skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Aspartame does not exist in a vacuum, however. The sugar industry is arguably bigger, more powerful, and has even more budget to fund motivated research. I don’t trust Big Aspartame to prove to is that it is safe, but I put my full faith in Big Sugar to tell us if something is wrong with Aspartame.
That’s a rough choice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_U...
I wish them luck. While I'm not a huge fan of copilot coding AIs, I understand how they are going to be a killer feature for many and I worry that it would create a big moat for Github. I hope that Gitlab is able to close that gap because I really like Gitlab.
That is what F# folks tried to pivot the language as of latest, only to be sidestepped yet again by Microsoft, when they hired Guido and managed to be the company that changed his mind regarding CPython optimizations.

Also see the development effort Microsoft spends on Python across all their IDEs and what F# gets.
And in Australia it was pushed by Rupert Murdoch.

But fair is fair. If publishers want to force social media to pay for news content. Social Media has every right to refuse to pay and refuse to redistribute.
Could you set up massive pendulums to convert this gravitational wave energy into mechanical energy? Would such a device diminish the strength of the wave downstream?
I don't think the argument goes both ways. People who are heavily invested in AI naturally want to see their investment play out, so they are going to hype up the dangers of AI when pushing for regulation that benefits them and downplay the dangers when seeking investment and public opinion that benefits them. In both cases, the core idea they are pushing is that AI is important, and therefore their work is important.
I wonder are they truly selling "non-biased" news. Or is substack just platform that allows them to sell those who want to buy their specific bias. Not that it isn't the valid model in current online enviroment.
What do you know? You’re claiming something else but framing it as fact. You don’t know anything!
I think everyone would agree that blacks shouldn’t have been enslaved and white people not conferred special advantages during the Jim Crow era, yes.

The question is such things did happen. How will you resolve the disparity, if at all? Clearly a very inflammatory topic.
Surely news publications benefit more from Google/Facebook providing links to their content? It's a mutually beneficial relationship. I'm a bit puzzled as to why this was pushed, I'd love some context for this.
> This just creates a moral hazard to not disclose the use of any AI-generated assets, which is something other creative industries have already learnt the hard way.

This has been the legal street smarts for a while and doesn't seem like a big development to me. As usual, you don't admit or allude to anything. It's like when I'd write code and say no I've never even visited StackOverflow.
Let’s fix the unfair stuff instead of introducing more unfair stuff then
He's a very rich talented grifter. That means he commands a vast sum of capital and can therefore shape our society disproportionately. His opinions may be completely detached from reality, but his actions have direct consequences in reality.
Indeed, you would need carrot and stick. The point the witness made was that under the current system you could not profit without collusion. (Edit to add: and that means that all honest people end up driven out of the construction industry). At least under a Vickrey system an honest person can make a profit hypothetically proportional to the social benefit provided.

The flip side is you would have to tell people that while you're going to increase what you pay them your tolerance for collusion (and it is essentially tolerated today) will go down, and mean it.
It'll be interesting to see if a game can make good use of that, but it sounds like it would lead to some very frustrating interactions.
There was a lot of slavery outside of the South, long before cotton became king.
The issue is that also, generally speaking, anyone who was legally discriminated against probably lives in a jurisdiction performing poorly in test scores, since all schooling in the US are based on geographic districts funded by local property tax, and due to historic discrimination the formerly discriminated groups also live in areas with lower housing wealth. (A lot of people also moved out of districts with large minority populations when integration was mandated, taking their taxes and wealth with them.)

Want to make a bunch of people very angry? Propose a metropolitan-area wide school district.
“you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right.”

For individual humans, that works. Applying that opinion to society at large is at the core of the social justice philosophy, but in my opinion is misguided.

When people are focused on the past, they aren’t focused on the future. It becomes a never-ending argument over history, trying to divvy up blame and virtue and money among people who weren’t even present at the time the evilness happened and who themselves have a mixed heritage.

Should students whose parents arrived from China in the 80s be discriminated against so that you can discriminate in favor of someone whose parents arrived from Kenya in the 80s? There are a zillion scenarios like that, and when you add them up they aren’t the edge cases, the complexity is the normal case. America is a place of immigration and mixing.

History is history. A lot of it is bad. You can only fix the future, and a never-ending argument about history isn’t going to do that. We know discrimination based on race is bad. If an individual needs help, help them regardless of race.
It's About to Be Much Harder for Rural Alaskans to Get Their Weather Forecast
If these auctions were common, it seems like it would be a ripe opportunity for arbitrage.

In a case like this if you thought the market value was $100k, someone with no interest in the license should go ahead and bid something like $60k anyways. If everybody else placed silly bids like $4 "just in case nobody else bids for real", you'll win and resell it and walk away with $40k profit.

Of course this assumes there is an actual market for the thing -- that a telecoms company really will take it off your hands for $100k.

Although if there really is only one person in the world who wants something and they would pay $100k for it... and literally nobody else has any interest in it at all... then there's a good argument to be made that it really is worth $0. Like a remote island that is utter perfection for one hermit, but of zero interest to anyone else.
> There is an algorithm for everything in aviation

This is how I got my commercial pilot's license, and I'm a senior software engineer.

It just "clicked" with my brain to follow specific procedures ("algorithms") for absolutely everything. Checklists, strict rules, "flows", handling emergencies. It all felt natural to me.

They will throw random stuff at you during checkrides. Pull the power back on one of the engines right after takeoff saying it failed, fail instruments that you were using to navigate, blindfold you ("foggles") and put you almost upside down and then say "recover!".

But you have everything so ingrained in your mind by that point that it's almost robotic. You just look at the inputs (almost upside down, engine #2 is gone, no attitude indicator, whatever it is) and know what the output is supposed to be (roll to unload Gs, lower the nose, full power, check the standby AI, etc).

I happen to work well when there are strict rules and procedures. If this, then that.
Which as shocking as it sounds still small compared to large gravitational waves.

The merger of black holes radiate something like 10% of that mass as gravitational waves. Start talking 2.5+ million solar masses black holes and ~500,000 solar mass worth of energy in gravitational waves seems plausible though obviously rare.
Every now and then I get car parts delivered from USA and without fail they come with a label telling me they cause cancer. I can't take this kind of labeling seriously when it comes from an American source.
It's becoming pretty clear that passthrough is going to be the solution to AR. The occlusion and black rendering problems are simply too great to overcome for overlay approaches.
Offline payments seem like an invitation for double-spending and fraud, even if the amounts are limited. Plus: we know how to build private payments safely with an online bulletin-board to prevent double spending. Are there really a lot of applications where small amounts of network access is totally impossible?
> if you insist on punishing people of the present for the sins of the past.

I think Germany's reparations for the Holocaust make sense, for instance.
What's the value of amplitude of one such 'monster' g-wave?
Her son working for another Microsoft division isn't an issue and notably neither the FTC nor private plaintiffs whose case the judge previously dismissed even asked her to recuse.
Sounded like they claim to not store identifying information along with searches at all, which is the biggest privacy concern to me.
Was he paid for his superior productivity, or for special skills?
Larry Householder sentenced to maximum 20 years
Larry Householder sentenced to maximum 20 years
Once one of the most powerful politicians in Ohio, Householder is now a convicted felon, guilty of racketeering conspiracy and breaking the public's trust. He was immediately taken into custody.
The eff had an interesting article[1] about this issue (and others) as well as some alternative ways solve the issue, not that I agree with all of them.

Ultimately, this is the wrong approach. The internet should be "open," and people or companies should be free to link to whatever they want without penalty.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
If you could build a sufficiently sensitive neutrino detector you could look past the ionization era of the Big Bang. What you can see in the sky is limited to that era in the cosmic history as before that period the scattering distance for photons was too short (since everything was just a free floating soap of ions) so the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) we detect is like a snapshot of the "last scattering".

But since neutrinos are only weakly coupled they fly right through without interacting most of the time. That "NMB" would presumably let us see all the way back to the big bang itself.
Not so funny: someone wrote a tool which attributes throwaways with alarming accuracy.
* It’s not yet clear whether vertical farming is an overhyped, premature, expensive business model that can still help change the world someday, or whether it’s just a dumb and impractical idea. *

On the contrary...pretty clear it's 'dumb and impractical' for the win.
Because I'd sink the company I'm golden hand cuffed to if I said what I think about the engineers I have to manage. But I do think I'll be bringing in SAP timesheets to share my pain with everyone:

> We need to keep track of the time your spending on your opex KIPs. We can't pay your expected bonus if you don't.
Again, it depends on what's in it.

At even modest cycling speeds, dust, sand, insects, rocks, small children, etc., may irritate or injure eyes. Eyewear is strongly recommended.

At highway speeds (~100 kph) your eyes will tend to tear up.

With goggles, motorcyclists, race-car drivers, and pilots sustain wind speeds of ~200--300 kph, though that is probably an upper reasonable limit, and again, any sort of debris will greatly increase trauma.

(Some) pilots have survived supersonic bailouts or loss of structural integrity: <http://www.classichistory.net/archives/sr-71-breakup>. Though typically, that ride starts with a full flight suit and helmet, though it needn't end in the same state.
Every major game publisher has an enormous archive of in-house artwork, and probably a decent amount of hardware they could use for training. They'd be stuck with open source software like Stable Diffusion - or have to cut a deal with Midjourney or whoever - but there's no barrier to creating such a system.
Consider for just a moment that they have almost certainly thought about this much more deeply and thoughtfully than you have
react is not an example for a library that is supposed to be or even possible to be used in a pure functional programming way.
The problem with your logic is that if you leave the past the past then there’s effectively no punishment for discrimination in the present.

Suppose the war in Ukraine ends today. Time skips forward a year with no change from the present. A committee recommends reparations for the Ukrainians affected. Do you do it or not? I don’t have the answer but leaving the past the past is simply choosing a certain status quo, as is full reparations another status quo.
While I agree, I doubt it will be the FTC who does this. They are better know now for charging paltry fines for major issues than actually doing anything to stop bad behavior.
Store and practice vocabulary with AI generated content
My mom was the first woman to love me.
Hey all,

Just released VocaBuddy, a webapp for storing and practicing vocabulary.
The app is quite simple - store the words you want to learn, then practice them with AI generated sentences.
Would like to know your thoughts and insights!
Worth noting that this paper has been retracted: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014148117
Woah! Don’t you know everyone’s 3rd personality trait is “victim”
> And isn't showing the content of the RSS feed "fair use" anyhow?

Fair use and copyright are 'artificial' legal constructs, so if they were defined in an 'arbitrary' way to begin with, they can be redefined to add or remove provisions. These online publishing laws could tweak those provisions.

Also: when an RSS/Atom feed is published, it is still copyrighted, and the terms and conditions would/could perhaps be defined what "fair use" is by copyright holder (maybe?).
When I search for something I want the best results for the query, and sometimes those are behind a paywall.
Not really. There are some hardware bans, but are there any bans on the software companies?
So clearly non-Jewish whites are by far the most discriminated against considering their share of the population and SAT scores. Why is this fact never mentioned in the media?
> It's not (just) that python is "easier" to learn than python (which I dispute - lisp is as easy to learn as a first language as any other. Depending on the language it may be a difficult second language though). The world had also changed radically since it was introduced into the curriculum:

A lot of texts will use pseudo-code and it is (from my experience) easier for beginner programmers to see the relation between pseudo-code and Python than for many other languages.
A less well known area of concern with Amazon is the way it is now purchasing for its own business. It is actively cutting out local distributors in favour of direct deals with manufacturers. This is really squeezing those businesses.

Edit: this seems particularly monopolistic because it is using its own global logistics to undermine the supply chain to other retailers.
Not a single one of these customers walked in off the street. This is not a mass-market product, it's incredibly bespoke. It's so new and experimental that nobody knows exactly how safe it is. That's why it's literally classed as experimental. There was no trickery here - hell, there are tons of stories from rich folks who declined a trip because they didn't think it was safe.

There's a long tradition of rich people getting themselves killed with experimental toys. Usually it's general aviation. Did John Denver know the risks of having the fuel tank selector valve over his left shoulder? Obviously not, or he probably wouldn't have crashed. But we let people buy and sell airplanes anyway - or at least, we did up until the 80s when we sued aircraft manufacturers into oblivion.

I'd rather live in a world with general aviation and a small but steady stream of deaths, rather than a world with no deaths because we've eliminated general aviation.

I ask you personally: Would you fly on a hypothetical next shuttle launch? Because I think most HNers would, even though the shuttle has historically had about a 2% failure rate. Which, if the 50 dives claimed by the oceangate website is correct, is on par with the Titan.
>Same thing now days, but replace Java/accounting with React/CRUD. The rockstar code ninja 10x mentality of 2009 is maybe gone for good, but I see more crazy coders doing rockstar level stuff now than ever before. Asahi Linus and alyssa rosenzweig being great examples from the Asahi project, but these people are all over.

To piggyback on this, I see many coders of this level of talent in many different fields all working on their own projects that are sponsored by Patreon or similar, rather than taking traditional employment with companies in general.
Behind the Damage of Facebook Moderation
The point of saying "when a black person calls police" implies that the "non-zero" is in reference to an increase from the status quo of "when a white person calls police".

Everyday there is a non-zero chance of being shot by police whether you intiate the encounter or not.
I feel like the author themselves is a bit scattered on this point.

In the very quote you lead with, they link to another post[1], which says "...MySQL is boring. Postgres is boring." Our author says they don't like that Boring approach, but then they advocate for a "pets, not cattle" approach, which I think is in line with administering a MySQL server, or such.

Maybe this all comes down to different people's definitions of Boring. Maybe modern developers think of "Cloud everything" as the boring/playbook approach, while other people (like me) see the older (in my mind simpler) idea of administering a few machines, maybe even on bare metal, to be Boring.

You wrote:

> So, do you leverage those solutions to help you solve your problem? Or do you let your engineers re-invent the wheel so they can feel smart?

In my charitable interpretation of TFA, I think they are saying to let your engineers use smaller-scale solutions/technologies that address the problem at hand, as needed, rather than getting pulled into the Cloud-everything solve-all-your-future-problems-you-don't-even-have-yet ball of wax that's often advocated these days.

I can get behind that sentiment, but yeah I'm not a big fan of the way it's framed in the article, and I have never liked the "rockstar" term.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Does it prompt for an API key?
Testing gpt4-ops?
Crucial: do they train on GPL code? If I am to use this tool, I must abide by the license terms of the training data. Even if it is found that the GPL does not cover LLM responses as derivative works, I would prefer to be on the safe side and refuse to use models trained on software with non-permissive licenses unless I am building Free Software.
> One funny thing about MA is how happily he broadcasts his white supremacist tendencies on Twitter (by following lots of creepy ones).

Can you go into more details about that? Who exactly are the "creepy ones" he's following on Twitter?

> Makes me hope he won't be in charge of changing my world.

He won't be in charge, but he'll have a disproportionate influence. After all, he's rich and powerful.
> No, we've been inundated with low-quality content for decades now. This is nothing new.

The problem with this argument is that scale matters.

When a small number of people were trading mp3 files on FTP servers it was not seen as a problem. When Napster came out, it was seen as a problem. It was correctly seen as a qualitative shift in the effect it would have on society.
Or maybe you just weren't as aware of the problems black people face in america? The amount of times my conservative family members tell me "Such and such wasn't a problem when I was a kid" while completely ignoring the problems proves it isn't a genuine concern.
At least the "archive" workaround still works
If I recall correctly sometime during the pandemic Marc Andreessen lamented how all that tech was good for nothing.

Changing the world requires changing the software of society. We already have all the tech we need for that. But its not happening.
You might be onto something:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-99511498,wid...

PS -- is there a better or more appropriate way to share images here? I know they're not really conducive to discussion, but given that this is a response to a joke comment I'm not sure...
Tell us you know nothing about history without saying you know nothing about history.
The problem of D is they made mistakes in the past, they acknowledge it, yet they refuse to fix it, they are afraid of "breaking changes", they act like they are a pillar of the "industry"(?), when they are just a niche, niche languages should be willing to do breaking changes and explore new features

D is perfectly positioned to explore with ownership for example, they tried "@live", yet they don't commit

Take a look at Nim, they explored a ton with memory management, GC, RC, and now orc, they do what D's afraid of doing

All others languages catched up (including both Java and C#..), D lost it's charm, it's a language that is stuck, afraid of trying new things, and afraid of fixing broken things

zig/odin are eating that betterC market share

go/c#/java are eating that high level market share

nim ate that niche market share

and rust ate their better C++ market share
Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, Steam, Unreal,...
If you pick the correct one, you are afforded more privacy, and a cleaner stay, with the con of needing to throw your bedding in the wash and take your takeout trash to the dumpster on the way out.
An upvote to you, fellow pedant. We stand together.
I've found it's easier to think about this stuff in two dimensions. The surface of a sphere (or the Earth!) has non-Euclidean geometry.

Imagine two people standing some distance apart from each other at the equator. They both begin walking in straight-line paths due south. At first, their paths are parallel. But as they move toward the south pole, they begin to drift closer to each other, as though their paths were curving towards each other. When they reach the south pole, they bump into each other. But they were both walking straight forward following the shortest path to the south pole the whole time. The curvature of the surface causes their initially-parallel paths to converge.[1]

On a plane (which has Euclidean geometry), initially-parallel paths never converge.

[1] Don't take this too literally; the real planet Earth is three-dimensional, and its gravity keeps us on the surface. But mathematically, it's possible to describe a curved two-dimensional space without referring to any higher dimensions. When I talk about "the surface of a sphere", that's what I mean -- the surface is the entire 2D space.
Copilot has been out for over 2.5 years. They’re supposedly adding new features to “Copilot Next” but at this point copilot itself is pretty stable
This is good. When life and death is on the line I don't want some guy/girl/thing with a lower SAT/IQ score than me doing the differential diagnosis.
My job is to write algos that optimize the bid on behalf of clients.

Most pay per click ad platforms have an API that let you set the bid.
"old code runs fine" is a poor benchmark for how well a language holds up over time. All x86 code still runs fine. Perl 5 is from, I think, 1994. It's still maintained and in development. Most C code from the '80s would still compile and run just fine (at least POSIX-based, Windows however...). You can trivially find Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, and Forth code that all "still runs fine."

I don't think it's a particularly unique or interesting quality, that some old code still runs. After all, I can go to archive.org right now and run all of that ancient DOS, Amiga, whatever code in a 100% exact (or close to) emulator in my browser.