skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, the majority of victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish

The Holocaust is defined in the first sentence as "the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators."

I don't think you really meant to claim that "majority of victims of the holocaust weren't Jewish".
According to a commenter up-thread, what Americans call "public schools" are referred to as "government schools", and what Americans call "private schools" are referred to as "public schools".

Probably a carryover in terminology from Britain, where extremely prestigious schools like Eton are called "public schools" for historical reasons.
I've heard that cats blink to show affection in part because they don't have a lot of face muscles to do anything else. As someone who has had both dog and cat pets, it does seem like the dogs have a vast array of emotions they can display with their faces, and cats pretty much just stare and look like they're about to kill something. They can scruff their fur but they can't "smile" like dogs or look "guilty", they seem more static.
Does IME == In My Experience ?
The hanging query has nothing at all to do with the random ordering. RTFA
Having spent considerable time working on PDF parsers I can say that it’s a special kind of hell. The root problem is that Acrobat is very permissive in what it will parse - files that are wildly out of spec and even partially corrupt open just fine. It goes to some length to recover from and repair these errors, not just tolerate them. On top of that PDF supports nesting of other formats such as JPEG and TTF/OTF fonts and is tolerant of similar levels of spec-noncompliance and corruption inside those formats too. One example being bad fonts from back in the day when Adobe’s PostScript font format was proprietary and 3rd parties reverse-engineered it incorrectly and generated corrupt fonts that just happened to work due to bugs in PostScript. PDF also predates Unicode, so that’s fun. Many PDFs out there have mangled encodings and now it’s your job to identify that and parse it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704654

I have since switched to SABnzbd from NZBget. I saw a comment regarding hard to find things, I am subbed to two indexers and either I am not looking for obscure things or I am letting the other tools I listed do most of the heavy work. Prowlarr is doing most of the heavy lifting doing the searches for me.
Weather simulations and forecasting are very useful to society and practically almost all available public weather forecasting datasets were computed in some supercomputer cluster.
I am pretty sure the people who are making this comparison have the intent of not allowing them to perpetrate mass atrocities. Reserving the comparison only for the successful genocides is maybe rhetorically ideal but missing the point a bit.
Auditors: Over 1M F-35 spare parts lost by DoD and Lockheed
">There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. Indeed, the possibility of anthropogenic warming dominated the peer-reviewed literature even then...When the myth of the 1970s global cooling scare arises in contemporary discussion over climate change, it is most often in the form of citations not to the scientific literature, but to news media coverage."

Please see my above reply citing over two dozen contemporaneous articles from reputable sources and scientists about global cooling ~50 years ago. Can you cite even a few articles or papers from the same era on the topic of global warming?

So much for the consensus argument, but why are you using it anyway? Science has nothing to do with consensus.

The Spencer Weart book you cite appears to be a "history of scientific discoveries that led to the current scientific opinion on climate change." I will give it a read, but I am reminded of this presentation: (You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA
Your useless copypasted comments brought nothing to this discussion. You have changed nobody's mind. Have you wrote all that to make yourself feel good?
I fight a lot about unnecessary customization, but the one place that I’ll never back down on is touching the priority/urgency matrix.
> The Catcher in the Trie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#History,_etymology,_and_p...

and the counterpart, Purely Fictional Languages:

The Catcher in the *Try*
The Psychology of Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin
From the "when you could easily find a street parking spot in Manhattan" department
The one and only reason for the title is the length limit.
Sounds like paying money in exchange for products/services in an economy with universal basic incomes with exponential taxation of wealth to prevent income/wealth gap from becoming so wide such that no one can permanently launch themselves or their kind from ever doing that kind of work.
I have to say that after reading about this, I'm kind of excited for it. Not necessarily because I like VR/AR headsets, but because it looks like Apple is pushing the boundaries on device manufacturing which is pretty cool.
Original source: https://twitter.com/BjoernKarmann/status/1663496103998750721
Stock Recommendations Using ChatGPT
I fed ChatGPT tweets from stock influencers and then asked it to list all mentioned stocks and the corresponding views on them.

Asked it to return JSON and here is what I got :

[
{
"stock_name_full": "Jindal saw",
"cmp": "",
"views": [
"Suggested last day at 205",
"Today 247+"
],
"sentiment": "bullish",
"target": "",
"support": "",
"resistance": ""
},
{
"stock_name_full": "Pgel",
"cmp": "",
"views": [
"Diwali reco 2022"
],
"sentiment": "bullish",
"target": "",
"support": "",
"resistance": ""
}
]
The situation is the same for Canadians: we get proxied letters, but rightsholders have no access to our personal identification.
I'm curious how their block list with "millions of trolls" worked in practice. I can't seem to find any details.

I recall it being big news in 2017 when an activist in control of @sweden attempted a similar thing and ended up blocking thousands of people, including well-known journalists. Who decides what is trolling and what is opinions going against your own? It seems like the whole service would quickly turn into an echo chamber with aligning views.

Musk seems to be struggling with the same issue. Blocked users was an attribute in the algorithm. Naturally people began abusing it. So he made a tweet about resetting his own list and urged people to follow. I doubt many listened though.
completely anecdotal experience but I had surgery recently and commented on the air in the anesthesia line and the anesthesiologist commented that it only happens in the movies, source: guy who lived
FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting with Vulkan Video Decode, More Filters
Ask HN: How to fight listlessness and depression due to work?
I just fail to see why people at my workplace fight over petty issues. It affects me personally that people would be so short-sighted and not see the bigger picture/impact of our work.

At previous workplaces we saw how our work benefitted millions of people(I worked on y! mail) and I was happy being a part of the team.

What has affected my work most is, beyond earning a paycheck, nobody cares. They’re all content and I am the only one who wants to change systems for the better.:)

Obviously this might not fit well over the longer term, but beyond moving to a better workplace, what are some of the tricks you’ve applied to navigate such a workplace where everybody seems to be complacent and not invested in their work as much I seem to be.
People in power created the lockdown policies, and told their subjects they were necessary because of a uniquely threatening contagion which everyone needed to avoid until vaccines could be distributed. They then carried on with their own lives as normal, indicating no fear of the virus on their own part whatsoever. Doesn't that suggest the rationale for the lockdowns was a pretense from the start?
Yeah I fully agree about compute cost, though I wonder why they don't just introduce another payment tier. If people are really using it at work as much as claimed online, it would be much preferable to be able to pay more for the full original performance, which seems win/win.
> we don't know who they are, so we don't know the informal structure through which decisions are actually made

Yeah, I'm starting to think that for the Rust dramas specifically we need to start publicly naming and shaming those involved.

In the tech industry we have internalized the (excellent) idea of "blameless postmortems". We don't blame individuals for things that went wrong - we examine systems and structures instead. This idea is embedded in many of the links above: there is a significant focus on the structural mechanics of what happened.

However, I think the blameless postmortem approach breaks down when people aren't participating in good faith. In that case people need to be given some other incentive to behave well. I think for Rust, unfortunately, we need add a new incentive: if you use back-channels to get something stupid done, you will be publicly named and shamed and you will be put under pressure to resign. I think this should be implemented for the current drama: we should have an exact play-by-play, with names, of what happened.
This is true for public colleges/unis (IITs, JNU...etc), they are prestigious, but not public schools
Patrick Steward did mind. ;)
Why do we seem to like torturing ourselves?..
Here the American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for more surgery, but not a word about preventing the situation in the first place. Why are they so focused on highlighting sickcare? What about prevention education?

The researchers also noted that metabolic and bariatric surgery is a “safe and effective treatment” for severe obesity, saying that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a statement last year calling for increased pediatric access to these surgeries...

“The AAP has highlighted the need to educate pediatricians about the benefits of MBS for qualified patients,” the letter reads.
One of the issues that i've observed with OpenAI, is that things the model got wrong a week ago it suddenly starts getting right but other examples that are not exactly the same question but very similar or another example of the same thing it gets wrong, then a few weeks passes and it gets this right.

My conclusion is that they are using the data from users to improve or some other prompt injection tricks.

So the comparision is not even fair.
A few of my friends also got the vaccine much earlier than they should, but they aren't rich or well connected. They merely lied about having preexisting conditions.
Nobody I personally know have ever heard of Plex at all. Almost everybody uses BitTorrent to some extent.
How much VRAM does that model need? I'm looking for a 30B byte that I can train a LORA with on an GTX 4090.
Who is removing the option to teach anything at home?
Provision (YC S22) Is Hiring
Their launch complex is in the far west of the country, and directly east does cross over portions of Korea Bay(/Yellow Sea). Or, I guess, they could have been going for a polar orbit.

39.65974870373334, 124.70613853508173
Could this be a terminology issue? Similar to the UK “public” school is what we’d call “private” in the US.
> Plenty of everyday people "swanned around having a lovely time" too; or at least, didn't think the restrictions should apply to them.

The difference is that none of those people were themselves hyping the threat of the virus, or insisting everyone else should stay at home.
I thought it was just me that had this impression. I used to be able to work with 4.0 to get it iterate through some rewriting (I write text, it rewrites for clarity (I tend to write densely), but it keeps losing the important nuances that I want it to keep
> One also gets a sense of civil society as we have known it in the UK for a few hundred years of ending

British history over the last few hundred years is underlaid by dissent and violent. We've had a civil war, war between England, Ireland and Scotland, regicide, restoration and a whole mass of protesting groups: luddites, levellers, diggers, ranters, suffragettes too name a few, and massive social upheavals caused by defeudalisation and then industrialisation/urbanisation.

To be clear, I also believe that the UK is getting more, ermm, 'agitated' than it has been since WW2, but IMO this is reverting to type rather than something that has never been seen before.
I don’t think there is one example of “modern” software development. Some orgs will have a very minimal process, some won’t. Some teams will have more involved processes than their surrounding org, some more. I’ve seen worse than what is described in the article, I’ve seen better. Strikes me about middling, especially for a company that dogfoods its own tools.
> "we need to"

There is your problem, right there. You still think in "we" vs "them" in 2023, and express yourself with an air of superiority towards people with a different world-view than you.
This makes no sense to me. This highly unlikely to be a political move. Science education is not political in India. Evolution, abortion, chemistry are not debated at all.

This is more likely for the reasons to be innocuous.

> In explaining its changes, NCERT states on its website that it considered whether content overlapped with similar content covered elsewhere, the difficulty of the content, and whether the content was irrelevant. It also aims to provide opportunities for experiential learning and creativity.

> NCERT announced the cuts last year, saying that they would ease pressures on students studying online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Amitabh Joshi, an evolutionary biologist at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru, India, says that science teachers and researchers expected that the content would be reinstated once students returned to classrooms. Instead, the NCERT shocked everyone by printing textbooks for the new academic year with a statement that the changes will remain for the next two academic years, in line with India’s revised education policy approved by government in July 2020.

Sounds more like students have continued lagging behind after coming back from Covid, than anything malicious. I have literally never heard of national politicians in India being anti-science.

I might be wrong, but I would genuinely like to see 1st source statements from the board indicating that these changes are religiously motivated.
Fantastic reference, that I had not come across.
For me, Outer limits - The New Breed (s01e17), came to my mind.
>"Exam" isn't commonly used in American English.

Huh? Is this a homeschool trend? Final exams are the cornerstone of US secondary and tertiary education.
A journal is a way of ensuring that the paper you are about to read meets a minimum standard of quality. My anecdote: the second worst paper I've ever read was an ArXiv paper, presented by a young researcher who had no idea of how bad this paper was, Had I not teared it down (which was a very unpleasant experience for everyone involved) it would have been further propagated by other young researchers. And the worst paper? Submitted to a conference, rejected outright during review, and I still wonder if someone was trying to sneak a machine-generated article for fun.

No one has the time to keep up with all the research coming out, not to mention all the fake research published in bad faith. Life is not restricted to Elsevier and ArXiv, and there are sane alternatives out there.
>It's still being taught in the NCERT books as well, but now in 12th grade instead of 10th grade.

You're not required to take Chemistry and Biology after the 10th grade, so technically you could miss out on the periodic table and evolution still.

That said, I'm pretty sure I only learned the periodic table in 11th grade Chemistry class myself (15 years ago), so I guess it must've moved down to 10th grade at some point after that?
That's kind of like telling a smoker all they need to do is quit smoking. It's true and it sounds easy enough but it's actually super difficult. I quit smoking. It took 11 attempts and I needed a dedicated mental framework which I found in the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking which I highly recommend. Point being these people are going to need dedicated help to dig into why they have these habits and education to teach them how to cook and eat healthy neither of which are cheap either.
Exactly. I dropped out of the torrent scene for probably around 5 years when Netflix had a huge back-catalog and it just wasn't worth the hassle to manage torrents and a media server.

Then the Netflix catalog shrunk to originals, there's now 6 different streaming services I have to juggle to watch the usual content my family likes, and we're constantly using third-party services just to figure out what's available where. I hate having to switch from Netflix to Hulu to finish out a show because the last season is only on Hulu. Or things like Warner and Disney cutting shows because they don't want to pay residuals or whatever dumb accounting BS they feel like pulling.

If you make it more convenient to torrent and shove everything into Plex, why would I pay to get a worse experience.
Are you implying that running shoes, a bike, and/or a gym membership are a replacement for bariatric surgery? Will you suggest salads as well next?

The magnitude of the obesity epidemic should really give people more pause when imagining simple fixes like this. It's becoming more and more clear that this is not simply a problem of lifestyle, but very likely environmental factors at least as problematic as leaded gasoline was on IQs.
:) it is also a big part of buddhism. IMO the intersections between several systems are very interesting as they tend to be the most fruitful even if pursued without the context of the rest of the system (ie if you think you can cherry-pick the good parts out of a religion or philosophical system, start by looking at where many of them agree)
Evolution doesn't have to be politically-divisive. Only those on the extremist religious side seem to do so.

Teaching this at home would be laughable. It's like how the right politicizes sex ed.
>> What they say is that the motherboard firmware is causing the resulting windows boot process to run code provided by the firmware (which is weird, but not insecure per se), and that this code is delivered over HTTP.

No, the firmware copies a program from itself to Windows, that program then downloads and executes another program from the internet, without verifying it correctly.

Article says: "The firmware does not implement any cryptographic digital signature verification or any other validation over the executables." So unless that is downright wrong the MitM path is wide open. There is a signature check built into Windows, but way too much stuff has been signed to make that a meaningful barrier.
If we're talking about manufacturing volume as the sole definition for "number one chip maker", then the idea that Apple might be first is frankly laughable. If we discounted pure foundries (TSMC, UMC, Global Foundries) they'd struggle to scrape top 5 at the best of times. Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and the like work in the range of billions, or near enough. Currently Intel has 76.7% of the laptop chip market share alone; that's before you start considering their server, edge, and network markets. If we start including trailing edge chips, from the likes of Texas Instruments, Micron, Broadcom, etcetera, then Apple would be a small drop in the pond. Even if Apple ate up the entire consumer market, they'd still struggle to compete with the rest of the industry on volume.

I don't think people appreciate the obscene number of leading edge chips that go into the industrial sectors. I've seen more chips go into a single Industry 4.0 factory than I have to an entire states Micro Center inventory.
Seriously, that jumped out at me. You do not know anything after a year and a half. You are a junior developer. Nobody is that special.

Also, there is a real risk to learning if you "stop being a junior". Namely, the posers don't raise their hand and ask for help when they hit a wall, waste a ton of time drowning with things that senior engineers can figure out in 10 minutes, and are scared of learning from senior teammates as it requires them to be vulnerable in front of them. The ones faking it tend to be insecure and not fully dedicated to their craft, but their title first.
Evolution is not an opinion, it is a fact based on reproducible and falsifiable experiments.

You can even simulate evolution and see it at work.

https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

You can also see evolution taking place within our lifetime (nylonase evolved to eat nylon, a man-made substance from the 20th century).

I do not mean to be rude or start a flamewar, but we have to stand our ground when it comes to scientific progress.

The collective survival of humanity requires us to teach these subjects. Understanding evolution across the geological eras and extinction events is crucial to steering the new generations towards a sustainable future.
To your aside: it's titles in general, too. So many prequels (or movies that want to promise some future franchise) are the "rise" of something.
Of course they have to obey court orders.

The Dutch ISPs fought this in court but they lost in some cases.
They've gotten a couple sats to orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unha
How would you know if it is a good counter argument if you haven’t bothered to read the argument?
But these things are usually master plans? Like Agenda 2030 - what could you call it but a master plan?
Do you think the people in the general population who knew the extent of the atrocities were likely to admit the same post war? Its more likely they knew and just denied having known to save face.

Kids being indoctrinated in youth camps is a different matter entirely.
Is human consciousness just a product of neural networks, or is there other additional mechanisms we're not aware of?
Agreed -- I ultimately moved to a two-step approach of just generating the couples first with something like "Create a list of 10 plausible American couples and briefly summarize their relationships", and then feeding each of those back in for more details on the whole family.

The funny thing is the gentle nudge got me over-representation of gay couples, and my methodology prevented any single-parent families from being generated. But for that project's purpose it was good enough.
First of all, you agree that the probability is non zero right?

I am not a world known expert on xrisk to estimate this. You are not either. We have all these people claiming the probability is high enough. What else is ti be said? HNers shouldn't be reminded "trust in sciense".
The word "exam" isn't really used in American English. Tests are definetly a thing in the US.
The Eclypsium blog post does state the following:

"The firmware does not implement any cryptographic digital signature verification or any other validation over the executables."

Unless your Windows was configured to only run signed software or Gigabyte would apply the Mark of the Web to these files (which would make it harder for them to run their own update process), the executable file downloaded and run as a service doesn't seem to get checked.

As far as I can make out from the blog post, a MitM attack during the motherboard update process would allow for the motherboard to be flashed with malicious software which in turn would indeed allow for dropping Windows executables onto the system. Luckily, barely anyone uses the built-in online updater for their motherboards.

The https://software-nas/Swhttp/LiveUpdate4 URL is a pretty potential risk. You don't even need MitM to pretend to be that URL as it's not a FQDN. If there's any kind of HTTPS certificate validation that URL seems pretty useless in general. Maybe it's some kind of internal testing server that made it into production?