skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The worst that happened here was some people had time wasted.

At least one party to the suit, if not both, are going to end up spending extra money. Plus it wasted public resources – the time of the judge and court staff, and their salaries, and more – and cost taxpayer money. Your remedy of having the lawyer pay might bankrupt him, and it doesn't really make whole the other party. In cases where one party has limited financial resources or perhaps is close to death (thing capital punishment, or malpractice), this isn't just waste. Someone could be severely wronged.
Your angel investors will know how much you got acquired for (ie, near zero) so I don't see how it saves anyone's face.

I'm a frequent angel investor, and getting a small amount of money back really isn't interesting. Obviously I'm excited to get a large multiple back, and I'm OK with most going to zero. Getting a small amount of money back is mostly an annoyance, since it invariably comes with a lot of paperwork spread over months.
I don't see how this Mozilla hate is relevant. Igalia aren't ordinary users: they're developers.
> Why'd we implement them then?

Because they were, as the post you're replying to makes pretty clear, still in the realm of less bad, or at least very probably less bad. The point GP is making is that there were zero "good" options. In a global pandemic, every choice has only bad options, and you try to pick the least bad.

Or in other words, they're saying that the "correct" decision was still ultimately a bad one. And you're trying to frame that statement as though the decisions made were incorrect. That's pretty rhetorically unkind of you.
TIL that the Arab polymath al-Kindi invented frequency analysis & wrote the first cryptanalysis book ‘Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages’, in the 9th century.
Thanks for the test, these rather very close values reflect my experience as well.

While my Internet connection is actually based on a mobile connection, it's still difficult for me to comment how a classic smartphone may behave, as that's not my typical use-case. Here, UDP may offer some advantages, if the connection quality can vary.

I wonder if it was a fair summary to say, that HTTP 2+ (and especially HTTP 3) may offer advantages for unreliable connections, but not so much over somewhat reliable connections.
Also wanted to say this is a really cool tool, ty for mentioning it.

I fall into the category of developers using LLMs every single day, for both answering questions while working, and also for more exploratory “bounce ideas off the wall” exercises.

Everytime I find a new way to explain to the LLM how I want us to work together, I feel like Ive unlocked new abilities and usecases I didnt expect the model to have.

Some examples for those curious:

* I am interested in learning more about X because I want to achieve Y. Please give me an overview of concepts that would be useful to learn about X to achieve Y. [then after going back and forth fleshing out what Im interested in learning] Please create a syllabus for me to begin learning about X based on the information you've given me. Provide examples of additional materials I can study which already exist, and some exercises to test and operationalize my knowledge.

* [I find that the above can often make the model attempt to squeeze all the info into a single response, which compresses the fidelity of the knowledge and tends towards big shallow lists, so I will employ this trick] I want you to go deeper into each topic you have listed, one at a time. When I say “next” move onto the next topic

* You are my personal coach for X, here is context about the problem I want to work on and my goals. This is our first coaching session, ask me any questions you need to gather more information, but never more than 3 at once. Where should we start?
The lawyer was just trying to outsource his job of plausible bullshit generation. He would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for the fake cases.
While Hurricane is nice, they're 1800 miles from me. :)

I'll take the risk of colo within the same region. If this region were gone, my data would be meaningless.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092509
Uh, they were sold as better than the alternatives.

And even without the policies, things were going to happen.

The initial economic impacts preceded any of the policies by weeks, for instance, and the social changes (including WFH) started rolling out before any formal policies did. The tech companies started to do it weeks ahead of public policy on the matter for instance, because they didn’t have any better alternatives, and it would have been worse otherwise.
But where are the countless, or at least fragmentary, stories where they did much, or any good?

Secrecy and transparency and democracy just don't mix well, imo, if you want an absolute state that's fine.

I can also agree that some rare situations may require absolute secrecy for some services, but that then must be limited and fully disclosed for later oversight, control and consequences.. 10 years is already a lot, 20 years absolute max, in my opinion. But almost nothing ever is, except what's leaked, that is shocking.
The saga started way back with the Copperhead OS situation [1]. I believe Daniel has never been able to work through that breach of trust, and that has bled out into his behavior online and the real world.

Note it's very hard to find mainstream sources on this.

[1] https://piunikaweb.com/2019/02/05/the-demise-of-copperheados...
I discovered that Wine gave me more headaches. It would be fantastic if Wine could identify the missing components and download them. I realized that using a virtual machine to boot into Windows was simpler.
Whether there are cognitive effects is not clear, but it definitely affects their mood and their sleep. It's a touchy subject since astronauts don't like to publicly complain. Scott Kelly talks about it pretty openly in his book; reading between the lines of tech papers on next-generation life support you get the impression that crews insist levels need to get below 2000 ppm for long-duration missions.
While I agree with you that a lot of the damage we did wasn't the virus, I feel like OP was quite clear in saying if there's only bad and worse, pick bad.

Which logically I agree with, although I still think that post CDC study on statistically negligible outdoor transmission, any government that didn't allow people to socialize and gather outside was not listening to science and picking worse over bad.

I think we could have done a lot better, even with the available evidence at that time, in finding ways to socialize that wouldn't cause so much mental and economic harm.
I was reading the post and thinking 'glocal' :-D
Big Bang Cosmology
If you had been raised by a society (and parents) that taught you that caring about privacy was elitist, and that you haven't really been somewhere or done something unless you have a selfie of you being there or doing it, you'd want to protect your children as much as you could from the predators that profited from you.

Every level of government and business is actively trying to break down or remove your boundaries through surveillance and recordkeeping, and to publicly mock you as some sort of stalinist luddite nazi spy for complaining about it.
Not the original commenter, but I have indoor cats in my apartment who can only go out on to the balcony. They have very animated dreams sometimes. They'll make whimpering sounds that are like muffles versions of the yowls they make when agitated and/or playing. Their feet will kick as of they're playing with a toy, and sometimes they will suddenly awake. Cat 3/3 in particular will awake "confused" and make questioning meows at me and my partner, before running to one of us as if to say "the heck was that?!".

It's interesting. Is it dreams? If so, are they dreams unsettling enough that they look to us for reassurance/comfort, or are we just anthropomorphising?
My wife is the person I literally tell everything.

Not much scar tissue if you see your partner your bff.

Not much of a relationship you have anyway if you withold things.

I'm even sometimes take pictures when I experience alone because I immediately want to share it with her.
No, it did not “double-check”—that’s not something it can do! And stating that the cases “can be found on legal research databases” is a flat out lie.

What’s harder is explaining why ChatGPT would lie in this way. What possible reason could LLM companies have for shipping a model that does this?

It did this because it's copying how humans talk, not what humans do. Humans say "I double checked" when asked to verify something, that's all GPT knows or cares about.
The GP means the policies were sold as the "least worst" option.
Skip Your Annual Physical (2015)
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

ChatGPT-Authored Legal Filing “Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092509 (67 comments, 1 day ago)
In the other discussion of this topic, a lot of people said the lawyer should be disbarred, but personally I think people should be able to trust the tools marketed by trillion dollar tech companies, and a lot of the blame should be placed on Microsoft/OpenAI for overhyping ChatGPT and understating how likely it is to mislead.

And every response from ChatGPT should be preceded by a warning that it cannot be trusted.
> No, it did not “double-check”—that’s not something it can do! And stating that the cases “can be found on legal research databases” is a flat out lie. What’s harder is explaining why ChatGPT would lie in this way. What possible reason could LLM companies have for shipping a model that does this?

At what point does OpenAI (or any other company) become legally responsible for this kind of behavior from their LLM's? I'm not excusing the lawyer for their reckless and irresponsible use of a tool they didn't understand, but it's becoming increasingly clear that people are trusting LLM's far more than they should.

In my opinion it's dangerous to keep experimenting on the general population without holding the experimenters accountable for the harm that occurs.
Ok, thanks for pointing out.

Hydro power is rather small in Finland, and it actually seems they increased nuclear power from 3.9GW to 4.3GW during the day today.

(again: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/ )

This page says that 4.3 GW is very close to the nuclear capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Finland
Thank you for the link! Are there other resources you can share ? I'm building a database to make a local competition
We likely won’t see any real retrospectives for another 5-10 years. It’s still too raw and difficult to process the reality, as you can see in some of the other responses.
Curiously enough, another painting by Bruegel, Hunters in the snow,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow

is prominently featured in Tarkovsky's Solaris, which is discussed in another thread on the front page of HN today. Cultures and ideas move in mysterious ways.
The problem post-pandemic is common to San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles and Seattle.
I wonder if this is a tactic so the court to deems this lawyer incompetent rather than giving the (presumably much harsher) penalty for deliberately lying to the court?
Absolutely in the UK and especially London, I could have a much more comfortable life on a much reduced salary had I brought a house 10 years ago.
Stalker is a beautiful movie but perhaps not the easiest one to watch, especially if you are not used to 10 min long shots of nature (e.g., water in a stream). Possibly Solaris, which you recommend too, would be an easier movie to watch first.
I think atwong just promotes his product
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=atwong
Readability is very subjective and also people get used to syntax. Elm is widely considered to be one of the most readable syntaxes by its users.
Well I worked there, my dept had no HR Rep. and to get HR info we had to go through the intranet, no person to call. So seems that already mostly happened at IBM :)
Chatgpt did this to me the other day. It gave me the right answer about passenger assumption of risk with drunk driver, but the cites were imagined.
> Hetzner has very cheap Storage boxes (10TB for $20/month with unlimited traffic)

* based on fair use

at 250 TB/mo:

> In order to continue hosting your servers with us, the traffic use will
need to be drastically reduced. Please check your servers and confirm
what is using so much traffic, making sure it is nothing abusive, and
then find ways of reducing it.
Birds are immensely closer to use than octopods though. Our last common ancestor was a worm with a very primitive nervous system, no brain and not even eyes.

Birds are not mammals but we are still both descended from vertebrates with complex brains, at least.
Know any sizable groups that haven’t been exposed?

It’s pretty statistically unlikely at this point.
All of the major serverless runtimes are running on top of Linux by default.

And almost all systems on AWS are running on Linux/KVM. Even quite a few that report as Xen are actually running on KVM; Amazon added a bunch of code to KVM to lie on guest hypervisor cpuid leaves as well as emulate Xens hypercall interface.
Why would you give away your software source code free to anyone? (See rocketchip)

Lots of riscv implementations are closed source though
It's both, a small project with grid capacity nearby can be approved quickly but larger projects without nearby capacity can take years to get resolved.
Remember that professor who fed student essays to ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them. Mostly ChatGPT would reply yes, and the professor proceeded to fail the students.
Yeah, that was my conclusion too:

What’s a common response to the question “are you sure you are right?”—it’s “yes, I double-checked”. I bet GPT-3’s training data has huge numbers of examples of dialogue like this.
Doesn't 60% of Belgium get company cars? Not something related to engineering, it's one of the basic perks a lot of people get.
15% in France where this is illegal but tolerated because religion
They have enormous oversight, just not by the general public.
You could always try it out and see for yourself :-)

Here's a pretty good article about the transition: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-re...
If I were the judge in this case, I would be looking to throw this lawyer in prison for a month, and ban him from ever being a lawyer again...

Deliberately lying to the court, as a professional who should understand the consequences, in a way likely to not be detected, and likely to change the outcome of the case, ought to be met with a really strict punishment.
Heh, the real reason to have insurance.
A little hard to understand why this is cool, but if I understand correctly:

1. Lucene is trying to get Approximate Nearest Neighbours (ANN) search working for semantic search purposes:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9004
https://github.com/apache/lucene/issues/10047

2. The Panama Vector API allows CPU's that support it to accelerate vector operations: https://openjdk.org/jeps/438

So this allows fast ANN on Lucene for semantic search!

How did people do this before Lucene supported it? Only through entirely different tools?
A review of Christopher Clark's 873-page book:

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-49
Its still getting shared with Facebook. Are you okay with having your child's photos being used for training facial recognition software? Is your child okay with it?
There is a warning each time you create a new thread, and always at the bottom of the page.

I think people should check (on the same page as the tool itself) if the tool advertises itself as unreliable.
I can think of few office work ideas more nightmarish than the already bureaucratically cold, inhuman-acting systems of HR in most companies, which treat human beings like nothing more than arbitrary "resources", being replaced by literally inhuman systems that do the same even more brainlessly and rigidly. It's like the Google algorithms for account problems, but for the physical world. Grotesque.
Gladiator was shot by Ridley Scott, just like Blade Runner. Kubrick (who i love) is so legendary, he really should just get credit for every great movie in existence ))
It's to prevent people from being forced to sell their homes because speculators drive up the "values" in the neighborhood. There's no "fuck you" here.
> And every response from ChatGPT should be preceded by a warning that it cannot be trusted.

It kind of is - the ChatGPT site has this as a permanent fixture in the footer:

> ChatGPT may produce inaccurate information about people, places, or facts.

That's arguably ineffective though - even lawyers evidently don't read the small print in the footer!
That's just silly but I bite.

Apart from your email you probably also need to provide proof of payment.

It's rather hard to enclose a check in an email.
In the interest of being "calm and reasonable," I'd like to point out that some of the language you used in your third block might need a few caveats to be aligned with the state of the research.

In particular:

- "COVID does seem to impact CD8+ T cells": the adjustment I'd make here is that evidence exists that COVID *can* influence T cells, not that it always does.

- "causing T cell exhaustion and reduced effector response.": a quick google suggests there is some conflicting evidence on this point, and most of the studies are done on t cell responses to vaccines delivered after infections, which is a very particular thing.

It seems like you're drawing very heavily from Anthony Leonardi, who, while definitely a scientist and likely right about some things, isn't exactly someone with median (or emotionless) opinions on long covid. The HIV comparison in particular is really out there and unnecessary.
I don't see it as being far removed.

And it wasn't just medium-long term issues like cancer diagnosis that was impacted but very time sensitive medical emergencies also, like heart attacks. The pandemic increased ambulance response times, time to emergency room beds, stretching of healthcare resources over emergency departments, even things like the added PPE requirements slowed everything down.
IBM CEO expects golf buddies to buy expensive consulting services with the latest marketing hype that won't deliver in the end.
There is more and more that can be done like proxmox to help make self hosted as much as an appliance as anything else.
Lua means moon in Portuguese! (cognate of Luna)
> don't want any of these manufacturers anywhere near the kernel, or even doing any more in software than they already do. Samsung isn't exactly known for code quality.

That seems such a bizarre take. You think it's better that the crappy code is given to you as blackbox firmware with no oversight rather than in the open written to kernels quality standard where it can at least hypothetically be improved?
Very eloquently phrased. Some of the commonly accepted truths and geopolitics narratives are quite disturbing and actually very Orwellian in a genuine (and not clichéd) sense. Narratives around China and Russia, narratives around our own liberty are completed warped, and to speak out singles you out. There’s definitely a chilling effect about what is acceptable to talk about and what isn’t.

See my other comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097082#36098762
I'm glad ERCOT added 4 GW of renewable generation capacity, but that doesn't translate into regional or localized energy reserves. Distributed energy storage relieves transmission grid capacity. Without enough grid capacity, consumption can't be fulfilled even with infinite generation capacity. The challenge is in deploying safe and efficient distributed energy storage, also realizing there are domestic terrorists who aren't above shooting holes in transformer fins.
It is but at a hilariously cheap rate. It’s pennies on the dollar (or euro, in this case) compared to owning a car outright.

It’s a fringe benefit that was invented in order to enable employers to sweeten the pay package without having to straight up pay more, and respectively pay a lot more taxes.

We’ve a large bunch of these tax efficient fringe benefits in Belgium but the company car is by far the one that provides the most value.
Really good way of putting it.
There are a ton of YouTube channels like that, where parents exploit their children for view and sponsorships. Its horrible
Second paragraph in OP:

> One approach to building a native GUI for a cross-platform application is to write all of the business logic in a cross-platform language (C, Rust, Zig, etc.) and then write the platform-specific GUI code. This is the approach I take with my my terminal emulator and it works really well. As of the current date writing this post, 93% of my repository is business logic in Zig and C, and 4% is macOS-specific GUI code in Swift.
Ultra.cc is pretty great too.
I prefer to point out: if only “interesting” people encrypt their messages, then encrypting your messages becomes a signal that you are interesting. As a boring person who thinks the state shouldn’t be allowed to focus the Eye of Sauron on anybody, I have a responsibility to encrypt my boring brunch plans.

I think “I’m not that important” is basically either the result of someone not thinking very hard, or it is a dishonest anti-encryption position. Embedded in it is the message that only certain types of people ought to be worried about the scrutiny of the state, and that the person holding the position is happy to take advantage of the fact that they aren’t that sort of person. Force them to face that position head-on, I think.
An additional role of those jobs is to fix things when the automation screws up.
Nice. How have you found their uptime and reliability?
Maybe I'm different, but I used Kleinberg/Tardos and CLRS in my undergraduate algorithms class, and I preferred CLRS to KT and the other alternatives (Algorithm Design Manual, etc.), though KT was great too. I've heard from others that KT was better for them for learning how to actually design algorithms as well.
> Or animations that cause visible slowness locally and make remote display over any media slower than tens of megabits per second unusable.

Hello, Firefox, I'm looking at you, especially during start-up. I don't know whose idea it was to "fade-in" the toolbars on start up, but I noticed that one right away, when firing it up over both x2go and (especially) X-over-SSH. Cute thing to do in the middle of a pandemic where everyone is using remote displays!
I think broadly speaking there were plenty of outdoor measures that quickly felt like overreactions. Indoor measures often felt the opposite (at least in terms of how they actually played out)
Biggest advocates of climate crisis waste a lot of resources
Eh, that’s very much hindsight bias.

We didn’t know at the time that closing beaches was useless. Once we found out, those bans started to be reversed.

That is why the ‘slogan’.

If you take proactive precautions based on what might help, you’ll always look like you were overreacting afterwards because not all of them will be true.

On the flip side, if you wait for solid evidence of what is actually effective or not, you’ll definitely end up with much larger spread and more damage, because it takes a lot of time for that data to be gathered, confounding variables to be identified, etc.

In the face of an unknown pathogen, (like an unknown enemy in a war), it’s important to defend against apparent threats, not just wait to see which ones are real - as by then it’s too late.
See, this is the sort of thing that makes me suspicious about the current AI hype (well, that, plus it’s largely the same people who were going on about cryptocurrency changing the world a few years ago); this stuff just isn’t very _useful_. Like, if writing plausible lies is the 2020s AI boom’s killer app, well, that’s not great, really.
Yeah, my grandmother was very social. She had dementia and didn’t understand what was happening. She cried about how lonely she was every single day for months until she passed.