skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a ridiculous law, originally used as a cudgel against anti WW1 protesters and socialists. A real horseshoe that it’s looped around to Trump, but let’s look at this critically.

Was Trump exposing the classified information he took to the broader populace? No. Was there a public good to be had if he did? Probably not. Taking the nuclear secrets and making those public? Not good.

There is no intent in the espionage law, so from a legal standpoint that doesn’t matter, but I don’t think Trump belongs with the whistleblowers. Sounds like he wanted to keep this information secret, for himself. He’s on tape, saying as much.
Given Earth is a highly complex system, can’t a transformer AI be used to predict earthquakes?
>Guy has told off Putin to his face, and has been a champion of human rights and democracy - getting arrested in his native Russia several times while protesting the one-party state Putin has built to enrich himself.

Seems like all of his hard work paid off /s. Weird that he can beat Putin in chess but not IRL

>Magnus Carlson

"At two years, he could solve 500-piece jigsaw puzzles; at four, he enjoyed assembling Lego sets with instructions intended for children aged 10–14.[10]"

Doesnt seem like a chess thing though. I'd hate if someone attributed my success to playing runescape. But at least runescape teaches you economics.
I don't know. If someone wants to tell me how to look it up in the byzantine labyrinth of google's cloud admin ui, I could give it a try, but might not make it back out.

Yes to the other bit.
These features aren't available to plus subscribers?

Only corporate entities can access more powerful GPT-4 functionality, either through Microsoft Azure or OpenAI directly. This goes through an entirely opaque application process.

"Open" AI?

These incredibly powerful tools are already entirely co-opted and opaquely gatekept by the standard bearers of capitalism, who control access with no oversight.

Terrifying.
Not free if you want TOTP.
yea for sure if you are using wikipedia definition ( but you mentioned something about cyclists and stray bullets) . No city or town in USA qualifies that definition. We use 'don't take your kids to the park there' definition in our neighborhood ( maybe what you are referring to as 'problematic') . I wouldn't take my kids to austin parks where stray bullets are flying around. Maybe we are more aware of this stuff than ppl in burbs because our neighborhood in pilsen is not completely safe even now. We have to be extra caution going out with kids .
https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/02/15/facing-spike-in-murd...

Woman, 40, hit by stray bullet while driving in Austin ( https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/2/7/18389033/woman-40-hit-... )

13-year-old boy hit by stray bullet in South Austin, hospitalized (https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/13-year-old-boy-critically...)

pretty sure this stuff never happened in oak park where you live for safety of your family.

'Its not no a go zone , its a problematic area' is not a very useful distinction for me.
I think they're saying that an honest man doesn't cover for anything, so there were no honest people left in Sodom. They couldn't even find 10 honest people.

Similarly, an honest journalist doesn't cover for their newspaper, so there are no honest journalists left in the NYT.

It's a flawed premise when you look back on the past 100 years where the concept of 'honesty' really meant 'loyalty to your government'. Hitler, Stalin, McCarthy, Nixon...
Playing God in Yellowstone
I think the same logic can apply to your scenario. If it is off topic it gets downvoted by the community and disappears to hidden. The relevant data gets voted up to the top as again decided by the community.

This would inevitably reward first commenters, but that is the situation anyway with current thread voting. I think later commenters as long as not downvoted past a threshold would stay visible with an even(ish) vote count to give those comments the visibility to rise.

What about comments that people disagree with that are still on topic but controversial? Well, we are running out of directions so they should get a side vote. Downvotes to explicitly send to hidden as not relevant (spam, off topic, etc), upvotes for agreeable comments base on popularity, side votes for relevant but disagreeable.
I was thinking Australian paralysis tick in my head but it's too obvious since they leave a bite mark. They're everywhere atm.

I wonder if eating a paralysis tick has any effect though? Being bitten is obvious but does eating one cause issues? Both animals mentioned eat bugs as well as plants.
Ah I see, that makes sense I guess
gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 can access these features via the API.
I mentioned in another comment, I think I may have been incorrect in the usage of tankie. I meant authoritarian.

I've been active in contacting my senators for the bills that came up that were a threat to privacy and destroying encryption for the last few years. KOSA, BAN TICKTOCK, EARN IT, etc. Addition to the encoarching collection of biometric data of citizens by the federal government and private entities.

I've got nothing but form letters quickly responded that "it's for the kids" in those cases. No acceptance that they'll collect and consider the feedback, just tone death emails saying "well EARN IT is going to protect the kids [ignore that lindsay graham wants to wack it to your personal photos and call it scanning]".

I've had a friend with an issue getting her husband getting an ESTA for family travel to the US and had some concerning interviewing agents. I tried reaching out for her... nothing.

Duckworth and Durbin are good D politicans, as in they tow the party line. As far as representation of IL needs and supporting rights ... they don't care.
NHTSA need to be replaced or something
Just because I'm a completionist, here's what I scared up[0].

I decided to make it a server, instead of a device library, because I can just run it once on the source data, that way, and I don't need to keep running it.

In any case, it's PHP and LAMP, so no one on this forum will like it, which suits me just fine. Figured I'd post it, anyway, for Ss and Gs.

[0] https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup
My only concern here is that police in North America already have a mobile units that can pursue and attack people on command with ostensibly less-than-lethal power which have occasionally killed people by accident.

They're called dogs.

I'm having trouble seeing a drone with a taser as worse.
That's incorrect.

If you mean diagnosing the type of cancer (e.g. clear cell renal cell carcinoma) we've already been using molecular markers for over a decade now.

Since you mention "describing the look": mitotic rate and local staging (depth of invasion, lymphovascular invasion, perineurial invasion) matter far more than any DNA/type of cancer and this isn't changing at all nor will it ever change.
Those numbers are rough approximations - a query goes through deep pipelines of selecting pages, ranking and refining them in several stepsto achieve the best possible precision-recall trade-off and optimize for clicking through to the results and not come back.

It’s all optimized to show you the top 10 results, everything else is an afterthought. Part of this is because hardly anyone scroll to after link 10 anyway.
At least one of the videos linked from the references in that article is pretty dramatic, with frequent pulses of blue light from different locations near the ground.[1]

If there is a link between cosmic radiation and earthquakes (and that's a very big "if"), could it be Cherenkov radiation caused by super-high-energy particles exceeding the speed of electromagnetic radiation in bedrock/soil/whatever (not C, obviously, but the lower speed that the radiation travels through that media)? Basically a colossal natural version of detecting neutrinos by their flashes of light in a tank of water?

[1] https://twitter.com/webcamsdemexico/status/15729247312584622...
Very clever that the user is prompted to use the autocomplete to read the description.
You're back into process again. Laws do not have metadata attached to them, their goodness is a function of the observer.

You think a law is good if you think it's good. You preference is then for it to be applied as widely as possible. Maybe other people disagree, and so should want it applied nowhere. Now you get to fight with them, using whatever power you have and are willing to use. Whoever has the most power to bring to the fight will win it.
Thanks for the explanation. :) It makes sense, at least insofar as any of this can possibly make sense...
A disappointing analysis. It discusses cost in isolation from revenue, and raises environmental impacts without mentioning that the major cloud computing providers where the largest models are trained and run are carbon neutral.

Better results for general purpose tasks are likely to find willing buyers at prices orders of magnitude higher than even the largest language models of today. In most cases, the best alternative is human labor, and for more latency-sensitive cases, there is no alternative to a language model available at any price.
Just learned yesterday that a bachelor in my building is now $1850 (CAD), hydro and water extra. This is not a luxury building.
Me either, but like we saw on every twitter-clone attempted until now, it's really hard to make people move to another platform if the first one still online.
Maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex, Instant Brands, Files for Bankruptcy
I used to be under the misimpression that the AI would have to trick or threaten a human--which, to be clear, I am not saying would have been super hard, but at least would have had to be a step--to be able to take actual action... and then I saw that as soon as we started getting close to AI developers started for fun haphazardly wiring up unpredictable early AI not even merely as autocomplete (where the AI might be able to slip something fun in you don't notice) but as critical components in fully-automated workflow that can directly take action sometimes with interfaces as powerful as full terminal access and I realized we are all doomed.
The point of the EU directive is too have easily user-replaceable batteries in phones, EV batteries will never be easily user-replaceable as long as they are heavier than what a human can lift.

Swappable EV batteries are not a new thing and Renault (an EU company, thus) has done it for a long time (with mixed success though) but it's totally incomparable with this law on phone batteries.
Depending on prevailing circumstances (basically how long has it been since there’s been a financial crisis, or how frothy are the markets currently?), it can be a pretty common product. Like Patrick wrote, smaller lenders and private bank divisions of the big banks (used to?) love to give these to people with highly probable future income and wealth generation potential (doctors, lawyers, etc.)

Though, am I wrong, or wouldn’t it be pretty straightforward for someone with what I assume would be average comp for an HN reader to take out several credit cards and get a similar amount of unsecured credit? Obviously a different loan product (higher interest rate, non-amortizing) but isn’t that a fairly accessible path to six figures of unsecured debt?
What should someone do? I can't imagine for many people this isn't the first, and certainly won't be the last time this happens.

Should we just default freeze our credit? Is it time to finally get some ID monitoring service w/ insurance?
(responding to just the HN part here) - hopefully all so small as not to matter much. HN's lesser order of magnitude has advantages.
So, having done some recent scraping of HN (historical front-page views only, completed in a couple of days, with only incremental updates now) ...

... and looked at the API and finding myself somewhat underwhelmed ...

... the JSON option would be interesting (much easier to parse than raw HTML, particularly HN raw HTML). Given that there are performance concerns with the primary server already, I'd suggest:

- Put JSON on a secondary server. (Automatic redirects for, say, id=?<ID>&json=1 requests being an option to transparently serve via requests made to the main site.)

- Use some sort of account-based mechanism to regulate access. I'm thinking more in terms of "how much" and "how fast" than "who" and "what", though that might also come into play.

I also suspect that a JSON delivery would also make alternate app / front-end design even more viable, so you might want to consider that in design and provisioning considerations.
Any algorithm that needs mutable data to be performant would be a bad fit. Numerical number crunching isn’t stellar either.

That said, there are ways to extend the BEAM with C or Rust code to make those areas performant. I’ve written one such extension (called a NIF; forget what it stands for exactly) and it wasn’t all that hard.
What is god factorial
PhD Simulator
... or just resign as a moderator, start up a Discord/Lemmy instance, and let one of the thousands of people begging to be mods take over the subreddit? Nobody's forcing you to stay on as a mod if you're pissed about Reddit removing third-party app access.
https://archive.is/WTYsj
We’ll see! They may yet turn out to be TikTok after all.
Government spending by Trudeau has packed on insane debt levels making inflation worse. It took Canada 150 years to reach a level of debt that Trudeau managed to double. 1.2 Trillion and 151 billion a year debt payments. Given up plans to ever stop spending more than taking in.

Inflation make that 1.2 trillion worth less (and everyone elses money). It's a strategy. Trudeau doesn't control the rate directly but he is still sending out larger and larger cheques for votes and keeps spending on social programs and military spending like the money supply is unlimited. Having a second house means little when there are bigger paydays
Back when the Bible was written opinions of women didn't matter.
Is seems like a bunch of old famous/infamous political figures all died recently:

Ellsberg

Silvio Berlusconi

Theodore Kaczynski

Pat Robertson

Robert Hanssen

I know it is probably just a mind trick, but it feels weird
Since it is weekend, I was looking for a side-project, and came up with almost this.
HackerNews clone but with dedicated 'domains', aka subreddits, to discuss specific areas of interest.
For example, react community could have their own domain, ai their own, and so for python and rust.
A place where you can ask questions, show off your projects, share interesting links you found and possibly post job announcements. And of course discuss in the style of hacker news with tree based comments.
What do you think, is it worth the time?
Basically a hybrid of reddit and hackernews.
Here's how Claude+[1] explained it:

This program appears to be a hexadecimal dump utility. It does the following:

- It takes a filename as a command line argument and opens that file for reading

- It reads the file byte by byte until EOF

- For each byte, it prints the hexadecimal value of the byte, in the format "%2x " (i.e. 2 hex digits, a space)

- After every 16 bytes, it prints the ASCII representation of those bytes, replacing non-printable characters with "."

- It also has some obfuscated logic with bitwise operations, likely attempting to confuse the reader.

So if you ran it like this:

./program myfile.txt

It would output something like:

54 65 78 74 20 66 69
6c 65 2e 0a 54 68 69
73 20 69 73 20 61 20
74 65 78 74 20 66 69
6c 65 2e 0a 54 68 65
20 71 75 69 63 6b 20
62 72 6f 77 6e 20 66
6f 78 0a 6a 75 6d 70
73 20 6f 76 65 72 20
20 74 68 65 20 6c 61
7a 79 20 64 6f 67 0a
2e 2e 2e

Which is the hexadecimal dump of the ASCII contents of myfile.txt.

The #defines are used to obfuscate the code and make it harder to read, replacing printf with O1O, putchar with OlO, etc. The D() function is used to check if a byte is a printable ASCII character.

So in summary, this program opens a file, reads it byte by byte, prints the hex values, and prints the ASCII for printable characters, as a hexadecimal dump utility.

[1] - https://poe.com/Claude%2B
You don't need a ton of energy to set off a possible chain reaction events.
Oh believe me it's never going to happen until the performance problem is fixed. That's the other thing we've been waiting on for years. It's coming though.
> initially with a super shady royalty license

I'm surprised this opinion still persists. Royalty-based licenses have been used by major game engines [0] for a long time, so that's not unprecedented.

[0] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/license, https://www.cryengine.com/support/view/licensing
In my experience Reddit seems to have various different cache/worker servers and it can takes a while for things to fully propagate. But they could be so overloaded the deletes are silently failing.
What does normalized mean here? Do I accept a future in which all people actively engaging police in gunfire over multiple hours are subject to killing by a remote-controlled machine? I do.

Do I accept roving bands of killer drones flying overhead programmed to autonomously kill? I do not.

It seems like we’re basically in the first circumstance since the use of a robot to terminate the firefight in Dallas was literally unprecedented.
> The problem was that you were committing one thread (or worse, one process) to each client.

This is mostly true today as well, although we do have beefier machines and more efficient thread pooling.

I did some personal research for infrequent real-time notifications. My conclusion was that many stateful connections are poorly memory-optimized by language runtimes and reverse proxies. Even with lightweight tech like Golang, gRPC, nginx, etc, it’s hard to push anything less than 30 kB for an idle conn, mostly from thread/goroutine stacks, user space buffers and (easy to overlook) a bunch of HTTP headers and TLS handshake state that often remain after establishing the conn. That’s without any middleware or business logic wants their share of the cake.

The only mature project I found that really took this stuff seriously is uWebSockets. It’s extremely lightweight, around an OOM better than most alternatives. Highly recommend – they also have a socket library so you can implement other protocols if needed.

Anyway, it’s important to be aware that massive amounts of long running connections is not just about adding a websocket/SSE library. Chances are you’ll need a mostly-separate serving stack for that purpose.
The Wuling mini is available in some African countries for around $5000.
CMEs reaching earth likely account for a mere fraction of the energy flowing through the global electric circuit at any moment.

Moreover, your suggestion seems to indicate that you’re only considering kinetic energy, which would be a very myopic and reductionist take on these matters.
Time to use an LLM to sandwich my actual domain name searches between thousands of other similar sounding ones. Let them pay for all of those.
Teaching While Trans
This really should be it. Open up but slowly deteriorate the experience.

Here's a concrete proposal: Set automod to delete any post/comment longer than 20 characters.

This makes discussion virtually impossible, and starts to impact the quality of Reddit posts. With enough subs cooperating (e.g. the subs that went private over the blackout), it'd already be making a serious impact on the usage experience of Reddit. Furthermore, this policy can be enacted indefinitely without stopping the "regular operation" of Reddit (i.e. mods can sit on this policy for as long as they need to, as opposed to the blackout which even from the start was planned with a time limit.)
> We therefore have a very good statistical basis for claiming that we have discovered a truly existing phenomenon. The only question is, *is it really the one we were expecting*? [My Emphasis]

Why on earth is that the "only question"? What does that even mean?

I can think of many many questions and that isn't one of them:

* What is the mechanism that associates the radiation to the earth movement
* Are other objects on earth also affected?
* How can we use this to predict quakes?
I mean, shit is still going to hit the fan if the contract isn't honoured, but in the simplest terms, yes, he'll still get paid by the insurer if the contract party defaults on the contract. (As a massive scale version of this, see 2007/2008 financial crash. That's basically what happens when counterparties default at scale and insurance contracts have to pay out everywhere, to the level that the insurers themselves have to be rescued.)

Simple example - let's say the contract is for 100 tonnes of wheat at £175 a tonne. So Jeremy should get £17,500 for the wheat he's contracted to deliver. Now let's say that Jeremy has the 100 tonnes ready to go, but the flour merchant can't/won't pay up. Maybe he's in financial troubles, maybe Jeremy ran off with his wife, who knows. But for whatever reason, he refuses to pay.

Now let's also imagine two scenarios - one in which the price of wheat has gone up, and one where it's gone down. In the former, Jeremy is actually happy with this, as he can now sell his grain on the open market for more than the contract, and claim the insurance payout on the contract. On the other hand, if the price went down, Jeremy still has to sell his grain, but he might only get £100 a tonne, which is going to result in a loss of £7,500. At this point Jeremy is very glad of the insurance.

Now the interesting bit is the insurer has the estimate the risk of default, and the likely movement on the market, to be able to offer a sensible insurance product to Jeremy. So Jeremy might pay £1,000 for an insurance product which pays out £10,000 on the default of the purchaser, for example. Obviously the numbers involved here are fictional (apart from the price of wheat per tonne, which is probably around the mark given at the moment), but the principle is accurate.
I manually deleted all my content on Wednesday afternoon. As of 8 am this morning all the comments were restored. So, yep, they're definitely undeleting content.
I hate to break it to you: we already live in that world [1].

Anyway, the point of Nixon's temporary wage-price freeze wasn't to suppress wages specifically but to allow prices to stabilize so we don't have the "greedflation" we have now [2].

I'm all for better wages, livable wages and workers enjoying a greater share of the value they produce, for the record.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1140123647/rail-strike-bill-s...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
These aristocratic unpaid workers. How much more entitled can you get?
Because farmers have been using futures contracts (traded on an exchange) since 1859.

And technically, futures are a more standardized tool than forwards are, hence the talk about futures all the time. [1] For reference, forwards have been used forever, and used for all sorts of commerce. [2]

We take for granted that you can pull out an iPhone and buy your favorite stock in seconds, but for most of history, nobody could even imagine that. That the modern world even exists is because of forwards and futures. The ancient world was able to grow and expand because of forwards.

[0] - https://www.cftc.gov/About/HistoryoftheCFTC/history_precftc....

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/forwardsandfutur...

[2] - https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/applied-and-soc...
This theme of reward/sparing for hospitality of disguised divinity is also present in the story of Baucis and Philemon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baucis_and_Philemon
One of the paradigmatic examples of nerd victimhood culture.
Er no... LSD stored correctly can last an awfully long time. A lifetime supply for one person? Sure unless that person is Timothy Leary and his entourage!
Even for a 5 I would encourage a discussion to see if it is worthwhile to be split up. Smaller stories lead to smaller code reviews, easier for the code reviewer, quicker updates in standup, no one falling behind. You can still decide to keep the occasional 5, but it's worth the discussion.
Sounds like you worry too much about what other people do with their own time and money.