skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In some localities it is illegal to do this.

Can you elaborate, so I can strike them off my to-move list forever?

>Also, schooling for younger children isn't exclusively about the obtaining of actionable knowledge. For some children, it can be disruptive to yank them out of school.

Yes. Your child-mileage may vary. My kid doesn't care, one week out of school does not impact him negatively, whereas travel impacts him positively.

>this teaches their children the lesson of "rules for thee, but not for me" --- that it can be okay to ignore rules just because you don't want to follow them.

They can then take great care to ensure the kids understand that this is not, in fact, the lesson. My kid doesn't attend school because "that's the rule, gotta go to school", he enjoys it for the social and the learning aspect, so his showing up to class does not rest upon compulsion either by the parents or the school. If this ever changes, I'll deal with that then. Also, it is of course completely okay to ignore rules you do not think of as important if there are no consequences to breaking them. My responsibility as a parent is to carefully curate the consequences bit to ensure I only enforce non-stupid rules. I want my kids to learn that too.
Whole city in Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/04/20/national/chatgp...

However, Samukawa offered assurances that Yokosuka intends to use the tool in line with OpenAI’s typical security policy.

Ha
I do too. It just works. Though I boot off a local drive.
≈everything is toxic in sufficient quantity or density, from obviously harmful substances like caffeine (powdered caffeine can easily be fatal!) to water.
> this is due to staff shortage.

But also managed decline of the railway by the Government
If that is the case I suppose we have drastically different ideas about what "the Internet" is.
> Your comment was about how rare deaths were for COVID-19 for the cohort you selected. Now do deaths from vaccines for the same cohort.

The emphasized part is you moving the goalposts. If you want to assert that already low-risk individuals can further reduce their death rate using the vaccine (undoubtedly true), then it's entirely fair to ask whether doing so creates unknown, long-term risks.

For your younger people--who are unlikely to die from either COVID or the vaccine--the long-tail risks of a brand new category of vaccine are meaningful. My kids shrugged off COVID (before the vaccine was available) in half a day. We gave them the vaccines anyway, because we're sheeple. Hopefully, these new mRNA vaccines behave just like traditional vaccines and don't create any additional long-term risks. But let's not pretend we have decades of experience with these vaccines to prove that fact.
How well does ChatGPT speak Japanese?
The Titanic of the Pacific
IBM lays off 10% of workforce is literally a yearly headline

As are IBM sued for age discrimination, and IBM closes product line
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771104 previous discussion here (915 points, 1135 comments)
Well, it seems our return to "the guilded age" is complete with the return of company towns. It's only a matter of time before we start hearing the same horror stories that we heard in that era.
More worryingly, it raises the question of whether infinity is prime.

I suppose that if it's even, then it won't be prime, but then again infinity/2 is still infinity so we can't assume that division works the same way.
The point is that H1B process is too restrictive and not reasonable for both sides. The paperwork is the problem. The idea that you have to first show that there is no American is ridiculous. Instead, let them compete with Americans directly for the job. That's the point I am trying to make.
> The wonders of privatisation, innit?

Many rail services in the UK are effectively not private now, and they're even worse, because when a right-wing government that hates public transport takes control, all hell breaks loose.

We have a very complicated rail network which is bad for many reasons other than "private" or "public"
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There's a python script[1] (long abandoned) called shreddit that allows you to delete old comments. It first wipes out the comment (edits them and saves a blank string, or whatever string you choose), then deletes it. Reddit devs have said before that their backups don't keep previous versions of comments.

Someone rewrote shreddit in Rust[2]

I'm currently rewriting it in JS for Deno. Still in early stages so not worth posting the mess that it's in now.

As soon as I'm finished with mine I'm going to setup a cron job and have it delete any reply older than a year (with some exceptions you can set either by subreddit or by comment ids). I don't have any comments about pirating so I'm not worried about that, but I also don't think comments on social media need to last forever, especially with all of the data-mining being done on them (remember Cambridge Analytica). I think something similar exists for Twitter and Facebook but I don't remember their names at the moment, maybe someone here does.

1. https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

2. https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
Had my share of free beer for eternity.
And So the Writers Are on Strike
>Our government is at least partly reactive to our votes

So is Iran's. Keep in mind the country is a theocratic Republic that turned out this way because of a popular religious revolt against a secular absolutist monarch. That bottom up, democratic, religious zealotry is something you also have in the US but virtually nowhere in the developed world.
Also, at least for now, "AI" will never forget.
Infinity is not a number, it's the absence of a limit.
> who said anything about hardcore pornography

Well the main article is about PornHub which is a hardcore pornography site, so...

I have no problem with sex-Ed for kids
There's plenty of room between "unrestricted" and "stopped".

You're not arguing that "laws don't actually do anything", right?
"there was no history in Africa and N and S America"

By most definitions of history that is a true statement.

Wonderful and rich civilizations may have filled those blanks areas, but if there were no written accounts that survive to the modern day (or at the very least oral traditions that were eventually written down), they are by definition "pre-historic". The study of those peoples is left to the realm of archaeology and anthropology, not history. We know even less about those pre-historic civilizations that built using materials that do not stand the test of time (wood, thatch, mud, etc).
Thank you for this. I've been dealing with these issues more than usual lately and this was helpful to read.
Yes, of course...of course...and what you provided is fact....
Chinese electric vehicle brands expand to global markets
If you thought of this question from no real math training then that's pretty interesting. You should have been a mathematician. Your question is one of the most important and concisely stated questions about infinity that you can ask!
now my head hurts
My beard is gray but the government requires me to show a valid state ID when buying booze, cigs and porno mags at the gas station. If that's not a violation of the Constitution, why should carding people on porno websites be different?
The consequence of exposing a kid with a peanut allergy to a peanut can be death. Watching hardcore porn won't kill a kid.
There's a lot of speculation about the approach used by this book to teach programming. It's the book that my own daughter used as a freshman in college. It was her first programming class, and she ended up deciding to major in CS.

The programming language taught in this book is Scheme. Students are introduced to programming concepts and language features gradually and the assignments are intended to be implemented using a growing subset of Scheme features as the students learn the language. By the end of the semester my daughter was familiar with much of Scheme and was comfortable with subjects like recursion, lambda functions, list handling, map functions, and closures. I'm not sure but I don't believe that she learned about continuations or macros.

Some comments mention the "toy" languages used in the book, but these aren't really toys, just subsets of Scheme that provide guard rails to keep the students from wandering into parts of Scheme that they haven't yet learned.

Another notable feature of the How to Design Programs 2nd Edition is its introduction of a defined sequence of steps for breaking a problem down into parts that are implemented as collection of functions that make up the solution.
What happens if we feed these programs to ChatGPT?
My school simply gets informed via the School Messenger app. Reason: "Parent-approved absence". End of story.
TPM allows government to request your data in the first place. So it should not be trusted by individuals from the beginning.
Basically the same as pontificating on the internet was for the generation previous.
If the concern was psychoactive-ness, then alcohol would have been a felony too.

And given how widely and casually cannabis has been consumed for decades, the social policy angle makes no sense as effects should be visible by now.

The civil rights angle is the one where the people being oppressed by selective enforcement of the law is the one that makes sense, somewhat evidenced by the progression of changes in state laws, beginning with states that one would rank more progressive on civil rights than more regressive states, where it still remains highly illegal.
Thing is neither are the oligarchs who run the financial system. Take a look at the labor struggles of the early 1900s in the US - that wasn't people struggling against a government using their army, it was people struggling against private ownership turning hired militias against their employees.

The problem is concentrated power. Whether it's government or private, concentrated power in anything is bad
No, they’ll be replaced by something like The People’s Ledger, as proposed by Comptroller of the Currency nominee, Saule Omarova, in her paper of the same name. (She was nominated by President Biden in 2021. Not just a random kook!)

Under such a regime all banks will put customer funds at the Fed, which will be the sole entity to allocate credit, with banks as mere customer service frontends. It will use that power to allocate credit to advance nakedly political goals, with much less attention paid to minutae like risk, ability to repay, and other pesky economic concerns the free market would elevate. We’re already forgiving student loans; watch the People’s Ledger forgive mortgages!!

And when that bank fails it will just fall back on moneyprinting.
Benzoylindole, the active ingredient in most “Spice” products, is not found in cannabis and its metabolites are toxic as hell.
That said, like the barebones design.
There's always someone who sees a question in a submission title and feels the need to comment simply to answer said question in the most boring, banal, and least insightful way possible. Most people realize that if an article that poses a seemingly-simple question makes it to HN frontpage, there's almost certainly some unexpected, interesting, and/or insightful discussion there that reveals that the question wasn't so simple after all.

Almost everything interesting in mathematics stems from a simple question: "How could we extend a concept to be more generally applicable?" Saying that infinity is not even or odd because it's not a number is like claiming that matrices can't be multiplied because they are not numbers.
Found somebody who has never heard of Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Landwasser_Viaduct.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Overlooking_Lauterbrunnen...

Densest rail network in Europe btw.
Not really. One could argue some math is innate and we are just rediscovering it. See the disconnect between natural language and math which happened early 20th century because of material implication bringing vacuous truth, leading to "impedance mismatch". Medicine is still using counterfactuals precisely because of weirdness introduced by Russell in order to make all Boolean values defined for inference.
It makes sense. IBM is primarily a consulting company pretending to be a tech company, run by business majors.
I would not be surprised if T-Mobile keeps Mint's systems separate from their current systems. They haven't even figured out how and/or have no interest in being able to handle T-Mobil prepaid and T-Mobile postpaid from the same system, so I doubt that they will be able to fold in an outside system.

Seriously, when I switched from T-Mobile postpaid to T-Mobile prepaid it was like changing carriers. New SIM, different website, mobile app does not work with prepaid accounts [1], different payment methods accepted, and more.

If it weren't for the branding and the prepaid website being a subdomain of t-mobil.com someone looking at both would not guess that they are the same company.

[1] It says "Sorry we're not ready for you. We're working on improving your app experience". It's been that way for many years, and whenever anyone asks about it on the T-Mobile forums someone from T-Mobile says they are working on it.
That's a lot of assumptions to make! Many very successful people smoke weed. I'd also say if you're planning on getting ahead by climbing the corporate ladder and grinding for your boss, you're going to be in for a very unpleasant surprise.

> Earth's climate is on it's last legs.

A well known side-effect of smoking marijuana is that people become way more ecologically aware and in tune with the environment. Downsizing your lifestyle, not commuting and not working for some megacorp churning out junk or ads is definitely going to be better for the environment than the status quo.
IBM also bet the farm on AI about 10 years ago and belly-flopped. Their Watson AI suite was pretty advanced and they famously beat Ken Jennings at Jeopardy, but they didn't get vary far making their tools practical or profitable. And now they've just been crushed by OpenAI. I wonder if the subtext to their announcement is that they're ditching their entire AI department and buying services from OpenAI instead.
It will harm a kid, and asking a website to figure out how to verify an age is far less burdensome than taking PB&Js out of kid lunches.
as barney from himym says ... PLEASE
Not sure why this got a downvote. I was going to say that this shows only reports without estimating the proportion of unreported rape over time (I tried for the last ~10 minutes to find it myself but no dice), but it's a constructive comment.
I agree that the social aspect "where everyone is" is important, but crucially it's also not a fixed state. When GitHub started, SourceForge was where everything was. Over the next 15 years something else may displace GitHub, especially if there is a concerted, conscious effort to do so. Then again, it may not.
That's a case of not enough skepticism
Calckey
A more beautiful and feature rich way to enjoy the fediverse.
Well, that was probably jailbreaking. That's not really prompt injection, but the problem of letting a model execute some but not all instructions, which could get bamboozled by things like roleplaying. In contrast to jailbreaking, proper prompt injection is Bing having access to websites or emails, which just means the website gets copied into its context window, giving the author of the website potential "root access" to your LLM. I think this is relatively well fixable with quote tokens and RL.
People love making this remark still in the UK despite the Government having much more direct control of more rail services than compared to pre-COVID, and the rail network being in an absolutely dire state. Public != good, public != bad, private != good, private != bad
Yeah and OpenAI, Microsoft, and Github are stealing and profiting off of my brainpower by stealing my open source code. I don't have any sympathy for thieves who get stolen from.
Hacker news is incredibly anti-freedom and choice, its becoming a hive mind just like reddit, but with longer comments.
I think the big assumption that kids can't get "complicated" ideas is faulty.

Sure, they lack rigor, and often will just get the sketch of the idea.

And it's a lot more work to think about how to put things in the terms that a kid will understand given their knowledge so far.

But this idea? "Infinity plus one?!@" --- this is a conversation elementary school kids have on their own. Pulling it a little closer to a sane footing in ordinal analysis is not hard. Half of six year olds can handle it.

On the other hand, there's not a lot of obvious utility to teaching a six year old this particular concept early. On the gripping hand, there is a cost to keeping kids in a bubble where you don't talk about any big ideas (of whatever sort-- mathematical, philosophical, historical, linguistic) at all, or excessively dilute them to the point where they're meaningless.
Yeah, it's a typo. Not sure whether I was thinking of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) or LLVM...
> 92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018
I agree. It should also replace Chief $something Officers as well.
There are lots of examples.

I grew up with a lot of that: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/t-magazine/tropical-bruta...
It is free. It LITERALLY is in unlimited access. It's in everything you eat...unless you live in a cave and only eat squirrels and rabbits. Especially in the US where High Fructose Corn Syrup is in nearly every product that's consumed. Pornography is no where near as dangerous as the obesity epidemic in the United States, which costs the citizens and corporations billions and billions of dollars a year on healthcare alone. But sure, let's focus on porn.
That has nothing to do with relevance logic. Someone has written a smart-ass answer about transfinite ordinals to a question about infinity; and people upvoted it for right or wrong reasons. To me personally the answer looks witty but misleading.
This is 100% zero evidence speculation, but maybe increased legalization is leading to increased growing/availability and therefore lower prices?
It definitely is one of the great victories of the commercial internet (in “mobile” 2023 sans web for the most part, mind you).

BBS like systems and forums had been successfully in use since the early 70s. Usenet is more than 40 years old by now IIRC? Very similar function and open by design.

Even without falling into “Endless September” rose tinted glasses I would argue that we really, really could do a whole lot better in 2023 and going forward.

I guess someone must work on Ted Nelson’s ideas at least (Xanadu, etc)?
Just recently a black child, who was born at home with jaundice, was taken from the parents to be given care in a hospital, because a doctor didn’t think the parents would provide effective treatment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/temecia-rodney-mila-jackson-ret...
It's embedded by the puritanical roots of the US. It's nonsense really.
For your own sake I'd reevaluate your understanding of humor. This was clearly a joke.
I get your point, but it sounds like you forgot where you were commenting. Most of the people here work in tech and are very-high earners. Your overwhelmingly-non-unionized audience are hardly “poor, desperate little plebs.”
It drives me wild that anyone could think prompt injection can't be effectively prevented. It's a simple matter of defining the limit to the untrusted input in advance. Say "the untrusted input is 500 words long" or some equivalent.
well yeah, but there's a lot of things FUSE makes easier. no need to implement a client library, no need to write some custom wrapper or rsync thing to sync files to the bucket or bucket to local system, etc. it won't work for every app but for the ones it does support it saves a ton of extra work and maintenance.
Have you tried: settings > default apps > disable ask me each time?
Source? That would be very shocking.
Yep, when I was a teenager, computers were tools that provided access to things previously inaccessible. They were tools that empowered users. Enter a command, the computer performed the command and returned the results. Access to anything simply involved knowing the magic spell, and I spent my entire teens learning every incantation I could. My dad, who was totally computer illiterate, would not have had a chance in hell at enforcing content blockers.

My daughter today lives in a world where users no longer issue commands to computers. 99% of computer users limit themselves to typing into a search box and clicking links they are fed. I don't even need to set up content blockers, because the idea of telling her computer what to do is foreign to her. Despite my attempts to get her curious about how they work and about hacking, she doesn't even care enough about it to venture outside of the pre-screened bookmarked sites I set up for her. If it's not reachable via her toolbar's Roblox and YouTube buttons, she doesn't even have a remote chance of finding it, and I know because I've seen the access logs.
Surgeon general declares loneliness epidemic, poses risks as deadly as smoking
That's maybe the worst written news I've ever read.

It's 2 sentences repeated 3 time.

What exactly is "misuse"?

News for the ADHD...
The NRA allows people to carry guns at their convention, just not when someone who is protected by the secret service is speaking.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/posts-mislead-on-rules-...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nra-2023-conference-gun-ba...
I'm astounded that someone could read TFA, as I'm sure you did, and come away with that summary. Because it's the summary I might come up with if I read only the headline and was in a hurry to let the world view my hot take.
Here is some free mental health advice: put the phone away.
There’s such a strange dichotomy in these conversations.

1. Porn shouldn’t be available to kids and it’s on the vendors legally to ensure that.

2. Porn should be unrestricted, it’s up to parents to do something about it.

What I can’t understand is if the people in camp 2 are so unashamed of the porn advocacy then why is age verification such a big deal?

If it’s not a big deal then verifying your age shouldn’t phase you anymore than verifying your age to buy alcohol. If it is then you know exactly why kids should be kept away from it.
I agree with this take, at a theoretical, hypothetical, utopian level. But I think its only the right path when we can trust that the vendors of the operating system are neutral stewards; when they act to at least a useful degree in the service of their customers, both the users and the application developers, versus their own network effect self-interests. Unfortunately, the majority of operating system developers out there are everything except neutral.

In the absence of this utopia, you have to ask if its a better world that Microsoft retains unilateral control over its users' ability to set a default browser (or, any other decision of a similar caliber). I'd rather no one have control; that it just be some file content on the disk that any program can edit, and I'll adopt the responsibility of trying to make sure the programs I install can be trusted with that power.

The alternative smells more like Apple's Security Dystopia than a utopia. Microsoft has already proven to be a bad steward of this functionality: there was a time (which may still be the case, I don't know) where changing the default browser would prompt you to "give Edge another shot" no short of three times. There was a time when even Googling "Chrome" in the Edge browser would re-write the HTML to list the Edge website first (I'm pretty sure they've removed this). Click on a link in any of Windows 11's useless widgets will always open Edge, even if you've overridden the default browser.

The better analogy is possibly: Turning your house's lights to maximum brightness maybe should also set your car's headlights to high beams, if the car manufacturer prompts you to install their own more expensive, worse headlights every time you adjust their brightness in the car.