skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just ad-supported plans like Hulu etc. They still have tiers to watch ad-free.
> once

> It's not easy to turn primordial soup into humans, but it happened.

Over trillions or more changes.

No single change is going to produce AGI. We're going to have a lot of forewarning, and it'll be obvious we're opening Pandora's box.

AGI won't leap from zero to superintelligence that can launch nukes. That's not how gradient climbing and scaling work.

Fearmongering is incredibly premature and is only going to produce regulation that favors incumbents.

The way I see it is that Eliezer is the biggest corporate mouthpiece for Microsoft and OpenAI. He's doing their bidding and not even getting paid to do it.
Actually, Harvard was about taking the highest scorers until the growing number of Jewish students at Harvard would “ruin the college.”, according to its president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities_and_antisemitis...
Nearly half of admitted white students at Harvard got in via a VIP lane, which is really high.

But that doesn't necessarily tell the story for what it would be like to apply to Harvard as a white student. There is a subtle yet important distinction in this.
Yeah, some people take offense when a stranger attempts an unsolicited psychoanalysis over the internet.
Not really if you live in a high cost-of-living (HCOL) country. Vulnerability weaponization is a very globalized industry and sufficiently easy that there is a oversupply from LCOL countrys. The real money is in deployment and usage as that requires the much rarer and more local criminal and money laundering skill sets.
It's a hedge fund that operates a university for the tax advantages.
Because many of our laws don't make sense when you view them from the lens of "for the good of everyone."

Why would legislatures pass a law that has the potential to be both unpopular AND bite the hand that feeds them?

Who wants that? Normal people? Whose paycheck do they sign again?
My cynical take is that modern billionaires are billionaires on paper only; not even paper, just rows in some bank database. Utilizing even a fraction of the wealth would lay bare that the wealth doesn't exist in real terms.
Aren't people getting tired of Musk's antics? For a couple of days no links to competitors were allowed, then he reversed it.

A Daily Wire video was deboosted for 20 hours, then he reversed it.

There is free speech, but people are "community-noted".

Now he ruins all existing links and scares away new users. What is next? How about ruining Twitter like eBay and requiring a PayPal account with full access to your bank account?

If this is an anti-AI scraping measure, I can understand, but it should be communicated. In which case: Thanks "Open"-AI for ruining the Internet.
Quebec's forest fire protection agency (SOPFEU - Société de protection des forêts contre le feu) website[1] currently reports:

> 1461435.3 HECTARES AFFECTÉS

> 9860.1 MOYENNE 10 ANS

If I'm reading this right, Quebec's forest fire area burned year-to-date is 150 times higher than the ten-year trailing average, which is absurdly high.

No wonder this is choking multiple continents. I can't think of any geo-aggregated quantity that wouldn't massively disrupt human activity when multiplied by this factor. Imagine a 150x increase or decrease in: precipitation, forested area, agricultural production, human population, population of any animal, Kelvin temperature (ouch), sunlight (quick, flee to Europa), ...

[1] https://sopfeu.qc.ca/
I'd be curious to know how much the ~25pt asian-white SAT score gap is explained by ALDC students. In other words-- how much harder is it for a non-ALDC asian student to get into Harvard than a non-ALDC white student?
Pretty much all paper cups, and all metal cans too are lined with plastic too.
I’m not sure what these regulations and taxes are that you’re talking about. Have you looked at Alberta? It’s the Texas of Canada. Extremely lightweight corporate regulation and low taxes. Corporate income tax on the first $500,000 of income is just 11%. On the rest it is 23%.
The US federal corporate tax rate is 21%, after which states impose a variety of taxes.

California adds 8.84%. Texas and Washington tax gross receipts rather than net income, so it’s hard to make a direct comparison. But overall, corporate taxes in Canada are considered low by international standards.

As for business regulation, the reality for a tech business is that you rarely cross any regulatory boundaries. Employment law is straightforward. You can fire people easily. There aren’t tons of hidden costs. A little bit is spent on healthcare (1.5% in BC, zero in most other provinces). When I hear from American colleagues they complain of red tape more than my friends in Canada do.
Remember folks, don't use Windows in a professional setting.
I believe the accounting algorithm is something to the effect of "if my_money < all_the_money then take_more_money".
I agree that the aesthetics of large houses on small lots is bad, but it is more practical, which is why they get built and snapped up. Land is expensive, and whether in Florida where it's hot, or in Canada where it's cold, you get far more use out of enclosed climate-controlled space than a yard which gets occasional use. And with a detached house you don't have condo fees, have less noise, etc.
> In these cases getting your to do something that you wouldn't otherwise do is beneficial.

Which is something that marketing very nearly never does.
Do you own a home?
This always barks up the wrong tree: why, as Peter Thiel asked, haven't colleges with decades or centuries long track records of successful graduates been interested in expanding their student body 2,3 or even 10x over a phase in period to scale up the gifts its institution brings to the world?

For most people, outside of technical training, scarcity of "high quality" education is either artificial, or education is more about signaling competitive success by mere admission to these "elite" institutions rather than anything actually learned.
Highly doubt it.

Publishing companies are highly predatory, the industry is a scam/sham.
Ohh, now what are the odds a black person you meet at Harvard are deserving of their place in the world?

Anyway, it's not really a coin flip. Per this article 25% of legacies would make it on their own. And why aren't athletes deserving of their place in the world? And odds are staff children have a goodish chance of getting in on their own.
I think a lot of these bloated houses are extremely impractical to actually live in. For example, I live across the street from a McMansion that I fondly call “The Hotel”. It has an ornate front entrance on the main street that the owners never use. It might as well be sealed shut. Instead, they enter and exit through the basement garage, or by walking down a rickety set of stairs from their kitchen to the side street where several of their many cars are kept. Watch out for the boat parked in the driveway!
Ask HN: What bug tracking tool are you using?
I'm looking for a good, easy-to-use, flexible bug-tracking tool for an early-stage startup. There are internal (full-time) employees, plus contractors, plus customers & partners who may also need access. We'd like something that scales with us and can provide reasonable reporting on bug categories, priority / severity, age, platform, etc.
Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet
What I've been doing for 3 or so years, which works great for me, is have a Firefox container just for YouTube with cookies disabled, ublock origin, subscribe to these channels via RSS, and crucially don't discover content via YouTube's own discovery.
The LLM with the ability to write infinitely powerful malware to hijack anyone's computer (still unproven) has the ability to commit crimes to try and frame humans so that other humans would then arrest them. This is the sort of thing that would make people more concerned with the arbitrary arrests done by the state than the mischievous AI hacker program.
Is there any reasonable assumption to be made that AI has reached it's zenith? I don't think there is. AI improves over time. That's all it does, and barring some civilizational catastrophe, that's what it will continue to do.
They're free to provide a tier that does cover costs and provide profit, why don't they do that?
Blame the creators you watch
I realize that calling any type of mansion affordable seems out of touch. I was commenting on the relative expense of some of these design components. The prefix “Mc” evokes McDonald’s. The post pokes fun at a statue of a maid, because the owners could not afford to hire true maids. From the site, I assume that a McMansion is like a mansion, but made with cheaper components and without the taste and class that comes with an elite upbringing.
It's easier to imagine the drought conditions of recent years/decades repeating.
They can just start a new religion. It's been done.
I never downvote based on an opinion, even if I disagree violently, as long as the comment is well reasoned an in good faith.

On the other hand I reflexively downvote everything with even a slight wiff of shilling (especially crypto) or anything boot licking and fanboyism.

I may even upvote comments with which I disagree if I feel they're unfairly downvoted.
For a long time, I noticed that, if I made a comment about Windows LTSC/LTSB, it would get downvoted heavily, and that there was a timing pattern to it.

Also, there's a certain set of topics where I can watch the tally go, very predictably -- up, then it gets smashed, and then finally there's some Johnny Come Latelies who vote up again.

Personally, agreement is easy and congruent ("This is correct"); disagreement is quite different ("This is incorrect, and here's why ..."). I think you ought to be able to "agree" with an upvote, but disagreement? That's when words are more useful. Downvotes are too easily brigaded and provide nothing in the way of discussion.
I resemble that remark!

Hey, I was one of the "get some fresh middle class white nobodies from the San Diego area for diversity" legacies in 1972. ;-)
Because if so, that's enough to run 4 simultaneous instances of Linux!
eSIMs just need a data connection back to the SM-DP server and that can be done over Wi-Fi. I don't think that protocol is blocked that they talk to it, and the SM-DP vendors on the market are typically "global" providers that work with multiple operators.

EDIT: I checked myself to be sure. It's "RAM over HTTP(s)" -- "Remote Application Management" of the eSIM. GFW doesn't block HTTPS, so you should be able to get provisioned to any carrier worldwide while inside the firewall.

https://www.sharetechnote.com/html/Handbook_LTE_eSIM.html
What pipes did you have made from “normal glass”? If they were blown pipes that contacted heat, they were almost surely borosilicate (Pyrex/Simax/Duran/Kimax) as well. The only smoking items typically made from soda lime are water pipes which use a removable slide, which is borosilicate. (I was a boro glassblower for about 15 years).
Man, I wish I still knew people on IRC… Whenever I see a link to Discord I let out a deep sigh. We had it all and we blew it! We threw it all away for gifs and centralization!

So here’s a question: if I download this, what’s a good place to hang out?

PS I’ve never used this Ui toolkit (being an egui man myself) but that panel snapping looks amazing!
I’ve been using https://oku.club and am very happy with it
They very very much care about federal funding. At a perpetual safe withdrawal rate of 2% $53 billion generates $1 billion a year to spend. Federal research grants alone total more than $500M, and federal funding includes much more than just research grants.

A dozen or so years back there was an effort by many universities, including Harvard, to keep military recruiters off campus. When the courts ruled that this would endanger federal funding Harvard, like all the others, folded like a cheap suit.
Just imagine how successful Linux could be if it had Miller Columns...
And specifically when you tell the shell to redirect stdout to a file, the shell is opening a file descriptor to handle the request. A file descriptor also sits in the middle for piping stdout for one command to stdin of another. It seems like it's doing magic, but it's not.
> For the alcoholic

Well, no. Alcoholism can start regardless of the reason you start drinking. There are plenty of "social lubricant" drinkers who became alcoholics because of the pernicious GABA regulation cycle.

You might start drinking to have a better social life, but eventually you drink to cure the hangover, to cure the shakes, to cure the anxiety that alcohol withdrawal gives you. Then it's just a cyclical pattern of poisoning yourself to cure the effects of the last poisoning.

When your addiction becomes physical, it doesn't matter why you started drinking in the first place. Now the only reason you drink is to function.
MIT’s endowment is half that (but it’s a much smaller institution) and still the bulk of its revenues are from the US government. It’s basically a huge research lab with a small school bolted on.

How small? Well last time I looked (2018) tuition was 14% of revenue. TBF spending on education (i.e. everything spent on students except for expenses of undergraduate and graduate students working on faculty research projects) was 16% of expenses. With their grant overhead (north of 70% iirc) they could cut tuition, but why bother? Break even is apparently fine. At least they don’t do legacies.

BTW I first looked at these numbers when I was an undergrad in the early 80s and that 14%/16% level has been fairly consistent for the last 40 years.
I very much doubt that. I’m guessing the vast majority of the endowment is restricted.

That is, even if it is invested for returns, the money and the returns on the money must be used for the intended purpose of the donor.
Even if this particular instance is fabricated, to my knowledge the past cake battles were not. Or the photographer.

I realize from a legal standpoint we don't have a good way to define this. My issue is also not this specific case.

But we have been talking about people providing services for gay marriages for 10 years now? Including a few court cases.

What bothers me is that those earlier things ever made it to court in the first place and it didn't just end with "well ok I will find someone else".

Like what did fighting about this minor thing get us other than making people (conservatives) angry?

Thats my problem and concern here. We spent so much time talking about this stuff that doesn't matter, while making the conservative base angry, and I can't shake this feeling that it's biting us in the ass now.
Good point. I don't know what were their expectations for audience reaction. It surely wasn't "oh I need to turn off my adblocker then" or "oh, YouTube Premium, that's neat, lemme get my credit card".

For me, it was, in order:

- "Three strikes" and... what? Red alert! Let me drop everything and read the damn article right now, because it could be "three strikes and you lose your Google account", which is kinda big fucking deal.

- [Couple paragraphs later] oh, only disabling playback. Whew, cancel red alert.

- My kids will not be happy though the first time it hits. Neither will we, because YouTube + AdBlock is the easiest way to play our 4yo and 2yo music, without exposing them to the brain poison of modern advertising at this early age.

- (The next easiest one is NewPipe or yt-dlp, + some manual fixup, + an old phone working as an off-line music player.)

- (Also no joke on brain poison. The way kids react to an ad that occasionally slips by us is a perfect measure of how fucked up advertising is.)

- Oh well, let's hope NewPipe keeps working.

- ... also, what took them so long? I expected this so many years ago that I actually forgot this could happen.

BTW. is it only me, or is 2023 the year of "enshittification" of SaaS shifting into high gear? Like the layoff wave earlier, this also feels like suddenly happening everywhere at the same time.
I fully agree! I am for a holistic approach because I want fairness.
It's appalling what the mother did to that kid on the cover. I think we'll look back on this in years to come and recognize this as child abuse. I feel really sad for him being gaslit and used as a political prop by a parent eager for fame.
From what I've read, it's mostly a battery issue (the battery is so dead the CPU gets heavily throttled).
Youtube is trash now. I could move on pretty easily. If anything I might be better off watching actual content instead of youtube.
It's unusual in 2023 for a company to be run well. The default today is to have an adversarial relationship with your customers. When folks discuss the rare companies that they don't hate, it feels like astroturfing, because it doesn't seem possible.
I have done both (I have also purchased with a realtor), all in rural Oregon.

I did a FSBO in a tiny town and the property was purchased directly by a buyer that was also without a realtor, but both sides had a mortgage from a national bank, and inspections happened, there was a boilerplate contract (the same one the previous realtor used for us buying the house, the lawyer’s name was on the contract) and a title company. The transaction was on rails. Could not have been smoother or cheaper.

For that place we knew the local market was small and the rumor mill active and figured we could FSBO for a bit before we contacted a real estate agent if we needed access to the MLS and non local buyers.

As for the time we purchased without an agent, we purchased a few 100 acre ranch from our family and did so with a real estate contract, seller financing and no mortgage. It would have been difficult to get financing at a reasonable rate for a property of this kind. This involved a fair bit of time dealing with lawyers and neither party is happy with the lawyers but the deal got done.

Anyhow - both experiences were good.
Hell no.

ASML is the only company that sells certain equipment needed for photolithography. These machines are physically large and sell for hundreds of millions of dollars. Their export is regulated by multiple governments and international treaties. There are intelligence agencies tracking every single one of those machines and ensuring they don't fall into the wrong hands.

This is just one fatal flaw with the plan.
I wouldn’t say that. But Western countries would absolutely replicate the surveillance and censorship if they could. And they do in some ways, but there are many structural things stopping them.
At least this is HN and not reddit, and the commenters here do seem to recognize that these are actually two different things. (Not that I personally have any love for legacy admission practices myself).
Gigaset.
+ Stock android afaik
+ 5 Year updates
+ Swappable battery and still IP68
- a bit older hardware and higher price

It's the only smartphone assembled in Germany so not sure if its available where you live.
Appeal to nature[0] is a poor mental shortcut. There are tons of natural carcinogens, notably aflatoxins and cycacins.

Clothes, refrigeration, and Pasteurization are all extremely recent on an evolutionary timescale. They're all artificial and extremely beneficial to human well-being.

Also, the idea that something is good because we've evolved with it gets the mechanism of evolution backward. Even if it were true that evolution's stochastic gradient descent had found the global maximum 15k years ago (instead of perhaps approximating a local maximum), that would imply no changes to the human would improve human reproductive success. It would not imply that no changes to the environment (such as available foods) would improve human reproductive success.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Sure...but not the data that was stolen. This data might be equivalent to the employee handbook for all we know...everything states that it has nothing to do with their advanced technologies.
LockBit is Russian, they don't care about any of that, they are immune to external pressure as long as the current conflict is ongoing.
Let's not forget that so many advertisements are for things that are objectively damaging to you. "It's good for the economy and OK for you" school of advertising.

High interest loans, fast foods, cable channels (with more advertising), sports gambling, et cetra.

I still cannot understand why I paid to get a specific streaming service (Sportsnet) and had to sit through Wayne Gretzsky ruining his legacy by selling sports gambling to my 3 children.
Neither set of axioms requires one to be extremely reductive about something like alcohol. Does Tolstoy admit to being reductive (“he tells exactly this”)?

I think in this case it isn’t the axioms but the “style” of philosophical discourse that requires the reader to take the message with a big grain of salt. Like when a YouTuber says, “In the next ten minutes, I’m going to lay out the exact formula for how to write a perfect screenplay,” it’s not literally true. Tolstoy’s musings are a little deeper than your average YouTuber, on par with a good one, similarly overblown and oversimplified, and more moralizing.
Were in-video ads put there by the entity that you're paying?

I don't see in-video ads, but I don't watch "content creators" with sponsors.
Isn’t oxycondin regalulated, taxed and everything ?

If that is what victory looks like, I am not sure I wanna win.
Plenty of Harvard students take out federal loans to attend. Plenty of professors accept federal grants for their research. While a few alumni donors might give a large amount of cash, the school also likes to brag that 1/6 students receives a Pell grant. The decision might go one way or the other but its outcome is not obvious.
Facebook is still a good social network so long as you limit it to friend you personally know only. Block marketplace and all groups. Use it to keep up on those distant friends and family that you are not ready to leave out of your life completely even though you don't get together often (that is they live far away from you so you can't visit in person often)
A little too much spin there. They don’t have to offer a free service, they choose to. YT can do whatever they want with their platform as far as I’m concerned, but implying that people are stealing is disingenuous. YT got popular in the first place by offering a free service, and they are still offering a free service with ads that I’m not obligated to watch. They could, if they wanted, charge admission for all viewers, and skip the ads, they could choose to not offer free service. They’re intentionally not doing that so that they can have their cake and eat it too by offering a free service but inserting ads into it. It’s YT’s choice alone to offer the costly service for free, their wish is that people watch the ads, but fortunately whether we watch them is our choice. Note that YT’s testing here isn’t primarily to punish people, in part it’s to do an experiment to find out if they’ll lose viewers by demanding they watch the ads, precisely so that they can continue to choose to offer a ‘free’ service, and in part it’s to normalize the kind of spin you’re repeating here, to get people to believe they should submit to ad-watching and that they’re obligated to participate. They have been turning the screw on this for years and they will continue to, because it statistically works, but by participating in their narrative, by suggesting people are grifting when ad-blocking, you’re helping them normalize this concept.