skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are better points than what the article makes, indeed. There's been an uptick lately of fighting over the Bengal famine. A more neutral evaluation is provided by Encyclopedia Brittanica [1]. The summary is:

- Japanese invasions caused rice exports from Myanmar and Singapore to halt.

- A cyclone devastated crops, forcing farmers to consume their seed corn.

- The Japanese meanwhile were bombing coastal cities and using submarines to interdict shipping. Anticipating Japanese invasion, the British stockpiled food for the troops.

- They also exported food for troops elsewhere.

- This led to hoarding, shortages and price inflations which triggered famine.

- Britain, far from not caring, distributed 110 million free meals, but the scope of the economic chaos meant it wasn't enough.

The idea that Churchill actively (as in deliberately) caused the famine isn't supported by history. It's a modern invention by the same sorts of people who assert that only white Americans had slaves, and other historical re-interpretations designed to extract concessions from rich westerners.

The reality is far simpler and closer to what people would expect. Churchill didn't want there to be a famine in India, nobody did. The cause was the Axis attempt to take over the world and the fight-to-the-death that this led to.

Any attempt to attack Churchill or the British over what happened must, to be intellectually rigorous, reflect on the alternative. Churchill was indeed a racist but compared to Hitler, Churchill's views were nothing. If the Nazis had won the Battle of Britain not only would the British population have been enslaved in forced labor camps, thus ending any question of it aiding India, but the Empire would have come under direct Nazi control and D-Day would have been impossible.

With Hitler's full attention and resources on the eastern front it's possible that the Third Reich would have survived and become stable. If that had happened then, given Hitler's views and India's absolute economic weakness in comparison to what a unified Nazi Europe would have had access to, the full scale extermination of Indian and African populations could have followed. Only a major new front by the USA would have been able to stop it. This sort of hypothetical holocaust of Africa is a minor plot point in The Man In The High Castle.

So when people complain about the allocation of food in WW2, it seems like they're forgetting how badly things could have easily turned out in alternative timelines.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bengal-famine-of-1943
The argument from Slavic pessimism is addressing people like Yudkowsky (who think we need a secret cabal of mathletes in charge of reining in AI to surreptitiously save the world) as well as all the people who think you can bolt a human sense of ethical boundaries, as defined in code, onto linear algebra and then release it as a product.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were based on a number of real lawsuits of the same exact nature.
Why harm the baby? In many places a claim of a one night stand and evidence of biological fatherhood are enough for a life long of child support payments.

Threatening to release the documentation for the child support case to the media can be a good blackmail opportunity.
it's <200 js code lines just port it.
FF is my primary browser too, but with the user base down to 3%, it's not exactly relevant any more.
Hmm… it seems kind of uncool to post this to me.
either a) you knew it was false before posting, then yes you are lying. Or b) you knew there was a high possibility that ChatGPT could make things up, in which case you aren't lying per se, but engaging in reckless behaviour. If your job relies on you posting to HN, or you know and accept that others rely on what you post to HN then you are probably engaging in gross recklessness (like the lawyer in the article).
How did so many people find out about your app?
No power over anyone is required. Reasonable and well-grounded arguments seeking to resolve conflict will do.
Nobody is going to care.

The larger problem is what happens if someone gets a significant piece of DNA from a celebrity and then decides to mass market this to many different people. There's currently a huge scandal such as this one:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/du....

going on with the sperm donor industry because some individuals have donated under various aliases. The people who were conceived from those donations are now at risk of potentially getting involved in sexual relationships with their biological siblings without having any knowledge of it.
Does that explain why every surplus store winds up with so many copies of politician's autobiographies right after they leave office for good? I'll never forget as a kid seeing aisles & aisles of nothing but Bill Clinton's "My life" for $2 per copy or something like that.
And you got it wrong. The Irish were not considered non-white. The ethnic divisions were (and are) most definitely not just White vs PoC. It used to be extremely important whether a person was a Catholic or a Protestant, for example, all other kinds of Christianity being conveniently ignored.

I liked JeanHeyd's blog because he is a good writer (but a bit on the chatty side). I also love what he does for the C standardization process. His skin colour is completely irrelevant.
> The really key thing with this is to identify what your database/Id is solving and what it is not.

On this context, it is very simple and straight-forward. It also generalizes almost completely.

Your database id is solving the problem of creating/managing the relationships within your data. This generalizes to basically everybody because "database id" is a concept created within a mathematical theory exactly and exclusively for that purpose.

If you try to add more purposes for it, you will get conflicting requirements.
Reach out to local businesses and charge them to be featured on your homepage.
It depends. I’d say the biggest difference is that we (I’m also German) wouldn’t call someone husband and wife when they live together, but otherwise people don’t care much (at least here in the north, the south is usually more traditional). Tax and other benefits (I married someone from non-EU which gave her a residence permit) can make marriage a practical choice, though.
>Afterwards, Levison wrote that after being contacted by the FBI, he was subpoenaed to appear in federal court, and was forced to appear without legal representation because it was served on such short notice; in addition, as a third party, he had no right to representation, and was not allowed to ask anyone who was not an attorney to help find him one. He also wrote that in addition to being denied a hearing about the warrant to obtain Lavabit's user information, he was held in contempt of court. The appellate court denied his appeal due to no objection, however, he wrote that because there had been no hearing, no objection could have been raised. His contempt of court charge was also upheld on the ground that it was not disputed; similarly, he was unable to dispute the charge because there had been no hearing to do it in. He also wrote that "the government argued that, since the 'inspection' of the data was to be carried out by a machine, it was exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment."

This is just absurd.
> For your particular task, you could have chosen to identify things of interest and assign them an ID. Separately, you could have made (and revised) a decision on whether a particular thing is a lab or a research institute and/or some other kind of entity.

I get the point but we couldn't. The very concept of what one thing is, is a fuzzy decision in itself. There's also not a single hierarchy that makes sense for different uses so you can't just group and then classify - legal ownership, financing and operational control can all be distinct structures. Then how people actually work can be another.

Even then, fundamentally what we needed was to get away from trying to model the world then work out how to use it. Because then you have one Id that maps one way for one user and another for another user and now their work is incompatible - but in a subtle and hidden way.

Edit - this doesn't take away from your point, classification is a distinct problem.
Then just need to remove need for prescriptions like it is with ethanol, THC and nicotine. Allow dispensaries to setup taxed sale channels.
Yeah that's a load.

I'm done holding your hand. Go read up on the subject and get an iota of actual information. Or watch in amazement as the world changes while you deny change is possible.
I visited once and stayed well away from the center. It didnt look like anyone much actually did live there - which makes sense, if you owned an apartment it seems you were better off renting it to tourists and moving to mestre.
"In fact, most never-married individuals come to see me for help dealing with parents or family members who insist that they live a more conventional lifestyle, not because they are unhappy with their choice of marital status, a lot of married people cannot say the same."

That took an unexpected, refreshing, turn.

It seems to me that the legal system around marriage is outdated and flawed compared to societal norms today. Marriage licenses are cheap, easy, and quick to get. That's not necessarily a problem on it's own. Then you have a large number of marriages that end in divorce - a process that typically costs as much as each party buying a car, and takes months or years to complete. It's never truly over as I've heard stories of people seeking amended alimony years after the divorce. It seems many of the decisions maid by the courts in this realm are absurd (like the lady who was forced to pay for her husband's "lifestyle" or watching PPV porn; or not amending monetary obligations when income changes).

It truly baffles me how alimony is even legal today. Based on how alimony is treated, marriage is essentially indentured servitude. If any company offered terms that are typically found in marriage/divorce without any disclosure/consult, they'd be getting sued by AGs.

People talk about the student loan epidemic/issues, but I feel that this one is much larger and more costly.
That requires either both sides to be equal in power or both sides to be willing to stick to the process. From the blog the author believes neither is the case.
Relatively simple: Israel has a mandatory military service if you're not one of the ultra-orthodox who are exempt, so there's a massive pipeline of young highly talented people of all directions to the government, and those who are good in IT end up being offered positions in Mossad and other agencies (or in the IDF themselves) - and once they retire from government service, the private sector has a huge supply of experienced people to hire. Not to mention they're all very well networked.

No other Western-aligned country has such a pipeline - the US has it partially, but wannabe-competitors have a harder time acquiring customers, as non-Americans have to deal with ITAR and other export controls.
This phenomenon is inevitable, at least for any apps or websites that have to earn their keep. The problem is, features need to be added to expand the user base and keep up with, or stay ahead of, the competition. Adding almost any feature will make the interface more complex.

It's true that 95% of the users don't use the more complex features, but product reviews and corporate purchase decisions are driven by the feature set.
White coat hypertension is also a potential contributor.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pr...
The Macedonia part is purely a shell company.
I claimed that it was a task that most people can do, but is really genuinely, intelligent. I actually thought it was everyone, but then you responded with your comment.
The most OP turbo-thinker who I can name, Immanuel Kant, had such a regular walking habit that you could set your watch when you saw him cross the town square.
Why would a “this is what happened and it’s the reason I’m not longer going to be involved in the Rust project going further” possibly be able to violate a Code of Conduct?
Sure if you start calling people an asshole or lash out. But that’s similarly uncalled for…

Everyone is free to nope out. And people noping out is something that Rust (the community) needs to take into account. _Because_ it depends on them. But as is.. I’m unsure if this kind of emotional involvement is even something Rust (the project) _should_ want
>We're teaching our children to respond appropriately to conflict—in the situation above, either one of them can deescalate by approaching the conflict reasonably. He could have avoided it altogether by asking nicely for her pencil. She could deescalate by recognizing that he really wanted her pencil and making a trade that they both are happy with. It's hard for them to do because their escalatory actions feel more immediately effective at bringing "justice", but they don't work out in the long run.

Again you're using an example of two children who are equal in power dynamics. Now try having a child deescalate an angry adult. Most people would not find that a reasonable request.
What's a LARP?
Yeah I worry about this. There was no "C leadership", it was simple enough that dozens of people created their own compilers within a few years of C existing. this was back before the internet. they had companies sprouting up like Borland just making C compilers for personal home computers. C just ... spread. All these kids learning Arduino in school, they are learning C.

There basically is no other usable compiler than the official rust compiler. So it has this 'leadership' thing that ... C never really needed
Copyright wasn't designed to be a censorship mechanism for past works that reflect poorly on the brand.
It might not be wise to accuse people of having an "agenda", when the only source cited is a Guardian article (which is known to have a bias).

The debate around culpability is vast, nuanced and cannot be settled with reductionist claims like "Churchill was the reason millions died".
Get an Epson EcoTank printer.

Ink for those is available in *bottles* from Epson, it's dirt cheap. No more cartridges!

Make sure to get one which has a user-replaceable "maintenance box", the cheaper ones have a fixed one. You can find that out by e.g. looking at the supplies list on the Epson website, see if the maintenance box is listed alongside the ink.

The box contains the sponge where ink goes to during the cleaning procedure. It needs to be replaced every once in a while. Replacing it is very easy on the user-serviceable ones, the other ones would require mailing it to Epson.
I helped my friend build Quordle last year, and before he sold it, he was making a surprising amount off of just donations. Try sticking a kofi link up, it's a pretty quick change.
A lot of people seem to miss this point, so I'll reiterate it.

I wrote this talk shortly after the book Superintelligence came out. The first half of this talk presents the strongest case I could make for a "fast takeoff" AI scenario à la Bostrom, while the rest of the talk lays out why I think this argument is fallacious. Please limit your dunking on me to the material in that latter half of the talk.

As for how/whether recent advances in AI have changed my views, my understanding of LLMs is too superficial to answer right now. I'll either recant or double down on my views after I have time to properly nerd out on the topic. The question hinges on whether LLM-like AI's are capable of recursive self-improvement, and whether that improvement is constrained by the availability of training data or by something else.
Novel coronavirus isn’t medical jargon though? Or at least not very much? It was indeed novel, and it was indeed a coronavirus. They could have called it a ‘SARS novel variant 2019’ if they wanted to really stir up shit right?

Unless the CDC gave everyone talking points they had to stick to (and somehow enforced it, aka China) it’s also not in the gov’ts power to tell the press how they should present things.

There were a lot of mistakes, but that we can see them instead of being shot for noticing them is a pretty big plus - and definitely better than how a lot of places handled it!
Of course they are too chicken shit to take more aggressive action against the real emissions problem: cars.

Allowing new pollution spewing gas guzzlers to continue to be produced and sold until 2035 is absurd. They should ban production in 5 years and ban use by 2035.
That _is_ the content of the post. It’s not like people are arguing about grammar or the webpage style. People are talking about the words the author used and the ideas the author communicated.
Are people familiar with Modern Talking outside of Germany?
No, if you can’t figure it out then you deserve the world that you get. Saying rich people should solve the problems is the lazy answer.

US consumer spending is 70% of GDP.
I think your approach could be used to argue that no famines are the result of policy. The Great Famine in China (during the Great Leap Forward) was preceded by several famines of similar magnitude, the most recent being in 1943.

One sign that famines are man-made is if the nation involved is a net food exporter for the duration, regardless of historical frequency and/or natural conditions, because then it's basically unarguable that policy decisions are being made that are leading to starvation: the Great Famine in Ireland is the most common example of this, even though it's contemporary to the potato blight.
I get where you're coming from, but this comment lacks so much nuance it actively repeats the wrongs it means to correct.

Churchill was a significant leadership icon (WWII). He was also a poor leader (WWI). He held racist views. He was also very witty. People are complex, and one perspective is not enough to do a person justice.

Case in point: many people around the world think of Mahatma Ghandi as a very positive cultural and political icon. Except students in the biggest university in my country, who protested [0] to pull down his statue over his racist views.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/14/africa/gandhi-statue-ghan...
I was surprised to see Dolly Parton's initiative here in the UK. I just had my first newborn and the health visitors told me about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in one of our visits. Great stuff!
Only… what? I don’t understand what you are arguing here.

Climate change is already an existential threat to millions of people. Yet companies do what they do best - optimise for their paper clip production.
Were there symptoms in stage 1?
> "a person of color" (as if white is not a color, but whatever)

You might want to look into the historical basis for this term before you make snarky comments about it. It comes across as dismissive. My understanding is the term "person of color" evolved from "colored" (which originally just meant black (in America at least)) and now encompasses non-white people.
The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person
Perhaps if they charged job seekers for access instead of job posters. Alternatively, run it as a non profit like Wikipedia and solicit donations.
This reminds me that I meant to pick up some of the wafers sometime. I've seen failures/surplus/whatever for sale on eBay and other places and meant to get one to frame or display as they are impressive in their way.
Unfortunately being in the position of, “I don’t see color” or “I don’t care about your sexuality” might work in an ideal world but leads to more inequality in the real world.

For example, LGBTQ are in a war with a government party who want to put laws in place which directly threaten them. Not giving a shit about them makes it easier for said government party to eradicate them from their country. Sounds hyperbolic but some folks are on a hell-bent ideological mission against non-straight/non-cis/non-conforming people.

So no, it is still easy to discriminate against non-white males in tech groups. It is also easy to discriminate against, but in less proportion, against white males in tech groups. Real life is messy.
H1Bs are pretty much guaranteed green cards after 6 years. Unfortunately, there are green card quotas for a few countries that could delay that, but it’s not a question of if but when if you make it to 6.
Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate, worked extensively on the causes of famine.
One problem with this is it would become even more difficult to know whether something is copyrighted or not - which is already not so obvious as eg the saga of whether "Happy Birthday" was still copyrighted or not illustrated. A fixed term from creation of the work has the advantage of simplicity at least.

I think a better reform would be simply to limit damages available where a work is not actively being sold/exploited by the current owner to some nominal amount (probably nil for non commercial use) and to repeal the prohibitions on "circumvention".
> Do you mean basic science research?

No, I mean actual diagnosis and treatment.

> Evaluating academic medical research is considered a core competency for physicians.

But it's a very different activity from diagnosis and treatment, which look much more like sequential decision-making and hypothesis-testing than like question-answering.
The most important medical use of AI at this time is 'cost coding' - we need a great equalizer in medical expenses, for example I had to have an ambulance ride one and it was like 1 mile to the nearest hospital, but they drove me to a much farther hospital, and then billed me $6,000 for the ride.

As someone who has designed hospitals (yes I actually designed/built 11 hospitals) I got to see behind the kimono and its fraud all the way down.

My brother is one of the top physicians in the nation (personal flight surgeon to the Joint Chiefs at the DoD) and I am from a long line of medical professionals... the costs for a service are insane... coding is a real problem, and I have inputs and info that many dont have... and so my lens is tinted as such.
My hunch is that this user is trolling, but does anyone have any good English language Indian news sites? I keep stumbling into political talk shows where people yell over each other the whole time, so I'm curious.
Modern Android runtime is probably too heavy for these cores alone if not accompanied by some A7X cores.
A lot of it is unknown costs too. You might know exactly what it costs to raise a child, but in the event of a divorce the support payments are based on a percent of income and not the actual cost. The courts can basically make any decision they want.
I’m glad someone else had this read.

I do not want to pass judgment on either side or the claims made, but simply note this feels awfully similar to the way I’ve seen people treated at big corporate jobs when rival senior leaders go to war.
Bcrypt at 25
I just looked up the cost to sponsor a smallish zip code in the US and it’s surprisingly inexpensive even if you’re not a millionaire or billionaire.
> Lockdowns, when done properly, do work.

It works when (or rather almost entirely because) you’re in a geographically isolated island.

Maybe the Netherlands could have pulled this of if they really wanted to, like them time they flooded half of the country to keep out the French but it’s not applicable to any other country in Europe
If they don't have bigger problems than that, I'd say it seems to be a pretty nice community...
Wow, just think of how “woke” Ada must be!
Got it - yeah if you’re issuing strikes for minor infractions as well that’s a whole lot less lenient.
Well, you can’t raise a city without raising taxes, so let’s see what the Italians will end up doing. Hint: probably nothing but drinking espresso.
I use it to curate my RSS feeds, summarize, look for discussions on hn/reddit and summarize the comment section, summarize youtube videos of my subscriptions. Just a way to make it easier to prioritize content I want to absorb.
Yes, agreed. My objection is to their dramatic language and seeming over-reaction. There were much better ways to express disagreement and protest.