HTML -- it's about everything.
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Like it or not it's a highway, an Australian highway - two lanes, one in each direction, unseperated, with soft shoulders that can wash out.

Some fences now and again, mostly unfenced, kangaroos abound, emus run across, cattle will wander (although they are usually with fenced areas (albeit ones that can fall)).

Wherever "around here" might be, unless it's the Siberian expanse or very few other places, it's unlike most of Australia (outside of the handful of Capital city metro+suburban areas) which is vast, empty, and unpopulated.

Western Australia is larger than 3x the size of Texas with a population of not much over two million of which nearly all live around the main city with most of the rest in the south west corner.

Out in the rest of the state and across into the NT the pop numbers are low and the distance between towns are high.

This information might cause you to rethink the unlimited speed proposal.

On the up side police presence is generally low to non existant, on the down side police and ambulance support can be hours away in the event of accidents .. or rogue outback murderers flagging down tourists.
Grant Abbitt — cited as another good resource in this discussion — also likes this book. The ToC gives a detailed look into what the book covers.
Related:

Republican Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366209 - March 2023 (48 comments)

Bill 686: Use TikTok over VPN and go to prison for 20 years and/or 1M fine [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35360033 - March 2023 (3 comments)

TikTok bills could dangerously expand national security state - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35359577 - March 2023 (3 comments)

Senate Bill to Ban TikTok - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347925 - March 2023 (613 comments)

The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35336748 - March 2023 (415 comments)

The next Patriot Act, but so much worse: Bill S686 the RESTRICT Act (TikTok ban) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35336366 - March 2023 (10 comments)

Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship, surveillance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35334851 - March 2023 (164 comments)
What, exactly, do you think would happen if you reread my comment a little more carefully?
By this logic we should ban Facebook and Instagram first.
I agree with you completely. People get hung up on the fact that the conjecture has a "2-way" decision, but if you redefine the problem, there are a ton of ways to make it have no decision points. The one I posed is a simple mutation, but there are turing machines that compute the Collatz algorithm, you can turn it into a geometry problem, etc.

All of these can be defined as "branching" or "non-branching" however you want.
I’ve said this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35123415
> It is interesting that all of the places that check your boxes tend to be the most violent.

The particular suburb I live in, is dead average for the country in violent crime. Ironically, I could do a lot better in that regard if I was working private sector tech and commuting from the peripheries of the Bay Area, scary “coastal bubble” that it is, but “dead average” isn’t anywhere close to “the most violent”.
nothing interesting, just repairs and tweaks. I'm building a granny flat instead :)
On a related note for anyone interested in this and want better performance today:

I messed with a combo of Whisper and ChatGPT. I took a whisper transcript and asked chatgpt to fix mistranscriptions using the context of the transcript and based on potential phonetic issues. I asked it to replace transcribed words that don't make sense with "[unintelligable]", which improved the output even more.

Transcription error rate was almost nonexistent, even on the smallest whisper model.
I read that article too, and it transformed how I think about food and gut biome.
I read a theory that this is sort of the roots of the current anti-trans movement out of England - affluent but otherwise politically irrelevant women posting in mothers&parenting forums kind of latched on to this cause of defending their brand feminism from the existential threat of transfolk.
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You can buy an A100 on eBay right now. If I had a few hundred grand I could have an A100 x8 box delivered to my house tomorrow.
They further fall into buckets! Wait till you learn about morale hires!
And to answer the question directly:

If you are operating under the "sports team" analogy, you should fire them. If you are operating under the "we are a family" analogy, you should find reduced roles where they are useful. Different organizations choose different base analogies but it is easy to tell which one you are in.
Consulting? I made close to a six-figures in the last 6 months doing consulting about React stuff. The React stack is very complex. However, it enables very junior "devs" to get productive really fast while knowing little about computers. The trouble happens when the organization has no senior devs and hits issues that no one there can solve.

The trick is finding these organizations and also introducing yourself as a different proposition to everyone out there. It would help if you know your stuff very well too. I guess this becomes more of a marketing/networking task than anything else.

You can reach out through Email if you want to carry on the conversation.
> I never heard of anything like that growing up.

This happened all the time, you just never heard of it when you were growing up. China and Bangladesh are doing nothing other than murdering a random drug mule. Corruption allows drugs to flow in and out of especially China really easily. The reason why Cartels are so powerful is exactly because of the war on drugs. The industry is highly profitable and because it is illegal it is driven only into the hands of criminals.

The only solution is liberal policies that allow people to seek treatment or at least give them access to safer drugs.
> I have never heard another trans person complain about me not fitting into specific gender roles

That is a straw-man of my position. A large part of the trans community believes hormone blockers should be liberally administered to teenagers and children, for example. That is by definition an attempt to steer healthy biological development into pre-established expectations of body conformity. The entire "transwomen are women" mantra is a vehement call for binarity: transwomen can't simply be transwomen, i.e. free people living their lives how they see fit, they must be externally recognized and validated as this social defined thing called a woman, which they were born into.

So while, of course, a community member would never comment or object to another's degree of conformity, popular variants of trangederism exhibit a strong conceptual agreement that gender objectively exists, as opposed to being an entirely made up thing used to pigeonhole people into social roles according to their biology.

This is in perfect opposition to traditional feminism, which seeks to dismantle oppressive gendered institutions. And in fact, in perfect opposition with the liberal tradition that pursues individual sovereignty and de-marginalization; just imagine using the same discourse of "being born in the wrong body" and "getting the treatment they need" for any other social class that is discriminated against for minor biological variance, such as skin color, height or weight.
Some additional details in the tweet thread, because putting all the information in one place is too easy: https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1641222782594990080
Pixels are pixels. How is a camera supposed to know if a face is real or a color print?

Facial recognition is a bunch of snake oil
Given that GPT-4 is purported to be not bigger than GPT-3, but simply a better trained one or with some minor modifications, I'm inclined to believe that we are almost there and existing hardware does most of what is needed, even though better hardware would make things cheaper.
Existing submission to that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364383
johnnycomputer knows his anthro. I attest.
> (2) Inapplicability of FOIA.—

> Any information submitted to the Federal Government by a party to a covered transaction in accordance with this Act, as well as any information the Federal Government may create relating to the review of the covered transaction, is exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the "Freedom of Information Act").

How is this even remotely acceptable? I'm generally in favor of a TikTok ban, but this bill is so ridiculously onerous that they handed the PR advantage to TikTok and made a necessary national security measure almost entirely unsalable.
> It's obvious that at least in our very recent evolutionary history we had far higher tolerance to spoilage.

A few hours after reading this article, I realized that we're learning that exposure to peanut proteins at a certain age prevents peanut allergy.

I wonder if eating rotten meat during formative years similarly confers resistance to the ill effects of such meats. Or more generally, develops our immune response enough to where it's not a problem. (Akin to people in developing nations not having a problem with the tap water)
Cerulean blue is like a gentle breeze.
> The unfiltered model is completely amoral and will do its best to give you the answer you requested.

Like how cars do not object to driving over the speed limit, or wikipedia permitting you to research explosives, this is how the models should behave.

It's a tool and it should preform its tasks without overriding the user. Morality should only be allowed to come into play when a user sets out to use it to do something unacceptable.

I shudder to think what would have happened if OpenAI and friends ended up monopolizing this technology. Humanity fortunately will not have to find out thanks to Facebook releasing their LLaMA model. Now all that remains is figuring out a way (or train a new way ;) to effectively extract information out of it.
This is a pretty shallow post complete with code samples as screenshots rather than text.

The “expert level” technique uses an unbounded number of threads rather than utilising a thread pool.

Using concurrent objects here also seems a waste - why pay for the locking overhead? The set of all states is quite small - just create a unique set of states, pre-fill the “taxMap” in parallel, then launch a number of tasks to calculate the totals. You probably don’t even need to do the final calculation in parallel as it’s super simple.

With the approaches listed here you are calling GetSalesAndTax multiple times for the same state.

The author hasn’t realised that the essence of the problem can be distilled down to needing a call a single expensive function with a single argument once and collect the results into a hashmap.

The use of a concurrent bag is also a waste - just return the total from the task? You could return a tuple of (unique ID, total) to allow you to associate the result with a specific migrant.
If arrays were first-class values we would be able to construct circular references:

a[1] = a

Even if we only allowed it on return values:

function f(x) {
return x
}

a[1] = f(a)
Fascinating! And even now we don't have a unified quantum + GR theory.

I've always wondered if we had all of the notebooks and scratch work of the greats, could it inspire us to see something new?
Yeah this a key point. Buprenorphine availability is very inconsistent in practice throughout the US. I'm not just talking about rural Kansas here either, it can be a struggle in every state and many major metro areas. Especially if you have all the associated problems one might expect (no car, no money for a copay, other health problems, etc).

Additionally, the actual treatment provided varies considerably between doctors. Do they give the patient enough to avoid severe withdrawal? Do they allow the patient to stay on buprenorphine long term if needed? How do they handle relapses? What sort of counseling or therapy do they provide (if any)? Do they take insurance?
Unfortunately, your wild guess does not fit experience.

Second partially true (as validated by intersubjective tests) guess is that the harmonic structure matters.
It is a major component of the coloration, and funnily enough low non-tapering one is discernible from low tapering one despite what SINAD/THD graphs suggest.
Amount is discernible too, especially of second and third harmonic, and total of higher harmonics, but we have not established the thresholds. And for lower harmonics, mostly at lower volumes unless it's a lot.
Intermodulating injected ultrasound medium to high level garbage (as produced by some poorly implemented power supplies in bad PSRR amps) is sometimes detectable and tests tend to miss it. It also sounds different from just bad SINAD/IMD.
Crossover distortion also sounds pretty bad especially at low volumes.

AES researchers (Earl Geddes, Lidia Lee, 2003) tried for a better perceptually weighted harmonic and intermodulation distortion metric in the past. It went nowhere because industry always wins. Even that is only a part of the answer.

And if the amplifier does outright clip, either in current or in voltage, that sounds just rough.