skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are prescribed-burns-gone-wrong more likely to harm the most vulnerable, as compared to unprescribed burns?

Yes. Because those planning the controlled burns will take more care in ensuring the politically powerful are not as likely to be harmed by the burns. If a controlled burn goes wrong it's more likely to fall on those who have less power.

Also, if the politically powerful are negatively impacted by the burns, their losses are more likely to be adequately socialized, while those that lack political power are more likely to bear the costs directly and individually.
> no other country

Certain Arabic country comes to mind, where fancy skyscrapers and the richest are the only news that one hears from there.
2012 India Blackouts
> This is a bunch of nice shell-scripting to do what you could already do with docker/podman a little quicker.

This is absoulutely what it is. The project does not try to hide this fact nor am I.
There is this for Haskell, which automatically converts all shell commands (like "ls") to regular Haskell functions:

https://chrisdone.com/posts/shell-conduit/

It uses a Haskell streaming library so you can do stuff like shell pipelines and file redirection (but in a more structured, safer and more powerful way)
it changed the moment the product and api were named chatgpt …
Let the standards setting people in Brussels and Strasbourg fix a damn HQ in one place, so that savings can be made from the traveling expenses alone. Then use those savings to ensure that every company gets access to the licenses free of charge. How about that?

Nah, but gotta protect their big business I guess.
one of my best purchases, great device. but those fucking chargers man. I bought several generations, and I've never noticed the battery the degrading at all really, which is more than I can say for the other shavers that became useless when the batteries quickly degraded to the point where you couldn't use it without a cord.

The braun shavers are also the fastest charging electronic devices I own. So what's the problem? Like apple, the charger may not be compatible with the older generation. So how about they force companies to bundle an adaptor that can work with the older generations. Or better yet, release an adaptor that lets me charge my phone with my shaver charger:)
After 1Password moved to subscription only, I’m never recommending them to anyone. How does it make sense to surrender your authentication credentials to a subscription service?
Why should they copy everyone?
I'm employed by Microsoft, but not in any relation to the authors of this tool or this post. First time I saw github.com/mirosoft/guidance was on the HN front page, actually :)

I've been waiting for a tool exactly like guidance, something that lets me compose prompts the way I think about prompts. Langchain was too much of a headache for me. Playing with guidance, it feels like this is how programmatically interacting with a llm should be. Also, really happy to see the MIT license.

I'd love to see ports to other languages.
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I'm guessing part of the challenge is that rental demand is fairly elastic in that people who might well want a house might be ok with a flat and put up with a flat share for the sake of a location they want or feel they need (e.g. due to work; family commitments etc.), and so even as people get squeezed out of the housing they want it might well take a lot before they move elsewhere.
Disagree. Have been using and developing with CSS as my focus for ten years now. If you take the same amount of time you would take to learn the ins and outs of [pick any other language], you would have a better time of it.

I'd like to add a reason that you do not list and one that I constantly run into is that due to the lack of understanding, large applications have been built and it is simply not cost-effective to re-wire the whole thing using better approaches. The only time I get to apply features and structures that are less than five years old to projects is when it's a green field opportunity. Otherwise, the budget just doesn't cut it.

Personal comment/response:
I will say that CSS seems to be for a particular _breed_ of developer. Almost designers, but not quite. My perspective of this comes with also using JavaScript for the same amount of time. The thinking I use in both of those domains differs at times quite dramatically.

I'll use the number of pages of OReilly's foundational programming books as an example of anecdotal complexity of three languages: JavaScript - 704 pages, PHP - 842 pages, and CSS - 538 pages (the new one coming out will be 1090).

No frontend co-worker that I have had spanning the past ten years has ever worked through the _old_ CSS one from 2006, at all. Even those that loved CSS, did not own a copy of that one. It covered everything CSS and I read it cover to cover.

Without a commitment to CSS on par with commitments that developers make everyday to any given framework or other programming language, anyone trying to wield CSS on the same level as the other tools will continue to be disappointed.

And as long as the culture of web development continues to de-value solid in-depth understanding of both HTML and CSS, then yes, quite a lot of us will remain over-burdened in our day-to-day responsibilities.

That's just my take. As I am also a musician who plays both piano and oboe - I can use that as an analogy as well. I can teach _anyone_ piano. I cannot, at all, simply teach anyone oboe. They _must_ have an inclination towards it and I can literally bet my life savings every time that really good oboists also seem to be really quirky humans. I would put passionate CSS developers at the same table and I would expect them all to get along.
I think the point the person you replied to was making was that BotW and TotK aren't just selling due to Zelda nostalgia.

There are lots adults with college degrees now that are playing this game who weren't even in kindergarten yet (or born!) when the games you mentioned were released.
I think it shows how much low impact content we consume constantly - where the quality outside of superficial appearance doesn't really matter. Images with obvious flaws, text with factual/logical mistakes - as long as it looks right on the first glance - it's passable in a lot of places.

Just made me more aware of how bulshit is the norm and not the exception.
“Perfectly fine” does not mean perfect, it means it’s usable. And it’s not like the parent commenter doesn’t agree that an app is useful.
Oh, so it's still a cloud thing. Quaint. :-)

I wasn't sure, since people are complaining that it makes their phones hot, and it's only a matter of time before this stuff runs locally.

I guess that answers my question, though.
These sort of vendor YOLO changes are more of the domain of Microsoft's MDE.

I use an Deciso OPNsense where it doesn't insist on breaking itself on the orders of corporate overlords.
> You do need to release the Alt key because the old menu access keys still work (invisibly), and are activated otherwise if you don’t release the Alt key.

This is a backwards compatibility feature overriden by Ribbon keys, isn't it? When you hit Alt+I (Insert menu in Word 2003) you get a specific pop-up warning about that (in Word 2019 you do), and can use the invisible old menu relying on the old muscle memory. But when you use an existing Ribbon combination, it takes precedence. For example, hitting Alt+W without releasing Alt calls the View tab on the ribbon instead of the old Window menu, so you don't issue two different commands.

The reason tags feel like having higher latency is because the tag appears either on release or after ~500ms of holding. But there's no input delay, it's purely visual. If you memorized it, you just touch type the combination at any speed.

Classic Win32 and Office menus are prone to actual input delays, though, if implemented incorrectly (e.g. starting slow operations on opening the menu).
Yep - I think it's mostly people who go by word of mouth and don't know about the leading free-without-cracks alternative, but RAR does still have some genuine merits like [native] optional redundancy!
Hey, would you mind sharing the tools and other resources you’ve found helpful? I’m really interested in trying this but am not sure where to start.
Exactly, are these people entirely cut off from the internet or do they just use their ridiculously cheap mobile data? Imagine this article 10 years ago talking about UK people ditching their land line and surmising those people are being left behind.

The reality is mobile data can cover your minimal internet requirements in the UK.
Try asking for "Fuji apple reddit" next time and you'll get pointed in the right direction
What was your company?
Most seem to soft cap you after ~20GB traffic, here in the US.

Last I checked Comcast Xfinity Mobile was one of the kindest soft caps, offering 1.5/.75Mbps down/up.

I think maybe there has been some shift recently around these incredible limits (5.3 minutes/month of full speed use is 0.0001% utilization). Xfinity went up to 50Gbps. I think some plans now "deprioritize" rather than outright limit, which is interesting, but there's such utterly non-existsnt data, such inability to shop & see what to expect.
I think it would need to be a bit more than just that.

If you have a Picaso style advertisement for Ford its probably transformative w.r.t. any of Picaso's works since none of them as-is could be used for that advertisement. There's no way Picaso painted any Ford motor vehicles.

As well as if you used those imagery as an example of the generative capabilities the originals wouldn't suit that purpose. Or if you had a collection of AI generated art then the originals also wouldn't work.
Ask them for a landline phone. They'll either have to run new copper or choose to install fiber. Once they run copper then get a DSL company to run through that. Generally they won't want to run copper and don't want competition so they'll go ahead and run fiber. In either case I believe the law they're constrained by is local ordinances giving them a region based monopoly for traditional landline access in exchange for ensuring everyone has a phone. If you force the issue they'll run SOMETHING to your door. And through that something you'll have more options.
> FTTC are FTTH are both fibre.

If FTTC is fibre then so is a 56k dial-up or public Wi-Fi. Both have fibre at some point in the path. I think it would be good to give the benefit of the doubt and brand it based on what is likely to be the bottleneck which in this case will be the DSL.

> I'd rather they _did_ upgrade everything to to FTTC, which they can afford, and let those that can fund FTTH pay for it, than leave it as copper wire all the way to the exchange because someone said "FTTH or nothing!"

Fair enough, but in that case call it by what it really is - DSL and not fibre. This allows consumers to make an informed decision and competition to work effectively (so only actual FTTP providers can call their offer fibre and people will instantly tell the difference between that and DSL without reading the fine print).

> DSL is not being sold as "fiber"

It is. They should not be calling DSL "fiber" unless you are also happy with 56k dial-up being sold as fiber, along with pretty much any other means of internet access since there's always going to be fibre somewhere along the path.

> The result is strong, reliable, superfast broadband, with average speeds up to 80Mb.

It is nowhere near as reliable nor fast as true fibre. Also 80Mbps is the theoretical maximum speed - the actual average is much lower, especially on upload speeds despite those becoming even more critical since both remote work and cloud-based services are becoming more relevant every day. There's also no way to tell what your actual speed is going to be without signing up for a contract at which point it will be too late to cancel.

I just re-read the sentence and I find the inclusion of "average" speed redundant and can't help but think it is only there to trick you into thinking the average is 80Mbps, as opposed to it simply being the theoretical maximum. Really scummy.
> And there is also a 20% VAT impacting the cost of pretty much anything you might use your after-tax income to

Except stuff like food, rent, utilities, small stuff like that.

I'll give you the rest though. The UK is a low-tax country by European standards, and even by developed-world standards, but is above the US quite significantly.
Heavy metals in the nearby earth are the obvious parameter here--you need something to decay into radon for there to be radon.

But I think another factor has to do with the water table. In some places the water table rises high enough to flood basements, so you don't usually have basements at all in those places, and subsequently you don't have large reservoirs of radon adjacent to living spaces. I know of some people here in CO (where we have decaying granite in the soil) that don't have a basement and still need a radon ventilator, but it's not very common.
connect the dots...and the people holding up the jobs numbers (Target, Costco, Chiptole) don't own homes, even in Kentucky
I'm more surprised Tcl was used in 2009 than I am at any praise or complaint about the quality of Tcl.

I used Tcl and Expect (which was a very cool extension of Tcl) in the late 90s in some automation projects as an intern. It did the job and yet I was aware of some of it's issue.

But that was so far before 2009. It felt like Tcl was almost done by 2000, I never saw it used again. Perl came and went, Lua had arrived, Python had arrived, etc..

Tcl to me is like Python.. pretty good for small projects by a small team. Not so desirable for a giant enterprise product/platform with a big team.
You may as well start by having that conversation with the inventor of the time travel device you're using, because - whew boy the nefarious things people are going to do with it!
Its merely driving reactions, the amount of carbon on earth isn't changing. I guess it would be better for me to say there is no free mass.
Thanks for sharing this, will definitely give it look.

I get that my position here is considered extreme, but then again the nuanced one is much harder to express in a couple of sentences.

A lifetime of being denied access to science or art on the grounds of copyright has made me cynical.

To me it's just a classist defense barrier - keep the lower class from getting education and art to keep the class system intact.
Copyright is just one method that has been corrupted to this purpose.
Jimmy Page/Lori Maddox (14)
Ted Nugent
Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Presley

I'm sure there are more.
Few if anybody is doing what Wu Tang did, OP is pointing out that without Copyright some variation of what they did would be come the norm.
That could count I suppose but I don't think that's really the kind of insight Sutton is alluding to in his original writing. Insight in this case would be more like shoehorning one of the processes humans would use to solve the problem. There are no innate grammar rules the architecture looks to before each attempt, no tree or word search. Things like that.

Polishing the input in that way is neat but it's not like you can't go character or word level for a transformer. The current way is just far more compute efficient but the Transformer will figure out the seq to seq all the same.
> The artist is dead for 70 years when it becomes public domain.

> This is the situation right now [...]

There are several argument getting mixed up right now:

1) No copyright is better than the current copyright system (your argument)

2) Some copyright is better than no copyright. (the argument you responded to)

Point 1 does not negate point 2. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the best books I've read wouldn't have been produced except for copyright.
Echoing many who now find themselves blindsided by the emergent abilities and rapid adoption of LLMs, the OP:

* complains that we still lack a "comprehensive theory to explain what intelligence is or how it emerges from first principles,"

* argues that deep neural nets like LLMs may not be capable of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and

* contends that achieving AGI will require "new algorithmic paradigms."

Rich Sutton wrote what I think is the perfect counter-argument to these points some years ago:

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law, or rather its generalization of continued exponentially falling cost per unit of computation. Most AI research has been conducted as if the computation available to the agent were constant (in which case leveraging human knowledge would be one of the only ways to improve performance) but, over a slightly longer time than a typical research project, massively more computation inevitably becomes available. Seeking an improvement that makes a difference in the shorter term, researchers seek to leverage their human knowledge of the domain, but the only thing that matters in the long run is the leveraging of computation. These two need not run counter to each other, but in practice they tend to. Time spent on one is time not spent on the other. There are psychological commitments to investment in one approach or the other. And the human-knowledge approach tends to complicate methods in ways that make them less suited to taking advantage of general methods leveraging computation."[a]

Go read the whole thing.

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[a] http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
> It can be accurate but she is also totally within her rights to not listen to him.

She might not be wise to. An obese doctor advising an obese patient to lose weight because of health problems still has a potentially valid point. The obese doctor might even have more useful perspective than another doctor on the issue.

> If we want less war we need to set an example...

I'm pretty sure that's what we're doing in Ukraine. China certainly would be wise to consider what a Taiwan invasion would look like if the US and allies decided to assist in a similar fashion.

> Also the powers that be in the US want a war in Ukraine as much as Putin does. Probably moreso. They are selling a lot of killing machines.

Sure. Ted Bundy and I both like to eat; that doesn't automatically make eating bad. This is precisely why we have to evaluate the actual specific scenario in question on its merits.
If I were running a social network, I would prioritize using AI to describe photos and using that as part of the targeting data over the 1-1.5 seconds of audio in Live Photos.
The term "chatbot" has been around for a while so it's not really new to "chat" with a bot rather than a human
I'm more curious about the question of 'who wants free content'.

Because that's really the question here. Would I prefer everything in my life was free with no strings attached? Obviously.

But youtube/news/reddit/facebook/literally any website needs to make money somehow, and non tracked ads pay rediculously lower amounts(90+%). So the real question is, would you trade what is essentially anonymous tracking (literally no one at Google gives a damn who you are, it's just a unique id fed into an algorithm) for content, or would you rather pay for each and every site on the internet?
What's the definition over there of a "drink" and a "pop"?
Why would random 1 second snippets of audio from when photos were being taken be useful to advertisers?
Qua intuition: Think vacuum flask aka thermos flask. (though these also try to reduce radiative cooling with a mirror-finish)

Convective cooling is a very efficient form of cooling, but obviously doesn't exist in a vacuum. Typically people resort to radiative cooling in space. This requires larger radiators.
We are the ancient civilization that leaves artifacts behind for future civilizations to discover. :)
I see a flaw in your logic.

Resistive heating is considered to be 100% energy efficient in heat conversion when measured on a watt-per-watt basis.

That's to be expected as they are essentially entropy production systems.

However, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient on a watt-per-watt basis as they are not directly converting electricity into heat, but rather are moving heat from one area to another.

Heat pumps currently are between 150% to 400% efficient on a watt-per-watt basis, which could mean that your ideal hot water heater could run on as little as 240v/10a, or 120v/18a (120v/20a breakers are common in kitchens, to power microwaves and refrigerators, so this wouldn't be a huge stretch for a hot water system, either).

Additionally, the state of the art is always improving.

Recent heat pump advancements have been made with CO2 for use in electric vehicles that may push past the 400% efficiency rating, which could make it even lower than that.
Microsoft has been killing it with these OSS contributions as of late. Really enjoying their Guidance library.
thats incorrect. you lose your tax free allowance, which is a furtger 12,500 tax paid. Plus you need to consider graduate tax and the interest on those 'loans' which currently sits at 4.5%
It is a road, though, and we know all sorts of things already accumulate via stormwater runoff.
That'd be nice for sure.
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Low-level systems programming will always be relevant.
Is this the 2023 Tin Foil hat version of Instagram is listening to your microphone all the time?
> no one would dare attempt a falklands for quite a while without getting a bloody nose for it.

I'm pretty sceptical that the UK could mount an out of area expeditionary war on its own anymore. In 1982 the british army had about 160,000 troops - now its down to 78,000. We dont have the air or sea lift capability, and the merchant ships that were requisitioned back then now sail under other flags. We have a couple of caarriers (built at vast expense) but we can't afford the planes to fully populate them, and we don't have enough ships and submarines to form proper carrier groups. At least one of them is flying US planes with USAF pilots, and last I read was encorted by US navy ships.

The Falklands wasnt the pushover its often made out to be. And more recently we got our arses cicked in Helmand.

> Consider the raspberry pi

Yeah but that was 2012 and what has there been since? And does that compensate for ARM holdings (originally a UK company) de-listing in London, for example?
He's also a big proponent of cycling infrastructure, which IMHO we need much more of: https://youtu.be/FlVWv9O0qQ4
> vested interests and rent seeking seems to be a big part of US business culture

This is also true about nearly every other country that exists or has existed throughout history. US is notable for being, on average, much more competitive and less corrupt.

(But it's heading in the wrong direction, and that's only on average. Many countries have caught up, and a few others have surpassed it.
So I must specifically ask for it, but it's not at all the default.
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I think TikTok could easily make over $10000 a day from its Montana Audience. Although this law likely violates the 1st amendment, perhaps the best course of action is to either ignore Montana or just cut them a check.
What “renaissance” would result from not having copyright?

It seems to me that history is showing the opposite. It’s easier than ever, thanks to technology, to make original movies, songs, etc. But demand for specific creations is more concentrated than ever.

Of all of the types of property, copyright seems to me the least offensive. It’s not like the dirt I built my house on, which is finite, and which which I had no hand in creating. There is an infinite amount of original works, all you need to do is make your own.
Maybe. I wouldn't bet on it if the copyright holders of the clips objected.