skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't take away from the general thrust of the post but it's interesting that lack of quality sewage treatment leading to it being dumped into rivers is thought to be a key issue in the current British council voting:

Local elections 2023: How sewage topped the political agenda

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65190097
Split large diversified banks into small banks with correlated asset portfolios and you will get MORE banking collapses, not less.
Maybe this can stop the false prosecutions too. Or would they not be able to measure the enzymes in an autopsy?
Yes and also several ores often found at rock shops, some Fiestaware, uranium glass, add if course radium dial watches. All legal in the US in small quantities and harmless as long as you don't ingest or inhale their dust.
What scale should we use?
One question for the tech experts, of course people can use AI and technology for bad and illegal activities, but isn't that the case about everything?

The person who invented the car didn't think about people using it to smuggle drugs or trample other people on purpose, and the wright brothers didn't think about all the people who would die due to plane crashes.

So instead of focusing on the bad that's happening with AI, can't we just look at all the people he has helped with his work on AI?
My pet peeve is people dismissing potentially very valuable scientific results because they’re afraid of quackery…

Yes we should be cautious but no we should not dismiss. In fact I consider myself very fortunate for stumbling on this information as it may be very helpful for someone I love and I want to explore every possible way that can help.
> Any monarch could at any time not renew this provision

and by that immediately end the monarchy itself. The UK is funny like that. The king signs all the laws and could refuse in theory, but if he does he wouldn't be king anymore.
During COVID, steroids were rapidly identified as providing a positive survival benefit and became standard of care.

There is actually a good reason to think that steroids are beneficial in severe infections.
This is because often in a severe infection/inflammation, a big portion of the damage is done by the inflammatory response.

Reading about the pathophysiology of influenza 13 years ago after H1N1, I came to this conclusion, and it was trialed, but good quality studies showed it to not be effective.

COVID has a slightly different pathophysiology and in COVID it works.

But yea, as a rule, it’s not a good idea to dose with steroids if sick
The Governor General can refuse Royal Assent without causing a crisis, as long as it's a decision taken "in council", which essentially means as advised by the Prime Minister.

Why would the PM advise the GG to withhold Royal Assent? It's rare, but it's happened when technical problems were found in legislation after it had been passed by Parliament but before going to the GG, so giving time to pass amended legislation. It could also happen if a PM governing in minority faced a parliament passing legislation they strongly disagreed with.
What? Do they double as prisoner transport vehicles? I'd keep one of those safety hammers in my car if it had such a system.
Many people in upstate NY live in houses without doors that lock. (If somebody is going to travel a long way to your house and there are no witnesses they can just smash down the door anyway.)

On the other hand, despite being the home of anti-gun crusaders such as Mike Bloomberg, I’d reckon that half of the houses in upstate NY have a loaded gun stashed somewhere around the bed. I would bear that in mind if attempting any sort of home invasion.
> 3. It’s safe (and better) to lock your devices with your fingerprint or face scan

Wrong! You can be legally compelled to unlock your phone by sitting in front of it or touching it, but you can't be compelled for a code.
We'll put it on The Blockchain!
Come on, they aren't full of footguns in basic things like string comparison or variable assignment.

Most of the things on this list couldn't happen in Python:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
Since he became King, or when he was Prince of Wales?
Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks
Procosoco: A Simple Way to Pitch Almost Any Idea
*watch out for slamming doors and windows :-) Took me ages to work out how best to perform such in my place, and yes - daily opening, even for 5 minutes - does seem to help (me).
I also do it last thing at night.
In the morning - a less stuffy apartment.
On work days, I'll probably open for a few minutes before going to work, but definitely after getting home.
Show HN: Slackgpt brings ChatGPT to your Slack channels
Hi HN community,
Here's a little project to add a chatgpt bot to slack so that you and your friends/coworkers can all interact with it together. It's pretty fun.

It runs on AWS lambda to take advantage of the benefits associated with serverless infrastructure.

Right now it just exposes vanilla chatgpt; however, the code is simple and extensible enough that you can add features and prompts as you want.
Without the internet there’s nothing entertaining millions of people who would be very incentives to protest.
> It's not really controversial in Germany, and largely the case.

Well... sort of, but the incentives are broken. Simplified version of what has happened so far: In 1994 the Deutsche Bundesbahn was fused with the eastern Reichbahn and converted into the Deutsche Bahn AG. The German state is the owner of this company but the corporation is run as it were publicly traded. Getting it onto the stock market at least in part was a goal but the last attempt was scrapped after the 2007 financial crisis.

The results of privatization were quite destructive though. In an attempt to make the Deutsche Bahn AG more profitable, cost cutting measures were implemented. The led to a sharp decline of rail transport service in rural areas. Furthermore expensive railway switches on main lines were dramatically reduced in numbers, hampering the ability to route traffic around disturbances on a track. The rest of the infrastructure is less maintained and more likely to be run until it wears out. People have accused the Deutsche Bahn AG that they are skimping on maintenance as a cost saving measure, because new construction to replace broken infrastructure will be paid by the state, but maintenance is not and thus cutting into the profits.

The DB AG has been mismanaged for at least 30 years and it shows. If I had one wish, I'd really would like to see the DB AG aspiring to the punctuality and general quality of service offered by the Swiss Federal Railways.
Sure, have some platforms that require you to authenticate with state-issued PKI and then just let 4chan and Twitter do whatever they want.

If people want to hang with the trolls and AI bots, let them.

But also give people the option of platforms that are non-anonymous.
When you boil it down like that, then all problems in the world is a people problem. They can also be a systems problem, an incentives problem, and often a training/cultural problem. These framings are all valid, and have their place. But certain framings can help solve certain situations better.

In the narrow confines of programming, a way of thinking where we structure problems as transformation of data from one shape to another and minimizing mutable state can help systems be more robust. It is not an object-oriented vs functional programming debate. It is just a good practical way of approaching problem solving.

Unfortunately that is a very high-level description bordering on woo-woo. Which is why the book discusses these ideas with concrete code examples. For a lot of us who've hit a wall with the kind of reliable systems we could build, and discovering this new approach, it is an understanding borne out of lived experience. There is a lot of tacit knowledge here that's difficult to unpack and even more difficult to transfer to others. This book, like many others, helps, but cannot be a substitute for doing the actual work of experimenting, making mistakes, and internalizing.

But all of that is moot unless folks care about it, and care about it in the right way (like not going all in on functional programming and deep copying and immutable values where tight zero-memory-copy zero-alloc zero-kernel-call code was necessary), all of which finally makes it a people problem I guess?
I wonder if there is any relation to the odorous biomarker that dogs can sniff out in Parkinson’s patients: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36054272/
From the article: “The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he said. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that.”
No, there will be echo-chambers where some content will resonate. This can be partly fake content.
> British people will also tell you they have good food

If you've ever eaten Indian curry (of the tikka masala variety in particular), chances are, its recipe was British in origin.

While traditional British food might not appear particularly appealing to the discerning palate, Great Britain is home to many a culinary innovation.
"Cloud gaming" is such a muddy word that it could specifically mean game streaming services (like the Xbox Cloud Gaming service, which is part of Xbox Game Pass), but also the entirety of Xbox online services.
They mention history expansion, but only briefly.
It is a favorite of mine.
Learning the full syntax probably doesn't give good ROI these days of mice, but I think the following shortcut notations are worth knowing:

Everything but the last argument:

% git add -p dir1
% !!- dir2
git add -p dir2

Everything but the command:

% textadept a b c
% vim !*
vim a b c

Substitute a string (once):

% echo helo world
% ^lo^llo
echo hello world

First and last arguments:

% diff path/a/file path/b/file
% diff !$ !^
diff path/b/file path/a/file

A cool detail is that even a long quoted string containing spaces is considered a single argument, and it all works fine.

Also, the bangs can be anywhere on the command line, even inside other kinds of expansion; history expansion has highest priority of all.

Edit: the above is csh-style history expansion, available in bash as well.
For regular commuters the price is a big deal. Not only where tickets crossing multiple zones complicated to get but also unreasonably expensive (~200Eur/Month). In contrast the 49 Euros is less expensive than (almost?) any single zone monthly ticket out there.
Hacking the original Xbox controller for fun and no profit
The Use of Confrontation in Addiction Treatment: History, Science (2007) [pdf]
Fed wants the public savings to fund private sector loans, not public sector spending, which they already do with presaving taxes.
Hand width and size are not the only things to take into account.

The resting curl of your hand is important, as is relative finger lengths (particularly of the pinky).

And then there's resting thumb position relative to the fingers.
Government restricts public release of GPT-like research any further and starts treating it like the nuclear-esque risk that it is.
Yeah, I was confused because I felt like the article didnt do a good job of clearly stating Hilton's beliefs - it was meandering around. Felt off.

Then I saw the Cade Metz byline at the end and became instantly sceptical of everything I had just read.

Metz is more interested in pushing a nerative than reporting the truth. He doesn't outright lie, just heavily implys things and frames his articles in a misleading way.
Design and develop a Luongnow 10000-year memory Starship AI, to be coloed at the international moonbase, Uighur's new capital to the west of Beijing and Tokyo.
Yes, there was no ignorance or error before the Internet. Everyone operated with perfect information at all times.
You can also ask Siri what your name is or whose iPhone this is while NOT looking at the screen, it will disable Face ID given that the phone is locked
Is it because of thiamine dysfunction or because thiamine at 2000x RDA doses acts as a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, i.e. would acetazolamide work the same?
Great! Then people could go back to be fed only lies through TV, so we don't have to make the effort of thinking what is true or not.
The Xbox Cloud Gaming (== game streaming) service is part of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (subscription) service, so in this case: "subscription" == "cloud".
Why would anyone ever drinks coffee from straw?
Saving a click, because this basically invalidates the NYT headline:

> In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
Why is the author including the commute and taxes in the final figure? I mean doesn't the apply to pretty much everyone?
I can only assume that originally they didn't think we could pronounce it the Korean way. Similar to how Nestlé was originally pronounced nestle (neh-sel) in the UK.
Three men make a tiger.

- 龐蔥, some time c. 350 BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger
They kind of try. But they legally have to be marked as ads, so it'll always be possible to filter them out.
First discovered by this Scottish woman being able to detect the smell herself https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/07/woman-who-ca...
If most of the actual harm is being done by your immune system going into overdrive, then yeah, steroids can help. You'd want to simultaneously treat the infection, of course.

"Multiple randomized trials indicate that systemic corticosteroid therapy improves clinical outcomes and reduces mortality in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 who require supplemental oxygen, presumably by mitigating the COVID-19-induced systemic inflammatory response that can lead to lung injury and multisystem organ dysfunction."

https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/imm...

But yes, you're also right that it usually makes you more susceptible to infection because your immune system isn't working as hard.
There is part of me that thinks that this A.I. fear-mongering is some kind of tactic by Google to get everybody to pause training their A.I.s so they can secretly catch up in the background. If I was to do some quick game theory in my mind this would be the result.

Imagine being Google, leading the way in A.I. for years, create the frameworks (tensorflow), create custom hardware for A.I. (TPUs), fund a ton of research about A.I., have access to all the data in the world, hype up your LLM as being sentient (it was in the news a lot last year thanks to Blake Lemoine) and then out of nowhere OpenAI releases chatGPT and everyone is losing their minds over it. You as Google think you are ready for this moment, all those years of research and preparation was leading to this point, it is your time to shine like never before.

You release Bard and it is an embarrassing disaster, a critical fail leading to an almost 50% reduction of Google's stock price and for the first time and to the surprise of literally everybody people are talking about Bing but in a positive light and google is starting to look a lot like Alta Vista. Suddenly in the news we start hearing how openAI needs to stop training for 6 months for safety of the human race (and more importantly so Google can catch up!).

I have been playing with and using chatGPT to build tools and I don't feel like it will take over the world or pose any real danger. It has no agency, no long term memory, no will, no motivations nor goals. It needs to have it's hands held by a human every step of the way. Yes I have seen AutoGPT but that still needs a ton of hand holding.

I find the current LLM very impressive but like any tool they are as dangerous as the human in the drivers seat and I find the current fear-mongering a bit inorganic and insincere.
Reverse proxy for now, but Pynecone is also working on a single command deploy feature that should take care of all this automatically. Should be released soon.
Thank you for all of your comments on this article. Getting so see high-quality images of this foundational artifact of modern computing was a pleasant enough surprise on its own. Getting actual historical commentary from someone who worked on the product is amazing.

You already answered most of the questions I had, but do you remember how it managed multiple character sets? I'm especially curious about how it supported Japanese Kanji, given how many characters that has. Some quick searching suggests maybe it was XCCS[1]? I had no idea that Xerox was so far ahead of their time that they invented a sort of proto-Unicode when many computers didn't even support lowercase letters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Character_Code_Standard

Edit: fixed typo
This pretty heavily assumes that you can't learn programming by paper or on a shared school computer (quite widely available in the UK/US for a couple of decades now), which itself reveals a bias in your mindset here, tbh.
My introduction to the field of "AI" was articles bemoaning the "AI Winter" and wondering if the idea could survive, as an academic pursuit, because of the over hype and failures from the 1970s.
I struggle to understand why there is no "deposit banks" category which would include heavy regulation, with full reserves required.

There is certainly a significant number of people who just want to keep their money safe. They would happily pay 50 or 100 USD per month for an actual bank service where your money is just stored and not lend out to someone else.
A tight credit market affects valley companies. If there's a liquidity squeeze/crisis then startups may have to face real world challenges like actually making money.
Oh right, in theory I knew that. Sorry.

But have the non-pelagic shark species survived any climate changes that would force them to migrate across a large inhospitable area? Sharks have survived very long as a group, but it's not clear to me that most/all of the individual species that have existed still do.
What code are you talking about? Having to write the URL in the HTTP client call?
>I also think the CMAs rationale for their decision is bizarre and shows a lack of understanding of the space.

They blocked the acquisition on a premise that cloud gaming will be huge in the future and that Microsoft might make Activision Blizzard games exclusive to their Xbox Cloud. Taking in consideration Microsoft's enormous comparative advantages like owning Xbox, Xbox Cloud, Game Pass, Windows, Microsoft Azure plus lots of gaming franchises, this block somewhat makes sense.

But what worries me the most is Zenimax acquisition that gave Microsoft some of the most iconic gaming franchises of all time (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Fallout, Elder Scrolls) and the reality is that most likely these franchises will never see a day of light on any other cloud gaming platform except Xbox Cloud.

I can't believe that Zenimax and Bethesda gave in and sold out to the Microsoft despite thriving on their own.

CMA and FTC should've blocked Zenimax acquisition first which would then discourage Microsoft from attempting to acquire Activision Blizzard. But that unfortunately didn't happen, quite the opposite Microsoft grew even more greedier after acquiring Zenimax.
I usually hear them referred to as smoke detectors (U.S.). Some decades ago when I checked mine had a small metal enclosure with a pin-head amount of Americium inside.

Pretty sure though that if you live at very high elevations like Denver, Colorado, you'll get vapor trails for free. :-)
It is possible they would have to pull out entirely, that is what Microsoft’s lawyers are threatening could happen, but it won’t. It is too costly for both sides.

It is a challenge for Microsoft, but honestly I don’t know how much sway the CMA has here. They don’t have a ton of leverage to block the deal if every other country is onboard. My guess is they will ask for some specific concessions.
i drove a Hyundai Elantra in the mid-2000s. It was a nice car in many respects but around 80,000 miles it started falling apart and needed a $300 repair every month and i figured at that rate i could spend that money on a car payment and be driving a new car so I got a Honda.
I think it's fair that Microsoft is upset that they cannot do what their competitors have already completed.

If the UK proceeds with a mandatory breakup of Sony's holdings, I would then approve of how they're regulating the market.

If they, however, allow one titan to build an unstoppable first-party monopoly but bar only some of the competition from catching up, then I have serious concerns and misgivings with the misguided protection of the existing #1 business.
Executive behind ChatGPT pushes for a new revolution: Psychedelics
This seems roughly in line with the article. He left to talk about the dangers.
If he tried that he wouldn't be king anymore before even one pound was printed.
It was reported when he was Prince of Wales, but I see no reason why it would have changed now that he's king. Queen Elizabeth did it too.
They apply everywhere, but for a job to be economically useful to its occupant it has to be a net gain in wealth.
Something between 150 and 300 years seems reasonable.
Public policy is a little more nuanced than shooting from the hip with Tweet-sized morsels.

Please, read the second article, it addresses your concerns. It’s maybe a 5 minute read. I spent a lot of time making it concise.
Simplely, it's wasm's POSIX
What would be a groundbreaking great leap technology that wouldn't immediately result in articles that say "x will make our society even more unequal"?

Viable AR/VR?

Fully autonomous vehicles?

Fusion power?

Edit: I'm confused why this question is garnering all these downvotes. Could anyone please help me understand why this is controversial or disliked?
Welcome to UK, where 40-55mins trains from neighbouring cities to London costs 50-110£ for a return journey and 6k+ for a yearly ticket. We apologize for a delay in your journey, this is due to staff shortage.
If we’re going to include taxes in the figure, we should include the Earned Income Tax Credit and other transfer programs, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/16/india-populati...
I actually mostly use separate windows in a web browser, in order to utilize the normal window manager functions (like arranging windows side by side by keyboard as needed), and never quite understood the appeal of tabs. I would understand it more if tabs were a window manager-level feature.
If, hypothetically, we dramatically reduced the prevalence of airborne disease, what would the effect on our immune systems be? Some hypothesize that living in too sterile an environment leads to autoimmune diseases, since the immune system is calibrated to a certain baseline level of activity, and will turn on the body if this level is not met by external pathogens.
Of course the size of the market matters. Just because you have a 100% monopoly on Uber for haircuts doesn't mean you have a particularly dangerous monopoly. People can continue to game on consoles and PC just fine.
Chronically, yes. Sometimes they can help address a more serious acute issue.
Go, Linus, go!
Pretty much. The.costs are not much more than a taxi either, but since they are not a taxi different rules apply, one of which is they look much nicer.
The cult of Qanon effectively killed any hope I have that people are rational actors when it comes to consuming online content.
We have a very exciting NFT at inpersona. It mines other coin as it tracks your sleep.
For me it lost its charm after they added the hunger bar
Chinese Find Water on Mars
where's the interview? the nytimes article seems suspicious