skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's silly, but I like it:

> man man

But maybe you're not thinking of something that simple.
The freedom convoy and it's repression with suspension of constitutional rights (because that's a thing over there?) and bank accounts arbitrarily frozen did get a little bit of attention in the American medias.

> the insidious Québécois plots to annex Prince Edward Island

I know it's a joke, but the people of Prince Edward Island would most likely welcome it. Economically that would be a huge boost. Not sure Québec would enjoy it however.

Perhaps they should look at annexing Labrador?
Tweetspam, without even a link to the original thread: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799627128143873?...
Oops, that was the next tweet: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799667942866944?...
More like "what's the point of racing Usain Bolt?"
Drivers in the US just seem incredibly aggressive to me. I remember crossing some street in downtown Pittsburgh, and a car coming towards me. The guy was clearly seeing me, and accelerating instead of slowing down. I jumped forwards and survived.
> The real problem is that they

Can you define "they" more clearly?

> blindly copypasted a conservative slogan

Do you have a source for this?

> and called it "Defund the Police". When what they were actually calling for was more training, especially in regards to mental health situations and deescalation.

I think you are amalgamating the separate actions of several different groups and attempting to attach a single coherent narrative to their collective actions in an effort to excuse everyone involved.

> But slash the politicians did, because they could do the most literal interpretation of the protesters' demands and then blame them when they obviously don't work.

"Defund the police" has a single obvious interpretation, and there many individual groups that were calling for this precise interpretation.

> The reason why the current policing structure is so corrupt is that the police are expected to "pay their own way" in a sense.

Can you explain this more thoroughly?

> There's a whole phenomenon of known-bad cops jumping from department to department

And to what extent is this the source of the problems of modern policing?

> Perhaps they should have called it "Refund The Police". It even has a double meaning: we need more money for less harmful policing and we need to refund (i.e. send back) the idiots who were running the current corrupt system.

We used to just call this "Police Reform." So this all seems like a huge unforced error, then.
Looks like maybe we hugged it to death:

> This service has been suspended by its owner.

I'll bookmark to check back next week.
It was removed from my start menu without me doing anything.

Also Microsoft has started deploying a special KB to figure out who's still using 2010, and there have been rumors it would get blocked in the future through another KB, even if it can run perfectly fine right now in Windows 11 as it did in Windows 10.

I like Office 2010: it's faster to start Word 2010 that even wordpad, so it's not a risk I'm willing to take. My bet on Linux (and wine to run Office 2010) has paid in spades.
OpenAI doesn't collect personal data, more than any other similar service, Midjourney comes to mind, but there are a lot more.

Reinforcement learning is the technique they use, and that means they are feeding the machine good text or image generations, produced by the machine. This means that the data are mushed together in the weights of billions and trillions of other data, and there is no way to get them back.
Congratulations on your website.
Blackhat SEO's 15 years ago would've been jealous.
Let us know if it ranks.
That's interesting, but why would the data we provide for context or explicitly for summarization be treated like training data?

And if it is excluded, why wouldn't it just default to a response resembling "I am not setup to identify and extract that data."?
Well, there are distros in the list that are optimized for containers.

If you use Linux distros in Qubes OS, then I would say that it counts as a Linux distro (by default you get Fedora).

And by default you run in VMs, where some parts are persistent (e.g. your home) and some are not. Just like running a container with some persistent storage.

It depends on your use-case whether you like it or not, but I would definitely put Qubes OS in the list.
We charge a flat 1% advisory fees for all capital invested through us, we have an early bird offer running that waives this off for the first year.
Remains to be seen if the ban is sustained, but it would be great if there were a few holdout counties that can act as controls. AI tech and robots has a pretty big social dimension too.
I believe their point is that, because the US is generally regarded as 'to the right of' many countries in Europe, for example, a slight rightwing bias looks to us (I'm in the UK) like an extreme rightwing bias. Heck, even a completely neutral stance, as far as the US is concerned, will look like it veers to the right for us. Note that I'm not saying anything about how I believe the twitter algorithm should work, this is just my interpretation of what that commenter meant.
Report from Greece. Our local privacy watchdog last year fined Clearview with €20Μ. Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether Clearview operates in Greece. They certainly have no office here. I seriously doubt the fine will ever be collected.
I find American drivers are chill compared to Germans.
I guess driving fatalities are up because of texting and driving.
The skeptic in me says any effort to fix it will just push it all into the shadows behind parallel construction.
Exactly this. Use the published number of reporters at the NYT and multiply.
For comparison, healthy life expectancy in the UK [1] in 2020: 62.8 years.

Some of these charts don't make sense.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
> visit the US for even short periods of say 2 weeks to put on small but noticable amounts of weight

As a European who lives in USA and visits back frequently: can confirm.

In Europe I fight to keep weight on, in USA I fight to keep weight off. Despite counting calories, working out like a maniac[1], and predominantly eating clean. Pre-packaged highly processed foods are like a 1x/month thing, takeout happens max 2x/week, and eating out once or twice per week.

And yet, USA wants to make me fat while EU feels like I can barely eat enough to maintain weight.

[1] my usual week is 7 workouts split between cardio and hiit. Right now I'm in marathon training so going to hit 107km of running this week.
I've heard two differing explanations of this (all the cameras having no effect), one of them from a cop:

1. The police can't do anything with your home surveillance videos mainly because of the trustworthiness of the evidence, most of the videos don't clearly show the crook. But there's also the issue of authenticity, which will be a major issue in any court case.

2. Cops are lazy and arrogant. They don't want more work. They don't want a higher expectation of catching crooks. And they certainly don't want people telling them how to do their jobs.

A lawyer told me #1. A cop told me #2.
> Exciting, but that article is from 2016 and here we are in 2023 with no commercial availability.

That is a fantastic point. If they can't revolutionizing lighting in 7 years, it will never happen. Oh, btw, LED was invented in 1962, but it only took about half a century for the commercial viability of high powered LED lighting to appear and begin to take over the lighting market in 2011.
> Italy has great engineers

Does it? Ferrari's become a real joke in recent years. I do fully buy the bureaucrats being threatened by automation theory though.

> this is obviously a dumb move

It's also a dumb move by OpenAI to pretend they can get away with not processing data in the EU like any other service has to. Just spin up a few instances, what's the big deal? It's just complete arrogance on their part. GDPR is not an optional suggestion.
So digging in, the issue is I misspoke here, and I may also have not linked to the correct video. It had nothing to do with coal.

Instead I believe it was the proportion of CO2 emissions for the area he's in, relative to other parts of England. Harry is in "South East" England, around Oxfordshire, which from what I can find for around that timeframe.(https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...), is the highest CO2 emissions for any region of England, of around 12%. Continuing to Google, this seems to be fairly consistent in that aside from Scotland, at least around the timeframe of the video (2020-2021), South East England had very high CO2 emissions in general, and I believe the government supplied pamphlet he had in one video also showed how much higher it was relative to the rest of England.

It has since fallen substantially, but even though I linked to the wrong source (and can't be damned to go find the video where he does nothing but crunch the numbers), the point was more that at the time he made the consideration, his decision was swayed because at the time the emissions for where he lived was high enough that it swayed his purchasing decision at the moment. The rationale being that the tailpipe emissions when it had to run the ICE was lower enough than the grid source emissions to where it was slightly cleaner. In fact, it was part of a decision quite some time ago (well before 2020, I believe) to install a 15kW wind turbine on his farm to not just save money, but to ensure it was cleaner power than what was being supplied.
> What about a fully Free CoreBoot firmware and EC?

You had me curious, now you have me interested.

I will investigate the system76. I need something with ECC, ideally with a AMD Zen3 too.
> Firefox is a Good browser

But not good enough. Firefox today has not much benefit over chrome&clones. They once had them, but sold them all over the years for whatever nonsical reasons they brought up. And they also lost trust from multiple little stupid actions, driving even more people away.

At the end, I would say they simply lost because of poor management.

> So why are users switching to Chrome and clones?

I still use Firefox as my main browser since the beginning, but for some years now I also use Chromium and sometimes even chrome as a second browser, for cases where compatibility is necessary. And I guess there are many people like that, except that have no real reason to continue using Firefox, or never start in the first place.

> Is this because when you visit Google and MS properties from FF, they promote their browsers heavily

Where is this promotion everyone is talking about?

> To keep the future of open web open, Firefox must continue to exist.

Disputable.
They will spit out crappy, copycat material which might be fake. Like 90% of the material created by humans. And then the people with something valuable to say will have something original and valuable. And we'll be back to having a search/curation/review problem on our hands.
... for us silent(ish) ignorants could you please explain what's wrong with the comment you have responded to? thank you!
This is just passing the buck. If the boss tells you to write credit card stealing software or to DDOS your competitor are you just going to do it? As professionals, we need to push back and refuse when we know our practices are letting critical bugs go to production, just like (I assume) we'd push back if we were asked to build something unethical. And we should be accountable if we don't.

If a civil engineer signs off on a bridge and it collapses during rush hour, he doesn't get to just say, "Whelp, boss rushed me, blame him."
Off the cuff, I observe people who have social skills also find social commercing and social power pleasurable in itself and desire the activity for that end as well, far more pleasurable than sitting around solving logic puzzles and factoring the solutions; maybe on the side, like someone who plays Sudoku, but not as something occupying their day.

Unless your mob or pair programming all day most of the week, the actual work involved is rather isolating.

I don't have programmer friends, my friend group has consisted of social people owing to a series of incidental factors that began late in high school. I was consistently the person first to be exhausted going into late night where they seemed to have a replenishing reservoir of energy.
fix: Better recommendations on Twitter timeline (PR)
I understand that, but we can't change the fact that our society doesn't seem to. So we look on the bright side: at least we have the privilege to ensure our kids can still excel.

If this nonsense comes to our school district, even if we send our kids to private, I'd vote against it to help public school kids excel.
The bureaucrats were sure to add clauses to their privacy laws to grant themselves carte blanche powers during “extraordinary events”

All they needed, then, was to have an event appear “extraordinary” and they could legally compromise the privacy of the entire population.
What a strange age classification — no idea about what your age actually is, just that it definitely isn't 55-64. I assume it would never conclude you are under 13 for legal reasons.
> I don't see how it would have effects different from those of previous revolutionary technologies that have improved the human condition.

It will greatly reduce the demand for labor in many fields (off the top of my head: customer support, artists, any kind of writing or clerical work, and probably programmers and IT pros in general), and the benefit of this productivity gain will largely be reaped by the owners of LLMs and the companies using them in the form of higher profit margins. It's not at all clear that it will trickle down to the displaced workers.

> privileged classes feel threatened

Ironically, I actually believe a lot of the overly optimistic takes come from a point of privilege. Think the FAANG types making $250k a year, for whom everything in life has more or less worked out well, and who have difficulty envisioning a future where things don't just keep on working out well.
In the US rich people can get worse healthcare because doctors have incentive
to provide unnecessary operations and medications due to

A) legal liability

B) marketing of treatments and medications to the public means patients demand them. Patients shop doctors until they find one that gives them what they want.

C) money incentive.

For example, US opioid epidemic stems from legal opioid prescriptions.

Here are the counterfactuals: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1641799922583326720/... drugs, traffic, diet, guns.
I believe the footer-only format was more about being able to make modifications by only appending to the zip file and not having to rewrite/shift any data.
Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities
I’m going to go out on a limb here but I bet that deep down inside you know that intellect is only one mechanism from trying to understand the infinite complexity of existence.
Wait, what? AFAIU what you say is true, except for the part where the “main proprietary blob” does not run on the CPU. This isn’t as glorious as an actual open-source driver would be, but it does have meaningful advantages—e.g. you now have a ghost of a chance of implementing Nvidia GPU support on a non-Linux kernel, by uploading the GPU-side blob and rewriting the CPU-side shim as required. Or is the blob license-restricted from being used line that?
Sounds like data is a living organism
All I can say is: well done and thank you!
I would say "premature obsolescence" (risking to sound pedantic).

To me, "planned obsolescence" says "we engineer the product such that it does not last". Premature obsolescence says "our product is not good enough to last longer".

The tendency is to build cheap crap, so of course it doesn't last. Doesn't mean that the engineers spent resources making sure it would not last.
Private(ish) GitHub Repos
Until you actually start equating cost of living and buying power. You may be making much more raw money than a 17th century monarch was, but that doesn't mean a hill of beans if everything costs more and you aren't afforded the same liberties that they had. If you're willing to move to a rural Indian slum, you're sure to live the most regal life one can afford there, but you will lose out on a lot of the value that you get from living where and how you are today. Which is better? Shrugs, everyone has their place and I'm sure you'll find yours too.
Most of them.

An "X" company tells you (and them -- that's why companies position themselves) how to think about what they do.

So WMX is "in the trash business": sure they have logistics, and surely some custom software, but what they do is pick up the rubbish and bring it to the dump. End of story.

So Google (the world's largest advertising company) is called a "tech" company because without continuous work on their advanced technology they'd lose almost all their revenue. (what the rest of the people employed there do -- who knows? Nothing else contributes meaningfully to revenue). FB the same. Companies as diverse as Rambus, Cisco, NVidia, Apple, Boom (if they still exist), WhatsApp, Twitter (once upon a time) Snowflake...etc: technology is the linchpin of their work. Even Tesla, but not, say, for their BIPV (the roof tiles), which are decades-old me-too technology with no R&D at all.

At the opposite extreme, why was WeWork considered a "tech" business?

Uber employs a lot of programmers but I don't think of them as a tech business: their competitive advantage is their business model and their moat is branding, and they are all about piece work in small scale transport. There are plenty of useful SaaS companies who connected some existing packages and came up with a good new business, but aren't in the technology business; if they dumped k8s or Airflow or whatever and changed their stack it wouldn't matter much (so they never will).

There was a time when one or two people could make a product and be a tech company (Visicalc, 1.2 programmers; Intuit, 1 programmer), but nowaday if you can get into revenue with one or two programmers I'd say it's not a tech business. Can be a great business, don't get me wrong, but value, like Uber's, will come from domain strength and marketing/branding.

And to be a bit ad hominem: there's a higher density of tech businesses in Silicon Valley and a much lower density in SF. You can tell because the nerds in boring suburbia worry about bits and bytes and the folks up north use phrases like "founder lifestyle".
I haven't switched, from Linux to Mac in the sense that all of my personal computers are Linux. But I did switch from Windows to Mac at my $DAYJOB, so I have a lot of experience using both Linux and Mac, and in the same day no less. I've been using the Mac for around 2 years now I guess.

My take? I'd scrap Mac OS X and put Linux on that Macbook in a heartbeat if it were allowed by company policy. I can't find a single thing that OS X does bette than Linux, and there are plenty of things that it doesn't do as well (by my personal standards). And that's before even getting into the ideological aspect, and the fact that I fundamentally hate Apple and their entire "walled garden, locked down, proprietary bullshit" world-view.

The Mac hardware is nice, no doubt. But for my money, give me Linux any day of the week.
Indeed there are many pitfalls between a protein sequence and something useful to humanity, but there is reason to believe the technique is capable of generating such proteins:

1) In the paper they express several of their designs and show stability via circular dichroism experiments. They also show size exclusion chromatography results indicating some of the proteins are of the expected size and are not aggregating.

2) Since RFDiffusion and ProteinMPNN, which generates the actually amino acid sequence, are trained using Protein Data Bank (PDB) data, it's reasonable to presume the predicted proteins will be well behaved. To solve a protein structure via say X-ray crystallography, EM, or NMR and deposit it into the PDB requires bucket loads of stable protein. I used several grams of recombinant protein for a X-ray structure I solved. Since the ML models are trained on well behaved proteins, I can believe the generated proteins will also be well behaved.
That's something I'm working on presently.
Maybe I'm spoilt, but I've been able to get a next-day dentist appointment basically forever. Usually private, because I get insurance through work though.
A virus has data. Is it alive?
Yup, they removed it.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/commit/ec83d01dcaeb...

Here's what Musk said:

> But we are deleting this bs. I only learned about it now! Will be gone by tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641908130274525187
I agree. I'd prefer to have public schools serve everyone well, whether they are academically strong or not. And being a public school kid myself, I'd rather private schools not be something that the rich send their kids to to get a leg up.

But living in a west coast city, it's quickly becoming apparent that public schools are no longer a good option. I'm not going to put my foot down and send my kids anyway to prove a point. I'll just fork over the money for private school.
Yes, but this also assumes that a lot of the content created by humanity has been worthwhile. A lot of it is pure noise. Youtube is a really great example of this, in between the "hidden gems" and "popular high quality" works there's a whole bunch of noise that might as well have been generated by AI. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least partially AI generated, they just make some cheap voice actor read their generated script for them.

I think you're going to see a very rapid pendulum swinging here. With an absurd amount of content being generated and then flooding the various platforms, and in turn platforms are going to try and combat this by creating more centralized sources of information. The return to analog knowledge seems a bit far-fetched. I highly doubt that would be an outcome, if only because convenience trumps it. Look at librarians, you can talk to one and get much better direction of information than asking google, but few people do that. I can't see that changing.
I don't get it. Who are you attributing this view to? I already said that I believe everything about consciousness/qualia/subjectivity are physical and measurable. There is nothing special about the human mind preventing us from replicating it in a machine.

Note: you brought up the term qualia, not me. I have never actually liked that term. I prefer the terms "consciousness" and "conscious experience".
I haven't been nearly killed by a German driver yet, and on purpose, and German drivers had many more opportunities to do so than American ones. But yeah, my impressions are of course only anecdotal, but then again, 100% verified from my perspective.
I've noticed that certain types of large vehicles attract drivers (or create false confidence) in bad driving and aggressive driving habits.

It is appears that the driver of the large SUV or pickup believes they have right of way over smaller cars, pedestrians and cyclists.

A "get out of my way" attitude.

I love small cars, not to mention cycling and walking.

It concerns me that the shift of cars parked at the parking lot has dramatically changed over the past 20 years.

Walking from the car to the shop is like carpark gauntlet, you need to be increasingly ready to dodge giant vehicles reversing with disregard to their surroundings.
Gaming is not even a priority for me, but I just like the ability to do ML stuff and the overkill cooling, not to speak of the price.
Where do flow batteries (fuel cells) fit in those calculations?
> if not as heavy

A difference in mass of around 15x, I believe.