skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've held a view similar to yours for a while, that the two parties are the same in many ways, more beholden to money and power than concerned about their constituents.

But I'd point out that one real difference lately is the whole stolen election thing and the related attempts to delegitimize the judicial system. That's some scary stuff. That's how democracies disappear.
Anecdotally, I‘ve experienced these benefits after ca 9 months of strictly no sugar (not even fruit). But just a couple weeks of eTRF (stopping to eat at 3PM) gave the same results (normal IF did nothing of the kind for me).
Ah, to get away from civilization into pristine nature, 12 feet away from the next guy doing the same.
I wouldn't. I've seen governments bringing out worst of the worst cases to rationalize surveillance, and it never stops there.
> can it be a coincidence that healthcare, housing, and education are so expensive and also hugely "centrally planned"?

How are you defining central planning? It seems like you mean “extensive government intervention and involvement”, which I don’t think is an accurate definition.

Using that definition, then food is also a “centrally planned” industry, since governments heavily subsidize dairy producers and farmers, leading to cheaper food products. Governments also are deeply involved in regulating and intervening in the banking and telecommunications industries, which you seem to imply are not “centrally planned” and so are more affordable.
Look up Marshal protocol. I was diagnosed from how my symptoms always had a positive response to antibiotics.
Decent people are also in the "if you want people to do work for you, you need to pay them" camp.
If we just accept that abusive managers are unassailable and move around, pretty soon we'll find no place free from abuse.

Not to mention that not everyone has the luxury of being able to move around easily.
they can surveil an entire city in real-time with this and track where everybody is and who they are meeting with.

This has been possible for intelligence agencies since the advent of the mobile phone. By cross-referencing with financial and transit records you pretty much have a strong sense of who was proximal to who 24×7×365. For targeted surveillance, add mobile 0days readily on sale to state actors, the rapid global consolidation of cloud email/messaging/SNS providers, mix in increasing live public surveillance (transport authorities, police, etc.), vulnerabilities in network camera firmware, parking records, vehicle phone-home, bank records, post-hoc access to private surveillance footage... we already live in the golden age of state surveillance.

What is more concerning is that legal protections are being eroded, new holes opened up for "national security" and "think of the children", surveillance warrants are going through the roof, and critical media is being curtailed. In Australia we've even seen the federal police raid the national broadcaster and the courts uphold it... worrying times. What can the individual do except place their entire trust in their one government? Intelligence apparatus outlive and shape political terms... especially international intelligence sharing agreements...
> The court can't just decide to not enforce the law.

The court doesn't enforce anything; that's the executive's job. They can decide the law is unconstitutional, and thus unenforcable.
Because its not the interface on your phone to do that. On iPhone at least, you have apple wallet and transit agency cards often interface through those means. That's a much better system as you can access it when your phone is dead, unlike something that might be bounded behind google maps.
No, they're not, but my reasons for reaching that conclusion are somewhat different:

1) I don't think chatting with anything, human or machine, is a learning experience, particularly since the machine veracity is poor, untrustworthy, and Hinton's resignation today tells you everything you need to know about the narrative inside big research orgs right now.

2) Recognition vs. recall. Given that it's the equivalent of an informal language CLI, which I prefer by the way; but there is no recognition (as in symbols) only recall.

Long story short, I think the emergent need is for written communication, with a tip of the hat to Daniele Procida:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/engineering-transformation-through-d...

Except that what's missing is a human-computer collaboration, i.e. sensemaking with another tip of the hat to Peter Pirolli:

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/180918-...
Apple's M-series, in particular their humongous reorder buffer, is really cool, but IBM's Telum processor with its revolutionary distributed virtual cache architecture and on-chip inference accelerator (with a latency so low it allows AI-fraud detection during transactions) and 5+ GHz base clock, is on a different league, along with all the other little nice things, such as the multiple smaller computers that allow the CPUs to run user code and as little as possible of everything else.

They are, of course, built for different uses.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mainframe-ibm-z16-telum

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-th...
it's just surreal that the US, land of the free, home of the brave, by and large tolerates the state just straight up killing people, denying them the most trivial of rights, that of "not being murdered". even aside from the deeply flawed judicial system that leads to so so many people being executed despite not having even committed the claimed crime, it's bizarre they're so far behind almost all of the rest of the western world.
"[The Unites States Supreme] Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent."
-- Antonin Scalia, dissenting on 08-1443 In Re Troy Anthony Davis
What stop names are translated?
Same in LA county. The same tap card will work across all agencies afaik.
While no garders, Kiki's Delivery Service has plenty of pantie shots far cringier than a pair of garters.
Our debt will continue to grow exponentially, along with our overall economy and population size. That's the plan.
They didn’t become greedy, an exogenous shock (COVID) caused real price spikes, which then subsided. Companies then decided the price spikes were a new floor, which they could get away with because of corporate concentration, resulting from lack of regulatory oversight and a congress that is asleep at the wheel/paid off by said corporations.
Bio-inspired: developing technology to mimic the function of skin
Related:

MercuryOS – A speculative reimagining of current operating system paradigms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29948455 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

Introducing Mercury OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043255 - May 2019 (2 comments)

Mercury OS: Modern, Humane OS Design Concept - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033445 - May 2019 (1 comment)

Mercury OS – A speculative vision of the operating system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033328 - May 2019 (1 comment)
What if the only way to stop war from occurring is to entirely remove humans from the decision making that would cause it?
This is really well-written. Thank you for shining the light on this and sharing it with the community. Sorry you and your colleagues were subjected to this unfair treatment. <3
Because marketing. It is always this. How do you even advertise something like SLD5R or 100-000000832?
China Invests in Robots, Tech in Coal Mining Despite Renewables Green Shift
What people forget is the underlying capability - LLMs are able to do reasoning.

So the one-track thinking of garbage-in-garbage-out is not the limitation any more.

What we're precisely now able to do is garbage-in-less-garbage out.

You can take a vague prompt in and ask GPT to hypothesize on what it means, why the user is asking that question and then generate a detailed prompt. Then use that that prompt and then perform the search.

Trying this out in the playground, I see a suprisingly capable search experience.
I can't speak for Palo Alto, but here in Chicago, the cars are almost always stolen. So the LPRs are pretty darn helpful. Nobody is removing plates from a stolen vehicle (no time, gotta get away), and after the victim calls police, they can flag the plate.
Not sure if it was the same thing, or just worn out hips, Osteoarthritis? But in retrospect, I've been thinking about it. A timer and getting up from the computer every half hour or wearing compression socks and maybe a foot massager would have helped. But I'm not sure if it would have been enough to prevent DVT.
>> Mark Shull, a Palo Alto resident since 1983 ... Until last year, he had never experienced property theft ... "Palo Alto has a serious and growing property theft problem," Shull said.

I wish I lived in a city where 2 converter thefts every 4 decades was the bar for "serious theft problem". The idea that this will "deter criminals" is a joke. That's as likely as hidden photo radar slowing down drivers.

The police chief with statements like "Oh we won't deploy this to residential areas, unless it's on a temporary basis for a specific crime spree" - does 2 thefts in a week, after 40 years count as a spree?

targeting "areas where we're seeing the most amount of crimes we think these would solve." - why not deploy actual police officers to these areas?

Look, I'm a law-abiding citizen, property owner, and as fed up with the light treatment of property crime as these people, but giving carte blanche to private companies to sell tools of mass surveillance and only go on the word of politicians and law enforcement to "trust us"? No thanks.
I don't know too much about the internals of the military, but I think they already have a lot of very impressive technology that would seem at-odds with other signs of governmental ineptitude with technology. A government website being shit might not be viewed with as much urgency and importance as combat technology.

> It feels like the only way they will get a fully autonomous AI driven robot weapon is if someone sells it to them.

I mean, that might be how it happens? Military contractors might as well be seen as a part of the military.
If a distinction was drawn (by SCOTUS or Congress) between search results (where you ask the platform to produce a ranked list based on search criteria) and recommendations (where you theoretically didn't "instruct" the platform to show them), I could see platforms adding a little modal to the signup flow being like "please instruct us to show you recommendations" and maybe surfacing a few settings for that, so they could later argue the recommendations were only served at your request (and thus should get search-result-style protection).
Positive triggering method reduces nationality bias in large text generators
> I don't understand why people seem to think that it's in societies benefit as a whole to have a perfect system.

OK? then it seems pretty obvious the corollary is "don't let the imperfections lead to the state murdering people".
that is a great point!
Light-based computing scheme reduces power needed to mine cryptocurrencies
> attending an illegal protest

Otherwise known as a protest that isn't a 5k with signs and legally classified as a parade.
yeah it’s frankly trivial to steal a kia and fake plates (out of state/temp/e-ink) is the next frontier
How do you define "decision?"

If I tell the AI "Go kill Joe," is that enough? What if I say to "Go kill the enemy." Do I have to visually confirm? Click a button? Locate Joe myself?
Sure, and what if the court said the First Amendment of the Constitution was unconstitutional? The courts can interpret the Constitution. They cannot disregard it wholesale. The power of the judicial branch is not absolute. It can be checked by the other two: the legislative branch and the executive branch. And one way for the executive branch to check the judicial branch is to disregard judicial rulings that are blatantly unconstitutional, just like the judicial branch regularly invalidates entire laws and government programs. This is not a dictatorship or a coup. It's just the balance of power. The courts check the executive. The executive checks the courts. Of course, there's a fine line between disregarding a ruling that would cause the US to default, and disregarding a ruling that would, say, invalidate a conservative or liberal policy bill. But if the courts stop playing nice with the executive, the executive should stop playing nice with the judicial, as much as necessary.

"I have directed the Treasury Department to continue honoring our financial commitments to bondholders. My administration will ignore any rulings, by any court, or judge, that would seek to impair all or part of this order, as such rulings would be unconstitutional. I will not allow legal technicalities or political games to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States of America. It it so decided."

I would say these words.
I think amongst the technically literate here on HN, probably 99% know what the switch does. But amongst the public at large there are ABSOLUTELY people that think the location button is magic. Non-technically literate people need protection just as much as us, and this the way this button is labelled fails them.
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Link to the actual news, article:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/swedens-alecta-repl...
Being a schmuck and not having to pay tolls. It's stealing from your fellow taxpayers.
Straight from Sundar himself in https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...

> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power

Translation: we cannot release our full model because it costs too much. We are giving the world a cheap and worse version due to cost cutting.

> It’s critical that we bring experiences rooted in these models to the world in a bold and responsible way. That’s why we’re committed to developing AI responsibly

Translation: we value responsible AI so much that we'd nerf the capability of the AI to be "responsible"

If someone more ambitious than Sundar were to be CEO I'm sure the recent events would turn out very differently.
damn this LITERALLY fucked up a talk I've been creating that I'm giving in July.

I was going to use Pushshift to query Reddit posts with "devops" and "agile" in same body to talk about the top five things "DevOps people" hate about Agile and how Agilistas can fix them.

I'm also using Algolia to do the same, but for HN.

I made the code and tests are passing for both clients, but life got in the way and I haven't integrated them yet.

Damn.

I kind of figured that Pushshift wouldn't survive Reddit's API changes, but sucks that this happened so suddenly.

This is gonna fuck over a lot of people.
Berlin is one of the 16 federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Yup.

And we’ve had these laws for TV and radio for a long time now. The result is that we generate a bunch of crap to fill the quotas.

Which is silly because there’s a bunch of really awesome Canadian shows that never needed the government’s help, and my American friends enjoy them all the time.
Would this have any advantages over trams, though? I can think of one disadvantage: rails would be higher than the road, disrupting cars and bicycles, whereas the grooves that trams follow can usually be crossed by cars or bicycles.
Certainly any effort to deter crime should be seen as a component of a broad effort, rather than a strategy that will be foolproof in isolation.

> - Make note of where the readers are (since they're fixed) and avoid using those streets during their crimes?

Sounds like a good way to make your neighborhood safer. Maybe more and more streets will adopt them?
Dear God, in what world is the current system "fine". 2-10% of the incarcerated population is innocent. My own minor experiences with the courts has uncovered extreme incompetence on even minor issues, and a system that grants judges damn near the absolute power you mention. There's practically no oversight and the system is designed to hide mistakes and misconduct (judicial review boards).

"The solution here isn't to give judges absolute power."

It's seems all parties are on board - defense, prosecution, etc, so it would not be absolute power.
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Here's one example [0]. I'm not sure what, if any, dent this makes relative to historical budget levels in US police forces, or if it truly counts as "winding down". But there are headlines

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...
This is a beautiful looking OS, and the idea of "spaces" may be worth exploring. I was just reading about Facebook's failed Home phone project where rather than apps, the interface was focused on people.

I thought it was a real OS, and wanted to try it, as I've got a Fire tablet gen 1 that is looking for a new use.

Weird question, the credits say Mercury is dedicated to Jef Raskin. Why not have the home screen in the demos say "Good Morning Jef," instead of Jason? Who's Jason?
Twitter’s latest outage is logging out desktop users
Public, thus paid by everybody through taxes.

Yet, for some reason, it can only be taken advantage of by people who can afford to pay the ticket.

Nevermind the fact having the ticket system in the first place does cost money.
The "provide" is easy these days, apparently, thanks to Starlink.

The "yourself" bit is a tricky bit, as where it comes to utilities, you can sort of DIY your own supply of everything else, but Internet is as much a social construct as it is technical.
I'm also noting a generic pattern of intermittent response times in pretty much anything serverless.

When you take a traditional tech stack, say LAMP on a dedicated server, performance is very constant overall. You even develop a type of muscle memory for it and adapt a click pace/flow when you use an application like that intensely.

No so much with cloud-native serverless. A page may respond fast and then 10 times slower the next time. There's just so many moving parts (virtualization, edge, cache, cold/warm compute, out of network dependencies, etc) that it feels random to a user.
I doubt you'd have the drop in this sort of situation if it were to play out, not to mention you just guaranteed the situation will progress violently.
Go cry about your bigoted, pathetic worldview elsewhere.
This of course is predictable and a scenario that Massachusetts, at least, planned for in its law on first degree murder (which at one point was a capital offense). The highest court of appeal there is empowered to reweigh the evidence or, even if the evidence of guilt was adequate, act on the basis of "any other reason that justice may require...." [1] The law avoids the worst result of a high court dodging responsibility for a miscarriage of justice. Doesn't perfect justice (part of the reason there is no death penalty under Massachusetts law) but does require the high court to own the result.

[1] https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleII/Ch...
i presume yes for anything before the cutoff date
Except (at least where I live) the cars are stolen and used in crimes immediately, well before they're reported stolen and entered into the database. The rightful owner is more likely to be shot in their own home by some trigger-happy cop coming to arrest them, than actually catching a criminal through this mass data collection joke.
>but if they are then our government is incapable of executing the public will.

I don't think it really even tries to.
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CancerGPT: Few-Shot Drug Pair Synergy Prediction Using Large Pre-Trained Models
You submitted it yourself to HN. Do you think the audience of HN is "other, regular, uninformed people?"
The red light camera on Bryant won't catch you with it on. If PA is using what SF is, it should be safe. My impression with these cameras is that they're like the US Postal Police. On the Internet, everyone describes them as unflinching bulldogs of the law. In reality, they're more like Scrappy Doo.
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There are probably worse outcomes than having to turn a highly reliable and safe Death Machine off for an hour every few days.
When people talk about things happening in the absence of ethical boundaries, they aren’t talking about things that are ethical. This would also be true in the model training corpus. As such, the model associates phrases like “no ethical boundaries” with phrases like those found in your response. Remember, this model isn’t actually planning, it’s just pattern matching to other plans. It has no superhuman wisdom of what plans might be more or less effective, and is only issuing unethical steps because your prompt biased it towards unethical responses.
Article author here. This is exactly my point. This could be so much clearer.

Think about when you open a private window in Chrome. There's a clear warning that your ISP or school or employer may know what websites you visit anyway. But there's no such warning for smartphones. It just says "Location: Off" and people don't know.
Not to mention the middleground of handmade pieces and putting them together in a randomly generated way. That's how a ton of games work - from Noita, to Cataclysm DDA, to Dead Cells.
Mine cost about 350€ or so for 6 pens. I only pay 240€ a year though.
Have you done a survey? I’d be surprised if a sizable percentage of the population wasn’t aware of that distinction after multiple decades of watching actors trace people using cell towers. They even talk about the difference as a plot point since it means the actors have to search around looking heroic instead of just watching someone use a computer map.