skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's way more boring than you're thinking. The goal is to reduce looting by

1) educating people about the harm it does

2) convince the audience that whatever goals might be sought in looting are unlikely to be met (profit, cool-stuff-factor, "helping archaeologists", etc)

3) Ensuring site security and getting legal frameworks in place to monitor/enforce heritage preservation.

The first is usually pretty easy. The NPS used to have this video called "Assault on Time" that they show to people. People who don't want to fill out requisition forms from the government usually just show pictures of looted sites. I had a professor who liked to use pictures of Mimbres sites in New Mexico. I prefer to use Ai-Khanoum because the before [0] and after [1] is so stark.

For the second, usually this takes the form of inviting locals out to see what you're excavating and showing them any finds. This will usually be rocks, charcoal, lithics, and other profoundly unprofitable things. It also humanizes the historical people to help locals build personal connections with the sites. In a lot of cases you'll also be hiring locals to help with the excavations, so they know there's nothing hidden because they're present for everything.

This usually isn't effective on the "collectors" and "metal detectorists" (see e.g. Coping with Site Looting [2]), so other things are necessary. That tends to be site monitoring and heritage protection laws, which depend on the country and situation. Sometimes it's best to just invite local officials to the site. Meeting with important officials can be very inconvenient though. Ever tried getting wrinkles out of a suit in a field site 2 days from the nearest city? Those clothes did not survive the expedition.

That's just the lowest level of cooperation that has to happen as well. The key is having embedded experts making connections with the people who can implement those laws and fines, then enforce them. This is also the level most affected by the budgetary constraints of heritage programs globally. Last I checked, there were fewer than 100 positions for this sort of work available in the US every year. Some countries may have less than a dozen people total.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ai_Khanoum_landscape_phot...

[1] https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000lqdxnldw3QE/s/...

[2] http://npshistory.com/series/archeology/seac/rapp/1.pdf
Already happened with the Aegis Combat System. Humans are too slow for combat with supersonic missiles. Operators can put it into a fully automated mode and it will detect, classify, prioritize, and engage targets with no human in the loop. This all uses regular deterministic logic and doesn't rely on what we would usually call "AI".
I think there's something going on with an upcoming subscription to updates for Clip on desktops, too? Some of my Clip-using friends were screaming about it a while back.
I'd suggest a miSTer instead.

Minimig is open hardware, which is the way to go.
They attempted to launch on 4/17.
It seems to match the 1966 novel and 1970 movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(novel)

It's a fun movie to watch, here is a taste ("The Google Project"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LQFXfnhrI
> I found a tad depressing to see how much Steam purchases are making compared to donations.

Why's this depressing? They 'charge' a reasonable price on Steam for those who want to either support the project or get automatic updates or both, and the developers for this open source project get funded without having to actually paywall the product. Seems pretty good all around to me!
Decompilation is not the same as source availability. Any binary can be converted into source that will compile back into a (nearly) equivalent binary. Whether that source code is economically viable to use in some derivative work is an entirely different question. It might be easier for .NET binaries to be decompiled but the point still remains that machine generated source code is not the same as human generated source code.
But posing as helpful instead of sarcastic, yet equally annoying.
I think having tickets at all is antiquated. In the Netherlands, there are terminals at the stations you tap your bank card against to "check in". When you get off, you tap it again at that station and your card gets charged. Sometimes the conductor comes around with a device to make sure people have checked in.

If you don't want your travel to be associated with your bank account, you can get a chip card which can be topped up using cash.
For once, that everyone agrees scroll handlers are godawful but yet after years they're still omnipresent is germane to the article's topic.
Every "impressive chatgpt" story I hear is about someone comparing what chatgpt produced to what a human produced, and saying it's scary close. No one talks about all the times they asked chatgpt to produce something, didn't compare it to what a human could do, and then realized it was catastrophically wrong once implemented.
> Digital pixels are not paint brushes. So if you do not move your mouse/brush to generate a stroke? What does it matter?

If you are literally explaining every stroke, then it doesn't. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about describing something in pretty general terms and allowing a computer to make the creative decisions (what "brush strokes" to make).
The tickets for seniors were more expensive than 49€. They all have been reduced to 49€.

People with low-income (incl. seniors with low income) have a reduced price.
> You want to write an adventure, but want to keep it unpredictable. Ask the AI for ideas, there, the adventure is now a true adventure, not a fake mirage created by the writer.

There's something really funny about using an algorithm that predicts the next most likely token to generate unpredictable adventures.
Its kind of ridiculous to call it a luxury issue. Its a luxury issue if you make it one. In Switzerland 85 year old grandmothers travel between cities to go for light walks. 15 year olds go to football tournaments in other cities.

Claiming that only some elite cast of digital nomads profits from it is utterly ridiculous. In Switzerland city to city travel is more common with trains then with cars, and a huge part of the population does it.

> but the service quality itself will surely deteriorate by this measure

If the government actually correctly invests in it then it doesn't actually, specially not long term. If anything it leads to more regular more frequent service on many routes.
> where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger

If incomes were equal, how could a Horatio Alger story possibly happen at all? Do people even think about what they say?
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I have lived in Tokyo and I agree with you. And other high-tier Japanese cities like Kyoto and Fukuoka are affordable on local salaries as well (both in terms of rent and in general).

Wanted to mention though that your sentence "the total cost of living in Tokyo blows NYC and the Bay out of the water" risks being interpreted with two very different meanings.
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I think the point is that a "chatbot" is, by (the author's) definition, a UI with only a bare text prompt. Once you start building more UI on top of that, you're ... doing what the article suggests.
I have a stupid question: why does it matter if some text or art or whatever piece of work was made using generative AI? It seems some are approaching the issues from the wrong perspective. Using generative AI is not an issue per se, the issue is that one may not necessarily want to weaken critical thinking or information synthesis skills that are normally used when thoughtfully constructing some piece of work of any category (nonfiction, fiction etc.). The best way to counter against the flood of crap, thoughtless or lazy content is to raise standards, be more critical and scrutinize intensely. We need more critics and standard bearers for critical thinking, and all of this can be achieved democratically (i.e., no gatekeeping necessarily). Opensource ecosystems work on exactly this philosophy and mode of operation. I could be wrong, so I am happy to know otherwise.
Learning how to use freeform text input can be pretty annoying when only a few things work. Some examples are playing a text adventure ("guess the verb") and using an unfamiliar command line interface. Good error messages can help.

Web search changed that. Most queries work, at least somewhat.

There's a point where freeform text input becomes better than structured input. A simple search box is what people mostly use instead of an advanced search form, let alone a web directory (like Yahoo! back in the day).

For web search, there are very few error messages. If you enter a query that doesn't work very well, you get back results that aren't very good or what you wanted, so you try something else.

With AI chatbots, expectations are sky-high, but there are times when they should refuse with a good error message, because they really can't do what you're hoping to do. An example is when you ask it to explain its reasoning. An LLM never knows why it wrote what it did, but it will try to invent a plausible explanation anyway. [1]

Better error messages that help users understand what chatbots can actually do would help avoid misconceptions, but this won't happen unless the error messages are trained in.

[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chatbots-dont-know-why-th...
April Fools pranks cause the needless suffering and anxiety of many for the joy of one person. I especially hate IT and work-related pranks.
Monthly train pass on New Jersey Transit, LIRR and Metro North can get to above $300 once you are 20 miles from NYC.
There're generic versions of the drug coming to market. Amjevita from Amgen is bio-similar to Humira and just got FDA approved. It costs about half at retail. As more generic versions of the anti-TNF biological drugs coming online, the price should be driven down.
What other options do they have besides the AA gun though?
I think a lot of people who didn't know the contours of this auto theft crime wave, or perhaps even know such a crime wave was happening, now have a better understanding of what's happening and why.
As soon as we give up our over-sized personal income and pay more taxes we'll be able to have more public infrastructure.

The issue seems to be people don't like the idea of only keeping 50% (or less) of their income + making 50% less to begin with. Most people that work at big tech get their big salaries because the companies profit in data-mining ways that would be more regulated in Europe.
Their current tech is weaker because they couldn't release the full version due to the additional safeguards (partly to prevent more people claiming their AI is sentient) and partly also due to cost cutting.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/do-guns-m...

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/199...

To be honest, I don't really care if you have a pistol or a shotgun even. I don't want assault rifles to be easily accessible by people who want to murder children, LTBTQ people, or whoever else is deemed each week to deserve a mass murder.

I say ban all guns, or at least the guns that are designed to murder mass amounts of people.
I think https://spreecommerce.org/ (open source, Ruby on Rails) is in that space. I haven't used it myself.
"my stance is that anyone can do what they wish so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else" sounds straightforward at first, but: how does one define "hurt"? Honest and curious question.

I would expect a lot of people to share that general stance, but differ widely on what it means to hurt or get hurt, and when to stay clear and when to intervene even if it's not you that gets hurt, or when some action merely has the potential to hurt.
Catholic dogma classifies Protestants heretical Christians and Mormons not Christians. The Council of Nicaea codified already dominant rejection of henotheism.
> If anything you should be leaning towards "wow rates are really cheap right now!" because they are historically.

This is likely extraordinarily bad advice to listen to.

The Fed is still following an inflation target of 2% and they are very willing to crash the economy in order to get it. They've been fondly invoking the name of Paul Volker.

The rates we're at today are probably sufficient to crash the economy. As the maturity dates of loans hits and their rates adjust upwards we're going to see a lot of bad economic bets and loans that were predicated on 0% interest rates fail and see the fallout into the broader economy.

Even if they're not sufficient to crash the economy, the Fed has announced that it will do whatever it takes. So if the economy heats up and inflation comes back then the Fed will just jack up rates even more.

We aren't going to get a 70s style decade of stagflation or hyperinflation or any of that nonsense. That happened during a period when the Fed "grew up" in the shadow of the Great Depression and WWII and was worried about crashing the economy so it ran hot and inflation was high and long term interest rates were high. Post-Volker we are not in that kind of policy regime.

The most likely outcome is that we will hit a serious recession and unemployment will spike again above 6%, and without much government support the recovery will be gradual like post-2008 and not like the crazy V-shaped post-2020. And the Fed will once again wind up cutting rates down to zero again. The CPI will fall like crazy due to the high unemployment, while asset bubbles will inflate again and the rich will once again use cheap money to buy up everything on a firesale.

If you showed me a Fed that was actually worried about tanking the economy, or a Fed that set a higher inflation target, then I'd agree that higher long term interest rates were on the horizon.

This time is different from what we've seen before because this is the first real inflation scare since maybe the early 90s, so it seems wildly different to most Millennials, but the game at the Fed fundamentally hasn't changed. We're heading back to ZIRP again a lot sooner than we're heading for 10% rates, but it might be a bumpy ride in the middle.

And I guarantee you that all the tough talk about ZIRP being bad is going to evaporate once the recession hits and rich people need to be able to borrow cheaply again.
> Compensation (foreign contractor): $65-$95 USD/hour

> Benefits (contractors)): a massive hourly rate that will make you weep.

Doesn't sound that massive to me. It's a low- to mid-level European hourly rate.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm talking about the gross hourly rate for contractors in Europe, not the net hourly rate for FTEs. (The latter of which is typically lower but already comes with benefits – health insurance, pension fund, unemployment insurance et cetera – included.)
In 2010, the Colombian government commissioned a pop song called "Better Days" that received nationwide airplay. Hidden within the song was a Morse code message for FARC hostages (some of whom were soldiers and trained in Morse) that help was on the way.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63995293
> How is it “giving up” to disagree with the suggestion of trying to shut the barn door after...

the submission is about engineers filtering forever chemicals from the water. the response was "it's too late." that's giving up. if you want to be intellectually dishonest and pretend it's not, that's your choice.

> If we never polluted the water ever again we’d still be left with contaminated water.

sometimes in life you find yourself in a position where there's a mess and you need to clean it up. i don't know what else to tell you.
Yeah, it seemed better last time I was traveling there as I recall.
Literally never seen anyone use unicode bullet points; monospace is harder to read and does not support links. I do not see this as a suitable option when abuse of the current syntax (that is, trying to use normal lists and it being broken after submitting) is so prevalent.
I don’t recall anyone calling them emoticons back then.
It's overcomplicated. Take swiss by example. You turn on gps, press a button, take any transport you like, even boats. When you are done, press the button again and it calculates final price. It's called easyride. In theory you can avoid pressing the second time, I've read the app understands anyway that you are no longer in transport and will not charge you
https://www.clearchoiceprep.com/sat-act-prep-blog/the-most-i...

Basically though, anything that relies on something not printed on the test runs this risk.
Perhaps the resolution to your cognitive dissonance is not to conclude that artists hate art. Instead I’d suggest that often, artists’ love of art doesn’t stem from concepts like “annihilating what came before” or “outcompeting hard.” Perhaps, like the parent comment said, it comes from self-expression — the pleasure, for both creator and audience, of the “mirage created by the writer,” to borrow your poetic term.
Whenever I try to explain the joy of bangpaths to the youth of today the!message!always!gets!lost
> As a PhD, I now believe that pursuing a career in science is an enormously selfish and entitled life choice for anyone who doesn't have a trust fund.

This is because the career was originally set up for those who were independently wealthy, or at least rich enough to have a spouse who didn't work. All of this stuff happened within the last 150 years, and it was made worse in recent years following the massive increase of skilled people in the discipline.

A career in science also differs based on whether you're an academic or in industry. On whether you're out their seeking grants, or out making products to sell.

These are all decisions being made based on what people demonstrate that they will tolerate. No different than the Japanese Karoshi-culture. If your Ph.D. or Post-Doc supervisor won't allow you to have a life outside of science, then dump them. Leave them up the creek without a paddle. They are not your only option.

At its absolute worse, the hours involved in an academic Ph.D./Post-Doc aren't significantly worse than a chronic precariat worker. I had two jobs during a particular semester when finishing up my A.S., and averaged 3.5 hours of sleep per night (outside of the weekends). I've read about a guy who spent years walking and taking transit for 8 hours each day from his house to his 8-hour a day job. 16 hours per day just dedicated to work. Ultimately his job and/or co-workers pitched in to buy him a car.

The harsh hours in scientific academia is ultimately a choice. And the choice is not between science and a life. The choice is between science with this particular supervisor and a life.
Y2K was a real (potential) problem which didn't have consequences because a bunch of people did a bunch of work to avoid it.

To give a brief description, dates were commonly stored with two digits for the year to save on disk space because the "19" prefix was assumed. Once 2000 got closer people started to realize this mistake. More similar to what will likely (and "suddenly") be big news around the mid 2030s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

I imagine most people with knowledge of these subjects would consider them to be unrelated.
> When you use a hammer or a drill, do you expect it to sometimes not hit/screw the nail?

Not sure about drills, but this absolutely happens with drivers if you fumble mating the bit to the screw head, or if you miss the stud, or if you overtighten, or if you don't sometimes pre-drill, or if you strip the head, or if you don't correctly gauge underlying material composition, or thickness, or if you...
You could re-imagine it as some tiny, forgotten department inside a sprawling megacorp though.

I remember reading an article about a guy who still technically had a job, an employee number and got paid each month, however due to a HR mishap, he wasn't assigned to any department, did not have a superior and had no tasks assigned. The corporation was large enough that no one noticed.

You could imagine something similar with AI: Suppose that for a project, a fully automated product pipeline was set up like in the article. Then, let's say, some sort of chaotic re-org happened that caused the team to be disbanded. In the end, no one was left who knew about the existence of the pipeline. The pipeline would keep churning out new products, using the infrastructure and resources of the corporation, without anyone feeling responsible for it.
Pet Care Startup Landscape in Benelux
There is socialism in the U.S. too. If you work for the government in some capacity you are participating in the socialist side of our nation in practice. IMO the US military especially is a model of what a fully socialist US would look like, if it were allowed to scale to all sectors. WWII with the socialist centrally planned economy was an interesting case study for the U.S.; it showed how this manner of socialism can reorient an otherwise depressed labor economy into the dominant world power in a few short years.
Exactly, thank you. Most members consider MormonThink to be anti-Mormon, and IMHO they do tilt that way but they try to be balanced. MormonThink is definitely not a bunch of Mormon apologists. Go look at the actual apologist sites like FAIR and see how many "refutations of MormonThink" they have. Hint:
it's a lot.

Mormonr is IMHO very fair, just on the other side fence. They're a faithful group, but they are committed to truth and scholarship and they're willing to say, "yeah that embarrassing thing does seem to be true" when it seems to be true.
He's an interesting character.

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=supermemo.guru
> We're talking about 17-19 year olds, not experienced workers who need to be pulled away from their well paying jobs.

But these people are starting university one year later, which means they graduate a year later, which means these badly needed, highly qualified workers become available to the job market a year later, because they have to spend their time doing some menial job that most of them have no interest in doing. We used to have this nonsense in Germany. Most of the people I know were just goofing off, were drunk or high on the job, or were deliberately destroying equipment, because nobody wanted to be there.
And yet, it was successfully used for serious MIDI work. It's simple: Don't use the serial port for MIDI.

Peripherals (via expansion port) can trigger level 2 and level 6 interrupts[0].

Notably, level 6 is the highest priority level in 68000, short of the NMI (level 7).

I have to agree with the parent, adding a MIDI port to the Amiga would have been trivial.

0. https://sites.google.com/one-n.co.uk/amiga-guides/amiga-inte...
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