skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside the horrible website design...

All of the examples the author gives on judicial review being a major, undemocratic problem (Dredd Scott, Plessy, Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, even Marbury v. Madison) come at times when Congress and the President are unable to come to a decision themselves due to partisan gridlock and infighting.

In times where the government is able to act effectively, the supreme court doesn't institute controversial decisions. The real problem is partisan gridlock—judicial overreach is just a symptom, not a cause of our current problems.
> "Why" is a really good way to put it, like you say - doing "What" just repeats something a novice, possibly even a layman, could distinguish.

And "profanity" in code is almost by definition a "Why"-type comment.

You don't get upset and leave a profane comment unless you did a deep dive and realized the code does something absurdly horrible that took you far too long to figure out.
FB and meta are both tarnished names. I’ve had non techies tell me that they are trying this “new twitter app from instagram” vs something made by meta.
Just another reminder I need to move back to stock Debian or BSD.
This is also back from early June 2023. No clue why this fluff story is on the homepage of HN.
I’ve experienced tingling sensations, like pins and needles, not sure if that’s what they’re referring to.
because HTTP is pronounced "hittip", obviously, and in the US, we use 'a' for words that start with hard H sounds.
It depends on the domain. I would be cautious about assuming that concise comments explaining what is being done in a block of non-trivial code are unnecessary. I have seen too many people write code they assume to be trivial (after spending days/weeks/months/years developing necessary background knowledge to understand it) when it's not the case at all. Debugging errors in undocumented code that involves several complex/opaque structures, nested function calls, and external libraries is not fun when you can't tell what step is at fault due to side effects, internal computations etc. not being clearly visible.
Lots of myths around microkernel "slowness"[0].

>And yes, context switches matter a lot too.

seL4 is significantly (100x-1000x) faster than Linux at context switching[1]. At the same time, it does not require that many more context switches.

0. https://archive.is/30hhi

1. https://sel4.systems/About/Performance/
If you're getting into the definition of public vs private you also need to consider what constitutes a reasonable expectation. Not just from our current reference frame of everyone having phones and every business having cameras, but from a few decades ago as well as a century, or more, ago. What may constitute a reasonable expectation today may be extremely divorced from that of when the laws were written. I love the nuance you are getting into, but I do think it needs to be taken at least one step further for a good conversation to take place. People are working with different assumptions and not communicating these well and results in very different versions of reasonable expectation. 50 years ago, even 20, it was pretty reasonable to assume that you could not, let along would not, be recorded unless you were involved in a large public demonstration. I think if we're getting down to public vs private that we should also consider this aspect. And I think we should recognize the difference between a private activity within a public space from a public activity within a public space. The ecosystem has changed and with it we must be a bit more nuanced.
In practice, the implementations will end up crossing a few times anyway (bugs) and noone cares much because software bugs are a part of life.

Speed only goes to zero if you insist on bug free software.
Tastes vary, but power stone and soul calibur are great (and still look great today). Though you are right in a way, it didn't really have a recognisable brand game like gran turismo or Tekken. (Or goldeneye)
The irony being that sharing with more states is WORSE but because the (true) headline is tied to a specific hot button issue you find it bad?
> I don't know the answer but based on all the stories and discussions it sounded like the plan was to initially send them all our old munitions that were scheduled for destruction.

They’ve gotten some retired equipment, especially ex-Soviet equipment logistically compatible with their own from Eastern European NATO members, but while most stuff from the US has been from existing stocks, it wasn’t scheduled for destruction, its just quicker to use and backfill stockpiles than order and deliver new.

> I think one of the exceptions was the missile defense systems we sent that were not scheduled for destruction

They are in many cases new-build, and Ukraine is the first user of the GLSDB munition.

> possibly some older versions of Abrams tanks that had some of the classified systems stripped out of them

The original plan was new build Abrams, they were switched to existing ones to get them faster.
I know you guys are busy literally building the future but could you consider adding a search field in ChatGPT so that users can search their previous chats?
instead you get to breathe in that sweet, sweet tire dust, which hybrids and EVs tend to make more of because they're typically heavier than their ICE counterparts.

but until the electrical grid is moved to cleaner sources (including nuclear for baseload), it doesn't make much difference what you drive. with the current distribution of generation, we'd be mostly shifting the pollution from tailpipes to smokestacks (especially at the margin) rather than getting rid of it--coal emissions are many times worse than tailpipe emissions, not to mention the pollution from coal, oil & gas extraction.

and pollution is exactly what we should be worried about, not CO₂, which is the worst sort of distraction when trying to make sense of the environmental dangers we're creating (it muddies the waters to create uncertainty and inaction).
What if your cable provider removed a bunch of channels you pay for, but haven’t watched yet, and turned them into PPV channels.

They have, at least for content if not entire channels (don't have MLB Package or NFL Sunday Ticket? Too bad...enjoy the blackout). So have the streaming services. I'm mildly upset by it, but they've made it clear my only alternative is 'FU...cancel if you don't like it'.

edit: spelling
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IANYL.

Threads does in fact have a trademark registration for THREADS: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87522273&caseType=SERIAL_...
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yeah this isnt close. Sam Altman is on record saying its single digit cents per query and then took a massively dilutive $10b investment from microsoft. Even if gpt4 is 8 models in a trenchcoat they wouldnt raise it on themselves by 4 orders of magnitude like that
OpenAI's GPT-4 API Revolutionizes AI Capabilities
Well the reason I wrote to post was to inject the point into the conversation as it’s sorely lacking usually.

Also, it’s been my experience that people only change when they are in incredible amounts of pain, and I think that that’s true of this debate with climate change, and it’s impacts on earth.

As soon as food and water supplies are threatened, and people are having to retreat from coastal areas in the next few decades, the conversation may finally shift to meaningful action.
And that’s the reason for my “optimism.”

Obviously, for those of us who actually study the issue like yourself know it may be far too late to do anything about it, because by the time these impacts hit, there will be a great deal of downstream consequences, but I do think people will change eventually. If for no other reasons than because they have to, or at least they will then.

Just a little sad you can’t avert the inevitable consequences that are so clearly laid out because people hold onto iterating on simple extensions of the existing failed ethos and paradigm, which is why I generally try to inject a transformation instead of iteration comment into these types of posts on online platforms. They are polarizing ideas, but if more of us injected this bias at scale and with great frequency I believe it could gradually change public opinion.

And that is how you bring about change — the environmental consciousness is profoundly different than it was in the 50s and 60s, when a visit to the forest camping with the kids or even backpacking often included USFS run burn pit and people scoffed at the clean water and air acts, and it was done with similar educational and outreach so it really can change things — we do have impact as collective individuals in sharing our perspectives and alternative belief systems. So I don’t generally feel the need to provide the answers to how because the purpose of this comment and my many others like it is to anchor an alternative opinion to allow for alternatives to the dominant paradigm not solve the execution issues in providing a visionary societal transformation as that far exceeds what one person can do.

But I do believe we should be actively talking about transformation and not iteration of the existing system much more actively.
I don't know enough about how FTS works to help, I'm afraid. I don't know if it's possible to search across multiple rows.

Were I in your position I'd just create a copy of the DB with the full transcript in each row and run the search against that. If you only have 4 million words, creating an extra copy of the database shouldn't be prohibitively large.
Chrome and Firefox are absolutely gargantuan in terms of their functionality and also the decades of fine tuning.

Building a new browser seems akin to building a Saturn V rocket.

To be practical at all you’d have to lop gigantic trunks of functionality off it.
> Linux Mint or MX Linux are the way to go here

So, Ubuntu, but with a slightly reskinned UI?
The only thing this proves is that Elon thinks Twitter is threatened by Threads.
Don't know any stats from the top of my head, but I recall that oesophageal cancer is caused by drinking _hot_ tea, not by drinking tea per sé.
The articles isn't really about grad school. It's just the headline.

The article is about how the internet allows non-experts to confidently assert inaccurate information. It suggests that we scrutinize the actual credentials of the people giving us that information, and go to the original source whenever possible. It also suggests that we all cultivate humility, and remember that we are not experts because we watched a video or read an article.

So that's what a person is to do. According to the article.

BTW, Here's my advice for cultivating humility on Hacker News. Go do a search for threads about FTX, Theranos, WeWork, and Moviepass from a few years ago, and see what the average Hacker News user had to say about them. You'll find skeptics, of course. But also plenty of users absolutely certain that there's something to these companies, and that the founders are merely playing a game of 5d chess, or something like that. It's a good reminder that we can all get things wrong, even when we're really sure about something. And a reminder that nobody is immune to being duped.
Agreed, if we knew the data was 100% confined to the theme park and was impossible to escape, it's absolutely useful with no threat to personhood.
The likelihood of "stolen codebases and assets" is zero. Meta has an existing infrastructure that can handle 10x the traffic that Twitter has, and which is completely different than Twitter's stack.

As for the Threads app, that's a job any average web dev can have a rough prototype of in a day. The rest is iteration and refinement.

The entire mail is 100% BS. Also, there's no suit. There's a threat of a suit, which will likely not materialize as there's no chance of winning it.
Xkcd was actually a joke.

The wikipedia plot is based on data from the following Nature paper, from 2020: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0400-0 , you can see that by following the reference in the link to the plot.

I haven't read it but I'm assuming it's not total BS. Could you provide some reference for your proposal? It would be very reassuring if it's true.
> my intuition here is this platform is primarily going to be driven by bluecheckmarks and influencers.

My guess is this platform will primarily be driven by AI bots.
Speed limits exist, but people do not fear enforcement because there is little enforcement infrastructure.
I’ve seen Microsoft and similar companies get their ass whupped for this.

It’s really an open and shut case, somebody in another thread just pointed out that “threads.com” really has a registered trademark, they might not even need that given they have a history of using the name.

FB can pay or change the name if they want to get out of the doghouse.
My guess would be stuff like upcoming products, business connections, contract details, way of doing business etc.

However I doubt that Musk has any grounds for claiming that "the most useless employees" who weren't even treated with dignity upon firing them would have transferred those to Meta illegally.

IMHO this is just Musk freaking out that the next time Twitter doesn't work as expected or asks for money, people would have real alternative to move on.

Reddit needs something similar.
But given the rumored architecture (MoE) it would make complete sense for them to dynamically scale down the number of models used in the mixture during periods of peak load.
There is absolutely no way. You can run a halfway decent open source model on a gpu for literally pennies in amortized hardware / energy cost.
IANYL, but in general, it depends.

See the trademark registration owned by Threads for THREADS, here: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87522273&caseType=SERIAL_...

The services the registration covers (in Class 42) are: "Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for use in project management and collaboration for the technology and media industries that allows organizations and users to create, upload, share, discuss, store, and search content meant for users of the platform; none of the foregoing specifically targeting decision support among healthcare professionals and facilities"
It is anecdata, but I can confirm this is the case for my code.

I tend to focus more on documenting the surprising code paths, not the mundane. And when my code needs to do something special because some other component (library, hardware, API) has issues, there's usually some colourful language describing the sad state of the world outside my control.
FWIW we have a live product for all users against gpt-3.5-turbo and it's largely fine: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/improving-llms-production-obse...

In our own tracking, the P99 isn't exactly great, but this is groundbreaking tech we're dealing with here, and our dissatisfaction with the high end of latency is well worth the value we get in our product: https://twitter.com/_cartermp/status/1674092825053655040/
Linus was never correct about microkernels[0], and the world is worse for it.

0. https://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~clausen/PVSE2006/linus-rebuttal....
"You seem to be mistaken on what “law” is."

As the person that whipped Electronic Art's ass in court over the Spore DRM, no, I'm pretty well-aware of what 'law' is. And re-reading your post, again, you're still giving off the impression that this is some bad thing. It isn't.

It's literally the gov't telling the gov't to quit being a twerp while the courts actually figure out wtf is going on.
Here is mine: https://www.jviotti.com. Random programming articles, some math ones, links to my research, etc.
I believe the first `jne` should be `je`, right ?
Are there other headsets that don't require hooking up to a computer or phone?
Was soul calibur a launch title? I bought power stone with mine on launch day and remember getting soul calibur much later, though this was in the UK
Ah, yes, the bigoted ones.
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I made an app for music producers to tease their music in a fancy way. Something that looks better than this: https://twitter.com/eprombeats/status/1647072160547246081
> allegorical narrative with no factual value

I wrote that your so-called facts have no value in regards to Genesis. Genesis is quite factual--that's why it can never be wrong.
I'm a self-taught noob as far as web engineering goes, but between this course (cs50.harvard.edu/web/2020/) and ChatGPT, I got several commercial Django sites live in a very short amount of time and effort.
Yeah I think I saw AlphaBay’s complaint and was hoping there was an elaboration

Like is it like that Swiss encryption company that kept bricking the encryption for the CIA and employees kept noticing intentional encryption flaws and being told to work on something else?

or something else
Read the HTML5 spec. The point here is that `<div/>` behaves exactly the same as `<div>` would.
> All 3 text-davinci models are available on openAI's api.

That's irrelevant because these are all fine-tuned.

> Code-davinci-002 is a code-tuned model

No, "code-tuned" isn't even a thing. It is a foundation model, which consists purely of pretreating. No fine-tuning is involved.

> Or the official source is

The official source says exactly what I just said.
Yeah. It's hard to figure out who Canonical thinks its customers are now. I'm not a super-libre-pedant and am usually happy to run closed source driver blobs. But stock debian seems to be getting better with driver support and I probably should be more careful about the provenance of proprietary drivers. Seems like every week there's a reminder that I'm not Ubuntu's target market.
After a week of faffing I managed to fork the three repos Simon made and upgrade them from 3.x to 4.x . Very untested and maybe there's stuff there you don't need. But by gum it works! I'll slim it down in the future, and remove echo messages. Big thanks Simon for your work!

Parent action: https://github.com/North-Street-Games/nutshells/blob/main/.g... (attach this as a main.yml file in your GitHub actions workflow folder, and change the in-file variables and your secret itch.io butler key as needed!)

Child Godot export action: (for ref) https://github.com/Kwpa/godot-html-export/tree/main

Child itch upload action: (for ref - no different to original) https://github.com/Kwpa/itchio-butler-upload

Note that 4.x Web builds currently do not run well on MacOS browser apps :/ See this: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691
Who would benefit from Cinder? What kinds of workloads? The README is kinda lacking on this.
Wasn't one of the lessons of The Mythical Man Month that building from a spec produced good software? That was talking about System/360, my recollection is that most of the effort went into creating a very detailed and internally consistent specification/manual for the system. Implementation followed the spec, and the results were long-lasting and solid.
IANYL.

Threads owns one for THREADS: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87522273&caseType=SERIAL_...

It covers (in Class 42): "Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for use in project management and collaboration for the technology and media industries that allows organizations and users to create, upload, share, discuss, store, and search content meant for users of the platform; none of the foregoing specifically targeting decision support among healthcare professionals and facilities"
It would be useful to cite the case law here so that everyone reading along could look it up.
You could say the same thing about doing nothing. As evidence I submit the study referred to in the article.
This question gets a lot more practical if we abstract math as being similar to language in this regard (namely, as a way to describe the world around us and communicate effectively). The question then becomes: is language real? Asking whether math is real just becomes a subset of that question.

One way the article tries to prove that math is 'real' is through extrapolating its effects; without it, we wouldn't have our modern phones, tools, etc., and so math, by virtue of being _useful_, is part of an underlying reality. When it could just be that it is just a useful way of describing and communicating an underlying reality.
My city's traffic planners designed the traffic light phases with safety (and possibly throughput) as their primary concern.

Apologies for the caps, but I have very strong feelings about this:

THERE'S NOT A SINGLE INTERSECTION THAT I CAN WALK THROUGH IN ONE PHASE

People being people just go on red. Drivers run through intersections way past late amber - especially on left turns. Someone assumed spherical humans in a vacuum and is probably happy with the results.
Judicial opinions != Personal opinions

It ain't the same ballpark. It ain't the same league. It ain't even the same freakin' sport.

Equating the two is like equating a sea sponge and a dish sponge. "Well, they're both sponges!"
Sure, those are both great outcomes for Threads.com. It's hard to see this being a problem rather than an opportunity for them. One wonders if they already do have such a name licensing agreement and just couldn't come to an agreement on buying the domain itself.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style? We're trying for something else here and you can make your substantive points without it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yea “greedy” customers is probably unfair but I get that it was for effect.

To flesh out the point I assume they were making is that customers unfairly adjust their expectations around an unsustainable, too-good-to-be-true edge case, rather than recognizing it for what it is. And consequently scoff at anything that doesn’t now align with what they’ve unfairly shifted their expectations to.
> Who cares what language it is written in?

My HP PC from 2015. Can’t afford something better atm.
But the meaning is ambiguous.

If the farmer had typed, "got it", that could either be an acknowledgement of receipt or an expression of understanding, and the thumbs-up is used the same way.

Contract agreements need to be explicit. Allowing someone to use "gotchas" to lock people into contractual obligations is abusive af.
The few people I know who are addicted to Instagram love it.

They like that they have a bunch of people following and reacting to their posts already, since they got ported from Instagram.
Why the downvotes? It definitely was a huge reason.

The Dreamcast had great games, most people agree with that. Most notoriously arcade games. But they were all somewhat niche, and Sega struggled to get the big licences necessary to achieve popular success. In particular: no EA, no Square-Enix, and way behind Nintendo when it comes to first party titles.
And what was the government expecting to happen as a result of saying "this probably violates your TOS"?