skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohhh, yes. Perhaps ChatGPT could be coaxed into writing that decision for the judge? Seems like poetic justice...
The same author also wrote Janet, which is also a nice language from what I’ve played around with. Especially the idea of forgoing Regex entirely and going with PEGs, as well as having “defs” inside functions bind local variables instead of “let” (though let is also idiomatic), very interesting. Small languages like that give a very nice feeling of learning them in a single day.
The problem comes from people who call LLMs AIs. Then people who don't know how they work assume it is intelligent when it is not. I'm pretty sure that OpenAI is at fault in this by not informing users of the truth.
Cache-Control and Content -Location.
Apple seems to have entered a phase where they are mostly just quietly decent. They have some bad things like iCloud and some good things like their hardware (mostly), but agree that they are not hostile to their users and don’t seem to be breaking their stuff too badly.

Hopefully they won’t go more into advertising. Anything the advertising industry touches turns into toxic garbage. Ad revenue is poisonous to any other focus for a business.
It’s a real thing. I left a place recently for completely unrelated reasons, and figuring out how to tell everyone was weirdly challenging. The timing was also such that it seemed directly related to the company.

Sometimes people just want to change up their career. It happens. There’s no particular reason.

And yeah, sure, he could’ve been let go for the technical glitches. But it’s hardly his fault if his heart isn’t in it anymore. People change. The trick is to depart before it becomes a problem, which (as I’ve discovered) is indeed tricky. Your instinct is to stay simply because it’s the default, it’s good money, and it’s no effort to change the status quo. Plus you worked hard to get there. All of those are difficult forces to overcome when you just want to do something, anything, else.
I think spam (the food) is terribly underrated. It's a very versatile addition to the pantry of a creative mind.
> and it probably drove him crazy that every morning when he came in, I was there standing in the kitchen ready to tell him about all the mistakes he made yesterday

(Emphasis mine.)

His compulsion to start every morning by enumerating through a list of grievances undermined a relationship. He systematically alienated the person doing an important job for him, apparently fully aware of that person's shortcomings-- i.e., the contractor getting defensive and not owning up to problems. Yet allowing the job to continuing through these periodic grievances was a tacit acknowledgement in the story that Ousterhout thought the work was decent enough.

Then, he uses hyperbolic metaphors to describe what he apparently sees as the only possible outcome if he were ever to slip up:

> Because if there's anything at all when you're giving in that you can feel bad about later, you're nuking the relationship - you're creating scar tissue with yourself, and that will build up to the point where you wreck the relationship.

(Emphasis mine.)

(And he ended up wrecking the relationship, regardless!)

Yikes! Who in the world could live up to this model?

I think a much more workable and reasonable approach would be to reflect on what fuels our own compulsions and shortcomings. To just make up an example-- if I were arguing a point with a contractor every morning in an attempt to convince the five year-old version of myself that I'm important enough to not be abandoned, I should be aware of the fact that I'm doing this.

Armed with that knowledge I'd be able to skip at least one morning and go treat myself to some waffles.
Big fact is that is was not unprovoked. The war started in 2014 when the US forced Ukraine to pick a side. The best thing for Ukrainians would be neutrality. But the US did not allow that.
No, / means the entire site, since root and anything lower.
So to you, interviewing someone makes you not neutral?

I wonder how you feel about media then?
Correct, or until this week they had a pool of "anonymous" accounts you could use instead, until those were banned
That's a dishonest comparison as wind and solar are extremely volatile and can't replace a stable power source. You need something like coal for that.
Given how important a Google account can be, I think it's a pretty poor idea to enter your credentials into random third party software.

I don't believe you can authenticate Gmail in email clients with your account password any more - you must create an 'app specific password'.
They didn’t pull out in WA, they just stopped offering really cheap plans that were easy to cancel. They continued to offer higher-end LTC Insurance.
Right! Which is why we use (public) short-lived JWTs and (private) long-lived refresh tokens. What’s missing?
Quite so. I had a visceral aversion to ML being rebranded AI. ML only very recently became anything resembling AI with ChatGPT. (Admittedly it’s so good as a coding assistant that it does feel like talking to Data from Star Trek though.)
I built a VR platform for a small, foreign language training services firm. WebXR made it possible for us to target the lowest-friction device available (Meta Quest 2) while also not having to slow our project velocity by having to submit updates for approval in the app store.

People who say JS on the Quest 2 isn't fast enough to do good VR don't know what they are talking about. The problem is that a lot of small, indie developers only know the most naive way to implement things and then blame the platform for their lack of algorithms training.

I had originally started the project in Unity 3D. I eventually rewrote everything in WebXR because--while the naive path in Unity was faster than WebXR--the ideal path in Unity was nearly impossible to implement. I haven't done anything in Unity for about 3 years now, so maybe it has changed, but basic things like decoding textures happen on the render thread, which makes it impossible to use the Unity happy path to implement a dynamic XR app that wasn't prone to making people puke. While I was still tilting at the Unity windmill, I had a large amount of code that was just dedicated to decoding images before using them as textures, tasks Unity should have been able to handle itself, except for the fact that Unity is built by people who have never had to make a game or app themselves before.

There's a reason the loading screens on VR Chat are so long and boring--they can't slipstream live objects in because they haven't done the hard work of throwing away 90% of Unity's bullshit framework code. So they have to hide the dropped frames behind a scene fade-in/fade-out.

With WebXR, you get the full browser ecosystem to work with. Web Workers. Web Audio being off-render-thread by default. Fetch API. IndexedDB. It's somewhat popular to complain about Web APIs because some of them have some weird quirks and most of them don't agree on how to design an API, but you have no idea how much worse it can get. If you think browser app development is bad, trying making an app in Unity sometime.
Doctors, lawyers, historians, and anyone else shouldn't use chatgpt for their work.
The US has Guantanamo Bay. Among others.

The US did commit various war crimes in about every of their foreign engagements. Those had to be leaked of course and weren't reported by some self-correction built into the system.

The US uses false narratives like "national security" to justify unjustifiable actions regularly. See their economic sanctions, Huawei, etc. pp.

The list goes on of course. Now, the one thing clearly better about the US is, people being able to talk about it. But that only has meaning if it is done and actually leads to changes. Else it is only another layer of deception.
it gave me a longer, but yet again very positive sounding summary;

> The article is about the use of large language models (LLMs) in the legal profession. The author argues that LLMs have the potential to revolutionize the way lawyers practice law, by automating many of the tasks that are currently done manually. For example, LLMs could be used to generate legal documents, research case law, and identify relevant precedents. The author also argues that LLMs could be used to improve the quality of legal services, by providing lawyers with access to a vast amount of information and expertise. However, the author also acknowledges that there are some challenges that need to be addressed before LLMs can be widely adopted in the legal profession. These challenges include the need for LLMs to be trained on large amounts of data, the need for LLMs to be able to understand the nuances of legal language, and the need for LLMs to be able to generate accurate and reliable results. Despite these challenges, the author believes that LLMs have the potential to make a significant impact on the legal profession, and that they are likely to become increasingly important in the years to come.

Here are some of the benefits of using LLMs in the legal profession:

LLMs can automate many of the tasks that are currently done manually, freeing up lawyers to focus on more complex work. LLMs can access and process vast amounts of information, which can help lawyers to make better decisions. LLMs can identify patterns and trends that would be difficult for humans to see, which can help lawyers to spot potential problems. LLMs can generate creative solutions to legal problems, which can help lawyers to find new and innovative ways to represent their clients. Here are some of the challenges that need to be addressed before LLMs can be widely adopted in the legal profession:

LLMs need to be trained on large amounts of data, which can be expensive and time-consuming. LLMs need to be able to understand the nuances of legal language, which can be difficult for computers to do. LLMs need to be able to generate accurate and reliable results, which can be a challenge for complex legal problems. Overall, the author believes that LLMs have the potential to make a significant impact on the legal profession, and that they are likely to become increasingly important in the years to come.
I've been using a HostingBy.Design seedbox (formerly Seedbox.io) for years to distribute content to my patrons for 3 years. They have excellent uptime and their customer service is knowledgeable.
Not exactly what you're looking for in terms for scrolling, but this allows resizing multiple windows:

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
Pretty sure almost anything else is more profitable on a sqft basis - retail, housing, dining, entertainment, etc.

Urban utility rates also tend to be much higher than a bit further ou - likewise with labor costs owing to cost of living, esp housing.
Notably, this material is based on an earlier paper on the design of algorithms by induction, also by the author: http://akira.ruc.dk/~keld/teaching/CSS_e10/Manber88.pdf
Ask HN: Are existing SNS fulfilling the roles they’re supposed to play?
which is often accused, although never proven.

when putin accuses media he doesnt like of being foreign agents without proof we can recognize how transparently self serving it is. wouldnt you agree?
This happened to me. The only way to contact customer service is after you log in, so the only thing you can do to cancel is to cancel your credit card or report the charge as fraud... which says a lot about the service.
I personally like it. It gives me some information at a glance that I can take in hand to the results below and attempt to gain greater understanding of my topic or question at hand. I have only had access for a few days but I don't recall it giving me information that was inaccurate after further review, sure sometimes the information is seemingly shallow but for others that might be an appropriate depth of information.
Law is a weapon of the ruling class.

That's why I laugh at whoever suggests about unions. Downvote me as you wish, but it won't fix the problem for ya.
Buck Rock Tunnel: Portal to the past (2021)
https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...

Twitter used to reject more censorship requests. Now they're accepting more of them after Mr. Musk has become the owner.

I'm comparing Twitter pre-Musk vs Twitter post-Musk.

> Most alarmingly, Twitter's self-reports do not show a single request in which the company refused to comply, as it had done several times before the Musk takeover.
Hear hear!

Too much attention on intentions is generally just a means of self-justification and avoiding consequences and, when it comes right down to it, trying to make ourselves feel better for profiting from systems/products/institutions that are doing things that have some objectively bad outcomes.
> The nuclear power plants that were shut down would’ve needed extremely expensive maintenance to keep them running.

That's false. The reason for the shot down was not economical but political. We pay an extremely high price for our nuclear delusions.
It amazes me these people still think Elon is a champion for the idealized notion of free speech and neutrality when every single day he is doing things in public that show his clear contempt for that. Very much shades of Trump saying he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and it wouldn't matter.
Your child will have their own relationships one day, and for better or worse will model those on the relationships they've spent their lives watching others have. What sort of relationships do you want your child to have?
> You don’t get to decide whether someone else’s feelings are valid or not.

This is a dangerous thing to tell people dealing with an abuser/a psychopath/BPD whatevertheyrecalled. I'm willing to state many people's feelings are not valid.

(Stronger statement: true selves don't exist and other people's opinion of you is often more correct than your self-identification.)
yep - i am not saying there are no cases for using it, but use of it is always worth looking at.
I don’t know why you’d think my feelings about the media is some sort of gotcha question, it’s precisely the point.

The criticisms I’m laying out here (including the fact that, yes, interviewers have bias) are exactly the criticisms I and many others would level at corporate media. Despite his claims Musk is emulating them, not proving some radical alternative.
Then why it requires you to login Google
I’m the founder so naturally a bit biased, but with EnvKey[1] you can get pretty strong assurances by using IP restrictions. Even if an attacker gets hold of an ENVKEY token (used to fetch and decrypt an app’s secrets), if you lock it down to the IP range of your severs, they’ll only be able to use it if they can get inside your servers (at which point you are fully compromised regardless). Just getting the key by itself isn’t enough.

I think this is about as good as you can do, honestly, since even using something along the lines of short-lived certs, you still have secrets to protect, and you lose the ability to easily do immediate revocations.

1 - https://envkey.com
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=no-color.org
>He purposely avoided strong narratives or plots, instead focusing on poetry, mood, and time.

Somewhat similar to Terrence Malick in that way (but I'd say Malick is much more approachable).
Yes and no. Court decisions do generally follow a structure, but the decisions and the reasons for a final determination, may not always be clear. Judges also may throw in hypotheticals which whilst informative are not determinative. Once it gets to appellate courts and with different judges which may agree with the same outcome but on different grounds, it can get really hard to distinguish what is the test and the factors for a certain determination. It can also happen that dissenting opinions can be very persuasive, and subsequently adopted.

The task effectively also requires a case and paragraph impact meter which do exist in some law databases to one extend or another, effectively weighing how subsequent rulings consider, weight, and follow past cases, caveats, exceptions, and outright considering past rulings as bad law.

Then you have the issue of changing laws and the impact these may have on past cases as they may change the test and requirements needed to be considered and even much new case law needed to be developed to interpret the new legislation. So the model would need to have a historical knowledge of the law and how it was applied.

You would also need to feed it relevant surrounding information that may aid in interpreting said law. In the US, clearly the founding father's opinions and beliefs appear to play a significant part on the currently more originalist interpretative school of thought.

In the UK/Australia for example readings in parliament and even the underpinning reports that prompted the change in legislation may be considered where there is ambiguity in order to interpret legislation. Australian legislation nowadays also tends to incorporate an objective of the legislation and a section that says that where ambiguity exists to interpret it in a way that would further the objectives of the legislation.

So, it's really not a trivial problem.
NO generation ever has (or has had) it any easier. When you take all the variables into account, things have been remarkably consistent (difficult!) over hundreds of years.

If the Millennials lived life such as was practised in the 50s, they too would be 'rolling in dough'. Those cheap Boomer houses? Know why they were cheap? They had little insulation, they had maybe one or two electricity outlets per room, they often had very little or none in the way of electronic controls. Internet? Wassat? Cable TV? Wassat? Color TV? Wassat?

If the Boomers lived life such as was practised in the 20s, they would be looking at houses with no phones, maybe no running water, maybe no electricity at all, maybe no commodities such as milk and meat that were available without a trip to town in the horse and buggy.

These difficult times today? At some point in the future, these will become "the good old days".
Think about how binomial coefficients arise. Suppose you want to expand out the product

(a+b)^n = (a+b)(a+b)...(a+b)

into a polynomial. If you just expanded it out, without grouping terms, there would be 2^n terms. Each of these terms would be obtained by choosing either a or b from the first factor; a or b from the second factor; ...; a or b from the nth factor, and then multiplying those a's and b's together.

If you then group the terms, you'll find that the coefficient of the a^r b^(n-r) term will be nCr, the binomial coefficient.

Thinking back to the a-or-b selection process, note that each a^r b^(n-r) term corresponds to a path where you chose r a's and (n-r) b's. Now imagine that the n factors correspond to forming a subset of a set of n objects, where choosing a at position i means "include the i'th object in the subset" and choosing b at position i means "exclude the i'th object from the subset". Thus, each distinct choice of a's and b's defines a distinct subset of the n objects.

Choosing r a's and (n-r) b's means forming a subset of r out of the n elements. Hence the interpretation of nCr as the number of combinations of r elements out of a total of n elements.
Have you noticed that some extreme proponents of wind and solar claim that base load is a myth?
I always assumed having a raspberry pi with a couple HDs in raid1 with IPFS or torrent would be the best way to do this.

Giving another one of these raid1 rpis to a friend could make it reasonably available.

I am very interested to know if there are good tools around this though, such as a good way to serve a filesystem (nfs-like for example) via torrent/ipfs and if the directories could be password protected in different ways, like with an ACL. That would be the revolutionary tech to replace huggingface/dockerhub, or Dropbox, etc.

Anyone know of or are working on such tech?
Most linuxes (minus Ubuntu) are already user friendly.

The only time I had to fight with my Linux computer was de-SNAP-ing it cause it would do forced updates and unstoppable growls. And fuck emulating Windows.
It's a pattern with these Quanta Magazine profile article submissions. They know nobody wants to read five pages on where Doctor Whats-His-Face got his inspiration to study astrophysics and the difficulties of academia as a one-eared OCD sufferer so the title is always tweaked just a little to conceal the fact it's about a person, not a discovery.
Sorry for the slow response, I wanted to investigate the data before responding —

Here is a chart listing their cumulative mortality, from the OECD dataset. Measured as fractions of their current populations. This chart assumes all COVID deaths are excess (which undercounts real excess).

USA pop: 334,814,000

AUS pop: 26,479,000

https://zmichaelgehlke.com/images/mortality/covid-mortality-...

Total excess is pink; COVID deaths (total) are orange; non-COVID attributable excess is blue.

A few points:

- COVID deaths are about 4x lower, but excess deaths around 3x

- there’s more non-COVID attributable excess than COVID deaths in AUS

- the USA has higher per capita expected mortality than AUS, as well; by about 1.5x

See here:

https://zmichaelgehlke.com/images/mortality/all-mortality-co...

I’m not sure I’d count this to interventions, which when directly measured seem to provide lower benefits, versus the fact US healthcare is questionable and the US unhealthy in ways dangerous during COVID — as measured by expected mortality being higher.
I haven't had a google acount for a few years now and I have needed apps for my work. I have been able to find them on APKpure and run them on my phone without google play services. some of them will warn you that they may not run correctly but they always have for me with the exception of Workday which loads but won't let me sign in without play services.
On the bonkers story about the lawyer using ChatGPT for federal court filings
The point of a bonus is to motivate worker to give their best.

But if they are already doing that (say, they are making a video game and it is their passion), work extra hours, and on top of that get their bonus cut coz of nothing they can reasonably affect, that just kills morale
Yep. I will say that the doctor's visit that spurred the colonoscopy talk wasn't an annual checkup, per se, but it was almost as benign—initially went in to complain about a hemorrhoid and mild tummy problems, walked away several weeks later with a pretty serious (but treatable) diagnosis.
Colors are usually stripped when the output is piped, so simply piping a command through cat should already do this most of the time.

Using a global standard for color configuration would be nice, though. I often want coloured output and am left with all kinds of command line flags or environment variables just to get tools to output text normally.
It's all privately owned. Nothing we can do about it.
Ah, I think we might be talking about different things when we talk about capitalism.

I’m using the word to describe an economic system where the means of production are controlled by private capital (ie: capitalists). In such a system, capitalists are able to deploy capital to exploit the labor value of the working classes. This is what Marxism emerged in response to, and as I understand it, is what Marx attempts to describe in Capital.

It seems you’re using the term the way American/NATO Cold War propagandists used it, to describe a free economy where anyone can succeed with enough hard work and determination (in contrast to the Soviet system of planned economies).

The confusion is understandable. The word “capitalism” covers both meanings in everyday use.
I was thinking something similar. You're saying 1/3 of North America is at no risk of energy shortage even during extreme demand? I find that hard to believe.