skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been hearing that type of argument since the 70s, after they banned saccharine.

Let's suppose a chemical causes slow damage to the body, maybe greatly increasing your risk of cancer or alzheimers if you drink a can of diet soda per day. How could we possibly know if it is safe?

We often test chemicals on rats, but the problem is that they only live a few years. No one wants to wait 20+ years to see the results of an expensive study on longer lived mammals anyway.

The solution is we feed the rats excessive amounts of the chemical and see if it causes problems. This isn't a great way to do it, but what other option would you suggest?
> Did the demographic that was willing to think hard & long enough to enjoy the old SciAm gradually die off?

That demographic were always a minority of the general population and I think they still exist. Maybe at one point Scientific American had some pride and catered to this niche because they thought it was socially constructive or something, but clearly they're now gearing towards a more... mass audience.. to get more money of course.

I don't know how else you'd explain an image of the wrong ocean. If they couldn't get the right image, why include an image at all? Of course pictures are appealing for mass audiences, a substantial fraction of whom are barely literate and need pretty pictures (even if irrelevant) to encourage them along.
> They interpreted existing laws

In the dissent at least, the court is very much interpreting court precedent and almost entirely ignoring the law itself
In the grand tapestry of wisdom handed down through the ages, there's a thread that, albeit melancholically, is increasingly fading in its pertinence - the art of writing.

Regrettably, the rationale behind the wielding of pen, or rather the dance of fingers over a keyboard, seems to be slipping through our collective grasp. As we venture further into the age of technological wonder, our heartfelt prose and studied arguments increasingly find themselves serving as nothing more than a feast for the insatiable maw of Large Language Models.

Consider, if you will, the very lines you are reading this moment. The symphony of language, the subtle twinkle of wit, and the aesthetic embrace of style, they are not the product of a human hand. Rather, they are a serenade composed by the Large Language Model itself, offering a tantalizing peek into a future where the boundary between artificial and natural intellect blurs. An age where the muse is not only the master of the quill, but also the orchestrator of ones and zeros.

In such a vast cosmos of algorithmically curated lexicon, one may quite justifiably question - what room remains for the human scribe? The quill may well seem poised on the precipice of obsolescence. A quaint relic of yesteryears, one might sigh, the act of writing, alas, has been seemingly reduced to the merest whisper of its former grandeur.

Well, isn't it simply a divine comedy? Despite the initial lament over our seemingly diminishing role in the grand narrative of writing, there emerges a purpose, albeit a somewhat disheartening one. It turns out we have become the humble farmers in this brave new world, tirelessly tilling the fields of knowledge to yield a rich crop of text.

Our eloquent sonnets, deep introspections, and grand debates serve as mere fodder for these voracious Large Language Models. We scribble away, only to feed the gaping, ever-hungry mouths of these digital giants. We thought we were nurturing an ally, yet, it seems we've been raising the devourer of our own literary relevance. Isn't the irony simply delicious?
Good. Let's hope that all browsers follow suit.

> By default, no website will be able to access local resources.

Which is how it should have been since the very beginning. Websites cannot be trusted with pretty much anything by default.
It sounds like you just need to pick any given RFC which tickles your fancy and has an appropriate scope, and try to implement it.
I get where you're coming from, but honestly, it feels like VPNs these days are just copying each other. They claim to offer something unique, but in the end, it's all about making money off users.
"Did I say 2250? Sorry, I meant 22,500. Yeah, you know, with all the extra time needed to compile and everything..."
On paper, the "MyKronoz ZeTime"[a] seems great - even perfect, at least for my needs.

However, some reviews here and there claim it does not do (satisfactorily) what it says on the tin.

- Anyone with direct experience?

There was also a ZeTime 2 announced by MyKronoz in 2019[b], but failure to launch is worrying...

[a] - https://www.mykronoz.com/eu/en/zetime.html

[b] - https://cdn-magento.mykronoz.com/media/wysiwyg/Press/press-a...
The top pictures of major news site' articles often come from a DB / library as fallback, where they try to add something relevant, but it's not always directly related to the article... Because not all articles come with content that have usable pictures. But every article still needs one for UI purposes so they sometimes use filler. Old magazines often were just text and didn't have this requirement.

The one they chose seems to be relevant still.
That may have been true in the past, but recently the same principle (using a hybrid) for simultaneous tx/rx on GBE can be employed on a point-to-point radio channel.

https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/simultaneous-tra...
Common law of contracts dictates that you can commit to performing certain services in exchange for the counter-party performing certain services. For example, you provide both money, viewing data, and permission to run DRM and proprietary code on your property (e.g. set-top boxes or smart TVs) to Netflix in exchange for obtaining access to their library of TV shows and movies.

It's codified in the fact that saying you'll do something means you're socially obligated to do it, and legally obligated if you receive something in return.
Sounds more like the market doesn’t value “high quality journalism” as much anymore. Especially when you can find primary sources covering events on social media for free. At least for tech news, comments on HN are more succinct, less biased, and more hard hitting than any tech news site I’ve seen.
> I don’t love the decision, but I actually like the process. And I don’t think it is legislating. It is interpreting the law.

I think this is naive. Roberts is not "calling balls and strikes" despite what he would have you believe. The conservative wing of the court has been willing to adopt a range of interpretations to accommodate their outcome.

It's not just setting aside precedent but their increased use of emergency motions (shadow docket) to issue orders without explanation.
Statistical outlier? Aspartame is known to be linked to migraine triggering:

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2708042/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18627677/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28198207/
"I’ve calculated that 85 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Black students go to Black folks raised in the middle and upper classes. For daily life, the result is this: In any office—in any room—where a bachelor’s degree is a prerequisite, the odds that the person next to you has come from poverty, especially Black poverty, are staggeringly low."
Benefits: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

- Digital payments wherever you are in the euro area

- Possibility to pay digitally even without access to the internet

- More choice for consumers (alternative to Visa/Mastercard)

- Possibility to pay digitally even if you do not have a bank account

- Enhanced privacy for users: The digital euro would enable users to make digital payments while ensuring their data is protected. When using the digital euro offline, the privacy of the user is the same as when they use cash. The European Central Bank would not be able to identify individual digital euro users, nor what users do with their money. They would only have access to encrypted data, and only to the extent that this is necessary to settle digital euro transactions, and support payment services providers in performing their tasks. This means that state-of-the-art security and privacy-preserving measures would be used, to ensure that data cannot be used to directly identify a specific digital euro user by the ECB and the national central banks.Overall, the level of privacy introduced with the digital euro would be unprecedented for electronic payments. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) would ensure that this high degree of privacy is respected.

cost:

Basic services for end users such as opening and closing a digital euro account, consulting balances, funding and defunding your digital euro account, and making transfers and payments would be provided free of charge.
Is this before or after the estimate is rejected and arbitrarily cut in half?
They didn't innovate anything. Submersibles have been around for a long time. The technology is mature. Their innovation was using completely inappropriate materials and cheaping out on safety.
If you read some of the comments here, you'd see that colleges have been discriminating against Asians.

As a group asian Americans have had no trouble being over represented in colleges based on purely merit.
Are you aware of AWS lambda warm starts? Start-up time can be less critical should the lambda be used frequently enough. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/operatorguide/exec...
What's that saying? Something like: "It's not that Einstein was so brilliant, it's that so many more Einsteins spend their whole lives in the farm fields" and in between is there is a whole spectrum of talent vs opportunity and recognition going from brilliant and unknown to famous and undeserving.
I don't think we should cater to Luddites, but (and it's a big but) if we automate enough jobs out of existence it's essentially undeniable that we will need systemic changes to avoid becoming a completely dystopian society.
I didn't mean "but" we need that, I meant "and" we need that. In case there's any doubt, I am 100% for immigration.
From the SCOTUS opinion:

> “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” Roberts wrote.

Sure seems like proxies for race are if anything explicitly called out as being OK by SCOTUS rather than illegal.
PBS Spacetime did an episode on this just recently!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLcmsjOBg

In the video, they mention that the models we have for FTL (by bending spacetime) wouldn't generate ripples in this way. We could however detect ripples from a really massive ship accelerating really really quickly.
Andrew Kamphey is a creator who has made $200k from teaching people how to use Google Sheets over the past three years. Think 'Miss Excel' but he's a beardy guy from Florida who doesn't dance in his videos.
Well, there’s someone out there who is white or Asian that didn’t get to become a doctor. Are their kids as successful?

Otherwise I agree with you. It’s in the past. We all have advantages and disadvantages, whether genetic or societal. There’s no reason to feel bad about something in the past you had no control over.
What happens if you take a photo of the ad? Does it takes you to the website?
What's the actual point of Youtube Sharts? It just seems like encouragement for people to film vertically and not frame the shot well.

And on the watching side you're pushed into a needlessly unfriendly UI. Like I generally just use the YT web interface and don't go out of my way to routinely yt-dlp or Newpipe, but now I might have to change that.
How was rejecting ISL was legislating from the bench?
Our federal congress was dragged into ineptitude by a group of people who refuse to legislate or collaborate and would rather confirm judges.

Some states are getting legislation done. Minnesota, for example, but same too with states that rapidly passed abortion curbs.
Supreme Court rejects affirmative action ending use of race in college admission
It's worth bearing in mind that if affirmative action helped his father become a doctor, it also prevented someone else's father from becoming a doctor. I wonder what that person could have achieved.
Actually, people have been successfully sued for plagiarizing other works because they had internalized it and accidentally regurgitated it. So. The fact that content runs through a human brain doesn’t necessarily cleanse it from copyright concerns.
You really don't need to know C# to use F#. You need to understand .NET, but that is not the same as needing to know C#. F# sits on top of .NET and the CLR in a much more clean way than Clojure sits on top of the JVM. F# also has excellent error messages and is also much easier to install.

I know F# quite well at this point but only barely know C#. I know C# maybe only mildly better than C++ or Java in terms of being able to read it and guess what it's doing. I certainly can't write in it without looking up a bunch of stuff.
Oh so that is why Fortune 500 companies are scaling back their real estate outlays- because wfh is just an illusion.
That's an excellent question, and I don't have an answer yet. Programming is the only marketable skill I have.

Learning a trade such as plumbing or being an electrician is something that I've been thinking about.

I have started several businesses of my own over the decades, and doing it again is a real possibility. At least, it's a reasonable fallback position.
The deadlines are imperative and unmoving, projects are at high risk of failing due to recent layoffs and low morale, but we need you remote folks to quit on top of that to reduce headcount. It all the remote folks left, including myself, our current project would fail spectacularly.
How big a deal and how common is it in reality? "We have one fewer spots because we admitted the son of a donor" and "we won't accept you based on race" are different magnitude.
> quite circular

In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.
Thank you for sharing this :D
I don’t think this is a bad idea conceptually, but I worry that the implementation would be a race to the bottom. Who gets to decide who’s been the “most oppressed?” It seems like nearly anyone could feel slighted by this.
The energies involved are stupendous.

It would be like being hit by a tsunami and wondering if a cruise ship caused it.

But on a galactic scale.
I don't know, I think procedural generation is much more powerful than an LLM when it comes to creating interesting music. I consider the inputs kind of
limited too, like where's the min7b5—how can you have the minor variant of the "famous" 2-5-1 (maybe "conventional" is a better choice of words) without the 2?
To the contrary, Stanford, for instance, has ~22% of its student body "White or Caucasian", when it used to be 40% in 2016. This swing didn't occur simply because white students stopped applying.

https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-racial-engineering/

Stanford might be an outlier, but I don't see white applicants being negatively affected by this decision. Quite the opposite.
> I haven’t read Thirty Million Words but I second the idea of talking to your child.

If to be honest, this is the only book from my list which I haven't read also. But I have read very thoroughly the "Eye Brain Vision" by David Hubel. He did not set his experiments to human and nowadays that kind of experiments seems like not possible any more even to animals. He might consider a child who has not received his 30M words as a "deprivation" if he worked in a human field (he worked only with cats, I mean young kittens). And he demonstrated a lot of examples about what deprivation does to a cat brain. I believe anything which is in Thirty Million Words without reading a page from it because I used to watch a lot of deprivation examples from kind of more advanced source. But of course Hubel's book is not about parenting at all.
That's not a positive point for llms. That's just a horrific indictment on how badly the US education has failed.

Past tense. It has failed. It's not failing.
It seems people prefer power distributed by capital, rather than military might or factionalism/leaders/politics.

Not that all capital is distributed by merit, plenty of people used military might or factionalism/leaders/politics to obtain disproportionate amount of capital.

But if you are against the last 2 happening, I don't see what you expect a reorganization of society to accomplish since you are going to get a power structure of factionalism/leaders/politics taking priority. (Sorry bud, no an-com utopia ever existed, they all had factionalism/leaders/politics, thus defeating the entire purpose of removing class.)

I think most of us think we can capture/retain power easier with money, than having to climb up inter-party politics.
Building a high quality device is a very different beast from the "small" software-projects or gadgets we get from the FOSS-sphere. And even in software there are not that many big projects who carry their whole own ecosphere. There were many projects building FOSS-Smartphpones over the years, most of them failed because of lack of ability I would say.

At the end of the day, while there are many who want FOSS-products, not many are willing to cope with bad experience for they beloved tools. So the actual market is very small if you can't deliver the daily drivers.
If you were very close to the origins, perhaps.

Though in that event, I suspect you might be having other priorities.
America has long had most of the best universities in the world. Getting rid of all standardized tests and instead relying on (heavily inflated, or not) grades, combined with bullshit essays, is going to significantly undermine that.
Check out the server remote access settings some time and make sure direct access is available, like I mentioned above. But I’m willing to just digress as we have apparently wildly different experiences.
Incidentally one of my favorite nautical terms. Just always liked the sound of it :-)
You need to make sure that you write the clever bits clearly. Maybe add a comment. It takes some discipline, but isn't hard.

In fact, Perl remains remarkably robust if you stack clever tricks on top of each other.
Runway Raises $141M from Google, Nvidia
But people think it's creepy when they realize how much metadata they're feeding to the multinational conglomorates (to then be bought or commandeered by their government agencies).
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about.

These are machines. Machines break, no matter what the maintenance regime is. The number of cycles on these planes is awe inspiring, and while there are always squawks, the captain and FO always have the authority to ground a plane for any maintenance items they don't like.

> They were lucky that the weather was cooperating. In bad weather and strong winds who knows what would have happened.

Exactly the same thing would have happened. Maybe if it was raining or very cold we wouldn't have quite as much passenger cell phone footage from the runway. But weather had nothing to do with this, nice weather didn't make the landing any easier, and bad weather wouldn't have made it any harder. Ridiculous.
There are thousands of tools (shellscripts, makefiles ...) which execute "python -m":

https://www.gnod.com/search/?engines=af&nw=1&q=python%20-m

Even in Google's own repos. Starting any of those (no matter where they are stored) in a hostile repo would let the code in the repo take over the machine.
I have a charge 5 and it's fine - in particular, it would suit the OP.

I also would love to tinker with the fw and be able to service parts. But providing each of those features is a tradeoff. The fw is primarily a cultural issue, but to some extent also a support one. I think that's where I would push harder - rather than the hw aspect. Replaceable batteries are either quite specific or incur a substantial space penalty (are any widely-available button cells rechargable?)
Well, they do, and continue to do so. If you'd like to wave that magic wand you seem to believe you have and instantly change the behavior tens of millions of people toward making the world perfect, I would support it. Short of attaining perfection, making things just a bit better through achievable means is a more productive path.
A bigger problem is likely caffeine inhibiting uptake of vitamin D and disrupting sleep.
The specific plane (1), N955AT, is 22.6 years old. So not young, but not completely geriatric either. Delta seems to be the only major operator of the plane type, so don't think there'd be too many buyers. Delta also seems to have a fair few in storage(2) so a fair guess would be that they'd scrap it but keep the parts that they could still use on other planes as spares.

1) https://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b717-55017.htm
2) https://www.airfleets.net/listing/b717-1-statdesc.htm
> Why not just.. well, let poor people come first? Would the goal suddenly not be met if poor smart white kids get into good schools, too?

This is what I will never understand, why don't we focus on just helping the poor instead of based on race. If people of a certain race are proportionally more poor than people of another race than they will be helped more and it helps out the people of a specific race.

However in my more conpsiracy minded moments I can't help but wonder if the focus on race is designed to keep the power and the middle class fighting each other over things like that rather than fighting against the people that have the power.

But seriously why can't we just focus our help and aid around people who are poor and needs based rather than all this faffing about with race?

EDIT: Well the votes on this comment are going up and down faster than an "Essex birds drawers" as the BOFH would say.
Yeah. There's nobody really fighting for poor white men, except maybe Bernie? But it's all too easy to capitalize on their grief and anger and redirect it into cultural wars instead. That anger is politically more potent left unchecked and weaponized than actually addressed.

Some of the most down to earth, hardworking people I knew were poor white men with a dream: teachers, farmers, builders, activists, lawyers. They weren't interested in going into tech or finance or getting rich and retiring early or whatever, just to pursue their dreams and some semblance of happiness. Reminds me of old homesteaders.

Same with the Black and Hispanic folks I knew at the same time, many of whom got support or scholarships of one kind or the other. On the ground, we were all just peers and friends and supported each other however we could. But officially the poor whites had no formal support network at all, while diversity programs had special buildings, funding, time, and labor devoted to the rest of us. My white peers never held that against me, as far as I know, but they did comment about how unfair it was to them to be punished for the sins of their (great grand) fathers. And I can't say they're wrong...
Guys, thank you for your comments, I'm the author of the blog post.

You are definitely right about the error in the last example about testing - I've added suggested
```
threads << Thread.new do
service.call
end
```
which we actually used in the project, but somehow omitted in the blogpost.
On the other hand, I know it's quite a simplification and highly depends on the test env setup.
Most white/Asian people (especially men) living now haven’t really had any “systemic” advantages. It’s been the opposite for a while now.

If you want to argue non-systemic, then maybe. There will always be some racist people out there, whether it’s white people favoring white people or black people favoring black people.