skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is essentially equivalent to what the Chinese government asks of American companies, and what they declined to do, in large part due to moral disagreement from their employees.

Sigh, it isn't just this: China doesn't do rule of law, so American companies have to follow rule by law when operating in China, but they are also subject to American anti-corruption laws even for their operations in China, which makes doing business in China difficult (unless they can be isolated from that like they are in manufacturing). If it were just "moral disagreements due to employees", the CEOs would find a way around that, but technically it is just hard to do social media in China under Chinese rules that you won't even be told what they are.

But I agree TikTok should be treated fairly, even if that fairness is definitely not reciprocated in China.
Looking forward to a Beeper chatGPT bot
Ask ChatGPT to do it for you. It does surprisingly well.
>The main driver in inflation is monetary velocity

I would say this is also mostly innacurate. Velocity is one factor, but may or may not be the driving factor depending on circumstances.

If a global pandemic shuts down most of the manufacturing cities in China, and a war in Ukraine takes Russian energy and Ukrainian grain out of the supply equation, then the velocity of money is irrelevant compared to supply constraints.
What's in play here is not a fine, but courtroom sanctions that potentially hurt their case.

For example, the most powerful remedy Epic has asked from the court is "adverse inference", which would mean that the judge tells the jury that instead of judging the case on the basis of evidence presented by both parties, they should consider absence of evidence to be in favor of Epic. This can be quite devastating for your case.
ChatGPT was way better. Not even close.
Or you get an unskilled immigrant who has his back against the wall. I read an article claiming this is where teen jobs went, not sure how well supported it is.
The last part goes:

If everyone is guilty of something then politics and power decide who gets punished.
this is very funny, that all criticism of convergent blandness when written down converges blandly
I wouldn't go that far, but the keyboard being such a core aspect of it but looking like a regular modern keyboard thrown in does kill a lot of the appeal.
Job displacement is a silly problem compared to the AI Alignment problem. One is some human misery (but a lot of societal benefit to other groups of humans at the same time).

The other one is all of us, the entire species and the future of it, gets f'cked.

Its a distraction not even worth the noise.
I'm pretty sure those with equity in google get exactly what google makes redistributed to them, minus taxes and whatever they choose to reinvest in the company.
> Surely you have to do some kind of math eventually, or else you'll end up prioritizing whatever sounds the most dramatic instead of the things that actually matter (consider people who are more afraid of sharks than drowning, even though shark deaths are 1 in 4,332,817 and drowning deaths are 1 in 1,134)

TSA? Or any other "but think of the children"-type bill? Or look at water-scarcity "solutions" in the south west for something different.

I'm serious, "prioritizing whatever sounds the most dramatic instead of the things that actually matter" is literally 90% of the politician's playbook.
What’s funny about this take is I can’t tell if it’s super leftist and “lock up the bankers” or super capitalist and “we will never know show did this”.

Schrödinger's Comment
Renewable generation surpassed coal and nuclear in U.S. in 2022
other hacker news cerebras discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343763
I could see this being a major factor. It reminds me of wealthy white women's "hysteria" / other mental health issues of the past (ex. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/01/16/eternal-hypochondria-o...). Being neither particularly oppressed nor in the most priveleged group is an interesting position, and I could see this being an important mental health factor. I don't have a strong enough sociological background to connect any shift in social position for white women to the correct time frame in the original post, but it's certainly possible.
> except automated.

The devil is always in the details. A travel agency builds contacts with airlines, hotels, tour groups etc, so they can have a backup option available if your first preference is not. That requires humans.

An AI system that is simply browsing through the same websites a human would is going to come up with a lot of "no" responses for specific booking requests, or will simply quote higher prices once the booking websites figure out how to detect them.
If you spend some time traveling the world you will see not everything is the same. From Tel Aviv to Mumbai to New Zealand. They're all different with different people, cultures, coffee shops, foods, languages, history, etc, etc.

I am actually developing a web app that highlights these differences. Each week a different country is highlighted and users can post content about that country.
Personally I think the AI hype will slow down in next year or 2 when we see that nothing can replace human brain completely. Some jobs may get automated but they always have been since history of mankind.

I am personally not concerned at all. At best, AI will be a useful supplement. I am not that optimistic though considering how hyped it has been.
I have recently taking pleasure in using my phone less and less. The following helped me a lot:

1. Uninstalling apps for which a mobile web client exists.

2. Walking over to my computer instead of using my phone, even if I could do the same thing on my phone.

3. Use the freed up time with activities that reinforce this habit. For me it's taking physical notes in a notebook.
> Censorship is a tool. A tool best used rarely, maybe only a few times a century. But I unfortunately think we're coming to the point where we need to start using it within this decade or so. And no, not for the stupid AP African American class crap. I mean for the part that matters right now, the China-Taiwan conflict that is obviously brewing up.

How about the Red Scare or Huckleberry Finn? Problem with censorship as a tool is that it will be abused. What makes you so sure that the party censoring AP African American studies won't be back in power next?
The Evolution of Chips (2022)
More likely they folks in the top left are playing you - they aren't nice. But they know if they act nice they can coast a lot longer. They are taking advantage of you and everyone else who need to pull the extra weight - that's not nice at all.
Why is the comment section looking like a commercial for lockdown mode?

Even apple admits an iPhone in lock down mode is no longer a normal iPhone. Besides, a low-level exploit like the Android one would bypass it.
The disappearing chat messages were a pain in the ass for employees too.
These things are pretty dense and generally difficult to read but here are a few nuggets/hot takes.

Could potentially apply to VPNs - Sec 2-3-(B) - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...

General leeway for The Secretary of Commerce to classify things as they see fit. Chevron Deference, the idea that courts defer to executive branch agency interpretations of the law, might go away so this hedges against that - Sec 3-(a)-1-2 - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...

Judicial Review in Section 12. I think this is the section most resembling what we think of with respect to The Patriot Act. Basically feels like it will be very hard to challenge decisions made under this law. I don't read these things often tho so perhaps I am way off base. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
TL;DR: Buy those at Costco or Trader Joe's (Aldi Nord). Don't waste your money buying staples at WF.

Their target demo is Mercedes or BMW SUV driver (I'm mostly joking): elitist, hyper-self-absorbed, conspicuous consumption Before Amazon acquired them, their prices were relatively absurd and the products were even bougier.

It's also true you can't get some staples at WF because they need to ensure each SKU makes enough profit / shelf area.

The priciest of WFs are the small ones in major metros in mixed use commercial-residential areas that are essentially convenience stores.

WF post-Amazon also discontinues items that seem to me to be desirable, but I guess I'm not an average WF customer.

One positive point of WF is many locations have bulk dry goods that can sometimes be almost sanely priced.

Disclosure: I live ~1 mi from 3 WF and their HQ.

PS: I recall I was walking on the sidewalk crossing a WF parking garage, and out of nowhere, a white woman driving a white Mercedes SUV with the window rolled down tried to physically push me with their vehicle, laid into their car horn, and shouted profanities at me for the crime of not moving fast enough. Makes one consider wearing several GoPros when they venture forth into the world.
I'm using 4 and I still am constantly having to babysit it and challenge it to get a working result out of it. Don't get me wrong it is absolutely saving me time, but it is very much like being the teacher of a very fast typing junior dev.
The launch of the new Ads Transparency Center
I'm not so sure. Everyone I've met born before 1950 would much rather suffer in dignified silence than burden anyone with their care.
At that time I was developing on a 286 -- Linux was still far in my future.

But all my friends had pirated copies of every development tool. I don't know how we even got it all. We were lucky to be adjacent to a larger city and therefore have closer access to files and information.
> a 20 year prison sentence for any US citizen who attempts to use a VPN to circumvent the access ban

That's fucked up and insane. It should also fail a First Amendment test easily, but that all depends on the courts
I’m assuming I’m the “assertion made below”. I made no such claim. Let me rephrase it.

There have been 8 mass shootings in America in the last 7 days. No one was running to twitter to speculate about their causes. No politicians were raising concerns about troubling trends. The shootings were going completely unremarked on in national politics… until a shooter happened to be trans.

If you want to speculate that commentators and politicians are giving the other incidents the same attention, we would literally never hear the end of it. On average, almost 2 mass shootings happen per day. But, for some reason, those incidents weren’t given national attention. Curious.
Corporations don't exist in the physical world, so they can't act in it

They very much exist in the legal world, and are accountable for the actions of employees acting under their direction.

According to, you know, those fussy pieces of paper that their owners signed (and presumably read) when they agreed to incorporate.
Like I said, things "should be handled carefully and potentially outlawed." Personally I don't think your comparison holds because Twitter for instance isn't controlled by a state actor so the geopolitical issues don't really apply (unless you consider Elon controlled by China because of his dependencies on their critical mineral supply chains and market for Tesla... or by Saudi because of their funds ownership in Twitter).

I don't think the hyperbole here is particularly helpful; there is clearly a national security risk to allowing a foreign competitor unfettered access to your market and control over what amounts to a major media property. Maybe you believe that this doesn't matter and shouldn't be addressed, but if you do believe it should be addressed in some way, you need the legal framework to be able to do so
>Printing Money == Borrowing Money in our modern banking systems.

Not exactly. Printing simply introduces new money supply. Borrowing (or selling bonds in our case) comes with a corresponding liability that decreases the supply over time in an aggregate amount greater than the original amount, and results in a corresponding difference in behavior from the borrower.
>Not sure why people think AI development can’t be paused.

My suspicion is that if heavy regulation were to be put on it and all the corporate entities involved backed off, there are enough motivated and capable individuals that have home labs that would continue to work on it in private. It might be more difficult and slower, but distributed training protocols/methods (or advancements in them) might make it possible to pool a few thousand (or tens of thousand) high end consumer GPUs to continue to push the envelope.

My gut feel is that just as there are certain books, games and movies that get banned and become illegal to posses, there are probably (or potentially) going to be certain models that you're not allowed to be in possession due to what they can do. So... grab a copy of them while you can.
Ask HN: Any code competitions like Google Hashcode?
If you excise the concern about "did a government make this tech secretly for their own purposes," do the problems and possibilities it raises actually differ if it emerged from "pure research" or a conspiracy?

I don't believe anyone needed a conspiracy to try to make it impossible to tell what's real or fake, people have been trying to use technology to do that for decades (if not centuries) all on their own.
Corporations are responsible for the actions of those they employ.

If google publishes an option to press a button to violate the law to its employees, they are responsible for those that chose to click it.
4 and full agree and still confusedly wondering.. I know I will be shouted down, but what are all you "tech guys" doing in your daily biz, just glueing hyperdocumented boilerplate together and spitting out the same textbook examples, I don't get it.
This ^

I read once that grey cars have the highest possibility of accidents for this exact reason.

And since then have only driven white cars.
Just visited Flatiron building a few days ago. There’s scaffolding covering the front and sides, are those renovations being done by the existing owner?
We could have said the same thing about not building GPT-4 this just feels like---
"Now that we have our model built and monetized please don't compete with us so we can milk it!" ~ OpenAI and Others
> Actually money from selling bonds does increase the money supply.

With a corresponding liability that will eventually remove more money from the system than was introduced. This is of course a dramatically different equation.
Yes, telling parents (who are the voters) that actually they should just be doing a better job monitoring their kids activities online seems like a losing political strategy!
As far as I've seend the X1s lidar is mostly useless, it's doing fine-calibration at most based on the current filament profile and seems to be inconsistent.

That's not to say that the X1 itself is - just that lidar is imho a gimick.
> courts never stray “outside the case”

They do, regularly, otherwise the entire concept of “obiter dictum” wouldn’t exist.

> ianal, but i think when a court finds you have deleted evidence, that the information deleted is assumed to be evidence against you.

The court can (rough summary of Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure)

(1) Itself (in a bench trial), or by direction to the jury (in a jury trial), allow that to serve as the basis for adverse inference as you describe, or

(2) Simply direct a finding of fact against the party who does that (bypassing the jury, in a jury trial), or

(3) Strike any claims of the party at fault that the discovery touches on from the case entirely, or

(4) Dismiss the case (if the party is the plaintiff) or render summary judgement against the party (in any case),

(5) Treat the failure as a contempt of court and sanction it that, or

(6) any combination of those (and a few other things) that it thinks is appropriate.
That has been somewhat my experience as well. I found ChatGPT sometimes to useful to provide a hint for something I don't know how to do.

However, I never was able to get it to write a successful function for anything that would have been useful. It got it wrong every time.
Things may have been worse in the past but in the past everybody was in the same boat.

Famine? It affected everybody.

Plague? It affected everybody.

Drought? It affected everybody.

War? It affected everybody.

Nowadays the systemic problems that are an artifact of modern life do not affect everybody. The richer you are, the less your affectation. This a winner-takes-all and loser-gets-nothing is a byproduct of the neocon ideology that has dominated our politics since the 80's. Forty years on and its causing grave psychological trauma.
I don't need a breakdown, I already hate it.
The intent there is to deal with people trying to get around the provision via intermediary holding companies. At its core there still must be some ownership stake or controlling interest by a foreign national, whether direct or indirect.

Edit: the key parts of the bill that specify it applies only for controlling interests:

> Sec 2-2: CONTROLLING HOLDING.—The term “controlling holding” means a holding with the power, whether direct or indirect and whether exercised or not exercised, to determine, direct, or decide important matters affecting an entity.

> Sec 2-3-a (emphasis mine): COVERED HOLDING.—The term “covered holding”— means [...] a controlling holding held, directly or indirectly, in an ICTS covered holding entity by— [...]
Climate change and instability of world order doesn't end humanity. They are barely considered an extinction event.

AI Alignment is consistently voted the top potential cause to extinct the human race.

They are not even close.

https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/ranking-of-potential-caus...
In the past, there were many two-line post names (prompt examples were more common), so we increased the row height. As I can see it now, there are very few two-line posts, and I’ll review the row height amount next.

Testing it on Firefox – Twitter embeds don’t show on my computer (we’ll investigate); everything else looks fine.
Someone who is a jerk will be fired very quickly when showing incompetence. The bar is much higher for a jerk, and even then he can be supercompetent but still get fired because he is a jerk and not good for the team. Someone who is nice gets much more leeway, but if very incompetent will still get fired.

So the problem with the reasoning in the article is discussing niceness and competence as dichotomies, while in fact they are scales and you can be much more incompetent when you are nice, but there still is a limit.
> After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library

This article was clearly NOT written for me :(
The discussion is mostly about what a distribution should contain. I don't think a distribution has to contain all the possible software applications in existence.

Instead, I think distros have to provide the base packages like desktop environments and related software. All configured for compatibility and complying with the distro philosophy.

But third party desktop applications that are not directly related to the desktop environment are a different category. There is an endless amount of them with varying quality and resources. You cannot expect distro maintainers to spend time on all these random applications.

However, if a third party app is not included in a distro, it does not mean users have to build the software by themselves. That is the problem that Flatpak and Snap and others are trying to solve. They provide sets of distro-agnostic libraries that developers can target instead of having to target each distro separately.

This way a developer can only package the app once, distro maintainers don't have to do extra work, and users can install applications without having to manually configure and build them. Everyone is happy.
Wozniak is also a crypto shill

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/steve-wozniak-launches-own-to...
(10) ICTS COVERED HOLDING ENTITY.—The term “ICTS covered holding entity” means any entity that—

(A) owns, controls, or manages information and communications technology products or services; and

(B) (i) has not less than 1,000,000 United States-based annual active users at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President; or

(ii) for which more than 1,000,000 units have been sold to persons in the United States before the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President.
Interesting. Two questions

1. How does this compare/relate to https://backlight.dev/?

2. How does a designer work with this? Is it meant to be used by developers only? Where does this fit in the Figma --> Code workflow?
If you actually define the terms "society" "require" and "participate" in a way that refers to real things, it's very likely that the majority are luxuries themselves and for those that are absolutely necessary to existence, there are workarounds that don't require you have an internet connected device on your person 24/7. Exceptions do exist, I'm certain, but the majority of people aren't part of that group.
So will they be fined or have some other punishment? Or maybe there will be a future hearing to determine that?
Yes. A lot of depression about the world is driven by left wing views. Women are more left wing than men, liberals are obviously more left wing than conservatives, and young people are more left wing than older people. So being young liberal and female is the intersection of all those categories.

I don't know how important being white is there, but I also don't see much discussion of race in this line of articles, only gender geography age and politics.
There are webcam feeds all over the earth, most can be found by just scanning ip addresses. There are even websites dedicated to finding them. You’d probably have a better dataset than TikTok simply because it is more realistic. The best part: it is free.
We don't know what the inside of a black hole is like. My guess is that it's some esoteric state of matter. Like a neutron star, but up to eleven.
Formatting goes bonkers when using arrow functions in qml :(
If somebody keeps coming back after they’ve been barred.
just makes me want to combine compilers with understanding of LLMs and how chatGPT does what it does to make real next-generation (but really next level) programing languages.

LLMs will make distinctions like functional, dynamic, procedural, ... become obsolete just like all assembly languages are now just assembly, but in fact used to vary by architecture (and even by each architecture's generation/version)

assembly -> C -> something made with a compiler which embeds chatGTP
Items 30-32 (from p. 9) seem pretty significant. Basically, other stuff like Gmail automatically went on litigation hold (where records are preserved), but Chat didn't. Google did warn employee about the problem with this and told them not to use Chat for any topics subject to litigation hold. But they left it up to employees to actually do that.

And, very predictably, of course they didn't. Whether it's because they were careless, unaware, intentionally trying to hide things is another question. Regardless, it was an arrangement that basically guaranteed this sort of problem would happen.
What US value is being respected by allowing a different authoritarian country operate uncontested on American soil?
there's a group to join to enable history by default.
Are Japanese tools really that much better than western ones? What brands are you comparing here? Just to be sure it's an apples to apples comparison.