skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I refuse to believe it, just because a bunch of people are parroting the same line doesn't make it correct.

Inflation is being driven by corporations who have been increasing prices since the pandemic, they've had record profits at the expense of everyone's cost of living [0,1] and even landlords have been colluding [4] to raise rents on people even though they can't afford it, I mean where will they go as one property management company asked in a business call [3]. Even Forbes doesn't take the opportunity to blame the fed in this instance, which is kinda funny to me, but being a mouthpiece for capital they of course point the finger at supply constraints with some fancy graphs [2].

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/record-corporate-profits-driving-i...

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/record-corporate-profits-driving-i...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgecalhoun/2022/09/30/what-i...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-evictions-monarch-in...

[4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/company-that-mak...

And this is all ignoring the fact that you insinuate that your own conclusion is wrong with the line :

>In "normal times" you might say...
As you have written it, neither of those two things are illegal to do, funnily enough.

Maybe reflect then on why one campaign settled a law suit, and Trump is being indicted at the moment, if again, neither is actually illegal under campaign finance law.

Hint: it's legal to pay for opposition research, but a violation to not disclose that you're doing it.

It's also legal to pay for an NDA, but not legal for the NDA to be created by direction of one's private lawyer, and then subsequently to use campaign finances to reimburse and list bonuses to that lawyer for legal services they never rendered to the campaign.
The parent poster was claiming that the story around Trump has died, seemingly suggesting that high profile figures on the Democrat side have realised it doesn't pay to keep pushing a story that now makes their own guy look bad. Personally I'm not convinced, most stories tend to fall out of the spotlight sooner or later unless new discoveries are made that can keep them interesting. Plus it's premature to suggest we've heard the end of that story anyway.
>> Large portions of the American public have been traumatized by Trump's behavior. We are seeking justice.

> And a large portion of the American public have been traumatized by Biden forcing them to take a medical treatment they didn't want or lose their jobs, in violation of the Nuremberg code.

I take the point that what people think is trauma can be subjective. If people come to believe what Fox News is saying about Biden, they actually can and do become upset.

The difference is a matter of truth. When Tucker Carlson and Fox News lie in order to generate outrage, we are in a different ballgame.

Also, there is considerable historical precedent and rationality for vaccinations. Furthermore, there are checks and balances on this kind of executive decision. Some of Bidens executive orders have been blocked by the courts, but not the vaccination policy.

I think one deeper underlying question here is "what is truth and justice and how do we get closer to it?"

Trump has shown few or no indications that he seeks truth or justice.

The preponderance of evidence suggests that Trump is all about himself. Whatever flaws Biden may have, he demonstrates broader goals than aggrandizing himself.

Let's say I grant (for the sake of argument, not because I have seen convincing evidence) that Biden did make poor decisions regarding Hunter: it is a still a step forward to do something for your son rather than yourself. If those things were unethical or illegal, at least they were in the service of someone else.

Trump's obvious nepotism is for his own benefit, not his children. He demands loyalty like an autocrat. I see no indications of an ethical code.
I still use StackOverflow for simple queries about syntax, etc, but for questions where I don't really know what I'm looking for ChatGPT is great.

The strength of ChatGPT is that you can describe your problem in some detail then ask for recommendations to your specific problem. Then you can refine the solution offered with follow up questions which can be useful if you want to use a specific library, etc.
we just launched our beta, an app for small teams to communicate around key metrics. But creating social habits from scratch (like collecting data manually) is deviously hard. Please try it and give us 10x feedback!
I've spent most of my career at places that most people here would classify as "non-tech" companies and have spent my time there working with programming, statistics and data analysis and data science research.
I'm generally cynical about party politics, but this takes the cake.

Perhaps if other recent elites were prosecuted for lying the United States into wars or openly advocating for torture, I would have a bit more patience for prosecuting Trump's bad bedroom behavior.

I am reminded of Clinton's Lewinsky scandal. Although I was very young at the time, it seemed so trivial in comparison to the magnitude of the office. The next administration went on to destabilize the Middle East under false pretenses. Where was the equivalent outrage for, "Lying to congress" ?

The president is largely a figurehead and a politician foremost. There's nothing honest or reputable about the profession. They could be uncharitably described as professional liars. Their sexual peccadilloes are of no interest to me. The obsession with their bedroom activities seems totally dysfunctional. These people should not be idolized or presented as a standard of behavior in any regard, much less for their sex lives.

Hard not to see this as yet another "The Emperor Has No Clothes" moment for party politics and US democracy. Outstanding issues remain, such as the existing wars, new wars and serious economic issues. Given this context, under what standard is it relevant how Mr. Trump paid a sex worker?

I wish the best for the US and the world at large, but this is just insane. For those somnambulists who are under the influence of this illusion, for those who think this is a rational endeavor which is not symptomatic of a much larger dysfunction - Please, I implore you to take a step back and examine the bigger picture. Consider a brief glance in the mirror as well.
Ukraine using Discord for war operations
Is It Time to Start Cooking with Magnets?
I think manual gearboxes are more durable. Especially when most autos today are the CVT type which break quite often I heard. Mind you the newer manual gearboxes are usually 8 or 10 speed which is going to be less reliable because all the cogs are smaller thus weaker, and you have to change gear twice as much.

One of my vehicles even has the tranny cooler and the radiator in one unit and is prone to cracking, leading to running radiator fluid through your gearbox, destroying it. The first thing I did was install an external cooler, as the market was big enough for an aftermarket kit for such a part.

Cars are getting so much worse.
the next wave of innovation will be things like battery tech, deep AI

in other words, nothing a React dev is going to put together in their kitchen

realistically, the unemployed will end up competing with the ten of thousands of new devs coming out of college and bootcamps...the guy who cleans our pool is learning python as part of his online coding degree (really)
State employees earn very little which is why they carry out their own extra curricular criminal activity to top up their wages.

What they lack in official wages, they more than make up with by using criminal loopholes and sailing close to the wind, like any nation proud of its pirated seafaring heritage, its where the saying cross someone's palm with silver comes from, also known as Danegeld.
Please share that article if you can find it. Sounds like an interesting take!

I honestly don't get the criticism Toyota has been getting recently. I think their decision to not go all in on just electric vehicles makes sense, especially for countries where it is highly unlikely that full EV will be a reality in the next decade.
I'm very excited about LSP snippet support, I will finally be able to use stuff like emmet on my svelte/html projects.
# Welcome to the FileSorterX
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Both rust developers and cli users can specify custom file sorting! Just simple input the directory to read from; the directory you want your files matching the extension to go. And the file extension itself. An example command would be `FileSorterX customsort --input ~\Downloads --output ~\Downloads\test --extension txt`

### System Requirements
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If you'd like to contribute to the Rust File Sorter project, please feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request. We welcome contributions of all kinds, including bug fixes, feature enhancements, and documentation improvements.

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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
I live in a country where WhatsApp is used by almost everyone. I uninstalled it 2 years ago and told my contacts that they can find me on Telegram if they'd like to contact me. Most of my friends and family switched to Telegram, and I'm really grateful for that. I don't miss any updates, and I'm able to communicate on a platform I like. In the beginning, they found it odd, but eventually started to like it and some now even prefer it.
I think this is unfortunate because it cheapens American democracy even further in the eyes of adversaries who want nothing more than to mock us on the world stage. Whatever your view of the balance between the need to enforce laws vs. keeping national politics out of law enforcement: From a foreign policy point of view, it's a catastrophe.

There are three classes of countries, as I see it, that indict or jail leaders out-of-power in the opposition.
(1) dictatorships like Myanmar
(2) quasi-dictatorships acting under a veil of democracy, like Brazil
(3) places on the brink of civil rupture, like Israel.

To say that this was intended by the Constitution of a breakaway American Republic is mad, because no sane English colonist would have chosen to renounce the crown if they'd known an idiot like Donald J Trump would be President 200 years later. Of course power should be held to account! As many people here have said, Presidents that committed war crimes would be a better target for prosecution. Or Trump's own crimes in office would be.

This prosecution under these auspices and for these reasons places us (Americans) squarely in the realm of third world semi-democracies.

I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but I hope Joe Biden will be wise enough to immediately issue Trump a pardon and bring this to a close. If Trump is indicted again for something serious, like insurrection, that would be a different matter. It's not possible to divide politics from law in a case where the defendant has a rabid political following and was the President of the country (as insane as that seems). Biden needs to pardon him right away.
I agree with your points, but would add that point 2 is not that suitable for one-person operation. I work in subscriptions business and while it is profitable, it requires quite a lot of people to take off. IT technologies, then editorial needs to be big enough, then marketing is also important, then the subscribers expect there is also a helpdesk, since something will surely stop working...
And AI makes this...worse?
I'm not sure about Toyota, because up till now they've been hydrogen evangelists and they don't have a great record on pure battery EVs.
> It amazes me that it understands spatial layouts from training only on text such that it can draw physically accurate diagrams, and it understands graphics libraries well enough to draw with them.

Is there evidence of this? The Whitehouse floor plan is very well known, and available online in many different formats and representations. Transforming one of those into a sequence of calls would be easier.

Have you tried this with a textual description of a building that does not have any floorplans available, i.e. something unique?
This is so wrong, it demonstrates how our human society is fundamentally broken, if not operated and manipulated.
Another option is monetizing via a niche job board for your readers. Pallet.com is good for that - will find companies, etc. Disclosure, tiny investor.
> here we are still with lithium ion in practice

Lithium ion batteries are actually amazing tech. I certainly remember the world without them; laptops had an hour of battery life, mobile phones were "car phones", everyone was running around paranoid about the "memory effect", and electric cars were an interesting curiosity always ten years away. Here we are today with pocket computers that last for days and electric cars buzzing around the city. In 30 years, some of this new tech we read about will be widely adopted, but in the meantime, it's not like things are that bad.

I think that electric airplanes will be the thing that new battery technology unlocks.
I don’t think the code we consider “grunt work” should necessarily be eliminated. When communicating, it’s useful to have a certain amount of obvious stuff spelled out in order to ground the audience and let them understand the basic context in which the non-obvious stuff is happening.

For example, if you have a configuration, and a particular default would often (say 30% of the time) be overridden, I think it’s typically not a good idea for the default to exist in the first place. Having those defaults will certainly reduce the average config size, but they’ll also create more cognitive load for readers, who now not only don’t know what the default is, but don’t necessarily know that the choice is being made in the first place.

This is one of the things I think is so powerful about AI as a solution. It saves you from the work, but still conveys the basic context to readers without requiring them to understand a bunch of opinions baked into the language or framework.

The same applies to writing prose. When you give a bulleted list to ChatGPT and ask it to turn it into prose, a lot of the work it’s doing is filling in obvious text. But that obvious text is important to communication, and where you have to go and edit that obvious text for correctness will be some of the most important communication in the final product.
Are you an Aussie for tax purposes?

If so, I'd personally default to Australia and worry about the rest after having some success.

If not, I'd go Delaware.
My honest reply is that you don't know the conversations you were excluded from because of this decision.
If you've been on medication, and know the effects of it on you well, and you're able to put systems in place to overcome the shortcomings this legally recognized disability has afflicted you with (as well as the blessings), then absolutely be off medication as you please. Tis your life to live! But for those that haven't been on medication for extended periods, or even just tried medication at all, for whatever reason, be it fear pushed by anti-medication zealots, or an inability to access it; for those that are tired of their life failing for reasons that everybody else seems to just be able to do, medication is, sometimes literally, a lifesaver.
I think this somewhat overstates it.

I'd put it more like: NixOS is 95% wonderful, 5% very painful.

Most of the things you'll want to do are simple to achieve.

But, yeah, if you hit something & you're not sure what to do: there's less support for NixOS than other Linuxes; and the NixOS documentation is quite fragmented. Community resources like the wiki or blog posts may even be outdated.
I cannot step in one of those machines without wondering if there is a hardware cutoff.
> Let's ignore the earthquake and tsunami that happened and pretend that all that cleanup is only due to Fukushima.

Typical nuclear proponents, trying to shift blame. The $2T is for the nuclear side of things.
An interesting tidbit is that 5/10 of the highest fines thus far have gone to Meta https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights (Highest fines: individual tab)
Yeah, that's a good question. Considering main revenue sources Google is a marketing/ad company and "tech" is simply an implementation detail.

I think a good litmus test is - if the Internet would die then would a given company be killed off by that. Ford and GS can function without it (it would be much harder but still they did that for decades) but for Google that would be the end.
>I honestly don't get the criticism [Toyota] has been getting recently. I think their decision to not go all in on just electric vehicles makes sense

Because for a while it seemed they were going all-in on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, a technology that makes little technological (and even less practical) sense.
Take a look at https://github.com/jaymody/picoGPT/blob/a750c145ba4d09d57648...

Yes, this is GPT-2 not 4 and it‘s not the RL-trained Chat, only the GPT model and it‘s basically only the inference part, not the training loop and it‘s somewhat simplified.

Still, take a good look.

That‘s essentially what it is on a single sheet of paper.

There is nothing specifically about language in „language model“, we just call it that. Better to call it just LLM.

Nobody knows exactly what it learns, although there would be ways to poke around given some research programs. But it seems like the interest in that is limited currently, everyone is busy with improving it or with applications.

Perhaps the answer is that we overestimated what a mind is. It‘s like we used to ask what life is and it turned out that there is nothing special about life, not even the DNA is controlling anything. It‘s merely a chemical process, even though a complex process.

Personally, I believe there is something special about consciousness and I believe these systems are not conscious. And I believe they are currently not flexible enough to adapt to new circumstances, unlike a human brain. They don‘t currently make much real progress. But that may change.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked in Italy
They have always been conservative. They have the most reliable hybrid in the market.
It's about him paying money to a porn star not to talk about their affair? That's not a crime. Now I can see how they can find some stuff in there to make SOMETHING stick, but if the same kind of scrutiny would be applied in general, 50% of the US population would go to jail.

Oh wait, a large percentage of the US population actually IS in jail.
I think an AI can learn everything it needs from books and other text. But others claim that it can never understand qualia like the feel of grass between your toes or the sensation of the color red without some direct experience.

Does an AI really need direct experience of such things to be useful in the world? Or can it just take our (written) word that grass feels good between your toes and make any grass-toe related decisions on that evidence? Assuming we're just interested in having AI solve useful problems for us like curing cancer, I don't see the need for it.

It could still be that some important facts about people are missing from the literature, because we consider them too obvious to write down. That seems unlikely to me, given the amount of psychological research on trivial factors. But if we find a system making mistakes, we can probably add some written explanations to the training set it'll get fixed.
Why is it called anode-free when it still has a copper collector with a special coating? Yes, they removed the graphite, but they didn’t remote the entire “anode”. Or is it because the collector and the coating are not technically considered as an electrode?
Yeah, I totally understand your point. I had to be the stubborn one to leave WhatsApp and refuse any communication unless they contact me on Telegram.

Some didn't like it at first, but thankfully most of them now love Telegram. I have a “My way or the highway” kinda attitude when it comes to WhatsApp, it has certainly caused problems once or twice, but I'm very firm on my stance against Facebook apps.
How were similar cases treated in the past? One case that keeps being discussed is the John Edwards case. Edwards was a presidential candidate; he had an affair with his videographer and had a child by her while his wife was dying of cancer. He paid a very large sum to the woman as hush money and was charged similarly with campaign finance violations. He specifically solicited money from wealthy donors to pay the hush money. Jury acquitted him on one charge and deadlocked on the rest; the DOJ dropped the rest of the charges.

Similarly the DOJ looked at the Trump hush money case and declined to prosecute.

Campaign finance laws in the US are a land mine and need reform. There is too much prosecutorial discretion and not enough clarity for people to know whether they are breaking the law. Campaign finance laws have become a way to fish for a crime against political enemies.

To wit: Bragg actively campaigned for his position promising to investigate Trump.

Rule of law should be about observing and then prosecuting crimes, not about spending years and millions investigating people looking for a crime that they committed.
Add a paywall (if you think it is worth being paid for)

Ads are an unethical business (thus should be blocked anyways imo) where only a small part of the cost will end up on your bank account
I get this. With anything from the core classical repertoire, the obvious major composers, to a good listener, you almost already know the piece before you learn it. With jazz standards too, but there is much more flexibility required in actually rendering them.

Part of the article seems to be confirming a neurobiological basis for something quite common-sensical to me.

From how you describe your issue I suspect there are things from the more recent classical repertoire that would stump you beyond the level of Bill Evans transcriptions. Bill Evans is still at least in a relatively "accessible/listenable" harmonic idiom.

Have you tried reading through any atonal/serial works of the Second Viennese School? Or 20th century classical composers like Ligeti, Elliott Carter, or contemporary pieces like Unsuk Chin's piano etudes, or Birtwistle's "Clocks"? I'm a good sight reader too but that's where I really hit a wall. This is music that provokes a strong negative reaction in many people. In the language of the article, their sensory expectations are defied. I think to really love this music (as I really do), you will have had to grapple with and deeply internalize things about compositional structure, so that what is a theme, a countersubject, a commentary, a development, an ornamentation, a point of rhythmic or textural elaboration, etc. are all still readily evident to the ear, and thus satisfy the ear, even if it's all occuring in an alien harmonic context.
Unfortunely not even pre-installed GNU/Linux is headache free, e.g. my experience with Asus 1215B.