skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly never understood the rationale behind jury-based trials. You're having a group of people who aren't trained in law, forcing them to rely only on the bits of evidence presented in the court, and asking them to make an unbiased decision, when they clearly have not been given any training of the sort?

I mean, vesting all the power in the jury is just as bad as vesting all power in a single person/group of persons (judges). Perhaps a rational middle ground would be to give jury duty to only members of the bar?
You could well be right (I am not American). I do recall discussing the GDR with some USA people... a "democratic republic". Was told, back then, that the term had been co-opted. But then, I don't know much about the John Birch Society.
When you say "Minetest", are you referring to the default "game" that comes with it? The game engine part is important!
You're right, it isn't directly relevant to your post, but other top-level comments were making snide remarks about Elon Musk, and I ended up conflating them when replying. The larger point that I forgot to make is that publications are quick to publish hit pieces and negative headlines about anything Elon Musk has touched. And since most people don't read past the headline (as pointed out by the comment I initially responded to) and are eager to have another excuse to complain about Elon Musk, they are often misrepresented and repeated without context by the haters, and it's hard to have a good faith discussion about anything connected to him.
Rather, both can be true.
Minetest was the vehicle through which I first introduced my youngest son to programming around 7-8 years ago (iirc). The way his eyes lit up when he wrote some code to change the game and then played it was just magic. He still—as a freshman CS student wrapping up his first year—fondly remembers those magical feelings today.
TikTok challenge leaves Wake Forest teen with burns on nearly 80% of his body
How is Bob inside the black hole horizon going to detect which slit Alice's particle outside the horizon went to destroy entanglement? The horizon is one-way
I'm sorry but reading your posts here is just comical.

Can you explain why there are countless stories such as this:

NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...

You keep writing they were not spying on US citizens, but clearly they were or NSA employees would not be using it to spy on friends/family would they?

Did they coin the term "LOVEINT" because this was a one-off situation?
He has stated his primary reason was that he was pro-privacy and anti-surveillance. There is no reason to doubt this. He had a huge trove of info he could have sold to China or Russia and he didn't. He has given us no reason to not believe him, and if you're paying attention to Washington you'll see why he didn't go through those channels, especially in the era of shipping off people to be tortured in other countries and "water boarding" is just "coercive means".
You realize all those costs are baked into the rent right? Even with cost distribution among multiple properties or multi-family complex, the per-service fees often exceed what you would pay a tradesman and the lack of flexiblity drives certain costs up in renting situations like limitations on modifications.

In my experience (Owned 3 homes, rented 4 homes) it’s net-net between renting and owning across multiple factors including overall cost, and think I’m near the mean when it comes to handiwork - so it’s not like I’m doing all my electrical and HVAC myself and I’m in an expensive area.
Love this! What system did you use to produce this? Was it custom-built or are you using a system to take dependencies+dates and plot all this out?
The construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: a story of tumult and triumph
So you can do whatever you like, within the zoning and social restrictions??
It’s useful because you can buy a Macbook with 64GB of RAM, and then use that RAM as VRAM to run your LLM.
Well, let's have a stroll through a minefield, but reading GP's comment made me wonder if yeah, a country full of migrant Japanese should/can be considered "Japanese", or if we're only counting the population with centuries of "native Japanese blood" as "Japanese".

For the sake of discussion, say if the government "imported" Scandinavian[1] families with their traditions, etc, to Japan, probably they'll keep this culture, and you'd have "parallel societies". Maybe only if the migrant families have kids who are young enough to grow up with the Japanese culture, and for some people maybe even that's not Japanese enough, because of their migrant parents' influence on them, and maybe only the kids of these kids, who'd have assimilated even more Japanese culture while growing up, would be sufficiently Japanese.

Edit to add: the alternative, a bunch of Scandinavians living in Scandinavian neighborhoods and sending their kids to Scandinavian schools (with their own cultures/languages) would bring about a totally different community within a few generations, which one could say "not very Japanese", or "a very different Japan".

[1] I had a different origin country before I changed it to "Scandinavian", I have a feeling changing the country has an effect on how people would perceive such a migration, but hey maybe I'm projecting my own bias.
It's both, and it boggles my mind how so many can (claim to) be so deluded as to say it's entirely the latter. Notably, their culture has changed dramatically over the last ~300 years (as it has for most nations), yet one wouldn't claim they are no longer Japanese on that basis.

And the Japanese themselves consider Japanese-ness genetic, so who are you to tell them otherwise?
Shouldn't I be asking you that ? You're the one who thinks such a distinction exists no ?

If thinking/understanding/reasoning/whatever can be fake, it should be testable. It should be a conclusion that can be reached from results not baseless speculation. I mean, what kind of huge difference can't be tested for ?

If you tell me "this is fake gold" then there are numerous ways to distinguish fake gold from it's real counterpart, mostly by testing its physical properties.

If the results and properties from "fake" [insert] and "real" [insert] can't be distinguished then well you've just made up a distinction that doesn't meaningfully exist.
That's fair. The "no-tricks pricing" wording was taken 1-to-1 from the UI template I used :)

I'll update the copy, and try to explain the pricing model more clearly.

Also a good idea to make it possible to use one's own API key. I'll consider that.
Most whistleblowers have a high moral and ethical standard. In current societies where people make it to the top lying, cheating and misusing or even suppressing others, we watch movies about Jedi and turn a blind eye to the dark side the minute the TV is turned off. Humans are an odd species.
Global Defence Initiative selected
The revolving door is a problem, but your proposed solution is…let’s be charitable and say it’s something that would be proposed by an academic, rather than a realist.
Sure, though the Latin and Greek words that Bible comes from don't mean any particular book either.
Who are you agreeing with because that was precicely the opposite of what the person you responded to was suggesting.
Typescript and Rust, with SvelteKit and Tauri.
"Everyone will make their own games with this new Game-maker thingy!"

"Everyone will make their own stuff with these 3d printers!"

"Everyone will make their own music with Garage Band!"

...and yet, those tools help some people, those who invest the time in them as tools to produce specific work, but in general no.

Not everyone learned how to use the tool to make their own games. 3d printers can do interesting things, but not everyone can afford one or is willing to learn to use one. Anyone with an Apple device has Garage Band, but only a few actually get full use out of it short of playing around for a bit.

LLMs are easier to use, but most people won't learn how to get amazing stories. They'll get the same archetype a few times and get bored.
the article references this video too
paperswithcode
In the states not having a garbage disposal is a relative rarity, but I'll give you that. Sprinklers are a regional thing.

We also had to replace:

Drywall due to mold issues

Leaking Laundry Valves (see above)

A leaking hose bib which necessitated sweating on new fittings

New fittings on the hot water heater (to add a shutoff)

Various other electrical work (replace outlets, retorque loose neutral, brought grounding most of the way up to modern code - house had no buried ground rod)

To make my point further - I've had many of these issues at an apartment, in my time living in apartments I've had the following work done in or around my unit:

Replacement of in wall heater

Replacement of Garburator

Replacement of Hot Water Heater

Replacement of Shower Vales

Replacement of AC Condenser

Replacement of Dishwasher

Replacement of Hot Water Heater (and remediation of the water damage from it)

Replacement of Water Faucets

Replacement of Load Center (Fuse Box)

Repair of Refrigerator and Stove

Installation of new landscaping (new sod, bushes, etc)

Repair/Replacement of Sprinklers

Repaving of parking area

Replacement of Roof

Painting

Replacement of Siding

Cleaning of HVAC Ducting

The total cost to me on all of these issues was zero dollars - and thats my point. Those multitude of repairs are not free when you own your home, and can often be quite costly.
Minetest has a lot of promise, but also has a lot of low-hanging fruit, particularly around the fit and finish of the game. For instance the configuration GUIs for setting up your controls is pretty bad, you still can't reconfigure your mouse keys without editing minetest.conf

Still, it gives me hope that if Microsoft ever ruins Minecraft somehow, minetest should prove to be a good foundation for community-run block game.
Even hardened common-law criminals find pedophiles beyond the pale and will often get violent with them, finding the guilt-by-association of being imprisoned in the same facility unbearable.
Alright since everybody gives his favorite streamer / youtuber, I'll share mine : GM Ben Finegold. If you can support the dad jokes, he doesn't bore you with theory and often goes quickly to parts of the game where there is something to learn, whether you are casual or club-level. He has decades of teaching and coaching and has good pedagogy as a result.

Particularly the candidates games (qualifier of this wcc match) are 10-20min long. He also uploads entire courses on his channel that he gives on stream or that he gave live in his current or previous club.
If "execution time (s)" reads 0 for one of your measured cases, I become extremely skeptical of your measurements. I get that the measurement probably just rounded down but that alongside a perfectly straight horizontal line just makes me go "what's going on here? What conclusion can I draw from this other than that the algorithm is somehow O(1)?"

Is the value being plotted the average time per execution? You ran each test scenario for a while, not once, I assume.

It's also worth considering whether you should measure against the same dataset and value every time, or have a bunch of different ones. If it's the same dataset and value it's possible you're priming the branch predictor tables, or worse, favoring one algorithm by accident due to the layout of the data.
You need pressure on the feed side to overcome the osmotic pressure differential between the dirty and clean sides. The dirtier the dirty side gets, the higher pressure you need to move water from the dirty side to the clean side. Eventually you have to flush the dirty side because the concentration of contaminants is too high and nothing will go through the filter even though there's still water that you could use if you could get it through the membrane.

Under-cabinet RO systems are less efficient because they rely on the relatively low-pressure water that's running to the tap and are made to work without electricity.
Laws are pointless if they aren't used. The US has laws to allow whistleblowing. However they are so vague US prosecutors can easily get around them to prosecute and imprison whistleblowers, and the system itself is so corrupt that the "channels" you would use to actually do it would shut down the process almost immediately to save embarrassment to the government. The laws are just feel good laws and don't work, that's why people go straight to the press.
There's two themes of comments here. First is the observation of earlier evidence of selective pressure on plants and animals that humans used (arguably domesticated) long before TFA claims selective breeding was "invented". Second is the (I guess) counter claim that selection can happen without intent by human farmers.

Both are obviously true, so I don't see the need for back and forth about that.

And whatever side you fall on I think the claim by TFA is almost certainly false because it posits that the first definitive evidence we have of a theory and practice of selective breeding is in fact the first instance. Its crazy to think that's true.
What? You say that it's fair and so it is?
> in another three years you'll be saying the same thing about go because the introduction of genetics has changed everything

I'm not so sure about that; things haven't really changed that much. A language gaining new features doesn't typically break everything, even when libraries start adopting them.

But even if it does: sure, languages can have their "everything changed" watershed moments, but no such watershed happened in JS in the last few years, yet updating things is still a lot of effort, and a bit of a pain.

It actually has nothing to do with the language; it's just the mindset. For whatever reason compatibility is just not high on the list of priorities in the JS ecosystem. I maintain Go packages that have been compatible for over 10 years; I make special effort to ensure they remain compatible, and even if a compatibility break is required I try to minimize it. There is nothing in JS or npm preventing the same kind of mindset.

Either way, it's not a "meme joke" and it's certainly not "old" as the problems still exist today. If you (or someone else) would say "I think the advantages of moving faster are more important than remaining compatible": okay, fair enough; I can see that's a reasonable point of view, even though I personally don't agree with it. What I always find off-putting is the casual dismissal of the problems. The Python 3 transition could have been handled better and dependency management remains a bit of a mess in Python: I don't see many Python developers deny these are (or were) real problems.
this is the same kind of error as saying that an arm mac is somewhat boring because it's a large cluster of relatively mundane logic gates and capacitors

you won't see a mainframe running crysis either
Try the Windows version on frippery.org.

I see it in the screen capture.

https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html
Let us guess, you are also fabulously wealthy?
For some odd reason fictional spies seem to be very wealth as well.

If you worked for CSIS it is unlikely you would be posting that you worked there, same for the CIA. Did you somehow just transfer to the CIA and as a "foreign national" all the confidential material marked "NOFORN" was suddenly available to you, a foreigner?

Declaring yourself a "spy" in public.. Any chance you have yet to reach the age of majority?
Banking crises rooted in a system that rewards excessive risk-taking
and every other country, let's let them have credit too. Politicians everywhere are usually pieces of shit, as are their henchmen
To be Japanese you have to look like Japanese and talk like Japanese. You need both genes and culture. If you are Japanese descendant born in US you are American. If you are not Japanese American born and raised in Japan you are not Japanese.
I guess I still don’t understand your question/point. Yes if we had a hypothetically different economy in the US I suppose maybe more independent authors could get by on writing alone. They need to make a living somehow, someone needs to pay. UBI might produce more authors…

I’m not really sure why it matters how common it is for writers to make full time living on their work. What does that have to do with whether other people should be allowed to copy it without permission and get all the money for it? Copyright law does not depend on whether people can make a living creating something, it always applies, and gives authors enough time to make money, recoup costs, or sit on it, or do whatever they want (or more than enough time, as the case may be). Personally, I don’t buy into the idea that someone should be able to publish my work and make money off it just because its unavailable, for example, there should be other better reasons.

BTW, China and Russia are both party to the Berne Convention, so regardless of how authors make money, even communists believe writers and musicians and all creative people should be protected from copy theft, just like the capitalists and socialists do.

> Economic incentives incentivize publishers, not authors.

Naw, not true. Lots of people who create believe their work might make a lot of money, even if it never does. (Just like everyone who plays the lottery believes they have a chance to win.) Plus lots of people are okay with making small amounts of money, and never intended to make a full time living.
Does that matter if what they are whisteblowing about is corrupt and it's true?
That kind of other-language-to-JS stuff works great for small, one-man projects that never go to production. Unfortunately, other than TypeScript, none of these solutions have really achieved critical mass, and they all fizzle out after a few years, leaving you with a horrible mess to clean up. You have layers and layers of indirection, and you don't know whether your problem is your code, or a Python library, or the Python-to-JS layer, or one of the JS libraries, and no one on the Internet can help you because your stack is completely bespoke.

I applaud you trying to make it easier for people to get started, but throwing them on top of this Tower of Babel and pretending it will never come crumbling down into a mess of inconsistent languages and libraries is a recipe for pain. TypeScript is not that hard. If you're teaching beginners how to build a web front end, just start with that, and let them use either TypeScript or Python on the back end, depending on how ambitious they are.
I've definitely seen countless humans faking thinking or just not thinking at all.
If you are streaming service / production house why would you want to use an easily manipulated metric like this on your shows?

Overtime you will lose subscribers if you keep making these type of shows that score well on demand, but majority of viewers hate.
Do it sooner than 2038 and you get the privilege of 32-bit timestamps on the metadata :)
The art of the slowly curated product
Nah, the endless stuff like this https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1652784194232414209?... just diminishes people so much.

By comparison, I don't actively choose to follow Twitter product changes so I don't care about them in that way.
https://archive.ph/7D7CM
It would be nice if the default "Minetest Game" were less bare bones, since that is the experience most people new to minetest will probably encounter first. Some decisions in "Minetest Game", like broken blocks going straight into your inventory instead of falling to the ground, seem like they're different for the sake of being different; I have a gut feeling the Minetest devs are consciously staying off Mojang's turf.
Can you "pipe" these Posix-Shell functions together? I read somewhere that Bash-shell functions can be?
This is definitely a welcome development, but I'm getting so tired of all these papers trying to pay homage to the original Transformer paper in their title. It is neither funny anymore, nor does it give due credit or indicate quality and on top of that the original paper title was a pretty poor choice in hindsight, highlighting how the original authors didn't foresee the gigantic impact of their paper.
Apple and Android both steal ideas from each other.
In spite of the problems this has caused, contemporary society will eventually have to accept the place genetics and tradition has in forming ethnic identities, if it intends to ever value distinct ethnicities.
In a way, this post gives me the same feeling I had when I read the story of Terry Davis, author of Temple OS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis), and his gradual slide into homelessness.

OP: I've been homeless before, I don't really care if post is truth or a lie, a scam or a sincere cry for help. Desperation takes many forms and I'd like to help either way.

A $5,000 pledge would unfortunately be a terrible financial decision at a time where I'm saving for a house, but I won't hurt purchasing the yearly newsletter subscription for $50. It's not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, especially if it helps you get on your feet. Send a payment link to shane at my username dot com.
From the title I thought it was a way to emulate a Steam deck on a computer and was a bit confuse at what the use case would be.
Show HN: Lyrical Code Challenge
We're taking entries in any and every programming language you can think of to turn the lyrics to "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey into code for the t-shirt for the Carolina Code Conference in August.

You don't have to attend the conference to participate. If you do participate, I will make sure you have a chance to get the shirt whether you're able to attend or not.

It should be a lot of fun.
Ah, that makes sense! The author is also using CMake, which I imagine doesn't have much integration with Cargo.
The (Almost) Definitive 486DX/50 and DX2/66 Performance Comparison
> I don't know how far away from this we are, it's very hard to predict.

On this point, I am in total agreement with you.

One way to tell might be, what happens if we let an AI try to improve itself? Does it get better, or worse? My money currently is on "worse". Well, how much worse? How far away are we from it being able to improve itself? I think we are an enormous distance away, almost an immeasurable distance, but I could be wrong.

> I think it's just as reasonable to assume that the curve of this progress is exponential as it is that it's logistic.

It's always logistic in the end. (But if we're on the first part of the curve, where it's exponential, that "in the end" bit doesn't matter.)
I find, since 30B models are actually quite usable locally if you have good hardware, that I really want something like a Vicuna 30B. That would be amazing. I can only run 65B locally at a speed of 1 token per second, which is too slow to be usable unfortunately.
How do you propose protecting against a Howard Stern impersonator?
They could have multiple aliases, and you could pick the one that fits the context
TIL that site does more than share code! Here are relevant entries for this post:

https://paperswithcode.com/methods/category/transformers

https://paperswithcode.com/paper/harnessing-the-power-of-llm...
Women want to postpone giving birth after they try carriers. Once they succeeds or fails they want to have children, but very often at that time they are too old. If country would give incentive that it covers cost of child rising, many women would probably decide to have children.
I'm sure they also abetted people losing their savings in FTX though.
If it's local, report it to the state, if it's the state report it to the feds, if it's the feds your only real option is to do it and run to another country, or keep your mouth shut and just find a new job. This process has repeated itself many times in the news if you research it.
Am I the only one who immediately writes off authors that mention Microsoft's Syndey as something scary/to be worried about? The whole "it said <scary thing>" seems overblown to me