skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting to me is that we're apparently letting a completely ludicrous, unsupported claim to go unchallenged.
The proper Bayesian response would be to look for factors that are better predictors, since both "being male" and any race are very weak predictors (see my other comment upthread).
I honestly fail to see the outrage here. Mild annoyance, perhaps?
Replying to my own comment, while this doesn't show distance, it does show behaviour:

"Maternal grandmothers were significantly more inclined than paternal grandfathers and grandmothers to maintain frequent face-to-face contact, as distance between grandparent and grandchild increased. " [1]

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14747049070050...
Some related wisdom that has been more useful for me:
5% of the people out there are assholes - the unsafe drivers, the "can I speak to the manager" customers, the sociopathic case workers ... they're all in that 5%. You're bound to run into them, and they're bound to make an attempt to spoil your day. Learn to shake your head, shrug it off and go about your day knowing that 5% of all people are assholes.
I wrote to Minsky about the Turing option. He hated the ending and had an alternate Harrison or the publishers rejected.
"Comparisons are odious."

This comparison between racism and sexism doesn't work very well. Sometimes they're very analogous, sometimes they aren't.
Excellent! I hope the premises lead to the correct conclusions rather than ones ignorant of the premises.
You're forgetting that the "Berlin Wall" was actually two walls separated by a strip of "no-man's land" which was mined and patrolled by armed guards and dogs. Anyone who managed to breach one of the walls would not get far.

While the guards tolerated souvenir hunters, you would definitely not want to make a break for the other side. Although crossing may have been technically legal, it was still under the jurisdiction of the border authorities; just as it's legal to travel from Mexico to the US, but you can't just waltz across anywhere you want. Remember, East and West Germany were still two different countries, each with their own laws about customs and immigration.

The majority of the "wallpeckers" just wanted a souvenir and had no intention (or means) to actually break through steel-reinforced concrete using a hand held pick-axe and hammer. In fact, it took a concentrated effort to breach the wall sufficiently to create an opening you could actually pass through. The initial attempts at grabbing souvenirs (followed by actually removing large sections of the wall with construction equipment) happened at heavily populated areas like Checkpoint Charlie, where the large numbers of people made it harder for the authorities to object to.

Full disclosure: I was there and used a friend's hammer and pick-axe to break off a few pieces of the wall.
He helped cancer patients find peace through psilocybin. Then came his diagnosis
This is what government overreach looks like. What unelected officials can give with no oversight, they can just as quickly take away with no oversight.

The FCC is not a democracy. Net neutrality needed to be a law.
Laravel only seems to be for small stuff like
- the backends of Apples Webapps
- spiegel.de, the biggest German news site
- the New York Times website
- backend services at Disney
- About You (large online retailer)

Seriously, though, I myself work for an enterprise that runs big parts of the European energy grid and we use Laravel for all sorts of stuff. At a previous job Laravel powered a whole ISP.

Notice when people say Laravel is good for small stuff and early prototypes, they never explain why.
The guy that shot Kate in SF

Yeah maybe the park ranger shouldn't have left his weapon around for strangers to play with it. Create less enticement for crime and you'll see less crime.
Well, you're right if it makes you feel better. Clearly males are more dangerous than females and restricting male immigration makes some sense. I could see an argument that immigration should be female only.

That said. Apparently, we're talking about 1% of the population if the article is to be believed. So we're not really talking about all males here, nor even a majority of males for that matter.

Of course that also means we're not talking about anything close to a majority of black americans, but that's a whole other discussion.
I remember I tried Yocto, indeed it’s customizable, but when I tested it, its performance wasn’t on par with the stock one, specifically with gstreamer and vp9 encoding/decoding. Maybe it’s changed now though, worth the try OP.
I don't hate the idea of this.

Ideally what I'd like & have suggested is that citizens be able to get attestation of their content at their desired level. I should be able to get anything I write signed by varying levels of government, federal, state, or county, or neighborhood. I should be able to opt into how much identity to share: name, initials, some rotating psuedorandom identitifer, age bracket , income bracket, other core data.

I've stated this repeatedly as I think the baseline of what I think a democratic society should offer, a way to enshrine real speech of citizens as citizens so desire. That would be a real service. What we have here is a vile screwing over of society by hostile powers thieving our liberties from us, locking down the world against humanity for their own sad shallow pathetic ends. These aren't pearls. These are basic rights to be human on this planet. Thanks.
Have you heard people seriously discuss what would be required to have men catch to women and be 50% of college graduates?

If the situation were reversed, would there be advocates for increasing the graduation of women to 50%
I am curious why cannot we just, at instruct-tuning phase, add additional token type embedding, such as:

embedding = text_embedding + token_type_embedding + position_embedding

The token_type_embedding is zero init and frozen for responses and the user prompt, but trainable for system prompt.

This should give LLM enough information to distinguish privileged text and unprivileged text?
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
They absolutely are. The people you're referring to vote Republican.
This angle makes me think that we're going about the whole inheritance tax thing the wrong way.

It's not the parent's estate that should be taxed. They have indeed earned all the money fair and square, and should be able to pass it on as they see fit.

Instead, let's think about a tax on receiving inheritances. Limiting the money hose where the inequality actually happens, at the person that hasn't worked for the money and through pure happenstance comes into riches while others are not getting remotely equal opportunities. That person should be the one to consider when proposing an inheritance tax.

Maybe a lifetime tax-free limit on receiving inheritances, cumulatively, from any source.

[Edit: This way, we can also elegantly solve the "can't pass down the family business" problem: Allow the inheritance tax to be paid in long-term installments by the recipient, with interest, allowing the inheriting child to keep the asset but make them work for part of the value they got out of it. Remaining tax debt at the time of the child's death would be due immediately at the time of their own death.]
I think senior engineers should always have good "knowledge gained is proportional to equipment damaged" stories, they're great for helping juniors through their own "learning experiences". (At my current startup, the one about me and the founder/CTO figuring out how to use an API by experimenting on our only robot arm, resulting in slamming a $30k arm into a concrete wall (mmm, polar coordinates) is great for getting across "you'll be more careful next time, because look, really, there will be a next time!")
The happiest older adults I know have one particular thing in common, at least it seems to me. They have been in a constant state of “re-launching” their entire lives. They have always been up for learning something new, trying something new, starting something new.

I’m not sure where they got the impetus to live that way. If you follow the default path of society, you are launched out a cannon at 18 or so and see how far you fly until you hit the ground in middle age and skid a short distance further. But then that’s it. One big launch you land where you land.

The major diseases of aging (heart disease, cancer, neurodegeneration) won’t last forever. The more they become treatable, the more years people will live in good health. We need to have find ways to give people more opportunities to relaunch.
That's what prison is. Just with less theft of land.
"Worse Is Better" is elegiac, but it can also come across as a whine: "Those dumb users can't see Quality, they can only see Done, so they ignore my Beatific Solution in favor of some New Jersey Code that isn't nearly as good as what mine is going to be." Well, in a world where Done is a myth, Quality is a horizon; it's impossible to achieve Quality when the nature of your world is changing around you. The Right Thing is only Right as long as the Thing stays still.
> Seems irrelevant though - the internet exists.

... but it's not always useful. MSI motherboards doing "secure boot" can't check for key revocation until after they've booted :( Sometimes you just have to rely on what you've got.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-...
Most important thing: This was a study of the Swedish population!

For the US population:

Convictions include innocent people who follow advice to plea guilty [1], or who are wrongfully convicted [2], and don't include guilty people who got off, or who were never found [3].

[1] - https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...

[2] - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/7/14834454/ex...

> “African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated,” the researchers write. “They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in ‘group exonerations.’”

[3] - https://www.insider.com/police-dont-solve-most-violent-prope...

> Federal government data from 2018 show that just 46% of all violent crimes reported to police were "cleared" with an arrest, and 18% of property crimes were cleared. Beyond that, only an estimated 43% of people who were the victims of violent crimes reported the incidents to police.

I expect this article to get flagged pretty soon.
In the article the number of eyeballs is pretty explicitly a minor caveat, and the main point is the shallowness in the sense of approachability:

> In Linus's Law, I think, lies the core difference underlying the cathedral-builder and bazaar styles. In the cathedral-builder view of programming, bugs and development problems are tricky, insidious, deep phenomena. It takes months of scrutiny by a dedicated few to develop confidence that you've winkled them all out. Thus the long release intervals, and the inevitable disappointment when long-awaited releases are not perfect.

> In the bazaar view, on the other hand, you assume that bugs are generally shallow phenomena—or, at least, that they turn shallow pretty quickly when exposed to a thousand eager co-developers pounding on every single new release. Accordingly you release often in order to get more corrections, and as a beneficial side effect you have less to lose if an occasional botch gets out the door.
Sadly they've changed the rules, and now a conviction isn't a requirement to get in any more.
Which at the time was a sci-fi game set in the future.
It's not like the comments held any sort of power. The FCC could do whatever they wanted regardless of the comments.
> The proper Bayesian response... since both "being male" and any race are very weak predictors (see my other comment upthread).

I saw your comment - you don't understand how bayesianism works. Look up "odds ratios" for the most salient concept that you're missing here.

If P(x|!y) = 0.0000001 and P(x|y) = 0.01, this relationship is extremely powerful even though it's "weak" in the sense you're using.
Hah, tl;dr, but link 1 is sooo neutral, it describes with flowery language about how great Tesla self driving is, and how shitty LIDAR is, after going on attack about her investment in a LIDAR company...
End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars
Matt Levine has a great column, and he talks about ESG and anti-ESG a lot. He won't give you specific advice, but if you want to learn more about this dynamic I can highly recommend reading some of his opinion pieces, such as https://archive.is/avrH3
…was this written by an LLM?

I’m starting to doubt anything on the internet that’s overly cherry and polite.

Sigh.
Not really. That purges people through all layers of society.

I think the commenter means to purge the literal socioeconomic bottom. Not, for instance, middle class people who kill their spouse or betray the country by spilling secrets.

I could be mis-reading the commenter though.
However, this avoids the problems associated with harmful nonviolent crime, such as the fraud scams targeting the elderly and other vulnerable populations that you've probably seen on your social media feeds, messaging apps, etc., let alone things like crypto coin scams and subprime loans and on and on.

Yes, this times 2x. Too much focus on social media, like twitter, on violent crime. that is a problem, but non-violent crime, such as fraud, tends to have way more victims per perpetrator. it's not uncommon for a single fraudster, such as credit card theft, id theft, or call center theft, to have many, many victims for considerable sums of money before being caught. The collapse of FTX, for example, had thousands of claimants/victims for combined billions, all perpetrated by one guy and his handful of accomplices.
> You might as well worry about the radioactivity of a banana.

This is such an asinine false equivalence I can hardly bring myself to even continue this thread.

Bananas are not radioactive as the result of a potentially flawed/misperformed industrial process.

Decaf coffee is always the result of an industrial process, in some cases involving dangerous solvents by design. What do you suppose the rate is of those solvents being impure or just plain mixed up, or improperly utilized? I bet you it's orders of magnitude higher than bananas spuriously evolving dangerously high levels of radioactivity or growing successfully to fruition in otherwise dangerously toxic environments.

Industrially processed foods/ingredients have inherently higher risks, it's a significant part of why consuming processed foods is not recommended AIUI.
The image with no caption is super weird.
I think it's pretty obvious what comes next: people talking to each other.

Journalism as it was structured is mapped one-to-many. The internet is not structured that way, and attempting to simply disseminate information is not going to cut it.

This change necessarily includes echo chambers. We had the early spirit science lizard people ones and we have the ones we have now, but when people can choose who to talk to and share information with you will get this phenomenon. The age of a common narrative binding a diverse society is over.

Journalists are simply not going to get paid to do it anymore. You'll have to do the independent journalist thing, find sponsors for your content, host your own website, do the legwork to get an audience, but the corporate ladder for journalists simply no longer exists.
It does not. Americans have a median income roughly 10% higher than Germans, far more guns per capita than Germans, and nearly 40% of male homicide suspects in Germany are non-German in any case:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101485/non-german-crime...

By the way, if we only consider non-Hispanic whites (this is a state-defined census category) America's homicide rate is 2.2:

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-amer...
First addressing the height:

It doesn't matter how hard it is to determine his height, if it's wrong on Wikipedia, or if it's controversial. If the height is incorrect on Wikipedia it's not true or a fact. If two sources have his height and they are different only one is true, which one? No idea but there aren't multiple truths.

This line of thought is a way to muddy the difference between opinions and facts. A good opinion is one that is based on factual information, if you can claim there are multiple true but contradictory facts (like his height) it allows you have an opinion that might otherwise be based on nothing or false information.

The difference between an opinion and a fact is an opinion can't be falsified[1]. It's possible to find out his height[2], therefore there is only one truth, and other "truths" would turn out to be false.

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The paper you supplied shows social capital helps with the arbitration committee and talks about some inner circle of people who coordinate. You're right, this does prove your point and I did assume that you were talking about the more common current use of politics. I was too focused on the "facts" part of our discussion and read too quickly. That's my fault.
It would be interesting to see if they can ban email+gpg too.
And what if there was no big company behind it? Then it’s ok.
Ah, I had forgotten about Thonny. For a while it seemed like they weren't keeping up with Python versions.

Hmmm... even after just a few minutes, I'm impressed. I prefer to use beginner tools for my own work, even though I'm actually quite experienced, because it gives me a chance to familiarize myself with the things that I would actually recommend to beginners.

Also, it reminds me of another thing, which is that not just the language but also the tooling, can be a source of abstraction and frustration.
I can’t find the original link I read but found this.

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/slouching-better-than-sittin...

Alternating between slouching and standing has had a positive impact on me. About 2 years into it working from home and I sleep better and haven’t had back pain since. (Prior to this I had an ergo chair and would alternate between sitting and standing.)
That's a good one. I've been trying to find a source for: "If you try to write your own TCP, you'll end up with TCP, but slow."

Cannot for the life of me figure out where I read this.
Then you would notice that the averages between men and women on some things like height are significantly different even though it's easy to find individual counter-examples.
I think better would be figuring out how to incentivize fathers to remain the fathers to their children, as fatherless men are drastically more prone to crime and risky behavior.
This is codified in law.

Habitual offender sentence enhancement or three strikes laws.
>Is there a legal path to invalidate the FCC's decision based on this

No, the comments were always meaningless. Plus the decision has already been reversed by the FCC.
Thanks. That was a lot of time spent; I appreciate your commitment to inquiry/discovery.

I still struggle with what I see as a Thomas fighting a war of technicalities to avoid the actual point, and I tried to leave significant rope to allow his annoyances. And I don't K ow how to walk back what I still feel like is an injustice that hurts the truth so badly, don't see how temperance can be found against this. But I get my post's polarization better and see how the room is so happy to stick to Thomas here.
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/2022-cyberdeck-contest-qaz-p...

I do wish there were more slabtops
That sort of lifestyle is really feasible on solar. Rooftops alone are likely enough, or at worst some bit of agrovoltaics.

The vast majority of Western energy is wasted, rejected as waste heat. Solar electrification skips over a wasteful thermodynamic conversion of heat to electricity. Even the rare case where fossil fuels seem at first glance as efficient, such as for heating water and homes, it turns out that 99% efficiency of conversion of fossil fuel energy to heat still requires 3-4x as much energy as a heat pump to get the same result. And don't get me started on how incredibly wimpy and inefficient ICE cars are.... unreliable bad machines.

And the only, literally the only time I have seen somebody come up with napkin math to say that solar would be hard to install in sufficient quantity to meet existing lifestyles in countries with normal insolation, it has been using total energy, rather than the actual useful amount of energy.

Solar and storage are gigantic technological marvels compared to the tech that delivered energy to us in the 20th century. Unless one's earning are tied directly to spreading FUD about these new technologies, it makes no sense not to acknowledge both the amazing tech curve of the past decades, and to speculate won the wonderful places that solar and storage in future will take us.
Sounds similar to the popular question: why learn arithmetic when calculator exists?
The Wolfram effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20071283 seems nearly as strong as ever on this topic.
> which it will have to pay

What, why? It's fraud, why would they pay?
Without paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/end-of-a-love-affair-am-ra...
The caption appears on hover and reads:

> FILE - New York State Attorney General Letitia James participates in the Global Citizen NOW conference in New York, on April 28, 2023. Three companies that supplied millions of fake public comments using the identities of real people without their consent to support the 2017 repeals of net neutrality rules will collectively pay $615,000 in penalties to New York and other states. The penalties come after a previous investigation by James found the fake comments used the identities of millions of consumers, including thousands of New Yorkers, without their knowledge. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Crafting an Amethyst D20, then scratching all the edges
This already happens in sentencing. If you've been convicted of similar offending in the past, the judge is going to sentence you more harshly.

And in some countries, if you're a proven perpetual threat, the judge can issue a preventive detention sentence.

It has the advantage over the death penalty in that's reversible if a miscarriage of justice occurs.
While area is now very cheap, power and thermal is more of an issue than ever. Huge d/i caches are doable since they save power, huge arrays of decoders not so much. The CISC-RISC debate wasn't just based on area; everyone back then also saw the direction that scaling was taking us.
I gave one away and another is gathering dust. For projects what about a small eink picture frame, updating chore list, or a message. The idea is that they can change from another computers browser to leave messages for each other or their parents. Building off another idea you could make something that shows where the plane flying overhead is from and to, although depending on the age and interest of the girls that might not be particularly too interesting.
So, prison. Just with more obvious weapons.
I've been on Usenet since the 1990s. All those terminally online who claim that Trump (and Dubya before him) "ruined America's reputation abroad" are, of course, idiots. The online left back then hated the just as much as today.
It would be interesting if a program could define some new instructions by specifying the microcode :)

Though that might make context switches rather expensive.

And if you're going down that route, perhaps time to think about FPGAs.